Information for Contributors

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General Information

The editorial board is particularly interested in encouraging the submission of integrative theoretical papers, although papers with a purely applied focus will also be considered. A major aim of this new journal is to stimulate and facilitate communication among the diverse and multidisciplinary group of scientists who are interested in credibility assessment and witness psychology.

We are particularly excited about the electronic format of JCAAWP for the following reasons:

• Publication lag will be considerably reduced, allowing for the quick dissemination of new findings.
• JCAAWP will have immediate and world wide distribution, being available for free to anyone with WWW access.
• The form of our "manuscripts" will be relatively unconstrained. Color graphics, audio, video, or data matrices can easily be included in, or associated with, the presentations.
• An INTERNET discussion LIST (CAAWP) has been established as a forum for discussion of issues in this area. The CAAWP list allows for an immediate running commentary regarding JCAAWP articles. When appropriate, we will solicit and publish brief formal responses to our publications.

For additional information concerning the current Editor's philosophy see his Welcome to JCAAWP in the first issue.

Preparation of Manuscripts

Manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Credibility Assessment and Witness Psychology should follow the general citation style described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition.

All submissions must be in an electronic format. All manuscripts will eventually be converted to HTML format; however, JCAAWP staff will handle this for all contributors. It is requested that the text of the submission be prepared in either ASCII format, or prepared on a popular word processor. Microsoft Word (either Windows or Mac) is the preferred format. Any questions regarding the format of submissions should be referred to the editor in advance. Please note the following exceptions in manuscript preparation from the standard APA 5th Edition style:

• Manuscripts do not need to be double spaced
• Tables may appear within the text if typed in a non-proportional font and able to be viewed with an ASCII editor. Otherwise, submit tables in a graphical format. If the contributor is using Word, please use the Word Table maker.
• Figures and non-ASCII tables should be submitted as separate files and must be in either .gif or .jpg format.
• If your word processor supports italics please set those things that you would normally underline in APA style as italics.

Submissions may be made either over the Internet or by standard mail on 3.5" disk, or CD (both Windows or Macintosh formats are acceptable). Internet submissions may be made via email, file attachment to email

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For additional information, please contact the Editor, Charles R. Honts, Ph.D. at
chonts@boisestate.edu,
or by telephone at (208) 426-3695

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Last Updated 18 June 2006