Mental imagery enjoys a central position among mental phenomena. Currently, the use of imagery is growing in a variety of disciplines, including experimental and clinical psychology and psychiatry, neuropsychology, education and special education, creative arts, behavioral studies, transpersonal psychology, sociology, psycholinguistics, literature and philosophy. The Journal of Mental Imagery aims to bring these various disciplines together on one interactive forum on the topic of imagery. Each issue will include original articles devoted to these various dimensions of the imagery phenomenon.

Open Peer Commentary will be devoted to original unpublished manuscripts with unusually significant theoretical material that formally models or systematizes a body of research or proposes novel interpretation or critique of existing research. Social, philosophical and literary articles connected with imagery will also be considered.

This service is aimed at providing concentrated constructive interaction between author and commentators on a particularly significant or controversial piece of work. For each article selected, participating commentators will provide substantive criticism, interpretation and elaboration as well as any pertinent complementary or supplementary material which will appear at the end of the target article. The target article may be one of three types:
1) a comprehensive overview with a creative angle;
2) rigorous treatment of a specific theme with a position;
3) a scholarly but resilient formulation of a new statement which generates ambivalence or sudden illumination through a new viewing.

To be eligible for publication, a paper should not only meet the standards of the JMI in terms of conceptual rigor, empirical grounding and clarity of style, it should also offer a clear rationale for soliciting commentary, provided in the author’s covering letter, together with a list of suggested commentators. The original manuscript plus eight copies must be submitted. Articles must have an abstract, should not exceed 14,000 words and should ordinarily be considerably shorter. Commentaries should not exceed 1,000 words, and must have a short, distinctive, representative commentary title.

Manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Mental Imagery should deal centrally with mental imagery and its relationship to other processes. Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate. The cover sheet should state the title, author(s) and institutional affiliation, the body of the paper should bear no authorial identification. Each copy should include all tables and figures and a 100-200 word abstract. Format should adhere to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, except
1) references in the text should be listed in alphabetical order unless chronological order is crucial to the nature of the article;
2) the reference list should provide inclusive page numbers for articles in edited books.

Each submitted manuscript will be judged by at least two reviewers. The author(s) will be notified of editorial decisions within approximately three months after the date of the receipt of the manuscript.