History of Psychology

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Submission

To submit to the editorial office of Christopher D. Green, PhD, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal.

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.

APA has endorsed the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines; History of Psychology is committed to openness and transparency in historical research.

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General correspondence may be directed to:

Christopher D. Green, PhD
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
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Editor’s Choice

Each issue of History of Psychology will highlight one article with an “Editor’s Choice” designation. The selection is based on the article's potential to be of interest to as wide a range of readers as possible.

Manuscripts

The Sources, Research Notes, and News section of History of Psychology invites your news and notes for inclusion in future issues of the journal. This section is a venue for publication of brief research notes, announcements, discussion of methodology, and reports on archives, museum collections, as well as other relevant sources of interest. Please send submissions to the History of Psychology news editor.

Masked review policy

Manuscripts will receive a masked review. Please include with the manuscript a cover sheet, which shows the title of the manuscript, the authors' names and institutional affiliations, and the date the manuscript is submitted.

The first page of the manuscript should omit the authors' names and affiliations but should include the title of the manuscript and the submission date. Footnotes containing information pertaining to the authors' identity or affiliations should be on separate pages.

Every effort should be made to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identity.

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

Essay reviews

History of Psychology publishes essay reviews of thematically related sets of books and other media addressing issues important to an understanding of psychology's past.

Examples include

• an assessment of implications for the understanding of experimental work in psychology of recent studies of other scientists' laboratory practice
• a comparative analysis of two or three new biographies of a particular psychologist
• a review of recent films and videotapes on significant psychological theorists.

Each submitted essay review should be written with the journal's readership in mind and will undergo the same peer-review procedures as all other articles submitted to the journal.

Potential authors of such essay reviews should discuss their ideas with the editor before beginning to write them.

The journal will inform the institutions of authors of all accepted reviews of the parity of such essay reviews with the other articles published in History of Psychology.

The journal will not publish reviews of single books except in highly unusual circumstances.

For further information, and to discuss possible topics for essay reviews, please contact the History of Psychology editor .

Teaching the history of psychology

The history of psychology can provide compelling examples of research and theory that are pedagogically useful in teaching current psychological concepts and constructs. This section on teaching the history of psychology will provide instructors with historical ideas that aid the teaching of varied courses in the psychology curriculum.

Submissions to the teaching the history of psychology section can vary in length but should be approximately 1,500–1,800 words. They should focus on a single topic and include five basic components:

• a brief statement of the issue
• identification of the contemporary course or courses that relate to the manuscript
• useful pedagogical questions to aid instructors teaching the course
• the historical issues relating to the topic, and
• potential answers to the pedagogical questions

Author contribution statements using CRediT

The APA Publication Manual (7th ed.) 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, History of Psychology has adopted the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) 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.

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.

CRediT includes 14 contributor roles, as described below:

• Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
• Data curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.
• Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
• Funding acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
• Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
• Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
• Project administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
• Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
• Software: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
• Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
• Validation: Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
• Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
• Writing—original draft: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
• Writing—review and editing: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision—including pre- or post-publication stages.

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

Manuscript preparation

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual).

Review APA's Journal Manuscript Preparation Guidelines before submitting your article.

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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

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

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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

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.

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Publication policies

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APA policy prohibits an author from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration by two or more publications.

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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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Ethical Principles

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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).

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Editor

Christopher D. Green, PhD
York University, Canada

Consulting editors

Ruud Abma, PhD
Utrecht University, Netherlands

Saulo Araujo, PhD
Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Roderick D. Buchanan, PhD
University of Melbourne, Australia

Jeremy Burman, PhD
University of Groningen, Netherlands

Guido Cimino, PhD
"Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy

Regina Helena De Freitas Campos, PhD
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Hannah Decker, PhD
University of Houston, United States

David C. Devonis, PhD
Graceland University, United States

Ingrid Farreras, PhD
Hood College, United States

Cathy Faye, PhD
The University of Akron, Ohio, United States

Renato Foschi, PhD
Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Inbar Graiver, PhD
Humboldt University, Germany, and Ben Gurion University, Israel

Ben Harris, PhD
University of New Hampshire, United States

Ellen Herman, PhD
University of Oregon, United States

Bertha Holliday, PhD
American Psychological Association (Retired), United States

Andrew  Jewett, PhD
University of Houston, United States

Elizabeth B. Johnston, DPhil
Sarah Lawrence College, United States

Robert Kugelmann, PhD
University of Dallas, United States

Susan Lanzoni, PhD
Harvard University, United States

Katharine Milar, PhD
Earlham College, United States

Michael Pettit, PhD
York University, Canada

Petteri Pietikainen, PhD
University of Oulu, Finland

Csaba Pleh, PhD
Central European University, Hungary

Hans Pols, PhD
University of Sydney, Australia

Jon Roberts, PhD
Boston University, United States

David Robinson, PhD
Truman State University, United States

Rachael Rosner, PhD
Independent Scholar, United States

Miki Takasuna, PhD
Tokyo International University, Japan

Frank C. P. van der Horst, PhD, PsyD
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Andrew S. Winston, PhD
University of Guelph, Canada

News & Notes editor

Stephan Bonfield, MA, MSc
York University, Canada

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• Psychology and Psychiatry in the Global World, Part II:

  Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 22, No. 4, November 2019. Includes articles about international teamwork, Cold War geopolitics, Internet addiction, and mental hospitals in Apartheid South Africa.

• Psychology and Psychiatry in the Global World, Part I:

  Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 22, No. 3, August 2019. The articles detail how theories, techniques, and practices of psychology and psychiatry have been translated, adapted, and appropriated in the colonial and postcolonial eras.

• Psychotherapy in the Americas:

  Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 3, August 2018. Includes articles about psychotherapy in Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, Canada, and the United States.

• The Future of the History of Psychology:

  Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 3, August 2016. Includes articles about history specialists in psychology; the digital future; psychology in South Africa and South America; and disciplinary isolationism.

• Feminism and/in/as Psychology:

  Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 3, August 2015. The collection of articles demonstrates how attending to feminism as a historical phenomenon can recast a host of interpretive issues at the core of the historiography of the social sciences, namely, questions of interdisciplinarity, the public, and expertise.

• Mental Testing After 1905:

  Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 17, No. 3, August 2014. Includes articles about intelligence testing in the USSR, Barcelona, and Brazil in the 1920s, as well as mental test development in the early 1900s.

• Psychology, Politics, and Public Policy:

  Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 3, August 2011. Includes articles about psychology, politics, and public policy in terms of same-sex relationships; apartheid; crisis counseling and disaster relief; identity politics; and socialism and eugenics.

• International Historiography of Psychology:

  Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 3, August 2010. Includes articles about the historiography of psychology in Italy, Brazil, Spain, and the Czech Republic.

• Psychology, Religion, and Politics in National Contexts:

  Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 3, August 2009. Includes articles about religion and politics in Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

• Power Matters:

  Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 10, No. 2, May 2007. Includes articles about gender difference in the late 19th century; theories on the nature of the native mind in the former Dutch East Indies; Lewis Terman and the power of the norm; the lie detector's ambivalent powers; cross-cultural lessons from Japan; and the politics of evolution.

• G. Stanley Hall's Adolescence:

  Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 9, No. 3, August 2006. Includes articles about the historical context of G. Stanley Hall's book "Adolescence"; the role of reading, speaking, and writing in his psychological work; sex-segregated schooling; and his contribution to science, practice and policy.

• The Roles of Instruments in Psychological Research:

  Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 1, February 2005. Articles discuss Babbage's analytical engine as a mechanical model of the mind; history of the chronoscope; tracing the psyche with the graphical method; and the impact of electroencephalography on experimental psychology.

Journal equity, diversity, and inclusion statement

The journal especially encourages research on historical contexts (e.g., geographic, linguistic, ethnic, racial, sexual, gender) that have not traditionally been well represented in historical writing about psychology's past. We will make every effort to recruit reviewers who are well acquainted with the contexts represented in the submissions we receive. We also encourage authors of traditionally underrepresented groups to submit their work to the journal.

Inclusive study designs

• Collaborative research models
• Diverse samples

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 (required)
• Reflexivity (recommended)
• Positionality statements (recommended)
• Inclusive reference lists (recommended)

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

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).

Contributors and reviewers

• Guidelines for reviewing manuscripts
• Guidelines for contributors

Editor Spotlight

• Read an interview with Editor Christopher D. Green, PhD

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