Psychological Services

Editor

Patrick H. DeLeon
Former APA President–2000, Washington, DC

Managing Editor

Gary R. VandenBos
American Psychological Association

Associate Editors

Michi Fu
Pacific Clinics, Los Angeles County, California, and California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University

Lisa K. Kearney
VA Central Office, Washington, DC

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

Apryl Alexander
Minnesota State Operated Forensic Services, St. Peter, Minnesota

Anthony A. Arita
Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington, DC

R. E. Franco Durán
California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University

Genevieve L. Y. Arnaut
Pacific University

Michelle E. Barnett
W. G. "Bill" Hefner VA Medical Center, Salisbury, North Carolina

Jeffrey M. Bates
North Florida / South Georgia Veterans Health System

Michael B. Blank
University of Pennsylvania

Ana J. Bridges
University of Arkansas

Timothy P. Carmody
San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco

Alison Cerezo
California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University

Katie E. Connell
Connell Forensic Psychology Services, Westlake, Ohio

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

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

Shefali Gandhi
Midwestern University

Eric J. Getka
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland

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
VA Central Office, Washington, DC

Carrie H. Kennedy
Marine Corps Embassy Security Group, Quantico, Virginia

Robert D. Kerns
VA Connecticut Healthcare System

Giyeon Kim
University of Alabama

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

Jane Liu
University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee

Christopher W. Loftis
Dynamics Research Corporation, Arlington, Virginia

Steven B. Lovett
VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Jon Mandracchia
University of Southern Mississippi

Robert D. Morgan
Texas Tech University

Leonard Ira Morgenbesser
New York State Department of Correctional Services, Albany, New York

Daniel Marston
Marston Psychological Services, Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Alix M. McLearen
Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC

Kathleen M. McNamara
VA Maui Community-Based Outpatient Clinic

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

Edmund J. Nightingale
Minneapolis VA Health Care System (Retired)

Polly Hitchcock Noёl
South Texas Veterans Health Care System

Natasha Thapar Olmos
University of California, Los Angeles

Douglas H. Olson
Minneapolis VA Health Care System

Carlton Parks
Alliant International University, Los Angeles

Robert J. Powitzky
Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Paul K. Saito
California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University

Dawn M. Salgado
Pacific University

Vivian L. Tamkin
Pacific Oaks College and Children's School, Pasadena, California

Yuying Tsong
California State University, Fullerton

Steven R. Tulkin
California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University

Jesse N. Valdez
University of Denver

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

Jeffrey N. Weatherly
University of North Dakota

Elizabeth K. White
Human Resources Department, County of Riverside, Riverside, California

Loren Wilkenfeld
VA 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 (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.

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.

Other Information

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