Author Guidelines
Authors should read the aims and scope before submission. Manuscripts must be original, clearly written and not under review elsewhere.
Article types
- Original empirical research
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Theoretical and conceptual articles
- Methods, measurement and psychometrics papers
- Registered reports, brief reports and perspectives
Research reporting
State the research question, theoretical basis, design, sampling, measures and analysis transparently. Report effect sizes, uncertainty, missing-data handling, exclusions, robustness checks and limitations where applicable.
Ethics and participant protection
Research involving human participants must identify ethics approval, informed consent, privacy safeguards and any justified waiver. Describe protections for children, vulnerable populations, sensitive data and clinical or community settings.
Data, materials and reproducibility
Include a Data, Materials and Code Availability Statement. Share instruments, protocols, de-identified data, code and analysis scripts in a stable repository where ethically and legally possible. Report preregistration or explain its absence.
Review files
Provide a separate title page and anonymized manuscript for double-blind review. Disclose funding, competing interests, author contributions and material use of generative AI.
