Submissions

Author Guidelines

Article Types and Considerations:

Full Article – Reports primary research results within any disciplinary area including but not limited to basic science, clinical science, medical humanities and health services. A full article will provide an abstract (300 word limit) and a body with no more than 4000 words (excluding title page, references, tables, and figure legends), 8 figures and/or tables, and 100 cited references.

Micro Article – Reports the results of a singular, rigorous experiment or a series of small experiments that can be communicated using only one table or figure item. The micro article is intended to encourage publication of preliminary studies that primarily fall into one of four categories including (i) a new finding, (ii) a negative finding, (iii) a replication study, or (iv) development of a method, reagent, or tool. A micro article will provide an abstract (150 word limit) and a body with no more than 1500 words (excluding title page, references, tables, and figure legends), 1 figure and table, and 20 cited references.

Review Article – An assessment of the current body of literature on a significant topic. Review articles should summarize current knowledge, identify gaps in knowledge, and discuss future directions for the field. Review articles may be either narrative or systematic (meta-analysis). A systematic review must include detailed description of methodology including inclusion/exclusion criteria and statistical analysis. A review article will provide an abstract (300 word limit) and a body with no more than 4000 words (excluding title page, references, tables, and figure legends), 8 figures and/or tables, and 100 cited references.

Case Report/Series – Reports the outcomes of an extraordinary and impactful retrospective or prospective case report or case series. The report should make clear the significance of the case, include a relevant review of literature, and highlight implications for clinical practice. Only a limited number of case reports and case series will be accepted for publication. A case report will provide an abstract (150 word limit) and a body with no more than 1500 words (excluding title page, references, tables, and figure legends), 3 figures and/or tables, and 20 cited references.

Article Specifications:

A single article document for submission must be Microsoft Word or RTF document file format; double-spaced; use a 12-point font; and include in order the following elements as appropriate to the article type: (i) Title page with authors, affiliations, and at least three key words, (ii) Abstract page, (iii) Introduction, (iv) Methods, (v) Results, (vi) Discussion, (vii) References, (viii) Tables, (ix) Figure Legends, and (x) Figures.

The title page of the article document must clearly indicate the corresponding student author as the first author AND the corresponding faculty author as the last author.

Cited references must follow the APA style. A full listing of reference examples in the APA style can be found at the follow website:

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples

For example, journal articles with in-text citations should appear as below:

Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185

Pope, J. P., & Wall, H. (2025). Is the goal intrinsic or extrinsic? Examining self-determination theory researchers’ and the general publics’ perceptions of exercise goals. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 57(3), 239–248. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000411

Rybaczewska, M., & Sparks, L. (2022). Ageing consumers and e-commerce activities. Ageing and Society, 42(8), 1879–1898. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X20001932

Parenthetical citations: (Grady et al., 2019; Pope & Wall, 2025; Rybaczewska & Sparks, 2022)

Narrative citations: Grady et al. (2019), Pope and Wall (2025), and Rybaczewska and Sparks (2022)

Tables should be constructed in Word or imported from a spreadsheet (e.g. Excel) into the article document. Each table must be numbered and include short descriptive title (e.g. Table 1. Title). Tables may have footnotes indicated by superscript numbers. Footnotes should be concise statements or descriptors of table contents.

Figures legends must be numbered and include a short descriptive title (e.g. Figure 1. Title). Additional legend text should be concise and descriptive of figure contents that are not self-explanatory. For figures with multiple panels, legend text may reference each panel individually or grouped (e.g (A), (B), (C) or (A-C)). In-text references to figures may be parenthetical (e.g. (Fig. 1), (Fig. 1A), Fig. 1A-C)) or narrative (e.g. “Figure 1A-C shows…”).

Figures should be half-page wide or full page wide. Each figure should typically contain no more than six panels clearly labeled in capital letters (A, B, C, etc.). Figure contents should be legible when printed at scale. Lettering should be of an adequate size, and resolution should be at least 150 ppi (pixels per inch) and preferably 300 ppi. Figures embedded into the article document may be lower resolution for review, and higher resolution figures may be uploaded separately.

Supplementary information, tables, and figures are not allowed. However, where results are representative of a larger data set that is informative and desirable to aid review and/or to publish, the large data set may be uploaded as a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel or CSV file formats.

Article Submission

1. The submitting author should include in Comments for the Editor any explanation of deviations from the Author Guidelines, especially if there is no corresponding faculty author.
2. Upload the article document for review and any quality (i.e. higher resolution) figures or data set as appropriate.
3. Enter the article Title and Abstract. Add authors and their contact and affiliate information. The submitting author, whether corresponding student author or corresponding faculty author, should be indicated as the principal contact for editorial purposes.
4. Confirm submission.