SIG Perspectives. Please note that ASHA publishes four peer-reviewed scholarly journals and one peer-reviewed scholarly review journal pertaining to the general field of communication sciences and disorders (CSD) and to the professions of audiology and speech-language pathology.

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 Regardless of the type of manuscript, abstracts must be structured using the following sections:The introduction usually describes the theoretical background, indicates why the work is important, states a specific research question, and poses a specific hypothesis to be tested. If your title is insufficient, people will have difficulty finding your article.

All submitted files should be properly labelled so that they directly relate to the file’s content. Please note: Recordings or images that involve identifiable participants require permission from those individuals. A research article is a full-length article presenting important new research results. The scientific findings should be explained and documented concisely. References should be listed alphabetically, then chronologically under each author. A complete guide to publishing your research in the ASHA journals: AJA, AJSLP, JSLHR, and LSHSS. Figures are visual presentations of results, including graphs, diagrams, photos, drawings, schematics, maps, etc. Each table or figure should appear on its own page (i.e., don’t put more than one figure or table on the same page). If the author does not hold copyright to the video, the author must obtain permission for the video to be published in the journal. If your article is accepted for publication, then all of your supplemental files are automatically deposited into the ASHA Journals Figshare data repository without charge. Because video, audio, and animation cannot be embedded in the print version of the journal, please provide text for both the electronic and the print version for the portions of the article that refer to this content.If the content being submitted is truly “supplementary” (not essential to the content of the article or only of supplementary interest to the reader), it can be included as Supplementary Content (i.e., accessible only electronically via an active link in the article). ASHA encourages the use of relevant reporting guidelines to help promote the transparency and reproducibility of scientific research. All manuscripts submitted to the ASHA Journals should adhere to the following general formatting guidelines:Manuscripts submitted to the ASHA journals should include line numbers. This section describes both the techniques and the overall experimental strategy used by the authors in order to address any questions the readers may have about the experimental design. Where possible, the material will be copyedited. This can be done in the same way as a figure or table by referring to the video or animation content and noting in the body text where it should be placed.

The methods section must be written with enough information so that (1) the experiment could be repeated by others to determine if the results can be replicated and (2) the audience can judge the study’s validity.The results section contains the data collected during your study and is the heart of a scientific paper. Adding line numbers in Microsoft Word and many other major word processors is straightforward. As a result, abstracts must be brief but also informative enough to be genuinely useful.ASHA recommends that abstracts be 150–250 words. It may be written by, as applicable, the journal’s editor-in-chief, an editor, or the guest 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 epilogue is a short article at the end of a forum, special issue, or special topic collection that is written by, as applicable, the journal’s editor-in-chief, an editor, or the guest editor involved (please note that special issues require prior approval). These journals are the American Journal of Audiology; American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools; and Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. Any possible objections to the work and/or suggestions of areas for improvement in future research can be addressed in this section.Citation of grant or contract support of research must be given in an acknowledgments section at the end of the article (before the References). As the title becomes the basis for most online searches, it should contain the key words describing the work presented. Every ASHA journal operates under the guidance of an Editorial Board, providing expert advice on content, attracting new authors and encouraging submissions.

Includes a short abstract and introductory paragraph.

This section interprets your findings, evaluates the hypotheses or research questions, discusses unexpected results, and ties the findings to the previous literature (discussed first in the Introduction). The text should guide the reader through the results stressing the key results that provide the answers to the question(s) investigated.The discussion section should explain what the results mean and how the results relate to other studies. Perspectives is the online, scholarly review journal of the ASHA Special Interest Groups.. CRED Library.

Keep in mind the width of a column or page when designing tables and figures. In other words, consider whether legibility will be lost when reductions are made to fit a column or page width. We hope that these resources, as well as greater flexibility in the submission process timelines from the ASHA journals, will be useful for all ASHA members during the pandemic. There is not a prescribed limit on the number of tables or figures that can be included.The title should be short and clear, yet provide a sufficient description of the work.