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Editor: Anne E. Kazak
ISSN: 0893-3200
Published Bimonthly, beginning in February
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Please consult APA's Instructions for All Authors for information regarding
Submit manuscripts electronically (.rtf, PDF, or .doc) via the Manuscript Submission Portal. If you encounter difficulties with submission, please e-mail
Carmen Akins at the Editorial Office or call 215-590-4086.
General correspondence with the journal should be addressed to:
Anne E. Kazak
Editor, Journal of Family Psychology
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard
Room 1486 CHOP North
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4399
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In addition to addresses and phone numbers, please supply fax numbers and e-mail addresses for potential use by the editorial office, and later by the production office.
Keep a copy of the manuscript to guard against loss.
Research manuscripts should not exceed a total of 25–30 double-spaced pages typed with a standard font (e.g., Times New Roman 12 point). Make requests for consideration of longer papers in the cover letter, providing justification for the additional length. Manuscripts exceeding this requirement will be returned to the author for shortening prior to peer review.
Review and theoretical manuscripts provide creative integrative summaries of an area of work relevant to family psychology. The text (exclusive of references) should not exceed 25 pages.
Brief reports are encouraged for innovative work that may be premature for publication as a full research report because of small sample size or novel methodologies. Brief reports are also an appropriate format for replications and for clinical case studies. Authors of brief reports should indicate in the cover letter that a full report is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Brief reports should be designated as such and should not exceed a total of 12 pages.
All research involving human participants should describe oversight of the research process by the relevant Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and should describe consent and assent procedures briefly in the Method section.
The translation of research into practice should be evident in all manuscripts. Authors should intertwine a discussion of the clinical and/or policy implications and importance of their work throughout the manuscript. Authors should not include a separate section for this material. For further information on content, authors should refer to the editorial in the March 2004 issue of the journal (Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 3–4).
This journal has adopted a policy of masked review for all submissions. The cover letter should include all authors' names and institutional affiliations. The first page of text should omit this information but should include the title of the manuscript and the date it is submitted. Every effort should be made to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identity.
Authors may suggest potential reviewers for their work, to be used at the editor's discretion. Suggested reviewers should not have any known conflict of interest with the authors or the work. Full names, title and institution, and e-mail addresses for suggested reviewers should be provided in the cover letter.
Authors should indicate in their cover letter that the work has not been published previously and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The relationship of the submitted manuscript with other publications and/or submissions of the author, if any, should be explained. The cover letter should include a statement indicating that the manuscript has been seen and reviewed by all authors and that all authors have contributed to it in a meaningful way.
The cover letter must include the full mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address for the corresponding author.
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