• Manuscript Submission

Submission to this journal occurs online. Journal of Health and Development (JHAD) only considers the manuscripts submitted in electronic form via the journal's online submission (http://jhad.kmu.ac.ir/form_send_article.php?&slct_pg_id=22&sid=1&slc_lang=en).The Editorial Office reserves the rights to return manuscripts that are not in accordance. Once you have prepared your manuscript according to the instructions below, you can then submit your work via our online submission form.
Before submitting your manuscript, please insure that you have carefully considered the following points: 

• For all articles

• The manuscript should include:
• 1) Title page.
• 2) Abstract (up to 250 or 300 words subdivided into Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusion).
• 3) Keywords (minimum 3 and maximum 5 words).
• 4) Main text including:  a) Introduction, b) Methods, c) Results, d) Discussion, e) Conclusion.
• 5) Ethical issues.
• 6) Author's contributions.
• 7) References.
• 8) Tables and/or Figures.
• 9) Separate the title page with all authors`affiliations clearly given.
• 10) Title should be maximum 110 characters and spaces.
• 11) Ethics statement should be included in main body.
• 12) The corresponding author will be contacted to submit an electronic copyright form, if not submitted previously.
• 13) References should be in correct Journal style, as  below:

- Tables:

• Should be cited in numerical order upon their first mention.
• Should be prepared left to right and cell-based (i.e., created in Word with the Tables tool).
• Table number and caption always appear above the table. Leave 2 line spaces between the table and the caption.

 

• Should be editable and upright on the page, not on sideways.
• Should be prepared with real rows and columns and not aligned with tabs, returns, or spaces.
• Multi-part tables with varying numbers of columns or multiple footnotes should be organized as separate tables.
• Should be plain with NO colors, shading, or graphics.
• Should not contain inserted text boxes, tables within tables or cells within cells.
• Symbols and abbreviations should be defined immediately below the table, followed by essential brief description.
• All tables should be inserted within the text as close as possible to where they are referenced. Authors should not upload them as separate files.

 

- Figures/illustrations 

• All figures/images must be cited within the main text in numerical order.
• All figures/images must be centered. Figure number and legend always appear below the figure. Leave 2 line spaces between the figure and the legend.
• Figures must be prepared in one of the following formats: Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) for photography or microscopy, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) for illustrations or diagrams, Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), EPS, or PS. Files prepared with Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw or Adobe Photoshop should be uploaded in these native file formats.
• All digitized images must be of high quality; that is, resolutions of at least 300 dpi for color figures, 600 dpi for greyscales and 1200 dpi for line arts.
• Histograms should be prepared in a simple, two-dimensional format, with no background grid.
• Make sure that any specific patient/hospital details are removed or blacked out (e.g., X-rays, MRI scans, etc).
• If photographs of patients are used, they should not be identifiable. However, do not use a black bar to obscure a patient’s identity.
• Original data from which the images were prepared should be available, as the editors may request to see these data (e.g., Office, SPSS and other line art images).
• Lettering in figures (e.g., labeling of axes) should be in lower-case type, with the first letter capitalized and no full stop. All text should be in a sans-serif typeface, preferably Arial with size 8 pt.
• Avoid using the touch-up tools, such as cloning and healing tools in Photoshop, or any feature that deliberately obscures manipulations.
• Graphics downloaded from Web pages should not be used.
• Please remember that vector drawing data is absent from these files: png, jpeg, tiff, or bmp. Subsequently resaving any of these files as a PDF or EPS will not produce a vector drawing in these files. Please supply the original EPS, Ai, or PDF file versions of artwork.
• Figures/images should be inserted within the text as close as possible to where they are referenced. Authors should not upload them as separate files.

Note: Each table, figure, and box should have a brief, specific, descriptive title, usually written as a phrase rather than as a sentence, that distinguishes the table from other data displays in the article. The capitalization style used in article titles should be followed for tables, boxes and figures titles.

 

- Formulas 

• Equations must be typed only in MathType (Download the software from https://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/).
• Graphical objects should not be used.
• Your equations should be editable.
• If you have used built-in equation editing tool in Microsoft Word, the equations will become unusable during the typesetting process. To resolve this problem, please re-key your equations using MathType.
• Long equations should be set off from the text and numbered sequentially.
• If you cannot avoid using many equations or schemes, you can collect them in a table of equations and shot them as a framed figure to avoid typesetting errors.   

 

Articles in Journals:
List the first six authors followed by et al.
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002 Jul 25;347(4):284-7.
More than six authors:
Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res. 2002;935(1-2):40-6.
Organization as author:
Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension, insulin, and proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension. 2002;40(5):679-86.
Books and Other Monographs:
Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.
Chapter in a book:
Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.
Conference proceedings:
Harnden P, Joffe JK, Jones WG, editors. Germ cell tumours. Proceedings of the 5th Germ Cell Tumour Conference; 2001 Sep 13-15; Leeds, UK. New York: Springer; 2002.
Conference paper:
Christensen S, Oppacher F. An analysis of Koza's computational effort statistic for genetic programming. In: Foster JA, Lutton E, Miller J, Ryan C, Tettamanzi AG, editors. Genetic programming. EuroGP 2002: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Genetic Programming; 2002 Apr 3-5; Kinsdale, Ireland. Berlin: Springer; 2002. p. 182-91.
Dissertation:
Borkowski MM. Infant sleep and feeding: a telephone survey of Hispanic Americans [dissertation]. Mount Pleasant (MI): Central Michigan University; 2002.
Dictionary and similar references:
Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary. 29th ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders; 2000. Filamin; p.675.
Journal article on the Internet :
Abood S. Quality improvement initiative in nursing homes: the ANA acts in an advisory role.
Am J Nurs [Internet]. 2002 Jun [cited 2002 Aug 12];102(6):[about 1 p.]. Available from: http://www.nursingworld.org/AJN/2002/june/Wawatch.htmArticle
Homepage/Web site :
Cancer-Pain.org [Internet]. New York: Association of Cancer Online Resources, Inc.; c2000-01[updated 2002 May 16; cited 2002 Jul 9]. Available from: http://www.cancer-pain.org/.
Part of a database on the Internet :
MeSH Browser [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2002 - . Metaanalysis [cited 2008 Jul 24]; [about 2 p.]. Available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2008/MB_cgi?mode=&index=16408&view=concept MeSH Unique ID: D017418.

- Statistics

For the reporting of statistical analyses please consider the following points:

• Report descriptive statistics as N (%) for categorical and mean (SD) for continuous variables. In the case of non-normal variables report median (IQR).
• Provide information about participation and missing data.
• Display the flowchart of the study by which cases are excluded from analysis
• Start with Univariate analysis before building multivariable/ multivariate models.
• As much as possible, describe results using meaningful phrases (eg, do not say "beta" or "regression coefficient", but "mean change in Y per unit of X"). Provide 95% confidence intervals for point estimates.
• Maintain the consistency of reporting all decimal places across the manuscript (either one decimal or two decimal places).
• P values should be expressed to 2 digits to the right of the decimal point unless the first 2 digits are zeros, in which case 3 digits to the right of the decimal place should be provided (eg, instead of P < .01, report as P = .002). However, values close to .05 may be reported to 3 decimal places because the .05 is an arbitrary cut point for statistical significance (eg, P = .053, P = .047). 
• P values less than .001 should be designated as “P < .001” rather than exact values (eg, P = .00006). 
• Report p values with 2 digits after the decimal. eg, 0.54 or .54.

 

•  Articles would be in one of the following types:

 Original articles: Text should be up to 8000 words; A structured abstract should be 250 words; maximum number of tables/figures should not be more than 6; maximum number of references should not be more than 40.
Case reports: Text should be up to 4000 words; A structured abstract should be 125 words; Maximum number tables/figures should not be more than 3; Maximum number of references should not be more than 20.
Short communication: Text should be up to 4000 words; A structured abstract should be 125 words; Maximum number tables/figures should not be more than 2; Maximum number of references should not be more than 20.
Correspondence, Letter to Editor: Text should be up to 1000 words; Maximum number of references shouldn’t be more than 15.
Review articles: Text should be up to 7000 words; A structured maximum abstract should be 300 words; Maximum number of tables/figures shouldn’t be more than 8; Maximum number of references shouldn’t be more than 90.
 

• Abbreviations and symbols

 Use only standard abbreviations. Avoid using them in the title and abstract. The full term for which an abbreviation stands should precede its first use in the text, unless it is a standard unit of measurement (For further information please visit ICMJE Recommendation.

• Ethical guidelines

In the Journal of Health and Development (JHAD) Ethical Issues is an obligatory section in all types of articles. If there is no ethical issue to be considered, please declare it as “Not applicable” or “None to be declared”. Every experimental or clinical study may raise controversial ethical issues (e.g., Institutional Ethical Approval for working with animal or human subjects). Thus, JHAD expects all authors, reviewers and editors to consider COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), ICMJE and Equator Network’s reporting guidelines in medical ethics plus scientific writing. If any, authors should state related declaration(s), unless otherwise the following sentence should be given “None to be declared”. Ethical considerations must be addressed in the main body. 1) Please state that informed consent was obtained from all human adult participants and from the parents or legal guardians of minors. Include the name of the appropriate institutional review board that approved the project. 2) Indicate in the text that the maintenance and care of experimental animals complies with National Institutes of Health guidelines for the humane use of laboratory animals, or those of your Institute or agency.
Please take a look at the following guidelines provided by COPE for editors and reviewers that may be helpful for authors, too:

• Flowcharts shows how we behave with unethical papers
• Redundant (duplicate) publication in submitted manuscript and published article
• Suspected plagiarism in submitted manuscript and published article
• Suspected fabricated data in submitted manuscript and published article and See more 

• Financial support

 In case of any financial support, it is important to mention the name of the respective organization/institute and the project number at the end of the manuscript.

• Conflicts of interest

 Authors must acknowledge and declare any sources of funding and potential conflicting interest, such as receiving funds or fees by, or holding stocks and shares in an organization that may profit or lose through publication of your paper. Declaring a competing interest will not lead to automatic rejection of the paper, but we would like to be made aware of it.

• Pay  charges

There are no charges for publication in Journal of Health and Development (JHAD). The in free and the costs of the journal articles are paid by Kerman University of Medical Sciences.

• Copyright

Open access agreement
Upon submitting an article, authors are asked to indicate their agreement to abide by an open access Creative Commons license (CC-BY). Under the terms of this license, authors retain ownership of the copyright of their articles. However, the license permits any user to download, print out, extract, reuse, archive, and distribute the article, as long as appropriate credit is given to the authors and the source of the work. The license ensures that the article will be available as widely as possible and that the article can be included in any scientific archive.
 

• Peer review process

 All manuscripts are considered to be confidential. They are peer reviewed by at least 2 anonymous reviewers selected by the Editorial Board. The corresponding author is notified as soon as possible of the editor decision to accept, reject, or require modifications

• Misconduct

The Journal of Health and Development (JHAD) will follow the COPE guidelines to deal with cases of potential publication misconduct.
 

Retraction Based on the COPE guidelines, JHAD will consider retracting a publication if: It has clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error). The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper cross-referencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication)  It constitutes plagiarism. It reports unethical research.

Sanctions In the case of occurrence of documented violations of the aforementioned policies of the JHAD, it is the JHAD’s right to apply the following sanctions: JHAD keeps all the rights to retract the infringing published works at any time found based on the COPE guideline for retracting articles. Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript and sanction of the infringed author(s). Prohibition against all authors for any new submissions to JHAD for a minimum of 24 months. Prohibition against all infringed authors from serving as a reviewer or acting as a member of the Editorial Board of JHAD for a minimum of 36 months. In cases of occurrence of violations found to be particularly ostensible, JHAD reserves the right to apply additional sanctions beyond the aforementioned actions.