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Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in the cover letter to the Editor).
- The submission file is a Microsoft Word document file format for written submissions and PDF for artwork Submissions.
- The submission (when applicable) has clearly reported ethics review approval or ethical review exemption. Authors must be able to produce a letter of REB approval or exemption if requested.
- The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; includes page and line numbers; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- Blinding: If submitting an original research manuscript or commentary please follow the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed. If personal information (e.g., Name, affiliations, institutions, references to self-publications) are not blinded your manuscript will be sent back to you.
- All submissions require a cover letter that state the relevance to one UN Sustainable Development Goal and/or one Healthy Populations Institute Flagship Project. This cover letter should also give a brief overview of the manuscript for editors to assign reviewers. If you have a suggestion for a reviewer, please include the reviewer’s name and email in the cover letter.
- If submitting for consideration in a special issue (e.g., Indigenous Health for the Spring 2023 issue), please state this in your cover letter.
- IMPORTANT: If revisions are requested, a letter in response to reviewer comments is required. The letter should clearly explain how each comment was addressed. The manuscript document should have all changes highlighted or track changes to indicate what changes were made. Revised documents must be readable with track changes/highlights or it will be returned to the authors.
- Limits on resubmissions: If no revisions are submitted based on reviewers’ comments after 3 months – the editors ask that you resubmit as a new submission once you have made the edits. If manuscript requires more than 3 rounds of reviews, you may resubmit it as a new submission or choose to pull your submission to submit to another journal.
Copyright Notice
The journal aims to reduce barriers to publishing and sharing research and inequalities to accessing information.This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The open-access nature of the journal means that there will be no charge for authors or readers to use the journal. The journal has a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CCBYNC) attribution which allows the author (and others) to share and distribute their full-text article in other public domains, such as Google Scholar or Research Gate.
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