Submission guidelines

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.

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To submit to the editorial office of Jennifer L. Callahan, PhD, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Microsoft Word (.docx) or LaTex (.tex) as a zip file with an accompanied Portable Document Format (.pdf) of the manuscript file. If you would like to discuss a possible idea for submission to the journal, please contact Jennifer L. Callahanopens in new window.

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.

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Your title page must include the following information:

• each author's name and affiliation
• the address of the corresponding author
• mail and email addresses
• phone and fax numbers
• a brief biography for each author, listing accreditation, current affiliation(s), and current research interests (see example below):
  
  Jennifer L. Callahan earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, completed her internship and postdoctoral training at Yale University School of Medicine, and holds board certification in clinical psychology. Her research conceptualizes the optimization of training and education in psychology to be a systems level intervention for improved patient care and outcomes. She is a professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson, TX). ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9190-3886

• Do not identify the authors in the manuscript text or footnotes.

The editorial board of Training and Education in Professional Psychology® (TEPP) encourages the APPIC membership, the membership of academic training councils, and all members of the health service psychology education community to examine issues relevant to the process and procedures of health service psychology education and training and to contribute manuscripts on these topics to TEPP.

TEPP is specifically for psychologists and other mental health professionals who educate, supervise, and train individuals in health service psychology during their academic programs as well as during their participation at practicum, internship, and postdoctoral settings.

Manuscripts for TEPP can be research- or theory-based and should contribute to the knowledge base in health service psychology education and training by advancing theoretical understanding, identifying best practices, or extending the evidence base supporting education and training. All manuscripts must address the practical implications on education and training of the theory proposed or research presented. Any topic in the general areas of supervision, training, or the process and impacts of education leading to licensure, or the experience and outcomes of trainees in health service psychology is appropriate for examination and discussion in TEPP.

TEPP manuscripts examine such topics as:

• training and evaluation of professional competencies
• justice, inclusion, diversity, and equity in education and training
• supervision theory process and procedures
• training in research and scholarly activity
• supervisory and mentorship relationships
• ethical and legal aspects of training, education, supervision, and mentoring
• supporting trainees’ professional development and wellness
• trainee and supervisee problems and due process issues
• the process of training leading to licensure

Special thematic issues of the journal provide in-depth examination of a particular training and education topic.

Once TEPP receives a manuscript, the editor reviews the manuscript for appropriateness for publication and competitiveness for publication in TEPP. If appropriate, the editor assigns the manuscript to an associate editor who seeks masked review by at least two consulting editors or ad hoc reviewers.

The editorial review process takes approximately 60 to 90 days for the author to receive editorial comment about the manuscript

Manuscripts should be written with the goal of enhancing the practice of education, training, and supervision in health service psychology. Each manuscript should conclude with a specific section on the implications of the research or theory presented.

Prepare manuscripts for masked review 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 manuscript.

Regular manuscripts should be approximately 35 pages in length in total including tables and references (more pages must be strongly justified).

Brief reports may be submitted but should be no longer than 15 pages (including title page, abstract, manuscript, references, and any tables/figures). Brief report submissions are encouraged for well-designed works of more narrow scope, replication studies, or preliminary reports in need of further study.

Regardless of the type of the submission (regular/brief), all manuscripts should be prepared as follows:

• Double-space all copy.
• Authors should include a detailed description of the study participants in the Method section of each empirical report, including (but not limited to) the following: Age, sex, gender, racial identity, ethnicity, nativity or immigration history, socioeconomic status, clinical diagnoses and comorbidities (as appropriate), and/or any other relevant demographics (e.g., disability status; sexual orientation). Authors are also encouraged to justify their sample demographics in the Discussion section (see Roberts, et al., 2020opens in new window for more information on justifying sample demographics).
• In both the abstract and in the discussion section of the manuscript, authors should discuss the representativeness of their study samples and the generalizability of their findings. In a subsection of the discussion titled “Constraints on generality,” authors should include a detailed discussion of the limits on generality (see Simons, Shoda, & Lindsayopens in new window, 2017). In this section, authors should detail grounds for concluding why the results are may or may not be specific to the characteristics of the participants. They should address limits on generality not only for participants but for materials, procedures, and context. Authors should also specify which methods they think could be varied without affecting the result and which should remain constant.
• The Method section must include a statement describing how informed consent was obtained from the participants (or their parents/guardians, if appropriate), including for secondary use of data if applicable, and indicate that the study was conducted in compliance with an appropriate Internal Review Board.
• Authors are encouraged to disclose the year(s) of data collection in both the Abstract and in the Method section in order to appropriately contextualize the study.
• Authors must state whether data and study materials are available and, if so, where to access them. Recommended repositories include APA’s repositoryopens in new window on the Open Science Framework (OSF), or authors can access a full list of other recommended repositoriesopens in new window. 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]
• 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.
• 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 of all color line art and halftones should be set to 300 DPI, while all black and white line tone and gray halftone images should be 600 DPI. For line weights of Adobe Photoshop images, color (RGB, CMYK) images should be 2 pixels and grayscale images should be 4 pixels. The stroke weight for Adobe Illustrator Images should be 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 costs (i.e., $900 for one figure; an additional $600 for the second figure; an additional $450 for each subsequent figure).
• 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)opens in new window
• 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 common reference formats:

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/rev0000126opens in new window

Brown, L. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000opens in new window

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/10.1037/0000119-012opens in new window

• APA can place supplemental materials online, available via the published article in the PsycArticles^® database. Please see Supplementing Your Article With Online Material for more details.
• Other formatting instructions, including instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual. Additional guidance on APA Style is available on the APA Style websiteopens in new window.

Authors submitting manuscripts to Training and Education inProfessional Psychology are required to provide 2–3 brief sentences regarding the public significance of the study, meta-analysis, or issues described in their paper. This description should be included within the manuscript on the abstract/keywords page. It should be written in language that is easily understood by both professionals and members of the lay public.

When an accepted paper is published, these sentences will be boxed beneath the abstract for easy accessibility. All such descriptions will also be published as part of the table of contents, as well as on the journal's web page. This new policy is in keeping with efforts to increase dissemination and usage by larger and diverse audiences.

Examples of these 2–3 sentences include the following:

• “Discrimination and microaggression experiences in psychotherapy and supervision may differ by trainees’ identity and impact psychotherapist development. These results highlight the growing need to help trainees navigate professional settings and to help mentors, supervisors, and program administrators provide adequate support to their trainees.”
• “This study highlights the barriers and facilitators for the use of video recordings in clinical psychotherapy supervision. The results indicate that fostering facilitative social norms might be the most promising way for supervisors and institutions who want to increase the use of video in supervision.”
• “This study reports on an exploratory analysis examining the impact of baseline learner characteristics on motivational interviewing (MI) skill acquisition with and without virtual standardized patient (VSP) supplementation. Learners with minimal previous MI training experienced greater increases in relational skills when training with a VSP. The VSP used in this study represents a scalable tool that may be particularly helpful for training novice clinicians in MI relational skills.”
• “This study describes the development of a novel ethical decision-making tool for use in training clinical psychology graduate students. The study shows that the tool helps trainees improve their analysis of complex ethical dilemmas that arise in clinical practice.”
• “Findings offer evidence that the Examination for the Professional Practice of Psychology differentiates candidates for licensure more strongly by race, ethnicity, and general neurocognitive abilities than by profession-specific knowledge, skills, and abilities. The study highlights the need for better licensure exam development processes to uphold the principles of the field and foster equal employment opportunity in the professional workforce.”

To be maximally useful, these statements of public health significance should not simply be sentences lifted directly from the manuscript.

They are meant to be informative and useful to any reader. They should provide a bottom-line, take-home message that is accurate and easily understood. In addition, they should be able to be translated into media-appropriate statements for use in press releases and on social media.

Please refer to the Guidance for Translational Abstracts and Public Significance Statements page to help you write this text.

The journal encourages submissions which extend beyond Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) samples (Henrich, et al., 2010opens in new window). The journal welcomes submissions which feature Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and other historically marginalized sample populations. The journal particularly welcomes submissions which feature collaborative research models (e.g., community-based participatory research [CBPR]; see Collins, et al., 2018opens in new window) and study designs that address heterogeneity within diverse samples. Studies focused exclusively on BIPOC and other historically excluded populations are also welcome.

Authors may choose to include a positionality statement in the author note. Positionality statements are intended to address potential author bias by transparently reporting how the identities of the authors relate to the research/article topic and to the identity of the participants, as well as the extent to which those identities are represented in the scientific record. The statement should be included in the author note and expanded upon in the Discussion section. See this example from Jovanova, et al. (2022)opens in new window:

• Sample positionality statement: “Mindful that our identities can influence our approach to science (Roberts, et al. 2020)opens in new window, the authors wish to provide the reader with information about our backgrounds. With respect to gender, when the manuscript was drafted, four authors self-identified as women and four authors as men. With respect to race, six authors self-identified as white, one as South Asian and one as East Asian.”

For more guidance on writing positionality statements, see Roberts, et al. (2020)opens in new window and Hamby (2018)opens in new window.

The journal welcomes submissions that proactively challenge systemic oppression. In line with the APA Guidelines on Race and Ethnicity in Psychology (2019)opens in new window, authors are encouraged to consider reflexive statements in the Discussion section, such as the following questions.

• What are the policy implications of these findings?
• Could this research be misinterpreted or misused to negatively affect underrepresented groups? Does the research have the potential to cause harm to vulnerable groups? If so, how can this be addressed and mitigated?
• Does the design or framing of this research reinforce negative stereotypes about marginalized populations?
• What roles do the researcher(s)’ values and worldview play in the selection of this topic or design of the study?

Research has shown that there is often a racial/ethnic and gender imbalance in article reference lists, and that Black women’s work is disproportionately not credited or cited as often as White authors’ work (Kwon, 2022opens in new window). Authors are encouraged to ensure their citations are fully representative by both gender and racial identity before submitting and during the manuscript revision process. Authors are encouraged to evaluate the race and gender of the authors in their reference lists (see this open-source code by Zhou, et al., 2020opens in new window, that authors can use to predict the gender and race of the authors in their reference lists) and may choose to report the results in a citation diversity statement in the author note or Discussion section of the manuscript.

See Dworkin, et al. (2020)opens in new window’s sample citation diversity statement:

“Citation Diversity Statement. Recent work in neuroscience and other fields has identified a bias in citation practices such that papers from women and other minorities are under-cited relative to the number of such papers in the field (Caplar et al., 2017, Chakravartty et al., 2018, Dion et al., 2018, Dworkin et al., 2020, Maliniak et al., 2013, Thiem et al., 2018). Here, we sought to proactively consider choosing references that reflect the diversity of the field in thought, gender, race, geography, seniority, and other factors. We used automatic classification of gender based on the first names of the first and last authors (Dworkin et al., 2020, Zhou et al., 2020), with possible combinations including man/man, man/woman, woman/man, and woman/woman. Code for this classification is open source and available online (Zhou et al., 2020). We regret that our current methodology is limited to consideration of gender as a binary variable. Excluding self-citations to the first and last authors of our current paper, the references contain 12.5% man/man, 25% man/woman, 25% woman/man, 37.5% woman/woman, and 0% unknown categorization. We look forward to future work that could help us to better understand how to support equitable practices in science.”

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.

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.

APA holds policies that apply to all journals published. These include policies 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. Please also refer to individual journal submission guidance for specific practices and requirements for manuscript submission.

A key convention in the publication of research is the peer review process, in which the quality and potential contribution of each manuscript is evaluated by one's peers in the scientific community. Like other scientific journals, APA journals utilize a peer review process to guide manuscript selection and publication decisions.

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.

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

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).

APA Journals aims to address systemic inequities and bias, promote equitable opportunities for researchers, and foster an inclusive environment within the psychological research and scholarly publishing communities, representative of the wide array of people that psychology consists of and serves. Please refer to individual journal submission guidance for specific EDI practices and requirements for manuscript submission.

The APA Journals™ Program is committed to publishing transparent, rigorous research; improving reproducibility in science; and aiding research discovery. Open science practices vary across subfields and per editor discretion, and APA Publishing supports all efforts to improve openness and transparency, especially as they improve diversity, equity, and inclusion. Please refer to individual journal submission guidance for specific OS practices and requirements for manuscript submission.

The APA Journals Office supports authors’ choices on how to publish their work. We are committed to offering options that we believe comply with most funder and institutional requirements and support both self-archiving (“green”) and APC (paid for via an article processing charge and also known as “gold”) Open Access options. Submitting a manuscript for peer review is free of charge.

APA’s current policies on generative AI include:

• When a generative AI model is used in the drafting of a manuscript for an APA publication, the use of AI must be disclosed in the methods section and cited.
• AI cannot be named as an author on an APA scholarly publication.

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

Authors of accepted papers must obtain and provide 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.

The APA Publication Manual (7th ed.opens in new window) 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, this journal has adopted the Contributor Roles Taxonomyopens in new window (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 prompted to select one or more contributor roles for each author at initial submission. All authors should have reviewed and agreed to their individual contribution(s) before submission. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, an Author Contributions Statement will be generated during the typesetting process and published in the author note of the final article. It is not necessary for authors to provide a written Author Contributions Statement upon 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. Not all roles will be applicable to any particular scholarly work.

It is a violation of APA Ethical Principles to publish “as original data, data that have been previously published” (Standard 8.13).

APA Ethical Principles also state 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 make their data available if asked during the editorial process and for at least five years after the date of publication.

If the manuscript is accepted, the corresponding author is required to sign and submit a Certification of Compliance with APA Ethical Principles (PDF, 26KB).opens in new window

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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