Submissions
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CSPEC is committed to abiding by the ethical review and publication guidelines, as suggested by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In kind, the members of the CSPEC editorial board will utilize the COPE guidelines in any cases of misconduct during the review and publication processes. Authors should not misrepresent identities, empirical results, text, or other elements germane to the submission and publication procedures.
If there are ethical concern, the editorial team will follow COPE investigatory procedures. After the initial internal investigation concludes, the editor will reach out to the corresponding author, and they will be provided an opportunity to address the concerns.
All contents should be original contributions, unless appropriately cited or quoted in accordance with the APA 7th edition Manual. The requirement of original text also precludes the inclusion of self-plagiarism. Further, all portions of the text, data, and results should be under review solely with CSPEC until after the final decision or publication period. Finally, in the case of empirical studies, authors should not split up a particular study into parts to increase the amount of publication opportunities (i.e., piecemeal).
Authors commit to the ethical collection, representation, and reporting of data, which includes a priori hypotheses when appropriate, avoiding “data mining,” or misreporting or misrepresenting findings.
Editorial staff maintains the privilege to use plagiarism or artificial intelligence software.
When requested, authors should be prepared to share any documentation or data to substantiate the results presented in a submitted manuscript (sensitive or proprietary information can be excluded or made confidential, when necessary).
Authors are required to correct errors when they identified, which can result in a published correction or redaction, at the decision of the editor.
Authors must report any conflicts of interest, including knowable conflicts with potential reviewers.
About
Counseling Scholarship & Practice in Educational Communities (CSPEC) is a peer-reviewed journal with a focus on rigorous empirical, conceptual, and applied scholarship pertaining to mental health, wellness, prevention, education, and career activities that occur in and around preK-12 educational settings. We prioritize work that is pursuant of more equitable and just school and social communities through counseling, collaboration, education, advocacy, systemic change, and research. The review board will consider submissions from various disciplines so long as the work is grounded in the focus of the journal. CSPEC is the official journal of the Fredrickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CSCORE) at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.
Focus and Scope
Counseling Scholarship & Practice in Educational Communities (CSPEC) is a peer-reviewed journal with a focus on empirical and conceptual scholarship pertaining to the activities that occur in and around preK-12 educational settings. The review board will consider submissions from various academic and practice disciplines, not limited to school counseling, school social work, school psychology, and teaching, so long as the work is grounded in preventative and wellness counseling at the individual student or total school system levels.
Copyright Notice
The Contributor hereby grants Counseling Scholarship & Practice in Educational Communities (CSPEC) a perpetual non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free License to use, display, distribute, transmit, publish, reproduce or copy the Content, either digitally, in print, or in any other medium, and to adapt or transform the content as needed for accessibility, archiving, or format migration. For purposes of this Agreement, Content means the audio, visual, textual, graphical, or other materials provided by the Contributor under this Agreement. Other than the License granted herein, the Contributor retains all intellectual property rights to the Content and the responsibility for enforcing those rights.
Should the submitted Content in the present or an altered form subsequently be published within another journal, anthology or other publication, or on a website, repository, or publicly available database, the contributor agrees to cite CSPEC as the source of original publication.
The Contributor represents and warrants that to the best of his/her knowledge: (i) he/she is the sole owner of the Content or has been otherwise authorized by the owner of the Content to use the Content as contemplated herein, and has secured all necessary licenses, consents and authorizations with respect to use of Content and all elements thereof to the full extent contemplated herein; and (ii) no part of the Content violates or infringes upon the patent rights, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks or constitutes defamation, invasion of privacy or the violation of any right of publicity or other rights of any person or entity. If the Content contains any material which is not original, then the Contributor must: (a) identify third-party material, its authorship, and any legal protections (such as copyright, trademark, etc.) applicable to that material; and (b) document the legal rights to use the third-party material in the Content (such as, fair use, public domain status, Creative Commons license, or similar rights).
Each party shall indemnify and hold the other harmless for any losses, claims, damages, awards, penalties, or injuries incurred, including reasonable attorney's fees, which arise from any alleged breach of such indemnifying party's representations and warranties made under this Agreement, provided that the indemnifying party is promptly notified of any such claims. The indemnifying party shall have the right to defend such claims at its own expense. The other party shall provide assistance in investigating and defending such claims as the indemnifying party may reasonably request and have the right to participate in the defense at its own expense.
This Agreement contains the entire agreement and understanding between the Contributor and CSPEC with respect to the subject matter hereof, and merges all prior discussions and representations with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement. No amendment or modification hereof shall be valid or binding upon the parties unless made in writing and signed by all parties.
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed under applicable federal law and the laws of the State of Massachusetts, and the parties expressly agree that jurisdiction and venue of any dispute shall exclusively be in Massachusetts.
Peer Review
This journal operates a double blind peer review policy. Initial submissions will be assigned to two blind CSPEC review board members (or invited blind ad hoc reviewers, when pertinent) by the Editor-in-Chief or Editorial Assistant. Returned reviews will receive an initial decision from the Editor-in-Chief, for those submissions that receive an initial Revision or Acceptance decision, an assigned Associate Editor will offer further review, consultation to the editor, and commentary to the authors. The Editor will render the initial decision to the corresponding author. All revised manuscripts will be reviewed and evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors.
Licences
Counseling Scholarship & Practice in Educational Communities allows the following licences for submission:
- CC BY 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Publication Fees
CSPEC is a diamond open access journal and does not charge APCs. Costs associated with publication are paid by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Publication Cycle
This journal published continuously all year round/publishes in issues every x months.
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