Issue Information ‐ Information for Authors

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12235
• Date: 01 June 2016
• Published date: 01 June 2016

JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

Instructions to Authors

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Journal of Marriage and Family is a peer-reviewed journal

published by the National Council on Family Relations.

•Submit manuscripts online at http://mc.

manuscriptcentral.com/jmf. The site contains links to

instructions for manuscript preparation (Instructions and

Forms) as well as an online user’s guide (Get Help Now)

for help navigating the site.

•Submit only previously unpublished work.

•The Journal of Marriage and Family has a policy

of anonymous or masked review. Manuscripts should

not include authors’ names, institutional aff‌iliations, or

contact information on the title page.

•Authors should make every effort to see that the

manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors’ identity.

•A manuscript submission fee of $25 is required.

Authors are prompted for payment information at

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmf.

•Prior to publication in JMF, all authors must sign a

copyight agreement.

•Comments on articles published in JMF are evaluated

in the same way as other manuscripts. If the comment

is accepted for publication, the author(s) of the original

article will be invited to reply. The comment and reply

are published simultaneously in the Feedback section of

JMF.

•Questions? Contact:

R. Kelly Raley, Editor

Journal of Marriage and Family

Population Research Center

305 E. 23rd Street, Stop G1800

Austin, TX 78712-1699

jmf@prc.utexas.edu

DOI INFORMATION

To view all the articles currently available, please visit

the journal homepage on http://wileyonlinelibrary.

com/journal/jomf. Articles are available as full text

HTML or PDF and can be cited by using their Digital

Object Identif‌ier (DOI) numbers. Sample reference:

Biblarz, T. J., & Stacey, J. (2010). How does the gen-

der of parents matter? Journal of Marriage and Fam-

ily, 72, 3–22. doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00678.x

For more information on DOIs, please see

http://www.doi.org/faq.html.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

JMF follows an adaptation of the guidelines of the Publica-

tion Manual of the American Psychological Association,6th

Edition.

•Double-space all parts of the manuscript, including text,

headings, abstract, references, and tables.

•Use Microsoft Word and a 12-point font.

•Keep tables and f‌igures to a minimum. (See the APA

Publication Manual for advice about when to include

tables and f‌igures, pp. 125–128.)

•Please consult our website for information on prepar-

ing tables for the Journal of Marriage and Family:

http://www.ncfr.org/journals/marriage_family/submit/

tables.asp. From the website, you can download sample

tables in Word, and use them as templates for your own

tables. The sample tables are also available in PDF format.

•JMF articles do not include footnotes.

•The reference list must match work cited in the text.

•Taken together, abstract, text, references, tables,

f‌igures, and any appendices should be approximately

30–35 manuscript pages. JMF also publishes brief

reports or research notes that should not exceed

20–25 manuscript pages. Please see our website

for additional information on manuscript preparation:

http://www.ncfr.org/jmf/submit-jmf

•Please save line artwork (vector graphics) as Encapsulated

PostScript (EPS), Word, or PDF f‌iles, and bitmap

f‌iles (halftones or photographic images) as Tagged

Image Format (TIFF), with a resolution of at least

300 dpi at f‌inal size. More detailed information on

the submission of electronic artwork can be found at

http://authorservices.wiley.com/prep_illust.asp.

•Authors will have the opportunity to make corrections to

proofs. Proofs must be returned within 72 hours of receipt

to ensure publication in the next available issue. More

than f‌ive corrections will result in a charge.

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