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Prepare your manuscript for Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology.

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Article types

Review
Registered Report
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Systematic Review
Lectio
Letter
Commentary
Perspective

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
  • Use a structured abstract.
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  • A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 40 pages, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions, footnotes, endnotes.
  • Your abstract should focus on what your research is about, what methods have been used, and what you found out.
  • Manuscript preparation guidelines – Stage 1 Initial Stage 1 submissions should include the following sections: Abstract 3 Information Classification: General • An abstract of no more than 200 words, similar in purpose and style to the abstract of any APA-style publication.
  • The instructions for authors for each journal will give specific guidelines on what’s required here, including whether it should be a structured abstract or graphical abstract, and any word limits.
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.Taylor & Francis Editing Services provides a graphical abstract creation service for a fee.

Keywords

  • Include or confirm the keywords required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references in APA style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • This should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
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  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • If you reply yes, you will be required to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • Estimated effect sizes for power analysis should be justified with reference to the existing literature.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Group figures at the end of the manuscript.
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  • Group tables at the end of the manuscript.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
  • Tables and figures Show clearly in your article text where the tables and figures should appear, for example, by writing [Table 1 near here].
  • Figures should be saved separately from the text.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Additional tables and figures should be presented in the Online Supplemental Material and should be referenced appropriately in the manuscript text.
  • It’s very important that you have been given permission to use any tables or figures you are reproducing from another source before you submit.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
  • Check the instructions for authors to see how you should supply tables and figures, whether at the end of the text or in separate files, and follow any guidance given on the submission system.

Funding statement

  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
  • In case that funding is not fully secured, e.g. in the context of a pending grant proposal, authors need to indicate the likelihood of the study being conducted if the funding falls through.

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Data availability statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Data availability statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Authors are required to provide a data availability statement (DAS), detailing where data associated with a paper can be found and how it can be accessed.
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  • If data cannot be made open, authors should state why in the data availability statement.
  • If the data cannot be made open, we recommend it is still preserved in a FAIR-compliant repository with appropriate access and controls in place.Authors are required toAuthors are required to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.

Ethics statement

  • Include or confirm the ethics statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Blinded manuscript

  • Editorial: Remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other direct identifiers from the blinded manuscript file.
  • Editorial: The data and syntax must be submitted with the Stage 2 submission to allow for an editorial check For the protection of intellectual ownership of the submitting authors, CRSP by default asks for non- anonymous reviews.
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  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.

Cover letter

  • Letter: Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
  • Letter: Stage 1 submissions should include the manuscript (details below) and a brief cover letter.
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  • Using Third-Party Material in your Paper You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • Letter: The cover letter should include: • A brief scientific case for consideration.
  • Review: The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Author contributions

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • Once the methodology and analyses have been carried out, these should be switched to the past tense for the Stage 2 submission.
  • These procedures must be adhered to exactly in the subsequent experiments or any Stage 2 manuscript will be rejected.
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  • Margins Margins should be at least 2.5cm (1 inch).
  • It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels.
  • To account for existing publication bias, which leads to overestimation of true effect sizes (Hedges & Vevea, 1996; Lane & Dunlap, 1978), power analysis must be based on the lowest available or meaningful estimate of the effect size.
  • Authors should indicate what distribution will be used to 4 Information Classification: General represent the predictions of the theory and how its parameters will be specified.
  • For example, will you use a uniform up to some specified maximum, or a normal/half-normal to represent a likely effect size (Dienes, 2011), or a JZS/Cauchy with a specified scaling constant (Rouder et al., 2009)?
  • Review / Editorial: Consistent with the standard editorial process, Stage 1 submissions will be sent out for review, and authors should plan to incorporate feedback from the reviewers and editor.
  • If possible cross validation (e.g., a random 10% of the sample are left out to test a model developed on 90% of the sample; with 10 repetitions such that all subjects have once served to test the model) should be employed, too.
  • If applicable and possible, additional experimental tests of causal/correlations relations derived from the large dataset should be pre-registered as well, to complement the dataset analysis • If applicable and possible, applications of the same analysis to other large datasets (e.g., data from other years or waves of data collection) should be pre-registered as well, to complement the dataset analysis To be considered at Stage 2 submission: • Exploratory analyses added to the preregistered analyses are not deemed adequate for this format.
  • In that case, authors are advised to pre-register additional studies. 7 Information Classification: General • Exact p values, effect sizes, and confidence intervals must be reported for all null hypothesis significance tests.
  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • Data must be deposited in a recognized data repository prior to or at the time of submission.
  • You will also need to upload your LaTeX source files, which should be uploaded as a single zip file alongside your submission and marked as “LaTeX Source Files”.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • Where analysis decisions are contingent on the outcome of prior analyses, these contingencies must be specified and adhered to.
  • For studies involving Bayesian hypothesis testing, the predictions of the theory must be specified so that a Bayes factor can be calculated.
  • The parameters need not be stated in advance, but where unstated, authors must indicate what aspect of data will be used to set those parameters.
  • When using Bayes factors, adjustments for multiple comparisons are not required.
  • We seek to support authors as much as possible when they want or need to use this analysis.
  • Full descriptions must be provided of any outcome-neutral criteria that are required for successful testing of the stated hypotheses.
  • Ideally different models or analytical approaches should be compared.
  • The dataset must be publicly available • Datasets should be split into learn/trial and test subsets.
  • Depending on the size of the dataset the split should be set at an n for which stable models can be expected.
  • A stable URL should be provided in the manuscript (authors’ dropbox accounts are not stable).
  • Data files should be appropriately time stamped to show that data was collected after IPA and not before.
  • A basic laboratory log must also be provided outlining the range of dates during which data collection took place.
  • Relevant introductions to exploratory analyses or exploratory studies must be introduced in the flow of the manuscript, i.e., after the pre-registered studies.
  • Such cases must lead to withdrawal of the entire paper.
  • Authors of such type of studies must engage in the project openly without having clear preconceptions of the replicability of the original effect.
  • Before you submit your article, make sure you’ve checked the instructions for authors for your chosen journal, so you are aware of everything required.
  • Most journals create image descriptions during the production process, but a minority may require authors to provide image descriptions.
  • Review: Running heads and received dates These aren’t required when submitting a manuscript for review.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Please note that data should only be shared if it is ethically correct to do so, where this does not violate the protection of human subjects, or other valid ethical, privacy, or security concerns.
  • Procedures for participant inclusion criteria (screening procedures) and objectively defining exclusion criteria due to technical errors (e.g. defining what counts as ‘excessive’ head movement during fMRI, or outliers in response latency studies) or for any other reasons must be documented, including details of how and under what conditions subjects would be replaced.
  • The authors should consider the following aspects when submitting a Stage 1 manuscript: 5 Information Classification: General • Given the nature of the submission, the evaluative focus will predominantly rest on the theoretical contribution and the analytical rigor.
  • Editorial / Protocol: In cases where the pre-registered protocol is altered after IPA due to unforeseen circumstances (e.g. change of equipment or unanticipated technical or procedural error), the authors must consult the editorial board immediately for advice, and prior to the completion of data collection.
  • Review: Note that registered analyses must be undertaken, but additional unregistered analyses can also be included in a final manuscript (see below). 6 Information Classification: General Stage 2: Full manuscript review Once the approved research is complete, authors prepare and resubmit their manuscript for full review, with the following additions: Submission of raw data and laboratory log • Next to uploading data and laboratory log, we strongly encourage that raw data must be made freely available via a publicly accessible archive.
  • The outcome of all registered analyses must be reported in the manuscript, except in rare instances where a registered and approved analysis is subsequently shown to be logically flawed or unfounded.
  • In case that an additional exploratory study is added to the final manuscript, the balance towards pre-registered and exploratory content should be discussed with the editors prior to inclusion.
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: European accents (Greek, Hebrew, or Cyrillic letters, or phonetic symbols): choose Times New Roman font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: Asian languages (such as Sanskrit, Korean, Chinese, or Japanese): choose Arial Unicode font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Review / Registered Report: If the authors wish to alter the experimental procedures more substantially following IPA but still wish to publish their article as a Registered Report, then the manuscript must be submitted to a review procedure determined by the Action Editor.
  • If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in ScholarOne.
  • For longitudinal samples, the authors need to specify how and when, i.e., under which conditions, re-sampling will occur.
  • Partial withdrawals are not possible; i.e. authors cannot publish part of a registered study by selectively withdrawing one of the planned experiments.
  • If you are at the early stage of your research, you may also need to read how to start writing a journal manuscript.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Statistical reporting

  • The a priori power must be 0.8 or higher for all statistical hypothesis tests.
  • In this case, authors should use robust statistics and avoid simple null-hypothesis testing.
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  • Studies involving null hypothesis significance testing must include a statistical power analysis.
  • Authors should employ statistical approaches that are in line with the demands and characteristics of the (size of) their data set, and expect higher evaluation standards compared to a submission with future data collection.
  • Data must be submitted in a format that lends itself to inspection via common statistical packages (by default.csv file, other formats to be accepted in agreement with the Action Editor) and accompanied by guidance notes, where required, to assist other scientists in replicating the analysis pipeline.
  • Where the interpretation depends on inferential statistical analysis, authors should be careful not to base their conclusions entirely on the outcome of statistically significant exploratory tests.
  • In case of meta-analyses, inclusion and exclusion criteria of studies, search methods, the definition of the variables for the analyses (inclusion and exclusion of differences in variable operationalization), and the model to be tested, need to be specified.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.

Article type and manuscript length

  • All material not in the main text should be placed in an Online Supplemental Material document.
  • Preparing Your Paper Structure Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Language and text style

  • Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”.
  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
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  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fourth-level headings should be in bold italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fifth-level headings should be in italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Letter: Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Second-level headings should be in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Letter: Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.

Manuscript structure

  • Methods • To avoid confusion, the methods and results sections should be written in the future tense at Stage 1.
  • All pre-planned analyses must be reported in the main Results section of Stage 2 submissions.
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  • For inference by Bayes factors, authors should guarantee testing participants until the Bayes factor is either more than 3 and less than 0.33 to ensure clear conclusions.
  • Whether the Introduction, rationale, and stated hypotheses are the same as the approved Stage 1 submission (required).
  • Authors are required to make the data and materials supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper freely available.
  • Any such literature should be covered in the Discussion.
  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.
  • In the context of field studies, a clear description of the sampling method, and how the researchers plan to deal with deviations from the planning sampling goal, must be provided.
  • Results & Discussion • Results section must have the heading "Preregistered Analyses" and, if applicable, "Exploratory Analyses." Subheadings under these headings should describe the specific analytic topics.
  • Such analyses are admissible but must be reported in a separate section of the Results titled “Exploratory analyses.” The same holds for exploratory studies that authors may want to add.
  • Overall, then, the final manuscript should have the following general structure (including examples of how each section might read): Introduction [as preregistered, with only minor formatting or wording changes] Method "We preregistered the following methodology: 300 subjects were planned to be collected based on power analysis x, y, z.
  • This is the analysis we conducted, and the following effects were observed." Results: Exploratory [if any] 8 Information Classification: General "The following were exploratory, non-preregistered analyses." General Discussion [typical General Discussion, plus any additional information that might normally be included in the intro, e.g., explaining exploratory findings] Throughout, one should be clear about which aspects of the report were preregistered and which (if any) were not preregistered.
  • Letter: Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: First-level headings (e.g. Introduction, Conclusion) should be in bold, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Introduction • Please note that the Introduction cannot be altered from the approved Stage 1 submission, and the stated hypotheses cannot be amended or appended.
  • A statement confirming that the authors agree to share their raw data and laboratory log for all published results, or why their data cannot be shared (e.g.
  • due to further planned analyses in the context of longitudinal studies, anonymity issues in the context of specialty samples) A statement confirming that if the authors later withdraw their paper after having received an IPA, they agree to CRSP publishing a short summary of the pre-registered study under a section Withdrawn Registrations.
  • Please note that following IPA, the Introduction section cannot be altered (see below).

Study reporting guidelines

  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).
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Abstract: 200 words
References: APA
Declarations: Data availability, Artificial intelligence
Format: Times New Roman

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