Prevent User to Submit a Journal Created in a Closed Accounting Period

We have a requirement to prevent user submitting a manual journal created in a closed accounting period. There is only error at posting stage and user is not informed that journal cannot be posted. Is there any setup that will tell user periods are closed or do not have them available to select?

We are also considering to set an auto reject rule for the journal created in a closed accounting period. Can we set a condition in approval rules to do this? Spreadsheet upload is used for setting journals workflow rules.