Submissions

Author Guidelines

• Aims and scope
• Article types
• Peer-review time
• Submission process
  • Before submission
    
    • Manuscript preparation
    • Scientific writing and English language
    • Formatting
    • Figures
  • Submission
• After acceptance
  
  • Article processing fee
  • English language and scientific writing evaluation
  • Copyrights

Aims and scope

The Journal's priorities are papers in the fields of nursing, physical therapy, medical laboratory science, environmental health, and medical imaging and radiologic technologies. Relevant articles from other disciplines of allied health professions may be considered for publication.

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Article types

Research articles
Review articles
Case series/reports with a review of the literature
Letter to editor
Editorial
Commentary

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Peer-review time

Average peer-review time: 25 days
Average time from acceptance to ahead of print publishing: 14 days

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Submission process

Before submission

1. Prepare a Cover letter
2. Prepare names, institutions, and emails of all the authors
3. Check the manuscript file for writing and formatting requirements (Use template)
4. Understand the cost of publishing.

Cover letter and submission responsibility

The submitting author takes responsibility for the article during submission and peer review.

The cover letter is mandatory and should include:
1. Explanation of the importance of the manuscript (why your manuscript should be published?)
2. Declaration of any competing interests
3. The names, institutions and e-mail addresses of three potential peer reviewers for the manuscript. These should be experts with the proven track record and a number of publications in the field, who will be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Any suggested peer reviewers should not have published with any of the authors of the manuscript within the past three years, should not be current collaborators, and should not be members of the same research institution. Suggested reviewers will be considered alongside potential reviewers recommended by the Editorial Board.

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Manuscript content requirements

Scientific writing and English language

Before submitting, check your manuscript with https://www.goodreports.org/ made by the EQUATOR Network writing guidelines. The guidelines may be found at https://www.equator-network.org/. Using the appropriate guideline when writing your manuscript improves the quality of the manuscript significantly and improves the chance for publication. Another tool called www.penelope.ai may also be helpful in the initial screening of completeness of your manuscript. Also, reviewing previously published articles in the Current Issue is useful to familiarize yourself with the structuring requirements of the JHSci.

The manuscripts have to conform to standard scientific English language style, grammar, and clarity. Authors who feel that their manuscript may benefit from additional academic writing or language editing support before submission are encouraged to seek out such services at their host institutions, engage with colleagues and subject matter experts, and/or consider professional English language editing vendors. Clearly and well-written manuscripts have a much better chance of acceptance. Please note that the use of these services is not mandatory for publication in the JHSci, and JHSci does not endorse or take responsibility for these service providers.

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Accepted manuscripts are subject to evaluation of the quality of English language and scientific writing. Manuscripts deemed requiring significant improvement of the language or writing will be returned to authors for corrections. If the corrections do not meet standards for publication, authors are advised to refer to experienced companies that provide professional language editing services.

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Formatting requirements

Text

The text of the research article must be formatted in standard scientific format (Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, (Conclusion). Review articles may have a different structure.

Introduction is a concise part of the manuscript. It must contain a description of the problem that this paper deals with, by showing the problem from the broader context and current situation, moving to a specific problem which this paper tries to resolve. At the end of the introduction, it is necessary to clearly point out the purpose, goals or hypothesis this study.

Methods. This section should be brief. The templates that JHSci has provided on the website have more information about the content of this chapter.

Results. Give priority to a graphical representation of the results of studies, whenever applicable. Use subheadings in order to achieve greater clarity of work. More information can be found in the templates.

Discussion. This section should give meaning to the results obtained, indicate the discoveries which have been identified, indicate the results of other studies that have dealt with a similar problem. Compare your results with other studies and highlight the differences and novelties in own results. In this chapter, the results should be comprehensively interpreted, analyzed and new knowledge synthesized from the analysis. A short conclusion should close the discussion section or conclusion may be given in a separate section.

Conclusion should be brief and contain the most important facts which have been identified in the paper. Conclusions must arise from the results obtained during the investigation and should include the possible application of these results. Both affirmative and negating conclusions should be stated.

Competing interests have to be stated in this section or authors declare no conflict of interest.

(Acknowledgements) if any, should be stated in this section.

Tables

Tables have to be placed at the end of the main manuscript text file. Tables should NOT be formatted other than simple borders and no colors. Table number and the title is written above the table. A table gets number in the order of appearance in the text, with a clear and sufficiently informative title, i.e., "Table 3. Text table name...." A reference to the table in the text is written in parentheses, i.e. (Table 3). All the abbreviations in the table must be explained in full below the table. It is desirable to give explanations and comments below the table, which are essential for the presented results to be understood. Display the statistical measures of variations such as standard deviation and standard error of the mean, when applicable.

Figures

Figures and figure legends are to be placed after the Tables at the end of the main manuscript file. In addition, high-resolution figures are submitted separately during the submission process. Figure legends (explanations) should be informative and detailed. Figures get the numbers by the order of appearance in the text. Figure number and legends are written below the figure, for example, "Figure 3. Title text...". When referring to a figure in the manuscript text, the number of the figure has to be written in parentheses, e.g., (Figure 3). It is essential that the figure has a clear and informative title and legend which explains the presented results with sufficient details. Figure resolution must be at least 300 dpi, JPG or TIFF. Font size within figures must be legible when the figure is resized to its final size (i.e. the width of one column (8cm), or two columns (16 cm)). We recommend using a larger font size than the manuscript text.

References

References should be numbered in order of appearance in the paper. In the text, references should be put in brackets, i.e. (12). When the reference has up to 6 authors, list all authors. If 7 or more authors, list only first 6 and add et al. References should include the name and source of information (Vancouver style). Names of journals should be abbreviated as in PubMed. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/journals

Examples of references

Article

Meneton P, Jeunemaitre X, de Wardener HE, MacGregor GA.Links between dietary salt intake, renal salt handling, blood pressure, and cardiovascular diseases. Rev. Physiol. 2005;85(2):679-715

More than 6 authors

Hallal AH, Amortegui JD, Jeroukhimov IM, Casillas J, Schulman CI, Manning RJ, et al. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography accurately detects common bile duct stones in resolving gallstone pancreatitis. J Am Coll Surg.2005; 200(6):869-75

Books

Jenkins PF. Making Sense of the chest x-ray: a hands-on guide. New York: Oxford University Press; 2005. 194 p.

Book Chapter

Blaxter PS, Farnsworth TP. Social health and class inequalities. In: Carter C, Peel SA, editors. Equalities and inequalities in health. 2nd ed. London: Academic Press; 1976th p. 165-78

Internet source

HeartCentreOnline. Boca Raton, FL: HeartCentreOnline, Inc.., C2000-2004 [cited 2004 Oct 15]. Available from: http://www.heartcenteronline.com/

Personal communications and unpublished works should not appear in the references and should be put in parentheses in the text. Unpublished paper, accepted for publication, may be cited as a reference with the words "in press", next to the name of the journal. All the references must be verified by the author.

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Submission

1. Register and verify an account with the Journal of Health Sciences
2. Click on New submission within the author's dashboard and follow the multistep process which includes entering the author's data, manuscript data and uploading the files.

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After acceptance

Article processing fee

The Journal of Health Sciences is run on a non-profit basis. Publisher covers nearly 90% of the expenses of publishing. Nevertheless, authors are required to participate in the cost of publishing with the article processing fees.  If the article is accepted part of the article processing fee may be used for English language editing in selected cases.

Article processing fee of 409 EUR (tax included in price) applies to all the accepted articles. Bank charges have to be defrayed by authors. 

Authors with insufficient funds may request a discount or APC waiver at the point of submission, in the cover letter, explaining the reasons for their request. The decision is made on a case-by-case basis.

English language and/or scientific writing

If the English language and/or the scientific writing of the article is suboptimal, the manuscript will be returned to authors for corrections. The authors are advised to have the manuscript corrected before the resubmission, because well-written manuscripts have a much better chance at peer-review and subsequent acceptance. The authors may use the writing and editing service provided by the JHSCI professional editing partners at discounted prices. More information can be found here.

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Copyrights

Journal of Health Sciences applies the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license to published articles. Under this license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but they allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited. Appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article.

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Updated 01. June 2024