Author Guidelines

(Note: Our submission page is currently being updated)

Submission Preparation Checklist

1. If the manuscript has at least one graduate student (U.S. or international equivalent) as a primary author, then it also has at least one Ph.D. holding professional scholar (U.S. or international equivalent).
2. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
3. You have read the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License agreement and understand that authors will retain the copyright to their original work.
4. The text adheres to the requirements outlined in the author guidelines.
5. The text is double-spaced; uses 12-point font; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end, and are properly numbered.
6. The submission was copy edited and acknowledges any of theJPE's associated copy editors whose services you used to copy edit your manuscript as an unnumbered footnote on the first page of your manuscript.
7. The manuscript has been prepared for anonymous review, including removing all references to the author. Authors may reference their own work, but there should be no indication in the text that cited works are the authors.
8. An abstract of a maximum of 150 words is attached, even for book reviews. Please make sure that your abstract appears on the first page of your paper.
9. References are attached in your paper, including all available DOI links for reference linking purposes. You will be asked to submit your references separately during the paper submission process. Please copy your references, remove all formatting, and paste them into the field provided.
10. All relevant fully anonymized raw data and research instruments have been attached (for empirically researched manuscripts only).
11. The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format. Before doing so, however, please make sure you save your file using an anonymized file name.
12. Paid $35.00 (USD) submission fee throughhttps://www.philosophyofemotion.org/online-store.

Journal’s Aims: Although the JPE takes an interdisciplinary approach by publishing manuscripts written from any disciplinary perspective, because the JPE’s focus is to publish articles that engage the interests, concerns, problems, or questions in the area of philosophy of emotion, manuscripts should explicitly address such concerns, problems, etc., and the relevant literature within the philosophy of emotion and have a clear argumentative structure. We also ask authors to make the import of their paper's main conclusion to the current discourse on the relevant topic in question as clear as possible, and to explicitly situate their contribution in the relevant larger discourse to help readers and researchers locate the significance of the author's contribution to the larger discourse. Furthermore, we ask authors to make sure to provide a clear exposition of any theory that the author will be addressing.

Interdisciplinary Considerations: Because of the JPE’s interdisciplinary approach, we ask authors to take an inclusive approach in their writing that attempts to teach those who are not familiar with the literature and discourse in the area of philosophy of emotion while also engaging those who are experts in the area and field of emotion with some interesting things to consider. So, we ask authors to use technical terms when possible, as they would in their more area specific writings, although we ask them to provide a clear definition (to a reasonable extent) to help those who are unfamiliar with these technical terms become familiar with them. We also ask authors to provide citation information to significant, relevant works that may help other researchers. Finally, we ask authors to give other authors the respect of recongnizing their contributions by appropriately citing those authors who have helped them by doing any of the foregoing.

In summary of the above, we ask authors to ensure that their papers include the following:

1. A clear roadmap (introductory summary) of their paper and subheadings that are consistent with their roadmap
2. A clear and in-depth presentation of the import of their paper's main thesis to the current discourse on the relevant topic
3. A clear and in-depth exposition of the relevant aspects of the theory or theories in question
4. A clear statement situating the author's significant contribution to the larger discourse
5. A clear argumentative structure supporting the author's main thesis
6. A clear and explicit definition of any technical term
7. The respectful recognition of appropriate research sources through the use of accurate citations, which includes providing accurate citations for other researchers
8. A clear indication of the disciplines of the authors who are significantly discussed in a manuscript in order to promote the recognition and appreciation of the disciplinary contributions made by these authors 
9. Although the JPE appreciates it when authors provide some general observations about a particular area, along with supporting citations, the JPE does not publish survey articles 

Anonymized Manuscript and File Name: Please makes sure that your manuscript is fully anonymized, including the document file name. Authors should remove any content that would in any way indicate the author's identity to a reader. Authors may cite their own work, but should do so in third-person form in order to ensure that the surrounding text does not reveal that the work cited is the author's work. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, authors may choose to revise the third-person form of citing their own work during the pre-production process. 

Manuscript Submission Fee: Staring March 18, 2019, however, the JPE  will begin charging authors $35 (USD) in order to defray costs and to become self-sustainable. Please see the JPE's publication costs for more information. As such, the JPE is a community project that is sustained entirely by the volunteer work and support of the scholarly community. It is a journal for the scholarly community, by the scholarly community. Therefore, after reinvesting in any necessary or reasonable upgrades, the JPE will distribute any profit (that would amount to more than $20 per person/per issue) that is made at the end of every year to all of those who have contributed to the publishing of its two issues for that year (which would include the journal staff and editorial advisory board members who have persisted to seeing both issues published, and the authors and the referees who have contributed to the publishing of at least one of its issues). Please make sure to pay your manuscript submission fee through the Society for Philosophy of Emotion website. When doing so, please make sure that at least one of the authors name appears as the payee in order for the JPE to ensure that the submission fee is appropriattely associated with the correct manuscript.

Style Guidelines: The JPE uses the Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition as its primary manual of style for usage, grammar, and citations. It specifically employs the Author-Date Reference citation style with endnotes (not footnotes). Please see the JPE CMOS Style Sheet for details.

Writing Advice (recommended especially for graduate students): Please see the following writing advice to get a better idea of the standard of quality that the JPE expects all manuscripts to meet prior to being considered for peer-review. These are just some of the minimum standards that we expect all submitted manuscripts to meet. 

Copy Editing: Please note that because the JPE is run by a staff of volunteers and is an open-access journal that only charges author's a total fee of $35.00 to defray costs, we do not have the resources to provide authors with copy editing services. So, although every publication goes through a copy edit check by the editor-in-cheif, we ask authors to ensure that their papers are copy edited before submitting them to the JPE and, as with any other journal, authors are ultimately responsible for the contents of their publications. Furthermore, out of respect toward our editorial board, non-editorial board referees, and JPE staff, manuscripts that require a significant amount of copy editing will not be sent to peer-review regardless of their content. In other words, unlike some other journals, authors are required to format their manuscript for publication in the JPE at the time of submission. Again, such requirements are necessary to sustain the JPE and its mission. For authors who are unsure about the JPE house style, please see the style guidelines provided above, and review some of the papers published in the JPE prior to submitting a manuscript. If you are in need of copy editing services, please refer to our list of associated copy editors.

Use of Gendered Nouns/Pronouns: The JPE asks authors to be mindful of the ascription of genders and their use of gendered pronouns in their work, especially when ascribing genders to the subjects of their examples or when speaking of a generalized group, such as humankind or humanity. For example, authors who submit work that typically use female subjects only in examples with negative connotations will be asked to revise their examples, and the use of the term ‘mankind’ should only be used when referring to the kind to which all men belong rather than humanity in general.

Mutually Inclusive Disjunction (or): The JPE asks authors to use the term ‘or’ only to indicate a mutually inclusive disjunction rather than a mutually exclusive disjunction.

Mutually Exclusive Disjunction (either-or): The JPE asks authors to use the terms ‘either-or’ whenever indicating a mutually exclusive disjunction or to indicate in some other way that they intend a mutually exclusive disjunction, and to maintain the use of the term ‘or’ to only indicate a mutually inclusive disjunction.

(Please note that the JPE does not require authors to ensure that their manuscripts conform to its style guidelines before submitting them for consideration. The JPE does, however, require authors to ensure that their penultimate draft conforms to its style guidelines at the time of submission.)