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Submissions

This page contains instructions and useful information to make a submission to the journal. Please read through carefully before making a submission. 

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Status: ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS

Making a submission (step-by-step)

  1. Check your eligibility:

    1. Project was completed, or primarily conducted, during your undergraduate degree.

    2. The first author is currently an undergraduate student or has completed their undergraduate degree within three years prior to submission.

    3. Ethical approval for this research was granted by a Higher Education Institution.

    4. Submission falls within the field of psychology.

    5. Manuscript is not currently under review by a journal elsewhere.

    6. Submission is original work (not plagiarised or AI-generated).

    7. All authors have consented to publication.

  2. Check you have all your documents ready:

    1. Anonymised manuscript

    2. Is my manuscript within the word limit (8,000 words)?

    3. Is my manuscript formatted according to the formatting and styling guidelines?

    4. Title page

    5. Signed undergraduate authorship agreement

  3. Read our AI and Plagiarism Policy carefully.

  4. Fill out our submission form.

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Reviewing

Who are your reviewers?

Our reviewers are PhD students and early-career researchers. We endeavour to find students or researchers whose areas of study most closely map onto the topics your submission covers. If you are a current PhD student/postdoc and are interested in being a potential reviewer, please fill out this form!

What are the reviewing criteria?

This is what your reviewers are looking for when reading about your research!

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  1. Scientific Rigour & Methodological Appropriateness
    Are the research design, methods, and analyses appropriate and well-reasoned given the undergraduate context, and are they described with sufficient clarity to allow the reader to understand and evaluate the work, and to allow other researchers to replicate it?

  2. Originality & Engagement
    Does the work demonstrate originality at an undergraduate level, for example, through thoughtful research questions, extensions or replications of existing work, novel combinations of ideas, or clear synthesis of the literature?

  3. Relevance & Conceptual Significance
    Does the work engage with psychologically meaningful questions, and is the relevance of the research question clearly articulated within its theoretical or empirical context?

  4. Interpretation & Future Directions
    Are the conclusions generally supported by the results, and does the discussion appropriately relate the findings to existing literature while identifying reasonable directions for future research?

  5. Clarity & Quality of Presentation
    Is the manuscript clearly written and well structured, with arguments, methods, and results presented in a coherent and accessible manner?

If you have any further questions about the submission process, feel free to email us at upabjournal@gmail.com.

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