Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology®
Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology® publishes articles representing the professional and applied activities of pediatric psychology. The journal comprehensively
- describes the breadth and richness of the field in its diverse activities;
- complements the scientific development of the field with information on the applied/clinical side;
- provides modeling that addresses the ways practicing pediatric psychologists incorporate empirical literature into day-to-day activities;
- emphasizes work that incorporates and cites evidence from the science base; and
- provides a forum for those engaged in primarily clinical activities to report on their activities and inform future research activities.
Articles include a range of formats such as commentaries, reviews, and clinical case reports in addition to more traditional empirical clinical studies.
Articles address issues such as
- professional and training activities in pediatric psychology and interprofessional functioning;
- funding/reimbursement patterns and the evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of clinical services;
- program development;
- organization of clinical services and workforce analyses;
- applications of evidence based interventions in "real world" settings with particular attention to potential barriers and solutions and considerations of diverse populations;
- critical analyses of professional practice issues;
- clinical innovations, e.g., emerging use of technology in clinical practice;
- case studies, particularly case studies that have enough detail to be replicated and that provide a basis for larger scale intervention studies; and
- organizational, state and federal policies as they impact the practice of pediatric psychology, with a particular emphasis on changes due to health care reform.
Editor
Jennifer Shroff Pendley
Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE and Jefferson Medical College
Associate Editors
Bryan Carter
University of Louisville
Paul M. Robins
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
Jennifer Verrill Schurman
The Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Editorial Board
Sharon Berry
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
Johanna Carpenter
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE
Edward R. Christophersen
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics – South
Jennifer Curran
Eastern Maine Medical Center
Danita Czyzewski
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital
W. Hobart Davies
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Allison G. Dempsey
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Laura Dewey
Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
Meredith Dreyer Gillette
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO
John C. Duby
Akron Children's Hospital, OH
Michelle M. Ernst
University of Cincinnati/Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Joseph H. Evans
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Grayson N. Holmbeck
Loyola University Chicago
Heather C. Huszti
Children's Hospital of Orange County, CA
Nicole Kahhan
Monash Children's Hospital, Nirodah Pty Ltd Victoria, Australia
Anne E. Kazak
Nemours Pediatric Healthcare System, Wilmington, DE
Gerald P. Koocher
DePaul University
Stephen Lassen
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kathleen L. Lemanek
Nationwide Children's Hospital/The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Meghan McAuliffe Lines
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE
Mary Ann McCabe
George Washington University School of Medicine
Elizabeth L. McQuaid
Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University
Monica J. Mitchell
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH
Tonya M. Palermo
University of Washington and Seattle Children's Research Institute
Anna Maria Patiño-Fernández
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Carrie Piazza-Waggoner
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH
Wendy A. Plante
Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center/Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
Lee Ritterband
University of Virginia Health System
Michael C. Roberts
University of Kansas
David Schwartz
Baylor College of Medicine
Lisa A. Schwartz
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania
William G. Sharp
Emory School of Medicine
Erica Sood
Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE
Terry Stancin
MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University
Amanda L. Thompson
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
W. Douglas Tynan
American Psychological Association
Jessica M. Valenzuela
Nova Southeastern University
Karen A. Wohlheiter
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Tim Wysocki
Nemours Pediatric Healthcare System and Nemours Children's Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Heather Yardley
Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH
Abstracting and indexing services providing coverage of the Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology®
- PsycINFO
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
Submit manuscripts electronically (.rtf or .doc) through the Manuscript Submission Portal.
Jennifer Shroff Pendley
Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE
Manuscript Preparation
Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th 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.
Length and Formatting of Manuscripts
Full-length manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages total (including cover page, abstract, text, references, tables, and 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). Brief reports and case reports should not exceed 12 pages.
Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual.
Below are additional instructions regarding the preparation of display equations, computer code, and tables.
Display Equations
We strongly encourage you to use MathType (third-party software) or Equation Editor 3.0 (built into pre-2007 versions of Word) to construct your equations, rather than the equation support that is built into Word 2007 and Word 2010. Equations composed with the built-in Word 2007/Word 2010 equation support are converted to low-resolution graphics when they enter the production process and must be rekeyed by the typesetter, which may introduce errors.
To construct your equations with MathType or Equation Editor 3.0:
- Go to the Text section of the Insert tab and select Object.
- Select MathType or Equation Editor 3.0 in the drop-down menu.
If you have an equation that has already been produced using Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010 and you have access to the full version of MathType 6.5 or later, you can convert this equation to MathType by clicking on MathType Insert Equation. Copy the equation from Microsoft Word and paste it into the MathType box. Verify that your equation is correct, click File, and then click Update. Your equation has now been inserted into your Word file as a MathType Equation.
Use Equation Editor 3.0 or MathType only for equations or for formulas that cannot be produced as Word text using the Times or Symbol font.
Computer Code
Because altering computer code in any way (e.g., indents, line spacing, line breaks, page breaks) during the typesetting process could alter its meaning, we treat computer code differently from the rest of your article in our production process. To that end, we request separate files for computer code.
In Online Supplemental Material
We request that runnable source code be included as supplemental material to the article. For more information, visit Supplementing Your Article With Online Material.
In the Text of the Article
If you would like to include code in the text of your published manuscript, please submit a separate file with your code exactly as you want it to appear, using Courier New font with a type size of 8 points. We will make an image of each segment of code in your article that exceeds 40 characters in length. (Shorter snippets of code that appear in text will be typeset in Courier New and run in with the rest of the text.) If an appendix contains a mix of code and explanatory text, please submit a file that contains the entire appendix, with the code keyed in 8-point Courier New.
Tables
Use Word's Insert Table function when you create tables. Using spaces or tabs in your table will create problems when the table is typeset and may result in errors.
Submitting Supplemental Materials
APA can place supplemental 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:
Hughes, G., Desantis, A., & Waszak, F. (2013). Mechanisms of intentional binding and sensory attenuation: The role of temporal prediction, temporal control, identity prediction, and motor prediction. Psychological Bulletin, 139, 133–151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0028566 - Authored Book:
Rogers, T. T., & McClelland, J. L. (2004). Semantic cognition: A parallel distributed processing approach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. - Chapter in an Edited Book:
Gill, M. J., & Sypher, B. D. (2009). Workplace incivility and organizational trust. In P. Lutgen-Sandvik & B. D. Sypher (Eds.), Destructive organizational communication: Processes, consequences, and constructive ways of organizing (pp. 53–73). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
Figures
Graphics files are welcome if supplied as Tiff or EPS files. Multipanel figures (i.e., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) should be assembled into one file.
The minimum line weight for line art is 0.5 point for optimal printing.
For more information about acceptable resolutions, fonts, sizing, and other figure issues, please see the general guidelines.
When possible, please place symbol legends below the figure instead of to the side.
APA offers authors the option to publish their figures online in color without the costs associated with print publication of color figures.
The same caption will appear on both the online (color) and print (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure can be understood in both formats, authors should add alternative wording (e.g., "the red (dark gray) bars represent") as needed.
For authors who prefer their figures to be published in color both in print and online, original color figures can be printed in color at the editor's and publisher's discretion provided the author agrees to pay:
- $900 for one figure
- An additional $600 for the second figure
- An additional $450 for each subsequent figure
Permissions
Authors of accepted papers must obtain and provide to the editor on final acceptance all necessary permissions to reproduce in print and electronic form any copyrighted work, including test materials (or portions thereof), photographs, and other graphic images (including those used as stimuli in experiments).
On advice of counsel, APA may decline to publish any image whose copyright status is unknown.
Publication Policies
APA policy prohibits an author from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration by two or more publications.
See also APA Journals® Internet Posting Guidelines.
APA requires authors to reveal any possible conflict of interest in the conduct and reporting of research (e.g., financial interests in a test or procedure, funding by pharmaceutical companies for drug research).
Authors of accepted manuscripts are required to transfer the copyright to APA.
- For manuscripts not funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
Publication Rights (Copyright Transfer) Form (PDF, 83KB) - For manuscripts funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
Wellcome Trust or Research Councils UK Publication Rights Form (PDF, 34KB)
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.
The APA Ethics Office provides the full Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct electronically on its 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.
Other Information
- Real-World Applications of Evidence-Based Interventions in Pediatric Psychology
Special issue of the APA journal Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 3, September 2014. Topics include interventions focused on treating chronic pain, needle pain, encopresis, sleep problems, neurocognitive conditions, obesity, and feeding disorders in children, as well as evidence-based clinical and preventive activities in health promotion, injury prevention, parent-family based interventions, and adherence.
Here you'll find guidelines for submitting proposals, calls for papers, tips for preparing manuscripts, APA policies, and more