Journal Details
Instructions for Authors The European Review of Social Psychology is an international journal that publishes outstanding work of authors from all nations, rather than restricting it to Europeans. However, even though the European Review of Social Psychology is worldwide in terms of the nationality to the authors, it is European in terms of the nationality of the editors who select the contributions and shape the editorial policies, with the help of an editorial board consisting of senior scholars from various European countries, Australasia, and North America. The emphasis of contributions to the European Review should be on critical assessment of major areas of research and of substantial individual programmes of research as well as on topics and initiatives of contemporary interest and originality. Volumes contain three types of contributions: (1) Reviews of the field in some specific area of social psychology, typically one in which European researchers have made some special contribution. Thus, the European Review of Social Psychology is not an outlet for the publication of primary data. PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS We have posted some examples of successful proposals for ERSP articles. We suggest that you take a look at, at least, one of these, then please use the guide(s) for preparing your own proposal: Improving intergroup attitudes and reducing stereotype threat: An integrated model Authors: Richard J. Crisp & Dominic Abrams DOWNLOAD PROPOSAL Attributing and denying humanness to individuals and groups Authors: Nick Haslam, Paul Bain, Stephen Loughnan, and Yoshi Kashima DOWNLOAD PROPOSAL A model of responses to group-directed criticism: Why being right is not enough to avoid defensiveness Author: Matthew Hornsey DOWNLOAD PROPOSAL A Social Identity Theory of Attitudes Authors: Joanne R. Smith & Michael A. Hogg DOWNLOAD PROPOSAL MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Most manuscripts are commissioned by the Editors, who invite contributions based on the author's recent publication of data in leading peer-reviewed journals that publish original empirical articles. However, the Editors welcome spontaneous submissions and suggestions for manuscripts either direct from the authors, or indirectly from other scholars. Authors with a concrete proposal should provide a ca. 5-page outline, with a full listing of their own prior primary publications which will form the basis of the proposed submission. All submissions and proposals should be made through the editorial office. Please email your paper, saved in a standard document format type such as Word or PDF, to Duncan.Nicholas@psypress.co.uk. You may also contact the Editorial Assistant by phone on (0)20 7017 7730. Your covering email/letter must include full contact details (including email), the title of the journal to which you are submitting, the title of your article and a copy of the following submission checklist.
Please download the following document and ensure your manuscript adheres to each points which, in our experience, are those which are often overlooked when submitting first drafts for ERSP. Cross off each point to note that you have read it and prepared your paper accordingly and send this to the journal administrator along with your submission. CHECKLIST FOR COMPLETION BEFORE SUBMITTING FIRST DRAFT TO ERSP: DOWNLOAD All manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement confirming that it has not been previously published elsewhere and that it has not been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.
As a rule, manuscripts should not exceed 50 pages (double spaced), excluding references, and all manuscripts should be submitted in American Psychological Association (APA) format following the latest edition of Publication Manual of the APA (currently 5th edition). Review process. Invitation to submit a manuscript to the European Review of Social Psychology does not imply that the manuscript will ultimately be accepted for publication. All manuscripts will be externally reviewed. As a result, some manuscripts will be rejected and others have to undergo more or less extensive reviews. Copyright: It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to European Association of Social Psychology. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources. PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT Manuscripts should be double-spaced, Times New Roman font size 12. Manuscripts should be prepared in accord with the format and style specified by the American Psychological Association. For full details of this format, please see the Publication Manual of the APA (5th edition). Title Page. This should be as concise as possible, and typed on a separate page, containing only the following: Abstract. (p. 2) An abstract of 100-150 words should follow the title page on a separate page. Headings. Indicate headings and sub-headings for different sections of the paper clearly. Do not number headings. Acknowledgements. These should be as brief as possible and typed on a separate page at the beginning of the text. Permission to quote. Any direct quotation, regardless of length, must be accompanied by a reference citation that includes a page number. Any quote over six manuscript lines should have formal written permission to quote from the copyright owner. It is the author's responsibility to determine whether permission is required from the copyright owner, and if so, to obtain it. (See sample copyright request letter at the bottom of this page.) Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reprint previously published figures, tables, and other material. Letters of permission should accompany the final submission. Footnotes. These should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Essential footnotes should be indicated by superscript figures in the text and collected on a separate page at the end of the manuscript.
References: Reference citations within the text. Use authors' last names, with the year of publication, e.g., “(Brown, 1982; Jones & Smith, 1987; White, Johnson, & Thomas, 1990)”. On first citation of references with three to five authors, give all names in full, thereafter use [first author] “et al.”. In the references, the first six authors should be listed in full. If more than one article by the same author(s) in the same year is cited, the letters a, b, c, etc., should follow the year. If a paper is in preparation, submitted, or under review, the reference should include the authors, the title, and the year of the draft (the paper should also be cited throughout the paper using the year of the draft). Manuscripts that are “in press” should also include the publisher or journal, and should substitute “in press” for the date. Reference list. A full list of references quoted in the text should be given at the end of the paper in alphabetical order of authors' surnames (or chronologically for a group of references by the same authors), commencing as a new page, typed double spaced. Titles of journals and books should be given in full, e.g.: Books: Rayner, E., Joyce, A., Rose, J., Twyman, M., & Clulow, C. (2008). Human development: An introduction to the psychodynamics of growth, maturity and ageing (4th ed.). Hove, UK: Routledge. Chapter in edited book: Craik, F. I. M., Naveh-Benjamin, M., & Anderson, N. D. (1998). Encoding processes: Similarities and differences. In M. A. Conway, S. E. Gathercole, & C. Cornoldi (Eds.), Theories of memory (Vol. 2, pp. 61–86). Hove, UK: Psychology Press. Journal article: Hugdahl, K., Løberg, E.-M., Jørgensen, H. A., Lundervold, A., Lund, A., Green, M. F., et al. (2008). Left hemisphere lateralisation of auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: A dichotic listening study. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13(2), 166–179.
Figures. Figures should normally be limited to 3-5 . Where possible, related diagrams should be grouped together to form a single figure. Figures should be drawn to professional standards, and it is recommended that the linear dimensions of figures be approximately twice those intended for the final printed version. (Maximum printed figure size 181 mm x 114 mm, including caption.) Make sure that axes of graphs are properly labelled, and that appropriate units are given. The figure captions should be typed in a separate section, headed, for example, "Figure 2", in Arabic numerals. Do not use graphics that present two-dimensional data in quasi-three-dimensional form (i.e., histograms). Instructions for placing the figure should be given in parentheses in the text, for example: "(Figure 2 about here)". Statistics. Since the empirical findings on which the papers published by the European Review of Social Psychology are based will already have been published in other (senior) international journals, statistics for significance levels of p-values will not be included in these manuscripts. Abbreviations. Abbreviations that are specific to a particular manuscript or to a very specific area of research should be avoided, and authors will be asked to spell out in full any such abbreviations throughout the text. Standard abbreviations such as RT for reaction time, SOA for stimulus onset asynchrony or other standard abbreviations that will be readily understood by readers of the journal are acceptable. Experimental conditions should be named in full, except in tables and figures. AFTER ACCEPTANCE OF PUBLICATION IN THE JOURNAL
Proofs. Page proofs will be emailed to the corresponding author as a PDF attachment to check for typesetting accuracy. No changes to the original typescript will be permitted at this stage. A list of queries raised by the copy editor will also be emailed. Proofs should be returned promptly with the original copy-edited manuscript and query sheet.
Offprints. Once your article is available online you will be granted access to the article. If you do not have a username, one is created for you, and an email will be sent to you containing your login details. On informaworldTM, you can access both HTML and PDF versions of your article. You may download a PDF version, which will contain a watermark noting this is an author copy. You are free to circulate this PDF to up to 50 colleagues by email, or make 50 printed copies and circulate by mail. This acceptable use policy does NOT permit distribution to more than 50 individuals of the PDF by authors or editors without express permission from the publisher. Prohibited uses include the distribution of the PDF via professional or personal listservs or posting to personal, organizational, or institutional websites in a format that would allow downloading or printing.
COPYRIGHT PERMISSION Contributors are required to secure permission for the reproduction of any figure, table, or extensive (more than six manuscript lines) extract from the text, from a source which is copyrighted -- or owned -- by a party other than Psychology Press or the contributor. This applies both to direct reproduction or "derivative reproduction" -- when the contributor has created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source. The following form of words can be used in seeking permission: Dear [COPYRIGHT HOLDER] |
