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Prepare your manuscript for Journal of Health Inequalities.

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Checked 2026-07-15
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Article types

Review
Systematic Review
Clinical Trial
Letter

Readiness requirements

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

Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 300 words.
  • The text should be up to 5,000 words, which does not include an abstract of no more than 300 words, a maximum of 5 tables and/or figures (total), and up to 40 references.
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  • The text should be up to 3,000 words long, which does not include an abstract of no more than 300 words, a maximum of 3 tables and/or figures (total) and up to 30 references.
  • The text should be up to 5,000 words long, which does not include an abstract of no more than 300 words, a maximum of 5 tables and/or figures (total) and up to 50 references.
  • Original papers should be organized in a standard form with the following separate sections: Title, Abstract, Key words (according to MeSH terms), Introduction, Material and methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Disclosures and acknowledgements, References, Contributions 1.
  • They should not have an abstract.

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.
  • It’s required to include Disclosures and acknowledgements, References, and Contributions 2.
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  • Editorials should be up to 1,000 words long with no more than 15 references.
  • The text should include references to all tables.
  • The reference list should be arranged in the order in which the citations appear in the text.
  • References should only be made to published titles.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Tables should be numbered according to their sequence in the text.
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  • Each table should be provided in a separate file.
  • Each figure should be provided in a separate file, not included in the text.
  • Figures should preferably be provided in the TIF or EPS format.
  • All figures, whether photographs, graphs or diagrams, should be numbered consecutively throughout.

Funding statement

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

Competing interests

  • Add or confirm the author-written Conflict of interest statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Other relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony) providing potential sources of conflict of interest in relation to the submitted article should also be revealed.

Blinded manuscript

  • Review: Remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other direct identifiers from the blinded manuscript file.
  • Review: Journal of Health Inequalities uses a double-blind review process in which authors do not know the identity of their reviewers, nor do the reviewers know the identities of the authors.

Supplementary files

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

Reporting guidelines

  • Clinical Trial: The ICMJE accepts publicly accessible registration in any registry that is a primary register of the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) that includes the minimum acceptable 24-item trial registration data set or in ClinicalTrials.gov, which is a data provider to the WHO ICTRP.
  • The text should be up to 500 words.
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  • Original papers should describe new data derived from a sizable study group or in-depth qualitative research.
  • Special articles should be associated with a particular issue of scientific importance.
  • Reviews should bring together important information on a topic of general interest to health inequalities.
  • Papers must be submitted to the Editorial Office on-line via: http://www.editorialsystem.com/jhi/login/.
  • In accordance with the ICMJE recommendations, the Editors of Journal of Health Inequalities require authors to provide all necessary information regarding the registered study when submitting the article for publication: name of the register, Main ID, Public Title, Date of Registration.
  • Editorials should provide commentary concerning an article in the present issue of the Journal of Health Inequalities or be associated with a particular problem of scientific importance.
  • Manuscripts that do not meet the journal's requirements will be sent back to the authors for correction or rejected.

Ethics and consent

  • When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (concerning the ethical principles for the medical community and forbidding releasing the name of the patient, initials or the hospital evidence number) and with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national).
  • Regarding photographs, in case of any doubt that the picture inadequately protects the patient's anonymity his consent is required for publication.
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  • Clinical Trial: The ICMJE requires - and recommends that all medical journal editors require - registration of clinical trials in a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrollment as a condition of consideration for article publication.

Language and text style

  • The paper should be written in English and be communicative, clear and concise, while maintaining the classic layout.
  • Title of articles published in other languages than English should include English translation in square brackets.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Systematic Review: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses must be reported according to PRISMA guidelines.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 300 words
Paper: 1,000 words
Declarations: Conflict of interest, 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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