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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 Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; 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.

Author Guidelines

Required At First Submission For All Article Types

  • Cover letter (should provide context for the submitted manuscript within the existing medical landscape and literature and should outline why you think your manuscript should be published in DJH. State the specific contributions of each author to the preparation of the manuscript. Please note the maximum number of authors for specific article types)
  • Title page (may be uploaded as a separate file, or as the first page of the manuscript)
    • title (for research, the title must include the study type)
    • authors' names, degrees (no fellowships) and up to two affiliations for each author
    • corresponding author's email address
    • funding statement
    • declaration of author(s) competing interests
  • Text (editable files), tables, figures, references, appendices (clear, legible; they should adhere to DJH requirements for the manuscript type)

Required At Revision

  • A contributor's statement (states the specific contributions of each author to preparation of the manuscript). Each author must meet the four authorship criteria of the ICMJE: substantial contributions to the conception, design, acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data for the work; drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version to be published; agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved
  • Contributors who do not meet all four authorship criteria may be listed in the Acknowledgements section
  • Editable text, table and figure files
    • graphs, charts and diagrams: Microsoft Word (doc, docx), Excel (xls, xlsx), PowerPoint (ppt, pttx), Windows Metafile (wmf) or Enhanced Metafile (emf)
    • photographs and images: high-resolution (300 dpi or greater), grayscale or CMYK, Graphics Interchange Format (gif), JPEG (jpeg, jpg, jpe), Tagged Image File Format (tiff, tif); any manipulation of the image should be identified in the Methods section; see examples on our Pinterest page
    • tables and figures should not duplicate information in the text
    • text should be written in the active rather than the passive voice
  • No footnotes
  • Formatting of references must follow Vancouver style
  • Multimedia, if possible; we encourage submission of video abstracts or clinical demonstrations on video; see examples on our YouTube channel
  • Relevant signed forms: copyright/publication agreement, ICMJE (declaration of competing interests), acknowledgment, personal communication, permissions, etc. (See Author Forms)

Permission To Reproduce Previously Published Material

If your article contains previously published material (table, figure, appendix, box) or modified material,  you must obtain permission from the publisher and/or copyright or licence holder. DJH requirements are as follows:

  • Commercial use
  • In perpetuity
  • Online and print publication

Articles

The journal will consider original research articles including (but not limited to) observational studies, surveys, clinical trials, case-control studies, epidemiological studies, intervention studies, evaluations, and qualitative studies. Topic areas include (but are not limited to) all areas of basic, clinical, translational, and epidemiological medical research, as well as medical education, medical ethics, and the history or philosophy of medicine.

Reviews

The journal considers literature reviews (narrative, systematic, and meta-analytical) on all areas of basic, clinical, translational, and epidemiological medical research, as well as medical education, medical ethics, and the history or philosophy of medicine.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Provided they are the owners of the copyright to their work, authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, in a journal or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, or on their website) prior to and during the submission process.

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