Submission Guidelines

Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation.” Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.

Submissions to Psychological Perspectives should follow the style guidelines described in APA Style (7th ed.). Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) should be consulted for spelling.

Papers should be submitted in Word format. Figures should be saved separately from the text. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s). Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive so it is ready for use. Figures should be saved separately from the text. The main document should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides, and all pages should be numbered consecutively. Text should appear in 12-point Times New Roman or other common 12-point font.

An optional method to format your manuscript using AI is provided below.

Please note that Psychological Perspectives uses Crossref™ to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to Psychological Perspectives, you agree to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.

This journal has no submission fees, publication fees, or page charges. Color figures will be reproduced in color in your online article free of charge. A charge will apply if the figures must be reproduced in color in the print version. Charges for color figures in print are $400 per figure (£300; $500 Australian Dollars; €350). For more than four color figures, figures five and above will be charged at $75 per figure (£50; $100 Australian Dollars; €65). Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to local taxes.

You must obtain permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner before submission. More information on requesting permission to reproduce work(s) under copyright.

Please check the Taylor & Francis Use of AI policy and disclose in your cover letter any other use of AI tools in preparing your manuscript, such as drafting, translation, research, or substantive editing.

Using AI to Help Format Your Manuscript (Optional)

To make preparing your submission easier, we provide a set of formatting instructions that you can give to an AI assistant, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot. The assistant will reformat your manuscript to our house style and APA 7, and give you a list of every change it made. Using these instructions is optional; you are always welcome to format your manuscript by hand using the guidelines above.

What you need

– Your manuscript as a Word (.docx) file

– Our Formatting Instructions for Authors file 

– An AI assistant that accepts file attachments and can create Word documents

How to use it

1. Open a new conversation in your AI assistant.

2. Attach two files: the Formatting Instructions for Authors and your manuscript.

3. Copy the short request below, paste it into the message box, and send it.

4. If the assistant asks a question, such as what type of manuscript you are submitting, answer it and let it continue. When it finishes, it will return two files: your formatted manuscript and an edit log listing every change.

5. Read the edit log carefully. If you disagree with a change, undo it in the formatted manuscript.

6. Search the manuscript for “[AUTHOR:” and address each request, such as a missing page number, abstract, or bio. Delete the bracketed note once you have resolved it.

7. Submit the formatted manuscript. You do not need to send the edit log.

Request to paste

“I’ve attached formatting instructions and my manuscript. Please follow the instructions exactly to format my manuscript.”

If you choose not to use AI

If your manuscript is accepted for publication and has not been formatted using these instructions, we will use AI to carry out a first round of light editing and formatting. We will return the edited manuscript and a log of all changes to you for review before our professional editors begin working with you.

Important

– You remain responsible for the accuracy of your manuscript. AI assistants can make mistakes and cannot check quotations or page numbers against sources they don’t have. Please verify every direct quote, citation, and reference yourself.

– Some AI assistants cannot create Word files. If yours returns text instead, paste it into Word and apply Times New Roman 12 pt, double spacing, page numbers at the top right of every page (Insert > Page Number), and the other settings listed above.

– Formatting your manuscript with our instructions does not need to be disclosed.