Instructions for Authors Compliance for Journal Articles
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this comprehensive and engaging course, you will be able to:
- Identify formatting information routinely contained in Instructions for Authors
- Discuss how to find Instructions for Authors for your target journal
- Follow a 6-Step process to make your manuscript compliant with your target journal’s Instructions for Authors
- Apply a simple strategy to shorten multi-page Instructions for Authors into less than one page
- Describe the impact that non-compliance has on Editor-in-Chief perceptions of your manuscript
- Explain best practices in approaching your target journal’s Editorial Board with formatting questions
Instructor
Jay Phoenix Singh, PhD, PhD is a Fulbright Scholar and the internationally award-winning Executive Director of Publication Academy. Author of over 85 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters (average 400+ citations/year since 2010) as well as 4 books (published by Routledge, Wiley, Sage, and Oxford University Press), he completed his graduate doctoral studies in psychiatry at the University of Oxford and clinical psychology at Universität Konstanz. He was named the youngest tenured Full Professor in Norway in 2014 before accepting faculty appointments at the University of Cambridge as well as the University of Pennsylvania. Since this time, he has become the only psychology professor to have lectured for all eight Ivy League universities (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn) as well as both Oxford and Cambridge. Dr. Singh has provided keynote speeches at leading academic conferences on six continents, and his work has been featured in leading newspapers such as The Washington Post and magazines such as People. He has been the recipient of awards from organizations including the American Psychological Association, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for Research in Adolescence, the American Board of Forensic Psychology, the American Psychology-Law Society, and the European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry.