Guidelines for Contributors to AJOT.

A structured abstract of no more than 250 words is required for all articles. Refer to the “Guidelines for Structured Abstracts” available in the Author Area in the manuscript submission system, https://ajot.submit2aota. org/. Abstracts for The Issue Is manuscripts, A Brief Report manuscripts, and guest editorials should contain a synopsis of the main points and be limited to 150 words. Authors of accepted manuscripts will be asked to provide a one-sentence “blurb” summarizing the article for the annotated table of contents. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy 7212430010p5 D ow naded rom http://research.aajot/article-pdf/72/Supplem ent_2/72124301940/7212430010p1.pdf by gest on 03 N ovem er 2021 “Implications for Occupational Therapy Practice” Section. Feature-length articles, including evidence reviews, must include a separate section summarizing the implications of the research for occupational therapy practice after the discussion and before the conclusion. This section should consist of a short paragraph followed by a bulleted list of the practice implications, and it should be included in the manuscript’s word count. Although Brief Reports do not require a separate section, they should clearly indicate the implications for clinical practice in their discussion. This section is meant to be a brief section highlighting the study’s implications for clinical practice. It should be written in lay language and should not include implications for research or restate the results or discussion. Rather, it should look ahead to how the findings might be extended to routine clinical practice. The points discussed in this section should stay within the limits of the study findings: • If the study tests the effects of a particular intervention, then mention what those effects might mean for clinical practice. Do not include statements about general occupational therapy practice unless tested in the study. • Do not include statements related to a particular assessment approach if the study did not test assessment practices. • If the study provides confirmatory evidence, then use wording such as “this study confirms previous work that. ” or “the results offer further evidence that. ” • If the study suggests a promising type or amount of service that is not feasible as a result of current health care or reimbursement policies, it may be more appropriate to suggest that practitioners advocate for changes in policies rather than provide that service. • For pilot or feasibility studies, the only statements that can be made are as to whether the intervention may have potential to facilitate benefits if larger studies show similar results. In addition, the following statement may be made: “If practitioners choose to implement this approach clinically, they need to carefully document treatment content, client responses to the treatment, and changes in client functioning (or occupational engagement) from start to termination of treatment. ” If the findings have relevance for occupational therapy education, authors may include a section on implications for occupational therapy education (this would be the only “implications” section if the study is educational research). It is not sufficient to argue that new content must be included in entry-level curricula. Occupational therapy education programs typically are overloaded with content; therefore, authors making recommendations to add content should provide an idea of what could be replaced in current curricula. Future research directions can be a separate section or included in the discussion section; either way, the section should be indicated with its own heading. Acknowledgments Page. The acknowledgments are included in the unmasked copy only. This section follows the last page of the text and precedes the reference list. Acknowledgments should be brief and may include names of persons who contributed to the research or article but who are not authors (e.g., a statistician), followed by any funding bodies that supported the research and appropriate grant numbers. The study’s clinical trial registration number should be provided in this section. Prior presentation of the paper at a meeting should be briefly described last. References. Follow APA6 for reference format. List references in alphabetical order starting on the page after the last page of text (in the masked version) or after the acknowledgments (in the unmasked version). All references cited in the manuscript should appear in the reference list, including studies listed in evidence tables. Studies that are included in systematic reviews or scoping reviews should have an asterisk placed at the start of the reference entry in the reference list. Occasionally, the number of references for a critical review is so large that the manuscript would significantly exceed page limitations if all the reviewed studies were included in the reference list. Please contact the Editor-in-Chief at lorie.richards@hsc.utah. edu for guidance in such situations. In-text citations should use author–date format. References to journal articles must include the digital object identifier (DOI), and URLs must link to the specific document being cited, not a home page. Personal communications and other nonretrievable citations are described in the text only; consult APA6 for the correct format. Authors are solely responsible for the accuracy and completeness of their references and for correct text citation; manuscripts with significant deficiencies in citation format will be returned to authors for correction. Because articles can be added to an issue until close to the print publication date, the journal’s pagination uses unique article identifiers instead of standard page numbers. When citing an AJOT article published in or after 2015, the article identifier appears in place of article page numbers. The APA-formatted citation is provided after the abstract in each published AJOT article for the conveniencein each published AJOT article for the convenience of authors wanting to cite the article. The following are examples of commonly used reference citations: 7212430010p6 November/December 2018, Volume 72(Supplement 2) D ow naded rom http://research.aajot/article-pdf/72/Supplem ent_2/72124301940/7212430010p1.pdf by gest on 03 N ovem er 2021 • Journal Article (hard copy or not available online): Dunton, W. R. , Jr. (1926). An historical note. Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation, 5, 427–439. • Journal Article (online version, with DOI): Arbesman, M. , & Lieberman, D. (2011). Methodology for the systematic reviews on occupational therapy for adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 65, 490–496. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2011. 002576 • Journal Article (online version, no DOI): Gram, M. , & Smed, K. (2011). We can drink our coffee more slowly: Discursive uses of age in relation to holiday consumption—Examples among Danish and German mature travellers. E-Journal of Applied Psychology, 7(1), 2–7. 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