Fee Policy

The Journal of Child and Youth Psychology is a fully free and open-access journal that supports unrestricted access to scholarly knowledge and enables researchers to participate in the publication process without any financial obligation.

Authors are not charged at any stage of the publication process, including manuscript submission, editorial evaluation, peer review, technical and language checks, or publication.

Authors do not pay any Article Processing Charge (APC), page charge, review fee, or any other publication-related fee for articles published in the journal.

Submission Fee
None
Article Processing Charge (APC)
None
Reader Access
Free

No Submission Fee

No fee is charged for manuscript submission, initial editorial screening, or the initiation of the peer-review process.

No Publication Fee

No Article Processing Charge (APC), page charge, acceptance fee, or other publication fee is required for articles accepted for publication in the journal.

Free Access

All articles published in the journal are made freely available online from the moment of publication.

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license and may be used, shared, reproduced, and redistributed provided that appropriate credit is given.

No Additional Charges

The journal does not charge authors any:

  • submission fee,
  • initial screening fee,
  • peer-review fee,
  • article processing charge (APC),
  • acceptance fee,
  • page charge,
  • typesetting or technical processing fee,
  • publication fee.

The Journal of Child and Youth Psychology aims to reduce financial barriers in scholarly communication, support the principles of open access, and make research outputs freely accessible to the scientific community and the wider public.