CONTRIBUTOR INFORMATION
Electronic file submission guidelines are included below.
Content: Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) emphasizes the publication of outstanding research articles, but also considers literature reviews, criticism, and methodological or theoretical statements spanning the entire range of social psychological issues. The journal will publish basic work in areas of social psychology that can be applied to societal problems, as well as direct application of social psychology to such problems. The journal provides a venue for a broad range of specialty areas, including research on legal and political issues, environmental influences on behavior, organizations, aging, medical and health-related outcomes, sexuality, education and learning, the effects of mass media, gender issues, and population problems. This research should have important implications for basic social processes and often is some of the most exciting work in the field of social psychology. BASP aims to provide a forum for a rich mixture of experiments, non-experimental methods, field studies, and welcomes innovative design and analysis strategies. The journal aims to serve both as a resource for investigators interested in the application of complex human experimentation to various problems of health, environment, and society and to social psychologists committed to the advancement of theory and the understanding of basic social and social-cognitive processes.
Manuscripts of any length will be considered, however reports that do not exceed 5,000 words of text including footnotes and abstract (but excluding references, tables, and figures) should be identified at the time of submission. These briefer reports will be so identified throughout the review process, as their objectives differ from longer manuscripts; however, these briefer papers will not be identified separately (as Articles versus Reports) in the journal Table of Contents.
BASP is abstracted or indexed in PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, EBSCOhost Products, IFI/Plenum: Mental Health Abstracts, Inventory of Marriage & Family Literature, ISI: Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social SciSearch, Journal Citation Reports Social Science; Combined Health Information Database, Sociological Abstracts, Dawson Information Quest, Family & Society Studies Worldwide (online and CD-ROM), Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts; Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Psychology; Scopus
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Form: Manuscripts should be highly legible. Occasionally, the editor will request supplementary materials regarding the procedures or the data analyses. Authors will be expected to provide assurance that research procedures were consistent with the American Psychological Association's published principles of research ethics, except insofar as may be detailed otherwise in the manuscript. Submission procedures require both hard-copy and electronic submission (see below).
Spelling and Terminology: American spelling, rather than British, is preferred. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition, is the standard reference work for spelling. Please try to avoid jargon and, wherever possible, abbreviations that are not commonly accepted. However, please abbreviate units of measurement.
Permissions: Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright owners if they use an illustration, table, or lengthy quote (55+ words) that has been published elsewhere. Contributors should write to both the publisher and author of such material, requesting nonexclusive world rights in all languages for use in the article and in all future editions of it.
Manuscript Submission: Only articles written in English will be considered. Please submit two hard-copies of the manuscript and one electronic file version of the manuscript to the editor, Robert M. Arkin, Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, 100a Lazenby Hall, 1835 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1287. The electronic submission should be sent by e-mail to basp@osu.edu; PDF or any standard word processing formal should be acceptable. Follow-up communication can be to Ms. Jamie Bergman, Editorial Associate, at the journal e-mail address above. Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Double-space all parts of the manuscript (i.e., title, abstract, text, transcripts, quotes, endnotes, references). Additional information about journal policies and procedures can be found on the journal Web Site. Manuscripts should not be under review by other publishers while being considered at BASP.
Project Editor: Michelle McCarthy, Taylor & Francis, LLC.
Subscriber Information: BASP is published quarterly by Taylor & Francis, LLC, 325 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Subscriptions for Volume 29, 2007, are available on a calendar-year basis.
Individual rates: Print Plus Online: $74.00 in US
Institutional rates: Online-Only: $632.00 in US. Print Plus Online: $666.00 in US
Copyright © 2007, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. No part of this publication may be used, in any form or by any means, without permission of the publisher.
Special requests for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department: http://tandf.co.uk/journals/permissions.html