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Prepare your manuscript for Journal of Communication in Healthcare.

Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.

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Article types

Review
Research Article
Brief Report
Case Report
Letter
Viewpoint
Commentary
Editorial
Book Review
Perspective
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Systematic Review
Lectio
Letter to the Editor
Original Article

Readiness requirements

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

Abstract length

  • Use a structured abstract.
  • Abstract must follow the structure: Background, Methods, Results and Conclusions.
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  • Letter: Do not simply insert your abstract into your cover letter!

Keywords

  • Provide at least 3 keywords chosen by the author.
  • At least 3 keywords must be MeSH headings.
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  • At least three keywords should be MESH headings.

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.
  • 1500 words including tables / references (minimum of 5) / figure and table captions / footnotes / endnotes.
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  • Opinion pieces should include a minimum of 5 references and can be authored by a maximum of 3 authors.
  • Review: Your name should appear at the end of the review in the submitted manuscript but will appear first in the citation once/if the article is published.
  • 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.
  • Book Review: All book reviews should be preceded by full publication information, which should include (in the following order): ISBN number(s).

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • If the figure or table is not your own, you must have obtained written permission to use it.
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  • Captions must include copyright holder details and state that permission to reproduce has been obtained.
  • Tables must be editable.

Funding statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • 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].
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  • Check that you included all required disclosures in a narrative format and each of them under a separate heading (Ethics, Conflict of Interest, Funding, Data Availability, Authors’ Contribution).
  • Full addresses, titles and affiliations, signatures, email, daytime phone numbers, and ethics, conflict of interest and funding disclosures should be included in all submissions.

Competing interests

  • Add or confirm the author-written Conflict of interest statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Full addresses, titles and affiliations, signatures, email, daytime phone numbers, and conflict of interest disclosures should be included in all submissions.

Data availability statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Data availability statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.

Ethics statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • This article types should also discuss in detail implications of the patient case study for health communication research, policy, and practice in clinical settings.
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  • Submissions to the Patient Voices Section do not need to conform to the standard Backgrounds/Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion format, but should be based on a compelling personal story that highlights the impact of healthcare communication on patient and family satisfaction, health outcomes or public health consequences, and offers lessons to providers, public health personnel or policy makers.
  • Review: Submissions to the Patient Voices Section do not go through the peer review process.

Cover letter

  • Letter: Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
  • Letter: When you submit your article to a journal, you often need to include a cover letter.
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  • Letter: The cover letter should explain why your work is perfect for their journal and why it will be of interest to the journal’s readers.
  • Letter: You will receive cover letter instructions of what you should include and what you shouldn’t, and a word template cover letter.
  • Letter: Things to avoid: Avoid too much detail – keep your cover letter to a maximum of one page, as an introduction and brief overview.
  • Letter: Cover letter not required.
  • Manuscript submission process including which online submission system you need to use.
  • Read our guidance on when you’ll need to seek written permission for third-party material.
  • Letter: You might find that the submission system for your chosen journal requires your cover letter to be submitted into a text box rather than as a separate document, but it is still a good idea to write a draft first to make sure you have included everything.

Author contributions

  • Add or confirm the author-written Author contributions statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.

Title page and author information

  • Provide the author, affiliation, and correspondence details for the separate title page; Articlo creates the editable companion file.

Article structure and word limits

  • Letters should be brief (up to 300 words for letters to the editors, and up to 1500 words for opinion pieces).
  • Expert opinions can only be submitted by authors with a minimum of 15 years of experience in the health and risk communication field, and more specifically, in the topic of the opinion piece.
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  • Book Review: Book Reviews should not exceed 1,500 words.
  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Please provide all the required information to ensure your paper is not delayed while we request the missing information.
  • 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.
  • You don’t need to format your manuscript to meet any special style requirements, but your submission should be easy to read and comment on.
  • We may need you to send us any extra items required for publication.
  • The titles of journals should be abbreviated as they appear in the MEDLINE Journals Database.
  • Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in metric units (metre, kilogram or litre) or their decimal multiples.
  • Scientific measurements should be given in SI units, except for blood pressure, which should be expressed in mm Hg.
  • Raw numbers should be given alongside percentages, and as supporting data for P values.
  • If submitting a LaTeX file you will also need to provide a PDF version.
  • You will also need to upload your LaTeX source files, which should be uploaded as a single zip file alongside your submission and marked as “LaTeX Source Files”.
  • Submissions should be sent as a Word file by e-mail to jcih.editorstf@gmail.com For general format guidelines for all submissions to JCIH, please visit https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ycih20/current and consult the instructions for authors.
  • Book Review: Book Reviews should include the following information: Title (15 words max).
  • Submit For direct submissions of Letters: Viewpoints on current issues please send to jcih.editorstf@gmail.com.
  • 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.
  • Before you start to write, please check the instructions for authors (IFAs) of your chosen journal, as not all journals will require one.
  • You should also check the IFAs for any journal specific information on what to include.
  • Submission ready Use our submission checklist to make sure you’ve included everything you need to.
  • It also includes details of specific processes to follow to make sure there are no problems during production, should your article be accepted.
  • The IFAs include all the essential information you’ll need to know before you submit your article.
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  • Use this article submission checklist to find out.
  • By the time you’re ready to submit your paper to a journal, there are a lot of things you’ll need to have checked, understood, and incorporated into your article.
  • You should also check whether your research funder’s policy requires you to make your work open access.
  • Your article should be a good fit and format for the target journal’s style guide.
  • Your study design, research argument strength and positioning should be structured and articulated properly.
  • Make sure your article is revised appropriately to address possible issues before you submit.
  • Include your manuscript's title and the name of the journal.
  • Remember: Check the specific requirements of your chosen journal to make sure you include everything you need to.
  • Check this list before you submit.
  • Temperatures should be in degrees Celsius.
  • Check before you submit your paper.
  • Please use the MeSH browser at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html to identify and locate MeSH vocabulary.
  • Please use the MeSH browser at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.htm l to identify and locate MeSH vocabulary.
  • Book Review: Book Reviews should include the following information: Author information.
  • Book Review: All book reviews should be preceded by full publication information, which should include (in the following order): book title (in bold type).
  • Book Review: All book reviews should be preceded by full publication information, which should include (in the following order): author(s)/editor(s).
  • Book Review: All book reviews should be preceded by full publication information, which should include (in the following order): publisher.
  • Book Review: All book reviews should be preceded by full publication information, which should include (in the following order): year of publication.
  • Book Review: All book reviews should be preceded by full publication information, which should include (in the following order): paperback/hardback or e-book.
  • Margins: At least 2.5cm (1 inch).
  • You also need to: If you are depositing data in a repository, make sure that it preserves anonymity.
  • Letters are not technical comments or opinions on peer-reviewed articles published by the Journal, so we do not accept these kinds of contributions.
  • The Journal will endeavor to ensure authors see these changes but cannot guarantee to do so.
  • For example, the journal may not accept editorials, or clinical studies.
  • Your manuscript needs to be a good fit, but the journal may not accept your article if there are too many similarities with existing articles.
  • 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

  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • 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.

Article type and manuscript length

  • If multiple authors, the total word count should be split among bios (up to maximum of 80 words).
  • Must be cited in the main text and in chronological order.
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  • Captions must include the matching number from the main text citation.
  • Review: Anonymization Check the requirements for the article type you are submitting and if an anonymous version is required to protect your identity during peer review.
  • If yes, create a copy of your main file and then remove the following information: Self-citation in the main text and references (these should be redacted).
  • Preparing Your Manuscript Structure Unless otherwise indicated (e.g., such as in the case of non-independently peer-reviewed articles), your paper should be compiled in the following order: a structured abstract; keywords; main text, including introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion; acknowledgments; disclosure statements (ethics, conflict of interest, funding, data availability, authors’ contribution); references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Manuscript structure

  • Letter: First-level headings (e.g. Introduction, Conclusion) should be in bold, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Letters may be reviewed but as this is not usually a peer-reviewed section of the Journal, they should not contain primary data.
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  • Review / Book Review: Submissions to the Book Review section of the Journal do not need to conform to the standard Backgrounds/Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion format for other articles at the Journal, but should be intended to: Provide readers with a clear overview of the content of the book under review.
  • Review / Book Review: Submissions to the Book Review section of the Journal do not need to conform to the standard Backgrounds/Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion format for other articles at the Journal, but should be intended to: Present the evidence, arguments, methodology and overall conclusions of the book in a fair and accurate manner.
  • Review / Book Review: Submissions to the Book Review section of the Journal do not need to conform to the standard Backgrounds/Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion format for other articles at the Journal, but should be intended to: Engage readers with an accessible, lively writing style.
  • Review / Book Review: Submissions to the Book Review section of the Journal do not need to conform to the standard Backgrounds/Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion format for other articles at the Journal, but should be intended to: Place the book within the wider context of the existing literature and research in the subject being presented.
  • Review / Book Review: Submissions to the Book Review section of the Journal do not need to conform to the standard Backgrounds/Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion format for other articles at the Journal, but should be intended to: Discuss its relevance to/within the context of the multidisciplinary field of health and risk communication, including a statement on “who should use” the book/may find it useful to their work.
  • 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.

Language and text style

  • Letter: Second-level headings should be in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Letter: Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
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  • Fourth-level headings should be in bold italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Fifth-level headings should be in italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.

Blinded manuscript

  • You also need to: Include in the anonymous manuscript all disclosures and acknowledgements in a redacted format (without the names of any person or institution).
  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.
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  • An anonymous version of your paper is required when submitting.
  • You also need to: Label the file as “Manuscript Anonymous” ’ This file is in addition to and a separate file from the Manuscript with Authors Details, which is also required for your submission and should include all details/full, non-redacted version of all information.

Authorship and originality

  • Editorial: The Editorial Policies apply to all Taylor & Francis journals, and all authors should read them before submitting.
  • Include contact information for yourself and any co-authors.
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  • Bios should be included for all authors.

Study reporting guidelines

  • 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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What your package checks

Paper: 300 words
Keywords: At least 3 keywords
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Data availability, Funding, Conflict of interest, Ethics, Author contributions, Acknowledgements

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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