Child Maltreatment welcomes manuscripts addressing timely and important topics in practice, policy, and theory, including empirical research articles, review articles, commentaries, in-depth analyses, and case presentations or program evaluations that illustrate theoretical issues or new phenomena.
Regular articles should be no more than 30 typewritten, double-spaced pages, inclusive of tables, figures, and references. Brief reports will also be accepted, limited to no more than 12 double-spaced pages including tables, figures, and references. Reviews of the literature should be no more than 50 typewritten, double-spaced pages. Include an abstract of approximately 150 words. Submissions should be prepared according to the guidelines in the
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition). The author's name and affiliation should appear on a separate cover page for anonymous review. Submission to Child Maltreatment implies that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere, and is not under consideration by any other journal; a statement to this effect should be included with the all submissions.
Electronic submissions in Microsoft Word format my be uploaded at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/childmaltreatment.
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Please be aware that SAGE has no affiliation with SPi and makes no endorsement of the company. An author’s use of SPi’s services in no way guarantees that his or her submission will ultimately be accepted. Any arrangement an author enters into will be exclusively between the author and SPi, and any costs incurred are the sole responsibility of the author.
