Articles on all aspects of Social Psychology, Personality and Developmental Psychology, are welcome for consideration and will receive professional and prompt attention. Social Behavior and Personality is proud of the fairness of its review process, and is noted for its consideration towards all prospective authors.

Receipt of papers will be acknowledged immediately by email and confirmed via airmail. Review of your manuscript will normally be completed within 8 weeks of receipt. If accepted and scheduled for publication, your manuscript will be published promptly, normally within 9 months. Proofs of the article will be airmailed to authors and any amendments should be returned or advised promptly (preferably via email or fax: otherwise by airmail).

Staff and students at institutions that subscribe to the Journal will have free online access to your article as well as the print copy subscription. The Journal is fully covered by the world's abstracting, indexing and retrieval networks.

In order for us to start the review process we need to receive from authors the names, email and postal addresses of two suitable reviewers who could consider the manuscript. These are additional to the others that we will nominate. All reviewers will be contacted by our editorial office.

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Manuscripts (double spaced) may be submitted online. A blind review process can be employed by the author by contacting us

In addition to normal length articles, there is a special option for publication of  research notes on work in progress

Regarding format, Social Behavior and Personality follows the recommendations of the latest revision of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association , which is available through the A.P.A., 750 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242 USA., or web http://www.apa.org/ and found in most libraries.

Please provide a running head abbreviating the title, which will appear at the top of pages in the published article. Also include fax, phone numbers, and email address for inclusion in a footnote to be published with your article.

Please provide full contact detail of all coauthors including their email address.

The manuscript should include an abstract, preferably no longer than 120 words, conforming to the style of Psychological Abstracts , in which it will appear as soon as possible if the article is published. Authors are encouraged to be as succinct as possible, and should retain a copy of their own articles.

The nonprofit Society for Personality Research, shares part of the cost of publication of an author's own paper in SBP, with the author(s) concerned. Publication costs are based on the length of the manuscript, and include detailed subediting, typesetting, initial proofing, airmailing proofs to authors, printing, collating, and binding etc. Author share of costs can be reduced by looking at the length of the article and providing a disk version of the manuscript, along with the hard copy version.

Immediately upon publication, a complimentary copy of the Journal issue is forwarded to each of the authors. In addition, upon the article's placement on either our website or the Ingenta website, an electronic copy, in pdf format, will be emailed to the corresponding author for scholarly dissemination.

Official article reprints with the journal cover are now available if requested prior to publication, at a special price to authors of US$5.00 per copy. Extra journal issues are also available at a reduced price of US$49.00 to authors published in that issue (normal retail price is US$74.00). If you are interested, please advise us of the required quantities of each product

Please contact us if you have any queries.