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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.
  • The manuscript is original, has not been published previously and is not under consideration by another journal.
  • The submission fits the JPR aims and scope and states its psychological question and contribution clearly.
  • A separate title page and an anonymized manuscript have been prepared for double-blind review.
  • Sampling, measures, procedures, exclusions, analyses, effect sizes, uncertainty and limitations are reported transparently where applicable.
  • Ethics approval, informed consent, participant protections, preregistration and data/materials/code availability are reported or explained.
  • Funding, competing interests, author contributions and material AI-tool use are disclosed where applicable.

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.

Articles

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Participant and research data

Authors must remove direct identifiers and protect sensitive psychological, behavioural, educational, health and demographic data. Consent, ethics approval and lawful data governance remain the authors' responsibility.

Sharing and retention

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