American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Mission
AJSLP publishes peer-reviewed research and other scholarly articles on all aspects of clinical practice in speechlanguage pathology. The journal is an international outlet for clinical research pertaining to screening, detection, diagnosis, management, and outcomes of communication and swallowing disorders across the lifespan as well as the etiologies and characteristics of these disorders. Because of its clinical orientation, the journal disseminates research findings applicable to diverse aspects of clinical practice in speech-language pathology. AJSLP seeks to advance evidence-based practice by disseminating the results of new studies as well as providing a forum for critical reviews and meta-analyses of previously published work.
Scope
The broad field of speech-language pathology, including aphasia; apraxia of speech and childhood apraxia of speech; aural rehabilitation; augmentative and alternative communication; cognitive impairment; craniofacial disorders; dysarthria; fluency disorders; language disorders in children; speech sound disorders; swallowing, dysphagia, and feeding disorders; and voice disorders.
Publication Frequency
AJSLP is continuously published, with articles added to the Newly Published section of the website as they complete production. The journal also publishes issues on a quarterly basis in February, May, August, and November, as well as special issues on an ad hoc basis at other times throughout the year.
Impact Factor
AJSLP is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in the categories Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology and Rehabilitation, and in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) in the categories Rehabilitation and Linguistics. The 2019 Journal Impact Factor™ is 1.486, and the 5-year figure is 1.861 (Source: Clarivate, 2020).
Manuscript Types
AJSLP publishes a wide variety of article types:
Research Article
A research article is a full-length article presenting important new research results. Research articles include an abstract, introduction, methods and results sections, discussion, and relevant citations. Suggested maximum length: 40 pages including citations, tables, and figures (supplemental materials not included in length guidelines).
Research Note
A research note is a brief manuscript presenting pilot, preliminary, and/or exploratory findings or a new method for the collection or analysis of data. Includes a short abstract and introductory paragraph. The scientific findings should be explained and documented concisely. Suggested maximum length: 20 manuscript pages including citations, tables, and figures).
Review Article
“Review Article” is an umbrella term covering systematic reviews (with or without meta-analyses), historical reviews of a body of research, description of an author’s programmatic research, and possibly other types of reviews.
Reviews can be a comprehensive overview, or they can be focused on a narrow body of research. Reviews should be accessible to knowledgeable readers not expert in the subject area. They should be prepared with the same rigor as a research article reporting specific results. Suggested maximum length: 40 manuscript pages including citations, tables, and figures (supplemental materials not included in length guidelines).
Clinical Focus
A clinical focus is an article that may be of primary clinical interest but may not have a traditional research format.
Case studies, descriptions of clinical programs, and innovative clinical services and activities are among the possibilities. Suggested maximum length: 40 pages including citations, tables, and figures (supplemental materials not included in length guidelines).
Tutorial
A tutorial is an educational exposition covering recent literature on topics of interest to clinicians and other scholars.
Suggested maximum length: 40 pages including citations, tables, and figures (supplemental materials not included in length guidelines).
Technical Report
A technical report is a brief article describing a pretrial feasibility or pilot efficacy study that addresses important clinical questions (i.e., whom to treat with a given technology, when to treat, and for how long). Suggested maximum length: 30 pages including citations, tables, and figures (supplemental materials not included in length guidelines).
Viewpoint
A viewpoint includes scholarly based opinion(s) on an issue of clinical relevance that currently may be neglected, controversial, or related to future legislation, or could serve to update the readership on current thinking in an area.
Suggested maximum length: 10 pages including citations, tables, and figures (supplemental materials not included in length guidelines).
Commentary
A commentary is a short, timely article that spotlights current issues of direct interest to the communication sciences and disorders community. Commentary articles are often extensions or reactions to positions put forward in viewpoint articles. Suggested maximum length: 10 pages including citations, tables, and figures (supplemental materials not included in length guidelines).
Letter to the Editor
A letter to the editor communicates opinions about material previously published in the journal or views on topics of current relevance. A letter relating to work published in the journal will ordinarily be referred to the author(s) of the original item for a response, which may be published along with the letter.
Introduction
An introduction is generally a short article presented at the beginning of a forum or special issue. It may be written by, as applicable, the journal's editor-in-chief, an editor, or the special issue editor involved and is intended to provide background information on the topic covered, brief explanations of the articles, and the aims or goals of the forum or special issue. An introduction is typically limited to 10 manuscript pages, including citations, tables, and figures.
Epilogue
An epilogue is a short article at the end of a forum or special issue that is written by, as applicable, the journal's editor-in-chief, an editor, or the special issue editor involved. An epilogue should include a summation of the preceding articles' findings and may draw broader conclusions than the individual articles. An epilogue is typically limited to 10 manuscript pages, including citations, tables, and figures.
Manuscript Preparation
Generally, scientific manuscripts should be organized as follows:
• Title page
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Method
• Results
• Discussion
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Tables and Figures
• Appendices (optional)
• Supplemental information (optional)
Because scientific papers are organized in this way, readers know what to expect from each part of the paper and they can quickly locate specific information.
General Manuscript Formatting
All manuscripts submitted to the ASHA Journals should adhere to the following general formatting guidelines:
• Manuscripts must be provided as a standard document format (e.g., .doc, .docx).
• Figures must be provided as a standard image format (e.g., JPEG, TIFF, PNG) and have a resolution of at least 300 DPI.
• Tables must be provided as either an editable Microsoft Word document (i.e., .doc, .docx), or as an editable Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (i.e., .xls, .xlsx) containing only text and no formulas.
• Manuscripts should be double spaced.
• Continuous line numbers must be included (for instructions, visit the Writing and Formatting Your Manuscript page on the ASHA Journals Academy).
• Single spaces after periods.
Page Limit
A guideline of 40 pages (including title page, abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, appendixes, tables, and figures) is suggested as an upper limit for manuscript length for most manuscript types. This page limit does not include supplemental materials. Please note that this is just a general guideline. Longer manuscripts, particularly for critical reviews and extended data-based reports, will be considered but authors should submit a cover letter providing a rationale explaining why the added length is needed. Additional information is available on the ASHA Journals Academy website.
Title Page
The title should be short and clear, yet provide a sufficient description of the work. As the title becomes the basis for online search results, it should contain the key words describing the work presented. If your title is not precise enough or is too “catchy” versus informative, people may have difficulty finding your article. The title page should also include a list of the authors and their affiliations (see Authorship Criteria and Guidelines for more information).
Abstract
The abstract helps readers scan through lists of articles or search results and is essential for helping users decide whether to read the rest of the article or save it for future reference. As a result, abstracts must be brief but also informative enough to be genuinely useful.
ASHA recommends that abstracts be 150–250 words. The size limit for what can be included in your submission is set above 300 words, but that is so that very detailed abstracts for specific types of studies can be accommodated (see, for example, the abstract for this randomized controlled trial reported according to the CONSORT framework)
Regardless of the type of manuscript, abstracts must be structured using the following sections:
Purpose: The Purpose section must include a concise statement of the specific purposes, questions addressed, and/or hypotheses tested. Lengthy descriptions of rationale are not necessary or desirable.
Method: The Method section must describe characteristics and numbers of participants and provide information related to the design of the study (e.g., pre–post group study of treatment outcomes, randomized controlled trial, multiple baseline across behaviors; ethnographic study with qualitative analysis; prospective longitudinal study) and data collection methods. If the participants have been assigned randomly to study conditions, this must be noted explicitly, regardless of the design used. If the article is not data-based, information should be provided on the methods used to collect information (e.g., online database search), to summarize previously reported data and to organize the presentation and arguments (e.g., meta-analysis, narrative review).
Results: The Results section should summarize findings as they apply directly to the stated purposes of the article. Statistical outcomes may be summarized, but no statistics other than effect sizes should be provided.
This section may be omitted from articles that are not data-based.
Conclusions: The Conclusions section must state specifically the extent to which the stated purposes of the article have been met. Comments on the generalizability of the results (i.e., external validity), needs for further research, and clinical implications often are highly desirable.
Introduction and Body of Paper
Information about the scope and format of the introduction and main body of your paper (methods, results, and discussion sections) is available on the Author Resource Center in the ASHA Journals Academy under Writing and Formatting Your Manuscript.
Acknowledgments
Citation of grant or contract support of research with the applicable grant or contract numbers must be given in an acknowledgments section at the end of the article (before the References). If any part of the research was supported by an institution not named on the title page, that institution should be acknowledged in this section. For authors funded by the National Institutes of Health, ASHA deposits your articles on your behalf to PubMed Central so that you are compliant with the Public Access Mandate of 2008, so proper acknowledgement of funding is integral to making that possible. Individuals who assisted in the research may be acknowledged. Do not name individuals (editors and reviewers) who participated in the review process.
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