Author Guidelines

Submissions should be made electronically through this website.

Once a submission has been completed, the submitting author is able to fully track the status of the paper and complete requested revisions via their online profile.

Please ensure that you consider the following guidelines when preparing your manuscript. Failure to do so may delay the processing of your submission.

Note that word limits are meant as guidelines and some flexibility is permitted. All word limits include referencing and citation.

Article types

  • Review articles provide a useful overview of a sub-field of cognition. A comprehensive meta-analysis or literature review may lead to the exposition of ground-breaking theoretical ideas, or might more simply serve as a contemporary introduction to a topic for interested readers. Papers should critically engage with the relevant body of extant literature.
  • Research articles describe the outcomes and application of unpublished original research. These should make a substantial contribution to knowledge and understanding in the subject matter and should be supported by relevant figures, tabulated data, and if possible, raw anonymised data should be publicly available and linked. Research articles may be brief articles reporting a single study or longer reports of a series of studies. Brief articles should be reserved for situations where that study is clearly justified, well-constructed and analysed, thoroughly powered, and where the results are clear, convincing, and theoretically important. It is neither in ESCoP's nor the authors' best interests to publish a single-experiment report when the results of the sole experiment are vague, unconvincing, or insufficiently justified. Multi-experiment research articles should be no more than 8,000 words. Brief articles reporting a single experiment should be no more than 3,000 words.