Submission Preflight (joap-submission)

The last check before submitting through Editorial Manager (editorialmanager.com/apl). Three things sink JAP submissions most often: a missing or weak theoretical contribution surfacing late, broken masking, and incomplete open-science compliance. Verify volatile specifics (length caps, abstract limit, checklist contents, current editor) on the official APA page first.

When to trigger

• "Submitting tomorrow" — last pass before upload
• Unsure what the masking and open-science requirements demand
• Confirming the abstract, anonymization, data-availability statement, and deposits are in order

Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page)