This paper reports the findings of a study of the publication practices of professional journals in education and psychology. The data are based on responses of 98 editors who completed and returned questionnaires that described their activities in 1978. The data are arranged according to the following topics: (1) why people write, (2) breaking into print, (3) selecting a topic, (4) types of journals, (5) selecting prospective journals, (6) use of query letters, (7) article acceptance rates, (8) comparison of journals with low and high acceptance rates, (9) comparison of research and other types of journals, (10) cost to authors/payment for articles, (11) time from submission to acceptance or rejection, (12) time from acceptance to publication, (13) style manual use, (14) refereed journals compared to nonrefereed journals, (15) number of articles that journals publish each year, and (16) length of articles. (HOD)