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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.
  • The submission explicitly situates itself in relation to, or engages with pluralistic practice, philosophy, or values.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • The submission follows APA 7 style, as explained in the Author Guidelines, unless previously agreed with the editorial team.
  • By submitting their work, authors confirm that the content is their original creation.
  • By submitting their work, the author confirms that the work has 1. either received approval from an applicable research ethics committee, or 2. is in alignment with a speciic set of research guidelines (such as BACP, BPS, UKCP, BASW). Ethical decision-making in regard to client confidentiality, consent to praticipate and publish, and so on should be made clear and explicit in the submission.

Author Guidelines

We welcome submissions to our peer-reviewed journal that adhere to the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th edition style guidelines. APA 7 provides a set of rules for writing academic papers, including formatting guidelines, citation guidelines, and guidelines for presenting data.

Formatting Guidelines:

  • Manuscripts should be double-spaced with 1-inch margins on all sides.
  • Times New Roman font in 12-point size should be used throughout the manuscript.
  • The title page should include the title of the paper, author names and affiliations, and the corresponding author's contact information.
  • The abstract should be no more than 250 words and briefly summarize the purpose, methods, results, and conclusions of the paper.
  • The main text should be divided into sections with clear headings.

Citation Guidelines:

  • In-text citations should include the author's last name and the year of publication (e.g., Smith, 2021).
  • If the author's name is not given, use the first few words of the title in quotation marks, followed by the year (e.g., "New Study," 2021).
  • When citing a source with multiple authors, include all authors' names in the first citation and use "et al." for subsequent citations (e.g., Smith et al., 2021).
  • Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the author's last name and include the author's name, publication year, title of the article or book, name of the journal or publisher, and relevant page numbers.

Guidelines for Presenting Data:

  • Tables and figures should be labeled with a brief, informative title and numbered in the order they appear in the text.
  • Tables should be used to present data that is difficult to understand when presented in narrative form.
  • Figures should be used to present data that can be understood visually.
  • All tables and figures should be cited in the text and include a source note.

In submitting their work, authors should ensure that their manuscript adheres to these APA 7 style guidelines, including proper formatting, citation, and presentation of data.

Please see further detail at the APA website here: APA Style

Research

Research papers include studies that provide evidence relating to the operation of pluralistic skills and strategies, and the outcomes afforded by these activities. Research papers may be based on the application of any recognised methodology: quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, participatory/co-produced, indigenous, action research, case study, ethnography, autoethnography, collective autoethnography, secondary analysis, historical, cultural. Research reviews, and articles that present examples of methodological innovation are also included in this category. Article length will normally be 5000-6000 words, with a maximum of 10,000 words. Brief research reports of less that 2,000 words are welcome.

Theory

Theory articles critically analyse key concepts, explore the relevance for pluralistic practice of philosophical ideas and traditions, or engage with the contribution to pluralistic practice of social, psychological and psychotherapeutic theory. Article length will normally be 5000-6000 words, with a maximum of 10,000 words.

Practice Reflections

Practice reflection refers to first-person writing that enables individuals or groups to articulate and share their experience and learning around any aspect of pluralistic practice. Practice reflection pieces are invited from clients, service users, carers, and members of the public as well as from professional practitioners and researchers. Contributors are welcome – but not required -  to make use of creative and visual modes of communication, where relevant to the purpose of the article. The Practice Reflection section includes articles that reflect on the relevance for practice of books, and research articles (or programmes of research) published in other journals. Article length will normally be between 2,000 and 5,000 words.

Retrospectives

Academic publishing rarely affords writers with an opportunity to reflect publicly on their research and its subsequent impact following publication. Research impact may be profound, but because it cannot reflexively influence the originally published work, that work may usually be regarded as a monological statement.

This journal envisages knowledge-creation as a reflexive, dialogical practice, both inter- and intra-personally. We invite authors to create new work that responds to and develops their existing published research, speaking to its reception and impact in the wider fields of research and / or professional practice. We term these retrospectives. Retrospective articles would not replicate existing work, but would offer a meta-perspective on the work. Written for a general research and practice readership, such articles will generally be shorter than a standard submission.

Amongst many other possible approaches, retrospective submissions might develop, extend, appraise, or update previously published research. Writers may offer a personal reflection on the research process or make interdisciplinary or theoretical associations that were not expedient to make in the published article. They might offer practice-focused illustrations of the research or reflections on the impact and effects of the work’s publication and dissemination. We encourage writers to present their reflection in the light of pluralistic values or frameworks. We also welcome co-produced, collaborative and / or interdisciplinary submissions by co-authors seeking to elaborate theoretical or practical synergies between their respective projects and interests.

Retrospectives offer writers an open access platform to respond to their own work, increase its impact, and invite further commentary and dialogue from the wider pluralistic community of readers and writers. These articles may be suitable for submission into any section of the journal, being empirically, conceptually, or reflectively grounded.

If you would like to submit new writing that responds to your own published research, and would like to discuss your proposed submission, we welcome enquiries to the Core Editorial Team. Such submissions must include a hyperlink to the existing publication.

Commentaries

Commentaries

Published articles will be accompanied by two commentaries of up to 2000 words in length. Commentaries will be written by members of the Core Editorial Team, the wider International Editorial Board, and / or other members of the pluralistic community. The Pluralistic Practice Journal recognises that pluralistic knowledge-creation is collaborative. Research participates in a broad conversation with existing and future knowledge, as well as with individual researchers, readers, practitioners, and stakeholders. Knowledge-creation is therefore always co-creative. Commentaries will offer responses that promote pluralistic values such as openness, collegiality, and collaboration in this mutual creative process. The journal also recognises that knowledge-creation is embodied as well as theoretical, practical as well as hypothetical, and personal as well as general. So, published commentaries will be responses ‘from the heart’ of readers who have been touched or impacted by the published work. Responses may therefore come a practice-based, research, trans-disciplinary or a personal perspective. Commentaries are intended to prompt further discussion and dialogue, to generate meaningful links across professional communities and disciplines, and to be useful both to the published author(s) and to the wider community of readers.

Authors are invited (but not required) to respond to commentaries. Following publication, further on-going moderated discussion of articles is available within a Dialogue Forum within pluralisticpractice.com 

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