Guidelines for manuscript preparation and submission

All submissions are subject to a rigorous peer review process. Each new submission is sent to a member of the Editorial Board whose scientific interests are close to the subject of the paper. This Editorial Board member serves as the action editor for the submission. The action editor elicits reviews of the submission from at least two experts in the relevant field, and then makes an editorial decision based on the reviewers' and his or her own opinion about the quality of the submission.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in MS Word format. If it is not possible to submit electronically, then four paper copies should be sent to:
Editor: Prof. Piotr Jaskowski
Department of Cognitive Psychology
University of Finance and Management, Warsaw
ul. Pawia 55
01-030 Warszawa
Poland

Submissions should be prepared by using the journal’s template (in Word format) which is ready to download on login page of Editorial Manager.

The following guidelines are only for authors who cannot use the template.

In this case, submissions should be prepared by according to the specifications given in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th Ed.).
Manuscripts should be typed with double spacing and adequate margins throughout.

The title page of the manuscript should contain:
(1) the title of the paper
(2) the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s)
(3) a short title not exceeding 40 letters and spaces, which will be used for page headlines
(4) the name, address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of the author to whom correspondence should be sent.

The second page of the manuscript should contain an abstract of no more than 300 words.

Acknowledgments, footnotes, and the reference list should be included following the main body of the manuscript text (with each of these sections starting on a new page).

References should appear in alphabetical order of authors’ surnames (or chronologically for a group of references by the same authors).
The following styles should be used:
Journal article
Repp, B. H., & Knoblich, G. (2004). Perceiving action identity: How pianists recognize their own performances. Psychological Science, 15, 604-609.
Book
Wegner, D. M., (2002). The illusion of conscious will. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Chapter in edited book
Gabrielsson, A. (1999). The performance of music. In D. Deutsch (Ed.), The psychology of music (2nd ed.) (pp. 501-602). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Reference citations within the text should be indicated with the year of publication in parentheses after the author’s name, e.g., “Repp and Knoblich (2004)”, or with the complete citation in parentheses, (Repp & Knoblich, 2004; Wegner, 2002)”. On first citation of references with three to six authors, all names should be given in full; thereafter only first author plus “et al.” should be given. If more than one article by the same author(s) in the same year is cited, then the letters a, b, c, etc., should follow the year.

Table(s) should be typed each on a separate page, with the table caption appearing above. The table legend (if necessary) should appear below the table.

Figure captions should be listed starting on a new page.

Figures should each appear on a separate page. The dimensions of the figures should be set to look good at widths of either 77 mm or 160 mm. The resolution of bitmaps should be set to 100 dpi. The position at which each figure should appear should be indicated between paragraphs in the main body of the text (e.g., “Insert Figure 1 here”).