Journal of Abnormal Psychology^®

Editor

Sherryl H. Goodman
Emory University

Associate Editors

Timothy A. Brown
Boston University

Laurie Chassin
Arizona State University

Jeffery N. Epstein
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Kate Harkness
Queen's University, Canada

Jutta Joormann
University of Miami

Pamela K. Keel
Florida State University

Kathryn E. Keenan
University of Chicago

Scott O. Lilienfeld
Emory University

Angus W. MacDonald, III
University of Minnesota

Thomas Widiger
University of Kentucky

Consulting Editors

Ananda B. Amstadter
Virginia Commonwealth University

Andrey P. Anokhin
Washington University School of Medicine

Timothy B. Baker
University of Wisconsin

Deanna M. Barch
Washington University

Theodore P. Beauchaine
Stony Brook University

Howard Berenbaum
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jack J. Blanchard
University of Maryland

Christopher R. Bowie
Queen's University, Canada

Brendan Bradley
University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Thomas H. Brandon
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Chris Brewin
University College London, United Kingdom

Jeffrey D. Burke
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Lee Anna Clark
The University of Notre Dame

Craig R. Colder
University at Buffalo, State University of New York

David A. Cole
Vanderbilt University

Meredith E. Coles
Binghamton University

Arin Connell
Case Western Reserve University

Patrick J. Curran
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

John J. Curtin
University of Wisconsin

Tim Dalgleish
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Thalia C. Eley
Kings College, London

Erika E. Forbes
University of Pittsburgh

David M. Fresco
Kent State University

Paul J. Frick
University of New Orleans

Brandon E. Gibb
Binghamton University (SUNY)

James M. Gold
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Diane C. Gooding
University of Wisconsin

Eric L. Granholm
VA San Diego VA Healthcare System

Jeffrey M. Halperin
Queens College, CUNY

Benjamin Hankin
University of Denver

Ahmad R. Hariri
Duke University

Allan R. Harkness
The University of Tulsa

Elizabeth P. Hayden
University of Western Ontario, Canada

Paula Hertel
Trinity University

Brian M. Hicks
University of Michigan

Tom Hildebrandt
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Christine I. Hooker
Harvard University

Jill M. Hooley
Harvard University

William P. Horan
University of California, Los Angeles

Jay G. Hull
Dartmouth College

Jonathan D. Huppert
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Andrea M. Hussong
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Kristina M. Jackson
Brown University

John G. Kerns
University of Missouri

Merel Kindt
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kevin M. King
University of Washington

E. David Klonsky
University of British Columbia, Canada

Kelly L. Klump
Michigan State University

Roman Kotov
Stony Brook University

Maria Kovacs
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Ann Kring
University of California, Berkeley

Junghee Lee
University of California-Los Angeles

Zina Lee
University of the Fraser Valley, Canada

Kenneth E. Leonard
University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Brett T. Litz
Boston University

Peter Lovibond
The University of New South Wales, Australia

Gitta Lubke
University of Notre Dame

Steven J. Lynn
Binghamton University

Kristian E. Markon
University of Iowa

Christopher S. Martin
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Douglas Mennin
CUNY Hunter College

Richard Milich
University of Kentucky

Gregory A. Miller
University of Delaware

Joshua D. Miller
University of Georgia

Mark W. Miller
Boston University School of Medicine

Susan Mineka
Northwestern University

Karin Mogg
University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Brooke S.G. Molina
University of Pittsburgh

Scott M. Monroe
University of Notre Dame

Joseph P. Newman
University of Wisconsin

Joel Nigg
Oregon Health & Science University

Matthew K. Nock
Harvard University

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
Yale University

Robin Nusslock
Northwestern University

Brian P. O'Connor
University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Canada

Michael W. O'Hara
University of Iowa

Thomas Oltmanns
Washington University

Thomas M. Piasecki
University of Missouri-Columbia

Diego A. Pizzagalli
Harvard Medical School

Michael F. Pogue-Geile
University of Pittsburgh

Jennifer P. Read
University of Buffalo, SUNY

Angela M. Reiersen
Washington University

Thomas L. Rodebaugh
Washington University in St. Louis

Jonathan Rottenberg
University of South Florida

Ayelet Meron Ruscio
University of Pennsylvania

John Ruscio
The College of New Jersey

Randall Salekin
University of Alabama

Charles A. Sanislow
Wesleyan University

Michael Sayette
University of Pittsburgh

Stewart A. Shankman
University of Illinois at Chicago

Kenneth J. Sher
University of Missouri-Columbia

Larry J. Seidman
Massachusetts Mental Health Center

Jennifer Skeem
University of California, Irvine

Steven M. Silverstein
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Leonard J. Simms
University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Tim Slade
University of New South Wales, Australia

Denise M. Sloan
VA National Center for PTSD & Boston University School of Medicine

Wendy S. Slutske
University of Missouri-Columbia

Gregory T. Smith
University of Kentucky

Stephanie D. Stepp
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Michael K. Suvak
Suffolk University

Casey Taft
Boston VA Medical Center

Steven Taylor
University of British Columbia, Canada

Jennifer J. Thomas
Massachusetts General Hospital

Andrew Tomarken
Vanderbilt University

Timothy Trull
University of Missouri-Columbia

Edelyn Verona
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Irwin D. Waldman
Emory University

Edward R. Watkins
University of Exeter, United Kingdom

David Watson
University of Notre Dame

Mark Whisman
University of Colorado Boulder

Stephen A. Wonderlich
University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Kevin D. Wu
Northern Illinois University

Richard Zinbarg
Northwestern University

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Yuniko Tonge

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Prior to submission, please carefully read and follow the submission guidelines detailed below. Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission guidelines may be returned without review.

Submission

Beginning 2012, the completion of the Author Checklist (PDF, 38KB) that signifies that authors have read this material and agree to adhere to the guidelines is now required. The checklist should follow the cover letter as part of the submission.

Submit manuscripts electronically (in .rtf or .doc format) via the Manuscript Submission Portal.

Sherryl H. Goodman, PhD
Editor, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Department of Psychology
Emory University
36 Eagle Row
Atlanta, GA 30322

General correspondence may be directed to the Editor's Office.

In addition to postal addresses and telephone numbers, please supply electronic mail addresses and fax numbers, if available, for potential use by the editorial and production offices.

Masked Reviews

Masked reviews are optional and must be specifically requested in the cover letter accompanying the submission. For masked reviews, the manuscript must include a separate title page with the authors' names and affiliations, and these ought not to appear anywhere else in the manuscript.

Footnotes that identify the authors must be typed on a separate page.

Make every effort to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to authors' identities.

If your manuscript was mask reviewed, please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.

Types of Articles

Most of the articles published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology^® are reports of original research, but other types of articles are acceptable.

• Short Reports of replications or of failures to replicate previously reported results are given serious consideration.
• Comments on articles published in the journal are also considered.
• Case Studies from either a clinical setting or a laboratory will be considered if they raise or illustrate important questions that go beyond the single case and have heuristic value.
• Manuscripts that present or discuss theoretical formulations of psychopathology, or that evaluate competing theoretical formulations on the basis of published data, may also be accepted.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology publishes articles on basic research and theory in the broad field of abnormal behavior, its determinants, and its correlates.

The following general topics fall within its area of major focus:

• psychopathology - its etiology, development, symptomatology, and course
• normal processes in abnormal individuals
• pathological or atypical features of the behavior of normal persons
• experimental studies, with human or animal subjects, relating to disordered emotional behavior or pathology
• sociocultural effects on pathological processes, including the influence of gender and ethnicity
• tests of hypotheses from psychological theories that relate to abnormal behavior

Thus, studies of patient populations, analyses of abnormal behavior, case histories, and theoretical papers of scholarly substance on deviant personality and emotional abnormality would all fall within the boundaries of the journal's interests.

Each article should represent a significant addition to knowledge and understanding of abnormal behavior in its etiology, development, or description.

In order to improve the use of journal resources, it has been agreed by the two Editors concerned that the Journal of Abnormal Psychology will not consider articles dealing with diagnosis or treatment of abnormal behavior, and the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology will not consider articles dealing with the etiology or descriptive pathology of abnormal behavior.

Therefore, a study that focuses primarily on treatment efficacy should be submitted to the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. However, a longitudinal study focusing on developmental influences or origins of abnormal behavior should be submitted to the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Articles of five different types will be considered for publication in the Journal: Brief Reports, Regular Articles, Extended Articles, Case Studies, and Commentaries.

• Brief Reports must not exceed 5,000 words in overall length. This limit includes all aspects of the manuscript (title page, abstract, text, references, tables, author notes and footnotes, appendices, figure captions) except figures. Brief Reports also may include a maximum of two figures. For Brief Reports, the length limits are exact and must be strictly followed.
• Regular Articles typically should not exceed 9,000 words in overall length (excluding figures).
• Extended Articles are published within regular issues of the Journal (they are not free-standing) and are reserved for manuscripts that require extended exposition beyond the normal length restrictions of a Regular Article. Typically, Extended Articles will report multiple experiments, multifaceted longitudinal studies, cross-disciplinary investigations, or studies that are extraordinarily complex in terms of methodology or analysis. Any submission that exceeds a total of 12,000 words in length automatically will be considered for publication as an Extended Article.
• Case Studies and Commentaries have the same length requirements as Brief Reports.

Cover Letters

All cover letters must contain the following:

• the full postal and email address of the corresponding author;
• the complete telephone and fax numbers of the same;
• the proposed category under which the manuscript was submitted;
• a statement that the authors complied with APA ethical standards in the treatment of their participants and that the work was approved by the relevant Institutional Review Board(s);
• a statement that the material is original – if findings from the dataset have been previously published or are in other submitted articles, the distinctiveness of the submitted manuscript needs to be detailed and, if a reanalysis of data, a justification provided;
• whether or not the manuscript has been or is posted on a web site;
• that APA style (Publication Manual, 6th edition) has been followed;
• the disclosure of any conflicts of interest with regard to the submitted work;
• a request for masked review, if desired, along with a statement ensuring that the manuscript was prepared in accordance with the guidelines above.

Authors should also specify the overall length of the manuscript (in words) and indicate the number of tables and figures that are included in the manuscript.

Manuscript Preparation

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6^th edition). Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 3 of the Publication Manual).

Review APA's Checklist for Manuscript Submission before submitting your article.

Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual.

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Display Equations

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Tables

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Submitting Supplemental Materials

APA can now place supplementary materials online, available via the published article in the PsycARTICLES^® database. Please see Supplementing Your Article With Online Material for more details.

Abstract and Keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstract containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a separate page. After the abstract, please supply up to five keywords or brief phrases.

References

List references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the References section.

Examples of basic reference formats:

Journal Article:
Herbst-Damm, K. L., & Kulik, J. A. (2005). Volunteer support, marital status, and the survival times of terminally ill patients. Health Psychology, 24, 225–229. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.24.2.225

Authored Book:
Mitchell, T. R., & Larson, J. R., Jr. (1987). People in organizations: An introduction to organizational behavior (3rd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Chapter in an Edited Book:
Bjork, R. A. (1989). Retrieval inhibition as an adaptive mechanism in human memory. In H. L. Roediger III & F. I. M. Craik (Eds.), Varieties of memory & consciousness (pp. 309–330). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

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Ethical Principles

It is a violation of APA Ethical Principles to publish "as original data, data that have been previously published" (Standard 8.13).

In addition, APA Ethical Principles specify that "after research results are published, psychologists do not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release" (Standard 8.14).

APA expects authors to adhere to these standards. Specifically, APA expects authors to have their data available throughout the editorial review process and for at least 5 years after the date of publication.

Authors are required to state in writing that they have complied with APA ethical standards in the treatment of their sample, human or animal, or to describe the details of treatment.

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The APA Ethics Office provides the full Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct electronically on their website in HTML, PDF, and Word format. You may also request a copy by emailing or calling the APA Ethics Office (202-336-5930). You may also read "Ethical Principles," December 1992, American Psychologist, Vol. 47, pp. 1597–1611.

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