期刊名称：MONOGRAPHS OF THE SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT
 期刊简介(About the journal)
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编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
TopAims and ScopeSince 1935 this series has presented in-depth research studies and significant findings in child development and its related disciplines. Each issue consists of a single study or a group of papers on a single theme, accompanied usually by commentary and discussion. Like all Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) publications, the Monographs enable development specialists from many disciplines to share their data, techniques, research methods, and conclusions.
A subscription to the Monographs series also includes a full subscription (6 issues) to Child Development, the flagship journal of the SRCD.
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TopIndexed / Abstracted inThe contents of Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development are abstracted and indexed in the following: Academic Search Elite; Academic Search Premier; Current Index to Journals in Education; CatchWord; e-psyche; EBSCO Online; Educational Resources Information Center; Education Abstracts; Education Index; ISI Basic Social Sciences Index; Ingenta; JCR Social Sciences Edition; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts; ProQuest Education Complete; PsycINFO; and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Instructions to Authors
Author Guidelines
Statement of Editorial Policy
The Monographs series aims to publish major reports of developmental research that generates authoritative new findings and uses these to foster a fresh perspective and/or integration of findings on some conceptually significant issue. Submissions from programmatic research projects are welcomed; these may consist of individually or group-authored reports of findings from some single large-scale investigation or from a sequence of experiments centering on some particular question. Multi-authored sets of independent studies that center on the same underlying question can also be appropriate; a critical requirement in such instances is that the various authors address common issues and that the contribution arising from the set as a whole be unique, substantial, and well-integrated. Manuscripts reporting interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary research on significant developmental questions and those including evidence from diverse cultural, racial, ethnic, national, or other contexts are of particular interest. Because the aim of the series is not only to advance knowledge on specialized topics but also to enhance cross-fertilization among disciplines or subfields, the links between the specific issues under study and larger questions relating to developmental processes should emerge clearly for both general readers and specialists on the topic. In short, irrespective of how it may be framed, work that contributes significant data and/or extends developmental thinking will be considered.
Potential authors are not required to be members of the Society for Research in Child Development nor affiliated with the academic discipline of psychology to submit a manuscript for consideration by the Monographs. The significance of the work in extending developmental theory and in contributing new empirical information is the crucial consideration.
Submissions should contain a minimum of 80 manuscript pages (including tables and references). The upper boundary of 150-175 pages is more flexible, but authors should try to keep within this limit. Please submit manuscripts electronically to the SRCD Monographs Online Submissions and Review Site (MONOSubmit) at www.srcd.org/monosubmit. Please contact the Monographs Office with any questions at monographs@srcd.org.
The corresponding author for any manuscript must, in the submission letter, warrant that all coauthors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript. The corresponding author also is responsible for informing all coauthors, in a timely manner, of manuscript submission, editorial decisions, reviews received, and any revisions recommended. Before publication, the corresponding author must warrant in the submissions letter that the study has been conducted according to the ethical guidelines of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Potential authors who may be unsure whether the manuscript they are planning would make an appropriate submission are invited to draft an outline of what they propose and send it to the Editor for assessment. This mechanism, as well as a more detailed description of all editorial policies, evaluation processes, and format requirements, is given in the "Guidelines for the Preparation of Publication Submissions," which can be found at the SRCD website by clicking on Monographs, or by contacting the Editor, W. Andrew Collins, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 51 E. River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0345; e-mail, wcollins@umn.edu.
Guidelines for the Preparation of Publication Submissions
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
The Monographs are widely distributed, with a current circulation of approximately 5900 individual SRCD members and 4000 institutional subscriptions. The series enjoys a proud tradition of respect in the field, a respect gained largely by readers' confidence in the rigor of the review process.
REVIEW PROCESS
Processing of Monographs submissions is somewhat different from reviews of journal articles. First, because manuscripts are longer than journal submissions, reviewers typically need longer periods to complete their assignments. Authors are notified if there is an unexpected delay. Second, knowing that very hard work inevitably goes into preparing and/or revising a monograph-length report, the Editor stands ready to try to clarify reviewers' comments and editorial decisions with authors as needed. Third, accepted monographs traditionally include a commentary in the publication. The commentary is designed to enhance the work's impact (and is often provided by one or more of the reviewers).
REQUIREMENTS
Authors may submit manuscripts for consideration by Monographs regardless of whether they are members of the Society or affiliated with the academic discipline of psychology. To be considered, submissions should meet the editorial goals of Monographs and should be no briefer than a minimum of 80 pages (including references and tables). There is an upper limit of 175 to 200 pages. In exceptional circumstances this upper limit may be modified.
Because a Monograph is lengthy and usually substantively complex, it is particularly important that the text be well organized and that it be written clearly and precisely. Several characteristics of the manuscript contribute to the goal of clarity and precision. The introductory and concluding discussion should relate the work to issues of concern to all developmentalists. Avoid jargon. When using terms that prevail in some subfields, but that are not common in others, briefly define the term when first introduced. In accordance with the general aims of SRCD, Monographs actively promotes international exchange of developmental research, and submissions from developmental researchers throughout the world are welcomed. Non-native English speakers may find it helpful to ask a colleague to review the clarity and accuracy of the written English before submitting a manuscript.
A distinctive goal of Monographs is that manuscripts must be integrative. Introductory material must be thoroughly based in the historically relevant literature, and the work must be embedded in a clear historical context. The concluding discussion should explore alternative explanatory contexts.
Monographs generally follow the style and format requirements specified by the APA; these are spelled out in detail in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition, 2001). Authors should study the manual carefully before submitting the final draft. The following few notes specify some of the points to which authors must attend.
Manuscript Submission
Please submit manuscripts electronically to the SRCD Monographs Online Submissions and Review Site at www.srcd.org/monosubmit. Please contact the Monographs Office with questions (monographs@srcd.org).
Text should be formatted with double-spaced, 12-point font. This includes information on the title page; headings, notes and entries in tables; figure legends; references; acknowledgments; footnotes; and quotes from other articles or books (quotes under about 100 words are run into the text with quotation marks; if longer, they are indented).
Pagination
Manuscript Sections
Begin numbering pages with the first page of the Abstract (page 1); do not number the pages devoted to Title and Table of Contents. All following sheets - except the figures - should then be numbered consecutively. Position the page number in the top right-hand corner and the running head in the top left-hand corner.
Following the sequence given below, start each section on a new page with the section title centered at the top of the page.
Title Page: The Title Page should include the title, author's name and affiliation, and running head. Authors are encouraged to adopt short and easily comprehensible titles because this helps to promote sales of the issue through bookstores. (When a longer title seems unavoidable, what appears on the cover might be extended via subtitle on the inner title page of the issue.)
Table of Contents: This should list all chapter titles (whenever appropriate, these should be informative; e.g., "Relations between¡" rather than "Experiment 1").
Abstract: This is not to exceed 300 words.
Text chapters: Please center the Monographs title above Chapter I; begin each following Chapter on a new page. Each chapter begins with the word "Chapter__"
Appendix(ces) (if any)
References
Acknowledgements: Please include address for corresponding author.
Contributors: Brief biographical statement(s) giving the author(s) affiliation and major research interests; examples of the format can be found at the end of Commentaries. It is also appropriate on this page to describe the individual contributions of individual authors if the authors believe that such a distribution of credit is needed.
Footnotes: These should be numbered sequentially throughout the manuscript (i.e., do not start over with each new chapter); all footnotes should be in a separate section following the references, with each identified by its number.
Tables: Unless the monograph is a multi-authored collection of separate chapters, number tables consecutively; no matter how small, only one table is included on a page. Show approximate location of each table in the text.
Figure Captions: Figure legends listed consecutively, each identified by number.
Figures: Clear white glossy print for the first copy, photocopies for the others; good laser-generated artwork is also acceptable. On the back of each figure note lightly in pencil the figure number and monograph running head.
ADDITIONALLY, include a separate listing of all headings as they appear in the manuscript; this may require a number of pages, but it is very useful in orienting referees' reading, and needed in copy editing of manuscripts that come to be accepted for publication.
Cover Letter
In the submission letter, the corresponding author for any manuscript must, warrant: (a) that all coauthors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript. The corresponding author also is responsible for informing all coauthors, in a timely manner, of manuscript submission, editorial decisions, reviews received, and any revisions recommended; (b) that the data of the manuscript are not currently under publication review by any other journal or publisher, and that they have not been published in any other form; and (c) that the study has been conducted according to the ethical guidelines of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Authors are encouraged to suggest names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of potential reviewers. Names suggested should be competent in the topic area covered by the manuscript and should have no conflict of interests in relation to the manuscript or the authors.
Assorted Frequently Overlooked Conventions
References: Be sure to double check the match between your in-text citations and the reference list. Also, check the Manual for proper listing of the different types of citations (books, oral presentations, dissertations, poster presentations, etc.) as well as of the sequence in which references are to be listed. Authors' initials should be spaced ("M. C. Smith") not closed up ("M.C. Smith"). If you cite a chapter from Damon's Handbook of Child Psychology (1998), the correct form is as in the following example:
Magnusson, D., & Stattin, H. (1998a). Person-context interactions. In R. M. Lerner (Ed.), Theoretical models of human development. Volume 1: Handbook of child psychology, (5th ed., pp. 685-759). Editor-in-Chief: William Damon. New York: Wiley.
Headings: Please follow the conventions given in the Manual to indicate the level of the heading. Only 4 levels of headings are allowed in the Monographs.
Tables: Please be sure that your tables conform to the prescribed style, including titles, headings, and footnotes (see the Manual for details). Space entries generously so that rows and columns are clear; do not use vertical or horizontal lines (though you may lightly pencil in some lines to increase clarity; consider the possibility of typing large tables on outsize sheets and then reducing the page to conventional dimensions).
Figures: Figures are expensive to reproduce and should be used sparingly and thoughtfully. Figures must be preceded by a Figure Caption Page.
Format odds-and-ends: (a) Identify each page of the manuscript (except the figures) by typing as a header the running head at the upper left hand corner of the page and the page number in the upper right hand corner; (b) include a translation of grade levels into ages in the abstract and methods sections; (c) statistical symbols should be italicized; (d) in the text, use italics rather than underline; (e) in general, write out numbers under 10 and use numerals for 10 and greater. An exception to the latter is that units of measurement are always given in numerals (e.g., age, grade, time, distance). Hyphenate years and months of ages (e.g., 4-year-olds; 3-month-olds), but not grades (i.e., third graders).
Stylistic odds-and-ends:
1. Please avoid causal language as it is confusing and often wrong.
2. Avoid combining inanimate nouns with action verbs (such as "the research shows," "the hypotheses state," "the study examined").
3. Restrict the term "relationship" to interpersonal phenomena; all other associations (logical, mathematical, etc.) should be termed "relation."
4. Restrict "while" and "since" to refer to temporal relations; in all other instances, use "although," "whereas," "because," or whatever other term is appropriate.
If there are any questions you may wish to discuss further, please contact the Monographs Editorial Office at monographs@srcd.org.
Editorial Board
Editorial Information
Editor
Willis F. Overton, Temple University, Department of Psychology, 1701 North 13th St, Rm 567, Philadelphia, PA 19122-6085
Phone: 215 204 1552
Fax: 215 204 5539
Email: overton@temple.edu
Editorial Assistant
Margaret Berry
Consulting Editors (2004)
Rebecca Bigler, University of Texas-Austin
Stephanie Carlson, University of Washington
Nancy Galambos, University of Alberta
Shaun Gallagher, University of Central Florida
Susan Gelman, University of Michigan
Elizabeth Gershoff, Columbia University
Joan Grusec, University of Toronto
Steven Guberman, University of Colorado
Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Robert Larzeler, University of Nebraska
Campbell Leaper, University of California, Santa Cruz
Lou Moses, University of Oregon
Ulrich Mueller, Victoria University
Yuno Munakata, University of Colorado
Paul Quinn, Washington & Jefferson college
Phillipe Rochat, Emory University
Bryan Sokol, University of British Columbia
Lisa Szechter, Univesrity of California, Santa Cruz
Ross Thompson, University of Nebraska
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