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Author Guidelines

International Journal of Healthcare Research (IJHCR): Author Guidelines

IJHCR is a fully open-access, biannual journal. It considers manuscripts relevant to clinical medicine, public and community health, epidemiology, rehabilitation and allied health, nursing, pharmacy, biomedical sciences, healthcare education, and health services research. Visit the IJHCR homepage for the journal overview.

Article types. IJHCR considers original research articles, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, narrative reviews, brief reports, case reports, study protocols, and scholarly correspondence. Select the article type that accurately describes your manuscript.

Originality and submission. Submit original work that is not under consideration by another journal. Disclose any preprint, conference abstract, overlapping publication, or closely related manuscript in your comments to the editor. Obtain any permissions required for material created or owned by others.

Manuscript files. Upload an editable main manuscript. For double-anonymized peer review, remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other identifying details from the review manuscript. Upload a separate title page containing the complete author information. Number tables and figures in the order cited and provide clear titles or captions.

Research reporting. Describe the study design, setting, participants or materials, methods, analyses, results, and limitations clearly. Follow the reporting guideline appropriate to the study design, such as CONSORT for randomized trials, STROBE for observational studies, PRISMA for systematic reviews, or CARE for case reports. Upload a completed reporting checklist where applicable.

Research ethics. Research involving human participants, identifiable patient information, or animals must meet applicable ethical requirements. State the approving body, approval number where issued, and consent arrangements. Explain any exemption or waiver. Obtain explicit consent to publish identifiable patient information or images.

Clinical trials. Register interventional clinical trials in a publicly accessible registry before enrolling the first participant. Report the registry name, registration number, and registration date in the manuscript.

Authorship and declarations. All listed authors must have made a substantial scholarly contribution, approved the submitted manuscript, and accepted responsibility for their work. Include statements on author contributions, funding, competing interests, ethics approval, consent, and data availability, as applicable. Disclose any use of generative AI in preparing the manuscript. An AI tool cannot be listed as an author.

References. Use Vancouver-style numbered references in order of first citation. Ensure that every in-text citation matches a complete reference entry and check the accuracy of available URLs and DOIs.

Editorial assessment. Submissions are screened for scope, completeness, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and research integrity. Manuscripts selected for external assessment undergo independent, double-anonymized peer review. A request for revision does not guarantee acceptance.

Copyright and open access. Authors retain copyright and, upon acceptance, grant IJHCR a non-exclusive right to publish and disseminate their work under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). Authors must identify third-party material requiring separate permission or carrying different reuse terms.

Submission Preparation Checklist

Before submitting, confirm that:

  • I have read and followed the Author Guidelines, and the manuscript fits IJHCR’s scope.
  • The work is original and is not under consideration by another journal.
  • All authors have approved the manuscript and agreed to its submission.
  • The review manuscript is anonymized, and the title page is uploaded separately.
  • Ethics approval, consent, and trial registration are reported where applicable.
  • Funding, competing interests, author contributions, and data availability are stated.
  • References, tables, figures, permissions, and supplementary files have been checked.
  • Any preprint, related manuscript, or use of generative AI has been disclosed.
  • The submitting author has permission to complete the submission on behalf of all authors.

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Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright in their work. Upon acceptance, authors grant IJHCR a non-exclusive right to publish and disseminate the article under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). The licence permits sharing and adaptation, including commercial use, provided users give appropriate credit, link to the licence, and indicate whether changes were made.

Authors must obtain permission for third-party material when required and clearly identify any material that is not covered by the article’s CC BY 4.0 licence. See the Author Guidelines for related submission responsibilities.

 

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