Psychology

The journal “Psychology” accepts scientific papers of empirical and theoretical character in the area of psychology. The papers may be written in Lithuanian or English.
Theoretical papers should be analytical and provide a reasonable analysis of timely research results. Analytical reviews and theoretical papers should provide a well-grounded analysis of the situation in a certain branch of psychology. The papers should offer an analysis of results reported by other authors with specifying the main problems and substantiating their significance and novelty. Also, tendencies and trends of the development of a given branch of psychology should be highlighted, the topical and new trends elucidated, the goals and hypotheses of future empirical studies formulated, new concepts offered, etc.
The section “Psychology to Practice” includes articles offering a review of the application of achievements in a specific area to various spheres of practical activities. Reviews of salient works in psychology may be offered. Authors are welcome to contribute this kind of papers.
Papers reporting on empirical research must be written keeping to a common scheme and include the following sections: Introduction, describing the problem and objectives of the paper and the hypotheses; Methods, including: a) participants, b) instruments, tests, measures and assessments; c) description of the procedures or course of the study; Results; their Discussion, Conclusions, and a list of References. All parts of the paper, except Introduction, have their headings written on a separate line; the headings of the constituent parts of Methods need no separate line.
A paper written in Lithuanian must include an Abstract in Lithuanian, containing no less than 600 characters, and an abstract in English of no less than 2200 characters. A paper written in English must contain an abstract in English of no less than 600 characters.
Figures and tables (numbered and titled) should be submitted on separate sheets of paper, and their approximate location should be marked in the text.
All references mentioned in the text should be included into the reference list and, vice versa, the reference list should include only authors that are mentioned in the text. References (no more than 50) should be listed in an alphabetical order. References in the list should contain:
a) articles: author(s)’ name and initials, title of the article, full name of the journal, year of publication, volume and page number;
b) books: author(s)’ name and initials, title of the book, place of publication, publishers and year of publication; c) collected papers: author(s)’ name and initials, title of the paper, title of the volume, initials and name of the editor(s), place of publication, publisher’s name, year of publication and page numbers of the paper. Use the author’s name and year of publication for citation in the text in parentheses in the original language (Jonaitis, 2003). When there are three or more authors, only the first author’s name should be used and et al. should be added (Jonaitis et al., 2003). If the cited author is an organization or there is no author at all, use only the name of the organization or source and year (Dabartinës lietuviø kalbos þodynas, 2000). If the names of the authors mentioned in text are the same, their initials should be added. When different sources of various authors are referred to, use a semicolon to separate them (Jonaitis, 2003; Petraitis, 2000). Different publications of the same author in the same year should be marked with the letters a ,b, c, etc. after the year (Jonaitis, 2003 a, 2003 b). To give an exact citation from another author’s work, page number should be given (Jonaitis, 2003, p. 22).
The maximum length of the contribution should not exceed 40 thousand characters (including spaces, abstracts, tables, references, etc.) (Microsoft Winword-12). The original typescript should be typed on one side on an A4 format sheet of paper with double spacing and no less than inch-wide margins on all sides. Papers that fall short of these requirements will be not considered or reviewed.
All authors are requested to submit the following personal information: name, last name, scientific degree and title, affiliation and postal address, telephone or fax number, e-mail address.
Submit two hard copies of the manuscript to the Editorial Board and an electronic file. The author should note the date of submission.
Each paper will be reviewed by two anonymous referees appointed by the Editorial Board. Authors will be provided with the reviewer’ comments. If the review is favourable and the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors will be requested to make the necessary revisions and to describe in writing how the reviewer’s comments were addressed or why they could not be addressed. Upon receiving the revised version of the manuscript and a written description of the revisions, the Editorial Board will return the manuscript to the referees for re-review. The Editorial Board will make the final decision regarding the acceptance of the manuscript for publication, based on recommendations of the re-review.
Rejected manuscripts will not be returned to the authors who will be informed about the decision by letter or e-mail.