Guide for Authors
The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology is intended as a forum for communication about
empirical research with a bearing on human development. Articles describing empirical research from social and behavioral disciplines
with application to life-span developmental issues are appropriate. Conceptual and methodological reviews and position papers that facilitate
the application of research results to social, educational, clinical, and other settings are also welcome. Discussion of intervention
or policy issues or recommendations are appropriate when data based.
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Submission declaration
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(except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication
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carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without
the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Copyright
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Role of the
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Submission
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and you will be guided stepwise through
the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts source files to a single PDF file of the article, which is
used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF files at submission for the
review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of
the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail removing the need for a paper trail.
Additional Information
To prepare for blind review, authors should make every effort to remove any identifying
information from the manuscript and references. All information pertaining to identification, title, institutional affiliation, etc.
should be included on the title page; only the title of the manuscript should appear on the first page of the manuscript.
PRESENTATION
Authors are requested to follow the instructions given in the most recent edition of
the
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. You are referred to the
Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association, Fifth Edition, ISBN 1-55798-790-4, copies of which may be ordered from
http://www.apa.org/books/4200061.html
or APA Order Dept., P.O.B. 2710, Hyattsville, MD 20784, USA or APA, 3 Henrietta Street, London, WC3E 8LU, UK.
Please write your text
in clear English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Italics are not to be used for expressions of Latin
origin, for example, in vivo, et al., per se. Use decimal points (not commas) for data reporting; use a comma for thousands (10,000 and
above). Use clear heading and paragraph markings. The usual headings (which may include subheadings) are Introduction, Method, Results
and Discussion.
Please avoid full justification, i.e., do not use a constant right-hand margin. Ensure that each new paragraph is
clearly indicated. Present tables and figure legends on separate pages at the end of the manuscript. If possible, consult a recent issue
of the journal to become familiar with layout and conventions. Number all pages consecutively.
Presentation. The manuscript
should be double-spaced, including quotations, footnotes, references, and tables.
First page. Provide the title, abstract
and keywords only.
Tables, Figure legends, figures, schemes. Present these, in this order, at the end of the article, following the
references. They are described in more detail below. High-resolution graphics files must always be provided separate from the main text
file (see Electronic Artwork).
Use of 'gender' vs. 'sex'.'Gender' is a term to refer to social categories and is referenced
by the terms masculine and feminine. 'Sex' is a term to refer to a differentiation based on male-female. Therefore comparisons between
males and females (or boys and girls) should be referred to with the term "sex" unless their masculine and feminine traits are part of
the classification.
Terms denoting ethnicity: When describing race/ethnic group we request that authors use terms designating
ethnicity (e.g., African-American, African-Caribbean, Anglo-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American, Chinese-American ) instead of
terms designating race (e.g., White, Black ) to refer to participants in your own study and in studies reported in your paper whenever
feasible. We recognize that in describing procedures and results, authors will need to use the terms that they used in their studies
so references to skin color (White, Black) may remain.
Essential title page information
Provide the following data on the Title Page only (in the order given).
Title. Concise and informative. Titles
are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
Author names and affiliations.
Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses
(where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the
author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name,
and the e-mail address of each author.
Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who is willing to handle correspondence at
all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication.
Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code)
are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.
Present/permanent address. If an author
has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address')
may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main,
affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
Abstract
A concise and factual abstract is required (100 - 150 words). The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research,
the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separate from the article, so it must be able to stand alone.
References should therefore be avoided, but if essential, they must be cited in full, without reference to the reference list.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract on the first page of the manuscript, provide a maximum of 6 keywords.
These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Abbreviations
Define
abbreviations that are not standard in this field at their first occurrence in the article: in the abstract but also in the main text
after it. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.
Acknowledgements
Collate acknowledgements and author notes, including grant and other support for the research, in a separate file. Do not, therefore,
include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise.
Artwork
Electronic artwork
General points
• Make sure
you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Save text in illustrations as "graphics" or enclose the font.
• Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Times, Symbol.
• Number the illustrations according
to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
• Provide captions to illustrations
separately.
• Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.
• Submit each figure as a separate file.
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website:
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
You
are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless of
the application used, when your electronic artwork is finalised, please "save as" or convert the images to one of the following formats
(note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS: Vector drawings.
Embed the font or save the text as "graphics".
TIFF: color or grayscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale): a
minimum of 500 dpi is required.
DOC, XLS or PPT: If your electronic artwork is created in any of these Microsoft Office applications
please supply "as is".
Please do not:
• Supply embedded graphics in your wordprocessor (spreadsheet, presentation)
document;
• Supply files that are optimised for screen use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
•
Supply files that are too low in resolution;
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Line drawings Supply high-quality printouts on white paper produced with black ink. The lettering and
symbols, as well as other details, should have proportionate dimensions, so as not to become illegible or unclear after possible reduction;
in general, the figures should be designed for a reduction factor of two to three. The degree of reduction will be determined by the
Publisher. Illustrations will not be enlarged. Consider the page format of the journal when designing the illustrations.
Photocopies
are not suitable for reproduction. Do not use any type of shading on computer-generated illustrations.
Photographs (halftones)
Supply original photographs for reproduction, printed on glossy paper, very sharp and with good contrast. Remove non-essential areas
of a photograph. Do not mount photographs unless they form part of a composite figure. Where necessary, insert a scale bar in the illustration
(not below it), as opposed to giving a magnification factor in the legend.
Note that photocopies of photographs are not acceptable
Color artwork
Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF, EPS or MS Office
files) and with the correct resolution. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures then Elsevier will ensure,
at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether
or not these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version.
For color reproduction in print, you will receive information
regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. Please indicate your preference for color in print or on
the Web only. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting color figures to "gray scale" (for the printed version
should you not opt for color in print) please submit in addition usable black and white versions of all the color illustrations.
Figure captions
Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached
to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (
not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep
text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.
Tables
Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the
table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that
the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.
References
Follow APA style. Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic citations lies entirely with the authors.
Citation in text
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference
list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are
not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they
should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either "Unpublished
results" or "Personal communication" Citation of a reference as "in press" implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
Citations in the text should follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association. You
are referred to the
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition, ISBN 1-55798-790-4, copies
of which may be ordered from
http://www.apa.org/books/4200061.html or APA Order Dept., P.O.B. 2710, Hyattsville,
MD 20784, USA or APA, 3 Henrietta Street, London, WC3E 8LU, UK. Details concerning this referencing style can also be found at
http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/apa/apa01.html
Web references
As a minimum, the full URL should be given. Any further
information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be
listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.
References in a special issue
Please ensure that the words 'this issue' are added to any references
in the list (and any citations in the text) to other articles in the same Special Issue.
Reference Style
List: References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically
if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc.,
placed after the year of publication.
Examples: Reference to a journal publication: Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J. A.
J., and Lupton R. A. (2000). The art of writing a scientific article.
Journal of Scientific Communications, 163, 51-59.
Reference to a book: Strunk, W., Jr., and White, E. B. (1979).
The elements of style. (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan.
Reference
to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam, G. R., and Adams, L. B. (1994). How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In
B. S. Jones, and R. Z. Smith (Eds.),
Introduction to the electronic age (pp. 281-304). New York: E-Publishing Inc.
Note
that journal names are not to be abbreviated.
Supplementary material
Elsevier
accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author additional
possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips
and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products,
including ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable,
please ensure that data are provided 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. Video files: please supply 'stills' with your files:
you can choose any frame from the video or make a separate image. These will be used instead of standard icons and will personalize the
link to your supplementary information. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Submission Checklist
Please click
here
for the APA Checklist for Authors.
Use of the Digital Object Identifier
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to
electronic documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon
the initial electronic publication. The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly
'Articles in press' because they have not yet received their full bibliographic information. The correct format for citing a DOI is shown
as follows (example taken from a document in the journal
Physics Letters B):
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.071
When
you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed never to change.
Proofs
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Offprints
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