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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • I know that I have to have proofreading before the article is published.

Author Guidelines

The International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies (IJPES) publishes original research articles, review studies, meta-analyses, methodological papers, and theoretical contributions in the fields of psychology and education.

Before submission, authors should ensure that their manuscripts comply with the following requirements:

• Manuscripts must be written in English and should not exceed 8,000 words. Qualitative and mixed-method studies may be considered up to 10,000 words when justified by the scope of the study.

• All submissions must be prepared using the current IJPES Manuscript Template and follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th Edition.

• The manuscript must be anonymized for double-blind peer review. Author names, affiliations, ORCID IDs, acknowledgements, funding information, and any identifying information should be provided only in the separate Title Page file.

• Manuscripts should include an abstract (150–250 words) and 3–5 keywords.

• Tables and figures should be embedded within the text, numbered consecutively, and prepared according to APA 7 guidelines.

• References must be complete, accurate, and formatted according to APA 7 style.

• Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted materials, figures, tables, or other content when necessary.

• All submissions are screened using plagiarism detection software (iThenticate). Manuscripts exhibiting plagiarism, duplicate publication, or unethical research practices will be rejected.

• Studies involving human participants must include information regarding ethical approval, informed consent, and compliance with relevant ethical standards.

• Authors must disclose any funding sources, conflicts of interest, data availability statements, and the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, if applicable.

Detailed submission requirements, manuscript templates, and policies are available on the journal website.

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Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with the International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies (IJPES) agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.

  2. Authors grant the journal the right of first publication.

  3. All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits users to read, download, copy, print, and redistribute the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes, provided appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source.

  4. Users may not modify, adapt, translate, transform, remix, or create derivative works based on the published material without prior written permission from the copyright holder.

  5. Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work, provided that acknowledgment of its initial publication in IJPES is clearly stated.

  6. Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit and share the published version of their articles on personal websites, institutional repositories, academic social networks, and other scholarly platforms, provided that full citation details and the article DOI are included.

  7. Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submitted work is original, does not infringe upon the rights of others, and has not been published elsewhere.

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