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Outgoing Editor: Anne E. Kazak, PhD
Incoming Editor: Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD
ISSN: 0893-3200
Published Bimonthly, beginning in February
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Please consult APA's Instructions for All Authors for information regarding
Please submit manuscripts electronically, either using Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) via the Manuscript Submission Portal.
If you encounter difficulties with submission, please e-mail
Michelle Calderon at the Editorial Office or call 404-616-2895.
General correspondence with the journal should be addressed to:
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Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP
Incoming Editor, Journal of Family Psychology
Emory University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Grady Health System Room 13D018
80 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive NE,
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
E-mail
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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.
For general guidelines to style, authors should study articles previously published in the journal.
All manuscripts must include an abstract containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a separate page. The title of a manuscript should be accurate, fully explanatory, and preferably no longer then 12 words. The title should reflect the content and population studied (e.g., "family therapy for depression in children"). If the paper reports a randomized clinical trial (RCT), this should be indicated in the title, and the CONSORT criteria must be used for reporting purposes. After the abstract, please supply up to five keywords or brief phrases.
Research manuscripts and review and theoretical manuscripts that provide creative and integrative summaries of an area of work relevant to family psychology should not exceed 25–30 pages total (including cover page, abstract, text, references, tables, figures), with margins of at least 1 inch on all sides and a standard font (e.g., Times New Roman) of 12 points (no smaller). The entire paper (text, references, tables, figures, etc.,) must be double spaced.
Manuscripts exceeding the space requirement will be returned to the author for shortening prior to peer review.
Brief reports are encouraged for innovative work that may be premature for publication as a full research report because of small sample size, novel methodologies, etc. Brief reports also are an appropriate format for replications and for clinical case studies. Authors of brief reports should indicate in the cover letter that the 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 inclusive.
All research involving human participants must 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.
It is important to highlight the significance and novel contribution of the work. The translation of research into practice must be evidenced in all manuscripts. Authors should incorporate a meaningful discussion of the clinical and/or policy implications of their work throughout the manuscript, rather than simply providing a separate section for this material.
The Journal of Family Psychology uses a masked reviewing system for all submissions. The cover letter should include all authors' names and institutional affiliations. However, in order to permit anonymous review, the first page of text should omit this information. This cover page should only include the title of the manuscript and the date it is submitted. Please make every effort to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identities.
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.
The Journal of Family Psychology requires the use of the CONSORT reporting standards (i.e., a checklist and flow diagram) for randomized clinical trials, consistent with the policy established by the Publications and Communications Board of the American Psychological Association.
CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) offers a standard way to improve the quality of such reports, and to ensure that readers have the information necessary to evaluate the quality of a clinical trial. Manuscripts that report randomized clinical trials are required to include a flow diagram of the progress through the phases of the trial and a checklist that identifies where in the manuscript the various criteria are addressed. The checklist should be placed in an Appendix of the manuscript for review purposes.
When a study is not fully consistent with the CONSORT statement, the limitations should be acknowledged and discussed in the text of the manuscript. For follow-up studies of previously published clinical trials, authors should submit a flow diagram of the progress through the phases of the trial and follow-up. The above checklist information should be completed to the extent possible, especially for the Results and Discussion sections of the manuscript.
Visit the CONSORT Statement Web site for more details and resources.
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