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.
Armando X. Estrada, PhD
Department of Psychology
Washington State University
Email
Do not send submissions to the Editor via email. Authors may contact the Editor directly about a topic before submitting completed manuscripts.
Manuscript Preparation
The journal publishes behavioral science research articles having military applications in the areas of
- manpower and personnel issues;
- testing and measurement;
- training and human factors;
- clinical and health psychology; and
- social and organizational psychology.
Military Psychology will consider any manuscript that has military application within one or more of these areas so long as it is rigorous scholarship that fosters our understanding of these areas and serves to stimulate the generation of research ideas and theoretical insights.
Military Psychology is international in scope, and the editors encourage submission of articles that address research being carried out in a variety of national settings.
Military Psychology publishes papers in the form of research or review articles, research notes, clinical practice notes and communications.
- Research or Review Articles include reports of original empirical research as well as scholarly integrations of individual areas of empirical research.
- Research Notes include brief articles (15 inclusive pages) describing work that is largely confirmatory, advances in knowledge arising as by-products of broader studies, or new research techniques and methodologies.
- Clinical Practice Notes and Communications include case studies, program development evaluations, and brief research articles of direct application for military psychologists in clinical settings.
All manuscripts should be prepared so that they have clearly articulated goals that serve to organize the introduction, method, results, and discussions. The introduction should review relevant research and theories and conclude with a clear articulation of a testable research hypothesis or research question. The methodology should include a complete description of demographic characteristics (e.g., gender, age, race/ethnicity, education) and military career information (e.g., occupational field, years of service) of the participants; provide a thorough and concise description of all measures (e.g., lead stem with sample items, response alternatives, scoring procedures, and M, SD, reliability, and validity information); and include an explicit statement addressing confidentiality safeguards. The results section should include appropriate descriptive and inferential statistical analyses with reports of effect sizes (or strength of relationships) and confidence interval for significant and non-significant findings. The discussion section should elaborate on the unique contributions of the study to include linkages and extension from previous research and theory and address limitations and future directions.
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.
Masked Review Policy
This journal has a policy of masked review for all submissions.
A separate title page should be prepared and include
- the title of the manuscript
- names and institutional affiliations of all authors exactly as they are to be printed
- name, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address of the corresponding author.
The manuscript should omit this information but should include the title of the manuscript. Make every effort to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identity.
Length
Research or Review Articles should not exceed 25 pages; Research and Clinical Practice Notes and Communications should not exceed 15 pages; all pages shall be inclusive of tables, figures, and references.
Formatting
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.
Download Permissions Alert Form (PDF, 47KB)
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).
Download Disclosure of Interests Form (PDF, 38KB)
Authors of accepted manuscripts are required to transfer the copyright to APA.
Download Publication Rights (Copyright Transfer) Form (PDF, 83KB)
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.
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