期刊名称:COLLABRA-PSYCHOLOGY

ISSN:2474-7394
出版频率:Continuous publication
出版社:UNIV CALIFORNIA PRESS, 155 GRAND AVE, SUITE 400, OAKLAND, USA, CA, 94612-3758
  出版社网址:https://www.ucpress.edu
期刊网址:https://www.collabra.org
主题范畴:PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
变更情况:Newly Added by 2019

期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)   



About the journal

Focus and Scope

Collabra: Psychology is a peer-reviewed, broad scope, international, open access, online publication, which publishes article types from the following scholarly disciplines using their broadest definitions:

  1. Cognitive Psychology
  2. Social Psychology
  3. Personality Psychology
  4. Clinical Psychology
  5. Developmental Psychology
  6. Organizational Behaviour
  7. Methodology and Research Practice in psychology

Please note that Collabra: Psychology has an important Transparency and Openness policyfor its articles—please read this policy in full and acknowledge your understanding of it in your cover letter.


Instructions to Authors

Article Types

  • Original research reports These should present original findings. Null/negative findings, reanalyses of previous studies with new results, replication studies, and registered reports are also considered.
  • Review articles:  These should provide a balanced and comprehensive overview of discoveries in a particular field.
  • Perspective / Opinion articles: These should present a new and thoughtfully-considered viewpoint or opinion of a current problem, concept, implication, innovation, or practice relating to psychological science. While not required, it is acceptable to approach the Editorial Office, or relevant Senior Editor, with ideas prior to submission.
  • Registered Reports: These are a specific form of empirical article in which the methods and proposed analyses are pre-registered and reviewed prior to research being conducted. The cornerstone of this article format is that a substantial part of the manuscript will be assessed prior to data collection. The process for submitting and evaluating Registered Reports requires more detailed guidelines than are usefully reported here. Therefore, for the full, detailed instructions, cover letter requirements, background, advice, and more, please see the Collabra: Psychology Registered Reports detailed guidelines. (There is also a summary page in the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/my3wa/) containing links to all relevant documents.)

Please note that Collabra: Psychology only publishes any of the following items if they have been invited for a specific scenario or purpose or have been pre-agreed with a Senior Editor:

  • Case studies, either contemporary or historical
  • Study protocols
  • Hypothesis or proposal papers
  • Letters, commentaries, or essays
  • Policy papers
  • Any other type of secondary literature
  • Monographs

Submission Components

(Please note that, for Registered Reports, you should refer to Registered Reports Detailed Guidelines.)

Submissions to Collabra: Psychology consist of the below components. :

  • Cover letter (required) — which is written or pasted into a web form during the submission process, and not an uploaded item
  • Manuscript (required) — which is uploaded
  • Figures — which are uploaded (but also should be embedded in the manuscript to help with readability during the review process)
  • Supplemental Material — which is uploaded

Cover Letter

Please write an approximately one-page cover letter that:

  • briefly summarizes how your paper is a worthy contribution to the scientific literature;
  • specifies the section your submission best pertains to;
  • specifies the type of article you are submitting;
  • acknowledges you have read the Transparency and Openness policy of our Editorial Policies;
  • specifies whether you are opting for open peer review, whereby comments from the review process are published alongside your article, if it is accepted;
  • suggests appropriate or opposed reviewers (which information will be kept in confidence and used at the discretion of the editorial team);
  • details any previous interactions with Collabra: Psychology regarding your submission;
  • indicates, if applicable, that the article is submitted as part of a Research Nexus/Special Collection.

Manuscript Organization

We do not have arbitrary restrictions on manuscript length. However we do not accept monographs, and we do ask you to employ a clear and concise writing style. Please note that a request to be more concise is legitimate feedback during the review process, despite no arbitrary restrictions being in place. If you believe your manuscript would benefit from professional editing, we encourage you to utilize a copyediting service—or ask a colleague whose native language is English for assistance. Copyediting services can be found on the Internet using search terms as “scientific editing service” or “manuscript editing service.”

All submissions should begin with the following sections:

All submissions should end with the following sections:

Please note that figures and supplemental material should always be submitted separately as individual files, although please also embed figures in your manuscript to help with readability during the review process.

We have no explicit requirements for section organization between these beginning and ending sections, but we remind you that the Methods and Results sections must adhere to our Transparency and Openness policy, and we generally recommend the style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition (with the exception that figures and tables should also be embedded within the main text near to where they are discussed, to help the readability during the review process).

Please note that, for Registered Reports, you should refer to Registered Reports Detailed Guidelines.

The APA Guide for New Authors is a helpful resource for information on manuscript preparation. 

Abbreviations should be kept to a minimum and defined upon first use in the text. Non-standard abbreviations should not be used unless they appear at least three times in the text.

Components

Title

The full title must be 250 characters or fewer. It should be specific, descriptive, concise, and comprehensible to readers outside the subject field. Avoid abbreviations if possible.

Authors

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed. Each author must have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. Those who contributed to the work but do not qualify for authorship should be listed in the acknowledgments.

When a large group or center has conducted the work, the author list should include the individuals whose contributions meet the criteria defined above, as well as the group name.

One author should be designated (with an asterisk) as the corresponding author, and his or her email address should be included on the manuscript cover page. This information will be published with the article, if accepted.

All author names should be listed in the following order:

  • First names (or initials, if used),
  • Middle names (or initials, if used), and
  • Last names (surname, family name)
Affiliations

Each author should list an associated department, university, or organizational affiliation and its location, including city, state/province (if applicable), and country. If the article has been submitted on behalf of a consortium, all author names and affiliations should be listed.

Abstract

The abstract should provide a clear description of the main objective(s) of the submission, explain how the study was done (as applicable), and summarize the article’s most important conclusions and their significance. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words, and should not include sub-headings.

Please do not include citations in your abstract and avoid the use of abbreviations, if possible.

Main Text Between Abstract and References

We have no explicit requirements for section organization between these beginning and ending sections, but we remind you that the Methods and Results sections must adhere to our Transparency and Openness policy, and we recommend the style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition (with the exception that figures and tables should also be embedded within the main text near to where they are discussed, to help the readability during the review process).

References

Published works, works accepted for publication, and citable datasets, code, and materials, should appear in the reference list. Mentions of unpublished work should be cited parenthetically within the main text of the article as personal communications.

The style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, must be followed with respect to handling of references.

Contributions

Please indicate author contributions as clearly as possible, according to the following criteria:

  • Substantial contributions to conception and design
  • Acquisition of data
  • Analysis and interpretation of data
  • Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content
  • Final approval of the version to be published

Example:

Contributed to conception and design: KDM, Y-LC
Contributed to acquisition of data: KDM
Contributed to analysis and interpretation of data: KDM, Y-LC
Drafted and/or revised the article: KDM, Y-LC
Approved the submitted version for publication: KDM, Y-LC


Acknowledgements

People who contributed to the work but do not fit our author criteria should be listed in the acknowledgments, along with their contributions. You must ensure that anyone named in the acknowledgments agrees to being so named.

Funding sources should not be included in the acknowledgments, but in the section below.

Funding information

Please provide a list of the sources of funding, as well as the relevant grant numbers, where possible. List the authors associated with specific funding sources. You will also enter this information in a form during the submission process, but it must be repeated here.

Competing interests

In order to provide readers of articles with information about interests and relationships that might influence, or might be perceived to influence, the interpretation of articles published in Collabra: Psychology, all individuals involved with a submission (authors, editors, external reviewers) are required to declare all competing interests. Corresponding authors must provide a statement of competing interests on behalf of all authors, and, if no competing interests exist, state this specifically.

Authors who are also editors at Collabra: Psychology play no role during the review process of their specific paper, and this is ensured by the publisher. However, authors who are also editors should still declare this (and corresponding authors should be aware of this on behalf of other authors who are also editors).

Erring on the side of full disclosure is best. For guidance, we encourage authors and editors to consult the thoughtful guidelines provided by PLoS One.

Supplemental material

Although we do not limit the number or type of supplemental material items authors may include, we do require that they provide a relevant and useful expansion of the article, and that they be as well described as are figures and tables included within the body of the article. Good metadata of this material are key to discoverability and usefulness. Examples of supplemental material include appendices, very large tables, audios, videos, three-dimensional visualizations, interactive graphics, and so on. All supplemental material should include the following:

  • Type and number: Supplemental material can be named in almost any way, provided that the files are consistently named, and numbers are preceded by “S” and closed with a period. Examples:
    • Figure S1.
    • Table S1.
    • Text S1.
    • Video S1.
    • Alternative Language Abstract S1.
  • Title: Supplemental material titles should be no more than 15 words, using sentence case ending with a period. For example:
  • Legend: Supplementary material figures and tables should follow the requirements for main-text figures and tables. Other types of supplementary material files should include a descriptive caption of no more than 300 words, describing the key message of the item.
  • File Type: Please indicate the format of the file (e.g., DOC, PDF, CSV, AVI)
Data accessibility statement

We require that authors include a “data accessibility statement” (DAS) with their submission. This should list the database(s) and, if appropriate, the respective accession numbers and DOIs for all data from the manuscript that has been made publicly available.

Example 1:

All the stimuli, presentation materials, participant data, and analysis scripts can be found on this paper’s project page on the [Appropriate repository. Supply link.]

Example 2:

The following datasets were generated:

  • R scripts: uploaded as online supporting information
  • DNA sequences: Genbank accessions F234391-F234402; NCBI SRA: SRX0110215
  • Final DNA sequence assembly: uploaded as online supporting information
  • Phylogenetic data: TreeBASE Study accession no. S9345
 
Figure Legends

Figures should be cited in ascending numeric order upon first appearance. Each figure caption should be inserted immediately after the first paragraph in which it is cited in the article file, and not as part of the figure files themselves.


Files, figure and equations

File Types

You may submit your manuscript files in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), Open Office, LaTeX (as .pdf), or RTF format. Only RTF and .doc/.dox files can be used during the production process. Word files must not be protected.

LaTeX submissions. Articles prepared in LaTeX must be submitted in PDF format for use during the review process. The PDF file is both necessary and sufficient for the review process. After acceptance, however, .tex files and formatting information will be required as a zipped file.

Submissions with Equations

Microsoft Word Submissions with Equations.  Editable versions of equations are required for production. If using a version older than Word 2010, please format equations using MathType. Do not insert your equations as Graphic Objects and do not use of Symbol font.

Figures

Figures should be included in the manuscript file, inserted immediately after the first paragraph in which it is cited in the article file, to help with readability during the review process. However, they must be also uploaded as separate files to our manuscript submission system.

Tables

Tables should be cited in ascending numeric order upon first appearance. Each table should be inserted immediately after the first paragraph in which it is cited in the article file. All tables should have a concise title. Table footnotes can be used to explain abbreviations. Citations should be indicated using the same style as outlined above. Tables occupying more than one printed page should be avoided, if possible. Larger tables can be published as supplemental material.

File Submission & Upload Order

  • Write or paste your cover letter into the web form on the first page of the submission process, including all the required elements.
  • Upload your article file first.
  • Figures and supplemental material should be numbered in the order they are first mentioned in the text, and uploaded in the same order. For example, Figure 1 should be uploaded as the first figure file, Figure 2 the second, etc.; Video S1 should be uploaded as the first Supplemental Material file, Video S2 the second, etc.
  • All figures, main and supplemental, should be uploaded in the desired display orientation.
  • Multimedia files (.avi or .swf files) must be uploaded as supplementary material and not main figures.

Editorial Board

OUR EDITORS, OUR COMMUNITIES

Collabra: Psychology has Senior Editors who are appointed by the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS), and who work together to set the editorial and review policy, and other policies at the journal, alongside the publisher. They, and the board of handling Editors, manage papers through the peer review process. 

Senior Editors


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