Submission Policies

The editors reserve the right to determine the suitability of submissions. For additional information, please contact the editors.

Psychology Across Development uses a double-anonymous peer review process.

Psychology Across Development screens for plagiarism. Manuscripts flagged for plagiarism by our plagiarism detection software will be automatically rejected. Reuse of text related to research methods from the authors’ prior publications is allowed and not considered a form of plagiarism. Previous publication of the manuscript as a preprint (e.g., OSF, PsycArxiv, lab website) is also permissible if the authors have retained copyright of the manuscript and the manuscript is not accepted for publication or under review at another journal.

Removal

Once published, a journal article cannot generally be revised or removed. We feel it is important to provide perpetual access to materials published whenever possible and appropriate. However, we will remove publications under special circumstances, including in the case of submission errors, rights violations, or inappropriate content. Please be aware, however, that even after the removal of a work, a citation to the work will remain in our system, along with a URL.If you would like your work removed from eScholarship, please contact the editors.

Revising Work

Once manuscripts are published, we are generally unable to revise them. If a significant error or omission is discovered, contact the editors.

Where errors are identified after publication, the journal will issue corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions in line with the COPE guidelines. Such notices are linked to the original article via its DOI; the original record remains accessible to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record. Retractions will clearly state the reason for retraction and the party initiating it.

Rights and Permissions

Psychology Across Development does not require copyright transfer, only permission to publish and archive the article. Copyright holders retain copyright ownership, granting a nonexclusive license to the journal and eScholarship to publish the article, meaning that the author may also publish it elsewhere. Before submitting an article to the journal, please be sure that all necessary permissions have been cleared in any third-party material. All articles published in the journal are subject to the journal’s author agreement, which is available in the first step of the submission process or by contacting us to request a copy.

Open Access Statement

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution (no APCs). Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY).

Long-term Preservation Policy

All materials submitted to eScholarship are automatically deposited in CDL's Merritt Preservation Repository for long-term preservation.

Psychology Across Development is published as a diamond open access journal: it does not charge any fees to authors or readers. Hosting, technical infrastructure, and long-term preservation are provided by the University of California's eScholarship program (California Digital Library).