Submission Manual
Who Can Submit?: Anyone may submit an original paper to be considered for publication in the EJPER, he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are limited to two submissions in a period of twelve (12) months. Namely, the authors and co-authors cannot submit more than two papers to this journal (including co-authored papers) within this period.
Author Responsibilities: For the EJPER, papers should attempt to present research, innovations, theoretical and/or practical insights in relevant current literature and debates. Submitted manuscripts should only be in English.
After uploading the article, an automatic confirmation message will be sent to all authors. The authors cannot be changed in the article after submission, nor can the authors' order be changed.
All submissions should be sent via EJPER Manuscript Submission System as a Word file with doc or docx extension.
A manuscript should be no more than 10.000 words; this limit includes figures, references, and tables. This does not impose an absolute page limit on manuscripts; longer manuscripts of merit can be published in the journal. The abstract should be less than 250 words.
Authors should be aware that they are addressing an international audience. Articles should present original work and, where appropriate, should acknowledge any significant contribution of others. Manuscripts submitted to EJPER for review should not have been accepted for publication elsewhere. As an author, you are required to secure permission if you want to reproduce any figure, table, or extract from the text of another source. This applies to direct reproduction as well as "derivative reproduction" (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).
The corresponding author should always be willing to participate in the peer review process and obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes. A list of references should be included in the submitted paper. Grant/financial support should be stated in the paper if available. All authors are expected to contribute significantly to the research.
Page style: Articles should be typed in 12-point font on A4 page, paginated and double-spaced. Margins should be set as top & bottom: 2,5 cm and left & right 2,5 cm. The title should be followed by an abstract of 150 to 250 words and 3 to 5 keywords. Footnotes should be avoided and endnotes kept to a minimum. All pages should be numbered.
References: Paper format including references should follow American Psychological Association (APA) (7th Edition) style. Please see our citation guide (https://www.ejper.com/citation-guide). Your reference list should be in English.
If a source is in another language, write the original title then add its English translation in square brackets as the below example:
e.g.,
Bussieres, E.-L., St-Germain, A., Dube, M., & Richard, M.-C. (2017). Efficacite et efficience des programmes de transition a la vie adulte: Une revue systematique [Effectiveness and efficiency of adult transition programs: A systematic review]. Canadian Psychology/ Psychologie canadienne, 58(1), 354–365. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000104
Note for this example that Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne is a bilingual journal that is published with a bilingual title; if the journal title were only in French it would not be necessary to translate it in the reference.
If the other language uses a different alphabet from the one you are writing in, transliterate the alphabet into the Roman alphabet. If transliteration is not possible or advisable, it is acceptable to reproduce the original alphabet in the paper.
e.g.,
Amano, N., & Kondo, H. (2000). Nihongo no goi tokusei [Lexical characteristics of Japanese language] (Vol. 7). Sansei-do.
Paper template: Author(s) must use this template for their research paper(s). As you can see from the template, the research manuscripts should include the following parts: A full title, a short title to be used as a running head, authors' names, authors' affiliated institution name(s), authors' email addresses, authors' ORCID numbers, authorship contribution statement, abstract, keywords, introduction, literature review, methodology, findings/ results (separately), discussion (separately), conclusion (separately), recommendations (separately), limitations (separately), and references (Click the icon to download and see the template).
The review manuscripts should include the following parts: A full title, a short title to be used as a running head, authors' names, authors' affiliated institution name(s), authors' email addresses, authors' ORCID numbers, abstract, keywords, authorship contribution statement, introduction, methodology, results (separately), conclusion (separately) and references. Introduction: Provides information about the context, indicates the motivation for the review, defines the focus, and the research question, and explains the text structure. Methodology: contains for example information about data sources (e.g. bibliographic databases), search terms and search strategies, selection criteria (inclusion/exclusion of studies), the number of studies screened and the number of studies included, and statistical methods of meta-analysis. Results: Main Text of the Review Article. Reasoning-based information and ideas. Conclusion: Discussion of the outcome, and interpretations.
The theoretical manuscripts should include the following parts: A full title, a short title to be used as a running head, authors' names, authors' affiliated institution name(s), authors' email addresses, authors' ORCID numbers, abstract, keywords, authorship contribution statement, introduction, theoretical framework or model (separately), conclusion (separately) and references. Introduction: Provides information about the context, indicates the motivation for the review, defines the focus, and the research question, and explains the text structure. Theoretical framework or model: Main Text of the theoretical article. It should be supported with literature. Author(s) may use more than a sub-section. Conclusion: Discussion of the outcome, and interpretations.
Tables and captions to illustrations: Tables must be typed out on the same document. Tables and figures should be numbered. The approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the paper. Captions should include keys to symbols.
Figures: All diagrams and photographs are termed "Figures" and should be numbered consecutively. Figures should be given short descriptive captions.
