Submission Preflight (jedpsych-submission)

The last check before submitting through Editorial Manager (editorialmanager.com/edu). The things that most often sink a Journal of Educational Psychology submission are broken masking, busting the word format, and incomplete transparency/JARS reporting. Verify volatile specifics (format numbers, policy wording, current editor, portal) on the official APA page first (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).

When to trigger

• "Submitting tomorrow" — last pass before upload
• Unsure what the format, masking, and transparency requirements demand
• Confirming the abstract, anonymization, Transparency and Openness subsection, and deposits are in order

Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page)

• Owner / publisher: American Psychological Association (APA).
• Portal: Editorial Manager, editorialmanager.com/edu (Word .docx, or LaTeX .tex zip + PDF).
• Review: masked — both author and reviewer identities are masked.
• Length: manuscripts generally ≤ 12,000 words (≈ 40 double-spaced pages, 12-pt Times New Roman), excluding references, tables, figures, and appendices.
• Abstract: ≤ 250 words on a separate page.
• Style: APA 7th edition (APA Publication Manual, 7th ed.), double-spaced.
• Transparency: a Transparency and Openness subsection stating data, materials, and analysis-code availability with persistent identifiers (or justified unavailability).
• Standards: JARS (quantitative/qualitative/mixed) and JARS-REC; preregistration encouraged but not mandatory (disclose status, provide links); Open Science Badges (Open Data, Open Data with Protected Access, Open Materials, Preregistered, Preregistered+Analysis Plan) available with a signed disclosure form.
• Fee / open access: no submission fee (verified 2026-06-22; "submitting a manuscript for peer review is free of charge"); peer review is free. Any post-acceptance open-access / APC charge is set by APA if you choose OA — confirm the current figure on the APA author pages.
• Types: primary empirical articles; occasional exceptionally important meta-analyses; single- instrument validation studies are typically out of scope.

Preflight checklist

Format & abstract

• Body ≤ 12,000 words (excluding references, tables, figures, appendices)
• Abstract ≤ 250 words on a separate page
• APA 7th edition, double-spaced, 12-pt Times New Roman; statistics with effect sizes + CIs

Masked review (anonymization)

• First page omits author names/affiliations; includes title + submission date
• No identifying grant numbers, IRB/institution/site/district names
• Self-citations phrased in the third person (not "our prior work")
• Repository / preregistration links anonymized; file metadata stripped

Transparency & standards

• Transparency and Openness subsection: data, materials, analysis code availability + DOIs (or justified restriction)
• Analysis code deposited; reproduces results in a fresh session
• Preregistration disclosed + linked (if applicable); deviations noted (encouraged, not mandatory)
• JARS / JARS-REC items complete for the design; participant/context reporting done
• Badge disclosure form signed (if applying for Open Science Badges)

Design & stats

• Nesting modeled (multilevel/SEM) where students are nested; cluster-level inference
• Effect sizes + CIs + educational interpretation for major results
• Sample-size justification at the right level; full disclosure of exclusions/attrition

Worked micro-example — preflight verdict (illustrative)

Running the cluster-randomized reading trial through the gate the night before upload:

Length:    body 10,840 / 12,000 words (refs/tables/figures excluded) → PASS
Abstract:  236 words; states design (48 classrooms), effect (g = 0.23,
           95% CI [0.06, 0.40]), and the implication → PASS
APA:       7th edition, double-spaced; ES + CI throughout → PASS
Masked:    no names/affiliations; grant# and district name removed; self-
           cites third-person; OSF anonymized-view links; metadata stripped → PASS
Transparency: data (de-identified) + materials + code each have a DOI;
           restricted raw data has an access path; subsection present → PASS
Standards: JARS quantitative + JARS-REC items complete; prereg linked → PASS
Stats:     two-level model, ICC reported, mediation; cluster-level power → PASS
Verdict:   ready to upload to Editorial Manager.

Last-mile failure modes that trigger a return

Volatile specifics (exact word/abstract limits, portal, current editor, badge wording) change. Re-confirm every number above against the journal's current submission guidelines before relying on it.

Anti-patterns

• Submitting over the 12,000-word body limit or with a 250+ word abstract
• Identity leaks (names, grant numbers, sites, first-person self-cites) under masked review
• Missing or empty Transparency and Openness subsection
• Incomplete JARS / JARS-REC reporting
• Clustered data not modeled with multilevel/SEM methods

Output format

【Length】body ≤ 12,000 words (excl. refs/tables/figures/appendices)? [Y/N]
【Abstract】≤ 250 words + design + effect + implication? [Y/N]
【APA 7th + double-spaced】[Y/N]
【Masked】names/affiliations/grant#/site/IRB/self-cites/links/metadata? [Y/N]
【Transparency】data + materials + code + DOIs + subsection? [Y/N]
【Standards】JARS / JARS-REC complete; preregistration disclosed? [Y/N]
【Design/stats】nesting modeled; effect sizes + CIs + interpretation? [Y/N]
【Next】await decision → jedpsych-rebuttal on R&R

Supplementary resources

• templates/checklist.md — the full pre-submission self-check for this venue
• ../../resources/external_tools.md — repositories, DOIs, JARS checklists, papaja, multilevel/SEM tools
• ../../resources/official-source-map.md — official APA Journal of Educational Psychology URLs behind every fact in this pack