Manuscript Submission Guidelines:
Manuscripts of particular interest describe innovative career assessment strategies, developments in instrumentation, validation of theoretical constructs, relationships between existing instruments, career assessment procedures, relationships between assessment and career counseling/development, and review articles of career assessment strategies and techniques. Implications for career counseling/development should be clearly noted.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
While both electronic and hard copy submissions are accepted, electronic submissions are preferred. For electronic submissions, please send an email with one electronic copy of your manuscript (in one attachment) and a title and author page (in a separate attachment) to wbwalsh@sbcglobal.net. For hard copy submissions, submit four (4) copies to W. Bruce Walsh, Editor, Journal of Career Assessment, The Ohio State University, 142 Townshend Hall, 1885 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1222. Manuscripts will be acknowledged when they are received. Authors should not place their names on the manuscript itself because all manuscripts are peer-reviewed with a blind reviewing system. Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal should not simultaneously submit them to another journal, nor should manuscripts have been published elsewhere in substantially similar form or with substantially similar content.
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Authors should carefully prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the following instructions.
Manuscripts should be as concise as possible, yet sufficiently detailed to permit adequate communication and critical review. Authors should follow the style of the Publication Manual of The American Psychological Association (5th edition, 2001). When possible, authors should prepare their manuscripts (including tables) on word-processing equipment that is capable of outputting files on disks or transmitting files by the Internet because mansucripts are copyedited and typeset from disks or files provided by authors. Authors will receive information for submitting the final copy of their manuscript by electronic means on final accpetance of their paper.
The first page of the paper of the paper should contain the article title, the names and affiliations of all authors, authors’ notes or acknowledgments, and the names and complete mailing addresses of all authors. Please note the author to whom all correspondence, including proofs, should be sent. The second page should contain an abstract of no more than 150 words and five to seven keywords that will be published following the abstract. The title of the paper will be repeated on page 2.
The following sections should be prepared as indicated:
· Tables. Each table should be fully titled, typed on a separate page, and placed at the end of the paper. Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Footnotes to tables should be identified with superscript lowercase letters and placed at the bottom of the table. All tables should be referred to in the text.
· Figures. Copies of figures should be sent on first submission of a manuscript; original camera-ready and electronic figures will be requested when a manucript is accepted for publication. Electronic copies of figures can be submitted in one of the following formats: Microsoft PowerPoint or Word, Tagged Image File Format (.TIF), Encapsulated Postscript File (.EPS), or Joint Photographic Experts Group (.JPG). All figures should be referred to in text. Each figure should appear on a separate page at the end of the paper, and all titles should appear a single, separate page.
· Endnotes. Notes should appear on a separate page before the references section. Notes should be numbered consecutively and each endnote should be referred to in text with a corresponding superscript number.
· References. Text citations and references should follow the style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition, 2001).
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· Text citations and references should follow the style of the (5th edition, 2001).Authors who want to refine the use of English in their manuscripts might consider utilizing the services of SPi, a non-affiliated company that offers Professional Editing Services to authors of journal articles in the areas of science, technology, medicine or the social sciences. SPi specializes in editing and correcting English-language manuscripts written by authors with a primary language other than English. Visit for more information about SPi’s Professional Editing Services, pricing, and turn-around times, or to obtain a free quote or submit a manuscript for language polishing.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.
