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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 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 below and in the Submission Guidelines

The numbering and format on the website. See below

JTRAS manuscripts should be prepared according to editorial style and ethical guidelines of the Seventh Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 750 First St., NE, Washington, DC 20002; 800/374-2721).

All text must be double-spaced with 1-inch margins and must contain page numbers. Other formatting instructions for text, tables, figures, and references, are included in the APA Publication Manual.

Exceptions to the APA Publication Manual are as follows:

1. Use a structured abstract. Prepare a structured abstract of no more than 250 words, with information arranged under the following subheadings (include the subheadings in your abstract), with each subheading beginning on a new line. We recognize that these categories may be a bit awkward for review papers or papers that use nontraditional methodologies, such as modeling or naturalistic observation, but we encourage the authors to do their best to adapt to this structure.   

               a.Objective
               b. Background
               c. Method
               d. Results
               e. Conclusion
               f. Application (non-theoretical works)—A statement that reflects the practical impact of this work to a broad audience.

2. Footnotes are not permitted. Such notes should be incorporated into the text.

3. Add line numbering to the entire manuscript, starting with line 1 for the title of the submission. Line numbering aids the reviewers when commenting on the manuscript.

4. Place all figures and tables (with captions) within the manuscript where first mentioned in the text. If accepted, figures, tables, and captions will be placed at end of the manuscript according to the APA Publication Manual.

5. Each manuscript should contain the following components, in the following order:

  a. Title page, which contains:

  • Title (25 words maximum)
  • Each author's name and affiliation (institution, city, state, country)
  • Running head
  • Manuscript type
  • Exact word count of text (not including title page, abstract, biographies, and references)
  • Acknowledgments (including contact information for the corresponding author). If applicable, list funding sources and other pertinent disclosures. If no such acknowledgments are present in the initial submission, JTRAS will assume that no disclosures are necessary.

 b. Abstract page, which contains:

  •  Structured abstract
  • Up to 5 keywords (exclude words that already appear in the title). 

  c. Main body of the paper.

Please note that all manuscripts must contain an explicit and clear discussion of the study's practical implications. (If applicable, state explicit design recommendations or principles. When reporting results, authors should follow the guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Authors are strongly encouraged to include measures of effect size (e.g., partial eta-squared) and variability (e.g., standard of mean, confidence intervals), and include standard error bars on data plots, as applicable to the study.

  d. Key points: A list of key points in bullet form, inserted prior to the References list

  e. References (in APA style of hanging indent)

  f. Biographies: For each author, indicate the current affiliation and highest degree obtained (field, year obtained, institution).

Authors are strongly encouraged to provide supplemental materials that would facilitate replication of the studies. Such materials would be available online at the journal's website. Examples include data, instructions, stimuli, algorithms, and questionnaires.

Permissions:

When quoting more than 150 words from another source, or using a table or figure from another source, it is necessary to obtain written permission from the copyright holder of that source. In the case of adaptations of tables and figures drawn from other sources, written permission must be obtained if more than 40% of the original material is used in the adapted table/figure. Following acceptance of your manuscript, submit permission letters to JTRAS when the final production-ready manuscript is ready for uploading.

Important Notices:

All Manuscripts must be submitted electronically, the Editor-in-Chief will no longer accept manuscripts via email effective June 2022.

Only the corresponding author will receive e-mails, which are generated by the submission system.

For questions about the suitability of a manuscript contact Editor-in-Chief.

For problems or questions with submission, contact Editor-in-Chief.

The average turnaround time from submission to first decision is 30 days.

There is no cost to submit your work or to publish it.

Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Arts and Sciences (JTRAS) accepts about 25% of submissions.

Journal Guidelines were adapted from https://www.hfes.org/Publications/Journals-Proceedings/Article-Submission-Policies

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