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Prepare your manuscript for Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene.

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Article types

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

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Insert a page break before the ABSTRACT section (do not use paragraph breaks).
  • Ending such a commentary so that readers are asked, as individuals or as a profession, to take a specific action, can be highly effective and useful to the JOEH readers. JOEH Manuscript Descriptions, by Category July 11, 2018 Page 3 of 4 Information Classification: General Commentaries are limited to 2500 words, and an abstract is not needed.

Keywords

  • Keywords in alphabetical order; minimum of three, no more than six to assist in cross-indexing the article.

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.
  • The Technical Manuscript is limited to 5000 words and should have sufficient references from the scientific literature to support statements and current state of knowledge for the subject area being presented.
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  • Please provide an Author Contributions Statement at the end of your article, before the references.
  • Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • Since the word length is small, do not summarize the article: provide a reference so that readers can access the article itself.
  • Personal communications should not be included in the reference list.
  • 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.
  • Letters addressing authors of a published article must be respectful, begin with a concise objective, provide specific examples on points of difference with reference to scientific evidence, and provide a conclusion.
  • Brief Report: The Brief Report is limited to 3000 words, also with sufficient references from the scientific literature.
  • Place all figures and tables after REFERENCES section.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
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  • Figures and images must be at least 300 x 300 600 x 600 DPI to be considered for print.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Figures and tables should be minimal (one should be sufficient).
  • Neither tables nor figures should be submitted.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
  • Font: 12-point Times New Roman • Spacing: Double-spaced • Left-justified • New Paragraphs: 0.25" tab • Embed fonts to preserve equations (do not embed figures/tables).
  • Do NOT embed figures and tables within the text or indicate where they belong. JOEH STYLE GUIDE S U B M I T V I A T H E G R E E N B U T T O N A T H T T P S: / / B I T.

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].
  • Such potential conflicts of interest may include, but are not limited to, any significant financial support obtained from organizations outside the authors' affiliations.

Competing interests

  • Add or confirm the author-written Conflict of interest statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Letter to the Editor: Here, identify the primary purpose of your Letter to the Editor, declare conflicts of interest, and provide a clear rationale as to why this letter should be published.
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  • Should the authors not provide access to any data serving as the basis for a manuscript, a conflict of interest statement must be included in the manuscript detailing the reasons that the data is not accessible.

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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  • Data Availability Policy 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.
  • D A T A A V A I L A B I L I T Y S T A T E M E N T Authors are required to provide a data availability statement (DAS), detailing where data associated with a paper can be found and how it can be accessed.

Ethics statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Institutional Review Board Approval Authors performing human subjects research must indicate institutional review board approval, including informed consent/assent declarations, with manuscript submission.
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  • The JOEH will not publish any research that involves humans as subjects without a signed statement from the author attesting to institutional review board approval of the research. (Research that involves monitoring or studying employees in the workplace environment, and that can be considered part of the employer's existing responsibility to provide a workplace free of recognized hazards to health and safety, does not require such approval.) If questions arise over whether this approval is required, contact the JOEH Editor in Chief.

Blinded manuscript

  • Remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other direct identifiers from the blinded manuscript file.

Cover letter

  • Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
  • Using Third-Party Material You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
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  • Use the “cover letter” space on ScholarOne to provide context to your Letter.
  • 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.

Author contributions

  • Add or confirm the author-written Author contributions statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Supplemental Issue Only A collection of up to a maximum of 15 manuscripts (each manuscript limited to 7,000 words) on a related topic developed from research and information presented at a scientific meeting, symposium, or conference.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • JOEH STYLE GUIDE Do not include author, affiliations, or correspondence information on title page of anonymous version to preserve the double-blind review process.
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  • In this case, the name and affiliation of the person and the month and year of the communication should be cited in parentheses in the text.
  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • JOEH Style Guide: This guide includes all required information about formatting your manuscript.
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  • Commentary: Commentary Commentaries provide a perspective or opinion, but must be grounded in evidence.
  • 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.
  • Charges for author alterations above minimum standards will be billed to the authors.
  • Author Retention of Data Authors are expected to retain all raw data for a minimum of 3 years following publication.
  • Authors should be willing to provide such information to other investigators interested in reproducing their research.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • This scientific article should present a study—basic, translational, or clinical—in which a hypothesis or aim is presented and tested.
  • Brief Report: As such, authors should submit such their manuscript as a Brief Report.
  • This manuscript must provide the same information as the “technical manuscript” but should clearly explain its limitations.
  • Brief Report: Studies that are exploratory in nature should also be submitted as a Brief Report.
  • Due to the limited scope of these studies, the authors should acknowledge that the findings might apply only to the limited sites/conditions included in the study.
  • Brief Report: Thus, the Brief Reports should identify what additional conditions that may exist in other operations that were not included in this case study.
  • It is typical that reviews do not provide any new data from the authors.
  • Review Article: When preparing a Review Article, authors must identify a clear objective for this manuscript.
  • To be successful, the full set of literature available on the topic should be considered.
  • These should be submitted as Letters to the Editor.
  • Similar to all other article types in the JOEH, personal conversations should not be referenced.
  • Original Article: Rather, letters should present the scientific basis for the points being made about the original article.
  • Authors are required to pay full cost for color art reproduction, and reprints can only be ordered if print reproduction costs are paid.
  • If data cannot be made openly available, authors must state the reason(s) why in the DAS.
  • Entries without authors should be ordered alphabetically among other entries by their titles.
  • Submission and Style Information JOEH Manuscript Submission Guide: This form includes all the information necessary to guide you through the submission process and identifies required documents you must upload to proceed to the review process.
  • Review / Review Article: Review articles should have a clearly defined scope, a methodology for identification of evidence reviewed, and present a comprehensive summary or synthesis of the evidence.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Systematic Review: If the review manuscript includes a quantitative systematic review that combines data across several studies (i.e., a meta-analysis), authors should address standard protocols, such as QUOROM, to follow recommended reporting for reviews.
  • Any unpublished data (including company-specific literature and proprietary data) must be submitted in PDF format with the manuscript files or emailed to gnjenga@remrisk.com prior to acceptance of the manuscript.
  • Review: Review Review articles compile and describe existing scientific evidence addressing a specific topic, but do not present original research.
  • Manuscripts passing initial review will be reviewed by at least two individuals.
  • Brief Report: Brief Report Many studies that are technical in nature but have limited generalizability.
  • This article needs to have a clear objective that has a sufficiently broad relevance to the field.
  • Do not repeat words used in the manuscript title.
  • 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.
  • These typically follow a useful format that begins with a concise summary of the past, an explanation of where we are today, and what we need to do to close gaps in knowledge or technology today, so that we can protect workers.
  • If there are questions or vagueness in the letter regarding the Letter’s scientific assessment, these will be communicated to the Letter author, who may or may not be invited to resubmit the letter.

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 preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.

Manuscript structure

  • Review: The introduction should establish the objective and need for the review.
  • The objective should be quickly identified (e.g., by the end of the first paragraph), and the bulk of this manuscript should be allocated to the discussion.
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  • Include any disclaimers or special notes about this paper in this section.
  • Technical manuscripts should have a clearly stated aim or objective, well-defined methods for the collection and analysis of evidence, transparent presentation of results, and conclusions supported by the presented evidence.
  • The methods are generally short, but it should detail how the literature/evidence was selected (search engines and terms), how the evidence was evaluated, criteria for inclusion/exclusion, and, if data were extracted for a meta-analysis, how this was conducted.
  • This manuscript must report a scientific investigation and provide the following, in detail: • Introduction describing the relevance of this study, with an assessment of current gaps in knowledge on the issue; • Clearly stated objective/hypothesis for the investigation; • Thorough description of the methods, to the extent that someone so inclined could replicate the study; • Clear description of the data analysis performed and results obtained; and • Synthesis of the data with both limitations, as appropriate, and conclusions that are supported by the evidence generated.
  • Case Report: If a study had limited participants, sample size, or was in fact a pilot study or a case report of a single event, the results from such a study might be important to contribute to the field, but might not be fully generalizable to a broader population.

Authorship and originality

  • This Statement should include an outline of which author(s) were involved in the conception and design of the work; the analysis and interpretation of the data; the drafting of the paper; revising it critically for intellectual content; and the final approval of the version to be published; and that all authors agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
  • L Y / S U B M I T J O E H A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S Acknowledge individuals whose support and cooperation were essential to your research, but do not qualify as co-authors.

Language and text style

  • Cite a resource in the text by (1) the surname(s) of its author(s); (2) its publication year; and (3) a page number or page numbers, when necessary (e.g., required with a direct quotation).
  • Measurements normally expressed in English units (e.g., feet per minute) should also be expressed in metric units (e.g., m/s).

Study reporting guidelines

  • Extreme care should be taken when citing non-peer reviewed material.
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Paper: 7,000 words
Cover letter: requested
Declarations: Data availability, Conflict of interest, Ethics, Author contributions, Artificial intelligence

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