Submissions

Author Guidelines

To keep transparency and quality in research publication, authors should adhere to the following:

• • Author(s) should clearly mention their full name, institutional affiliation, email address. If there is more than one author, their names should appear in a sequence following their contribution in the research.
  • The authors should submit a blind file, i.e. it should not contain the authors names or their affiliation. Only Microsoft Word file is acceptable. 
  • All submitted articles should contain the title and Abstract of the article. 
  • The article should be submitted as a single column text, with 12 point Times New Roman, Arial, or Calibri font, with single line space.  
  • While uploading article to the journal website, authors should enter each keyword separately. 
  • All the interested authors should follow the guidelines outlined in 7th edition of APA Publication Manual to write an article. The articles not following the APA style guidelines should be returned to authors without consideration.
  • The authors should send the plagiarism report of the article alongwith the submission. The content of the article is responsibility of the author(s). The Editorial Board of the journal do not accept any responsibility in this regard.
  • The copyrights of the article are retained by the author(s) and the Journal of Professional & Applied Psychology has the right to first publication under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 License. 
  • The contribution of each author should be stated clearly. 
  • Authors should clearly mention any conflict of interest.
  • Authors should clearly mention any source(s) of funding involved in the research.
  • Authors should clearly mention a statement about ethical consideration(s) and permission involved.
  • Any acknowledgement should clearly be mentioned.
  • Author(s) are instructed to keep the data with them till the time, manuscript is published.
  • The authors will be required to sign an agreement giving consent to publish their research article in Journal of Professional & Applied Psychology.
  • The Managing Editor has the right to reject the manuscript if during the review process; the author(s) fail to conform to the suggestions of the reviewer(s). Letter of Acceptance is issued only after review is finalized and a decision to publish the manuscript has been made.
  • Reporting Checklists
    Reporting Standards: Completeness and the Use of Reporting Guidelines
    In an attempt to improve the quality of research articles in the journal, JPAP now recommends the inclusion of a completed reporting guideline checklist with an article submission. The purpose of various reporting guidelines is to provide a guide - in the form of a checklist—to authors and editors alike on essential elements that should be included in a paper to ensure all stakeholders can properly validate results and replicate studies. We expect author(s) to not only use the reporting guidelines to improve the quality of reporting in their submission, but also use the associated guideline checklist to demonstrate the paper does include essential reporting criteria. Ultimately, this task is about improving a manuscript, not filling out a checklist for administrative purposes.
    
    It is strongly recommended that authors complete one of the reporting checklist listed below that is most appropriate for the subject matter of an article to be submitted to JPAP. This ensures a higher standard of reporting and will enhance the prospects of a manuscript being accepted for publication. Authors should upload a completed copy of the reporting checklist(s) with their submission.
  • CONSORT for reporting of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) 
  • SRQR for reporting Qualitative Research Articles  
  • STROBE for reporting of Observational Epidemiological Studies 
  • PRISMA for reporing of Systematic Reviews & Meta Analysis 
  • CARE for reporting of Case Study articles 
  • ARRIVE for reporting of Animal Studies 
  • Registration of Clinical Trials
    Registration in a public trials registry is a condition for publication of clinical trials in this journal in accordance with International Committee of Medical Journal Editors recommendations. Trials must register at or before the onset of patient enrolment. The clinical trial registration number should be included at the end of the abstract of the article. A clinical trial is defined as any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects of health outcomes. Health-related interventions include any intervention used to modify a biomedical or health-related outcome (for example drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioural treatments, dietary interventions, and process-of-care changes). Health outcomes include any biomedical or health-related measures obtained in patients or participants, including pharmacokinetic measures and adverse events. Purely observational studies (those in which the assignment of the medical intervention is not at the discretion of the investigator) will not require registration.
    
    JPAP requires that all prospective, randomized, controlled trials with patient enrollment starting on or after August 1, 2007, be registered in a public database that meets the requirements of the World Health Organization. Currently, such registries include the following: http://www.actr.org.au, http://www.clinicaltrials.gov, http://www.ISRCTN.org, http://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr/index/htm, and http://www.trialregister.nl
  • Statistical Guidelines
    All submitted manuscripts containing data analyses will be evaluated for the integrity of the statistical methods as well as a sufficient description of the methodological approach. This will entail evaluation of the study design, statistical analysis and presentation and interpretation of study results. As a general guideline, readers of the manuscript should be able to replicate the analysis with the same data based on the description given in the Methods section. Author(s) are encouraged to carefully select language in the Discussion that is appropriate given the study design and refrain from causal inferences from observational (nonrandomized) studies.
    
    Author(s) should also be explicit about the limitations of the study. Failure to disclose important limitations upon submission will be viewed with greater scrutiny than those clearly discussed. Key elements which should be consistent for all submitted manuscripts include the following:
    • Report the sample size n for each study and each analysis
    • Describe the power analysis to justify the sample size if appropriate
    • Identify all statistical methods and verify the assumptions for all statistical tests
    • Provide alpha (the probability of a Type I error) for all statistical tests
    • Specify whether tests are one- or two-sided
    • Report the descriptive statistics (n, mean, median, and standard deviation) for all continuous variables
    • Report n and the sample proportion for binary variables
    • Adequately explain complex statistical procedures such a multivariate logistic regression and the Cox proportional hazards regression model and verify the assumptions of each such procedure
    • Report the actual P-values and explain what is meant by statistical significance
    • Discuss and describe adjustments for multiple testing