期刊名称：PSYCHOMETRIKA
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投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Psychometrika
The Psychometric Society is a nonprofit professional organization devoted to the advancement of quantitative measurement practices in psychology, education, and the social sciences.
In addition to the journal, the Society conducts an annual meeting. This meeting provides a research forum for contributed papers on current issues relevant to the field of psychometrics.
Instructions to Authors
Psychometrika contains articles on the development of quantitative models for psychological phenomena, and on quantitative methodology in the social and behavioral sciences, including new mathematical and statistical techniques for the evaluation of psychological data, and the application of such techniques. Empirical studies will be considered only if they involve new or particularly interesting uses of quantitative techniques.
As of July 2003, Psychometrika is also starting a new section called Application Reviews and Case Studies. The aim of the new section is to highlight the essential connection between psychometric methodology and its application to behavioral data analysis in psychology, educational sciences, and related areas in the social sciences and marketing.
Submission of a paper to this journal will be taken to imply that it represents original work not previously published, and that is not being considered elsewhere for publication. Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if it is accepted for publication, copyright of the article, including the right to reproduce the article in all forms and media, shall be assigned exclusively to the Publisher. The Publisher will not refuse any reasonable request by the author for permission to reproduce any of his or her contributions to the journal.
Electronic Submission of ManuscriptsWe will gladly accept electronic submission of your manuscript. You may e-mail a postscript or pdf file to us at pmetrika@uncg.edu, or give us an address on the internet where we can access a postscript or pdf version of your paper. Once the file has been retrieved, we will inform you by e-mail, at which point you can remove the file from the web.
If we have not notified you within one week that your e-mailed manuscript has been received, please contact us to make sure your submission was not somehow lost.
Please be sure to include your address, phone and fax numbers in your e-mail, along with any information relevant to your submission.
You can create postscript or pdf files in Word or WordPerfect. However, it is important to check whether the conversion is successful because formatting, equations, or special characters may become distorted. We highly recommend that you create .pdf files by using the Distiller feature in Acrobat rather than the .pdf writer. Mathematical symbols and equations tend to become distorted when files are created with the .pdf writer
Hardcopy Submission of Manuscripts
Hardcopy submissions are also accepted, although e-mail submission is preferred. Submissions must include one copy of the manuscript. A cover letter that includes the e-mail address and mailing address for the contact author should be enclosed. Hardcopy submissions should be addressed to the appropriate editor and sent to:
Gwen Eastmond, Editorial Assistant
Psychometrika
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
P. O. Box 26171
Greensboro, NC 27402-6171
USA |
Authors will receive 100 reprints without covers, free of charge.
NEW SECTION OF PSYCHOMETRIKA
Psychometrika is starting a new section, called Application Reviews and Case Studies. The aim of the new section is to highlight the essential connection between psychometric methodology and its application to behavioral data analysis in psychology, educational sciences, and related areas in the social sciences and marketing. Traditional Psychometrika articles, including original research in quantitative methodology as well as insightful methodological reviews, will continue to appear in the main section of the journal, now called Theory and Methodology.
Application Reviews and Case Studies is intended to be an intellectual crossroads: The history of psychometrics is rich with examples in which psychometric methodology has inspired substantive theory and research protocols, substantive research has inspired new psychometric theory and methodology, or psychometrics and substantive work have evolved together. In Application Reviews and Case Studies we hope to provide fertile ground for this synergy between psychometrics and its applications in psychology, educational sciences, and related fields.
Content
Application Reviews and Case Studies welcomes manuscripts of two kinds: application reviews, and case studies. Both kinds of manuscript must meet the high standards of technical quality that Psychometrika continues to uphold. At the same time, they must be accessible to the rather diverse audience of researchers and educators who are interested in quantitative methods for behavioral data analysis.
- Application reviews address broad modeling and data analysis approaches that are applicable in one or more domains in psychology, educational sciences, and related fields, and may be of either of two types: Integrative reviews draw together disparate methodologies that are useful in a particular domain or domains, or they identify modeling and analysis challenges common to several domains and show that a single family of methodologies addresses these challenges across all of these domains. By both identifying and unifying key contributions, these reviews define a platform for future research directions. Comparative or evaluative reviews discuss methodology as it is applied in specific domains, identifying advantages and disadvantages of the methodology for description and inference focusing on important substantive questions within those domains. Aside from providing a synthesis that highlights the strength and limitations of different techniques, these reviews should define benchmarks for future application papers.
- Case studies address applications of psychometric modeling or data analysis to empirical studies in psychology, educational sciences, and related fields. Data analysis problems of all sizes will be considered, from large or highly multidimensional data sets that challenge traditional statistical methods within psychometrics, to small data sets that challenge excessive reliance on psychometric modeling assumptions. A central criterion for publication is that the psychometric methodology deepens understanding of the substantive phenomenon through more informative analysis, and/or more elegant description, of the data in question, possibly through a combination of analysis methods. The case studies should be illustrative of an approach that goes beyond evident applications of well-known methods, and ideally, the approach should be placed in the context of a broader range of application than the case study at hand.
Occasionally, the editors may also publish articles from domains outside of psychology, educational sciences, and related social science fields, if they are clearly related to, or are clearly inspiring for, research within these fields.
Submission and Editorial Review
Psychometrika Review Process
- Prior to the acceptance of a manuscript for publication authors work exclusively with a Section Editor. After a manuscript has been accepted, authors work exclusively with the Managing Editor and the Technical Editor.
- It is the responsibility of authors to remove identifying information from their manuscript. The Editorial Office will try to help in this process if needed.
- After making a decision on a manuscript, the Section Editor will send a decision letter to the author (or principal author), by e-mail (preferred) or by postal service (if necessary).
- After receiving notification of acceptance from a Section Editor, the author (or principal author) will be contacted by the Technical Editor via e-mail.
- The Technical Editor will instruct authors to send two copies of the manuscript and "camera-ready" copies of any figures to: Cynthia H. Null, Ph.D., PO Box 7104, San Jose CA 95150-7104 USA. (Include copies of tables, if any, and mark in the manuscript where the tables and figures are to be placed.) Authors who wish to use a PDF file as a substitute for a paper manuscript can contact the Technical Editor via e-mail.
- Whenever possible figure files should be in a vector file format -- not a raster (i.e., bitmap) graphic file. Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, postscript, and eps files are among several acceptable vector file types. Use Times, Helvetica, or Symbol Type 1 fonts, if possible in your figures; if that is not possible then you can substitute the TrueType "equivalents" of Arial, Times New Roman, and Symbol. Note: LaTeX fonts can also be used in figures.
- If the manuscript has been prepared using LaTeX, Microsoft Word, or WordPerfect, include a copy of the file or files with the manuscript (if there are graphic files for the figures, include those also). The files should be copied to an MS DOS compatible 3.5 inch diskette, zip disk, CD, or they can be e-mailed to the Technical Editor at tim@timnull.com.
- If (a) WordPerfect has been used, and there are boldface characters and/or boldface symbols (e.g., boldface lowercase letters representing vectors), or (b) Microsoft Word and there are Greek letters in boldface, then on one copy of the manuscript underscore all the boldface characters and symbols with a tilde "~".
- If LaTeX has been used, include a copy of all "\usepackage", "\input" and "\include" files, if applicable. (Standard LaTeX2e packages need not be included.)
- If you did *not* use LaTeX, Microsoft Word, or WordPerfect to prepare the manuscript, then (a) refer to the instructions on how to prepare a marked manuscript listed on the Journal's website (http://www.psychometrika.org/instructions.pdf), and (b) "mark" one of the manuscripts to be sent to the P.O. Box listed above.
- Manuscripts are published in approximately the order they are received by the Managing Editor, not in the order they are accepted. Exceptions to this rule may occasionally be made at the Editors' discretion. One notable exception involves articles which require color printing. Beginning in 2003, the December issue each year will be our annual "color" issue; and articles which, in the view of the Editors, require or effectively use color figures will be moved out of the queue to be published in a December issue. If this requires a delay of publication, authors will be given the opportunity to publish in black and white in an earlier issue.
- The Technical Editor will check the manuscript and computer files after they have been received. The Technical Editor will acknowledge receipt of the computer files and manuscript via e-mail, and inform the designated author if any additional material or information is needed. At a later date the Technical Editor will send the first author (or any specified author) three forms (Copyright Release Form, Author Information Form, and a form indicating that the author has read Addendum 1 of the Author Guidelines), which must be completed and returned to the Managing Editor before the manuscript can be published.
- If any ambiguities remain after the Technical Editor and the Managing Editor have reviewed the material provided by the author(s), or if any ambiguities become apparent during the copy-editing process, the Managing Editor has the option to remove the manuscript from the "queue" until the ambiguities have been resolved to the Managing Editor's satisfaction.
- The Technical Editor will contact the author or designated author, when the manuscript has been copy edited and sent to the composition company.
- Typically three to six weeks after the manuscript has been sent to the composition company, the designated author will receive two copies of the proofs along with the copy edited manuscript (and the tables and figures) directly from the composition company. Authors are allowed 48 hours to correct the proofs.
A form will be included with the proofs which asks the author or designated author the number of reprints desired. This form must be completed and returned to the Managing Editor. (100 reprints without covers are provided free of charge. There is a charge for covers and additional reprints.)
Once the proofs are corrected, one copy of the corrected proofs (along with the reprint form, the copy edited manuscript, plus the original tables and figures) must be returned to the Technical Editor.
- The Managing Editor and Technical Editor have the final say in all questions of style. Substantive changes are not allowed on the proofs, because the costs are prohibitive. The Managing Editor has the option of charging authors for the cost of making changes which the Managing Editor concludes are excessive in number.
- Two weeks after the composition company have mailed the proofs, the Managing Editor will "go to press" with the corrected proofs which have been received. Any corrected proofs received by the Technical Editor after the deadline will be published in a subsequent issue.
- Then the Technical Editor, using the author's corrected proofs as a guide, makes corrections on an additional set of proofs which are sent to the composition company. (The Technical Editor has the option not to make changes that violate the Journal's style guidelines.)
- Page proofs are sent to the Technical Editor. (Authors do not receive copies of the page proofs.) The Technical Editor will review the page proofs to insure that the necessary changes have been made.
- Allow 60 days from the date of publication for the delivery of reprints.
- Authors must keep the Editor or Managing Editor appraised of all changes in address, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses.
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