AUTHORS

>Submit an article online 

>Download instructions for the authors  

Submission Guidelines

1. Papers should be sent online via the website http://journals.copmadrid.org/apj
2. Submission of a paper to the Annual Review of Legal Psychology implies that it has not been sent simultaneously to any other journal, or previously been published elsewhere.
3. The journal adopts the style and norms of the APA Publication Manual, published by the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C., USA (http://www.apa.org/journals/ authors/ html).
4. Texts should be a maximum of 35 pages long (not including notes, tables, graphs and diagrams). Texts should be double-spaced with a wide margin (e.g. 5 cm to each side), with all pages numbered (including the title page). The manuscript should be prepared by using MicrosoftWord, 12 point Times New Roman font. Tables should be included at the end of the manuscript, on separate pages, and their approximate placing within the main text. The tables must be produced using the key and without using dividing lines.
5. Any graphs and illustrations should also be included at the end of the document, after the tables and on separate Their approximate placing in the document should also be indicated. Graphics must be in grayscale only.
6. Manuscripts must include an abstract (summary of the content in no more than 150 words), if the original is in Spanish, the abstract must also be sent in English.
7. The manuscript can be written in Spanish or The manuscripts in Spanish will include an extended summary at the end of the text and before the references containing a broad summary of the content of the paper, with regard in particular to the issue examined, the method, the results and the discussion. This extended summary will not include tables, fi gures or graphs; if necessary a reference can be made to them. It will have a word count of 1,000 to 1,200 words. The manuscripts written directly in English will not include an extended summary. Furthermore, the manuscript must not exceed a maximum of 10,000 words in total, including the abstract, extended summary, tables, references, etc.). If this standard number of words is exceeded this should be very well justifi ed.
8. The title of the work should be written on the fi rst page of each manuscript, and, if the title is in Spanish, its translation into English will also be included, along with a short title, the name or names of its author(s), their affiliation (not a full postal address), keywords, a postal address for correspondence and any other information related to the manuscript’s elaboration or concise thanks which the author wishes to transmit and which are of
9. References should include the corresponding Authors can paste the list of references on the web http://www.crossref.org/ guestquerry/ and obtain the list of references with DOI in each, in cases that have DOI (also can fi ll in the details of an appointment on the web http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/).
10. The responsibility for obtaining written permission to use any material likely to be subject to copyright protection is the author’s. This includes, but is not limited to, figures, graphs, tables, images and photographs.
11. Before final publication of manuscripts, authors will cede their copyright to the Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid, by signing the appropriate Intellectual property rights remain the reserve of the authors. The Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid will authorize authors to use material published by the Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid and which is intellectual property of the authors, at any time, without the need for prior authorization, as long as the journal in which it was published is quoted.

Print proofs and copies of articles

Authors whose articles have been accepted for publication will receive printing proofs, normally in the form of PDF fi les, to the contact address that they provide, and these should be carefully checked to see that they are entirely the same as the original accepted for publication. Proofs should be returned within 72 hours of receipt. Given that these proofs are created from the electronically submitted manuscripts already accepted, no modifications or alterations will be accepted at this stage apart from correction of printing errors or small mistakes not detected during the revision process. Authors will receive a hard copy of the issue of the journal in which their article appears, free of charge. In addition, authors may request additional copies of the issue in which their manuscript is published at special rates established by the Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid.