Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to the Journal of Modern Psychology.

Submission Guidelines

All manuscript submissions should follow the below requirements:

1) The manuscript is the authors’ original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including their own previously published work.
2) The manuscript has been submitted solely to the JMP it is not under consideration, under peer review, accepted for publication, in press, or published elsewhere.
3) Authors should submit papers electronically via the journal's electronic submission system.
4) Articles should not include the authors personal details; these should be listed (name and contact details) on a separate document. Files should be in MS Word.
5) The manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libelous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
6) Manuscripts should present issues and analyses of relevance and interest to the JMP readership in accordance with the Journal’s Aims & Scope.
7) Qualitative and quantitative manuscripts are welcome. 
8) The length of the submitted manuscript as an original research article should fall between 3000 to 6000 words and appear in 12pt Times New Roman, single-spaced text, left-justified. 
9) Manuscripts should be submitted grammatically and stylistically adequate. It is required that manuscripts be submitted as a copyedited and proofread document, including proper use of the English language, proper grammatical structure, and correct spelling and punctuation. 

proper grammatical structure, and correct spelling and punctuation. Where not specified, follow the Concise Oxford Dictionary, New Hart's Rules and the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors. Whenever in doubt, refer to Judith Butcher, Copy-editing

Before submitting your manuscript to the JMP, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.The JMP publishes Research Articles in various areas of interest in psychology and counseling.

 Manuscript preparation  for  Research Articles

Follow these steps to prepare  a manuscript of your research article: 

 1. Article structure

 This section will detail how to organize your manuscript for review. Please keep in mind that the structure is to be stylized according to the APA style guide, 7th edition.

 1.1. Title page information 

 1.1.1. Title 

Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.

 1.1.2. Author names and affiliations

 Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. You can add your name between parentheses in your own script behind the English transliteration. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.

 1.1.3. Corresponding author

 Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. This responsibility includes answering any future queries about Methodology and Materials and typically ensures that all the journal’s administrative requirements, such as providing details of authorship, ethics committee approval, clinical trial registration documentation, and gathering conflict of interest forms and statements, are properly completed, although these duties may be delegated to one or more co-authors. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.

 The corresponding author is the person who signs the publishing agreement on behalf of all of the authors and whose contact details are included on the article. They should be available after publication to respond to critiques of the work and cooperate with any requests from the journal for data or additional information should questions about the paper arise after publication.

 1.1.4. Abstract

 A concise and factual abstract of 150 – 250 words is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). In addition, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.

 1.1.5. Keywords 

Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 5 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.

1.2. Introduction 

State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

1.3. Method 

Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described. Include an analysis of data subsection in which you describe what analyses you will use to test a specific hypothesis and what result will be considered to be supportive.

1.4. Results 

Results should be clear and concise. Organize this section by hypothesis. Do not interpret the results here; interpretation is reserved for the discussion section.

1.5. Discussion 

This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is sometimes, though rarely, appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.

1.6. Conclusions

 The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.

2. Abbreviations 

Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed on the first page of the article. Such abbreviations that are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their first mention there, as well as in the endnote. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.

3. Acknowledgements

Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).

4- conflict of interest 

Authors must indicate whether or not there is a financial relationship between them and the organization that sponsored the research. This note should be added in a separate section previous to the reference list. If no conflict exists, authors should state: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. A separate statement is required for every individual author of a manuscript and should be submitted together with the

manuscript.

5. Formatting of funding sources 

 List funding sources in this standard way to facilitate compliance to funder's requirements:

 Funding: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy], and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA [grant number zzzz].

 It is not necessary to include detailed descriptions on the program or type of grants and awards. When funding is from a block grant or other resources available to a university, college, or other research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization that provided the funding.

 If no funding has been provided for the research, please include the following sentence:

 This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

 6. Footnotes & Endnotes

 The JMP does not accept footnotes, and endnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article. Many word processors build footnotes/endnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. Should this not be the case, indicate the position of endnotes in the text and present the endnotes themselves separately at the end of the article.

 7. Formatting

 The Journal’s accepted format for the manuscripts is MS Word.

 8. Artwork, figures and other graphics

8.1. Artwork guidelines

Illustrations, pictures and graphs, should be supplied with the highest quality. Please follow the guidelines below: 

• Format: PNG, JPG, TIFF, JPEG: Common format for pictures (containing no text or graphs).

• Placement: Figures/charts and tables created in MS Word should be included in the main text.

• Resolution: Rasterized based files (i.e. with .tiff or .jpeg extension) require a resolution of at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). Line art should be supplied with a minimum resolution of 800 dpi.

• Dimension: Check that the artworks supplied match or exceed the dimensions of the journal. Images cannot be scaled up after origination

• Fonts: The lettering used in the artwork should not vary too much in size and type (usually sans serif font as a default).

8.2. Figure captions

Ensure that each illustration has a caption. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.

8.3. Tables

Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Tables can be placed either next to the relevant text in the article, or on separate page(s) at the end. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. Please avoid using vertical rules and shading in table cells.

9. Reference style

The JMP adheres to the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association for in text citations and references. You are referred to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition.

9.1. Citation in text 

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

9.2. Web references 

As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired or can be included in the reference list.

9.3. Data references 

This journal encourages you to cite underlying or relevant datasets in your manuscript by citing them in your text and including a data reference in your Reference List. Data references should include the following elements: author name(s), dataset title, data repository, version (where available), year, and global persistent identifier. Add [dataset] immediately before the reference so we can properly identify it as a data reference. The [dataset] identifier will not appear in your published article.

9.4. Foreign Words and Transliteration

The journal recommends the Concise Oxford Dictionary, New Hart's Rules and the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors for correct spelling.

All technical terms from languages written in non-Roman alphabets must be italicized and fully transliterated with diacritical marks (macrons and dots). A technical term is defined as a word not found in Oxford Dictionaries, Merriam– Webster's Collegiate Dictionary or a multiword phrase, excluding titles and proper nouns.

Diacritical marks, as well as the letters ‘ayn and hamza, should be inserted using a Unicode font. Words that are found in Oxford Dictionary or Merriam–Webster's should be spelled as they appear there and not treated as technical terms. They should have no diacritics, nor should they be italicized – for example, mufti, jihad, shaykh. Diacritics should not be added to personal names, place names, names of political parties and organizations, or titles of books and articles.

Personal and place names with accepted English spellings should be spelled in accordance with English norms. This rule applies to cities of publication in citations. Names of living individuals may be spelled according to their preferred English spelling. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their transliterations.

For further information on the transliteration system for terms in Persian and Arabic you may refer to the Encyclopædia Iranica and Encyclopedia of Islam, Third Edition. As it was noted. the JMS adheres to the APA referencing style and you may refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition, for further information. You may also refer to the examples provided by the library of Mount Saint Vincent University for citing non-English work.