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Manuscript Guidelines

Authors should directly submit their contributions (in English) electronically via the manuscript submission system. All submissions must be anonymous and in a Word format (.doc/.docx). All submissions must be accompanied by a Title page with authors' affiliations and any other relevant information (statements on data protection, AI use, received funding, conflicts of interest, etc.).

The CJIR utilizes a format-free submission. Authors may submit their paper in any scholarly format or layout. References can be in any style or format, so long as a consistent scholarly citation format is applied. Authors will be asked to comply with the journal's format guidelines after the manuscript is accepted for publication.

The CJIR's format guidelines follow the APA Citation Style (7th edition). References to literature in the text should be made by giving the author’s name and the year of publication, both in parentheses.

Authors must provide a list of all referenced sources in alphabetical order. If a DOI number exists for the particular source, add it at the end of the line according to the examples below. Examples of correct forms:

 

Books

Jackson, L. M. (2019). The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000168-000

Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books.

Svendsen, S., & Løber, L. (2020). The big picture/Academic writing: The one-hour guide (3rd digital ed.). Hans Reitzel Forlag. https://thebigpicture-academicwriting.digi.hansreitzel.dk/

Parenthetical citations: (Jackson, 2019; Sapolsky, 2017; Svendsen & Løber, 2020)

Narrative citations: Jackson (2019), Sapolsky (2017), and Svendsen and Løber (2020)

 

Edited books

Hygum, E., & Pedersen, P. M. (Eds.). (2010). Early childhood education: Values and practices in Denmark. Hans Reitzels Forlag. https://earlychildhoodeducation.digi.hansreitzel.dk/

Kesharwani, P. (Ed.). (2020). Nanotechnology based approaches for tuberculosis treatment. Academic Press.

Torino, G. C., Rivera, D. P., Capodilupo, C. M., Nadal, K. L., & Sue, D. W. (Eds.). (2019). Microaggression theory: Influence and implications. John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119466642

Parenthetical citations: (Hygum & Pedersen, 2010; Kesharwani, 2020; Torino et al., 2019)

Narrative citations: Hygum and Pedersen (2010), Kesharwani (2020), and Torino et al. (2019)

 

Book chapters

Aron, L., Botella, M., & Lubart, T. (2019). Culinary arts: Talent and their development. In R. F. Subotnik, P. Olszewski-Kubilius, & F. C. Worrell (Eds.), The psychology of high performance: Developing human potential into domain-specific talent (pp. 345–359). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000120-016

Dillard, J. P. (2020). Currents in the study of persuasion. In M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (4th ed., pp. 115–129). Routledge.

Parenthetical citations: (Aron et al., 2019; Dillard, 2020)

Narrative citations: Aron et al. (2019), Dillard (2020)

 

Journal articles

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

Parenthetical citation: (Grady et al., 2019, p. 209)

Narrative citation: Grady et al. (2019)

 

Magazine articles

Lyons, D. (2009, June 15). Don’t ‘iTune’ us: It’s geeks versus writers. Guess who’s winning. Newsweek, 153(24), 27.

Schaefer, N. K., & Shapiro, B. (2019, September 6). New middle chapter in the story of human evolution. Science, 365(6457), 981–982. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay3550

Schulman, M. (2019, September 9). Superfans: A love story. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/superfans-a-love-story

Parenthetical citations: (Lyons, 2009, p. 27; Schaefer & Shapiro, 2019; Schulman, 2019)

Narrative citations: Lyons (2009), Schaefer and Shapiro (2019), and Schulman (2019)

 

News articles 

Carey, B. (2019, March 22). Can we get better at forgetting? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/health/memory-forgetting-psychology.html

Harlan, C. (2013, April 2). North Korea vows to restart shuttered nuclear reactor that can make bomb-grade plutonium. The Washington Post, A1, A4.

Stobbe, M. (2020, January 8). Cancer death rate in U.S. sees largest one-year drop ever. Chicago Tribune.

Parenthetical citations: (Carey, 2019; Harlan, 2013; Stobbe, 2020)

Narrative citations: Carey (2019), Harlan (2013), and Stobbe (2020)

For other types of citations, please consult the APA Referencing style here.

 

Other formatting rules

  1. If an author (or team of authors) has published two or more works in the same year, they should be distinguished from each other by adding the lower-case letters a, b, c, and so on after the year of publication. When referring to two or more publications by the same author (or team of authors) in the same citation, list the author's name (authors' names) only once at the beginning, and separate the years of publication and page numbers from each other with commas, e.g. (Miller 1994a, p. 32, 1994b, 2000). If the cited author's name appears directly in the text, include only the year and possibly the page number(s) in parentheses next to his or her name: According to Glenn Chafetz (1997, p. 664) this applies to individuals as well as states.
  2. Quotations should be inserted within double quotation marks. If you include your own text within the quotations, use square brackets.
  3. British English (materialise, centre, colour, etc.) should be used throughout the manuscript.
  4. For emphasis, use italics only (do not use bold or underlined font). Use footnotes (at the end of each page) for extra information or comments. Designate footnotes in the text by superscript (consecutive Arabic numerals). Graphs or tables should contain all the construction data that was used in creating them (do not use bitmap graphics).
  5. All submissions should include a title, an abstract (between 100 and 150 words), and 5 to 8 keywords.
  6. Each book review or review essay should be accompanied by the book's full bibliographical record (including ISSN). Be sure to attach the English translation of the book's title to the review or review essay. Find more about book reviews here.
  7. All authors will receive the proofread version of their text before its publication so that they would be able to confirm it and/or make their own corrections to it.