Vol. 4, 2001

Vol. 3, 2000

Vol. 2, 1999

Vol 1, 1998

1. Send an electronic copy of your manuscript via e-mail to or on a 3.5 inch diskette to TAJnet Editor, ITAA, 450 Pacific Ave. San Francisco, CA 94133-4640

2. The documents may be submitted in RTF, Microsoft Word or Text format. Figures should be scanned-in and included with the article. If you send hard copy, please include another copy.

3. Follow APA Publication Manual, 4th Edition style (available from the ITAA for $19.95 plus postage .), especially for text and end references.

4. Include an abstract as described in the APA Manual.

5. In a separate document, include author's name, degree, ITAA membership category (if any), address, work and home phone numbers, and current professional activity.

6. The manuscript itself must be free of information identifying the author. Instead, please include the following copyright statement:
   "This document has been submitted to TAJnet for blind review. Its copyright is retained by the author whose identity is known to the TAJnet editor. No reproduction or retransmission of any part of this document other than for purposes of bind review is permitted."

7. For case studies, mail a separate sheet signed by the author stating that permission has been obtained by any client(s) described in the article, and that the author agrees to hold the Transactional Analysis Journal harmless in the event of a lawsuit resulting from the article's publication.Mail to Editor (address above).

8. Please use gender-inclusive language wherever possible; make an effort not to use masculine or feminine pronouns to refer to people in general.

9. Indicate if manuscript is under consideration or has been published elsewhere.

10. Articles will be sent to TAJnet editorial board members or to TAJnet resource experts, creating dialogues between reviewers when differences arise. Every effort will be made to work collaboratively with writers and to working with those whose articles have been rejected, or deferred for changes, with an eye to further development. However TAJnet editors reserve the final right to accept, reject or defer all submissions.

1. As Berne said in 1966, "If you are mad at the editor, please show it in some other way than by sending a first draft. . . . The editor loves hard- working transactional analysts who study English grammar and write good abstracts." Typos and grammatical errors make reviewers more critical.

2. TAJnet welcomes experimental reports, case studies, theoretical studies, and reviews of the literature.

3. Article style should be congruent with content. A review article can be somewhat looser and more personal than an experimental report (which should follow APA style).

4. A case study should teach something or make a point and should not be a personal advertisement or a vehicle for self-aggrandizement. Care must be taken to disguise the client (see #7 above). A case study may be looser and more personal and can include appropriately edited transcript material.

5. Reference transactional analysis predecessors and other sources.

6. As a guiding principle Albert Einstein's words seem apt: "Things should be as simple as possible but not more."