Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment (PD:TRT), the official journal of the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, welcomes manuscripts from research psychologists, as well as researchers from other disciplines such as psychiatry, social work, and public health.
PD:TRT seeks the following types of submissions:
- Full-Length Articles: Manuscripts presenting empirical findings may be submitted as full-length articles, not to exceed 36 pages.
- Brief Reports: Brief reports of empirical findings, not to exceed 18 pages.
- Registered Reports: Initial submissions consist of a detailed research proposal, including an abstract, introduction, hypotheses (if applicable), power analyses, method, and planned analyses. Manuscripts are then peer reviewed solely on the basis of this information; in most cases, researchers collect the data (or access it, if using archival data) only after receiving a stage 1 acceptance. Please visit the Center for Open Scienceopens in new window for more details on this mechanism.
- Target Conceptual Articles: Manuscripts that evaluate and synthesize the research literature and/or make important theoretical contributions, not to exceed 40 pages. Four commentaries invited by the journal will be published on the PD:TRT homepage, along with the author's response to the commentaries.
- Practice Reviews: Practice reviews present an issue from clinical practice, review relevant research, and provide a practical recommendation informed by the reviewed research. They must be coauthored by at least one individual with a primary focus in clinical practice and at least one individual with a primary focus in research. This partnering of individuals with a different professional emphasis is crucial for practice reviews to provide a credible bridge between research and practice. When submitting a practice review, provide a description of each individual's primary professional focus in the cover letter. Practice reviews should not exceed 30 pages.
- PD:TRT is substantially invested in open science practices and encourages submissions that involve preregistration and the sharing of data, code, and materials, etc. when possible. The journal has adopted the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Level 2 Guidelines in support of these principles and awards several open science badges for which authors of accepted manuscripts can apply.
