Journal of Family Communication

期刊简介：Journal of Family Communication Volumes 24-26 (2024-2026) Editor: Sylvia L. Mikucki-Enyart, University of Iowa (comm-jfc@uiowa.edu) The Journal of Family Communication (JFC) publishes original, theoretically grounded and methodologically rigorous scholarship that advances the understanding of the communication processes within or about families as well as research that addresses issues related to the intersection between family communication and social systems, such as mass media, education, health care, and law and policy. Scholarship centering diversity within families (e.g., racial-ethnic, family form) are especially encouraged. JFC is methodologically inclusive and welcomes quantitative, qualitative, rhetorical, and critical research as well as multidisciplinary scholarship from related fields, such as family studies, social psychology, and sociology. JFC Volumes 24-26 will publish three types of articles: Original Research Articles, Replication Articles, and Brief Research Reports. Original Research articles are 8000-word articles, excluding references, tables, figures, and appendices. (Authors of Original Research Article submissions that require an additional word allowance should contact the editor prior to submitting the article through the ScholarOne system.) · Original research articles, including articles that focus on measurement development and validation, should adhere to the traditional research study format (i.e., an Introduction that presents a rationale for the study followed by a Literature Review/Theoretical Background, Method, Results, Discussion, and Practical Implications sections). Please note, measurement development and validation pieces must focus solely on family communication. · The practical implications section should provide several practical or social contributions or implications for audiences outside academia (e.g., preK-12 instruction, counselors, social service agencies) as a way to apply the study results to “real” families or “real” family situations. Replication articles are 8000-word articles, excluding references, tables, figures, and appendices that replicate important findings in the field of family communication. Ideally, replications will be direct or statistical replications with identical measures, samples, and procedures (Hunter, 2001), but conceptual replications (e.g., adding an additional variable) will be considered. Replication articles should: · Contain a strong warrant for the replication, including why it is necessary and important to the field. · Summarize how the original study was carried out and detail how the current study will adhere to and/or deviate from the original (e.g., additional variable as a mediator or moderator; more sophisticated analyses). · Discuss how findings replicate, fail to replicate, or extend the original results. Brief Research reports are 4000 to 5500-word articles, including references, tables, figures, and appendices. The research report is an abbreviated version of a traditional research article, with a focus on the interpretation and explication of the results. The research report does not require an extensive literature review and is ideal for scholarship that is grounded in or based on content with which JFC readers are highly familiar. Research reports are suitable for original research studies or studies with pilot data or small sample sizes. All submissions should conform to the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2020). Submissions must not be under editorial review at any other journal or have been published elsewhere. All submissions will undergo anonymized peer review by at least two members of the journal’s editorial board. Submissions that fail to either conform to APA guidelines or meet the requirements for its article type will be desk-rejected and returned to the author(s). The decision not to publish a manuscript is fina Authors can choose to publish gold access in this journal. Read the Instructions for Authors .

【译文】《家庭沟通杂志》第 24-26 卷（2024-2026 年）编辑：Sylvia L. Mikucki-Enyart，爱荷华大学 (comm-jfc@uiowa.edu) 《家庭沟通杂志》(JFC) 发表原创、有理论基础且方法论严谨的学术成果，增进对家庭内部或有关家庭的沟通过程的理解，以及解决与家庭沟通和社会系统（如大众媒体、教育、医疗保健以及法律和政策。特别鼓励以家庭内部多样性（例如种族、家庭形式）为中心的奖学金。 JFC 在方法论上具有包容性，欢迎定量、定性、修辞和批判性研究以及来自相关领域（如家庭研究、社会心理学和社会学）的多学科学术研究。 JFC 第 24-26 卷将出版三种类型的文章：原创研究文章、复制文章和简要研究报告。原创研究文章是 8000 字的文章，不包括参考文献、表格、图表和附录。 （需要额外字数的原创研究文章的作者应在通过 ScholarOne 系统提交文章之前联系编辑。） · 原创研究文章，包括专注于测量开发和验证的文章，应遵循传统的研究格式（即介绍研究的基本原理，然后是文献综述/理论背景、方法、结果、讨论和实际意义部分）。请注意，测量开发和验证部分必须仅关注家庭沟通。 · 实际影响部分应为学术界以外的受众（例如，K-12 教学、辅导员、社会服务机构）提供一些实际或社会贡献或影响，作为将研究结果应用于“真实”家庭或“真实”家庭情况的一种方式。复制文章是指 8000 字的文章，不包括复制家庭沟通领域重要发现的参考文献、表格、图表和附录。理想情况下，复制将是具有相同测量、样本和程序的直接或统计复制（Hunter，2001），但将考虑概念复制（例如，添加额外变量）。复制文章应该： · 包含复制的有力依据，包括为什么它对于该领域是必要和重要的。 · 总结原始研究是如何进行的，并详细说明当前研究将如何坚持和/或偏离原始研究（例如，作为中介或调节因素的附加变量；更复杂的分析）。 · 讨论研究结果如何重复、无法重复或扩展原始结果。简短的研究报告是 4000 至 5500 字的文章，包括参考文献、表格、图表和附录。研究报告是传统研究文章的缩写版本，重点是对结果的解释和说明。该研究报告不需要进行广泛的文献综述，非常适合基于 JFC 读者非常熟悉的内容的学术研究。研究报告适合原始研究或具有试点数据或小样本量的研究。所有提交的内容应符合美国心理学会出版手册第七版（2020）。提交的内容不得接受任何其他期刊的编辑审查或已在其他地方发表。所有提交的内容都将接受该杂志编辑委员会至少两名成员的匿名同行评审。不符合 APA 指南或不符合其文章类型要求的提交内容将被直接拒绝并返回给作者。决定不发表稿件的作者可以选择在本期刊发表黄金访问权限。阅读作者须知。