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Prepare your manuscript for Health Psychology Review.

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Checked 2026-08-01
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Article types

Review
Editorial
Review Article
Systematic Review
Methods Article
Protocol
Lectio
Clinical Trial
Letter

Readiness requirements

Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.

Abstract length

  • The Abstract (p. 2) must be a single paragraph that summarizes the main findings of the paper in fewer than 200 words.
  • The abstract structure should be as follows: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion.
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  • After the abstract a list of six Keywords that will be useful for indexing or searching should be included.
  • There are no strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to evaluate a manuscript: abstract, author affiliation, figures, tables, funder information, and references.

Keywords

  • Provide 3-6 keywords chosen by the author.
  • Should contain between 3 and 6 keywords.

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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  • Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • Review: For meta-analyses and systematic reviews, references for studies included in the review should be only appear in a separate supplemental list that the journal will make available as an online supplement.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2) and have appropriate captions.
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  • All tables must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Table 1, Table 2) and have appropriate captions.
  • Figures should be of sufficient resolution to enable refereeing.

Funding statement

  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

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

  • Systematic Review: From January 1, 2021 all reviews with empirical content (e.g., systematic reviews, meta-analyses) will be required to be pre-registered on an appropriate independent, institutional registry such as Prospero https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/, the Open Science Framework https://osf.io/ or other registry (e.g., http://clinicaltrials.gov/, http://socialscienceregistry.org/, http://egap.org/designregistration/, http://ridie.3ieimpact.org/ ).
  • Authors must confirm that the study was registered prior to conducting the research, and that the preregistration adheres to the disclosure requirements of the institutional registry or those required for the preregistered ‘badge’maintained by the Center for Open Science: see https://osf.io/tvyxz/wiki/home/.

Ethics statement

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

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

  • Using Third-Party Material in your Paper You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse 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.
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  • 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.

Author contributions

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

Title page and author information

  • The Title Page (p. 1) should contain the article title, authors' names and affiliations and the address for manuscript correspondence (including e-mail, address and telephone and fax numbers).
  • No information that would indicate authors’ identity or affiliation should be contained in the manuscript itself; all such information should be included on the title page only.

Article structure and word limits

  • Should be at between 2500 and 4000 words in length.
  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
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  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • These should include adequate and appropriate validation to be considered.
  • Any datasets associated with the paper must publish all experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible.
  • If there are concerns about identifying factors in datasets, these should be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief prior to submission.
  • Please note, this is not required for submission but is encouraged.
  • Authors are therefore required to publish any raw data and any code or syntax used in data analysis in the interests of full disclosure and transparency.
  • Authors should choose formats that are able to be read using commonly available software (e.g., text or rtf files).
  • Review: For registries that do not provide a standard template for pre-registering a review, authors are advised to use a template that includes the required information.
  • Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
  • Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • However, it is also recognised that articles should be appropriately concise and pithy so that the main focus is not lost and the argument is not encumbered by unnecessary detail.
  • Systematic Review: Authors of articles that make use of data (e.g., meta-analysis, systematic reviews) are required to make all raw data files and code or syntax used in data analysis available when submitting the manuscript.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Conceptual and narrative reviews do not need to be pre-registered.
  • If you are submitting in LaTeX, please convert the files to PDF beforehand (you will also need to upload your LaTeX source files with the PDF).
  • The VoR is the article in its final, definitive and citable form (this may not be immediately paginated, but is the version that will appear in an issue of the journal).
  • 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.

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

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparatio n to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.

Language and text style

  • Preparing Your Paper Manuscripts must be written in English.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page including acknowledgements and funding details as an author note; abstract; keywords; main text; references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures and figure caption(s).
  • Structure Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Supplementary material

  • Review: Authors should upload files as supplemental materials (for review).
  • Review: In order to comply with international standards and for academic transparency, authors of meta-analyses and systematic reviews submitted to Health Psychology Review are required to include a statement in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement ( http://www.prisma-statement.org/ ) as a supplemental file for review (the final document will be included as online supplemental material).

Manuscript structure

  • Authors must report the web link to the timestamped pre-registration at the institutional registry or the pre-registration trial number prominently (e.g., in the Methods section) in their manuscript.
  • In addition, authors of meta-analyses should include the information recommended by the APA's Meta-Analysis Reporting Methods (MARS) which can be found here (http://www.apastyle.org/manual/related/JARS-MARS.pdf).

Authorship and originality

  • All contributors who do not meet the above criteria for authorship, should be listed in an acknowledgements section in accordance with the APA guidelines.
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What your package checks

Keywords: 3-6 keywords
Declarations: Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.

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