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Call for proposals: Special review issue in Journal of Vocational Behavior

The editor and associate editors of the Journal of Vocational Behavior (JVB) are announcing a call for proposals for review articles to be published in our annual special review issue, which we aim to release early in 2019.  

JVB publishes articles on individuals' work decisions and choice, work adjustment, individuals' organizational career growth/development, and career development across the life span, and has an impact factor of 2.55 (see scope below).  Scholarly reviews of the theoretical and empirical status of various constructs and theories within the field of vocational psychology and organizational psychology are invited for this review issue.   We will not consider meta-analyses as part of this review issue, but we welcome these as regular submissions to the journal via the normal route.  

Proposals will be will be evaluated on:

·       The scope of the review including definition of the constructs, major topics, span of time for review

·       Relevance of the topic to an individual's vocational behavior

·       Implications for future research

·       Viability of the project and timeline

Proposals should be no more than 7 pages (double spaced, including references) and include:

1.     Rationale for the review

2.     Summary of relevant theories/frameworks that will guide the review

3.     Summary of the constructs that will be covered

4.     Inclusive dates of review (e.g., from 2000)

5.     If available, other relevant reviews and meta analyses of the topic and the contribution of the proposal beyond these past reviews. 

Please note:  Proposals longer than 7 pages (double spaced) will not be considered.

Important Dates

Deadline for proposals:  January 8, 2018 (submission portal will be open from 1 December 2017)

Decisions on proposals sent to authors: by March 15, 2018

Full paper submission deadline: June 1, 2018 

All full manuscripts will go through peer review, and we cannot guarantee acceptance.

Please submit proposals to the online manuscript submission site: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-vocational-behavior/ , choosing  '2019 Review issue proposal' as the article type.  

All proposals will be reviewed by members of the editorial team.  Due to the volume of proposals submitted, specific feedback on proposals will not be provided.  

For questions, contact:

Nadya A. Fouad, Ph.D.

Editor-in-Chief

nadya@uwm.edu

The special review issue in 2020 will focus on methodology in research on vocational behavior.  Proposals for that issue will be due in September, 2018.   

JVB aims and scope:

The Journal of Vocational Behavior publishes articles that report empirical research, both quantitative and qualitative, that expands knowledge about an individual's vocational choices and work-related decisions, work adjustment, and career development across the life-span.

Editors will consider manuscripts that make significant contributions to the literature in the following areas:

Studies of individuals' career and work-related choices examining topics such as:

Theories of career choice; occupational interests and their measurement 
The inter-relation of abilities, needs, values, and personality 
Occupational aspirations and the vocational decision-making process 
Career adaptability; vocational development processes and stages 
The effects of culture, demographic variables, and experiential factors on vocational choice
Career exploration 
Job search 
Organizational socialization.

Studies of individuals' work decisions and adjustment within the workplace, investigating topics such as:

Job performance and satisfaction
Personnel selection 
Career success
Theories of work adjustment 
Adult vocational development and career patterns 
Organizational commitment and job involvement 
Multiple-role management and the work-family interface
Work-role salience 
Culture, demographic variables, and experiential factors on workplace decisions
Work-leisure relations 
Midlife career change 
Occupational re-entry and transition from work to retirement.
Individual job characteristics
Work-related stress and well-being

The journal also publishes research on career interventions; mentoring; and psychometric research that reports the construction and initial validation of new inventories as well as studies that evaluate the reliability and validity of instruments that measure career related constructs.

Please note: the Journal does not publish research on organization-, team-, or group-level variables nor does it publish studies on vocational education.

Manuscripts may be desk rejected (i.e. rejected without editorial review) for the following reasons:
• Outside the scope of the journal as outlined above, 
• Has significant flaws in writing style, structure or language (please see APA style guide http://www.apastyle.org).
• Does not make a substantive contribution to the field due to, for example, limited theoretical or practical relevance, a nonexistent or outdated review of literature, or a study based on single-source cross-sectional data that does not investigate new relationships or phenomena.
• Has substantial overlap with other manuscripts, including by the author(s). All manuscripts are submitted to Ithenticate and manuscripts with significant overlap will be returned to the author for revision.
• Any prior use of data is not explicitly stated and thoroughly explained. Note: any prior use of data must be clearly stated, see 'Prior publication of data' section below.