Journal Type

The journal Close Relationships is an open-access scientific, peer-reviewed (double-blind), interdisciplinary and international journal. It accepts manuscripts in accordance with our scope and focus in social sciences.

Thematic Content

It focuses on original scientific contributions referring to close relationships human establish in the following sections: 

1. Community Relationships: neighborhood friends, club or organization members, etc.
2. Companionships: pets and owners, roommates, etc.
3. Distance Relationships: distance friendships, distance lovers, etc.
4. Educational Relationships:  teacher-student, study partners, etc.
5. Family Relationships: parent-child, siblings friendships, family interactions, grandparents-children, grandparents-grandchildren, foster family relationships, adopted family relationships etc.
6. Friendships: best friends, childhood friends, friendship in dyads or groups, etc.
7. Online Relationships: online friendships, online love relationships, gaming companions, etc.
8. Professional Relationships: mentor and mentee, close colleagues, doctor and patient, etc.
9. Religious Relationships: believers-deity, cleric-divinity, fellowship or discipleship groups, church close friendships, religious leading committee relationships, etc. 
10. Romantic Relationships: married partners, cohabitating partners, long and short term partners, love dyads, courtship relationships, etc.
11. Supportive Relationships: support group members, coaches and clients, etc.
12. Therapeutic Relationship: therapist and client.
13. Third party interventions on close relationships units: social assistance, medical, spiritual, social, psychological interventions on close relationship groups, etc. 

Type of Articles

Original Research Articles (up to 8,000 words)
Review Articles (up to 8,000 words)
Theoretical Articles (up to 8,000 words)
Methodological Articles (up to 7,000 words)
Scale Development and Validation Studies (up to 8,000 words)
Case Studies (up to 5,000 words)
Brief Reports (up to 3,000 words)
Intervention Studies (up to 8,000 words)
Book Reviews (up to 2,000 words)
Meta-Analyses (up to 8,000 words)
Clinical Practice Articles (up to 6,000 words)
Protocol Papers (up to 4,000 words)
Perspectives (up to 2,500 words)