Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice (2023)

Prior to submission, please carefully read and follow the submission guidelines detailed below. Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission guidelines may be returned without review.

Submission

CPSP will begin publishing with APA in 2021 and is now processing papers using Editorial Manager.

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7^th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual). APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the 7^th edition are available.

Submit Manuscript

General correspondence may be directed to the editorial office via email.

Masked review

This journal uses a masked reviewing system for all submissions. The first page of the manuscript should omit the authors' names and affiliations but should include the title of the manuscript and the date it is submitted.

Footnotes containing information pertaining to the authors' identities or affiliations should not be included in the manuscript but may be provided after a manuscript is accepted.

Make every effort to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identities.

Please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.

Keep a copy of the manuscript to guard against loss.

Cover letter

The cover letter accompanying the manuscript submission must include all authors' names and affiliations to avoid potential conflicts of interest in the review process. Addresses and phone numbers, as well as electronic mail addresses and fax numbers, if available, should be provided for all authors for possible use by the editorial office and later by the production office.

Manuscript format and preparation

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the 7^th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the 7^th edition are available.

Review APA's Journal Manuscript Preparation Guidelines before submitting your article.

Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual. Instructions regarding the preparation of display equations, computer code, and tables appear at the end of these submission instructions.

Additional guidance on APA Style is available on the APA Style website.

Authors who think that their submission may benefit from additional academic writing or language editing should seek out such services at their host institutions, engage with colleagues and subject matter experts, and/or consider several vendors that offer discounts to APA authors.

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Use of such service is not required for publication in an APA journal and does not guarantee selection for peer review, manuscript acceptance, or preference for publication.

Page limits

There is no word count, but the maximum page limit is 50 pages, double spaced, including all references, figures, and tables.

Author contribution statements using CRediT

The APA Publication Manual (7th ed.) stipulates that "authorship encompasses…not only persons who do the writing but also those who have made substantial scientific contributions to a study." In the spirit of transparency and openness, CP:SP has adopted the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to describe each author's individual contributions to the work. CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to a manuscript.

Submitting authors will be asked to identify the contributions of all authors at initial submission according to this taxonomy. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the CRediT designations will be published as an author contributions statement in the author note of the final article. All authors should have reviewed and agreed to their individual contribution(s) before submission.

CRediT includes 14 contributor roles, as described below:

• Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
• Data curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
• Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
• Funding acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
• Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
• Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
• Project administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
• Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
• Software: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
• Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
• Validation: Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
• Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
• Writing — original draft: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
• Writing — review and editing: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision: including pre- or post-publication stages.

Authors can claim credit for more than one contributor role, and the same role can be attributed to more than one author.

Abstract and keywords

Manuscripts of regular articles are to be accompanied by an abstract, on a separate page after the title page, containing a maximum of 960 characters and spaces (which is approximately 120 words), followed by three to six keywords.

Public health significance statements

CPSP publishes public health significance statements for each article (not the commentaries). These are designed to increase dissemination and usage by larger and diverse audiences, such as other health professionals and the lay public.

These 2-3 sentence statements should be user-friendly and geared to be informative and useful for all types of readers. They would include a basic message regarding the importance of the paper’s topic and the essential findings with regard to public health issues. If the manuscript is accepted for publication the statements will be boxed on the first page of the article, beneath the abstract, for immediate recognition.

Authors should include such statements on the abstract page below the keywords. Please refer to the Guidance for Translational Abstracts and Public Significance Statements page to help you write this text.

Openness and transparency

Financial support

Authors should state all sources of financial support for the conduct of the research (e.g., This research was supported by Award XX from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development) in the author note. If the funding source was involved in any other aspects of the research (e.g., study design, analysis, interpretation, writing), then clearly state the role. If the funding source had no other involvement other than financial support, then authors should state that the funding source had no other role other than financial support.

Conflict of interest

Authors should also provide a conflict of interest statement in the author note disclosing any real or potentially perceived conflict(s) of interest, including financial, personal, or other relationships with other organizations or companies that may inappropriately impact or influence the research and interpretation of the findings. Authors are responsible for disclosing all financial and personal relationships between themselves, their families, and others that might be perceived by readers as biasing their work. To prevent ambiguity, authors must state explicitly whether potential conflicts do or do not exist.

Preprints and preprint servers

This journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints on non-commercial servers such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, psyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, etc. Authors may also post the submitted version of their manuscript to non-commercial servers at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

Data sharing and data accessibility

CPSP encourages authors to share the data and other artifacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used or otherwise providing the ethical or legal reasons for not sharing the data. The data availability statement should be included in the author note and in the method section.

As part of APA's ongoing efforts to increase transparency and collaboration in scientific research, our journal now offers authors the option of depositing their data into APA's own repository hosted by the Center for Open Science. This repository will help researchers work on a project privately, with collaborators, or allow them to make parts of or their entire project publicly accessible. The repository will store and archive research data, protocols, and materials, with data being made open once it is published in an APA journal. If you choose to submit your data to the repository, please include the dataset's OSF link as part of your author note, and include the data citation in your reference list.

Authors can also consult the global registry of research data repositoriesto help them identify registered and certified repositories relevant to their subject areas.

Preregistration

Preregistration of studies and analysis plans can be useful for distinguishing confirmatory and exploratory analyses. CPSP encourages authors, particularly those submitting manuscripts that report results of a clinical trial, to preregister their studies and analysis plans prior to conducting the research (e.g., Open Science Framework, ClinicalTrials.gov, www.isrctn.org). If any aspect of the study is preregistered, include the registry link in the author note and the method section.

Journal Article Reporting Standards

Authors are to adhere to the APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. Updated in 2018, the standards offer ways to improve transparency in reporting to ensure that readers have the information necessary to evaluate the quality of the research and to facilitate collaboration and replication. The new JARS:

• Recommend the division of hypotheses, analyses, and conclusions into primary, secondary, and exploratory groupings to allow for a full understanding of quantitative analyses presented in a manuscript and to enhance reproducibility;

• Offer modules for authors reporting on N-of-1 designs, replications, clinical trials, longitudinal studies, and observational studies, as well as the analytic methods of structural equation modeling and Bayesian analysis;

• Include guidelines on reporting on registration (including making protocols public); participant characteristics, including demographic characteristics; inclusion and exclusion criteria; psychometric characteristics of outcome measures and other variables; and planned data diagnostics and analytic strategy.

JARS-Qual are of use to researchers using qualitative methods like narrative, grounded theory, phenomenological, critical, discursive, performative, ethnographic, consensual qualitative, case study, psychobiography, and thematic analysis approaches. The guidelines focus on transparency in quantitative and mixed methods reporting, recommending descriptions of how the researcher's own perspective affected the study as well as the contexts in which the research and analysis took place.

Clinical trials must be reported using the APA Style JARS for quantitative research (JARS-Quant). See theJARs Quant Table for an overview of these standards for studies involving clinical trials.

Participant description

Authors of empirical papers must include a detailed description of the study participants in the Author Note and the Method section of the article, including (but not limited to) the following:

• Age
• Gender
• Race
• Ethnicity
• Nativity or immigration history
• Socioeconomic status
• Clinical diagnoses and comorbidities (as appropriate)
• Any other relevant demographics (e.g., sexual orientation).

Both review and empirical submissions must include a generalizability statement in the Discussion section, outlining the generalizability of the findings.

Invited commentaries

Upon acceptance of a manuscript, the editor-in-chief will invite 2-3 individuals to submit brief commentaries that target 2-3 important and high-level issues related to the review (see recent issues of the journal for examples). These commentaries are also peer-reviewed. The original paper and the commentaries are published simultaneously. These commentaries are by invitation only.

Submitting supplemental materials

APA can place supplemental materials online, available via the published article in the APA PsycArticles^® database. Please see Supplementing Your Article With Online Material for more details.

References

List references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the references section.

Examples of basic reference formats:

Journal article

McCauley, S. M., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Language learning as language use: A cross-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126(1), 1–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

Brown, L. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, K. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. K. P., & Safren, S. A. (2019). Affirmative cognitive behavior therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In G. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive behavior therapy: Practice and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000119-012

Figures

Graphics files are welcome if supplied as Tiff or EPS files. Multipanel figures (i.e., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) should be assembled into one file.

The minimum line weight for line art is 0.5 point for optimal printing.

For more information about acceptable resolutions, fonts, sizing, and other figure issues, please see the general guidelines.

When possible, please place symbol legends below the figure instead of to the side.

APA offers authors the option to publish their figures online in color without the costs associated with print publication of color figures.

The same caption will appear on both the online (color) and print (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure can be understood in both formats, authors should add alternative wording (e.g., "the red (dark gray) bars represent") as needed.

For authors who prefer their figures to be published in color both in print and online, original color figures can be printed in color at the editor's and publisher's discretion provided the author agrees to pay:

• $900 for one figure
• An additional $600 for the second figure
• An additional $450 for each subsequent figure

Permissions

Authors of accepted papers must obtain and provide to the editor on final acceptance all necessary permissions to reproduce in print and electronic form any copyrighted work, including test materials (or portions thereof), photographs, and other graphic images (including those used as stimuli in experiments).

On advice of counsel, APA may decline to publish any image whose copyright status is unknown.

• Download Permissions Alert Form (PDF, 13KB)

Publication policies

APA policy prohibits an author from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration by two or more publications.

See also APA Journals® Internet Posting Guidelines.

APA requires authors to reveal any possible conflict of interest in the conduct and reporting of research (e.g., financial interests in a test or procedure, funding by pharmaceutical companies for drug research).

• Download Disclosure of Interests Form (PDF, 38KB)

Authors of accepted manuscripts are required to transfer the copyright to APA.

• For manuscripts not funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
  Publication Rights (Copyright Transfer) Form (PDF, 83KB)
• For manuscripts funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
  Wellcome Trust or Research Councils UK Publication Rights Form (PDF, 34KB)

Ethical Principles

It is a violation of APA Ethical Principles to publish "as original data, data that have been previously published" (Standard 8.13).

In addition, APA Ethical Principles specify that "after research results are published, psychologists do not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release" (Standard 8.14).

APA expects authors to have their data available throughout the editorial review process and for at least 5 years after the date of publication.

CPSP publishes scholarly reviews as well as meta-analyses related to assessment, intervention, and service delivery. Given that CPSP only rarely publishes empirical studies, when submitting such a study, the following ethical guidelines must be followed:

• When reporting experiments on human participants, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 1983. Authors should not use participants’ names, initials, or any other identifying numbers (such as social security numbers), especially in illustrative material.

• When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether the authors followed their institution's guidelines or a national research council's guidelines for, or any national law on, the care and use of laboratory animals.

• A statement describing explicitly the ethical background to the studies being reported should be included in all manuscripts in the methods section. Ethics committee or institutional review board approval should be stated in that section.

Participant privacy and informed consent

If reporting on empirical data involving human participants, these individuals have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. No identifying information should be included in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the individual (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Identifying details must be omitted if they are not essential but essential empirical data should never be altered or falsified in an attempt to attain anonymity. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. Empirical manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement that the research was undertaken with the understanding and written consent of each participant (or the participant’s representative, if they lack capacity).

Articles that draw upon previously-published empirical literature (meta-analyses) do not need to have undergone review by the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional). In these instances, authors are expected to include a complete listing of all empirical studies that were included in the analyses, including citation, relevant details of the methodology, and a brief synopsis of the findings that are included in the review. In cases where space constraints are of concern, this information may be included as online supplemental material.

APA expects authors to adhere to these standards. Authors are required to state in writing that they have complied with APA ethical standards in the treatment of their sample, human or animal, or to describe the details of treatment.

• Download Certification of Compliance With APA Ethical Principles Form (PDF, 26KB)

The APA Ethics Office provides the full Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct electronically on its website in HTML, PDF, and Word format. You may also request a copy by emailing or calling the APA Ethics Office (202-336-5930). You may also read "Ethical Principles," December 1992, American Psychologist, Vol. 47, pp. 1597–1611.

Other information

Visit the Journals Publishing Resource Center for more resources for writing, reviewing, and editing articles for publishing in APA journals.

Editor

Arthur M. Nezu, PhD, DHL, ABPP
Drexel University

Associate editors

Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, PhD
Yeshiva University

Gregory Hinrichsen, PhD, ABPP
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Kelly McClure, PhD
LaSalle University

Editorial board

Tahirah Abdullah, PhD
University of Massachusetts-Boston

Jacques P. Barber, PhD, ABPP
Adelphi University

David H. Barlow, PhD, ABPP
Boston University

Jeffrey E. Barnett, PsyD, ABPP
Loyola University

Sherry Ann Beaudreau, PhD, ABPP
VA Palo Alto Health Care System/Stanford University School of Medicine

J. Gayle Beck, PhD
University of Memphis

Guillermo Bernal, PhD
University of Puerto Rico

Lisa A. Brenner, PhD, ABPP
University of Colorado

Timothy A. Brown. PsyD
Boston University

Zeeshan Butt, PhD
Northwestern University

Janet Carlson, PhD
University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Leonidas Castro-Camacho, PhD, ABPP
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Edward C. Chang, PhD
University of Michigan

Tammy Chung, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Jonathan Comer, PhD
Florida International University

Scott Compton, PhD
Duke University School of Medicine

Rosalie Corona, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University

Janis Crowther, PhD
Kent State University

Pim Cuijpers, PhD
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

David DeMatteo, JD, PhD, ABPP
Drexel University

David J. A. Dozois, PhD, CPsych
University of Western Ontario, Canada

Changming Duan, PhD
University of Kansas

Erin Emery-Tiburcio, PhD, ABPP
Rush University

John Fairbank, PhD
Duke University, VA Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (VISN 6 MIRECC)

David Fedele, PhD, ABPP
University of Florida

Stephanie Felgoise, PhD, ABPP
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Marvin Goldfried, PhD
Stony Brook University

Sherryl H. Goodman, PhD
Emory University

DeMond Grant, PhD
Oklahoma State University

Leslie Greenberg, PhD
York University

Carolyn J. Greene, PhD
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Carlos Grilo, PhD
Yale University

Kirk Heilbrun, PhD, ABPP
Drexel University

Stefan Hofmann, PhD
Boston University

Martin Iguchi, PhD
University of California-Los Angeles and Rand Corporation

Rick Ingram, PhD
University of Kansas

Gayle Y. Iwamasa, PhD, HSPP
Department of Veterans Affairs, VHA Central Office

Michele Karel, PhD, ABPP
VA Central Office

Philip Kendall, PhD, ABPP
Temple University

David J. Kolko, PhD, ABPP
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Jasmín Llamas, PhD
Santa Clara University

Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

Brian Marx, PhD
VA, National Center for PTSD, Boston

Evan Mayo-Wilson, MPA, DPhil
Indiana University School of Public Health

John McQuaid, PhD
San Francisco VA Health Care System

Michelle Mlinac, PsyD, ABPP
VA Boston Healthcare System/Harvard Medical School

Victor Molinari, PhD, ABPP
University of South Florida

Laura Mufson, PhD
Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute

J. Christopher Muran, PhD
Adelphi University

Christine Maguth Nezu, PhD, ABPP
Drexel University

Tracy Neal-Walden, PhD
Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Easterseals

Daniel O'Leary, PhD
Stony Brook University

Bunmi O. Olatunji, PhD
Vanderbilt University

Susan Orsillo, PhD
Suffolk University

Mitchell Prinstein, PhD, ABPP
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Michael Roberts, PhD, ABPP
University of Kansas

Francisco J. Sánchez, PhD
University of Missouri

Craig N. Sawchuk, PhD, ABPP
Mayo Clinic

Karen B. Schmaling, PhD
Washington State University

Erin Sheets, PhD
Colby College

Wendy Silverman, PhD, ABPP
Yale University

Linda Sobell, PhD, ABPP
Nova Southeastern University

Megan Spokas, PhD
La Salle University

George Striker, PhD
Argosy University

Vincenzo G. Terán, PsyD
Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Managing editor

Jenna Damico, BS
Drexel University

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Journal equity, diversity, and inclusion statement

Although we encourage diversity among the editorial board, among submissions, and with regard to authors, we currently do not have a formal statement. We are, however, in the process of developing one.

Inclusive study designs

• Collaborative research models
• Diverse samples
• Registered Reports

Definitions and further details on inclusive study designs are available on the Journals EDI homepage.

Inclusive reporting standards

• Bias-free language and community-driven language guidelines (required)
• Author contribution roles using CRediT (required)
• Data sharing and data availability statements (recommended)
• Impact statements (required)
• Participant sample descriptions (required)

More information on this journal’s reporting standards is listed under the submission guidelines tab.

Other EDI offerings

Masked peer review

This journal offers masked peer review (where both the authors’ and reviewers’ identities are not known to the other). Research has shown that masked peer review can help reduce implicit bias against traditionally female names or early-career scientists with smaller publication records (Budden et al., 2008; Darling, 2015).