Delivery Preflight (arpsych-submission)
When to trigger
- "Delivering soon" — last check before handing the commissioned review to Annual Reviews
- Unsure which files, declarations, and permissions the production system expects
- Confirming length, reference completeness, and figure specs are Annual Reviews-ready
- Verifying transparency obligations for any quantitative synthesis the review reports
Process facts (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准 — re-confirm on the Annual Reviews author pages)
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Publisher / venue. ARPsych is published by Annual Reviews (nonprofit), founded 1950, as an annual volume, co-edited by Susan T. Fiske (since 2000) and Daniel L. Schacter (co-editors listed for Volume 77, 2026; web-verified 2026-06-22, re-verify before relying); it is a review series, distinct from Psychological Bulletin (submitted reviews/meta-analyses), Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (clinical sister), and Perspectives on Psychological Science (essays). Articles are commissioned by the Editorial Committee; there is no cold-submission portal for unsolicited manuscripts — delivery happens within the invited-article workflow (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
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Open access. Volumes are published open access under the Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model (since 2023), under a Creative Commons license — there is no author-facing APC under S2O (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Do not treat S2O as a pay-to-publish APC.
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Length. Each article has a length assigned in the invitation letter, including figures and tables; keep to it (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). There is no single journal-wide word limit — it is per-invitation.
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Manuscript prep. Annual Reviews asks for material double spaced in 12-point type; references must be complete and accurate (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). House reference/format style is applied at production copyediting, so the delivered draft need not pre-conform — but reference data must be complete.
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Disclosure (required). Annual Reviews requires authors to disclose potential sources of bias / conflicts of interest; funding sources are stated. Prepare per the author pages (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
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Transparency of the review itself. A pure review reports no new data; the obligation bites on the documented search (from
arpsych-literature-synthesis) and on any meta-analysis the review contributes — its data and code should be reproducible and depositable (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
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Figures / permissions. Confirm figure specs and secure permission for any reproduced/adapted exhibit (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
Preflight checklist
Article & files
Transparency
Declarations
Volatile re-confirms
Anti-patterns
- Treating ARPsych like a journal with a cold-submission portal — it is invited; deliver through the commissioned workflow
- Treating S2O open access as a pay-to-publish APC (it is not author-funded under S2O)
- Over-running the assigned length or omitting figures/tables from the length count
- Omitting the conflict-of-interest / bias disclosure Annual Reviews requires
- Asserting a length limit, fee, or editor name from memory rather than the live author pages
- Delivering a meta-analysis with no reproducible data/code, or a review with no documented search
Output format
【Article type】commissioned/invited review (not cold submission)? Y/N
【Length】within the assigned length (figures/tables included)? Y/N
【Manuscript prep】double-spaced 12pt; references complete + accurate? Y/N
【Abstract + front matter】review-style abstract, keywords, affiliations? Y/N
【Transparency】search documented; meta-analysis (if any) reproducible? Y/N
【Disclosure】COI / bias disclosure + funding prepared? Y/N
【Figures】specs met; permissions secured? Y/N
【Volatile re-confirms】length / style / OA / disclosure checked on Annual Reviews pages? Y/N
【Next step】deliver to Annual Reviews → arpsych-revision when the editor/peer-review letter arrives
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