Development and Psychopathology strongly encourages contributions from a wide array of disciplines because an effective developmental approach to psychopathology necessitates a broad synthesis of knowledge. Manuscripts will be considered that address, for example, the causes and effects of genetic, neurobiological, biochemical, cognitive, or socioemotional factors in developmental processes with relevance to various risk or psychopathological conditions. The journal also seeks articles on the processes underlying the adaptive and maladaptive outcomes in populations at risk for psychopathology.
Manuscript Preparation and Style
General. All manuscripts must be provided in MSWord format in 12-point type with 1-in. margins on all sides. The entire manuscript must be double-spaced and numbered consecutively. The language of publication is English.
Style and Manuscript Order. Follow the general style guidelines set forth in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). The Editor may find it necessary to return manuscripts for reworking or retyping that do not conform to requirements. Do not use embedded references, end notes, or bookmarks. Manuscripts must be arranged in the following order:
Title Page. To facilitate blind review, all indication of authorship must be limited to this page, which should be submitted as a separate file. Other pages must only show the short title plus page number at the top right. The title page should include the (a) full article title; (b) name and affiliations of all authors; (c) acknowledgments; (d) mailing address and telephone number of the corresponding author; (e) address of where to send offprints, if different from the corresponding author; and (f) a short title of less than 50 characters.
Acknowledgments. These should be placed below the affiliations. Use this section to indicate grant support, substantial assistance in the preparation of the article, or other author notes.
Abstract Page. Include (a) a full article title, (b) an abstract of no more than 200 words, and (c) up to five keywords for indexing and information retrieval.
Text. Use a standard paragraph indent. Do not hyphenate words at the ends of lines or justify right margins.
References. Bibliographic citations in the text must include the author’s last name, date of publication, DOI and may include page references. Examples of in-text citation style are Cicchetti (2002), Durston (2008, pp. 1133–1135), Hunt and Thomas (2008), (Hunt & Thomas, 2008), (Posner, Rothbart, Sheese, & Tang, 2007), and subsequently (Posner et al., 2007). If more than one, citations must be in alphabetical order. Every in-text citation must be included in the reference section; every reference must be cited in the text. Examples of reference styles:
Journal Article Haltigan, J., Roisman, G., & Fraley, R. (2013). The predictive significance of early caregiving experiences for symptoms of psychopathology through midadolescence: Enduring or transient effects? Development and Psychopathology, 25(1), 209-221. doi:10.1017/S0954579412000260
Book Buss, A., & Plomin, R. (1984). Temperament: Early developing personality traits. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Chapter in an Edited Book Gottlieb, G., & Willoughby, M. T. (2006). Probabilistic epigenesis of psychopathology. In D. Cicchetti & D. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology (Vol. 1, 2nd ed., pp. 673–700). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Appendix (optional). Use only if needed.
Tables. Tables must be submitted as a separate MSWord file. Each table should begin on a separate page, and be typed double-spaced, numbered consecutively with an Arabic numeral, and given a short title (e.g., Table 5. Comparisons on language variables). All tables must be clearly cited in the text, and must be clearly labeled at the location they are to appear, e.g. “TABLE ONE HERE”.
Figures. Figures must also be submitted as separate files, in either .TIFF or .JPG format. Each figure must be numbered consecutively with an Arabic numeral and a descriptive legend. Legends must be provided separately from the artwork (e.g., Figure 3. The progress in language development). Figures should be no larger than 6 × 9 in. Diagrams must be computer generated. All labels and details must be clearly presented and large enough to remain legible at a 50% reduction. Artwork should be identified by figure number and short title. All figures must be cited in the text, and their location labeled in the same manner as Tables.
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
Funding Statement
Authors must include a Funding Statement in their title page. Within this statement please provide details of the sources of financial support for all authors, including grant numbers, for example: “Funding Statement: This work was supported by the Medical Research Council (grant number XXXXXXX)”. Grants held by different authors should be identified as belonging to individual authors by the authors’ initials, for example: “Funding Statement: This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust (AB, grant numbers XXXX, YYYY), (CD, grant number ZZZZ); the Natural Environment Research Council (EF, grant number FFFF); and the National Institutes of Health (AB, grant number GGGG), (EF, grant number HHHH).”
Where no specific funding has been provided for research, you should include the following:
“Funding Statement: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.”
Copyright and Originality
It is a condition of publication that all manuscripts submitted to this journal have not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. All authors must sign the Author Publishing Agreement before an article can be published. Government authors whose articles were created in the course of their employment should download the Government Employer LTP. Authors must obtain written permission from the copyright owners to reprint any previously published material included in their article and provide the permissions to Cambridge University Press.
In addition, authors must obtain permission from copyright owners to reprint or duplicate published measures or modifications to any published instruments. If applicable, written permission must be submitted with final manuscripts.
Publishing Ethics
This journal publishes in accordance with Cambridge University Press’s publishing ethics guidelines, which apply to authors, peer reviewers, the editorial office and the journal as a whole. Anyone who believes that these guidelines have not been followed should raise their concern with the editor or email [email protected].
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services, including language editing. You can find out more on our language services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.
Seeking permission for copyrighted material
If your article contains any material in which you do not own copyright, including figures, charts, tables, photographs or excerpts of text, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder to reuse that material. As the author it is your responsibility to obtain this permission and pay any related fees, and you will need to send us a copy of each permission statement at acceptance.
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How do I acknowledge permission in my paper?
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Authorship and contributorship
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For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
ORCID
We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
If you don’t already have an iD, you will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.