Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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

The Journal of Occupational Health 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 Journal of Occupational Health Psychology Editorial office for review immediately upon submission.

To submit to the Editorial Office of Sharon Clarke, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Microsoft Word format (.doc) or LaTex (.tex) as a zip file with an accompanied Portable Document Format (.pdf) of the manuscript file.

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

Sharon Clarke, PhD
University of Manchester
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Do not submit manuscripts to the Editor's email address.

Manuscripts submitted for publication consideration in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology are evaluated according to the following general criteria:

• Mastery of the relevant literature
• Theoretical/conceptual framework
• Measures of key constructs
• Research design
• Data analysis
• Interpretations and conclusions
• Writing style (clarity)
• Appropriateness of topic for Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
• Theoretical contribution to occupational health psychology
• Practical implications for occupational health psychology

Length of submission

Standard manuscripts may not exceed 40 double-spaced pages (excluding figures, tables, references, and appendices). Research Note (also known as Kevin's Corner) manuscripts may not exceed 20 double-spaced pages (excluding figures, tables, references, and appendices).

Additional materials, if needed, can be placed in a supplemental materials file.

Submission letters should include a statement regarding any possible conflict of interest in conducting or reporting of the research and a statement of compliance with APA ethical standards. Authors can (but are not required to) suggest up to five reviewers who are especially qualified to review their work and who would not have a conflict of interest in serving as a reviewer.

Masked review policy

The journal accepts submissions in masked review format only.

Each copy of a manuscript should include a separate title page with author names and affiliations, and these should not appear anywhere else on the manuscript. Furthermore, author identification notes should be typed on the title page. Authors should make every effort to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to their identities.

Manuscripts not in masked format will not be reviewed.

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 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.

Double-space all copy. 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.

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.

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, Journal of Occupational Health 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 must 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.

Data, materials, and code

Authors must state whether data and study materials are available and, if so, where to access them. Recommended repositories include APA’s repository on the Open Science Framework (OSF), or authors can access a full list of other recommended repositories.

In both the author note and at the end of the method section, specify whether and where the data and material will be available or note the legal or ethical reasons for not doing so. For submissions with quantitative or simulation analytic methods, state whether the study analysis code is available, and, if so, where to access it (or the legal or ethical reason why it is not available).
For example:

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

Participant description, sample justification, and informed consent

The Method section of each empirical report must contain a detailed description of the study participants, which should include (but is not limited to) the following:

• age
• sex
• gender
• racial identity
• ethnicity
• nativity or immigration history
• socioeconomic status
• clinical diagnoses and comorbidities (as appropriate)
• any other relevant demographics (e.g., disability status; sexual orientation)

In both the abstract and in the discussion section of the manuscript, authors must discuss the diversity of their study samples and the generalizability of their findings.
Authors also must justify their sample demographics in the discussion section. If Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) or all-White samples are used, authors should justify their samples and describe their sample inclusion efforts (see Roberts, et al., 2020 for more information on justifying sample demographics).

The method section also must include a statement describing how informed consent was obtained from the participants (or their parents/guardians), including for secondary use of data if applicable, and indicate that the study was conducted in compliance with an appropriate Internal Review Board.

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 APA 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

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

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)

Publication policies

For full details on publication policies, including use of Artificial Intelligence tools, please see APA Publishing 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 Full Disclosure of Interests Form (PDF, 41KB)

In light of changing patterns of scientific knowledge dissemination, APA requires authors to provide information on prior dissemination of the data and narrative interpretations of the data/research appearing in the manuscript (e.g., if some or all were presented at a conference or meeting, posted on a listserv, shared on a website, including academic social networks like ResearchGate, etc.). This information (2–4 sentences) must be provided as part of the Author Note.

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.

Other information

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

Sharon Clarke, PhD
University of Manchester, United Kingdom 

Associate editors

Jeremy M. Beus, PhD
Washington State University, United States

Evangelia Demerouti, PhD
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

Stefan Diestel, PhD
University of Wuppertal, Germany

Ute R. Hülsheger, PhD
Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Lixin Jiang, PhD
University of Auckland, New Zealand

Nerina L. Jimmieson, PhD
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Joseph J. Mazzola, PhD
Meredith College, United States

YoungAh Park, PhD
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, United States

Yasin Rofcanin, PhD
University of Bath, United Kingdom

Winny Shen, PhD
York University, Canada

Mindy K. Shoss, PhD
University of Central Florida, United States

Oi-Ling Siu, PhD
Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Zhiqing Zhou, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States

Editorial board

Bengt B. Arnetz, MD, PhD
Michigan State University, United States

Neal M. Ashkanasy, PhD
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Arnold B. Bakker, PhD
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Cristian Balducci, PhD
University of Bologna, Italy

Larissa K. Barber, PhD
San Diego State University, United States

Andrew A. Bennett, PhD
Old Dominion University, United States

Carmen Binnewies, PhD
University of Muenster, Germany

Thomas W. Britt, PhD
Clemson University, South Carolina, United States

Rebecca M. Brossoit, PhD
Rice University, Texas, United States

Adam B. Butler, PhD
University of Northern Iowa, United States

Anne Casper, PhD
Free University Berlin, Germany

Chu-Hsiang (Daisy) Chang, PhD
Michigan State University, United States

Nai-Wen Chi, PhD
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

Cody Logan Chullen, PhD
East Carolina University, United States

Christopher J. L. Cunningham, PhD
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, United States

Jason J. Dahling, PhD
The College of New Jersey, United States

Arla Day, PhD
Saint Mary's University, Canada

Caitlin Demsky, PhD
Oakland University, Michigan, United States

Christian Dormann, PhD
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

Frida Marina Fischer, PhD
University of São Paulo, Brazil

Gwenith G. Fisher, PhD
Colorado State University, United States

Michael T. Ford, PhD
University of Alabama, United States

Kimberly A. French, PhD
Colorado State University, United States

Viviola Gómez-Ortiz, PhD
University of los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

M. Gloria González-Morales, PhD
Claremont Graduate University, United States

Joseph G. Grzywacz, PhD
Florida State University, United States

Jari J. Hakanen, PhD
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland

Verena C. Haun, PhD
University of Wuerzburg, Germany

David Holman, PhD
University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Irene Houtman, PhD
TNO, Hoofddorp, the Netherlands

Yueng-hsiang (Emily) Huang, PhD
Oregon Health & Science University, United States

Ilke Inceoglu, PhD
University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Steve M. Jex, PhD
University of Central Florida, United States

Dana Kabat-Farr, PhD
Dalhousie University, United States

Loraleigh Keashly, PhD
Wayne State University, United States

Stacey R. Kessler, PhD
Kennesaw State University, United States

Laurent M. Lapierre, PhD
University of Ottawa, Canada

Yiqiong Li, PhD
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Cong Liu, PhD
Hofstra University, United States

Yongmei Liu, PhD
Illinois State University, United States

Vicki J. Magley, PhD
University of Connecticut, United States

Debra A. Major, PhD
Old Dominion University, United States

Russell A. Matthews, PhD
University of Alabama, United States

Laurenz L. Meier, PhD
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

James A. Meurs, PhD
Kennesaw State University, United States

Jesse S. Michel, PhD
Auburn University, United States

Marie S. Mitchell, PhD
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, United States

Timothy P. Munyon, PhD
University of Tennessee, United States

Akinori Nakata, PhD
International University of Health and Welfare Ōtawara, Japan

Kara Ng, PhD
University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Cornelia Niessen, PhD
Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Peter Joseph O'Connor, PhD
QUT Business School, Brisbane, Australia

Heather Odle-Dusseau, PhD
Gettysburg College, United States

Ryan Olson, PhD
Oregon Health and Science University, United States

Deirdre O’Shea, PhD
University of Limerick, Ireland

Stacey L. Parker, PhD
The University of Queensland, Australia

Shani Pindek, PhD
University of Haifa, Israel

Tahira M. Probst, PhD
Washington State University Vancouver, United States

James Campbell Quick, PhD
University of Texas at Arlington, United States

Katherine M. Richardson, PhD
Pace University, United States

Thomas Rigotti, PhD
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

Wladislaw Rivkin, PhD
Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Rashaun K. Roberts, PhD
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, United States

Vincent Rousseau, PhD
University of Montreal, Canada

Cort W. Rudolph, PhD
Wayne State University, United States

Reiner Rugulies, PhD
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark

Ana Isabel Sanz-Vergel, PhD
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Aaron Schat, PhD
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Bert Schreurs, PhD
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Norbert K. Semmer, PhD
University of Bern, Switzerland

William S. Shaw, PhD
University of Connecticut and InCHIP, United States

Yuhyung Shin, PhD
Hanyang University, Korea

Robert R. Sinclair, PhD
Clemson University, United States

Rachel Williamson Smith, PhD
Georgia Southern University, United States

Sabine Sonnentag, PhD
University of Mannheim, Germany

Paul E. Spector, PhD
University of South Florida, United States

Christiane Spitzmueller, PhD
University of Houston, United States

Shannon G. Taylor, PhD
University of Central Florida, United States

Lois E. Tetrick, PhD
George Mason University, United States

Sharon Toker, PhD
Tel Aviv University, Israel

Michelle R. Tuckey, PhD
University of South Australia, Australia

Nick Turner, PhD
University of Calgary, Canada

M. L. M. (Madelon) van Hooff, PhD
Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands

Benjamin M. Walsh, PhD
Grand Valley State University, United States

Mo Wang, PhD
University of Florida, United States

Oliver Weigelt, PhD
University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Mina Westman, PhD
Tel Aviv University, Israel

Despoina Xanthopoulou, PhD
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Liu-Qin Yang, PhD
Portland State University, United States

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  Special issue of APA's Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 1, February 2022. This special issue is organized into three main themes: (a) factors that stop the vicious cycle of experiencing— enacting interpersonal stressors, (b) multilevel work conditions that reduce interpersonal stressors, and (c) evidence for interventions to reduce interpersonal work stressors.

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Inclusive reporting standards

• Bias-free language and community-driven language guidelines (required)
• Author contribution roles using CRediT (required)
• Data sharing and data availability statements (required)
• Participant sample descriptions (required)
• Sample justifications (required)

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

Other EDI offerings

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).

Manuscripts from underrepresented groups

Manuscripts dealing with issues of contemporary relevance to the workplace, especially regarding the unique challenges of occupational safety, health, and well-being experienced by minority, cultural, or occupationally underrepresented groups, or topics at the interface of work and nonwork, are encouraged.

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