The editor invites manuscripts covering a broad range of topics and techniques in the area of assessment. These may include empirical studies of assessment of personality, psychopathology, cognitive functions or behavior, articles dealing with general methodological or psychometric topics relevant to assessment, or comprehensive literature reviews in any of these areas. Research participants may represent both clinical and nonclinical populations. Submission of articles addressing forensic assessment issues is encouraged. The editor also seeks manuscripts addressing multicultural, cross-cultural, and international aspects of assessment.
Brief reports may be submitted for publication and should be limited to 1,000 words, including an abstract of 75 words or less. The brief report format should be used for carefully designed and executed investigations of research topics of specialized interest that make a significant contribution to the literature but do not require a full-length manuscript. In addition, comments may be submitted as brief manuscripts responding to articles published in the journal. Comments should be no longer than 1,000 words and will be selected for publication based on an editorial review process. Comments based on topics other than articles published in the journal will not be accepted.
Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal should not simultaneously submit them to another journal, nor should manuscripts have been published elsewhere, including the World Wide Web, in substantially similar form or with substantially similar content.
Manuscript Submission:
Manuscripts must be submitted in electronic form in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format (rtf). Figures may be submitted using any of the formats listed below. A masked blind review process may be requested in the cover letter, in which case the authors should add a masked title page following the title page. To expedite processing, manuscript must be submitted as electronic attachments along with the cover letter to assessment.editorial@gmail.com. Questions should be directed to assessment.editorial@gmail.com or to the ASSESSMENT editorial office at (416)-535-8501 x-6262.
Preparation of Manuscripts:
Authors should carefully prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the following instructions.
Authors should use the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition, 2001) as a guide for preparing manuscripts for submission. All manuscript pages, including reference lists and tables, must be typed double-spaced.
The first page of the paper (the title page) should contain the article title, the names and affiliations of all authors, authors’ notes or acknowledgments, and the names and complete mailing addresses of the corresponding author. When necessary, a masked title page should follow the title page.
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 following sections should be prepared as indicated:
Tables. Each table should be fully titled, double-spaced on a separate page, and placed at the end of the manuscript. 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. Electronic copies of figures can be submitted in one of the following file formats: TIFF, EPS, JPEG, or PDF. All figures should be referred to in text. Each figure should appear on a separate page at the end of the manuscript but before the tables, and all titles should appear on 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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