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This information is specifically intended for authors who wish to submit articles or manuscipts to the APA Magazine or Polygraph the quarterly journal published by the APA.
The journal Polygraph publishes articles about the psychophysiological detection of deception, and related areas. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original research, literature reviews, legal briefs, theoretical papers, instructional pieces, case histories, book reviews, short reports, and similar works. Special topics will be considered on an individual basis. A minimum standard for acceptance is that the paper be of general interest to practitioners, instructors and researchers of polygraphy. From time to time there will be a call for papers on specific topics.
Manuscripts must be in English, and may be submitted, along with a cover letter, to Editor, American Polygraph Association. P.O Box 10411, Ft. Jackson, South Carolina 29207 (USA). The cover letter should include a telephone number, return address, and e-mail address. Authors should also state clearly in the cover letter if they wish to submit their manuscript to a formal peer-review. The preferred method of manuscript submission is via CD (MS Word) with one printed paper copy. Authors may also submit manuscripts as an e-mail attachment with teh cover letter included in the body of the e-mail. Send to the editor at APAkrapohl@aol.com
As a condition for publication, authors shall be required to sign a statement that all text, figures, or other content in the submitted manuscript is correctely cited, and that the work, all or in part, is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All manuscripts must be complete, balanced, and accurate. Authors shoudl follow guidelines in the Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association.The manual can be found in most public libraries, or it can be ordered from: American Psychological Association Publications, 1200 17th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036, USA. Writers may exercise some freedom of style, but they will be held to a standard of clarity, organization, and accuracy. Authors are responsibile for assuring their work includes correct citations. Consistent with teh ethical standards of the discipline, the American Polgyraph Association considers quotation of another's work without proper citation a grevious offense. The standard for nomenclature shall be the Terminology Reference for the Science of Psychophysiological Detection of Deception (2002) which is available from the national office of the American Polygraph Association. Legal case citations should follow the West system.
A single Associate Editor will handle papers, and the authro may, at the discretion of the Associate Editor, communicate directly with him or her. For all submissions, every effort will be made to provide the author a review within 12 weeks of receipt of manuscript. Articles submitted for publication are evluated according to several criteria including significance of the contribution to the polygraph field, clarity, accuracy, and consistency.
Authors submitting a paper to the American Polygraph Association (APA) do so with the understanding that the copyright for the paper will be assigned to the American Polygraph Association of the paper is accepted for publication. The APA, however, will not put any limitation on the personal freedom of the author(s) to use material contained in the paper in other works, and request for republication will be approved, if the senior author approves.