In order to cover the costs of publishing the journal, including those of manuscript submission and peer review management, journal production, online hosting and archiving, liaison with abstracting and indexing services, as well as online distribution and data feeds to libraries, discovery services, content aggregators, and other information services, an article publication charge (APC) must be paid. Price details, including available discounts, are provided here.

In addition, as detailed in the waivers and discounts policy, Hogrefe Publishing offers a waiver program for eligible corresponding authors. Eligible papers shall include papers by corresponding authors who are based in low- and middle-income countries, do not have access to publication fee grants or funding, who are not employed or funded by commercial organizations, face financial hardship, or who are members of organizations with partnership Agreements.

All manuscripts should be submitted via Editorial Manager.

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In light of various inquiries we’ve received from authors, we’d like to clarify our open data policy. The full policy reads as follows:
PTAD encourages authors to make the raw data and the code (e.g., R, Stata, or SPSS code with detailed explanations allowing it to be reviewed) or the converted score data underlying the main findings reported in the article available to the public (open data). Exceptions may be made (e.g., for reasons of data security or confidentiality) provided the reasons are set out during submission of the manuscript. It is recommended that authors place any open data and code in a repository and provide the URL(s) during manuscript submission in Editorial Manager. With the acceptance of a manuscript a permanent URL or DOI pointing to a file(s) located in a public repository should be provided. Preferred repositories for PTAD are PsychArchives (run by a public openscience institute for psychology; see the detailed instructions) and OSF. Other repositories may also be suitable as long as DOIs or accession numbers are provided and the data are at least as open as CC/BY. The Registry of Research Date Repositories provides a list of repositories.

It is important to the Hogrefe Publishing Group that our scientific journals and all the people involved adhere to the highest ethical standards. Please take a moment to review our guidelines on what this means for authors, editors, reviewers, and us as a publisher.

Hogrefe has negotiated a 20% discount for authors who wish to have their manuscript professionally edited or translated into English by the experts at Enago before submission.

Please note that the service is independent of Hogrefe and use of it has no bearing on acceptance decisions made by individual journals.

PTAD wants to be an outlet for studies adapting existing assessment tools to specific populations, languages, cultures, age groups, etc. We hereby launch an open call for submitting special issue proposals to address the goal of a broader geographical representation.
Please submit any ideas for topics that would help integrate a more diverse authorship in addition to being of interest to the assessment community to the editorial team of PTAD at eapa.ptad@gmail.com.