Please consult APA's Instructions for All Authors for information regarding
- Manuscript Preparation
- Submitting Supplemental Materials
- Abstract and Keywords
- References
- Figures
- Permissions
- Publication Policies
- Ethical Principles
Submission
Submit manuscripts electronically (.rtf, PDF, or .doc) via the Manuscript Submission Portal.
In addition to addresses and phone numbers, please supply electronic mail addresses and fax numbers.
Keep a copy of the manuscript to guard against loss.
Articles must be in English and must be competently written and argued. They may not exceed 35 double-spaced pages in length, including the cover page, abstract, references, tables, and figures.
Articles published cover all aspects of psychology. Submissions should be current, timely, and of interest to the broad APA membership; they should be written in a style that is accessible and of interest to all psychologists, regardless of area of specialization. American Psychologist contributions often address national and international policy issues as well as topics relevant to Association policy and activities.
The journal does not publish empirical research results that it deems more suitable for a specialty journal except under special circumstances to be determined by the Editor-in-Chief. However, papers submitted to AP may include meta-analysis or some data analysis on salient points where the intention is to support arguments of broad implication in the field of psychology.
As the official journal of the APA, AP does not prohibit manuscripts on any topic as long as they meet the criteria for publication in AP. For manuscripts that are accepted for publication that advocate policies counter to those of the Association, AP reserves the right to publish an accompanying article articulating the basis for Association policy and addressing any criticisms.
Comments on the policies of the Association and articles published in AP are also considered for the AP Comment section. Comments on obituaries are not published. Statements contained in AP are the personal views of the authors and do not constitute APA policy unless so indicated.
Reports from APA boards, committees, and task forces may be submitted and are subject to review. The journal occasionally publishes special sections or special issues on particular topics.
E-mail Address
The address of the editorial office of the American Psychologist is
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AP Editor. Please do not submit manuscripts to this e-mail address or directly to the Editor-in-Chief. All manuscripts should be submitted through the AP electronic Manuscript Submission Portal to be properly acknowledged and processed.
Comments
Comments should be submitted no later than two months from the date of the issue containing the article to which they respond; they should meet the same criteria for original articles and should make a reasonable and substantial contribution to the discussion of the topic.
Independent comments (i.e., those unrelated to a specific published AP article or special issue) and comments on matters of APA policy or on issues facing the Association are also considered. (Comments on obituaries are not published; comments on comments are rarely considered.)
Comments must be limited to 1,000 words (about five pages) and should contain no more than nine references. As for all manuscripts, authors should include page numbers and references for quotes.
A comment is reviewed by the associate editor who handled the original manuscript. If accepted, it may be accompanied by an invited response from the authors of the original article. An independent comment is prescreened like a regular manuscript; if it passes preliminary review, it gets assigned to an associate editor for a full editorial review.
Comments are published in the earliest possible issue of the journal, typically six to eight months after the original article.
Obituaries
Manuscript submissions for the Obituaries section are by invitation only.
Proposals for Special Sections or Special Issues
Proposals for special sections or issues should be submitted prior to developing the manuscripts.
Feature sections devoted to the explication of a particular topic are one means of fulfilling the journal's mission. A special section of the journal may contain three or four papers on a single theme, and a special issue may contain somewhat more, depending on the content area.
Proposals for special sections or special issues should describe their scope, provide a rationale (including why such a section or issue is timely and what contribution it would make to the literature), and list and describe the proposed papers, with potential authors for each. Potential authors should not be recruited until a proposal is accepted.
Authors, in proposing an entire special issue, should be aware that the larger the number of papers included, the more specialized they often become, rendering them less suitable for AP.
Proposals are first reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor. Some special feature proposals are then circulated to two or three individuals for review.
Among the factors used in considering a proposal are
- length of time since this topic was last addressed in AP
- amount of new research conducted since then
- whether the range of topics appears appropriate
- whether ethnic, racial, gender, and other types of diversity are reflected in the content and population within topic areas
Proponents of special sections or special issues should also consider diversity in the selection of manuscript authors.
If a proposal is accepted, the proposal author will be responsible for recruiting authors, with possible suggestions from the AP editors.
All manuscripts should be submitted together; each paper in a section is circulated separately for peer review to at least three experts. Editorial decisions about each manuscript are made separately.
Reports of APA Boards, Committees, and Task Forces
Reports are reviewed by a committee of the Editorial Board. They may be accepted in whole or in part, or may be rejected. Revisions are generally not requested because such reports are based on group consensus and have gone through extensive review and approval by the relevant APA governance bodies. Reports that are not accepted for publication may be submitted to specialty APA journals, considered for posting on the APA Web site, or deposited as full-text documents in PsycEXTRA. Practice guidelines that have been adopted as APA policy by the Council of Representatives will be automatically published in AP.
Review Policy
The AP review process is handled by the Editor-in-Chief, the Managing Editor, and a board of Associate Editors. The review process for all manuscripts occurs in two stages. The first stage of review is conducted by the Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor, and the second stage is handled by one of the AP associate editors.
Approximately 70% of author-submitted manuscripts are returned without review within 30 days for a host of reasons: Empirical manuscripts are more appropriate for one of the APA primary journals; the topic of the manuscript or style of the writing is too specialized for the broad AP readership; the same topic was recently covered in the journal; inappropriate content or style; or other, more typical reasons such as the paper does not offer a major contribution to the field or is simply not written well enough.
Masked Review Policy
As a matter of policy, the identities of authors and reviewers are masked. Manuscripts that are peer reviewed are circulated without their title pages to mask the identity of the authors. Each copy of a manuscript should include a separate title page with authors' names and affiliations, and these should not appear anywhere else on the manuscript. Footnotes that identify the authors should be typed on a separate page. Authors should make every effort to see that the manuscript itself contains no clue to their identity.
Presubmission Checklist
View the Presubmission Checklist. The purpose of the checklist is to enable authors to evaluate a manuscript in light of the mission of the journal and the factors that are most salient in the initial round of editorial review.
Appeals Process
For manuscripts rejected without review. Authors of manuscripts rejected without review may appeal the decision to the Editor-in-Chief, requesting a reconsideration of the decision. If that appeal is rejected but the author believes the decision is inappropriate, the author may next appeal to the APA Chief Editorial Advisor, the ombudsperson for all APA journals, who is not an APA employee. If this appeal fails, the author may make a final appeal to an Appeals Committee, consisting of the chair of the Publications and Communications (P&C) Board, the chair of the Council of Editors (composed of the editors of all APA journals), and the APA Board of Directors' liaison to the P&C Board.
For manuscripts rejected after peer review. An author wishing to appeal a manuscript should direct the editorial appeal first to the AP associate editor who made the rejection. If the associate editor declines to further consider the manuscript, or the associate editor does a second review of the manuscript and still rejects it, the author may appeal next to the AP Editor-in-Chief. If the AP Editor-in-Chief believes the appeal has merit, the manuscript may be reassigned to a new associate editor for independent re-review. If the AP Editor-in-Chief rejects the appeal, the author may request that the appeal and the manuscript be sent to the APA Chief Editorial Advisor for evaluation. The next levels of appeal are the Appeals Committee and the APA Board of Directors.
For rejected comments. Decisions on comments are final and cannot be appealed.
Change of Address
To change the mailing address at which you receive the journal and other mail from APA, please send information to the
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Editor-in-Chief
Norman B. Anderson
American Psychological Association
Managing Editor
Gary R. VandenBos
American Psychological Association
Section Editors
John D. Hogan, History of Psychology and Obituaries
St. John's University
Sandra M. Fowler, Art Co-Editor
La Jolla, CA
Kate F. Hays, Art Co-Editor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Associate Editors
J. Gayle Beck
University of Memphis
Patricia Cheng
University of California, Los Angeles
Lillian Comas-Díaz
Transcultural Mental Health Institute, Washington, DC
M. Lynne Cooper
University of Missouri—Columbia
Patrick H. DeLeon
Former APA President—2000, Washington, DC
John F. Disterhoft
Northwestern University
Sandra Graham
University of California, Los Angeles
William C. Howell
Arizona State University
Joe L. Martinez
University of Texas at San Antonio
Karen A. Matthews
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Susan H. McDaniel
University of Rochester Medical Center
Vonnie C. McLoyd
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William R. Shadish
University of California, Merced
Rainer K. Silbereisen
University of Jena, Germany
Timothy W. Smith
University of Utah
Derald Wing Sue
Teachers College, Columbia University
June P. Tangney
George Mason University
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