FAMILY SCIENCE REVIEW:

Instructions to Authors

Submission Guidelines

• Submit manuscripts to FamilyScienceReview@berry.edu.
• Submit only previously unpublished work. Do not submit work simultaneously to another publication. All manuscripts should protect confidentiality of human participants.
• The title page should contain title, author(s), and institutional affiliation. Remove all author-identifying information from subsequent pages.
• Prior to publication in FSR, all authors must sign a copyright agreement.
• Have questions? Contact Brian Jory, Editor, Family Science Review, Berry College, Box 5019, Mount Berry, Georgia 30149-5019. Email: bjory@berry.edu

Manuscript Preparation

• Family Science Review follows the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.) general guidelines for manuscript preparation. Additional information is available at www.apastyle.org.
• Double-space all parts of the MS, including text, headings, abstract, references, and tables.
• Use Microsoft Word and 12-point font.
• Keep tables and figures to a minimum. Submit a separate page for each table; provide title of each table; cite table within text; and indicate placement.
• Use footnotes sparingly.
• Abstract, text, references, tables, figures, and appendices should not exceed thirty manuscript pages, or 6,000 words. 
• The abstract should have a maximum of 150 words.
• At the point of publication to the web, authors may make only minor corrections.
• Books for review should be sent to Brian Jory, Box 5019 Berry College,  Mount Berry, GA 30149-5019