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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Submission of manuscript

Submission as email attachment is allowed. The email address is kholdun@hotmail.com.

Online submission is possible through – [website].

There is no article publication and submission charges.

Submission of a paper to the journal will imply that it represents an original contribution not previously published (except in the form of an abstract or preliminary report), not being considered for publication elsewhere and if accepted by the journal it will not be published elsewhere in the same form without the consent of the editors. (Authors have to declare originality of their work and transfer of copyright to IJHHS authority using prescribed format.)

Ethical approval:

Authors should explicitly mention about the ethical approval of their work by concerned authorities.

Manuscripts based on the study involving human subjects should have been conducted in accordance to the ethical standards laid down in the ‘1964 Declaration of Helsinki’ revised in the year 2000.

Studies involving trial on animals should also get appropriate ethical approval.

Authors should disclose conflict of interest if it is there.

Gender Policy: Authors should disaggregate data by sex and provide gender analysis when applicable.

Anti plagiarism policy: Any manuscript if proven copying or having tendency to plagiarism will be reported to proper authority.

Publication Ethics and publication malpractice statement:

  • IJHHS authority is always concerned to take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred.
  • IJHHS authority show ‘Zero tolerance’ against such misconduct.
  • In the event that IJHHS authority are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct they shall deal with allegations appropriately.
  • The IJHHS authority  shall correct or retract any published article for valid reasons.
  • The IJHHS authority is always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

Informed Consent Guidelines: The research article related to clinical trial must have a statement that an informed consent document was filled-up by the volunteer/patient. The subjects in the study must participate willingly, having been adequately informed about the research.  In case of children, the researcher must first obtain the permission of parents in addition to the consent of the children. Informed consent documents should be written at a level appropriate to the subject population, generally at an 8th grade reading level. A best practice is to have a colleague or friend read the informed consent document for comprehension before submission with the IRB application. 

Proofs: All proofs must be corrected and returned to the publisher as early as possible. Only correction of typographical errors is permitted at the proof stage. 

Authorship: The corresponding author is responsible for all the information of these forms. He/she will confirm that all the authors have read the manuscript before submission. The following person(s) will be authors:

  • concept. research question and study design
  • data collection or processing

Any person only involved in writing the manuscript or analyzing the data will not be the author or corresponding author particularly in Research Article.

Conflict of interest: All authors of the submitted manuscript are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within two years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work.

Organization of manuscript

Original articles are usually up to 3,000 words and review articles 4,500 words long, with least number of illustrations and/or tables. Short communication/case reports are up to 1,500 words long, with a few tables or illustrations and no more than 10 references. Most editorials are solicited, but we are delighted to consider unsolicited editorials of usually up to 1,000-1,500 words which will be externally peer reviewed.

Contributions for the Personal view column are always welcome and should contain up to 2,500 words. Letters to editors should normally be of not more than 1,500 words, with not more than five references. We also receive book review/article review/electronic media review and conference report within 400-800 words and 1000 words respectively. Justified comments on any published article in IJHHS are also acceptable.

Submissions should be accompanied by a letter listing (i) full name with surname in bold font, (ii) affiliations & address of the authors with identification of the author to receive correspondence and proofs. (A corresponding author's name, address, phone number and email must be specified in the letter.) and (iii) authors undertaking.

Manuscripts should be double spaced in between lines and numbered sequentially in the lower middle place on A4 paper.

Headlines:

Headlines should start with a capital initial and distinguishable according to hierarchy, e.g.

big heads in bold font & underlined, followed by

secondary heads in bold & italic letters, and

subsequent heads underlined.

Papers submitted should be concise and written in English in a readily understandable manner and otherwise may be rejected. The typescript, where possible, should follow the conventional form: introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion and conclusion. (When describing any drugs used, give generic names rather than trade names.).

A structured abstract as appropriate should be provided with the following:

Objective: An introductory sentence indicating the objective and purpose of the study.

Materials and methods: A description of experimental procedures including applicable statistical evaluation.

Results and Discussion: A summary of the new, previously unpublished data and results.

Conclusion: A statement of the study's conclusion.

3-5 key words (in small letters) as well as a short title (not exceeding 50 letters) must be provided. These will be printed at the beginning of the paper.

Tables and figures should be so constructed as to be intelligible without reference to the text. The approximate location of tables and figures in the text must be clearly indicated. Every table should be provided with an explanatory caption, and each column should carry an appropriate heading.

Illustrations should accompany the manuscript on a separate sheet, and legends should include all relevant details. All photographs, charts and diagrams should be referred to as ‘Figures’ and numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first referred to in the text.

Owing to the international character of the journal no rigid rules will be observed for nomenclature. Each paper should be consistent within itself as to nomenclature, symbols and units.

All manuscripts will be assessed through the normal refereeing process. Most manuscripts accepted for publication require some revision, details of which are sent to authors. The final decision with regard to publication will be made following consultation with our publisher.

Acknowledgements should appear on a separate sheet at the end before the section on References.

Referencing

References should follow methods written below.

References are numbered in the order in which they appear in the text. At the end of the article the full list of references should give the names and initials of all authors (unless there are more than six, when only the first six should be given followed by et al). The authors' names are followed by the title of the article; the title of the journal abbreviated according to the style of Index Medicus (see "List of Journals Indexed," printed yearly in the January issue of Index Medicus); the year of publication; the volume number; issue number in parenthesis and the first and last page numbers. References to books should give the names of editors, the title of the book, and place of publication, publisher and year. Examples:

1. Journal

Standard Journal Article

Mafauzy M, Mokhtar N, Wan Mohamad WB and Musalmah M. Diabetes Mellitus and associated cardiovascular risk factors in Nort-East Malaysia. Asia Pac J Public Health 1999;11 (1):16-19

Corporate author

International Steering Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. BMJ 1991; 302: 338-41.

2. Books and other monographs

Personal author(s)

O’Connor M, Woodford FP, Writing Scientific Papers in English, an EISE-Ciba Foundation Guide for Authors. London: Pitman Medical, 1978

Chapter in a book

Park JE, Park K. Environment and Health. In Hamilton P, ed. Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine. 12th ed. New Delhi, Banarsidas Bhanot, 1989:357-372.

These instructions are confronting with the guidelines of International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE); please visit http://www.icmje.org.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in the International Journal of Human and Health Sciences agree to the following terms that:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant International Journal of Human and Health Sciences the right of first publication of the work.

  2. Creative Commons Licence
    Articles in International Journal of Human and Health Sciences are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY-4.0.This license permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
  3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  4. Authors are permitted to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as greater citation of published work.

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Principles of Transparency and Best Practices

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) are scholarly organizations that have collaborated to identify principles of transparency and best practice for scholarly publications. International Journal of Human and Health Sciences (IJHHS) follows the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing and this principles should apply to all published content, including special issues and conference proceedings. These principles also acknowledge that publishers and editors are responsible for promoting accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusivity in all aspects of the publication. Editorial decisions should be based on scholarly merit. They should not be affected by the origins of the manuscript, including the nationality, ethnicity, political beliefs, race, or religion of the authors.