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Submission Preparation Checklist

  • As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Original work: The submission has not been previously published, nor is it currently submitted to another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in “Comments to the Editor”). Prior to acceptance and publication in JNC, authors may make their submissions available as preprints on personal or public websites (see Preprint Policy). Note: JNC uses Similarity Check, a plagiarism screening service, to screen submitted content for originality (read more).
  • Acknowledging and citing previous work: Previous or concurrent publications of the author(s) based on the same or closely related research are properly acknowledged and cited. It is made clear in the manuscript in which way(s) it represents a novel contribution to warrant consideration for publication in JNC. Note: Replications of previous work are explicitly welcomed if identified as such.
  • Authorship: All authors of the submitted manuscript are named in the submission/cover letter (and additionally will be named in Step 3 of the submission process). All authors of the submitted manuscript are aware of and approve its submission to JNC. Contributions that fall short of authorship are mentioned in the Acknowledgments section of the submission/cover letter. (For criteria of authorship see the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, Standard 8.12, Publication Credit, of the American Psychological Association (APA). Responsibility for authorship decisions lies entirely with the authors.)
  • Consent for data storage: All authors of the submitted manuscript consent to the storage of their personal data transferred in conjunction with the submission and in accordance with the Journal's Privacy Statement.
  • Ethical standards: In the case of empirical research: The study received appropriate ethical review and clearance, thus meeting all ethical standards for research.
  • Data anonymization (if applicable): All research data have been fully anonymized.
  • Use of copyrighted materials: No copyrighted material is used unless that material has also been made available under a CC-BY license.
  • File format: File format of the manuscript is MS Word (.doc or .docx).
  • Ensuring a blind review: all biographical details are removed from submission for peer review purposes in accordance with the instructions for Ensuring a Blind Review. Please submitt the JNC cover letter with biographical details as an additional file (category 'Other').
  • Anonymised submission includes:
    1. Running head: short title (one line), no more than 50 characters including spaces
    2. Title
    3. Abstract: no more than 250 words
    4. Keywords: 5-7 keywords or brief phrases separated by commas
    5. Main article body including tables and figures
    6. References: APA style (6th Edition)
    7. Appendices (if any): Appendix A, Appendix B, etc.
    Usage of our JNC Submission Template is recommended: Download JNC Submission Template.
  • Cover letter (as supplementary file) includes:
    1. Authors' name(s)
    2. Affiliation (for each author): Institution, City, Country
    3. Corresponding author's contact address: full postal and email address
    4. Biographical statement (one paragraph) for each author
    5. Acknowledgement (if applicable): Any significant, non-financial support from other persons or organisations should be acknowledged.
    6. Funding/financial disclosure (if applicable): All sources of funding should be declared.
    7. Competing interests (if applicable): Financial and personal relationships of any author with other people or organisations that could inappropriately influence the work should be declared.
    Download JNC Cover Letter.
  • Headings: For all headings in text the heading level (hierarchical order) is unambiguously indicated by the respective heading style. All heading levels are used in order and without skipping a level (e.g. “Heading Level 3” is used only inside a “Heading Level 2” section).
    Note: You may want to use MS Word styles to clearly distinguish between the different heading levels.
  • Citations and references: Citations in text and the reference list conform to APA style (7th Edition).
    Note: Particular care should be taken to ensure that references are accurate and complete. Authors bear responsibility for the accuracy of all references and quotations. References should be listed in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the References. Basic formats are as follows:
    • Johnson-Laird, P. N., Girotto, V., & Legrenzi, P. (2004). Reasoning from inconsistency to consistency. Psychological Review, 111, 640-661.
    • Thagard, P. (2000). Coherence in thought and action. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    • Kenny, D. A., & Zautra, A. (2001). Trait-state models for longitudinal data. In L. M. Collins & A. G. Sayer (Eds.), New methods for the analysis of change: Decade of behavior (pp. 243-263). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Tables: Tables are inserted in-text in their normal position and not at the end of the document (unless they are considered as appendices). All tables are created as regular MS Word tables. Note: Each row in the table shall have its own row in the Word table layout (no hard returns) and each column shall have its own Word table column (no tabs or blanks to create columns).
  • Figures: For first-time submission you may either embed screen-optimized, low-resolution (< 100 ppi) versions of your figures into the main body of your article, or supply print-ready, high-resolution versions as separate image files (step 4 “Uploading Supplementary Files” of the 5-step submission process). Note: For accepted articles all figures have to be supplied as separate, high-resolution (300 ppi), print-ready files.

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