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Author Guidelines

Please read these guidelines in full prior to submitting an article to JEPS. Failure to comply with the submission requirements, which includes the formatting requirements, may result in delays of the editorial process, or your submission being rejected. We recommend using our Word template when preparing your submission.

The Journal of European Psychology Students (JEPS) operates an online submission and peer review system that allows authors to submit articles online and track their progress via a web interface (Journal Management System). All papers must be submitted via the online system. To do so, log in to your account or register for one if you do not have one yet and follow the instructions. Once submitted, the author can track the submission and communicate with the editors via the online journal management system.

If you are unsure about the submission process or how to comply with the submission guidelines, please consult our Manual for Authors.

Article Types

Submissions must correspond to one of the following article types.

Research articles: Research articles are reports of research in which hypotheses are tested by analysing data. Reported research must follow the scientific method. Research articles may include quantitative or qualitative investigations. They should contain introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion sections conforming to standard scientific reporting style.

Literature reviews: Literature reviews summarise critical points of current knowledge on a particular topic by evaluating previously published material. Literature reviews define a problem, summarise previous investigations and suggest next steps in solving the problem. Meta-analyses are a type of literature review.

Registered Reports: Registered Reports allow authors to lay out the planned methods and statistical analyses of their empirical work, prior to data collection. If there is sufficient merit to the planned study, the authors are guaranteed in-principle acceptance. The review process for Registered Reports is divided into two stages. In Stage 1, the study proposal is peer-reviewed prior to data collection. In Stage 2, the full study including results and interpretation of results and discussion is reviewed. Stage 1 manuscripts will include only an Introduction, Methods (including proposed analyses), and Pilot Data section (where applicable).

For special requirements for Registered Reports see here.

General requirements

1. The manuscript must not have been published and is not under consideration in another journal. These restrictions do not apply to abstracts or to press reports of presentations at scientific meetings.
2. Research must have been conducted during undergraduate or masters courses (PhD research is not considered). Submissions should only be made either during enrolment as a student, or no longer than 2 years after completion of a course. Authors of the manuscripts must be students, which means that (assistant/associate) professors should not be listed as authors.
3. Manuscripts that have previously been rejected by JEPS are not allowed to be resubmitted unless they have been modified in such a way that the write-up and the content are sufficiently novel and make the arguments of the previous rejection inapplicable.
4. All research involving human participation or data must have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and must have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee. You are required to state how your research has received ethical approval in the methods section. Often, student research receives ethical approval through the student supervisor, so please consult with your supervisor if necessary.
5. A conflict of interest occurs when an author’s financial or personal relationship — such as employment, work relations, stock ownership, family ties, current or pending patents, or consultancies — inappropriately influences (or may influence) the content of the research article. A disclosure is also required if the authors are affiliated with JEPS or EFPSA.
6. Authors are allowed to add a paragraph for acknowledgments before the references. However, this section must only be added to the manuscript after it has been accepted for publication in order to ensure a double blind peer-review.

Formatting requirements

The formatting constraints imposed by JEPS enable the emphasis to be placed on the manuscript's content during the review process. The fact that all manuscripts submitted to JEPS share the same format allows the reviewers to concentrate on the content without being distracted by unfamiliar and irregular formatting and reporting styles.

Aside from adhering to the JEPS guidelines (see below), all manuscripts submitted to JEPS must be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition). This writing format is often referred to as the APA style or APA format. If you do not have access to the APA Publication Manual, the following links can provide you with a good overview of the APA style: We suggest using our Word template when preparing your manuscript.

APA mock article

Purdue Online Writing Lab

The following requirements are specific to JEPS and must be met:

1. The document is rendered entirely anonymous and follows the instructions to ensure blind peer review.
2. The manuscript must not exceed 8000 words, including title page and abstract page. References, appendix items and supplementary files are not included in the word limit.
3. The manuscript must be rendered entirely anonymous in order to ensure a blind peer review. Specifically, the manuscript and the file's metadata must contain no name or institutional information that may reveal the author's identity. You will be asked to enter your personal information on our online submission system.
4. The abstract must contain no more than 120 words.
5. The abstract must contain between 5 and 7 keywords.
6. Tables and figures are all cited in the text. Tables are included within the text document, whilst figure files are uploaded as supplementary files.
7. Graphs must use black, grey and white for optimal distinguishing purposes (e.g., for bars in histograms), as well as for being printer-friendly
8. Margin sizes should be the current standard margins in MS Word for an A4 page.
9. Please apply consecutive line numbers to the document.
10. Where available, a DOI has been provided for all reference locations

Style

Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Incorrect grammar, language use, or syntax may distract readers from the content being communicated. Thus, we strongly encourage authors to have their manuscripts reviewed for clarity by (if possible native English) colleagues The JEPS Editorial Team reserves the right to decide whether the English is of sufficient proficiency for the manuscript to be considered for review. 

Authors are required to follow the APA guidelines on scientific writing (e.g., tone, precision and clarity, unbiased language, adequate punctuation, adequate capitalisation, etc.).

For more help on writing your paper, please consult the JEPS Bulletin.

Registered Reports

When registering their research, authors lay out the planned methods and statistical analyses of their empirical work, prior to data collection. If there is sufficient merit to the planned study, the authors are guaranteed in-principle acceptance. By enhancing transparency and improving reproducibility of science, pre-registration encourages scientists to conduct hypothesis-driven and responsible research. 

The review process for Registered Reports is divided into two stages. In Stage 1, the study proposal is peer-reviewed prior to data collection. In Stage 2, the full study including results and interpretation of results / discussion is reviewed. Stage 1 manuscripts will include only an Introduction, Methods (including proposed analyses), and Pilot Data section (where applicable).

We strongly encourage authors to use our Word-template for Registered Reports. For replications, this can be found here, for original research, here. If you need help using this template, please let us know.

JEPS is committed to provide a swift first review to authors within 4 weeks of submission.

1. (In-principle) accepted. Accepted Manuscripts will receive an in principle acceptance (IPA), indicating that the article will be published pending successful completion of the study according to the exact methods and analytic procedures outlined, as well as a defensible and evidence-bound interpretation of the results.
2. Revisions required.
3. Rejected.

Submitting Registered Reports

When submitting Registered Reports, authors must note the following:

1. All Registered Reports submitted to JEPS must be prepared to meet the general requirements and formatting requirements outlined above. Please use our templates: for replications here, for original research here.
2. The introduction needs to lay out the logic and rationale of the proposed hypothesis
3. The method section needs to explain the experimental design, any data pre-processing steps (e.g., outlier removal criteria), and the planned statistical analyses.
4. Authors commit to conduct data collection and analysis without deviating from the proposal. Any deviations from the proposed methodology and analysis need to be declared and justified.
5. Authors agree to provide the raw data of their results. If this is not possible due to ethical or other reasons, this needs to be communicated to the Editorial Team as soon as possible.
6. In case of withdrawal of the paper after in-principle acceptance, authors agree to the journal publishing a short summary of the pre-registered study under a section called Withdrawn Registrations.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. Research must have been conducted during undergraduate or masters courses (PhD research is not considered). Submissions should only be made either during enrolment as a student, or no longer than 2 years after completion of a course.
2. All authors have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper and satisfy the authorship guidelines.
3. The submission file is in .DOC/.DOCX or .RTF file format.
4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, this includes following the instructions to ensure blind peer review.
5. Figures/images have a resolution of at least 150dpi (300dpi or above preferred). Each file is no more than 20MB per file. The files are in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS (to maximise quality, the original source file is preferred).
6. The authors will contact their departmental/faculty administrators and institution library to inquire what funds are available to cover the cost of the APC, or they can provide sufficient evidence to apply for a fee waiver.
7. In case of submitting a Registered Report, authors will commit to adhere to the proposed plan of data collection and analysis when granted in-principle acceptance. Further, they agree to share their raw data for all published results. Authors agree to JEPS publishing studies withdrawn after in-principle acceptance under a section “Withdrawn Registrations”. If sharing of raw data is problematic due to ethical or other reasons, please contact the Editorial Team.

Copyright Notice

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. 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.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access). Authors should, however, take into account APA's guidelines on posting work that is still in review (APA Publication Manual 6th Edition, p. 211) which state that the name of the publisher or the journal should not be mentioned during the submission process.

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Publication Fees

If your paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to cover publications costs (€250). Many institutions are now making funds available to support open access publications by their staff. If you do not know about your institution’s policy on open access funding, please contact your departmental/faculty administrators and institution library, as funds may be available to you.

If you do not have funds available to pay such fees then we can offer a discount or full waiver to authors whose institutions/funders will not cover the fee. Please contact us prior to submission should you need to discuss waiver options or the APC in general. Editorial decisions are made independently from the ability to pay the APC.

Once your article is published, you will receive an APC request email along with information on how payment can be arranged. If you need to waive the APC, you will also have an opportunity to do it there.

Waiver Information

If you do not have funds available to pay such fees then we may be able to offer a discount or full waiver to authors whose institutions/funders will not cover the fee. Please contact us prior to submission should you need to discuss waiver options or the APC in general. To be considered for a waiver you must provide evidence that you are not applicable to receive funding. Editorial decisions are made independently from the ability to pay the APC.