Marriage & Family Review

Marriage & Family Review publishes a mix of open submission articles as well as thematic issues that bring together the most current research, practice, advances in theory development, and applications of knowledge on a particular topic in the field.

Marriage & Family Review has historically welcomed open submissions from numerous international scholars and will continue to do so. The journal will continue to welcome manuscripts that concern family strengths and premarital relationship development.  Another continued emphasis will be research-based manuscripts concerning controversial issues.

is also interested in manuscripts that present evidence for the reliability and validity of new measurement instruments in family studies or review such evidence for older measures. Also of interest would be scholarly manuscripts that discuss newer, high risk methodologies that may be applicable to family theory testing and data analysis.

 

A new aim of Marriage & Family Review will be the publication of reviews of the literature of an intermediate level.  For example, Journal of Marriage and Family regularly publishes "Decade in Review" articles that summarize the previous decade's research in a major area of research (e.g., marital interaction). Marriage & Family Review wishes to complement such reviews by focusing on reviews that concern the previous five to twenty years of research in a more concentrated area of study (e.g., marital interaction among military couples).  At least one issue a year will be dedicated to such reviews.  Doctoral candidates in particular may wish to consider Marriage & Family Review as a professional outlet for their literature review work.

 

A new focus for Marriage & Family Review also will be brief commentaries on previously published articles, with priority given to articles previously published in Marriage & Family Review, then articles published in other major family journals that do not accept such commentaries or feedback, and lastly, commentaries that, although being theoretically and methodologically sound, have been rejected by major family journals.  Rebuttals to any such comments will also be welcomed enthusiastically.

 

Family scholars are invited to suggest particular thematic special issues for the journal's consideration, including guest editors for those special issues.

 

Scholars who would like to review submissions to Marriage & Family Review are invited to submit their names, contact information, areas of interest and expertise, and current vitae to the Editor for consideration for both regular and special issues.

All regular articles, reviews, and brief reports published in Marriage and Family Review have undergone editorial screening and peer review from at least two qualified academic scholars.