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Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Counseling and Family Therapy Scholarship Review provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Counseling and Family Therapy Scholarship Review, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Counseling and Family Therapy Scholarship Review. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Counseling and Family Therapy Scholarship Review, please contact the editors.

Section Policies

  • Editorial: Introductions to the issues of CFTSR published, including special issues guest editorials.
  • Contemplative: Articles of insight; personal narratives characterized by in-depth thought, including short stories, poetry.
  • Scholarship: Peer-reviewed scholarship focused on a wide range of obscure and marginalized subject matter, theoretical and empirical.
  • Clinical: Articles covering reflection on practice and training experiences; clinical case approaches, proposed advancements to counseling and systemic theory, critiques related to practice.
  • Social Perspective: Cultural-contextual perspective, contemporary social trends, social ethics, experiences, insights and information from outside culturally sanctioned ways of thinking and being.

Formatting Requirements

Counseling and Family Therapy Scholarship Review has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details. Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.

Rights for Authors and ePublications at Regis University

As further described in our submission agreement (the Submission Agreement), in consideration for publication of the article, the authors assign to ePublications at Regis University all copyright in the article, subject to the expansive personal--use exceptions described below.

Attribution and Usage Policies

Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of ePublications at Regis University, requires credit to ePublications at Regis University as copyright holder (e.g., ePublications at Regis University © 2024).

Personal-use Exceptions

The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission from ePublications at Regis University provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:

  • Storage and back-up of the article on the author's computer(s) and digital media (e.g., diskettes, back-up servers, Zip disks, etc.), provided that the article stored on these computers and media is not readily accessible by persons other than the author(s);
  • Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial;
  • Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author(s)'s place of employment (e.g., a Phrenology professor at the University of Southern North Dakota can have her article appear in the University of Southern North Dakota's Department of Phrenology online publication series); and
  • Posting of the article on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author.

People seeking an exception, or who have questions about use, should contact the editors.