International Journal of Psychonomics

Online Submission

Acta Psychologica manuscripts may be submitted online using our Web-based submission tool. To submit your paper online, please go to http://ees.elsevier.com/actpsy/ and upload your article and its associated artwork. A PDF will be generated and the reviewing process will be carried out using that PDF. All correspondence between editor and author is performed by e-mail, and paper copies are not required at the original submission stage.

Submission is held to imply that papers must be previously unpublished and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Letters to the Editor should not exceed two printed pages.

Papers must be in the English language and conform to the highest standards of presentation.

Manuscripts should be double-spaced and with a wide margin. Pages should be numbered consecutively. The cover page should contain: (i) the title of the article, (ii) author(s), (iii) complete affiliation(s), and (iv) e-mail address, fax and telephone number of the corresponding author.

An Abstract should be provided conforming to the outlines given in the APA Publication Manual, 5th edition. Following the Abstract one to five Keywords (from the American Psychological Association's (APA) "Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms") and at least one PsycINFO Classification code (from the APA's "PsyclNFO Classification Categories and Codes") should be added. Assign code(s) by mentioning "PsyclNFO classification", to be followed by the four digits-code(s) preceding the relevant classification category(ies).

Titles and subtitles should be numbered. If the paper is an experimental one, it should be divided, for each experiment, into appropriate headings like: Method, Results, Discussion/Conclusions.

References. In the text of the manuscript, reference to a publication should be made by the name of its author, followed by the year of its publication between parentheses, thus: Miller (1990)found that ..., or ... as studied previously (Miller, 1990). The complete references must be given on a separate list, arranged alphabetically with respect to the first author's name. If an author or a particular group of authors have brought out several publications in one year, the corresponding references should be distinguished in the text as (1990a, 1990b) and in the list as 1990a, 1990b.
Examples (please note that journal titles should not be abbreviated):
for journal articles: Myerson, J., Hale, S., Chen, J., & Lawerence, B. (1997). General lexical slowing and the semantic priming effect: The roles of age and ability. Acta Psychologica, 96(1-2),83-101.
for books: Sanders, A. F. (1998). Elements of human performance: reaction processes and attention in human skill. Mahwah, N.J. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
for contributed volumes: Driver, J., & Baylis, G. C. (1998). Attention and visual object segmentation. In R. Parasuraman, The attentive brain (pp. 299-325). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Figures. Figures should be large-size originals (each on a separate sheet), drawn in India ink and carefully lettered, or should be produced using professional quality graphics software and a laser-or equivalent printer. They should have an Arabic number and a caption. In the text, figures must be referred to as: see Fig. 1; or Figs. 2 and 3, etc. Their approximate location in the text should be indicated as follows:

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Tables. Tables must be typed on separate sheets and should have a short title and an Arabic number. The reference to tables in the main text and the indication of their approximate location is the same as for figures.
Formulae in the text and mathematical symbols. Avoid superposition of symbols (fractions or complicated exponents) which would necessitate a greater space between the lines; when superposition cannot be avoided place the expression on a separate line. Decimal numbers should have a zero before the decimal point, thus: 0.05.
Supplementary Material
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Supplementary material (even though not printed) is an integral part of a journal article and therefore will be sent to the reviewers along with the manuscript. Because this material will be mounted exactly as submitted by the author, we recommend that the material be presented in an electronic format that is readily accessible to the community. To ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please provide the data in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. Please note, however, that supplementary material will not appear in the printed journal. Files can be stored on diskette, ZIP disk, or CD (either MS-DOS or Macintosh). For more detailed instructions, please visit http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions, then click on "Multimedia files."

Footnotes. The use of footnotes should be minimized. Footnotes to the text should be numbered consecutively throughout the contribution with superscript Arabic numerals.
Authors are requested to follow the 'Guidelines for Nonsexist Use of Language' as stated in Section 2.13 of the APA Publication Manual, 5th ed.
Proofs. One proof will be sent to the authors. Corrected proofs should be returned within 2 days to the publisher.
Authors' benefits. (1) 25 reprints per contribution free of charge. (2) 30% discount on all Elsevier books.