Journal scope statement
The Journal of Occupational Health Psychology® publishes theory, research, and public policy articles in occupational health psychology, an interdisciplinary field representing a broad range of backgrounds, interests, and specializations. Occupational health psychology concerns the application of psychology to improving the quality of work life and to protecting and promoting the safety, health, and well-being of workers.
The journal has a threefold focus, including organization of work, individual psychological attributes, and work–nonwork interface in relation to employee health, safety, or well-being.
The journal seeks scholarly articles, from both researchers and practitioners, concerning psychological factors in relationship to all aspects of occupational safety, health, and well-being.
Included in this broad domain of interest are
- articles in which work-related and nonwork-related psychological factors play a role in the etiology of occupational safety, health, and well-being
- articles examining the dynamics of occupational safety, health, and well-being
- articles concerned with the use of psychological approaches to improve occupational safety, health, and well-being
Special attention is given to articles with a prevention and a promotion emphasis.
Authors should consider the financial costs and economic benefits of prevention and promotion programs they evaluate.
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.
Each article should represent an addition to knowledge and understanding of occupational health psychology.
Disclaimer: APA and the editors of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology assume no responsibility for statements and opinions advanced by the authors of its articles.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology supports equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in its practices. More information on these initiatives is available under EDI Efforts.
Editor’s Choice
- Each issue of Journal of Occupational Health Psychology® will honor one accepted manuscript per issue by selecting it as an “Editor’s Choice” paper. Selection is based on the discretion of the editor if the paper offers an unusually large potential impact to the field and/or elevates an important future direction for science.
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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 7th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual). APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the 7th edition are available.
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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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).
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.
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
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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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- Preventing Interpersonal Stressors at Work:
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.
- Leadership and Health/Well-Being:
Special issue of APA's Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Vol. 26, No. 6, December 2021. This special issue introduces a set of papers that contribute to research on leadership and health/well-being from multiple perspectives.
- Interventions in Occupational Health Psychology:
Special issue of APA's Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 1, February 2019. The articles focus on applied interventions in occupational health psychology - interventions that are intended to treat employee health and well-being problems or prevent these problems from occurring in the first place.
- Journal of Occupational Health Psychology at 20:
Special issue of APA's Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Vol. 22, No. 3, July 2017. Includes articles about work-family balance, sexual harassment, work and aging, occupational safety, burnout, leadership, employee wellness, and more.
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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