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Journal Guidelines

Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology (TQMP) is an electronic scientific research journal. All articles are peer-reviewed. The Journal favors clarity of exposition and didactic qualities over exhaustiveness and mathematical exposition.

TQMP publishes three types of articles: Regular articles, Tutorials, and Review articles.

Regular articles.

Regular articles are intended for senior graduate students and researchers in all areas of experimental psychology. They should present methods that are useful for the implementation of experimental paradigms, the description and analysis of data, or the development of quantitative models.

While authors must provide some theoretical support for the method that they wish to present, the emphasis of articles should be on application. Thus, articles should thoroughly describe a quantitative method and a give a clear illustration of its use. Accordingly, authors are strongly encouraged to provide a data set and other materials (e.g. listing, programs, and software syntax) that are related to the applied example of the featured method. This approach affords readers the opportunity to get concrete practice using the method and facilitates learning. Finally, as is the case for Figures and Tables, any data set or materials that are provided must be explicitly described and referenced in the article.

For accessibility reasons, the method presented should be implemented using non-property software (e.g. GNU, Octave, R, and OpenOffice), known statistical packages (e.g. SPSS and SAS, and R) or high-level programming environment package (e.g. Matlab and Mathematica). We do not encourage manuscripts presenting methods implemented using low-level programming languages (such as Fortran or C) unless the authors specifically explain why low-level programming is necessary.

An example of a regular article is Giguère, G. (2006). Collecting and analyzing data in multidimensional scaling experiments: a guide for psychologists using SPSS. Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 2, 26-37.The word limit of regular articles is 8000.

Tutorials.

Tutorials are intended for undergraduate students and graduate students in all areas of experimental psychology. Otherwise, tutorials have the same goals and requirements as the regular articles, but with a stronger emphasis on application.

An example of a Tutorial is Lacroix, G. L., & Giguère, G. (2006). Formatting data files for repeated-measures analyses in SPSS: Using the Aggregate and Restructure Procedures. Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 2, 20-26. The word limit of tutorials is 6500.

Review articles.

Review articles are intended for senior graduate students and researchers in all areas of experimental psychology. TQMP accepts two types of review articles.

The first type of review article should present an overview of a family of methods, techniques, or models (e.g. sampling models). The review can follow a taxonomic or historical organization. The second type of review article should selectively describe possible analyses that can be performed on a set of often encountered data (e.g. response time distributions).

Both kinds of review articles should compare and contrast the strength and weaknesses of the methods, techniques, or models being investigated. Unlike regular articles and tutorials, review articles are not required to include an applied example of a specific method. If an applied example is included, however, authors must comply with the applicable requirements described in the regular article section.

An example of a review article is Hélie, S. (2006). An introduction to model selection: Tools and algorithms. Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 2, 1-10. The word limit of review articles is 10,000.