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Author Guidelines

GENERAL RULES

Prior to giving full consideration to submitted manuscripts, all submissions are checked for plagiarism via Plag.

Authors should kindly note that submitting a manuscript implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a preprint publication. Refined versions of prior publications (such as working papers or PhD dissertations) are considered exceptions to this rule.

Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted through the journal’s online submission platform.

Submissions ought to be prepared for double-blind peer review, self-identifying citations and references should be avoided. Author information is to be provided either on a separate 'Title page' or on the journal’s Author Information Form.

By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for the journal, names, email addresses, affiliations, and other contact details required, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Universitas Győr Non-profit Ltd.) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that the steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. For more details consult the journal’s ‘Privacy Statement’.

 

SUBMISSION

Abstract

Enter an abstract of up to 150 words for all articles. An abstract is a concise summary of the whole paper, not just the conclusions, and is understandable without reference to the rest of the paper. It should contain no citation to other published work.

Keywords

Please provide four to six keywords.

Main Text

The language of the journal is English. 12-point type in Times New Roman font. Please double-line space your manuscript. Apart from exceptional cases, the Journal only accepts those manuscripts for review that are above 5,000 words and below 9,000 words including tables and bibliography. Tables and figures must be incorporated into the main text.

References

References should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition). This means in text citations should follow the author-date method whereby the author’s last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998, [cited page]). The complete reference list should appear alphabetically by name at the end of the paper. Please note that a DOI should be provided for all references where available.

For more information about APA referencing style, please refer to the APA Reference Examples.

Reference examples:

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. http://doi.org.10.1037/rev0000126

Parenthetical citation: (McCauley & Christiansen, 2019) If there are more than 2 authors: (Ahmann et al., 2018)

Narrative citation: McCauley and Christiansen (2019)

Book

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

Parenthetical citation: (Brown, 2018)

Narrative citation: Brown (2018)

Edited Book

Schmid, H.-J. (Ed.). (2017). Entrenchment and the psychology of language learning: How we reorganize and adapt linguistic knowledge. American Psychological Association; De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1037/15969-000

Parenthetical citation: (Schmid, 2017)

Narrative citation: Schmid (2017)

One volume of a multivolume work

Fiske, S. T., Gilbert, D. T., & Lindzey, G. (2010). Handbook of social psychology (5th ed., Vol. 1). John Wiley & Sons. http://doi.org.10.1002/9780470561119

Parenthetical citations: (Fiske et al., 2010)

Narrative citations: Fiske et al. (2010)

Book chapters

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. http://doi.org.10.1037/0000119-012

Parenthetical citation: (Balsam et al., 2019)

Narrative citation: Balsam et al. (2019)

Chapter in a multivolume work

Goldin-Meadow, S. (2015). Gesture and cognitive development. In L. S. Liben & U. Mueller (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology and developmental science: Vol. 2. Cognitive processes (7th ed., pp. 339–380). John Wiley & Sons. http://doi.org.10.1002/9781118963418.childpsy209

Parenthetical citation: (Goldin-Meadow, 2015)

Narrative citation: Goldin-Meadow (2015)

Paper presentation

Maddox, S., Hurling, J., Stewart, E., & Edwards, A. (2016, March 30–April 2). If mama ain’t happy, nobody’s happy: The effect of parental depression on mood dysregulation in children [Paper presentation]. Southeastern Psychological Association 62nd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Parenthetical citation: (Maddox et al., 2016)

Narrative citation: Maddox et al. (2016)

Dissertation

Hollander, M. M. (2017). Resistance to authority: Methodological innovations and new lessons from the Milgram experiment (Publication No. 10289373) [Doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin–Madison]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Parenthetical citation: (Hollander, 2017)

Narrative citation: Hollander (2017)

Internet Document

Avramova, N. (2019, January 3). The secret to a long, happy, healthy life? Think age-positive. CNN. Online: https://cnn.it/3r8LM3B

Parenthetical citations: (Avramova, 2019)

Narrative citations: Avramova (2019)

 

Author Guidelines updated 6th June 2024

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The submission is prepared for blind peer review, self-identifying citations and references are omitted.
  • Author(s) hereby declare having the terms and conditions established in the Privacy Statement read, acknowledged and fully understood.
  • Author(s) hereby declare having the journal's Publication Ethics and other policies read, acknowledged and fully understood.
  • Author(s) hereby declare having the terms and conditions established in the journal's Copyright Notice read, acknowledged and fully understood, agreeing to grant the journal right of first publication under a Creative Commons license that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Copyright Notice

Authors agree to retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g. post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors agree to be bound by the terms of the journal's 'License Agreement'.

Privacy Statement

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Some of the collected metadata, including personal data, such as author information etc., may be shared with third-party scholarly indexing services. The collected data will not be sold either by the journal itself or third-parties, nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here.

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