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Author Guidelines

Submissions: Articles should be within the aims and scope of the journal and approximately 5000 words. Longer articles may be negotiated with the Editor-in-Chief. Materials should be prepared and submitted via OJS according to the guidelines below.

Practice Notes and Conference Papers: Brief reports (500 to 1,000 words in length) on practice research or practice issues will be considered. Longer pieces will be accepted at the editor's discretion. The Journal's commitment is to publish a mixture of high quality papers on policy and practice as well as on original research. When appropriate, fully referenced and refereed versions of recent key conference papers may be included.

Online Submission: The publisher, eContent Management Pty Ltd, uses a semi-automated manuscript tracking system to receive research articles. Manuscripts submitted for publication are subject to a peer review process managed by the editors under the direction of the Editor-in-Chief. To ensure prompt assessment of your manuscript, and to preserve anonymity in the review process, please observe the submission notes below.

Your manuscript should contain: title of the manuscript, 100-150-word abstract, 6 key words, article text, references, figures, and tables (in that order), as one document.

Please do not include any author information in this manuscript. It will be made available to reviewers and should not contain any identifying information.

Submission preparation

  1. Manuscripts should be saved as a Microsoft Word or Open Office Writer file. This should contain: title of the manuscript, key words, article text, references, figures, and tables in that order, as one document. 
  2. Remove any author information or acknowledgements in the manuscript or abstract. 
  3. Remove embedded document information: Office 2003 or earlier: enable the removal of personal information from file properties on save, this is set under the Tools/Options/Security menu. Office 2007 or later: use Document Inspector (Office menu, Prepare document) to find and remove personal information. Open Office users should consult this online help wiki for removing personal user data. 
  4. Follow the New Submission link for authors to begin the online submission process.
  5. Copy your title, abstract (100-150-words) and keywords into the submission form. You should copy/paste it from a existing document.  
  6. Upload your manuscript. It will be forwarded directly to reviewers and should not contain any identifying information. 
  7. Other information such as email contact details are added during the submission process. All correspondence will be sent to the the first listed author.
  8. Please list all authors in the order they are to appear on the title page.  
  9. Acknowledgements are added to the manuscript by the author following peer review and acceptance to publish.

Resubmitting manuscripts

The above notes also apply to authors resubmitting revised manuscripts. Peer review recommendations are to be addressed and incorporated by authors before submitting.

Revised manuscripts are loaded into the 'Editorial Decision' section of your online submission. Authors should NOT start a new submission for revised manuscripts.

It is important that authors re-submitting revised manuscripts indicate how they have addressed the referees' and editor's comments, either in summary form at the head of their revised manuscript or as a supplementary file that has does not contain identifying information (see step 3 above). This information will assist further assessment by the original reviewers before the manuscript can proceed to publication.

Please refer to the Style guide below for references, citation and spelling conventions and to 'Tables and figures' for acceptable file and photo types for print publishing.

Style Guide

The Journal of Family Studies uses the APA Formatting and Style Guide 6th edition for the formatting of submissions. This is a link to an easy to use guide to the APA requirements. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/1/  For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, second printing.

 'American' or 'English' spellings are acceptable, providing they are used consistently. Translation of articles from other languages into English is encouraged and should be provided by professional translators. The Editors reserve the right to make editorial and literary corrections.

Manuscripts, not normally to exceed 5,000 words (though see qualifications above).

When your manuscript is ready for submission, create a separate Title page document (copy-pasting the relevant data from your manuscript). See Submission Preparation for more information.

Abstract and key words. The second page should carry an abstract of not more than 150 words indicating the purpose of the study or investigation, the basic procedures used, the main findings and the principal conclusions, emphasising new and important aspects. Below the abstract give 3 to 10 key words or short phrases that will assist indexers in cross-indexing the article.

Text should usually be divided into sections with headings (eg Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions).

References should be pertinent to the text and not a complete review of the literature unless such be the purpose of the article. Note especially the proper style (APA) for references, both in text and reference lists. Footnotes may appear as endnotes, at the Editors' discretion.

Tables, figures and appendixes should be supplied at the end of the main text, with their desired locations cross-referenced within the text.

Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively in separate sequences and each given a brief title. Vertical rules should not be used. Each table should be cited in the text in consecutive order. Tables should be used only when necessary to clarify important points but not duplicate information in the text.

Figures and illustrations may be from original artwork, photographs, charts, and books. Indicate approximate location in text. The Journal of Family Studies will be happy to produce figures for authors; please supply data and type of figure required (eg line graph, bar chart, etc). Illustrations must be accompanied by the original work for the Journal's reproduction process. Electronic TIFF or EPS files are preferred using high resolution (300 dpi and above). GIFF and JPEG files at lower resolution (below 150 dip) are NOT suitable for print publishing. Please do not repeat-save JPEG images as JPEGs are 'lossy' and automatically compress with each save, thereby losing detail each time.

Any supporting files are uploaded as Supplementary files during the online submission process.

Artwork labels (such as axes labels or legends, etc) are to use minimal capitalisation, and appear only using bold, roman or italic Helvetica, Arial or Times New Roman fonts to minimise distortion.

Proof copies: Proofs are sent to authors for correcting of print, but not for introduction of new or different material. They should be returned to the Managing Editor as soon as possible.

 

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.

  1. Author Warranties: by submission of material to the Journal of Family Studies (JFS), all authors warrant that the material is their own, original material or that copyright clearance has been acquired to reproduce other material from employers, third parties or attributed to third parties, and that the material has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

  2. Authors have secured the release of any copyright material and can provide written evidence to this effect to eContent Management Pty Ltd. It is also the author’s responsibility to obtain clearance for reproduction from the organization which commissioned the work if applicable. Submission of material to JFS implies all authors’ consent to assignment of the material’s copyright to eContent Management Pty Ltd when that material is accepted for publication in the journal, for the full legal term of copyright and any renewals thereof throughout the world in all formats and in any medium of communication.

  3. By submitting material to JFS, all authors of the material agree to indemnify eContent Management Pty Ltd, and its heirs and assigns in business, against any litigation or claims that may arise from the content of or opinions in the material provided. Submission of material to JFS also implies all authors’ consent to assignment of the material’s copyright to eContent Management Pty Ltd when that material is accepted for publication in the journal, for the full legal term of copyright and any renewals thereof throughout the world in all formats and in any medium of communication.

    If the corresponding author is no longer active any of the other authors may become the corresponding author and they will accordingly be bound by these terms and conditions

    (Note: On acceptance for publication, an agreement specifying the terms noted here and above will be sent to the corresponding author for signature by the corresponding author who is duly authorized to sign this agreement on behalf of all authors and contributors. No printers proof will be sent to the author. The copy provided by the author on acceptance is the version used for typesetting. The publisher reserves the right to make editing corrections.)

  4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  6. You have created a Title Page file from your original manuscript and removed all identifying information from the text and document properties. Note: the submission process requires the abstract and keywords to be copied into the submission form.
  7. All citations refer to a publication listed in the References section of the manuscript and all references have been cited in the text.
 

Copyright Notice

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