Author Guidelines
Guidelines for authors
Text and file format: The minimum length of the manuscript should be no less than 12 000 characters (spaces included), and the maximum length should be no more than 30 000 characters (spaces included), without references and appendices. We ask you to provide editable source files including figures and tables, using the extension .doc, .docx, rtf, odt. Texts in pdf or tables and figures in jpg are not acceptable.
Title page information: You are required to include the following details in the title page of your submitted paper, in the following order, starting a new row for each unit:
1. Article title
2. Authors names: given name and family name of each author
3. Affiliations and addresses: add each authors’ institutional affiliations (no abbreviations) where their work was carried out, add also country name and email address of each author, you can add their ORCID ID (a unique digital identifier researchers) as well
4. Abstract: a concise and factual abstract which does not exceed 250 words
5. Keywords: provide 6-7 keywords for indexing purposes
Other required parts of the manuscript:
6. Introduction
7. Main text (methods, descption of sessions and processes, results and findings etc.)
8. Conclusions
9. References: in APA format
10. Appendices: figures, tables, diagrams, images must be supplied as separate files along with the manuscript. All of them must have a caption and must be cited in the main text of the manuscript.
Reference style and list: Citations in the text should follow the APA referencing style. You areci referred to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed., 2020.
The reference list at the end of the manuscript should be arranged alphabetically and chronologically. More than one reference from the same author in the same year must be identified by the letters a, b, c, placed after the year of publication.
Reference Examples
More than 100 reference examples and their corresponding in-text citations are presented in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed., 2020.
You can check several reference examples here:
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples
Some of the most common examples:
1. Articles in journals:
Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185
Parenthetical citation: (Grady et al., 2019)
Narrative citation: Grady et al. (2019)
If a journal article has a DOI, include the DOI in the reference.
Always include the issue number for a journal article.
If the journal article does not have a DOI but does have a URL that will resolve for readers (e.g., it is from an online journal that is not part of a database), include the URL of the article at the end of the reference.
2. Books/Ebooks:
Whole authored books
Svendsen, S., & Løber, L. (2020). The big picture/Academic writing: The one-hour guide (3rd digital ed.). Hans Reitzel Forlag. https://thebigpicture-academicwriting.digi.hansreitzel.dk
Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books.
Edited books
Hygum, E., & Pedersen, P. M. (Eds.). (2010). Early childhood education: Values and practices in Denmark. Hans Reitzels Forlag. https://earlychildhoodeducation.digi.hansreitzel.dk/
Kesharwani, P. (Ed.). (2020). Nanotechnology based approaches for tuberculosis treatment. Academic Press.
Chapters in books
Aron, L., Botella, M., & Lubart, T. (2019). Culinary arts: Talent and their development. In R. F. Subotnik, P. Olszewski-Kubilius, & F. C. Worrell (Eds.), The psychology of high performance: Developing human potential into domain-specific talent (pp. 345–359). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000120-016
Dillard, J. P. (2020). Currents in the study of persuasion. In M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (4th ed., pp. 115–129). Routledge.
Parenthetical citations: (Sapolsky, 2017; Svendsen & Løber, 2020; Aron et al., 2019)
Narrative citations: Sapolsky (2017); Svendsen and Løber (2020); Aron et al. (2019)
Use the copyright date shown on the book’s copyright page as the year of publication in the reference, even if the copyright date is different than the release date.
Include any edition information in parentheses after the title, without italics.
If the book includes a DOI or an ebook has an URL, include it in the reference after the publisher name.
Do not include the publisher location.
For edited books use the abbreviation “(Ed.)” for one editor and the abbreviation “(Eds.)” for multiple editors after the editor names, followed by a period. In the case of multiple editors, include the role once, after all the names.
3. Online:
Bologna, C. (2019, October 31). Why some people with anxiety love watching horror movies. HuffPost. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anxiety-love-watching-horror-movies_l_5d277587e4b02a5a5d57b59e
Toner, K. (2020, September 24). When Covid-19 hit, he turned his newspaper route into a lifeline for senior citizens. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/coronavirus-newspaper-deliveryman-groceries-senior-citizens-cnnheroes-trnd/index.html
Parenthetical citations: (Bologna, 2019; Toner, 2020)
Narrative citations: Bologna (2019), and Toner (2020)
Provide the writer as the author.
Provide the specific date the story was published.
End the reference with the URL
