Psychological Services
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Psychological Services publishes high-quality data-based articles on the broad range of psychological services delivered in organized care settings. Organized care settings refers to jails, prisons, courts, Indian Health Service, the military, Department of Veterans Affairs, university clinics, training hospitals, and so forth.
Psychological Services encourages submission of papers that focus on broad issues related to psychotherapy outcomes, evaluations of psychological service programs and systems, and public policy analyses. Psychological Services will also publish a limited number of significant literature reviews and case studies of psychological services, service delivery systems, or model programs.
Psychological Services is the official publication of the Division of Psychologists in Public Service (Division 18) of the American Psychological Association.
Editor
Patrick H. DeLeon
Former APA President–2000, Washington, DC
Managing Editor
Gary R. VandenBos
American Psychological Association
Associate Editors
Michi Fu
Asian Pacific Family Center of Pacific Clinics, Los Angeles County, California, and California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University
Lisa K. Kearney
South Texas Veterans Health Care System
Philip R. Magaletta
Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC
J. Douglas McDonald
Indians Into Psychology Program, University of North Dakota
Morgan T. Sammons
California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University
Manuscript Coordinator
Yvonne G. Cassells
American Psychological Association
Editorial Board
Anthony A. Arita
Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington, DC
Michelle E. Barnett
W.G. "Bill" Hefner VA Medical Center
Jeffrey M. Bates
North Florida / South Georgia Veterans Health System
Sarah Beehler
VA Boston Healthcare System
Timothy P. Carmody
San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco
Katie E. Connell
Connell Forensic Psychology Services, Westlake, Ohio
Lorraine E. Cuadra
Twin Towers Correctional Facility, Los Angeles, California
William Paul Deal
Missouri State University
Patricia M. Dubbert
South Central VA Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center; Little Rock Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the Central Arkansas VA Healthcare System
R. E. Franco Durán
California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University
John Mark Eddy
Oregon Social Learning Center, Eugene, Oregon
Mark R. Floyd
VA North Texas Health Care System
Raymond A. Folen
Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
Daniel V. Foster
Indian Health Service, Aberdeen, South Dakota
Ronald C. Fudge
Independent Practice, Mount Vernon, New York
Eric J. Getka
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
Deborah A. Gideon
Alaska Native Medical Center, Anchorage, Alaska
Elizabeth Gifford
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Ronald J. Gironda
James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, Florida
Joseph P. Gone
University of Michigan
John Gonzalez
Bemidji State University
W. Rodney Hammond
Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia
Kathy Harowski
Argosy University, Twin Cities
Neil Hibler
Special Psychological Services Group, Fairfax, Virginia
Jeffrey E. Holm
University of North Dakota
Leon Hyer
Mercer University School of Medicine and Georgia Neurosurgical Institute
Bradley E. Karlin
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC
Carrie H. Kennedy
Marine Corps Embassy Security Group, Quantico, Virginia
Robert D. Kerns
VA Connecticut Healthcare System
Daniel R. Kivlahan
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Johanna Rivers Klaus
Philadelphia VA Medical Center
John W. Klocek
Central Texas Veterans Health Care System
Kathryn Lawson
Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Institution Williamsburg, Salters, South Carolina
Christopher W. Loftis
Dynamics Research Corporation, Arlington, Virginia
Steven B. Lovett
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Jennifer Linn McCutcheon
Independent Practice, Phoenix, Arizona
Alix M. McLearen
Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC
Kathleen M. McNamara
VA Maui Community-Based Outpatient Clinic
Andrew Mendonsa
Independent Practice, Sacramento, California
Bret A. Moore
Warrior Resiliency Program—Southern Regional Medical Command U.S. Army
Robert D. Morgan
Texas Tech University
Leonard Ira Morgenbesser
New York State Department of Correctional Services, Albany, New York
Charles W. Mueller
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Neha Navsaria
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Edmund J. Nightingale
Minneapolis VA Health Care System (Retired)
Polly Hitchcock Noël
South Texas Veterans Health Care System
Christopher B. Neumann
The School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute
Douglas H. Olson
Minneapolis VA Health Care System
Robert J. Powitzky
Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Melisa V. Rempfer
University of Missouri–Kansas City
Paul K. Saito
California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University
Frances Shen
University of Illinois at Springfield
Marc A. Silva
James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, Florida
Ashima Singh
Washington State University
Gabriel Tan
National University of Singapore
Steven R. Tulkin
California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University
Rodney D. Vanderploeg
James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, Florida
Angela E. Waldrop
University of California, San Francisco
Jacqueline R. Wall
University of Indianapolis
Glenn D. Walters
Kutztown University
Christa E. Washington
Saint Augustine's College
Jeffrey N. Weatherly
University of North Dakota
Elizabeth K. White
Human Resources Department, County of Riverside, Riverside, California
Loren Wilkenfeld
Veterans Affairs Central Office, Washington, DC
Ira E. Wisotzek
VA New Jersey Health Care System
Jorge Wong
Asian Americans for Community Involvement, San Jose, California
J. Stephen Wormith
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Laura O. Wray
VA Western New York Healthcare System
Abstracting and indexing services providing coverage of Psychological Services
- Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
- MEDLINE
- PsycINFO®
- PubMed
- SCOPUS
- Social Sciences Citation Index®
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
Psychological Services 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 Psychological Services Editorial office for review immediately upon submission.
Submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal.
Authors should keep a copy of the manuscript to guard against loss. Please provide full contact information—authors' addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and fax numbers—for use by the editorial office and later by the production office. General correspondence may be directed to the Editor.
Manuscripts
All manuscripts must include on separate pages:
- a title page with the author's name and affiliation at the time the research was done
- author footnotes, which include acknowledgments of support, changes of affiliation since the research was done, and the name and address of the author to whom correspondence should be sent
- an abstract containing a maximum of 250 words, followed, below it, by up to five keywords or brief phrases to assist in indexing
Number all pages serially, including these pages, the text, references, acknowledgments, tables, and figure captions.
Include in a cover letter assurances that the manuscript is not under review elsewhere and that the primary data have not been published previously nor accepted for publication.
Masked Review Policy
Manuscripts will be subject to masked review.
Authors' names and affiliations should appear only on the separate title page and separate author footnotes page if any; authors should not be identified anywhere else in the manuscript. Authors should make every effort to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to their identities.
It is acceptable for authors to suggest individuals qualified to do the reviewing.
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 (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.
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.
