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Instructions and
suggestions for
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Procedure |
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Manuscripts should be sent as
email attachments
to the first editor, joern.scheer@joern-scheer.de
Papers
submitted for review must be original
works on the part of the
authors, must not have
been published
previously, and must not
be
under
review
with another publication at any time during the review process. Authors
may
only have one paper in the review process at a time.
Manuscripts
submitted under multiple authorship are reviewed under the assumption
that each
quoted author has contributed substantially to the work in terms of
planning,
research, statistical analysis, writing of the article or final
approval of the
article, concurs with the submission and has approved the final version
of the
manuscript. The first-named author must guarantee to be responsible for
the
content.
Authors are
responsible for
obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted material from other
sources.
All
manuscripts
will be – anonymously - peer-reviewed. |
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Guidelines |
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Manuscripts
must conform to the
following
guidelines:
Length
- Manuscript
should, as a rule, not exceed 5000 words.
Abstract
- Include
an
abstract of 100 words and 3-6
keywords.
Language
- Manuscripts
must be submitted in English. Non-native
speakers are requested to
have
their manuscripts checked by a native speaker of English.
Format
- Submissions
should be formatted in MS-Word.
Page
lay-out
- Set up
the page size for A4 paper size (in "portrait" layout, not
in "landscape").
- Do not
use page breaks or section breaks to
format the manuscript (i.e.,
let the pages break naturally).
Paragraph
formats
- Single
space.
- Include blank
lines
between
paragraphs, between references in the REFERENCE section, and before and
after
subheadings, etc.
- Left
justify copy including
title, authors’ names, headings and subheadings; no first
line indents.
- Use ALL
CAPITAL LETTERS for headings.
Capitalise
the initial letters of words in Subheadings.
Third level headings should
be in italics.
- Left
justify references in
the reference section (not "hanging").
- Avoid the
use of symbols and
other special
characters (they do not
reproduce consistently across different systems).
- Use
double quotation marks
("...")
for quotations, single ('...') for special terms ('best friend').
- In
presentation of statistical
results,
refer
to test statistics and
parameters by spelling out the term (e.g., "alpha" instead of the
character).
- When
describing repertory
grids,
use single quotation marks for elements
(e.g. 'best friend'), and italics
for
constructs (e.g. outgoing
vs. reserved).
Endnotes
- Avoid
endnotes/footnotes. When they
are
necessary, an endnote should be
used.
- Enter
endnotes manually (do
not use
the endnote/footnote function
in MS-Word).
- The
endnote number should be entered in the text in
brackets
(e.g., [1]) and should not
be
superscripted. The endnote is then entered
in a section "ENDNOTES" at
the end of the paper.
Tables
- Embed
tables in the text at the appropriate
point. Large tables (especially when in 'landscape' format) should also
be sent as separate files.
- Create
tables with
the MS-Word table editor (i.e., do not use tabs and
spaces to
create
tables).
Figures
- Figures
(prepared as GIFs) should be sent as separate attachments
with the paper.
Citations and
References
- Each
listed
reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be
listed
alphabetically in the reference section.
- References
should be cited in text as follows:
- The
results replicated those of a previous study (Miller & Mair,
1991), or
- The
procedure was a modification of Adams and Webber's (1989) and Warren et
al.'s
(1977) ….
- Multiple
references should be cited in alphabetical order: Earlier
investigations (Button, 1993; Mancuso & Mascolo, 1988; Winter,
1992) ...
- The
following examples
illustrate the
style to be used for (1)
a journal
article, (2) a book, and
(3) a chapter
in a book, respectively:
(1) Bell, R. C. (2001). Some new measures of the dispersion
of
dependency in a situation-resource grid. Journal
of Constructivist Psychology, 14, 227-234.
(2) Bannister, D. & Fransella, F. (1986). Inquiring
man:
the psychology of personal constructs (3rd ed.). London:
Croom Helm.
(3) Feixas, G. (1995). Personal constructs in systemic
practice.
In R. A. Neimeyer
& M. J. Mahoney (Eds.), Constructivism
in psychotherapy (pp. 305-337). Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association.
Important:
Please note page numbers for book chapters!
Disclosure
of commercial interests
- Any
source of
support for the presented research
must be acknowledged in
the paper, together with the disclosure of any financial involvement
that might
present an appearance of conflict of interests.
Ethics
approval
- Ethical
and
legal considerations mandate that
participants’ (subjects,
patients) anonymity be preserved. If
pertinent, the authors have to
state that
procedures involving experiments on human subjects have been approved
by an
ethics committee.
Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
may be included as a
note. Use the title "AUTHOR'S NOTE" or "AUTHORS' NOTE" immediately
before the AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES (see below).
Author
Biographies
- Include
an
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) section after the
references. Provide a
few sentences of biographical information including the email address
of each
author.
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Empirical research
papers |
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For papers reporting
results of empirical research it is suggested to consult the following
websites.
They are also helpful in the early stages of planning a study.
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