In the Clinical Psychology and Counseling Research Journal affiliated with the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, manuscripts taken from the results of research that have been investigated and analyzed in the field of psychology and counseling are the focus of the editorial board. This two-quarterly journal is published in Persian with an extended English abstract with thematic axes included in the Aims and Scope.

 

Files required for uploading to the journal website (when submitting the manuscript's initial version) 

Main manuscript

Authorship statement form

Commitment form

Conflict of interest form

Plagiarism check report (provided by Irandoc) Ethics committee approval (Code of ethics)

 

The required files are uploaded in the Forms and Guide Files section of the Guide for Authors.

    Publication rules 

To facilitate the process of reviewing and publishing the manuscript, researchers who wish to publish their scientific manuscript in this journal are requested to pay attention to the following points; otherwise, the manuscript will not be reviewed.

It is possible to receive the manuscript only through the Journal’s website at the address https://tpccp.um.ac.ir. The journal does not accept manuscripts that have been sent manually or through email.

The manuscripts sent to the journal for review and publication should not have been previously published in another internal or external journal, or have not been sent to other internal or external journals simultaneously (until the final decision of this journal is announced).

Persian references should also be translated to English. To insert references, use the Endnote program and choose the APA style.

The journal is free to reject, accept, and edit the manuscript.

Only one article per author is published each year; if the author has more than one accepted article in one year, the publication of the next article will be postponed to the following year.

If the manuscript is extracted from the master's or PhD's thesis, the names of all supervisors' and advisors' should be added to the manuscript. In this case, the first author should be the student and the corresponding author should be the supervisor.

Only the corresponding author should send the manuscript. All the submitted manuscript's correspondence and follow-up will be done with the corresponding author and correspondence other than the corresponding author will not be considered.

The corresponding author is responsible for the correctness of the content..

The order of the authors' names is based on the order of specifications’ entry on the journal’s website. The corresponding author should enter the names of all authors correctly and thoroughly in the journal's website.

To quickly send the accepted manuscripts in the initial evaluation to the selected referees, it is necessary for the authors to fully comply with the items mentioned in the manuscript writing method.

The manuscripts are reviewed by the experts of subject and if the manuscript is accepted, it will be placed in the ready-to-publish articles section of the journal's website. After editing and page layout, they are assigned to a specific number for publication

The journal’s review process is double-blind; it means both sides (the reviewers and authors) identities are concealed from each other, throughout the review process.

The corresponding author will be notified through the journal website and email address.

In case of withdrawing from the peer review process, the corresponding author should send his/her withdrawal request through the journal's website (manuscript withdrawal request).

Completing and sending the forms of commitment, conflict of interest, and authorship statement is mandatory (refer to the Guide for Authors section to receive Forms and Guide Files).

The submitted manuscript should comply with the writing guidelines; otherwise, the manuscript will be returned to the author and will not be included in the review process (to obtain the related information, see the Guide for Authors section and Forms and Guide Files).

It is necessary to include the code of ethics, registered in the National System of Ethics in Biomedical Research (https://ethics.research.ac.ir). Click here to get the procedures for obtaining the Code of Bioethics.

The corresponding author's email should be an organizational email if it is possible.