Reading, Writing, and Reviewing: Recommendations for Scholarly Manuscripts at the Graduate and Professional Level

摘要

Scholarship plays a central role in clinical psychology. However, writing for publication and reviewing for journals both require a substantial investment of time and energy. Several recommendations are provided to improve the quality of manuscripts that are submitted for publication. First, prospective authors are encouraged to focus on their own novel and useful ideas that remain clearly focused on psychological issues. Second, authors should provide evidence to support the claims, remaining well integrated with the published literature in the area. Third, strong manuscripts remain as concise as possible. Fourth, authors are encouraged to use proper grammar and active phrasing throughout the text in order to increase the likelihood that their paper will be read by colleagues. Finally, most journal editors hope to publish papers that will be cited by others in the field, and potentially quoted in future publications. The recommendations for scholarly writing may be useful for prospective authors as well as journal reviewers, hoping to facilitate the ease of publishing and improving the quality of manuscripts.