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	PARENTING
SCIENCE AND PRACTICE

Marc H. Bornstein
Editor

	EDITORIAL STATEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS

Parenting: Science and Practice strives to promote the exchange of empirical
findings, theoretical perspectives, and methodological approaches from all
disciplines that help to define and advance theory, research, and practice in
parenting, caregiving, and childrearing broadly construed.  "Parenting" is
interpreted to include biological parents and grandparents, adoptive parents,
nonparental caregivers, et al., including infrahuman parents.  Articles on
parenting itself, antecedents of parenting, parenting effects on parents and on
children, the multiple contexts of parenting, and parenting interventions and
education are all welcome.  The journal is committed to bring parenting to
science and science to parenting.

Parenting: Science and Practice is a quarterly international and
interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that seeks to publish rigorous
empirical, methodological, applied, review, theoretical, perspective, and policy
pieces relevant to parenting; contributions from the humanities and biological
sciences as well as the social sciences are welcome.  The journal will also
publish notices of books and other publications or media representations
relevant to a scientific approach to parenting.

Departments
	Parenting: Science and Practice has five main departments.  Inquiries
about prospective submissions to any department may be addressed to the Editor.

*	Empirical Articles.  The journal is principally committed to the
publication of empirical articles. Creative, comprehensive, and clear reports
that advance the empirical base and theory in the field of parenting studies are
sought, and all modes of empirical research are welcome: experimental,
observational, ethnographic, textual, interpretive, and survey.
*	Reviews.  Reviews of the literature may be empirically grounded or
theoretical; they should be scholarly, integrative, and timely, synthesizing or
evaluating an issue relevant to parenting.  Published reviews are normally
accompanied by solicited commentaries from specialists in parenting as well as
in allied fields.
*	Statements.  Statements published in Parenting provide a forum for the
rapid dissemination of new hypotheses, fresh concepts, alternative methods, or
emerging trends.  Statements should be tightly reasoned and empirically grounded
and must be cogent and succinct.  Statements should be less than 3000 words in
length.
*	Tutorials in Parenting.  Parenting will publish occasional tutorials
that debut a new concept in parenting or explore the intersection of parenting
with an academic specialty pertinent to parenting studies.  These papers define
the concept or the field, crystallize its major contributions, detail direct
associations with parenting, and augur future directions of application.
*	Media Notices.  Summaries and evaluations of books, periodicals,
websites, and other media that concern themselves with parenting studies or
practices will appear in the journal.  Send relevant materials to the Editor.


Manuscript Submission and Review
	Cover Letter.  (1) Include a brief statement that indicates what the
study will tell the readership of the journal and indicate the intended
department of the journal.  (2)  If submitting an empirical report, warrant that
the study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the American
Psychological Association (APA).  (3) If applicable, affirm that all co-authors
are in agreement with the contents of the manuscript.
	Submission.  (1) Submit by electronic mail or send five hard copies to
the Editor at the address given below; retain a copy of the manuscript to guard
against loss.  (2) Each copy should include a separate cover sheet containing
the title of the manuscript, the name(s) of the author(s) and affiliation(s),
and the street address, telephone, fax, and electronic mail numbers of the
corresponding author.  (3) The title of the paper, but not the names of the
author(s), should appear on the first page of the text.  Normally follow the
guidelines on requirements, format, and style provided in the Publication Manual
(4th ed.) of the APA; see too Parenting's own Style Guide (available from the
Editor).  Include a Synopsis on a separate sheet (following guidelines set forth
in the Style Guide).  The manuscript should be double spaced throughout.  Send
only copies of figures on first submission.  (4) Manuscripts should be written
concisely; a manuscript of more than 60 pages is unlikely to be accepted, but
may be appropriate for the Monographs in Parenting series.  (5) Manuscripts may
not be submitted simultaneously to Parenting: Science and Practice and to other
journals.  (6) The corresponding author accepts responsibility for informing all
co-authors of manuscript submission and editorial decisions.
	Review.  Manuscripts are reviewed by the Editor, members of the Board of
Editors, and invited reviewers with expertise in the area(s) represented by the
manuscript.  Submissions must be appropriate and of substantial importance to
the readership of Parenting: Science and Practice and should meet a high level
of scientific acceptability.  A first level of review determines the
appropriateness, import, and scientific merit for the journal; on this basis,
the Editor reserves the right to decide whether the manuscript will be reviewed
further.  The Editor also retains the right to decline manuscripts that do not
meet established ethical standards.  A system of blind reviewing is used; it is
the author's responsibility to remove information about the identity of
author(s) and affiliation(s) from the body of the manuscript; however, such
information should appear on the cover sheet.  The Editor will have the
discretion to integrate solicited reviews into a determinative response.

Thematic Issues in Parenting

Parenting: Science and Practice welcomes proposals for Thematic Issues.
Thematic Issues need to have components that link together closely in some
meaningful conceptual or theoretical way, and the proposer of a Thematic Issue
becomes the Guest Editor.  Thematic Issues may be invited or open competitions,
but all submissions must be peer reviewed.  Individuals interested in developing
a Thematic Issue should send the Editor a brief proposal and justification.
Some proposals may be more appropriate for the Monographs in Parenting series.

Book Notices

Parenting: Science and Practice will publish summaries and evaluations of books,
periodicals, websites, and other media that concern themselves with parenting
studies and childcare practices.  Send relevant materials to the Editor.

Monographs in Parenting

To accompany the journal, Monographs in Parenting will publish authored or
edited volumes whose central concern is parenting, caregiving, and childrearing
broadly construed.  Inquiries about potential submissions to the Monographs in
Parenting series are invited.

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates publishes Parenting: Science and Practice and the
Monographs in Parenting.

EDITOR:
Dr. Marc H. Bornstein
Editor, Parenting: Science and Practice
8404 Irvington Avenue
Bethesda  MD
20817-3838  U.S.A.

TEL: 301-656-1642
FAX: 301-656-1812
EMAIL: Marc_H_Bornstein at nih.gov

21 March 2000