Checklist
Submission Checklist
Learning and Individual Differences
1. Please check whether your submission meets the following requirements.
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Submission Requirement
The submission includes all relevant components.
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● Cover letter
● Abstract (in the same file as the blinded manuscript)
● Educational Relevance statement (in the same file as the blinded manuscript)
● Blinded manuscript
● Title page
● Highlights
● Supplementary Materials (if applicable)
The manuscript includes all relevant sections.
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● The manuscript contains: Abstract (not exceeding 150 words), Keywords (up to five),
Educational Relevance Statement, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results,
Conclusions, Artwork, Figures, and Tables with Captions, References.
● The Abstract and the Educational Relevance Statement are included in the main
manuscript (not only in the Editorial Manager information table). Highlights are
available in a separate file.
● Artwork, Figures, and Tables are included in the manuscript file and placed next to the
relevant text in the manuscript, not at the bottom or the top of the file.
● If applicable, Supplementary Materials are available for potential peer-review.
● The title page includes Title, Authors’ Names, Affiliations, Acknowledgements, a
Declaration of Interest statement, and a complete address for the corresponding author
including e-mail address (and has been uploaded separately in the Editorial Manager).
Any conflict of interest or previous use of data has been highlighted in the Editorial □
Manager submission questions and in the letter to the Editor.
The manuscript includes a clear ethics statement, typically reporting ethical □
approval.
The submission includes names and contact information for at least three Reviewers. □
The manuscript has been spell-checked. □
The manuscript and, if applicable, other electronic supplementary material have □
been properly blinded for peer-review.
The manuscript, including the Artwork and the Tables, adheres to the style and □
layout guidelines of Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
(7th ed.).
All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa. □
The manuscript adheres to the limit of 8,000 words for Full length articles, 4,000 □
words for Brief reports, 12,000 words for multistudy reports, and 15,000 words for
systematic literature reviews with or without meta-analysis (only main text;
excluding abstract, educational relevance statement, references, figures, tables,
supplementary material).
2. Please check whether your revision/resubmission meets the following requirements.
The manuscript includes all relevant, clearly defined, and numbered sections (1.1,
1.2 etc.).
● The manuscript contains: Abstract (not exceeding 150 words), Keywords (up to five),
Educational Relevance Statement, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results,
Conclusions, Artwork, Figures, and Tables with Captions, References. □
● The Abstract and the Educational Relevance Statement are included in the main
manuscript (not only in the Editorial Manager information table). Highlights are
available in a separate file.
● Artwork, Figures, and Tables are included in the manuscript file and placed next to
the relevant text in the manuscript, not at the bottom or the top of the file.
● If applicable, Supplementary Materials are available for potential peer-review.
● The title page includes Title, Authors’ Names, Affiliations, Acknowledgements, a
Declaration of Interest statement, and a complete address for the corresponding author
including e-mail address (and has been uploaded separately in the Editorial Manager).
The revision is accompanied by a detailed response to the reviewers (unless
specified otherwise by the handling editor).
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● The letter addresses all points raised by the reviewers and the editor.
● The letter outlines changes made to the manuscript.
● The letter indicates where changes can be found (for example, page 4, paragraph 2).
Changes have been marked in the manuscript.
● Changes/new insertions have been indicated (e.g., by highlighting text or using □
a different color text).
● Please do not use the option of "track changes" because this may lead to revisions
that are difficult to evaluate for reviewers.
The revised submission is anonymized.
● The letter to reviewers has been signed “The Author(s)” and does not contain □
any author name.
● The letter to reviewers is not written on an official template from the
authors’ institution.
The manuscript adheres to the limit of 8,000 words for Full length articles, 4,000
words for Brief reports, 12,000 words for multistudy reports, and 15,000 words for □
systematic literature reviews with or without meta-analysis (only main text;
excluding abstract, educational relevance statement, references, figures, tables,
supplementary material). Word counts slightly beyond this limit as a consequence of
incorporating reviewer comments are acceptable.
