Psychiatric Rehabilitation 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

Submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Word Document 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.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal uses 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).

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Kristen M. Abraham, PhD, Incoming Editor
University of Detroit Mercy
Detroit, Michigan

General correspondence may be directed to Emily Williams in the editorial office.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal gives priority to submissions that are clearly applicable to the development, administration, and delivery of psychiatric rehabilitation services and those that inform the development of person-centered systems that support and broaden psychiatric rehabilitation approaches. Community-engaged studies that include persons with psychiatric disabilities and clinicians as partners are a top priority.

Articles and brief reports published in the journal should include implications for practice and/or policy to promote the translation of research findings into useful applications for the field.

Please refer to the Journal Scope Statement for additional details regarding the content and type of submissions this journal considers.

Manuscript selection

Upon receipt, manuscripts will be reviewed by the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Editorial team for originality, timeliness, importance to the field, and alignment with the scope of the journal. Manuscripts that do not significantly contribute to the literature in psychiatric rehabilitation may be returned without review.

Manuscripts that are sent for peer review generally receive review by at least two independent reviewers A separate statistical review is obtained when a reviewer or the editors request it. Authors are informed about the review decision after the review process is completed.

Manuscripts that are not rejected after the first round of peer review usually require revision and re-review by one or more of the original reviewers.

Revised manuscripts must conform to the general requirements listed below, including specified word counts, and word counts must be adhered to in revised submissions.

Manuscripts are evaluated based on the following general criteria:

• Timeliness and originality
• Appropriateness of methodology
• Quality of writing (i.e., clarity, accuracy)
• Contributions of new findings to understanding of issues pertinent to psychiatric rehabilitation
• Interest, comprehensibility, and usefulness for an interdisciplinary audience of psychiatric rehabilitation scholars, practitioners, and policy makers

Manuscript length

Manuscript Length Articles should not exceed 5,000 words; Brief Reports should not exceed 1,500 words, and Letters to the Editor should not exceed 300 words. Word counts are exclusive of tables, figures, and references. All revisions must adhere to these word limits.

Authors must include the word count (exclusive of tables, figures, and references) on the title page of their manuscripts.

Formatting

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.

Abstract and keywords

All research manuscripts should include a structured abstract containing a maximum of 250 words.

Abstracts that are incomplete or do not conform to the following structure will be returned to the authors for revision.

• Objective: the primary purpose of the article should be clearly stated.
• Methods: this section must state the sample size and nature of subjects, data sources, study design, how dependent variables were measured and the specific analytic techniques (statistical tests, qualitative analysis strategy) that were used.
• Results: primary findings should be stated clearly and concisely, describing statistical results as appropriate. (Note: this section can be omitted for theoretical/conceptual manuscripts).
• Conclusions and Implications for Practice: implications of the findings for the field of psychiatric rehabilitation, mental health, or recovery should be clearly stated and future directions may be described.

Please supply up to five keywords or brief phrases after the abstract.

Manuscript contents

Manuscripts must follow the guidelines outlined in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition) and APA's Journal Manuscript Preparation Guidelines.

Authors are encouraged to consult the relevant APA Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) pertinent to their research methodology to ensure comprehensive reporting of relevant information:

• JARS-Quantitative Designs (PDF, 130KB)
• JARS-Qualitative Designs (PDF, 141KB)
• JARS-Mixed Methods Designs (PDF, 126KB)
• JARS-Quantitative Meta-Analysis (PDF, 116KB)
• JARS-Qualitative Meta-Analysis (PDF, 119KB)

Please see EDI Efforts for the specific Journal Article Reporting Standards related to Race, Ethnicity, and Culture (JARS-REC) (PDF, 232KB) that PRJ emphasizes. Authors should ensure the manuscript includes relevant JARS-REC information.

Inclusive reporting standards

• Bias-free language and community-driven language guidelines (required)
• Author contribution roles using CRediT (required)
• Impact statements (required)
• Year(s) of data collection (required)
• Participant sample descriptions (required)
• Sample justifications (recommended)

Masked review

This journal has a policy of masked review for all submissions.

A title page should include all authors' names and institutional affiliations as well as contact information for the corresponding author, including mailing address, email, and telephone.

The manuscript should include a blinded title page, omitting author information, but maintaining the title of the manuscript and an abbreviated title to serve as the running head on each page of the manuscript.

Authors must make every effort to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identities. This includes removing the names of academic or other institutions from human subjects assurance statements, and references to authors' prior publications that include citations revealing their identities.

Impact and implications statement

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal publishes impact and implications statements (also referred to as public significance statements) in addition to regular abstracts. This feature allows authors to support Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal's efforts to increase dissemination and usage of research findings by larger and more diverse audiences.

At the start of each paper, the authors should provide one to three sentences, approximately 30 to 70 words long, with the header "Impact and Implications," that answer the following questions: What did the study find? Why are these findings important to the audience you are trying to reach (e.g., practitioners, policy makers, news media, or other parties)? The impact statement is intended to summarize the significance of the study's findings for a general audience. Please do not use list formatting (e.g., bullet points); the impact statement should use full sentences.

Please refer to Guidance for Translational Abstracts and Public Significance Statements to help you write your statement.

Your Impact and Implications Statement should be placed below the abstract in the manuscript file you upload during the submission process.

Authors of accepted manuscripts will be encouraged to promote their published research on social media, such as X and Facebook, using this impact and implications statement.

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, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal 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.

In the Editorial Manager manuscript submission system, corresponding 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. More information about CRediT and definitions of contributor roles can be found on the CRediT website.

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.

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Submitting supplemental materials

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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.

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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)

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.

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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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Editor

Kristen M. Abraham, PhD
University of Detroit Mercy and VA Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center, United States

Associate editors

Adrienne Lapidos, PhD
University of Michigan, United States

Elizabeth C. Thomas, PhD
Temple University, United States

Consulting editors

Gary R. Bond, PhD
Westat Inc., United States

Jennifer Boyd, PhD
San Francisco VA Healthcare System, United States

Judith Cook, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

Patrick Corrigan, PsyD
Illinois Institute of Technology, United States

Nathan Dell, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, United States

Robert E. Drake, MD, PhD
The IPS Employment Center, c/o Westat, United States

Marianne Farkas, ScD
Boston University, United States

Sadaaki Fukui, PhD
Indiana University, United States

Kenneth J. Gill, PhD, CPRP
Rutgers University, United States

Shirley M. Glynn, PhD
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System at West Los Angeles, United States

Richard Goldberg, PhD
VA Capitol Health Care Network (VISN 5) Mental Illness, Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), United States

Lauren Gonzales, PhD
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York-Presbyterian, United States

Jay Hamm, PsyD
Eskenazi Health and Purdue University, United States

Ilanit Hasson Ohayon, PhD
Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Yulia Landa, PsyD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Tania Lecomte, PhD
University of Montreal, Canada

Alisa Lincoln, MPH, PhD
Northeastern University, United States

Weili Lu, PhD
Rutgers University, United States

Alicia Lucksted, PhD
University of Maryland School of Medicine, United States

Kim L. MacDonald-Wilson, ScD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, United States

Kim Mueser, PhD
Boston University, United States

Ottar Ness, PhD
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Laysha Ostrow, PhD
Live & Learn, Inc., United States

Sandra G. Resnick, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine and Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, VA Central Office, United States

David Roe, PhD
University of Haifa, Israel

Angela L. Rollins, PhD
Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indiana University, and Regenstrief Institute, United States

Abraham Rudnick, MD, PhD
Dalhousie University, Canada

Zlatka Russinova, PhD
Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, United States

Mark S. Salzer, PhD
Temple University, United States

Phyllis L. Solomon, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, United States

Helene Speyer, PhD
Mental Health Center Copenhagen, Denmark

Philip T. Yanos, PhD
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, United States

Yaara Zisman-Ilani, MA, PhD
Temple University, United States

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• Advances in Psychiatric Rehabilitation From the Study of Metacognition:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3, December 2020. In this special issue, the authors use the concept of metacognition to explore the links between different forms of psychiatric rehabilitation and sense of self.

• International Implementation of Individual Placement and Support:

  Special issue of APA's Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 43, No. 1, March 2020. The issue includes articles about individual placement and support (IPS)-supported employment from 11 countries outside the United States.

• Psychiatric Rehabilitation for Veterans:

  Special issue of APA's Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (Vol. 42, No. 3, September 2019) that celebrates the US Department of Veterans Affairs' commitment to innovation in psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery through service delivery and research.

• Digital and Mobile Mental Health:

  Special issue of APA's Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3, September 2017. Includes articles about electronic and mobile mental health as it pertains to people with psychiatric disabilities and behavioral health conditions.

• Disability Policy Research:

  Special issue of APA's Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2, June 2017. The issue includes research related to three broad topics relevant to disability policy as it pertains to mental illness: employment, education, and disability policy; Medicaid policy and health reform; and supporting the workforce.

• Cognitive Remediation:

  Special issue of APA's Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 40, No. 1, March 2017. The papers highlight the continuing evolution in cognitive remediation programs for people with serious mental illnesses.

• Peer-Delivered Services:

  Special issue of APA's Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3, September 2016. The articles discuss peer support in the behavioral health care system and how peer support specialists have evolved to address unmet needs and to attend to social determinants that affect wellness and recovery.

• Self-Stigma and Mental Illness:

  Special issue of APA's Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2, June 2015. The articles push forward the knowledge about and inquiry into the effects and dynamics of internalized stigma associated with mental illness as well as potential avenues and strategies for intervening to reduce it.

• Parents With Psychiatric Disabilities:

  Special issue of APA's Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 37, No. 3, September 2014. Articles discuss policy, practice, and research challenges regarding families with parents with psychiatric disabilities, as well as ways to bridge the gaps among those challenges.

• Special Issue on the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Model of Supported Employment:

  Special issue of APA's Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2, June 2014. Articles examine the mechanisms and strategies for improving the quality, implementation, and availability of IPS services; address IPS for new populations; and discuss funding mechanisms and public policy.

• Illness/Wellness Management for Individuals With Serious Mental Illnesses:

  Special issue of APA's Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4, December 2013. The articles are evidence of the explosion in the development, evaluation, adaptation, and implementation of programs aimed at improving the ability of consumers to manage psychiatric, medical, and substance use disorders in collaboration with others.

Journal equity, diversity, and inclusion statement

PRJ has a broad audience, including researchers, policy makers, and psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners. PRJ aims to increase the representativeness of individuals from diverse backgrounds in the scientific process, including as participants in research studies, as authors, and as reviewers and editorial board members. Accordingly, PRJ welcomes submissions that support inclusiveness and diversity in both authorship and as the focus of scholarly work.

Authors and manuscript reviewers are encouraged to use APA’s Journal Article Reporting Standards for Race Ethnicity and Culture (JARS-REC) when describing their research. The purpose of JARS-REC is to promote greater transparency and methodological rigor with regard to race, ethnicity, and culture in psychological research.

At PRJ, we focus on selected JARS-REC items. We request that authors attend to the following JARS-REC elements in their research designs and preparation of manuscripts and that reviewers evaluate and comment upon them in their reviews of manuscripts:

1. If relevant, does the manuscript clearly state how race, ethnicity and/or culture were considered in the research design (e.g., including sampling, selection of instruments, methods, analysis)?
2. Does the method section include an adequate description of informed consent procedures and Institutional Review Board approval?
3. Are participant characteristics (e.g., age, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, country of origin, language usage) adequately described? Are additional sample descriptions (e.g., of poverty status, insurance coverage, entitlement income) provided that may be particularly relevant to persons with psychiatric disabilities?
4. When data on race, ethnicity, or culture are included in tables and figures, is the coding of such information clearly described (i.e., in a footnote or in the main text) and justified?
5. In the discussion, are any racial, ethnic or cultural differences considered carefully and with attention to relevant historical or contextual information (e.g., intergenerational wealth, discrimination, neighborhood segregation)? Do study limitations appropriately address considerations about generalizability on the basis of the race, ethnicity, or culture of the sample?

PRJ encourages the inclusion of JARS-REC elements not described above. Inclusive reporting standards required of all manuscripts are described in the submission guidelines.

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)
• Author contribution roles using CRediT (required)
• Impact statements (required)
• Year(s) of data collection (required)
• Participant sample descriptions (required)
• Sample justifications (recommended)

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).

Diversity among Editorial Board members and reviews

PRJ welcomes applications for reviewers on an ongoing basis. Interested scholars should contact the journal’s peer review coordinator, Emily Williams, with a brief statement of interest, their relevant areas of expertise, and some references to their published research. Editorial Board members are typically invited to serve after having completed reviews for several PRJ manuscripts.

Official journal of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (formerly USPRA) and the Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Editorial

• Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal in the Era of COVID-19
  June 2020
• Roots and Branches
  March 2019

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