Rehabilitation Psychology^®

Editor

Stephen T. Wegener
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Associate Editors

Maria T. Schultheis
Drexel University

Beth S. Slomine
Kennedy Krieger Institute

Statistical Consultant

Renan Castillo
Johns Hopkins University

Consulting Editors

Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla
Virginia Commonwealth University

James H. Baños
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Jack W. Berry
Samford University

Charles H. Bombardier
University of Washington School of Medicine

Gary R. Bond
Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center

Lisa Brenner
University of Colorado, School of Medicine

Susan P. Buckelew
University of Tennessee at Martin

Bruce Caplan
Independent Practice, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

Chetwyn C. H. Chan
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Fong Chan
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kathleen Chwalisz
Southern Illinois University

Patrick W. Corrigan
Illinois Institute of Technology

John DeLuca
Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation

Gerald M. Devins
Ontario Cancer Institute and University of Toronto

Jacobus Donders
Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital

Laura E. Dreer
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dana S. Dunn
Moravian College

Dawn M. Ehde
University of Washington School of Medicine

Timothy Elliott
Texas A&M University

Janet E. Farmer
University of Missouri

Pamela Gallagher
Dublin City University, Ireland

Robert L. Glueckauf
Florida State University

Nan Zhang Hampton
San Diego State University

Robin Hanks
Wayne State University School of Medicine

Dennis C. Harper
The University of Iowa

Allen W. Heinemann
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

Warren Jackson
Independent Practice, Colleyville, TX

Doug Johnson-Greene
University of Miami – Miller School of Medicine

Marie Johnston
University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Kathleen B. Kortte
Johns Hopkins Outpatient NeuroRehabilitation Program (ONRP)

James S. Krause
Medical University of South Carolina

James F. Malec
Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana

Thomas A. Martin
University of Missouri-Columbia

Mark Mennemeier
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Larry L. Mullins
Oklahoma State University

Janet P. Niemeier
Virginia Commonwealth University

Margaret A. Nosek
Baylor College of Medicine

Rhoda Olkin
Alliant International University

Kenneth I. Pakenham
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

David B. Peterson
California State University Los Angeles

Robert Q. Pollard
University of Rochester Medical Center

Joseph F. Rath
Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU School of Medicine

Joseph Ricker
University of Pittsburgh

Bruce Rybarczyk
Virginia Commonwealth University

Mark Sherer
TIRR Memorial Hermann

Mary Ann Parris Stephens
Kent State University

Richard O. Temple
CORE Health Care

Aaron Turner
VA Puget Sound Health Care System/University of Washington

Jay M. Uomoto
Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury

Gitendra Uswatte
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Rodney Vanderploeg
James A. Haley VA Hospital

Chad D. Vickery
Methodist Rehabilitation Center

Shari L. Wade
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Seth Warschausky
University of Michigan

Rhonda M. Williams
VA Puget Sound Health Care System & Center for Polytrauma Care, Seattle, Washington

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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

Rehabilitation Psychology^® is now using a software system to screen submitted content for similarity with other published content. The system compares each submitted manuscript against a database of 25+ million scholarly publications, as well as content appearing on the open web.

This allows APA to check submissions for potential overlap with material previously published in scholarly journals (e.g., lifted or republished material). A similarity report will be generated by the system and provided to the Rehabilitation Psychology Editorial office for review immediately upon submission.

All new and revised manuscripts are to be submitted electronically (Word Documents are preferred) through the Manuscript Submission Portal.

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• Contact Katie Weinel if you do not receive confirmation of your submission within three business days

When necessary, paper correspondence and express mail may be directed to:

Stephen T. Wegener, PhD, ABPP, Editor
Rehabilitation Psychology
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
600 North Wolfe St. Phipps 174
Baltimore, MD 21287
Email: Editorial Office

Suitable Submissions

Rehabilitation psychology deals with the interplay of biological, psychological, social, environmental, and political factors that affect the functioning of persons with chronic health conditions or disability. Given the breadth of rehabilitation psychology, the journal's scope is broadly defined. Suitable submissions include:

Empirical Articles
This format reports original empirical research which can include experimental investigations, survey research, evaluations of interventions, and outcome studies research.

Brief Reports
This format may be appropriate for empirically sound studies that are limited in scope, contain novel or provocative findings that need further replication, or represent replications and extensions of prior published work. Brief Reports must use a 12-point Times New Roman type and 1-in. (2.54-cm) margins, and not exceed 265 lines of text plus references. These limits do not include the title page, abstract, author note, footnotes, tables, or figures.

Review Articles
This format includes reviews of various types and formats. Reviews can include state-of-the art review of empirical research (meta-analysis), reviews of professional, theoretical or public policy issues, or reviews designed to help practitioners solve common clinical problems (clinical management reviews ).

Commentaries
This format supports a submitted or previously published manuscript including explanation, critique or illustration of rehabilitation related issues or topics.

Case studies
This format includes written analyses of one or more particular cases or case histories with a view to making generalizations in rehabilitation and that are of sufficient import to warrant attention.

Submissions are welcomed from authors in psychology and other health related disciplines.

Cover Letter

The cover letter accompanying the manuscript submission must include all authors' names and affiliations, addresses and phone numbers, as well as electronic mail addresses and fax numbers for possible use by the editorial office and later by the production office.

The cover letter should identify the type of submission category and include

• a statement of compliance with APA ethical standards in the conduct of the work reported in the manuscript
• a statement that the manuscript or data have not been previously published and that they are not presently under consideration for publication elsewhere
• a statement that all listed authors have contributed significantly to the work submitted for consideration
• a statement that the paper has been seen and approved by all authors

When the manuscript contains data or observations from a larger study, the cover letter should clarify the relationship between this submission and other papers from the study, specifically addressing potential overlap. Authors must be prepared to provide copies of related manuscripts or papers as part of the editorial review process.

Authors may suggest qualified reviewers of the manuscript, but these are considered advisory only.

Title

Should be accurate, descriptive, and no longer than 12 words. If the report is a clinical trial or a brief report this should be included in the title.

Abstract and Keywords

All manuscripts must include a structured abstract containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a separate page (page 2 of the manuscript). Abstracts must contain a brief statement about each of the following:

• Purpose/Objective
• Research Method/Design - including the number and type of participants
• Results
• Conclusions/Implications

After the abstract, please supply up to five keywords.

Impact and Implications Statement

At the start of each paper the authors should provide 2-3 bullet points, with the header "Impact", that states what the current paper adds to the literature and one to two practice or policy implications the findings. This is not a statement of the conclusions, rather a thoughtful series of statements highlighting the novel contribution of the work and translation of the findings for practice or policy. This section should be no more than 200 words.

Human Participants

The research section should include a statement indicating the Institutional Review Board that provided oversight for the research.

Style of Manuscripts

The journal considers theoretical, empirical, and commentary papers relevant to rehabilitation psychology. Brief reports are considered.

Additional Information for Specific Publication Categories

Randomized Clinical Trials

Rehabilitation Psychologyrequires the use of the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) reporting standards (i.e., a checklist and flow diagram) for randomized clinical trials. The checklist may be placed in an Appendix of the manuscript for review purposes.

Visit the CONSORT Statement Web site for more details and resources.

Nonrandomized Trials

Rehabilitation Psychology encourages the use of the most recent version of the TREND criteria (Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Non-randomized Designs for nonrandomized designs, available on the TREND Web site).

Review Process

Papers will be evaluated for their importance to the field, scientific rigor, novelty, suitability for the journal, and clarity of writing. Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission guidelines may be returned without review.

A masked review process is used. To facilitate masked review, it is incumbent upon authors to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to their identities. Authors' names, affiliations, and contact information should be included only in the cover letter.

Rehabilitation Psychology encourages translation of information and strives to review submitted articles in a timely manner.

Preparing Files for Production

If your manuscript is accepted for publication, please follow the guidelines for file formats and naming.

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

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.

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.

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.

Other Information

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