Guide for Authors: Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology (JWMAP)

The Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology (JWMAP) is an international peer-reviewed open-access scholarly journal owned, managed, and published by KODISA Foundation.

JWMAP publishes original and methodologically rigorous research within the broad field of Environmental, Occupational, and Human Wellbeing Sciences.

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary research addressing interactions among environmental conditions, occupational environments, human health, measurable wellbeing, behavior, safety, technology, and applied human factors.

Relevant areas include, but are not limited to:

• environmental exposure and human health;
• environmental risk and wellbeing;
• occupational health and safety;
• workplace environment and worker wellbeing;
• human physiology and measurable wellbeing;
• applied psychology related to health, safety, and human functioning;
• human factors and ergonomics;
• behavioral and psychosocial factors affecting health and safety;
• environmental and occupational epidemiology;
• health, environmental, and safety technologies;
• wearable and sensor-based assessment;
• digital health and monitoring technologies;
• AI-based risk prediction and prevention;
• machine learning and computational approaches to wellbeing, health, or safety;
• exposomics and environmental health assessment;
• precision prevention;
• climate-related health and wellbeing;
• community resilience;
• public and population wellbeing;
• safety management and risk assessment; and
• other interdisciplinary research directly relevant to the Aims and Scope of JWMAP.

JWMAP is published in English.

eISSN: 2586-6036
Publication Frequency: Six issues per year
Issue Release Dates: February 28, April 30, June 30, August 30, October 30, and December 30

1. Submission

Authors should submit manuscripts through the official JWMAP submission system or another submission method officially designated by the Editorial Office.

The main manuscript should normally be submitted in Microsoft Word format.

Additional files, including figures, supplementary materials, reporting checklists, datasets, ethics documents, or PDF files, may be requested where appropriate.

All submission-related communication, including:

• acknowledgment of submission;
• requests for revision;
• reviewer comments;
• editorial decisions;
• acceptance notices;
• production queries; and
• publication notices

may be communicated through the submission system or by e-mail.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that all required files and information are complete and accurate.

2. Files Required for Double-Blind Peer Review

JWMAP operates a double-blind peer-review process.

Authors should normally prepare two separate files.

2.1 Title Page

The Title Page should include:

• manuscript title;
• full names of all authors;
• institutional affiliations;
• corresponding author's name;
• corresponding author's affiliation;
• postal address, where required;
• e-mail address;
• ORCID identifiers, where available;
• acknowledgements, where applicable;
• funding information;
• conflict-of-interest statement; and
• generative AI disclosure, where applicable.

2.2 Blinded Main Manuscript

The blinded manuscript must not contain information that unnecessarily identifies the authors.

Authors should remove:

• author names;
• affiliations;
• acknowledgements revealing author identity;
• author-identifying headers or footers; and
• other direct identifying information.

Necessary self-citations should remain academically meaningful but should avoid unnecessary language that directly reveals authorship.

Author information will be restored after acceptance for final production and publication.

3. Submission Declaration

Submission of a manuscript to JWMAP confirms that:

• the manuscript represents original scholarly work;
• the manuscript has not been previously published in substantially the same form;
• the manuscript is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal;
• all listed authors satisfy the journal's authorship requirements;
• all authors have approved the submitted version;
• all authors agree to submission to JWMAP;
• relevant conflicts of interest have been disclosed;
• all relevant funding and support have been disclosed;
• appropriate ethics approval and informed consent have been obtained where required;
• the research complies with applicable research and publication ethics standards;
• copyright or permission requirements for third-party materials have been satisfied; and
• generative AI or AI-assisted technologies have been disclosed where required.

Duplicate submission, redundant publication, plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, peer-review manipulation, and other forms of research or publication misconduct are not permitted.

4. Research and Publication Ethics

JWMAP follows internationally recognized principles of responsible scholarly publishing, including relevant guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial board members must comply with the current JWMAP Research and Publication Ethics Policy.

Authors are responsible for the:

• originality;
• accuracy;
• integrity;
• transparency;
• ethical compliance; and
• reliability

of their submitted work.

5. Research Involving Human Participants

Studies involving:

• human participants;
• surveys;
• interviews;
• behavioral experiments;
• human physiological measurements;
• identifiable human data;
• health information;
• workplace participants;
• wearable or sensor-derived human data; or
• other human-subject research

must comply with applicable ethical and institutional requirements.

Where applicable, authors must state:

• the name of the approving Institutional Review Board (IRB) or equivalent ethics committee;
• approval or protocol number;
• approval date, where relevant;
• whether informed consent was obtained; and
• whether an exemption was granted, if applicable.

Privacy, confidentiality, dignity, and participant rights must be protected.

6. Animal and Biological Research

Research involving animals must comply with applicable institutional and ethical standards.

Where required, authors should provide approval from an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) or equivalent body.

Research involving human biological materials or specimens must comply with applicable ethics, consent, biosafety, privacy, and institutional requirements.

7. Environmental, Occupational, and Field Research

Because JWMAP publishes environmental, occupational, health, safety, and human-wellbeing research, authors must consider ethical and safety requirements relevant to field or workplace studies.

Where applicable, authors should address:

• occupational safety;
• participant or worker protection;
• privacy and confidentiality;
• environmental exposure risks;
• workplace data protection;
• proprietary organizational data;
• physiological or wearable data;
• field research safety; and
• institutional or regulatory approval.

8. Similarity and Originality Screening

JWMAP may use:

• iThenticate;
• Crossref Similarity Check;
• KCI Similarity Check; or
• other appropriate similarity-screening systems

where available.

Similarity reports are used as a screening tool.

A similarity percentage alone does not determine whether plagiarism has occurred.

Editors evaluate the nature, source, extent, and context of textual overlap.

Manuscripts involving serious plagiarism, duplicate publication, inappropriate citation, or other originality concerns may be returned for clarification or revision, rejected, or referred for further ethical investigation.

9. Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies

Authors must comply with the current JWMAP Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies Policy.

Generative AI systems cannot be listed as authors or co-authors.

Human authors remain fully responsible for:

• accuracy;
• originality;
• citations;
• references;
• scientific interpretation;
• ethical compliance; and
• final manuscript content.

Material use of generative AI in manuscript preparation, translation, substantive editing, coding, data processing, image generation, or other research-related activities must be disclosed where required.

Authors should include an appropriate statement under:

Declaration of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies

when applicable.

9.1 AI and Machine Learning as Research Methods

JWMAP permits scientifically appropriate use of:

• artificial intelligence;
• machine learning;
• deep learning;
• natural language processing;
• computer vision;
• predictive modeling;
• AI-based risk assessment;
• wearable-data analysis;
• sensor-data analysis;
• computational modeling; and
• related technologies.

When such approaches form part of the scientific methodology, they must be described transparently in the Research Methods section.

Authors should report, where applicable:

• model or algorithm;
• software and version;
• dataset or data source;
• preprocessing;
• training procedures;
• testing procedures;
• validation procedures;
• performance metrics;
• relevant parameters;
• bias assessment; and
• reproducibility procedures.

The use of AI as a legitimate scientific method must be distinguished from inappropriate use of generative AI to fabricate data, evidence, references, or results.

10. Manuscript Language

Manuscripts must be written in clear, professional academic English.

Either American or British English may be used, but authors should use one form consistently throughout the manuscript.

Authors are responsible for language quality.

Language editing does not guarantee acceptance.

Authors may use professional language-editing or translation assistance, including permitted AI-assisted language support, subject to JWMAP's AI disclosure requirements.

11. Types of Manuscripts

JWMAP may consider the following manuscript types.

Regular Research Article

Original empirical, experimental, observational, computational, methodological, qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods research.

Recommended length: approximately 5,000–7,000 words.

Short Communication

Concise reports of scientifically meaningful preliminary findings, methodological developments, focused empirical studies, or other limited but significant findings.

Recommended length: approximately 2,000–4,000 words.

Review Article

Critical, systematic, scoping, integrative, or other scientifically structured reviews relevant to the Aims and Scope of JWMAP.

The length may vary according to the nature of the review.

Perspective or Conceptual Article

Scholarly perspectives, theoretical developments, conceptual frameworks, or critical analyses that make a clear contribution to fields covered by JWMAP.

The Editorial Office may request shortening, expansion, or restructuring where appropriate.

12. Manuscript Format

Authors should prepare manuscripts according to the official JWMAP Manuscript Template.

The following basic format applies:

• Paper size: Letter (8.5 × 11 inches)
• Single-column format
• Times New Roman
• Main text: 10-point font
• Single line spacing unless otherwise specified in the official template
• Justified text alignment
• Consecutive page numbering where required
• Consistent section and subsection numbering
• Tables and figures placed near their first relevant mention whenever practicable
• References prepared in accordance with APA 7th edition

The official JWMAP Manuscript Template takes precedence where more detailed formatting instructions are provided.

Authors should not convert the document to A4 size.

13. Article Structure

A standard Regular Research Article should generally follow this structure:

1. Title
2. Abstract
3. Keywords
4. Introduction
5. Literature Review and/or Theoretical or Scientific Background
6. Research Methods
7. Results
8. Discussion
9. Conclusions and Implications
10. Acknowledgements, where applicable
11. Declarations
12. References
13. Supplementary Materials or Appendices, where applicable

Section structure may be modified when appropriate for the study design.

For example, systematic reviews, qualitative studies, experimental studies, methodological papers, short communications, and perspective articles may use structures appropriate to their methods.

14. Title

The title should be:

• concise;
• specific;
• informative; and
• directly representative of the principal research question or findings.

Avoid unnecessary abbreviations, overly broad claims, and promotional language.

A title of approximately 12 words or fewer is preferred where feasible.

15. Abstract

Each manuscript must include a concise and factual abstract.

The abstract should normally summarize:

• Purpose
• Research design, data, and methods
• Principal results
• Major conclusions or implications

The abstract should generally contain approximately 150–250 words.

It should be understandable without reference to the main text.

References should normally not be cited in the abstract.

Non-standard abbreviations should be avoided or defined at first use.

16. Keywords

Authors should provide approximately 3–5 keywords.

Keywords should:

• reflect the principal subject matter;
• assist discoverability and indexing;
• avoid unnecessarily duplicating words already appearing in the title where possible; and
• use recognized scientific terminology.

17. Research Methods

The Research Methods section must provide sufficient information for qualified readers to understand, evaluate, and where reasonably possible reproduce the study.

The appropriate methodological structure depends on the research design.

Authors should report relevant items from the following categories.

17.1 Research Design

Clearly state the study design, such as:

• cross-sectional;
• longitudinal;
• experimental;
• quasi-experimental;
• observational;
• survey;
• qualitative;
• mixed methods;
• systematic review;
• meta-analysis;
• computational;
• machine learning;
• environmental monitoring;
• physiological assessment;
• occupational field study; or
• other appropriate research design.

17.2 Participants, Sample, or Data Source

Where relevant, describe:

• population;
• inclusion and exclusion criteria;
• recruitment;
• sampling strategy;
• sample size;
• sample-size justification or power analysis;
• setting;
• data source; and
• study period.

17.3 Measures and Instruments

Authors should identify:

• measurement instruments;
• scales;
• sensors;
• laboratory measures;
• survey instruments;
• questionnaires;
• physiological measurements;
• environmental measurements;
• equipment; and
• software

used in the study.

Where appropriate, provide evidence concerning reliability and validity.

17.4 Data Collection and Procedures

Provide sufficient detail about:

• procedures;
• experimental protocols;
• exposure assessment;
• intervention;
• measurement timing;
• survey administration;
• interview procedure;
• sensor deployment;
• environmental sampling; or
• other data-collection procedures.

17.5 Data Analysis

Describe all analytical methods with sufficient detail.

Depending on the study, this may include:

• descriptive statistics;
• regression;
• ANOVA or related analyses;
• multilevel modeling;
• structural equation modeling;
• PLS-SEM;
• exploratory factor analysis;
• confirmatory factor analysis;
• mediation or moderation analysis;
• survival analysis;
• qualitative coding;
• thematic analysis;
• mixed-methods integration;
• machine learning;
• meta-analysis; or
• other scientifically justified procedures.

Authors should report relevant statistical assumptions, effect sizes, confidence intervals, model-fit information, validation procedures, or robustness checks where appropriate.

17.6 Reliability, Validity, and Trustworthiness

Where applicable, authors should report appropriate evidence concerning:

• internal consistency;
• reliability;
• convergent validity;
• discriminant validity;
• measurement validity;
• inter-rater reliability;
• model validation;
• qualitative trustworthiness; or
• other relevant quality criteria.

17.7 Ethical Considerations

The Methods section should identify relevant ethics approval, informed consent, data-protection procedures, or other ethical safeguards where applicable.

18. Reporting Guidelines

Authors are encouraged to follow recognized reporting guidelines appropriate to their study design where relevant.

Examples may include guidelines for:

• randomized trials;
• observational studies;
• systematic reviews;
• meta-analyses;
• qualitative research;
• diagnostic studies;
• animal research; or
• other specialized research designs.

Where a reporting checklist is required by the Editorial Office, authors should submit it as supplementary material.

19. Results

Results should be presented accurately, clearly, and objectively.

Authors should:

• report findings relevant to the research questions;
• distinguish primary from secondary analyses where applicable;
• avoid duplicating all table data in the text;
• report appropriate statistical or qualitative evidence;
• avoid overstating findings; and
• clearly identify exploratory or post hoc analyses when relevant.

Data must not be fabricated, selectively manipulated, or presented misleadingly.

20. Discussion

The Discussion should interpret rather than merely repeat the Results.

Authors should consider:

• scientific meaning of the findings;
• relationship to previous literature;
• theoretical or practical implications;
• environmental, occupational, health, safety, or wellbeing implications where relevant;
• alternative interpretations;
• study strengths;
• limitations;
• generalizability; and
• directions for future research.

Claims should be proportionate to the evidence produced by the study.

21. Conclusions and Implications

The Conclusions should summarize the principal contribution of the study without introducing unsupported claims.

Where appropriate, authors may discuss:

• scientific implications;
• practical implications;
• health or safety implications;
• environmental implications;
• occupational implications;
• technological implications;
• methodological implications; and
• policy implications.

The conclusion must remain consistent with the study design and evidence.

22. Tables and Figures

Tables and figures must be numbered consecutively according to their first appearance in the manuscript.

Authors should:

• cite every table and figure in the text;
• provide a clear title or caption;
• define abbreviations;
• identify units of measurement;
• provide explanatory notes where necessary; and
• ensure that content is legible.

Tables should normally appear near their first citation in the text.

Figure captions should clearly explain the figure without requiring excessive reference to the text.

Figures should be supplied at sufficient quality for publication.

Color, image processing, enhancement, or AI-assisted modification must not distort or misrepresent scientific information.

Permission must be obtained for copyrighted third-party tables, figures, images, instruments, scales, or other materials when required.

23. Citations and References

JWMAP follows the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition (APA 7) unless otherwise specified.

Authors must ensure that:

• every reference cited in the text appears in the reference list;
• every reference listed is appropriately cited in the manuscript;
• author names and publication years are accurate;
• article titles and journal titles are accurate;
• volume, issue, and page information are accurate;
• DOI information is included where available; and
• cited references genuinely support the associated statement.

Authors are responsible for independently verifying citations and references, including any references suggested by AI systems.

Fabricated or nonexistent references are prohibited.

24. Data Availability Statement

Authors should provide a Data Availability Statement where applicable.

Appropriate statements may indicate that:

• data are publicly available in a named repository;
• data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request;
• access is restricted by ethics, privacy, legal, institutional, commercial, or contractual requirements; or
• no new data were created or analyzed.

Authors must not make data publicly available when doing so would violate ethical approval, informed consent, participant privacy, confidentiality, or applicable legal restrictions.

25. Author Contributions

JWMAP may require an Author Contributions Statement.

Authors may describe contributions using roles consistent with the CRediT contributor taxonomy, including:

• Conceptualization
• Data curation
• Formal analysis
• Funding acquisition
• Investigation
• Methodology
• Project administration
• Resources
• Software
• Supervision
• Validation
• Visualization
• Writing – original draft
• Writing – review & editing

All authors must approve the final manuscript.

26. Funding

All sources of financial or material support must be disclosed.

Authors should identify:

• funding organization;
• grant number, where applicable; and
• relevant role of the funder, where appropriate.

If no specific funding was received, authors may state that the research received no specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

27. Competing Interests / Conflicts of Interest

Authors must disclose any competing interests relevant to the research or publication.

If no conflict exists, authors may state:

“The authors declare that they have no competing interests.”

Relevant conflicts may include financial, professional, institutional, intellectual-property, or personal relationships.

28. Acknowledgements

Individuals or organizations that contributed to the work but do not meet authorship criteria may be acknowledged.

Authors should obtain permission from individuals who are identified in the acknowledgement where appropriate.

Funding should preferably be reported separately under the Funding statement.

29. Copyright and Open Access

JWMAP is an open-access journal.

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable publication agreement, authors retain copyright in their published articles and grant JWMAP and KODISA Foundation the rights necessary to publish, distribute, preserve, archive, register metadata for, and provide public access to the article.

Articles are published under the:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0)

unless another license is explicitly stated.

This license permits sharing and adaptation for non-commercial purposes, subject to appropriate attribution and applicable license conditions.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for third-party copyrighted material where necessary.

30. Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts undergo initial editorial screening.

The Editorial Office may review:

• completeness;
• formatting;
• journal scope;
• declarations;
• ethics;
• conflicts of interest;
• AI disclosure;
• data availability;
• citation integrity; and
• similarity screening.

Manuscripts passing initial screening undergo desk review by the Editor-in-Chief or designated Handling Editor.

Suitable manuscripts are normally sent to at least two independent expert reviewers.

JWMAP uses a double-blind peer-review process.

Possible editorial decisions include:

• Accept
• Minor Revision
• Major Revision
• Re-review after Revision
• Reject

Reviewer recommendations are advisory.

The final editorial decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief or an authorized editor.

31. Revision

When revision is requested, authors should submit:

1. a revised manuscript; and
2. a point-by-point Response to Reviewers.

The response should clearly explain how each comment was addressed.

Where an author does not adopt a requested change, an academically reasoned explanation should be provided.

Revised manuscripts may be assessed by the editor, original reviewers, or additional reviewers as necessary.

32. Article Processing Charge

JWMAP does not charge a submission fee or peer-review fee.

Authors affiliated outside the Republic of Korea

Authors affiliated with institutions outside Korea are exempt from the publication APC.

Authors affiliated in the Republic of Korea

Authors affiliated with institutions in Korea are required to pay:

KRW 300,000 per accepted article

The APC is charged only after final acceptance.

Authors must not make payment before receiving an official acceptance and payment notification from JWMAP.

Payment or exemption from payment does not influence:

• peer review;
• reviewer selection;
• editorial decisions;
• acceptance;
• publication order; or
• indexing and metadata processing.

Payment does not guarantee publication.

For manuscripts involving both Korean and non-Korean affiliations, the applicable APC status will be determined by the Editorial Office before payment is requested.

The detailed refund policy is provided in the current Publication Fees and Article Processing Charge Policy.

33. Final Acceptance, Copyediting, and Production

After final acceptance, the manuscript proceeds to editorial verification, copyediting, and production.

The production process may include verification of:

• article title;
• abstract;
• keywords;
• author names;
• affiliations;
• corresponding-author information;
• ORCID;
• references;
• tables and figures;
• ethics statements;
• funding;
• conflicts of interest;
• author contributions;
• data availability;
• AI declaration;
• DOI;
• received date;
• revised date;
• accepted date;
• publication date;
• volume and issue information;
• pagination or article numbering;
• PDF;
• XML or HTML, where applicable; and
• article metadata.

Copyediting does not authorize substantive changes to the scientific findings without editorial approval.

34. Proof Correction

The corresponding author may be asked to review the final proof.

At this stage, authors should verify:

• author names;
• affiliations;
• title;
• abstract;
• tables;
• figures;
• equations;
• references;
• declarations;
• DOI; and
• typographical or production errors.

Only minor corrections are normally allowed after acceptance.

Changes involving:

• authorship;
• data;
• analysis;
• results;
• figures;
• tables;
• interpretations; or
• conclusions

require editorial approval and may require further review.

35. Publication and Metadata

After final approval, the article is published through the official JWMAP publication platform.

JWMAP processes appropriate article information for:

• DOI registration;
• metadata management;
• digital preservation;
• scholarly discovery;
• archiving; and
• applicable abstracting and indexing services.

Indexing in external databases depends on the current indexing status and requirements of each database.

Publication in JWMAP does not constitute a guarantee that an individual article will be indexed by a database in which the journal has not been formally accepted.

36. Post-Publication Matters

Authors must promptly inform JWMAP if they discover a significant error in a published article.

Where appropriate, JWMAP may issue:

• a correction;
• addendum;
• editorial notice;
• expression of concern;
• retraction; or
• other appropriate post-publication action.

Post-publication concerns are handled in accordance with the current Research and Publication Ethics Policy.

37. Checklist Before Submission

Before submission, authors should confirm that:

• the manuscript falls within the current Aims and Scope of JWMAP;
• the manuscript is prepared using the current JWMAP template;
• Letter paper size is used;
• the title page is separate from the blinded manuscript;
• the manuscript has been properly anonymized;
• all authors approve the submission;
• ethics approval is stated where required;
• informed consent is addressed where applicable;
• conflicts of interest are disclosed;
• funding is disclosed;
• author contributions are provided where required;
• data availability information is included where applicable;
• generative AI use is disclosed where applicable;
• tables and figures are complete and correctly cited;
• all citations correspond to genuine and verified sources;
• all cited references appear in the reference list;
• all references in the reference list are cited in the text;
• permissions have been obtained for third-party copyrighted material where required;
• the manuscript is not simultaneously submitted elsewhere; and
• the authors have reviewed the current JWMAP ethics, AI, APC, copyright, and peer-review policies.

38. Journal Information

Journal Title: Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology
Abbreviation: JWMAP
Publisher: KODISA Foundation
Publishing Office: KODISA Foundation
eISSN: 2586-6036
Language: English
Publication Frequency: Six issues per year
Issue Release Dates: February 28, April 30, June 30, August 30, October 30, and December 30
Peer Review: Double-blind peer review, normally by at least two independent expert reviewers
Publication Type: Open Access
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Official Journal Platform: https://accesson.kr/jwmap

39. Editorial Contact

Questions concerning manuscript submission, author guidelines, research methodology, research ethics, generative AI, peer review, publication fees, revisions, production, or individual manuscript cases may be directed to:

Professor Woo-Taeg KWON
Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology (JWMAP)
KODISA Foundation
Email: awtkw@eulji.ac.kr