《英國數學與統計心理學雜志》發表的文章與心理學領域有關，這些文章在數學或統計方面的論述比其他期刊通常能接受的更有說服力，包括:?數學心理學?統計?心理測驗學?決策?心理物理學?分類?數學、計算和計算機軟件相關領域這些文章涉及實質性的心理問題，或開發和擴展對心理學家有用的技術。心理過程的新模型、現有數據的新方法、對現有模型的批評以及估計模型參數的改進算法，都是可能受到歡迎的文章的例子。

The British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology publishes articles relating to areas of psychology which have a greater mathematical or statistical aspect of their argument than is usually acceptable to other journals including:? mathematical psychology? statistics? psychometrics? decision making? psychophysics? classification? relevant areas of mathematics, computing and computer softwareThese include articles that address substantitive psychological issues or that develop and extend techniques useful to psychologists. New models for psychological processes, new approaches to existing data, critiques of existing models and improved algorithms for estimating the parameters of a model are examples of articles which may be favoured.