Review Process

The peer-review process is an invaluable aspect of any scientific community. We aim to adopt a peer-review approach that will inspire meaningful dialogue within our community at SFU, and we encourage you to participate in this dialogue by submitting accessible and engaging work for your peers. Below we outline the process by which we review submissions. The initial evaulation and peer review stages are both double-blind reviews with neither authors nor reviewers named.

1. Initial Evaluation

2. Peer Review

3. Copyediting & Publication

1. Section editors make an initial evaluation of papers.

2. Papers which do not meet journal policy or standards are politely declined.

3. Papers that meet journal policy and standards are sent to the peer review stage.

1. Graduate and undergraduate reviewers are paired up to review manuscript submissions relating to their background and expertise in the field of psychology. 

2. Graduate and undergraduate reviewers examine the originality, ethics, and structure of submissions, provide critical comments, and advise to accept, accept with revisions, resubmit for another round of review, or reject the manuscript.

3. Depending on reviewers decisions, feedback is sent to the author. 

1. Accepted manuscripts are reviewed and edited by copyeditors. Any outstanding issues are addressed. 

2. After consensus is reached, selected manuscripts are published.

3. The authors final manuscript will be published in the current journal edition.