All manuscripts to be submitted for Journals of Psychopathology and Behavioral Health (JPBH) should be Online, and we have Online Manuscript Tracking System to help you know the status of the articles you submitted to us.

For this reason, JPBH has developed an electronic manuscript tracking and peer review system. If you are interested in submitting a manuscript, please click here to send your notification mail to us. Upon reception of your mail, a web link will be sent to you to commence registration processes, by creating a Username and password that will enable you have access to our editing processes and the conditions of your manuscript.

To follow a shortcut, click here to create a new username/password right away.

If you already have a username/password in the system, click here to log onto your account.

Processes to follow while submitting your Manuscripts

1. Necessary Information
We only accept manuscripts written in English Language, mainly in American, British or South Africa. You must observe consistency in English nomenclature your decided to write one. You must not, for example, start with British English and switch over to American or South African English.

For all behavioural science articles, we encourage authors to follow APA styles in citation, references and writing. You are also required to observe the following:

Acknowledgements: All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chairperson who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.

Ethical Issues in research: Conflict of interest and funding Authors are responsible for disclosing financial support from the industry or other conflicts of interest that might bias the interpretation of results.

Statistic validity: If complicated statistical data are provided, the authors may be requested to submit a statement issued by a certified statistician regarding the validity of methods used.

2. Manuscript Template

Please click here to download the template

3. 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:

I, the corresponding author, am authorized by all of my co-authors to submit this manuscript.

All manuscripts must comply with the following guidelines:

• Identifying information for all authors: first name, last name, e-mail address, affiliation, etc;
• Manuscript title;
• Manuscript abstract.
• Contact information (name, e-mail address, telephone number with country’s code, postal address (optional) and affiliation) of suggested and/or excluded reviewers (if any).
• The submission has not been previously published with another journal, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The manuscript, or any part thereof, is in no way a violation of any existing original or derivative copyright.

The manuscript contains nothing obscene, indecent, objectionable or libelous.

The submission file must be in Microsoft Word document format only.

Supplemental files are submitted in accordance with instructions and information is given on a separate page at the end of the main manuscript.

4. Submission Steps

The manuscript submission process consists of 5 primary steps that gather detailed information about your manuscript: 1. Journal information, 2. Manuscript general information, 3 Authors' information, 4 Reviewers' information, 5.Validation and Submission. You will need to complete the primary tasks in the correct order. You will have the opportunity to make changes to your submission until your manuscript is reviewed. The sequence of screens is as follows:

Step1 Journal Information
Select the journal to which you would like to submit your manuscript. You could not change the selected journal after submitting the manuscript in the step5, so be sure you select the appropriate journal.

Step2 Manuscript General Information
The 'Manuscript General Information' primary step asks you to submit the manuscript type, title, abstract, keywords, pages and file.

You must select the actual file location (via an open file dialogue) on your computer. Acceptable formats for the manuscript file should be in Micorsoft Word document format only. Acceptable formats for figures include JPEG (.jpg or .jpeg), GIF (.gif), PostScript (.ps or .prn) and TIFF (.tif or .tiff). The file or figure could not exceed 6MB in the online system.

Step3 Authors' Information
Please provide the names, running titles, Email addresses, and affiliations of all the authors (including current affiliation and affiliation where the work was primarily carried out) of this manuscript, in the order that they appear on the manuscript. In order to submit a manuscript, you must be one of the authors of the manuscript.

Please note, if you are the corresponding author please submit your details correctly, especially the email and telephone number.

Step4 Reviewers' Information
You may suggest information of some particularly qualified reviewers who have had experience in the subject of the submitted manuscript, but who are not affiliated with the same institutes as the contributor. You may also submit a list of reviewers to be excluded.

Step5 Validation and Submission
The Validation and Submission step is the last step in the manuscript submission process, which gives you the opportunity to check and verify the manuscript information and manuscript file uploaded. You may update and/or change manuscript information and manuscript file by clicking on the 'Previous' button respectively. Once your manuscript has been finalized, click on the 'Approve Submission' button to submit your manuscript.

After submission you will receive an acknowledgement email. You can check the status of your manuscript at any time by accessing the system with your username and password or link sent to you in the acknowledgement email.

Please note that the submission process is not complete and your manuscript will not be received by the editors until you have approved the above 5 steps.

5. Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted for publication in JPBH will be reviewed anonymously by at least two independent experts in the particular area, the author will receive evaluation results within a month to decide the manuscript would be accepted or rejected

Your Rights, Our Responsibility
As an author at JPBH, your rights will be protected and ensured that any and all legal information and copyright regulations are addressed. Whether an author is published with JPBH or any other publisher, we hold ourselves and our colleagues to the highest standards of ethics, responsibility and legal obligation.

Active Peer Review
All our journals, which are run by a group of experienced professional editors, are subject to an efficient, fair, and constructive peer review process.

Maximum Global Distribution
Our sales and marketing teams will ensure that your article gets the widest exposure possible and our website guarantees visibility, including social bookmarking services, so that your article reaches those people who need to read and cite it.

High Quality, Reliable Rapid Production
Our JPBH production teams work together to continuously improve and enhance our services, building issues online and our new, even quicker production workflows. We deliver these innovations without compromising our high quality standards.

Access and Archiving Policies
JPBH publishes peer-reviewed scholarly journals indexed with some international databases. All of journals published by JPBH provide immediate free access to the full text of articles in PDF format. PDF access is free for all of the journals in the world. This policy is very well compatible with the definition of open access where PDF is always free .The journals also permit authors' self-archiving. The open access policy of the journals aims at increasing the visibility and accessibility of the published content and thus providing the desirable research impact.