Consulting Psychology Journal

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

To submit to the editorial office of Ted L. Hayes, PhD, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Microsoft Word or Open Office format.

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7^th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual). APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the 7^th edition are available.

Submit Manuscript

Standard manuscript length is 7,500–9,000 words, or about 25–30 pages (excluding figures, tables, references, abstract, etc.).

General correspondence may be directed to the editor.

Consulting Psychology Journal^® is now using a software system to screen submitted content for similarity with other published content. The system compares the initial version of each submitted manuscript against a database of 40+ million scholarly documents, 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).

Mission and purpose

Consulting Psychology Journal (CPJ) is published by the Educational Publishing Foundation in collaboration with APA Society of Consulting Psychology (Division 13).

The mission of this journal is to advance knowledge and practice in all areas of consulting psychology (including but not limited to coaching, assessment, leadership, corporate consulting, consulting to schools, team consulting, etc.). This includes issues at the individual, group, and organizational/systemic levels so long as there is a consulting focus. Articles crossing two or more levels are particularly welcomed.

The journal publishes articles in the following areas:

• theoretical/conceptual articles with implications for application to consulting
• original quantitative and qualitative empirical research
• in-depth reviews of the research and literature in specific areas of consulting practice
• case studies that demonstrate the application of consultation methods/strategies and that advance professional practice (see Lowman, R. L., & Kilburg, R. R. [2011]. Guidelines for case study submissions to Consulting Psychology Journal (PDF, 25KB). CPJ, 63[1], 1–5.)
• "Wisdom Papers" that provide distilled knowledge from accumulated experiences by veteran consultants to share insights with fellow practitioners about what works and why in consulting psychology
• articles on consulting psychology training practice development
• articles advancing the scientist-practitioner and practitioner-scientist consulting psychology linkages (see Lowman, R. L. [2012]. The scientist-practitioner consulting psychologist (PDF, 30KB). CPJ, 64[3], 151–156).

Consulting Psychology Journal also publishes special topic issues with guest editors on a regular basis. Prospective editors of special sections or issues should consult Editor Dr. Ken Nowack.

Development editor assistance

Consulting Psychology Journal is dedicated to publishing articles that draw on the experience of using psychological science to deliver consulting services to organizations. We recognize that the skillset for developing and delivering effective psychological interventions does not necessarily include the same skills required for journal writing.

Therefore, each year we choose four prospective authors with a background in consulting psychology to receive assistance from a development editor in preparing a manuscript for submission to Consulting Psychology Journal. Prospective authors are chosen quarterly by the journal editor based on a review of proposals.

Visit Development Editor Assistance in Preparing Manuscripts for more information.

Masked review

Manuscripts accepted by the editor are submitted to a masked review by members of the Editorial Review Board. To ensure anonymity, each manuscript should contain a separate title page with authors' names and affiliations, and these should not appear anywhere else on the manuscript.

Reviewers are instructed to provide comments that will help authors revise and improve their manuscripts. The editor makes the final decision regarding publication in consultation with the reviewers regarding the manuscript's quality, importance, and relevancy.

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

Schedule and submission deadlines

Manuscripts for articles are accepted at any time. Authors should expect the review/revision process to take 6 to 9 months. Deadlines for submission of advertisements, divisional news, letters to the editor, etc., are January 1, April 1, June 1, and September 15 for the for the March, June, September, and December issues, respectively.

Manuscript preparation

Review APA's Journal Manuscript Preparation Guidelines before submitting your article. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual. Additional guidance on APA Style is available on the APA Style website.

Journal Article Reporting Standards

Authors are encouraged to consult the APA Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. Updated in 2018, the standards offer ways to improve transparency in reporting to ensure that readers have the information necessary to evaluate the quality of the research and to facilitate collaboration and replication.

Title page

The title page should contain the complete title of the manuscript, names and affiliations of all authors, applicable institution(s) at which the work was performed, and name, address, and telephone numbers of the author responsible for correspondence. Please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.

Positionality statement

Authors are encouraged to include a positionality statement on the title page. Positionality statements are intended to address potential author bias by transparently reporting how the identities of the authors relate to the research/article topic and to the identity of the participants, as well as the extent to which those identities are represented in the scientific record. The statement can be published in the author note or discussion section. For more guidance on writing positionality statements, read Know Thyself: How to Write a Reflexivity Statement, authored by Dr. Sherry Hamby, PhD, founding editor of Psychology of Violence.

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.

What’s it mean? Implications for consulting psychology

Authors submitting manuscripts to the Consulting Psychology Journal are also required to provide 2–3 brief sentences (30–70 words) regarding the implications of their article to consulting psychology. The text should summarize what this article adds to the literature and state the implications for practice, research, or both. This description should be included within the manuscript on the abstract/keywords page. It should be written in language that is easily understood by both professionals and members of the lay public.

When an accepted paper is published, these sentences will be boxed beneath the abstract for easy accessibility. All such descriptions will also be published as part of the table of contents, as well as on the journal's web page. This new policy is in keeping with efforts to increase dissemination and usage by larger and diverse audiences.

This new article feature allows authors greater control over how their work will be interpreted by and impact key audiences globally and locally—including practitioners, policy makers, news media, and members of the public. Please refer to Guidance for Translational Abstracts and Public Significance Statements to help you write this text.

Participant description and constraints on generality

The method section of each manuscript must contain a detailed description of the study participants, including (but not limited to) the following:

• age
• gender
• ethnicity
• nativity or immigration history
• SES
• clinical diagnoses and comorbidities (as appropriate)
• any other relevant demographics (e.g., sexual orientation)

In applicable articles, authors are encouraged to include a subsection of the Discussion, titled Constraints on Generality, to identify and justify target populations for reported findings and discuss the limits on generality (see Simons, Shoda, & Lindsay, 2017). In this section, authors should detail grounds for concluding that results are specific to characteristics of the participants and address limits on generality not only for participants but for materials, procedures, and context. They should also specify which methods the authors think could be varied without affecting the result and which should remain constant.

Author contributions statements using CRediT

APA stipulates that "authorship encompasses…not only persons who do the writing but also those who have made substantial scientific contributions to a study." In the spirit of transparency and openness, CPJ has adopted the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to allow authors the option to describe each author's individual contributions to the work. CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to a manuscript.

Utilization of author contributions statements is optional. Submitting authors will be asked to identify the contributions of all authors at initial submission according to this taxonomy. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the CRediT designations will be published as an author contributions statement in the author note of the final article. All authors should have reviewed and agreed to their individual contribution(s) before submission.

Authors can claim credit for more than one contributor role, and the same role can be attributed to more than one author.

If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the CRediT designations will be published as an author contributions statement in the author note. All authors should have reviewed and agreed to their individual contribution(s) before submission.

Below are additional instructions regarding the preparation of display equations, computer code, 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.

Computer code

Because altering computer code in any way (e.g., indents, line spacing, line breaks, page breaks) during the typesetting process could alter its meaning, we treat computer code differently from the rest of your article in our production process. To that end, we request separate files for computer code.

In online supplemental material

We request that runnable source code be included as supplemental material to the article. For more information, visit Supplementing Your Article With Online Material.

In the text of the article

If you would like to include code in the text of your published manuscript, please submit a separate file with your code exactly as you want it to appear, using Courier New font with a type size of 8 points. We will make an image of each segment of code in your article that exceeds 40 characters in length. (Shorter snippets of code that appear in text will be typeset in Courier New and run in with the rest of the text.) If an appendix contains a mix of code and explanatory text, please submit a file that contains the entire appendix, with the code keyed in 8-point Courier New.

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.

Academic writing and English language editing services

Authors who feel that their manuscript may benefit from additional academic writing or language editing support prior to submission are encouraged to seek out such services at their host institutions, engage with colleagues and subject matter experts, and/or consider several vendors that offer discounts to APA authors.

Please note that APA does not endorse or take responsibility for the service providers listed. It is strictly a referral service.

Use of such service is not mandatory for publication in an APA journal. Use of one or more of these services does not guarantee selection for peer review, manuscript acceptance, or preference for publication in any APA journal.

Submitting supplemental materials

APA can place supplemental 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

McCauley, S. M., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Language learning as language use: A cross-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126(1), 1–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

Brown, L. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, K. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. K. P., & Safren, S. A. (2019). Affirmative cognitive behavior therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In G. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive behavior therapy: Practice and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000119-012

Figures

Preferred formats for graphics files are TIFF and JPG, and preferred format for vector-based files is EPS. Graphics downloaded or saved from web pages are not acceptable for publication. Multipanel figures (i.e., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) should be assembled into one file. When possible, please place symbol legends below the figure instead of to the side.

Resolution

• All color line art and halftones: 300 DPI
• Black and white line tone and gray halftone images: 600 DPI

Line weights

• Adobe Photoshop images
  • Color (RGB, CMYK) images: 2 pixels
  • Grayscale images: 4 pixels
• Adobe Illustrator Images
  • Stroke weight: 0.5 points

APA offers authors the option to publish their figures online in color without the costs associated with print publication of color figures.

The same caption will appear on both the online (color) and print (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure can be understood in both formats, authors should add alternative wording (e.g., “the red (dark gray) bars represent”) as needed.

For authors who prefer their figures to be published in color both in print and online, original color figures can be printed in color at the editor's and publisher's discretion provided the author agrees to pay:

• $900 for one figure
• An additional $600 for the second figure
• An additional $450 for each subsequent figure

Journal Article Reporting Standards

Authors must adhere to the APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. The standards offer ways to improve transparency in reporting to ensure that readers have the information necessary to evaluate the quality of the research and to facilitate collaboration and replication.

The JARS:

• Recommend the division of hypotheses, analyses, and conclusions into primary, secondary, and exploratory groupings to allow for a full understanding of planned and unplanned quantitative analyses presented in a manuscript and to enhance reproducibility;
• Offer modules for authors reporting on replications, clinical trials, longitudinal studies, and observational studies, as well as the analytic methods of structural equation modeling and Bayesian analysis;
• Include guidelines on reporting of study preregistration (including making protocols public); participant characteristics (including demographic characteristics, inclusion and exclusion criteria); psychometric characteristics of outcome measures and other variables; and planned data diagnostics and analytic strategy.

The guidelines focus on transparency in methods reporting, recommending descriptions of how the researcher's own perspective affected the study, as well as the contexts in which the research and analysis took place.

Authors should also review the new Journal Article Reporting Standards for Race, Ethnicity, and Culture (JARS–REC). Meant for all authors, regardless of research topic, JARS–REC include standards for all stages of research and manuscript writing, on, for example:

• Using the title, abstract, and keywords to identify race and ethnicity of participants without signaling Whiteness as default;
• Discussing the applicability of the theoretical approach to populations for which it was not developed;
• Addressing limits on generality, recognizing that generalizability is always constrained and is not the primary purpose of every study; and
• Considering whether findings could be misused to cause harm to members of historically excluded groups.

For more, see the Guidance for Authors sections of the table (PDF, 184KB).

Transparency and openness

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines by a community working group in conjunction with the Center for Open Science (Nosek et al. 2015). Empirical research, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied must at least meet the “requirement” level for all aspects of research planning and reporting. Authors should include a subsection in the method section titled “Transparency and openness.” This subsection should detail the efforts the authors have made to comply with the TOP guidelines.

For example:

• We report how we determined our sample size, all data exclusions (if any), all manipulations, and all measures in the study, and we follow JARS (Kazak, 2018). All data, analysis code, and research materials are available at [stable link to repository]. Data were analyzed using R, version 4.0.0 (R Core Team, 2020) and the package ggplot, version 3.2.1 (Wickham, 2016). This study’s design and its analysis were not pre-registered.

Data, materials, and code

• All data have been made publicly available at the [repository name] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].
• Materials and analysis code for this study are not available [because of legal or ethical reason].

The code behind this analysis/simulation has been made publicly available at the [repository name] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].

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 test materials (or portions thereof), photographs, and other graphic images (including those used as stimuli in experiments).

On advice of counsel, APA may decline to publish any image whose copyright status is unknown.

• Download Permissions Alert Form (PDF, 13KB)

Open science badges

Starting in 2020, articles are eligible for open science badges recognizing publicly available data, materials, and/or preregistration plans and analyses. These badges are awarded on a self-disclosure basis.

At submission, authors must confirm that criteria have been fulfilled in a signed badge disclosure form (PDF, 33KB) that must be submitted as supplemental material. If all criteria are met as confirmed by the editor, the form will then be published with the article as supplemental material.

Authors should also note their eligibility for the badge(s) in the cover letter.

For all badges, items must be made available on an open-access repository with a persistent identifier in a format that is time-stamped, immutable, and permanent. For the preregistered badge, this is an institutional registration system.

Data and materials must be made available under an open license allowing others to copy, share, and use the data, with attribution and copyright as applicable.

Note that it may not be possible to preregister a study or to share data and materials. Applying for open science badges is optional.

Available badges are:

Open Data:
All data necessary to reproduce the reported results that are digitally shareable are made publicly available. Information necessary for replication (e.g., codebooks or metadata) must be included.

Open Materials:
All materials necessary to reproduce the reported results that are digitally shareable, along with descriptions of non-digital materials necessary for replication, are made publicly available.

Preregistered:
At least one study's design has been preregistered with descriptions of (a) the research design and study materials, including the planned sample size; (b) the motivating research question or hypothesis; (c) the outcome variable(s); and (d) the predictor variables, including controls, covariates, and independent variables. Results must be fully disclosed. As long as they are distinguished from other results in the article, results from analyses that were not preregistered may be reported in the article.

Preregistered+Analysis Plan:
At least one study's design has been preregistered along with an analysis plan for the research — and results are recorded according to that plan.

Publication policies

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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.

• For manuscripts not funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
  Publication Rights (Copyright Transfer) Form (PDF, 83KB)
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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 its 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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See APA’s Publishing Policies page for more information on publication policies, including information on author contributorship and responsibilities of authors, author name changes after publication, the use of generative artificial intelligence, funder information and conflict-of-interest disclosures, duplicate publication, data publication and reuse, and preprints.

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Editor

Theodore L. Hayes, PhD
Arlington, VA, United States

Associate editors

Joel DiGirolamo, MS I/O Psychology
International Coach Federation (ICF), United States

Lawrence James Jr., PhD
L. James Jr. Consulting, United States

Lubna Somjee, PhD
Clinical & Health Psychologist + Executive Coach, United States

Development editor

Martin Wilcox
Publishing in Context, United States

Editorial board reviewers

Taisir M. Abdallah, PhD
Alquds-Bard College, Israel

Bill Berman, PhD
Berman Leadership Development, LLC, United States

Prof Dr Mrunal Bhardwaj, PhD
Loknete Vyankatrao Hiray Arts Science and Commerce College Nashik, India

Alok Bhupatkar, PhD
U.S. Army Research Institute, United States

Benealia D. Carter, EdD
Center for Psychological and Family Services, Inc., United States

Allan H. Church, PhD
PepsiCo, United States

Stewart E. Cooper, PhD
Valparaiso University, United States

Bart Craig, PhD
North Carolina State University, United States

Erik de Haan, PhD
Ashridge Centre for Coaching, United Kingdom

Kenneth P. De Meuse, PhD
Wisconsin Management Group, United States

Jennifer Deal, PhD
Center for Effective Organizations (CEO), University of Southern California, United States

Jared A. Detter, PsyD
Bartell & Bartell, Ltd., United States

Dennis Doverspike, PhD
Doverspike Consulting LLC, United States

Jay Finkelman, MBA, PhD
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, United States

Jeff Foster, PhD
Independent Consulting Psychologist, United States

Na Fu, PhD
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Dale R. Fuqua, PhD
Oklahoma State University, United States

Michael Greenspan, PhD
Greenspan Advisory, United Kingdom

Ann Howell, PhD, ACC
Howell Leadership Science, LLC, United States

Richard R. Kilburg, PhD
RRK Coaching and Executive Development, United States

Ian Kristic, PhD
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States

Rene Immanuel Kusch, PhD
RELEVANT Management Consulting, Germany

H. Skipton Leonard, PhD
Learning Thru Action, LLC, United States

Rodney L. Lowman, PhD, ABAP
CSPP/Alliant International University, San Diego, Lowman & Richardson/Consulting Psychologists, PC, United States

Stephen J. Marshall, PhD, Counseling Psychology, ABPP
Marshall Leadership Consulting, PLLC, United States

Larry W. Norton, PhD
The University of Texas at Dallas, United States

Kenneth Nowack, PhD
Envisia Learning, Inc., United States

Angela M. Passarelli, PhD, BCC
College of Charleston and Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital, United States

John L. Reed, PhD
Quinn Reed Associates LLC, United States

Douglas Riddle, PhD, DMin
Center for Creative Leadership, United States

Cort W. Rudolph, PhD
Saint Louis University, United States

Eduardo Salas, PhD
Rice University, United States

Marc Sokol, PhD
Sage Consulting Resources, LLC, United States

Len Sperry, MD, PhD
Florida Atlantic University, United States

Dr Nicky Terblanche, PhD, MPhil, MScEng
Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa

Jason Walker, PsyD, PhD, CPHR,  C.Psychol
University Canada West, Canada

Randall P. White, PhD
Executive Development Group, United States

Dave Winsborough, MSocSci
Wellington, New Zealand

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Journal equity, diversity, and inclusion statement

The field of consulting psychology recognizes the multiple layers of systems within which we work. We work with individuals, leaders, and teams within organizations affected by many changes in societal and global influences. As such, we place a heavy emphasis on understanding and developing cultural competence and advancing our knowledge and application of how we work with these complex systems. This includes increasing our awareness of the potential impact of structural barriers that members of some groups face in our work and defining and better understanding our role within that context.

Consulting Psychology Journal  (CPJ) is committed to improving equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in organizational research and practice in line with the APA Publishing EDI framework. EDI is embedded in all we do. CPJ has three broad external-facing goals and four internal-management goals in its mission to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive editorial process. These have also been published in their 2020 Diversity and Inclusion Special Issue. The three broad external-facing goals are: (1) to support the application of research to practice whenever available; (2) to encourage the need for further research when practice is occurring in the absence of any current empirical guidance; and (3) to highlight the intersection of our work with perspectives that are available in many other fields of behavioral science or organizational practice. We recognize that when considering issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, we must look to multiple sources in order to supplement what may or may not be available in our core field of consulting psychology.

Our four internal goals for creating an equitable, diverse, and inclusive editorial process are: (1) to promote equity through the content we publish; (2) to address inclusivity in our science and practice in our reviews of article submissions; (3) to invite a diverse community of authors, editors, and reviewers through additional recruitment methods to increase the diversity of perspectives; and (4) to provide additional mentorship and support to new authors, editors, and reviewers who have not previously or traditionally been included in journal publishing. All invited reviewers are specifically requested to reflect upon questions such as the following, where applicable, that should expand the generalizability of the manuscript’s implications:

• Has the participant sample been adequately described to provide sufficient information to the reader about the demographic diversity among participants, as well as limitations about inadequate representation of certain groups of people (e.g., age, race, ethnicity, etc.)?
• Does the manuscript acknowledge a diversity of experiences and include them in the manuscript when possible?
• Does the manuscript include issues of equity, for example, differences in the likelihood of certain groups having more access to the intervention described than others, inequitable organizational practices that might affect consulting outcomes, etc.?

We aim to recruit and publish papers that include diversity in its many forms in the publishing world: author and reviewer demographics, experience, background, industries, and international papers that provide a global perspective on issues, as well as articles that span personal experiences and reflections (e.g., through “Wisdom” papers) in addition to theoretical and applied work. In our manuscript reviews, we evaluate the level to which a paper may or may not be representative in various contexts and request authors acknowledge when findings might not be generalizable in various contexts.

CPJ encourages submissions which extend beyond Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) samples (Henrich, et al., 2010). The journal welcomes submissions which feature historically marginalized sample populations. The journal particularly welcomes submissions models and study designs that address the heterogeneity within diverse samples.

Inclusive study designs

• Diverse samples
• Registered Reports

Definitions and further details on inclusive study designs are available on the Journals EDI homepage.

Inclusive reporting standards

• Bias-free language and community-driven language guidelines (recommended)
• Author contribution roles using CRediT (required)
• Positionality statements (recommended)
• Data sharing and data availability statements (recommended)
• Impact statements (required)
• Participant sample descriptions (required)
• Sample justifications (recommended)
• Constraints on Generality (COG) statements (recommended)
• Inclusive reference lists (recommended)

More information on this journal’s reporting standards is listed under the submission guidelines tab.

Pathways to authorship and editorship

Development editor assistance program

Development editor programs offer support to experts who have a promising idea for advancing the field of psychology but have little experience with academic writing and publishing. A development editor provides a structured process, feedback, and editorial guidance for creating a manuscript to be submitted to a given journal. This journal offers a formal development editor assistance program.

Other EDI offerings

ORCID reviewer recognition

Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) Reviewer Recognition provides a visible and verifiable way for journals to publicly credit reviewers without compromising the confidentiality of the peer-review process. This journal has implemented the ORCID Reviewer Recognition feature in Editorial Manager, meaning that reviewers can be recognized for their contributions to the peer-review process.

Masked peer review

This journal offers masked peer review (where both the authors’ and reviewers’ identities are not known to the other). Research has shown that masked peer review can help reduce implicit bias against traditionally female names or early-career scientists with smaller publication records (Budden et al., 2008; Darling, 2015).

Announcements

• Development editor assistance in preparing manuscripts
• New editors appointed

Awards

• Elliott Jaques Memorial Publication Award
• Development Editor Assistance Award Winners

Editor Spotlight

• Read an interview with Editor Ted Hayes, PhD

From APA Journals Article Spotlight^®

• State of progress in diversity and inclusion initiatives across industries and contexts
• So you want to be a consultant, huh?
• Beyond goal setting to goal flourishing
• Coaching elite performers: The role of performance psychology