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Psychology of Addictive Behaviors® publishes peer-reviewed original articles related to the psychological aspects of addictive behaviors. The journal includes articles on the following topics:

  • alcohol use and alcohol employ disorders
  • drug utilise and drug use disorders
  • smoking and nicotine use and disorders
  • eating disorders, and
  • other addictive behaviors

Randomized trials, laboratory and prospective studies, and meta-analyses are given the highest priorities. Cantankerous-sectional studies, peculiarly those involving convenience samples, will need to make unique contributions to exist competitive in this journal.

Disclaimer: APA and the editors of Psychology of Addictive Behaviors assume no responsibility for statements and opinions advanced by the authors of its articles.

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Submission Guidelines

Submission

To submit to the Editorial Part of Katie Witkiewitz, PhD, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission portal Microsoft Discussion (.docx) or LaTex (.tex) as a naught file with an accompanied Portable Document Format (.pdf) of the manuscript file

All new manuscripts submitted should be prepared co-ordinate to the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. APA Style and Grammer Guidelines for the 7thursday edition are available.

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General correspondence may be directed to

Katie Witkiewitz, PhD
Department of Psychology
University of New Mexico
MSC 03-2220, Logan Hall
1 Academy of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Email: Editor's office

Every effort will be made to review manuscripts rapidly and to go on publication lag at a minimum. The opinions and statements published are the responsibility of the authors, and such opinions and statements practise non necessarily reverberate the policies of the publisher or of Division 50 or the views of the editor.

In addition to addresses and phone numbers, please supply electronic mail addresses and fax numbers, if available, for potential use past the editorial office and later past the product office.

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors is using a software system to screen submitted content for similarity with other published content. The system compares the initial version of each submitted manuscript against a database of twoscore+ 1000000 scholarly documents, likewise as content appearing on the open up spider web. This allows APA to check submissions for potential overlap with material previously published in scholarly journals (e.g., lifted or republished material).

Manuscripts

All titles and degrees should be omitted from authors' names. All manuscripts should include the following footnote typed on a separate sheet in APA format: Correspondence concerning this commodity should be addressed to [give the author's full name and mailing address].

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors has firm page limitations on manuscripts. A total-length manuscript should contain no more 40 pages inclusive of title folio, abstruse, text, references, tables, figures, and appendices. A brief written report is 10 pages, excluding title folio, abstruse, author note, references, figures, and tables. Margins of 1 inch and font size of 12 point must exist employed, per APA way.

Commentaries are also accepted in response to a single article recently published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. The primary purpose would be to provide a meaningful insight, business organisation, culling interpretation, clarification, or critical analysis.

Commentaries should not exceed five pages, excluding championship page, abstruse, writer note, references, figures, and tables. Margins of 1 inch and font size of 12 point must be employed, per APA style. The title of a Cursory Comment should include a subtitle reflecting the actual title and year of publication of the article that engendered the comment. Commentaries should exist submitted no later than 6 months later on publication of the original article.

Registered Reports and replications

In addition to full-length research papers and brief reports reporting novel findings, the journal publishes registered reports, negative findings, replications, commentaries, and reviews. Replication submissions should include "A Replication of XX Report" in the subtitle of the manuscript as well as in the abstract. Preregistration of replication studies is strongly recommended, but not required.

Registered Reports require a two-step review process.

The first step is the submission of the registration manuscript. This is a partial manuscript that includes hypotheses, rationale for the report, experimental design, and methods. The partial manuscript will be reviewed for significance and methodological approach.

If the fractional manuscript is accepted this amounts to provisional acceptance of the full study regardless of the issue of the study. The full manuscript will receive rapid editorial review, for adherence to the preregistered design, and expedited production for publication in the periodical.

All articles can be published as full-length manufactures or as brief reports.

The periodical has partnered with the Peer Community In Registered Reports (PCI-RR) as an "interested" periodical to encourage the publication of Registered Reports.

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors may offer to review or publish whatever Stage 1 or Stage ii Registered Reports within the journal's disciplinary scope that receives in-principle PCI RR acceptance or recommendation. Eligible Registered Reports will exist discipline to Psychology of Addictive Behaviors's additional criteria. Further details are available on PCI RR's website.

Open science badges

Articles are eligible for open science badges recognizing publicly bachelor information, materials, and/or preregistration plans and analyses. These badges are awarded on a self-disclosure ground.

At submission, authors must confirm that criteria take been fulfilled in a signed badge disclosure form (PDF, 33KB) that must be submitted equally supplemental material. If all criteria are met as confirmed by the editor, the form volition then be published with the article every bit supplemental cloth.

Authors should too note their eligibility for the bluecoat(south) in the encompass alphabetic character.

For all badges, items must be fabricated available on an open up-access repository with a persistent identifier in a format that is time-stamped, immutable, and permanent. For the preregistered badge, this is an institutional registration system.

Data and materials must exist made available under an open license allowing others to copy, share, and utilize the information, with attribution and copyright as applicable.

Bachelor badges are:

Open Data Badge Open Data:
All data necessary to reproduce the reported results that are digitally shareable are fabricated publicly available. Information necessary for replication (eastward.k., codebooks or metadata) must be included.

Open Data Badge Open Data; Protected Access:
A Protected Access (PA) annotation may be added to open data badges if sensitive, personal data are available simply from an approved third-party repository that manages admission to data to qualified researchers through a documented procedure. To be eligible for an open data badge with such a annotation, the repository must publicly depict the steps necessary to obtain the data and detailed data documentation (due east.g. variable names and immune values) must be made bachelor publicly.

Open Materials Badge Open Materials:
All materials necessary to reproduce the reported results that are digitally shareable, along with descriptions of non-digital materials necessary for replication, are made publicly available.

Preregistered Badge Preregistered:
At least one written report's design has been preregistered with descriptions of (a) the inquiry design and report materials, including the planned sample size; (b) the motivating research question or hypothesis; (c) the effect variable(south); and (d) the predictor variables, including controls, covariates, and contained variables. Results must be fully disclosed. As long equally they are distinguished from other results in the article, results from analyses that were not preregistered may be reported in the commodity.

Preregistered+Analysis Badge Preregistered+Assay Plan:
At least one study's design has been preregistered along with an analysis programme for the research — and results are recorded according to that program.

Notation that it may not exist possible to preregister a study or to share data and materials. Applying for open up science badges is optional.

Registration of clinical trials

As of March one, 2020 registration volition be required for all clinical trials (studies designed to examine the efficacy or effectiveness of a treatment or preventive intervention) reporting primary outcome findings. Prospective registration (i.east., pre-registration) is required if recruitment began on or after March 1, 2020. Retrospective registration will be accepted but if recruitment began before this date.

Clinical trials must be registered at ClinicalTrials.gov or at another recognized registry. A complete list of acceptable trial registries can be found via the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform. Differences between registered and reported methods or outcomes must be explained clearly and transparently in the manuscript.

Trial protocols, including statistical analysis plans, must exist made available to readers. Both published and unpublished protocols are acceptable. Published protocols should be cited in the manuscript. Unpublished protocols may be provided in online-only supplements or made available by request.

Use of the Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Intervention Trials (SPIRIT) checklist is recommended.

For secondary analyses of existing data sets, where primary analyses accept already been published (or are in printing), registration is non required. For such analyses, registration status must exist fabricated transparent in the manuscript, and authors must follow guidelines about information transparency provided beneath. The article(s) reporting the chief outcomes, and the findings, must be cited in the manuscript.

Manuscripts reporting long-term outcomes of studies for which the principal outcomes have already been published also volition non require registration, but authors must follow the guidelines above for secondary analyses.

For studies that are not clinical trials, registration is encouraged, but not required.

Authors must note registration status in their embrace letter, in the manuscript, and in the submission portal.

Required employ of JARS and MARS guidelines and the 21-Discussion Statement

In gild to maintain consistency and fairness in the review process and in the reporting of scientific findings,Psychology of Addictive Behaviors requires that ALL manuscripts suit to Periodical Article Reporting Standards (JARS) and Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (MARS) as described in Applebaum et al. (2018):

Applebaum, Cooper, Kline, Mayo-Wilson, Nezu, & Rao (2018). Journal Article Reporting Standards for Quantitative Research in Psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board Task Force Report. American Psychologist, 73, 3-25.

The editorial team will use consistency with the JARS/MARS guidelines as a review criterion, and manuscripts may exist rejected if guidelines are not followed.

When deviating from JARS/MARS guidelines, authors must provide the rationale in their cover alphabetic character and describe the limitations of doing and so in their manuscript. We likewise recommend checking reporting guidelines from the Equator Network for your detail written report design.

Manuscripts must also report (i) how the sample size was adamant, (2) all data exclusions, (3) all manipulations, and (4) all study measures. Meet Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn (2012) for details; include the following statement in the Method section:

  • Nosotros written report how we determined our sample size, all data exclusions (if whatsoever), all manipulations, and all measures in the study.

Title of manuscript

The title of a manuscript should be accurate, fully explanatory, and preferably no longer than 12 words.

If the newspaper reports a randomized clinical trial (RCT), this should be indicated in the championship. Notation that JARS criteria must be used for reporting purposes.

Abstract and keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstruse containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a split page. After the abstract, delight supply up to five keywords or brief phrases.

Manuscripts published in the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors volition include a structured abstract of up to 250 words.

For studies that report randomized clinical trials or meta-analyses, the abstract also must be consequent with the guidelines set along past JARS or MARS guidelines, respectively. Thus, in preparing a manuscript, please ensure that information technology is consequent with the guidelines stated beneath.

Please include an abstract of up to 250 words, presented in paragraph form.

The abstract should be typed on a separate folio (page 2 of the manuscript), and must include each of the post-obit sections:

  • Objective: A brief statement of the purpose of the study.
  • Method: A detailed summary of the participants (N, age, gender, ethnicity) too as descriptions of the written report pattern, measures (including names of measures), and procedures.
  • Results: A detailed summary of the primary findings that clearly articulate comparison groups (if relevant), and that point significance or confidence intervals for the main findings.
  • Conclusions: A description of the research and clinical implications of the findings.

Author contributions statements using CRediT

The APA Publication Transmission (7th ed.) stipulates that "authorship encompasses…not but persons who do the writing simply besides those who have made substantial scientific contributions to a study." In the spirit of transparency and openness, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors has adopted the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to describe each writer'southward individual contributions to the work. CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed clarification of their diverse contributions to a manuscript.

Submitting authors volition be asked to identify the contributions of all authors at initial submission co-ordinate to this taxonomy. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the CRediT designations will exist published every bit an Author Contributions Statement in the author note of the last commodity. All authors should have reviewed and agreed to their individual contribution(southward) before submission.

CRediT includes 14 contributor roles, every bit described beneath:

  • Conceptualization: Ideas; conception or evolution of overarching enquiry goals and aims.
  • Information curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial employ and later on reuse.
  • Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize written report information.
  • Funding acquisition: Acquisition of the fiscal support for the project leading to this publication.
  • Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/show collection.
  • Methodology: Evolution or pattern of methodology; creation of models.
  • Project assistants: Management and coordination responsibleness for the research activity planning and execution.
  • Resource: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, calculating resources, or other assay tools.
  • Software: Programming, software development; designing reckoner programs; implementation of the reckoner lawmaking and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
  • Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
  • Validation: Verification, whether as a part of the activity or split up, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
  • Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
  • Writing—original typhoon: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including noun translation).
  • Writing—review and editing: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original inquiry group, specifically disquisitional review, commentary or revision—including pre- or post-publication stages.

Authors can claim credit for more than one contributor role, and the same role tin be attributed to more than than one author.

Public health significance statements

Authors submitting manuscripts to Psychology of Addictive Behaviors are required to provide 2–iii cursory sentences regarding the public health significance of their newspaper. This description should be included within the manuscript on the abstract/keywords page. It should be written in language that is easily understood by both professionals and members of the lay public.

When an accepted paper is published, these sentences will be used in broadcasting by the journal, including e-mail alerts, the Lodge of Addiction Psychology website, and on social media (Twitter and Facebook). This new policy is in keeping with efforts to increase broadcasting and usage by larger and diverse audiences.

Examples include the following:

  • "This study indicates that vaping cannabis is increasing amongst adolescents and adolescent with lower perceptions of gamble were more probable to use cannabis."
  • "This review found that mindfulness-based interventions are increasingly being studied as a primary handling for alcohol and other substance employ disorders. The review as well found that mindfulness-based interventions are as constructive as other treatments."
  • "This study highlights the importance of including measures of other substances, including alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and other prescription and illicit drugs, in studies examining opioid use disorder and chronic pain."

To be maximally useful, these statements of public health significance should not but be sentences lifted directly out of the manuscript.

They are meant to be informative and useful to any reader. They should provide a bottom-line, accept-home bulletin that is accurate and hands understood. In improver, they should be able to be translated into media-appropriate statements for use in press releases and on social media.

Prior to final acceptance and publication, all public health significance statements will be carefully reviewed to brand sure they meet these standards. Authors will be expected to revise statements as necessary.

Transparency and openness

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Peak) Guidelines by a community working group in conjunction with the Eye for Open up Science (Nosek et al. 2015). Empirical research, including meta-analyses, submitted to Psychology of Addictive Behaviors must see the "disclosure" level for all eight aspects of inquiry planning and reporting and the "requirement" level for data citation and pattern and analysis transparency. Authors should include a subsection in the Method section titled "Transparency and Openness." This subsection should detail the efforts the authors have made to comply with the TOP guidelines. For case:

  • We report how we determined our sample size, all data exclusions (if any), all manipulations, and all measures in the report, and nosotros follow JARS (Kazak, 2018). All data, analysis code, and research materials are available at [stable link to repository]. Data were analyzed using R, version 4.0.0 (R Core Team, 2020) and the bundle ggplot, version three.2.1 (Wickham, 2016). This study's blueprint and its analysis were non pre-registered.

Links to preregistrations and data, lawmaking, and materials should also be included in the author note.

In order to reduce the likelihood of duplicate or piecemeal publication, authors are required to provide, in their encompass letter of the alphabet, a list of published, in press, and nether review studies that come from the same dataset equally the 1 in the submitted manuscript, as well equally a narrative description of how the submitted manuscript differs from the others.

This narrative description should include how the manuscript differs (or does not) in terms of research question and variables studied.

If requesting masked review (see below), and so authors besides are required to submit a masked version of the narrative description that tin can be provided to reviewers. Delight add this equally an appendix table on the last page of the submitted manuscript. Please base of operations your clarification on the following examples, edited according to your specific data circumstances.

Narrative case: Multiple uses of data collected from the same sample

  • The data reported in this manuscript have been previously published and/or were nerveless as part of a larger data collection (at one or more points in time). Findings from the data collection have been reported in separate manuscripts. MS 1 (published) focuses on variables one, 2, and three; while MS 2 (in press) focuses on variables four, 5, and half-dozen. MS 3 (the current manuscript) focuses on variables viii, 9, and 15. MS 4 (soon to be submitted) will focus on variables 10, 12, and xiv.

Narrative instance: Publicly available dataset

  • The data reported in this manuscript were obtained from publicly available data, [proper name of project, forth with website link to projection description]. A bibliography of journal manufactures, working papers, conference presentations, and dissertations using the [proper name of projection] is bachelor at [website link to bibliography list]. The variables and relationships examined in the present article have not been examined in any previous or current articles, or to the all-time of our knowledge in any papers that will be nether review soon. [Alternatively, analyze any overlap of variables, equally done in the narrative example above].

Upon submission of the manuscript, authors will be required to attest to the provision of the required data described above.

Finally, upon acceptance of a manuscript, authors volition be required to provide, as office of the writer note, a list of related published papers that come from the same dataset, unless such papers are clearly described and referenced in the manuscript (specifically noting that findings come from the same dataset).

Data, materials, and lawmaking

Authors must land whether data and study materials are available and, if then, where to access them. Recommended repositories include APA'south repository on the Open Scientific discipline Framework (OSF), or authors tin can admission a full list of other recommended repositories.

In both the writer note and at the end of the method section, specify whether and where the data and fabric volition be available or include a statement noting that they are not available. For submissions with quantitative or simulation analytic methods, state whether the report assay code is available, and, if and then, where to admission it.

For instance:

  • All data take been made publicly available at the [repository name] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].
  • Materials and assay code for this study are bachelor by emailing the corresponding author.
  • Materials and analysis code for this study are not available.
  • The code backside this analysis/simulation has been fabricated publicly available at the [repository proper name] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].

Preregistration of studies and assay plans

Preregistration of studies and specific hypotheses can be a useful tool for making strong theoretical claims. Likewise, preregistration of analysis plans can be useful for distinguishing confirmatory and exploratory analyses. Investigators are encouraged to preregister their studies and analysis plans prior to conducting the enquiry (e.grand., ClinicalTrials.gov or the Preregistration for Quantitative Research in Psychology template) via a publicly accessible registry arrangement (e.g., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

Articles must state whether or not whatever work was preregistered and, if then, where to access the preregistration. If any aspect of the written report is preregistered, include the registry link in the method department and the author note.

For example:

  • This report'southward blueprint was preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
  • This report's design and hypotheses were preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
  • This report'southward assay plan was preregistered; run across [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
  • This study was not preregistered.

Optional masked review

If authors would like to have masked review of their manuscripts, then the authors must also submit a championship folio that shows the championship of the manuscript, the authors' byline names and institutional affiliations in order of authorship, and the engagement the manuscript is submitted.

The title page must also include an author note that identifies each author'south departmental affiliation at the time the reported research was conducted, any funding or other acknowledgments, details of any prior dissemination of the ideas and data actualization in the manuscript, and one current accost that volition provide a point of contact for the interested reader.

The first page of the manuscript should omit the authors' names and affiliations but should include the title of the manuscript and the date information technology is submitted.

It is the authors' responsibleness to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identity, including grant numbers, names of institutions providing IRB approval, self-citations, and links to online repositories for data, materials, code, or preregistrations (e.k., Create a View-but Link for a Project).

Please ensure that the concluding version for production includes a byline and total writer note for typesetting.

Manuscript training

Prepare manuscripts co-ordinate to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the seventhursday edition. Manuscripts may exist copyedited for bias-free language (encounter Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual). APA Way and Grammar Guidelines for the 7thursday edition are available.

In detail, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors recommends against the utilize of terminology that tin stigmatize people who use booze, drugs, other addictive substances or who have an addictive behavior. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors is in agreement with the consensus statement on Addiction Terminology developed by the International Society of Habit Journal Editors.

All empirical manuscripts are required to report on sex activity and gender, and race and ethnicity of the included samples. Studies that are limited by only including predominantly not-Hispanic and white participants need to admit this limitation and note that findings may not generalize to not-White participants. Explicitly describing the study as relevant to primarily white participants could also be captured by the championship of the manuscript and/or reflected in the abstract. The examination of race and ethnicity should non exist reified as a biological factor and authors should incorporate and explicitly discuss how race and ethnicity may be proxy measures for systemic racism, also equally cultural, social, environmental, economic, and structural factors. For more information please see these standards for publishing on racial health inequalities (Boyd, Lindo, Weeks, & McLemore, 2020).

Review APA's Journal Manuscript Preparation Guidelines earlier submitting your article.

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References

List references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the references section.

Examples of basic reference formats:

Periodical commodity

McCauley, S. M., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Language learning as language use: A cross-linguistic model of kid language development. Psychological Review, 126(1), 1–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored volume

Brown, L. Due south. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/ten.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, K. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. K. P., & Safren, Due south. A. (2019). Affirmative cognitive beliefs therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In G. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive behavior therapy: Exercise and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000119-012

Data set commendation

Alegria, M., Jackson, J. South., Kessler, R. C., & Takeuchi, D. (2016). Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES), 2001–2003 [Data ready]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Enquiry. https://doi.org/ten.3886/ICPSR20240.v8

Software/Code citation

Viechtbauer, W. (2010). Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor package. Journal of Statistical Software, 36(3), ane–48. https://www.jstatsoft.org/v36/i03/

Wickham, H. et al., (2019). Welcome to the tidyverse. Journal of Open Source Software, four(43), 1686, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01686

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  • An additional $600 for the second figure
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Publication policies

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Editorial Board

Editor

Katie Witkiewitz, PhD
University of New Mexico, United States

Associate editors

Celestina Barbosa-Leiker, PhD
Washington State University, Us

William R. Corbin, PhD
Arizona Land Academy, United States

Elizabeth J. D'Amico, PhD
RAND Corporation, U.s.

Christian S. Hendershot, PhD
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States

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