History of Psychology^®

Editor

Wade E. Pickren
Ithaca College, USA

Consulting Editors

Mitchell G. Ash
University of Vienna, Austria

David B. Baker
The University of Akron, USA

Nicole B. Barenbaum
University of the South, USA

Betty M. Bayer
Hobart & William Smith Colleges, USA

Sunil Bhatia
Connecticut College, USA

Adrian C. Brock
University College Dublin, Ireland

Regina Helena de Freitas Campos
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Frances Cherry
Carleton University, Canada

Guido Cimino
University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy

Alan F. Collins
Lancaster University, UK

Hannah S. Decker
University of Houston, USA

Trudy Dehue
University of Groningen, Netherlands

Dave Devonis
Graceland University, UAS

Donald A. Dewsbury
University of Florida, USA

Julia Grant
Michigan State University, USA

Peter Hegarty
University of Surrey, UK

John P. Jackson, Jr.
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Hugo Klappenbach
National University of San Luis and National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina

Frederick T.L. Leong
Michigan State University, USA

Cheryl Logan
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Luciano Mecacci
University of Florence, Italy

Girishwar Misra
University of Delhi, India

Jill G. Morawski
Wesleyan University, USA

Annette Mülberger
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Petteri Pietikainen
University of Oulu, Finland

Régine Plas
Université Paris Descartes, France

Alexandra Rutherford
York University, Canada

Elizabeth Scarborough
Indiana University South Bend, USA

Laurence D. Smith
University of Maine, USA

Roger Smith
Moscow, Russia

Irmingard Staeuble
Free University of Berlin, Germany

Sally Swartz
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Ryan D. Tweney
Bowling Green State University, USA

Jaan Valsiner
Clark University, USA

Fernando Vidal
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany

Andrew S. Winston
University of Guelph, Canada

Leila Zenderland
California State University, Fullerton, USA

Teaching the History of Psychology Editor

Bernard C. Beins
Ithaca College, USA

Editorial Coordinator

Andrew Cantine

Abstracting and indexing services providing coverage of History of Psychology^®

• America: History and Life
• Current Abstracts
• Current Contents
• F R A N C I S
• Family Index
• Historical Abstracts
• Journals@Ovid
• MEDLINE
• PsycINFO
• PubMed
• SCOPUS
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• SwetsWise All Titles

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 through the Manuscript Submission Portal (.rtf, PDF, or .doc).

Authors should keep a copy of the manuscript to guard against loss. General correspondence may be directed to:

Wade E. Pickren, PhD
Department of Psychology
Pace University
41 Park Row
New York, NY 10038
Email

Manuscripts

Because History of Psychology^® publishes manuscripts submitted by psychologists, by historians, and by other scholars, authors may choose for their manuscript style the form specified either in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) or in The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., University of Chicago Press). If the latter style is chosen, reference lists should be eliminated or incorporated into endnotes.

Masked Review Policy

Manuscripts will receive a masked review. Please include with the manuscript a cover sheet, which shows the title of the manuscript, the authors' names and institutional affiliations, and the date the manuscript is submitted.

The first page of the manuscript should omit the authors' names and affiliations but should include the title of the manuscript and the submission date. Footnotes containing information pertaining to the authors' identity or affiliations should be on separate pages.

Every effort should be made to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identity.

Please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.

Essay Reviews

History of Psychology publishes essay reviews of thematically related sets of books and other media addressing issues important to an understanding of psychology's past.

Examples include

• an assessment of implications for the understanding of experimental work in psychology of recent studies of other scientists' laboratory practice
• a comparative analysis of two or three new biographies of a particular psychologist
• a review of recent films and videotapes on significant psychological theorists.

Each submitted essay review should be written with the journal's readership in mind and will undergo the same peer-review procedures as all other articles submitted to the journal.

Potential authors of such essay reviews should discuss their ideas with the editor before beginning to write them.

The journal will inform the institutions of authors of all accepted reviews of the parity of such essay reviews with the other articles published in History of Psychology.

The journal will not publish reviews of single books except in highly unusual circumstances.

For further information, and to discuss possible topics for essay reviews, please contact the History of Psychology Editor.

Teaching the History of Psychology

The history of psychology can provide compelling examples of research and theory that are pedagogically useful in teaching current psychological concepts and constructs. This section on Teaching the History of Psychology will provide instructors with historical ideas that aid the teaching of varied courses in the psychology curriculum.

Submissions to the Teaching the History of Psychology section can vary in length but should be approximately 1,500–1,800 words. They should focus on a single topic and include five basic components:

• a brief statement of the issue,
• identification of the contemporary course or courses that relate to the manuscript,
• useful pedagogical questions to aid instructors teaching the course,
• the historical issues relating to the topic, and
• potential answers to the pedagogical questions.

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.

Below are additional instructions regarding the preparation of display equations 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.

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 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.

Figures

Graphics files are welcome if supplied as Tiff, EPS, or PowerPoint files. The minimum line weight for line art is 0.5 point for optimal printing.

When possible, please place symbol legends below the figure instead of to the side.

Original color figures can be printed in color at the editor's and publisher's discretion provided the author agrees to pay

• $255 for one figure
• $425 for two figures
• $575 for three figures
• $675 for four figures
• $55 for each additional 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, for example, test materials (or portions thereof) and photographs of people.

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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).

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Authors of accepted manuscripts are required to transfer the copyright to APA.

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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.

Download Certification of Compliance With APA Ethical Principles Form (PDF, 26KB)

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.

Other Information

• Appeals Process for Manuscript Submissions
• Preparing Auxiliary Files for Production
• Document Deposit Procedures for APA Journals