Information for Contributors

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21274
• Date: 01 December 2017
• Published date: 01 December 2017

INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Human Resource Development Quarterly (HRDQ) is the fi rst scholarly journal focused

directly on the fi eld of human resource development (HRD) sponsored by AHRD (the

Academy of Human Resource Development). It provides a central focus for research

on HRD issues as well as the means for disseminating such research. HRDQ recognizes

the interdisciplinary nature of the HRD fi eld and brings together relevant research

from related fi elds, such as economics, education, management, sociology, and psy-

chology. It provides an important link in the application of theory and research to

HRD practice.

Prior to submission authors are strongly encouraged to review past volumes of

HRDQ and other journals sponsored by the Academy of Human Resource

Development (AHRD) www.ahrd.org to identify the potential contribution of their

work to the HRD research and literature base.

In general, HRDQ publishes the following types of contribution:

• Empirical scholarly work that addresses the theoretical foundations of HRD, HRD

research, and evaluation of HRD interventions and contexts, whether qualitative,

quantitative or mixed methods.

• Methods papers that demonstrate or discuss a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed

method with relevance to HRD and related fi elds that contribute to the advance-

ment of research methods and scholarship in the HRD fi eld.

• Conceptual papers are considered appropriate for publication in HRDQ only when

their purpose is to develop and justify an empirical research agenda which can

stimulate future research avenues and methods in a new area.

Articles that specifi cally focus on theory and integrative literature reviews are

typically not considered within the scope of HRDQ.

Ethical considerations

HRDQ is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Co-editors

expect that researchers will have consulted the “Ethical Principles of Psychologists and

Code of Conduct” (APA, 2002) as well as the ethical guidelines of the institution

where the research was conducted. The APA Ethics Code requires that researchers

ensure approval by relevant institutional review boards and obtain informed consent

from all participants. Fulfi lment of these requirements should be noted in the Method

section.

Duplicate and piecemeal publication of data

Manuscripts submitted to HRDQ should not have been published or currently submit-

ted elsewhere. Submitted papers should not overlap signifi cantly in focus, content or

data. Where work submitted to HRDQ is part of a larger study it is important that the

submission addresses distinct questions and contributes new knowledge. In such

cases the authors should clarify the relationship between the larger study and the data

included in the current manuscript or the questions that are addressed in a cover letter

to the Co-editors. Suitable procedures for ‘blinding’ references cited in the text that