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Author Guidelines
Contents
1. Submission
2. Aims and Scope
3. Preparing Your Submission
4. Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations
5. Author Licensing
6. Publication Process After Acceptance
7. Post Publication
8. Editorial Office Contact Details
Thank you for your interest in Personnel Psychology.
Note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.
Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ppsych.
Note: Book Reviews should be emailed directly to the Book Review Editor at:
DR.STEVEN TOADDY
steven.toaddy@gmail.com
3001 Lafourche Ave.
Ruston, LA 71270
USA
The submission system will prompt authors to use an ORCID iD (a unique author identifier) to help distinguish their work from that of other researchers. Click here to find out more.
Click here for more details on how to use ScholarOne.
Data Protection
By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Wiley) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. You can learn more at https://authorservices.wiley.com/statements/data-protection-policy.html.
For help with submissions and questions regarding their preparation please contact: Managing Editor office: ppsychedoffice@wiley.com and for questions regarding fit and content, please contact Dr. Maria L. Kraimer: mkraimer@uoregon.edu
Personnel Psychology publishes psychological research centered around people at work. Articles span the full range of human resource management and organizational behavior topics, including job analysis, selection and recruiting, training and development, performance appraisal and feedback, compensation and rewards, careers, strategic human resource management, work design, global and cross-cultural issues, organizational climate, work attitudes and behaviors, motivation, teams, and leadership. Research conducted at multiple levels of analysis, including individual, team, and organizational levels, are welcome. Published articles include original empirical research, theory development, meta-analytic reviews, and narrative literature reviews. Articles are evaluated by at least two reviewers and an editor. Reviewers are chosen for their expertise in the topic area. Decisions regarding the acceptance of an article for publication are based on judgments of the article’s contribution on three key dimensions:
- Theoretical contribution: Does the article offer new and innovative ideas and insights or meaningfully extend or trim existing theory?
- Empirical contribution: Does the article offer new and unique findings, and/or provide strong replication or disconfirmation of previously published findings? In addition, are the study designs, data analysis, and results rigorous and appropriate in testing the hypotheses or research questions?
- Practical contribution: Does the article contribute to the improved management of people at work or help individuals better manage their own work life?
- Uses correct levels/units of analysis (e.g. person, job, group, organization, etc.) and has a falsifiable hypothesis
- Uses theory and arguments that are internally consistent.
- Uses clear and logical conceptual and theoretical development, leading from the literature review to hypotheses, propositions, or research questions.
- States purposes, hypotheses, research questions, and intended unique contribution clearly.
Parts of the Manuscript
Authors should prepare their manuscripts for blind review according to the directions provided in the 2010 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.), and ensure that DOI numbers are included for all articles referenced in the manuscript. Be sure to remove any information that may potentially reveal the identity of the authors to the review team.
Initial Submission
For the purposes of quicker submission and faster entry into peer review your initial submission can be in the form of one document. This document in .doc, .docx or .rtf format must be blinded and include the abstract, keywords, main text, references, tables, figures and appendices if applicable.
Accepted Manuscripts
Upon acceptance of your manuscript, you may be asked to remove your tables and figures from the main document and upload those separately to assure they are production ready. Other re-formatting may also be required and will vary depending on the state of your submission.
Cover Letters
This section is included as a part of the submission questions within Scholar One, please include:
- (i) A very brief overview of your paper’s purpose and contribution.
- (ii) Indicate the data collection method and design (e.g., qualitative interviews, experimental design, field survey, etc.) and level of analysis.
- Please be sure to include all authors’ names within the cover letter.
- Provide any information about earlier versions of this paper, or the data used in the current paper, that maybe be important to bring to the Editor’s attention.
Title Page
The title page is not required for initial submission but will be requested upon manuscript acceptance. The title page should contain:
- (i) a short informative title that contains the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (See Wiley's best practice seo tips);
- (ii) a short running title of less than 40 characters;
- (iii) the full names of the authors;
- (iv) the author's institutional affiliations at which the work was carried out;
- (v) acknowledgments
The present address of any author, if different from that where the work was carried out, should be supplied in a footnote.
Authorship
Please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on author listing eligibility. Please also be sure to list all authors in the cover letter.
Acknowledgments
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.
Conflict of Interest Statement
You will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. See the section ‘Conflict of Interest’ in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on what to include in this section. Please ensure you liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement. Authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Main Text File
As papers are double-blind peer reviewed, the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors.
The main text file should be presented in the following order:
- i. Title, abstract, and keywords;
- ii. Main text;
- iii. References;
- iv. Endnotes (if relevant);
- v. Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
- vi. Figures;
- vii. Appendices (if relevant).
Abstract
The Abstract should briefly summarize the purpose, hypotheses, methods, key findings, and implications; it should not exceed 200 words.
Keywords
Please provide up to 3 keywords as a required piece of the submission process.
Abstracting and Indexing Information
- ABI/INFORM Database (ProQuest)
- Business ASAP (GALE Cengage)
- Criminal Justice Collection (GALE Cengage)
- Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
- Emerald Management Reviews (Emerald)
- Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage)
- Human Resource Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing)
- InfoTrac (GALE Cengage)
- Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
- OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (HW Wilson)
- ProQuest Central (ProQuest)
- ProQuest Psychology Journals (ProQuest)
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO Publishing)
- Psychology Collection (GALE Cengage)
- PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
Main Text
- As papers are double-blind peer reviewed, the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors.
- The journal uses British/US spelling; however, authors may submit using either option, as spelling of accepted papers is converted during the production process.
- Papers should be double-spaced, in 12 point and Times New Roman font. Appropriate headings should appear throughout the manuscript (e.g., Hypotheses, Methods, Results, Discussion).
- Footnotes are allowed but should be used sparingly.
References
References should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). This means in text citations should follow the author-date method whereby the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998). The complete reference list should appear alphabetically by name at the end of the paper.
A sample of the most common entries in reference lists appears below. Please note that a DOI should be provided for all references where available. For more information about APA referencing style, please refer to the APA FAQ. Please note that for journal articles, issue numbers are not included unless each issue in the volume begins with page one.
Journal Article
Beers, S. R. , & De Bellis, M. D. (2002). Neuropsychological function in children with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 483–486. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.159.3.483
Book
Bradley-Johnson, S. (1994). Psychoeducational assessment of students who are visually impaired or blind: Infancy through high school (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-ed.
Internet Document
Norton, R. (2006, November 4). How to train a cat to operate a light switch [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vja83KLQXZs
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, not duplicate, information contained in the text. They should be supplied as editable files, not pasted as images. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend, and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings. All text in the Tables should be in 12 point font.
Figure Legends
Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
Preparing Figures
Although we encourage authors to send us the highest-quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes we are happy to accept a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions.
Click here for the basic figure requirements for figures submitted with manuscripts for initial peer review, as well as the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements.
Figures submitted in color may be reproduced in colour online free of charge. Please note, however, that it is preferable that line figures (e.g. graphs and charts) are supplied in black and white so that they are legible if printed by a reader in black and white. If an author would prefer to have figures printed in colour in hard copies of the journal, a fee will be charged by the Publisher.
Additional Files
Appendices
Any appendices should appear after the references, tables and figures.
Supporting Information
Supporting information is information that is not essential to the article, but provides greater depth and background. It is hosted online and appears without editing or typesetting. It may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc. Click here for Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.
Note: if data, scripts, or other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper are available via a publicly available data repository, authors should include a reference to the location of the material within their paper.
General Style Points
The following points provide general advice on formatting and style.
- Abbreviations: In general, terms should not be abbreviated unless they are used repeatedly and the abbreviation is helpful to the reader. Initially, use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation only.
- Numbers: Numbers under 10 are spelled out, except for: measurements with a unit (8mmol/l); age (6 weeks old), or lists with other numbers (11 dogs, 9 cats, 4 gerbils).
Wiley Author Resources
Manuscript Preparation Tips: Wiley has a range of resources for authors preparing manuscripts for submission available here. In particular, authors may benefit from referring to Wiley’s best practice tips on Writing for Search Engine Optimization.
Editing, Translation, and Formatting Support: Wiley Editing Services can greatly improve the chances of a manuscript being accepted. Offering expert help in English language editing, translation, manuscript formatting, and figure preparation, Wiley Editing Services ensures that the manuscript is ready for submission.
4. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Editorial Review and Acceptance
The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to journal readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are double-blind peer reviewed. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.
Wiley's policy on confidentiality of the review process is available here.
Data Storage and Documentation
Personnel Psychology encourages data sharing wherever possible, unless this is prevented by ethical, privacy, or confidentiality matters. Authors publishing in the journal are therefore encouraged to make their data, scripts, and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper available via a publicly available data repository; however, this is not mandatory. If the study includes original data, at least one author must confirm that he or she had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Human Studies and Subjects
For manuscripts reporting studies that involve human participants, a statement identifying the ethics committee that approved the study and confirmation that the study conforms to recognized standards is required, for example: Declaration of Helsinki; US Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects; or European Medicines Agency Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice.
Images and information from individual participants will only be published where the authors have obtained the individual's free prior informed consent. Authors do not need to provide a copy of the consent form to the publisher; however, in signing the author license to publish, authors are required to confirm that consent has been obtained. Wiley has a standard patient consent form available for use.
Research Reporting Guidelines
Accurate and complete reporting enables readers to fully appraise research, replicate it, and use it. Authors are encouraged to adhere to the following research reporting standards.
Conflict of Interest
The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to: patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.
Funding
Authors should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature: https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/.
Authorship
The list of authors should accurately illustrate who contributed to the work and how. All those listed as authors should qualify for authorship according to the following criteria:
- Have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
- Been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
- Given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content; and
- Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section (for example, to recognize contributions from people who provided technical help, collation of data, writing assistance, acquisition of funding, or a department chairperson who provided general support). Prior to submitting the article all authors should agree on the order in which their names will be listed in the manuscript.
Additional Authorship Options: Joint first or senior authorship: In the case of joint first authorship, a footnote should be added to the author listing, e.g. ‘X and Y should be considered joint first author’ or ‘X and Y should be considered joint senior author.’
ORCID
As part of the journal’s commitment to supporting authors at every step of the publishing process, the journal requires the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This takes around 2 minutes to complete. Find more information here.
Publication Ethics
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read the Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found at authorservices.wiley.com/ethics-guidelines/index.html.
If a paper is accepted for publication, the author identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting them to log in to Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be required to complete a copyright license agreement on behalf of all authors of the paper.
Authors may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or OnlineOpen under the terms of a Creative Commons License.
General information regarding licensing and copyright is available here. To review the Creative Commons License options offered under OnlineOpen, please click here. (Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used; to check this please click here.)
Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Green open access, also called self-archiving, is when the author, institution or publisher places a version of the article online in a repository or website after publishing in a subscription-based journal – making it freely available to everyone.
For more information about Wiley’s policy, visit the Self-Archiving page.
Open Access fees: This journal offers authors an open access option called OnlineOpen, to have their article immediately freely available to everyone, including those who don’t subscribe. To cover the cost of publishing OnlineOpen, authors pay an article publication charge (APC). The APC for this journal can be found on Wiley’s OnlineOpen Pricing page. Payment must be received for the article to be made open access. Some organizations pay APCs for their authors via a Wiley Open Access Account.
How to Order
Visit our OnlineOpen page for more information and instructions on how to order.
WALS & Full Open Access
Personnel Psychology offers an Open Access option: authors of accepted papers pay an Article Publication Charge and their papers are published under a Creative Commons license. With Creative Commons licenses, the author retains copyright and the public is allowed to reuse the content. The author grants Wiley a license to publish the article and identify as the original publisher.
If a paper is accepted for publication, the author identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting them to login to Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS), they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
To find out which Creative Commons Licenses are available for the journal, click here. To learn more about Creative Commons Licenses and to preview terms and conditions of the agreements, please click here. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used; to check this, please click here.
6. PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE
Accepted Article received in Production
When an accepted article is received by Wiley’s production team, you (corresponding author) will receive an email asking them to login or register with Wiley Author Services. You will be asked to sign a publication license at this point.
Proofs
Once your paper is typeset you will receive an email notification of the URL from where to download a PDF typeset page proof, associated forms and full instructions on how to correct and return the file.
Please note that you are responsible for all statements made in your work, including changes made during the editorial process and thus you must check your proofs carefully. Note that proofs should be returned 48 hours from receipt of first proof.
Publication Charges
Color figures may be published online free of charge.
Early View
The journal offers rapid publication via Wiley’s Early View service. Early View (Online Version of Record) articles are published on Wiley Online Library before inclusion in an issue. Note there may be a delay after corrections are received before your article appears online, as Editors also need to review proofs. Once your article is published on Early View no further changes to your article are possible. Your Early View article is fully citable and carries an online publication date and DOI for citations.
Publication Charges
Colour figures may be published online free of charge; however, the journal charges for publishing figures in colour in print. If the author supplies colour figures at Early View publication, they will be invited to complete a colour charge agreement in RightsLink for Author Services. The author will have the option of paying immediately with a credit or debit card, or they can request an invoice. If the author chooses not to purchase color printing, the figures will be converted to black and white for the print issue of the journal.
Page Charges
Only applicable to those who choose colour figures for print the author will be notified of the cost of page charges when they receive the proofs, along with instructions on how to pay for the charges.
Access and Sharing
When your article is published online:
- You receive an email alert (if requested).
- You can share a link to your published article through social media.
- As the author, you will have free access to your paper (after accepting the Terms & Conditions of use, you can view your article).
- The corresponding author and co-authors can nominate up to ten colleagues to receive a publication alert and free online access to your article.
You can now order print copies of your article (instructions are sent at proofing stage or use the below contact details).
Email: chris.jones@sheridan.com
Now is the time to start promoting your article. Find out how to do that here.
Measuring the Impact of your Work
Wiley also helps you measure the impact of your research through our specialist partnerships with Kudos and Altmetric.
8. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS
Managing editor Office: ppsychedoffice@wiley.com
Author Guidelines updated April 2017