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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.
  • Research must be done at UBC or have a direct connection with UBC
  • The student must have completed the work for the paper as an undergraduate student
  • Unpublished, original research, and analytical theses, written in English independently or for a class at UBC
  • The research must have been completed in 2021 or later in order to be eligible for submission
  • The submission cannot be undergoing review in another journal
  • The submission cannot already be published elsewhere
  • The main content of the paper must be related to psychological research but the topic can be approached from different disciplines
  • Must be the main author of the work and have permission from others involved in the work for submission
  • The paper must follow the most current version of APA
  • Each student can submit a maximum of 2 papers each submission cycle
  • If accepted, in each round of review, authors must be prepared to revise requested edits and meet all deadlines
  • **Download and complete the Submission Form linked below, and prepare to submit it as a file in step 2 of the submission process:
    https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/ubcujp/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/215577
  • **Download and complete the Manuscript Submission Information form linked below, and prepare to submit it as a file in step 2 of the submission process:
    https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/ubcujp/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/215576
  • Please see the following rules for the submission of all sections of your manuscript (i.e. Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, References).
    • Abstract has a maximum of 200 words.
    • Up to 5 keywords may be included on the abstract page.
    • The body of the manuscript (introduction, methods, results, discussion) has a minimum of 1000 words and a maximum of 5000 words.
    • Up to 5 figures/tables/images can be included in your manuscript. Please ensure that your figures/tables/images have appropriate captions.
    • The manuscript must follow the APA 7th edition.
    • Please ensure this attachment is completely de-identified. Do not include any author names, affiliations, or contact information in the attachment. Failure to do so will result in significant delays in the editorial process.
    • Please do not include the title page in your attatchment

Author Guidelines

Please attach the file of your manuscript. The attachment MUST be a Word (.docx) file for reviewing and editing purposes. Attachments not in the .docx file will result in significant delays in the editorial process. 

In this attachment, please attach all sections of your manuscript (i.e. Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, References). Please see the following rules: 

  • Abstract has a maximum of 200 words. 
  • Up to 5 keywords may be included on the abstract page.
  •  The body of the manuscript (introduction, methods, results, discussion) has a minimum of 1000 words and a maximum of 5000 words. 
  • Up to 5 figures/tables/images can be included in your manuscript. Please ensure that your figures/tables/images have appropriate captions.
  • The manuscript must follow the APA 7th edition. 
  • Please ensure this attachment is completely de-identified. Do not include any m 
  • ‘author names, affiliations, or contact information in the attachment. Failure to do so will result in significant delays in the editorial process.

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(1)Being an open access journal, UBCUJP will apply the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ to all published works. Under this license, authors retain ownership and copyright to their article, but allow anyone to download and share articles in the UBCUJP, so long as the original author(s) and sources are cited and the works are not used for commercial purposes or altered in any way;

(2)The Author(s) grant the UBCUJP the right of first and exclusive distribution of the published work in print and/or online. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of UBCUJP’s published version of their work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in UBCUJP;

(3)The Author(s) warrant that permission to publish the article has not been previously assigned elsewhere;

(4)The Author(s) warrant that the contribution is original to them, except for any copyrighted material of others incorporated in it, and that the Author(s) will advise us of any material, either text or illustration or graphical, the rights for which are controlled by others. Where necessary, the Author(s) will obtain, before publication and at their expense, permission in writing from the owner of the copyright in that material for publication by us.

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