Guidelines for submission of Resilience and Health Monograph Series
The Resilience and Health Monograph Series is published by the Centre for Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health at the University of Malta. The series aims to provide an open access platform for the dissemination of knowledge and research in educational resilience and social and emotional health. We have one e-publication per year in such areas as social and emotional development, health, resilience and wellbeing in children and young people, social and emotional learning, mental health in schools and professionals’ health and wellbeing. The publication of the Resilience and Health Monograph Series is based on the philosophy of the Centre for Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health, which develops and promotes the science and evidence-based practice of social and emotional health and resilience in children and young people. We welcome contributions from colleagues who would like to share their work with others in the field.
Manuscript proposal and draft
Interested authors need to submit a monograph proposal including Title, author/s, affiliation and contact details, brief description and outline of the monograph, length, table of contents, target audience, writing plan including the proposed date of submission of the first draft, and CV of the author/s. The proposal will be reviewed by the Series editors who will inform the author/s of the evaluation outcome within four weeks from submission on the appropriate checklist. If accepted a contract will be signed between the author/s and the editors. The proposal is to be sent to Prof Carmel Cefai
Submitted drafts will be reviewed on the basis of their relevance and contribution to the area, the quality of the research, conceptualisation and presentation, and the contemporaneity of the work presented. The monograph will be subjected to anonymous independent peer review.
Writing style
The manuscript submitted should be in English and should not have been published or under consideration for any other journal or publication. The monograph draft must be submitted in the style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th edition. The manuscript is to be in New Roman text, 11 pt, double spacing, with right and left margins at least 3.5 cm each, no indentation, with all pages numbered.
Figures and tables should have their positions marked clearly in the manuscript and included on separate pages at the end of the manuscript. Figure numbers should be shown as Arabic numerals, table numbers as Latin numerals. Headings and sub-headings should be clearly distinguished.
References should be provided in the text with the authors name followed by the year in brackets; if a direct quote is used the page number will be added. Any references cited in the manuscript need to be included in an alphabetical reference list at the end. Information that reveals the identity of the author should not appear in the entire text, including references.
Footnotes should not be used in the text, but endnotes may be used instead, marked in the text by numbers within square brackets [1]
Acknowledgements are to appear at the very end of the paper
Copyright
Before publication of your manuscript, authors need to send the signed Copyright Ethics and Malpractice Form [PDF]. Other forms may not be substituted for this form, nor may any wording on the form be changed. Multiple forms may be submitted. Both handwritten and e-signatures are acceptable.
Originality and plagiarism
Authors should ensure that submitted work is original and has not been published elsewhere in any language, and that the work and/or words of others is appropriately cited or quoted. Applicable copyright laws and conventions should be followed. Plagiarism in any form constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. Forms of plagiarism include the use of material contained in another paper, of the same author/s or some other author/s, with cosmetic changes as a new paper; copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper without acknowledging source, and claiming results from research conducted by others. The submitted monograph will be checked on Turnitin software.
Ethical approval
The author/s must clearly state in their manuscript that any data collection process reported in the manuscript has followed the standard ethical procedures as required in the particular context and place where the data was collected.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their results. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. A Copyright Ethics and Malpractice Form [PDF] will be completed and signed by the author/s before the publication of the manuscript.
Access rights
The Resilience and Health Monograph Series is an open access series, which means that all monographs are available online free of charge for both readers and authors upon publication. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International License. The CC BY-NC-ND license allows users to copy and distribute the publication, provided this is not done for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the publication if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. Access full details of the license.
For further information please contact Ms Natalie Galea
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