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Author Guidelines

Submission of an Article

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.

An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly.

Review and submission forms are highly recommended.

With reference to submission, a standard Word file form facilitating the inclusion of all required information is provided. The official submission form is now available at this link.

Submitted articles should have an abstract, separate from the main text, 300 words maximum. This summary does not include references.

The summary should provide a basic-level introduction to the field; a brief background and principle of the work; a statement of the main results and conclusions; and 2–3 sentences that place the main findings into a general context.

Formats for MJCP

The journal considers the following types of submissions:

  • Original Research Articles
  • Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
  • Scoping Reviews
  • Clinical Trials and Intervention Studies
  • Methodological and Instrument Validation Studies
  • Theoretical and Conceptual Articles
  • Brief Reports
  • Case Reports and Case Series
  • Registered Reports
  • Study Protocols
  • Conference Proceedings
  • Book Reviews
  • Commentaries and Perspectives
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Editorials

Conference proceedings are considered for publication if they meet the journal’s peer-review standards and are relevant to the scope of the journal.

Cover Letter

All submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter briefly stating the significance of the research, agreement of authors for publication, number of figures and tables, supporting manuscripts, and supplementary information. Also, include author information and current telephone and fax numbers, as well as postal and e-mail address of corresponding author.

Article Preparation Guidelines-Manuscript

Title

The title should be limited to 25 words or less and should not contain abbreviations. The title should be a brief phrase describing the contents of the paper.

Running Title

Short running title, 8 words maximum.

Abstract

A structured form is highly recommended. The abstract should be informative and completely self-explanatory; briefly present the topic, state the scope of the research, indicate significant data, and point out major findings and conclusions. The abstract should summarize the manuscript content in 300 words or less. Standard nomenclature should be used and abbreviations should be avoided. The preferable format should accommodate a description of the study background, methods, results and conclusion.

Keywords

From 3 to 5 keywords representative of the main theoretical/clinical domains are needed.

Introduction

The Introduction should set the tone of the paper by providing a clear statement of the study, the relevant literature on the study subject and the proposed approach or solution. The introduction should be general enough to attract a reader’s attention from a broad range of scientific disciplines. The presentation of the main hypotheses at the end of the introduction is appreciated.

All statements presented in this section must be adequately justified in relation to the current state of the art. Authors are required to provide a comprehensive analysis of the available scientific literature, ensuring that each statement is supported by high-quality research evidence.

In this respect, the Introduction must accurately reflect the current state of knowledge in the field and be representative of the most up-to-date scientific evidence.

Materials and Methods

This section should provide a complete overview of the design of the study. Detailed descriptions of materials, participants (including inclusion and exclusion criteria), comparisons, interventions, and types of analysis must be clearly reported.

All methodological choices, including study design, procedures, instruments, and protocols, must be adequately justified and supported by relevant scientific literature. In particular, authors are required to provide appropriate references supporting the use of methods and instruments, including their specific characteristics (e.g., validity and reliability indices).

The instruments must be presented in both their original validation and possible linguistic adaptations. The scientific contributions responsible for such validations, cross-validations, or adaptations shall be faithfully cited. For the description of psychological or other tools, the introduction of the main statistical indices is necessary.

In studies where applicable (e.g., systematic reviews, clinical trials), prior registration of the study protocol is required and is considered an important indicator of transparency and methodological rigor.

Furthermore, adherence to internationally recognized reporting standards is strongly recommended. For instance, systematic reviews should be structured in accordance with PRISMA guidelines, and, more generally, study designs should be framed and reported in line with relevant international methodological standards.

Results

The Results section must provide a clear, complete, and accurate presentation of the findings of the study, ensuring that all reported results directly support the conclusions.

Results should be written in the past tense when referring to findings obtained in the authors’ study, while previously published findings should be reported in the present tense.

Findings must be presented both narratively and through appropriate visual supports, including tables, figures, and high-quality images. All graphical and tabular materials must be clearly labelled, methodologically coherent, and of sufficient quality to ensure readability and scientific transparency.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that all visual materials comply with copyright regulations and intellectual property standards. Any use of previously published material must be properly declared, justified, and cited.

The presentation of results must adhere to the ethical standards outlined, ensuring a faithful, transparent, and unbiased representation of the data. Interpretations included in this section must remain closely grounded in the data and supported by scientific plausibility, avoiding overgeneralizations or claims that exceed the scope of the methods and results.

While extensive interpretation should be reserved for the Discussion section, authors are encouraged to briefly contextualize and clarify key findings within the Results section, rather than relying exclusively on tables and figures for data presentation.

Discussion

The Discussion section should provide a critical interpretation of the study findings, placing them within the context of the current state of the art. Authors are expected to systematically compare their results with existing literature, highlighting consistencies, discrepancies, and potential explanations. This comparison ensures scientific rigor and supports the interpretation and relevance of the findings in light of established knowledge.

The Discussion should emphasize the theoretical, methodological, and, where applicable, clinical implications of the results, while avoiding overgeneralizations or claims that are not supported by the data.

This section should include, or be followed by, a clear presentation of the strengths and limitations of the study. A transparent acknowledgment of limitations is essential to ensure adherence to the actual scope and validity of the research and to prevent unwarranted extrapolations of the findings.

The Discussion should be followed by a Conclusions section, aimed at summarizing the main findings of the study and their relevance. Conclusions should be concise, grounded in the results, and reflective of the study’s contributions to the field.

Ethical Statement

Studies involving animal or human subjects must include the Ethical Statement including approval number and date (see the following Submission Preparation Checklist).

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

All authors must disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. Authors are required to disclose any potential conflict of interest.

Acknowledgement

This section includes acknowledgment of people, grant details, funds, etc.

References

All references must be formatted in APA style 7th Edition in the text and listed in the references section.

Hyperlinks DOIs (where available) should follow each bibliographical reference.

The in-text citations and the final reference list must be perfectly matched.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines. All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  1. 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).
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, hyperlink form for every DOI of the references have been provided.
  4. The text is 1.5 spaced; uses a 12-point Garamond font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. It is important that the author who submits the paper, in the registration form, fill carefully the field references according to specifications. All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa. APA Style 7th Edition must be adopted for both in-text and final list references. Footnotes are not allowed.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, procedure ensuring a blind review have been followed.
  7. In compliance with ethical policies, for all manuscripts including human subjects, the authors must declare an ethical statement. Studies involving human subjects must contain a statement reporting their will to adhere to the study and their informed consent.
  8. In compliance with ethical policies, for all animal studies, the authors are required to specify that their practices were ethically adherent to high standards, approved and compliant to guidelines. Ethical Committee approval number and date are mandatory for all studies including human subjects and animals.
  9. Authors’ contribution: A short paragraph reporting authors’ individual contribution to the research. Authors shall be listed with their initials. For homonyms and authors presenting identical initials, specify their position within brackets (e.g. AA (first author) and AA (last author)). All research activities must be reported.
  10. The submitted manuscript has been "spell checked" and "grammar checked".
  11. Submissions made by involved figures: Authors participating as involved figures in the Journal must include a statement reporting their role in the official cover letter. All submissions provided by the above-mentioned figures are subject to internal section editors in order to respect the blind review process.

The event of an infringement of the provisions adopted entails the rejection of the submission.

The official submission form was considered as recommended by guidelines.

All involved authors were reported according to MJCP requirements during the submission process (website mandatory and not mandatory fields, by “Add Author” in case of more than one author), specifying name, middle name (if present), family name, mail, institution, department, state.

Copyright Notice

Creative Commons License Articles and conference papers published in Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology are distributed under the terms and conditions of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. Correspondingly, authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
    2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
    3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

 

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