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Prepare your manuscript for Global Health Action.

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Article types

Review
Letter
Clinical Trial
Editorial
Commentary
Review Article
Lectio
Research Article
Systematic Review
Protocol

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 250 words.
  • Articles in Global Health Action must include an abstract of no more than 250 words.
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  • Do not use acronyms in the title, abstract, sub-headings or Paper Context section unless the abbreviation is well known and commonly used in global health.
  • All manuscripts must include the essential elements needed to evaluate a manuscript: abstract, author affiliations, figures, tables, funder information, and references.
  • The abstract should provide sufficient information for readers to be able to decide whether or not to proceed to the full text.
  • The abstract should not include sentences cut and pasted from the manuscript and acronyms should be avoided if possible.
  • Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section.
  • Review / Letter: If the abstract or any other substantial part has been posted online (e.g., for open review, as part of conference proceedings, a report, or an unpublished paper) this must be explained in the cover letter.

Keywords

  • Include five to ten keywords or subjects that can be used for searching and retrieval.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation.
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  • The addition of DOI (Digital Object Identifier) where available is required.
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • The statement must include the name of the ethics committee, reference number and other relevant information.
  • If you reply yes, you will be required to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • Do not use acronyms for organisations that are cited as authors of reports in the reference list (e.g., World Health Organization rather than WHO, United Nations rather than UN).
  • References should be in NLM style or format.
  • All cited references must be in English.
  • The DAS should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s), or information on how the data can be requested from the authors.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • Major deviations from the recommended word length or number of tables and figures, must be justified.
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  • Figures should be of sufficient resolution to enable evaluation.
  • Tables: Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • The text should not labour the details in the tables.
  • Tables should have titles, column/row headings, and footnotes if applicable.
  • Figures should be saved as TIFF or PostScript files.
  • When figures/graphics/images are reproduced, a parenthesis should be added to the figure legend thus: (Reproduced with permission from xxxx.).
  • Online versions of articles normally include figures in colour, but some readers may use monochrome printed versions so check that important details do not disappear in monochrome.
  • Note also that p=0.000 is not acceptable; instead write p Figures: If the manuscript is accepted for publication, supply editable figures/graphics/images in at least 300 dpi files.

Funding statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies.

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Data availability statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Data availability statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • If data cannot be made open, authors should state why in the data availability statement.
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  • Authors are required to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.
  • Data availability statement: Authors are required to provide a data availability statement, detailing where data associated with a paper can be found and how it can be accessed.
  • Articles need to meet the Open Science Badges criteria in order to earn a badge.

Ethics statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Ethics and consent: Studies involving human participants, human material, or human data, must be performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
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  • Some other studies do not require formal ethics approval and where this is the case, this must also be clearly explained and justified.
  • Where appropriate, a paragraph on ethics approval must be included in the Methods section.
  • Review: Authors who do not have formal ethics review committees should include a statement that their study follows the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
  • Consent All authors are required to follow the ICMJE requirements on privacy and informed consent from patients and study participants.
  • Authors may use the Taylor & Francis Patient Consent Form, which should be completed, saved, and sent to Global Health Action if so requested.
  • If the study has been granted an exemption from requiring formal ethics approval, this must be explained giving the name of the ethics committee that granted the exclusion.
  • Clinical Trial: Clinical Trials Registry In order to be published in a Taylor & Francis journal, all clinical trials must have been registered in a public repository at the beginning of the research process (prior to patient enrolment).
  • Clinical Trial: Confirm that: any patient, service user, or participant (or that person's parent or legal guardian) in any research, experiment, or clinical trial described in your paper has given written consent for the inclusion of material pertaining to themselves; they acknowledge that they cannot be identified via the paper, and you have fully anonymized all such individuals.

Blinded manuscript

  • Include or confirm the blinded manuscript required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Cover letter

  • Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
  • Letter: Cover letter: Authors need to submit a cover letter addressed the Chief Editor of Global Health Action.
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  • Letter: The cover letter must also explain how the study design meets the relevant reporting guidelines for research studies.
  • All reproduction costs charged by the copyright holder must be borne by the author.
  • You must also secure and state permission from the University.
  • Using third-party material in your paper You must obtain the necessary permission to re-use third-party material in your article.
  • Review: The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.
  • Letter: Do not refer to these requests in your cover letter.

Author contributions

  • Add or confirm the author-written Author contributions statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • ZGHA has adopted the CRediT taxonomy and authors are now required to complete the CRediT taxonomy when providing author contributions for all submissions.
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  • You may be required to provide CRediT roles (contributor details) for yourself and your co-authors.
  • Author contributions: Global Health Action requires its authors to comply with authorship criteria as defined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) in its requirements for authorship.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.

Title page and author information

  • Provide the author, affiliation, and correspondence details for the separate title page; Articlo creates the editable companion file.
  • Letter: When submitting a PhD Synthesis, the corresponding author should also provide the following information in their cover letter: 1. a link to the full text of the PhD thesis, and secure permission from the University which awarded the thesis.
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  • When waivers are sought the corresponding author must submit the following information, together with relevant supporting documents, through the Taylor & Francis Submissions Portal.

Article structure and word limits

  • Use double spacing and font size 11 or 12 point.
  • Capacity Building articles - up to 4000 words: These articles should reflect how partnerships and collaborations are established over time, and how research capacities are being built and sustained in low-income or lower-middle-income countries.
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  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • In such cases authors must include details in their cover letters.
  • The study does not use the most recent or best available data, or the authors do not present a justification for using historical material.
  • Clean concise scientific writing is required.
  • Authors must follow the relevant reporting guidelines.
  • Authors of qualitative research papers must prioritize the anonymity of participants.
  • If participants are potentially identifiable authors must reframe the presentation of their data to ensure anonymity in all cases.
  • Authors must not copy and paste text from their PhD thesis into the paper they submit to Global Health Action.
  • The aim should be to synthesize the thesis, preferably cutting across papers and chapters thematically.
  • The authors should express the findings in this context.
  • Include a statement to the effect that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere or is not under consideration by another journal.
  • Authors must NOT refer to APC waiver requests in their cover letters.
  • Manuscript format: Manuscripts must be prepared using Microsoft Word.
  • Include page numbers at the bottom of the page and add line numbers to the entire document. (Click continuous).
  • Regardless of the file format in the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied during the revision stage.
  • They should tell readers what the article is about and ‘trigger’ their interest to read more.
  • All charts (bar, pie, column, etc.) should be two dimensional, unless three dimensions are required to present the data.
  • If the article is a PhD Synthesis, authors must also add a further paragraph under End Materials titled ‘Academic Details’.
  • Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.
  • The contributions of each author (using initials as appropriate) should be stated clearly and will be published in the article.
  • Authors must be prepared to provide further information on the above to Global Health Action editors if so requested.
  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article.
  • For all NIH or Wellcome-funded studies, the grant number(s) must be included.
  • However, if this is the case, authors MUST inform the Journal in their cover letters.
  • The registry should be publicly accessible (at no charge) open to all prospective registrants, and managed by a not-for-profit organization.
  • Include all relevant safety precautions; cite any accepted standard or code of practice.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: Details of the badges offered by the journal.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: Links to additional information.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: An open practices disclosure form.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: The journal editor’s email address.
  • Authors should adhere to page limits.
  • Review: This decision gives authors the option of making a new submission which would be subject to a further independent assessment and review as required for all new submissions.
  • Use consistently thereafter.
  • Please provide in the order listed below.
  • Do not use acronyms.
  • Academic details: This must include a link to the full text of the PhD thesis, the name of the University and Department where the thesis was submitted, and the names of academic staff who supervised the body of work.
  • Please note that data should only be shared if it is ethically correct to do so, where this does not violate the protection of human subjects, or other valid ethical, privacy, or security concerns.
  • Such as: The standards on Data, Materials, and Analytical Code Transparency speak to the items generated over the course of the study and how you should preserve or share them.
  • Applications that do not contain this information will not be assessed.
  • The study cannot be contextualized within a current global health policy context.
  • The qualitative design cannot be understood from reading the manuscript.
  • Manuscripts are sent to at least two independent reviewers.
  • Authors also need to comply with the American Psychological Association's (APA) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.
  • Yet many of these syntheses do not reach beyond the host institution or the immediate collaborators and examiners.
  • Global Health Action requires authors to prepare a statement to this effect.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.
  • Do not start a sentence with an acronym.
  • It needs to ‘grab’ the reader’s attention.
  • COS currently offers three badges in its program: The Open Materials badge is earned by making publicly available the components of the research methodology needed to reproduce the reported procedure and analysis.
  • The following are possible grounds, although individually these reasons do not necessarily lead to rejection.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • Preprints: If you upload an early version of your article to a non-commercial preprint server, you can subsequently submit to Global Health Action.
  • If you’ve posted to a preprint server, cite your preprint in the manuscript you submit to the Journal.
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  • We do not consider posting on a preprint server to be duplicate publication.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • If authors have used artificial intelligence (AI) tools then this must be acknowledged and authors must declare the parts or sections of the paper in which AI was used.
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  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • AI tools must not be listed as authors.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.

Authorship and originality

  • The submitting author must also enter names and contact information for all co-authors during the submission process.
  • Acknowledgements: All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section.
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  • All authors submitting to medicine, biomedicine, health sciences, allied and public health journals should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Study reporting guidelines

  • Authors must follow the relevant reporting guidelines which are available on the EQUATOR Network website.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).
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  • Clinical Trial: This should explain that all work was conducted with the formal approval of the local human subject or animal care committees (institutional and national) and that clinical trials have been registered as legislation requires.

Manuscript structure

  • Structured abstracts with the headings: Background, Objective(s), Methods, Results, and Conclusions (maximum 250 words) are required for Research and PhD Synthesis articles.
  • Research Article: A PhD Synthesis should have the same structure as a Research article i.e., Background, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions sections.
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  • The contribution of these articles to evidence of capacity building should be through scientific discussion of the issues rather than simple reporting of activities.
  • The headings Background, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions, are required for Research and PhD Synthesis articles.
  • The required headings are Background, Discussion and Conclusions.
  • Organisation names should be spelled in full. (See previous section on acronyms).
  • Review: Manuscript sections: Research and review articles should follow the layout: Background, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion.
  • See below for further details about the information required under each of these headings.
  • Ethical considerations and measures taken to handle specific challenges in the research should be included as part of the method or discussion sections in the manuscript.
  • Clinical Trial: All papers which report in vivo experiments or clinical trials on humans or animals must include a written statement in the Methods section.
  • Review: Unstructured abstracts (maximum 250 words) are required for the following article types: Review, Methods Forum, Study Design, Capacity Building, Current Debate, and Short Communication.
  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.
  • Section headings: Do not number section headings.
  • Do not number section headings.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Letter: The letter must state the manuscript title and article type and outline why the work is important and should be considered for publication in Global Health Action.
  • The title page should also include a separate word count of the abstract and manuscript (excluding references, tables and figures).

Language and text style

  • Acronyms: Acronyms, or short abbreviations, should only be used if the term is repeated more than three times throughout the manuscript.
  • Use a maximum of three levels of headings made clear by orthographic indicators, e.g., capitals, italics, bold, etc. Insert running page numbers in the footer.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 250 words
Paper: 4,000 words
Title page: separate file
Cover letter: requested
Declarations: Data availability, Funding, Ethics, Author contributions, Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

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