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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 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.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

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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.

  1. Grammar and language editing is the sole responsibility of the author, you hereby confirm that you have consulted with a professional language editor/consultant to check/edit your grammar and language.
  2. The journal takes only responsibility for the layout and reference checking of your paper - which is done by our Production Editor prior to the publication of the paper.
  3. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration and is the author(s) own original work.
  4. The submission file is in a Microsoft Word 2007 or later file format.  (Submissions not conforming to the journal's style will be rejected)
  5. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  6. We do plagiarism checks using Turnitin. If we identify plagiarism, the article will be rejected.
  7. The text is 1.5-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the article text and clearly marked.  The abstract should not exceed 200 words and the manuscript should be between 5500 and 7500 words in length, excluding references. PINS uses the APA 7th edition format of referencing.   Ensure that dates, spelling and titles used in the text are accurate and consistent with those listed in the references.
  8. The instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed, and all author details have been removed from the initial review copy.
  9. Authors' Name(s) and Surname(s), ORCiD ID and affiliation(s), should be removed from the original manuscript, and submitted as a supplementary file. (step 4 of submission process - Upload Supplementary Files)

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

 

Article Publication Fee - R5000 per article.
If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs. The administrator will contact you with the invoice for page fees when your paper has been accepted for publication. No credit card facilities are available. 

 

Copyright Notice

This journal is an open access journal, and the authors' and journal should be properly acknowledged, when works are cited.

Authors may use the publishers version for teaching purposes, in books, theses, dissertations, conferences and conference papers.

A copy of the authors’ publishers version may also be hosted on the following websites:

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  • Institutional webpage.
  • Authors Institutional Repository.

The following notice should accompany such a posting on the website: “This is an electronic version of an article published in PINS, Volume XXX, number XXX, pages XXX–XXX”, DOI.   Authors should also supply a hyperlink to the original paper or indicate where the original paper (http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/pins) may be found.

Authors publishers version, affiliated with the Stellenbosch University will be automatically deposited in the University’s’ Institutional Repository SUNScholar.

Articles as a whole, may not be re-published with another journal.

Copyright Holder: PINS-Psychology in Society

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