The manuscript file should:

• Include an abstract of no more than 150 words.
• List 4 to 5 keywords.
• Be de-identified: It is important that authors’ names do not appear anywhere other than on the cover file (if questions arise in specific     circumstances, when de-identification might be more revealing than including the authors’ names, please contact the editorial office).
• Be submitted as MS Word files (Windows Vista users, please save files down to the pre-2007, “.doc” versions).
• Be prepared in accordance with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition.
• Submit the datasets for verification of the results obtained. 
• Declare about conflict of interest, funding, ethical committee approvel etc
• In particular, the entire manuscript should be double spaced, and manuscripts should have 1 inch margins on all four sides.
• References should be carefully edited to ensure consistency with APA guidelines and include DOI numbers.
• Statistics and statistical analyses should be reported in line with APA guidelines including standard deviations and effect sizes when applicable.  Confidence intervals must be reported when bootstrapping is utilized.  Further, inclusion of correlation matrices as online appendix is strongly recommended (as this information facilitates meta-analyses).
• Figures and tables should be placed at the end of the manuscript file and numbered in the order they appear in text. Tables should be editable, formatted in line with APAguidelines, and have a clear title.
• An in-text callout (example: “[Figure 1 here]”) should be inserted on a separate line just after the paragraph where each figure or table appears.
• All figures should be submitted in the original program in which they were created (JPG, TIFF, or EPS; Microsoft Application Files are acceptable for line art).
• Any scanned images should be set at 1200 dpi for line art and 300 dpi for color or grayscale.
• Appendices should be used sparingly and should be lettered to set them apart from numbered tables/figures.
• Online appendices can now be used and do not count towards the 35-page limit. They are hosted on the Communication Research site and linked to the article metadata and viewable in the TOC and article page itself. Upon submission, authors can denote appendices as “Online Appendix” and otherwise simply include them in the submission files, while following APA guidance for appendices. It is recommended that the paper is below 35 pages in length; authors may provide supplementary materials to be published later as online appendices.