Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- Your paper is within the scope of the journal. Please read both our aims and scope, and previous papers, and carefully consider whether your paper is a good fit. We desk-reject a very high proportion of submissions because they lie outside our scope, including all papers where the main focus is analysis of published text and /or where findings fail to make a contribution to understanding that extends beyond the specific context in which data were collected.
- You have carefully read and followed the author guidelines.
- You are submitting both an anonymised version of your paper, and a title page that gives authors' names and affiliation (see author guidelines for more details).
- You paper has not previously been published and is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
- You have read and adhered to our policies on anonymisation (avoid "Author, date").
- You have read and adhered to our policies on open science. In particular, your paper includes information about how readers can access raw data.
- The reference list is complete and formatted in the most recent version of the APA style. DOIs, in web-address format, are provided for all cited papers (unless unavailable).
- Figures and tables are included at the appropriate place in the article, and are formatted according to APA guidelines. You have included a separate zip file containing all figures in a high-resolution graphic format (e.g. tiff or eps).
Copyright Notice
Authors retain copyright of their papers. This permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the published work is properly cited.
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