Submission Guidelines

For Authors

Submission Guidelines

投稿指南

These guidelines explain how to prepare and submit manuscripts to the Journal of Law, Psychology, and Communication Studies (JLPCS). Authors should read these requirements carefully before submitting a manuscript through the journal’s online submission system.

本指南说明作者向《法律·心理学·传播研究学刊》（JLPCS）投稿前应完成的稿件准备、文件提交、伦理声明、相似度要求、同行评议流程和出版费用确认事项。

Online Submission Double-Blind Review APA 7 Turnitin / CNKI No Submission Fee

1. Submission Overview / 投稿概览

JLPCS accepts original, unpublished manuscripts in English and Chinese that fall within the journal’s aims and scope. Submissions should make a clear scholarly contribution to law, psychology, communication studies, or related interdisciplinary fields.

Manuscripts must be submitted through the official online submission system. Submissions sent by informal channels may not be considered part of the official editorial workflow.

JLPCS 接收英文和中文原创稿件。稿件应符合本刊宗旨与范围，并对法学、心理学、传播学或相关交叉领域具有明确学术贡献。所有稿件应通过本刊官方在线投稿系统提交。

2. Files Required for Submission / 投稿所需文件

Anonymized Manuscript Required. The manuscript file must not contain author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, funding details, contact information, or other identifying information.
Title Page Required where requested by the submission system. Include author names, affiliations, corresponding author information, ORCID iDs, funding statement, conflict of interest statement, and other declarations.
Supplementary Materials Submit where applicable, including questionnaires, interview guides, coding schemes, appendices, datasets, statistical code, legal documents, ethics approval documents, or replication materials.
Cover Letter Optional unless requested. Authors may briefly explain the manuscript’s originality, scope fit, contribution, and any special editorial considerations.
File Format Manuscript files should be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.docx).

3. Manuscript Format / 稿件格式

Length / 篇幅

The main manuscript should normally not exceed 35 pages, including abstract, main text, references, tables, figures, and endnotes.

Abstract / 摘要

The abstract should normally be no more than 150 words and should clearly summarize the research question, method, findings, and contribution.

Keywords / 关键词

Authors should provide at least 5 keywords that accurately reflect the manuscript’s topic, method, and disciplinary field.

References / 参考文献

All citations and references must follow APA 7th edition style. Authors should verify all bibliographic information before submission.

4. Submission Preparation Checklist / 投稿前检查清单

No. Requirement
1 The manuscript is original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.
2 All authors have approved the submission and consent to be identified as authors.
3 The topic fits JLPCS’s aims and scope.
4 The manuscript has been anonymized for double-blind peer review.
5 Author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, funding details, and identifying metadata have been removed from the anonymized manuscript file.
6 The manuscript is prepared in .docx format and follows the journal’s formatting requirements.
7 All in-text citations and references follow APA 7 style.
8 Ethics approval, informed consent, data protection, and participant protection information are included where applicable.
9 Funding, conflict of interest, data availability, and AI-use statements are included where applicable.
10 Permissions have been obtained for third-party materials, including images, documents, datasets, tables, figures, or copyrighted content.

5. Research Ethics and Required Declarations / 研究伦理与必要声明

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their research complies with applicable ethical, legal, institutional, and professional standards. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the country or region where the study was conducted.

  • Ethics approval: Required for studies involving human participants, personal data, sensitive materials, interviews, surveys, experiments, or institutional records where applicable.
  • Informed consent: Authors should state how consent was obtained or explain why consent was not required.
  • Data protection: Authors should explain how personal or sensitive data were collected, stored, anonymized, and protected.
  • Funding: All financial support, grants, sponsorships, or institutional funding should be disclosed.
  • Conflict of interest: Authors must disclose any actual or potential conflicts of interest.
  • Data availability: Authors should state whether and how data, code, materials, or supplementary files are available.

作者应确保研究符合相关伦理、法律、机构和专业规范。涉及人类受试者、个人数据、敏感材料、访谈、问卷、实验或机构资料的研究，应在适用情况下提供伦理审批、知情同意和数据保护说明。

6. Generative AI Disclosure / 生成式人工智能披露

Authors must disclose any use of generative AI tools in preparing the manuscript, including but not limited to language editing, translation support, coding assistance, literature organization, image generation, or drafting support.

  • Generative AI tools may not be listed as authors.
  • Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical compliance of the manuscript.
  • AI tools must not be used to fabricate data, references, legal materials, interviews, images, statistical outputs, or research findings.
  • AI-use information should be disclosed in the Methods, Acknowledgments, or a dedicated AI-use statement where appropriate.

作者须披露生成式人工智能工具的使用情况。AI 工具不得作为作者，作者须对稿件的准确性、原创性、引用质量、研究诚信和伦理合规承担全部责任。

7. Plagiarism and Similarity Screening / 查重与相似度检测

English Manuscripts Screened via Turnitin. The similarity index must be less than 20% before peer review.
Chinese Manuscripts Screened via CNKI. The similarity index must be less than 20% before peer review.

Similarity screening is used as part of the journal’s research integrity checks. A low similarity score does not automatically guarantee compliance, and a manuscript may still be returned or rejected if it contains plagiarism, duplicate publication, inappropriate paraphrasing, citation manipulation, fabricated references, or undisclosed reuse of previously published material.

8. Online Submission Steps / 在线投稿步骤

Step 1

Register or Log In

Create an account or log in to the journal’s online submission system.

Step 2

Enter Metadata

Provide the title, abstract, keywords, author information, language, references, and other required metadata.

Step 3

Upload Files

Upload the anonymized manuscript, title page, and any required supplementary materials or declarations.

Step 4

Confirm Submission

Review all information carefully, confirm author declarations, and submit the manuscript for editorial screening.

Authors should ensure that all submission metadata are accurate and complete. Incorrect metadata may delay editorial screening, peer review, production, indexing, or publication.

Go to Submission Portal / 进入投稿系统

9. Editorial Screening / 编辑初审

After submission, the editorial office conducts an initial screening. A manuscript may be returned to the author or rejected without external review if it does not meet minimum standards.

  • The manuscript is outside the aims and scope of JLPCS.
  • The research question, argument, method, or contribution is not sufficiently clear.
  • The manuscript is incomplete or does not follow the journal’s formatting requirements.
  • The manuscript has not been properly anonymized for double-blind review.
  • Required ethics, consent, data, funding, conflict of interest, or AI-use statements are missing.
  • The language quality prevents reliable academic evaluation.
  • The similarity report indicates possible plagiarism, duplicate publication, or inappropriate textual reuse.

10. Peer Review Process / 同行评议流程

JLPCS operates a double-blind peer review process. Author and reviewer identities are concealed during review. Each manuscript that proceeds to review is normally evaluated by at least two independent experts.

The typical review period is approximately 6-8 weeks. The actual timeline may vary depending on manuscript complexity, reviewer availability, revision rounds, editorial workload, and production arrangements.

本刊采用双盲同行评议。进入评审程序的稿件通常由至少两名独立专家评审。典型评审周期约为 6-8 周，实际时间可能因稿件复杂程度、审稿人安排、修改轮次和编辑工作量而有所不同。

11. Editorial Decisions / 编辑决定

Accept The manuscript is accepted for publication, subject to final editorial, copyediting, production, and publication checks.
Minor Revision The manuscript requires limited revisions before a final decision can be made.
Major Revision The manuscript requires substantial revisions and may be sent for further review.
Reject and Encourage Resubmission The manuscript is not acceptable in its current form, but a substantially revised version may be considered as a new submission.
Reject The manuscript is not suitable for publication in JLPCS.

12. Revision Submission / 修改稿提交

When submitting a revised manuscript, authors should provide:

  • A clean revised manuscript;
  • A marked or tracked-changes version where requested;
  • A detailed response letter explaining how each editor and reviewer comment has been addressed;
  • A clear explanation for any recommendation that was not adopted;
  • Updated ethical, data, funding, conflict of interest, or AI-use statements where relevant.

修改说明应逐条回应编辑和审稿意见，说明已修改的位置、具体修改内容和未采纳意见的理由。

13. Article Processing Charge / 文章处理费

  • APC: 2000 RMB, approximately 275 USD, per accepted article.
  • No submission fee is charged.
  • No fee is charged during peer review.
  • The APC is charged only after formal acceptance.
  • Authors facing genuine financial hardship may request a full or partial waiver.
  • Waiver requests are considered independently and do not influence editorial decisions.

JLPCS 仅在稿件正式录用后收取文章处理费。投稿阶段和同行评议阶段不收费。费用支付情况或减免申请不影响编辑评估、同行评议或录用决定。

14. Copyright and License / 版权与许可

Authors retain copyright of their published work. Articles published in JLPCS are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

This license permits use, distribution, reproduction, and adaptation, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source.

作者保留作品版权。JLPCS 发表的文章采用 CC BY 4.0 许可协议发布，允许在适当署名的前提下使用、传播、复制和改编。

15. Contact for Submission Inquiries / 投稿咨询

Editorial Office: JLPCS Editorial Office

Publisher: Panorama Scholarly Group (PSG)

Location: Berlin, Germany

Email: [email protected]

Important Note / 重要说明

Meeting the submission requirements does not guarantee acceptance. All submissions are subject to editorial screening and, where appropriate, double-blind peer review. The editorial office may return or reject incomplete, unsuitable, unethical, non-anonymized, or improperly formatted submissions before external review.

符合投稿要求并不代表稿件必然录用。所有稿件均须经过编辑部初审，并在适用情况下进入双盲同行评议。对于不完整、不适配、不合规、未匿名或格式不符合要求的稿件，编辑部可在外审前退回或拒稿。