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kg); avoid jargon. All measures of central tendency must be accompanied by SDs or SEs.
Notes should be used sparingly and indicated by consecutive superscript numbers in the
text. Notes should be typed separately at the end of the document before the References.
2. Brief Reports. A Brief Report is simply a short paper; pilot studies and articles of lesser
quality are not acceptable. It should be prepared in the same format as a full-size
manuscript except that it has only a 45-word abstract, no special headings (Method,
Participants, Apparatus, Procedure, Results, Discussion), and must not exceed 8 typed
pages including references, tables, and figures but excluding abstract and title pages.
Authors must state that a fuller report will be provided upon request in "Acknowledgments."
3. Policy on Multiple Publications. (IBAD, 1994, Vol. 17, No. 1). Multiple or piecemeal
publication of data from the same study are not acceptable. Authors must inform the Editor
if data in a submitted manuscript have been reported elsewhere and how the present study
is different. Authors must also submit, in quadruplicate, copies of closely related
manuscripts that are published, in press, or under review by
another journal and that report
data from the same study.
4. Policy on Sample Information. (IBAD, 1997, Vol. 20, No. 1). Authors must report
complete information about their study sample composition, including sex, race/ethnicity,
occupational status, and educational attainment. Minimally, this requires use of current and
codable occupational categories (e.g., Nakao, K., & Treas, J., 1992, The 1989
Socioeconomic Index of Occupations: Construction from the 1989 Occupational Prestige
Scores. General Social Survey Methodological Reports, #74. Chicago, IL: NORC), four
educational attainment categories (without H.S. diploma, H.S. graduate without college
education, some college education, degree from 4-year college or more), and five
race/ethnicity categories (e.g., U.S. Bureau of Census). The reference person for this
information must be specified. The study-sampling strategy must also be specified.
5. Electronic Submission. Authors should submit their articles electronically via the
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system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the
article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript
source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files
are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including
notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via
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6. References. Contributors should refer to the APA Publication Manual for the correct
listing of references in the text and reference list. References in text and reference section
must be checked for consistency of spelling and dates. Chapters in books must be
accompanied by page number per APA format.
Atkinson, R. C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (1971). The control of short-term memory. Scientific
American, 225, 82?90.
Quinn, P. C., & Eimas, P. D. (1996). Perceptual organization and categorization in young
infants. In C. Rovee-Collier & L. P. Lipsitt (Eds.), Advances in infancy research (Vol. 10, pp.
1?36). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
7. Corrections Policy. Authors will be sent page proofs prior to publication (along with
their copy-edited manuscript) and are expected to return them as immediately as possible
to the Editor, Geert Savelsbergh (address listed above), who will review and finalize
corrections before returning them to the publisher.
8. Complimentary Copies and Offprints. The lead author will receive 25 free offprints.
Additional off-prints can be ordered when page proofs are returned (an offprint order form
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