Author Guidelines
The Journal of Applied Health Sciences and Medicine (ISSN: 2583-1887) welcomes original, high-quality scholarly contributions relevant to medical science, biomedical sciences, public health, allied health sciences, and healthcare research. Manuscripts should present clear, accurate, and sufficiently detailed research, analysis, review, or scholarly discussion appropriate to the selected article type.
Manuscript length is not restricted by the journal, provided that the content is clear, coherent, scientifically appropriate, and sufficiently detailed for evaluation.
Free Format Submission
The journal accepts manuscripts prepared in any clear, consistent, and standard academic format suitable for scholarly communication.
Authors are not required to follow a specific journal formatting, typesetting, or LaTeX style when submitting a manuscript. The manuscript should be organized clearly and should contain the information necessary for proper editorial and peer-review assessment.
Authors may use a standard academic format of their choice for the initial submission, provided that the text, references, tables, figures, and other elements are presented clearly and are suitable for evaluation.
The required manuscript structure may vary according to the article type and study design. Authors should follow the applicable scientific, ethical, and reporting requirements described in these Author Guidelines.
Required Sections
Authors should include the following sections, as applicable to the article type and study design:
Author Information
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Background / Literature Review, where appropriate
Materials and Methods / Methodology, where applicable
Results / Findings, where applicable
Discussion
Conclusions
Funding Information
Author Contributions
Conflict of Interest Statement
Ethical Approval / Ethical Statement, where applicable
Informed Consent Statement, where applicable
Data Availability Statement, where applicable
Acknowledgements, where applicable
The required structure may vary according to the article type and study design.
Formatting After Acceptance
Following acceptance, authors are not required to reformat their manuscripts according to a specific JPUB journal template or publication style.
Where necessary, the journal office may request an editable Microsoft Word or LaTeX source file in a clear, standard, and usable format to facilitate production. Authors are not required to apply the journal's final typesetting or publication layout to these files.
The journal's production team will handle the final formatting, LaTeX typesetting, and preparation of the manuscript according to the journal's publication layout.
Authors will receive page proofs for review before publication and are responsible for checking the accuracy of the text, author details, tables, figures, references, and other publication information.
Submission Files
Authors may provide the following files, as applicable to the manuscript:
Original Manuscript — The manuscript may be submitted as a PDF, Microsoft Word, or LaTeX file. Authors may use any clear, consistent, and standard academic format. A specific JPUB journal template or publication formatting style is not required.
Cover Letter — optional.
Potential Reviewer Suggestions — optional.
Supplementary Materials — where applicable.
Reporting Checklist — where applicable.
Ethics Approval Documentation — where applicable.
Clinical Trial Registration Information — where applicable.
Informed Consent Documentation — where required.
Other Supporting Documents — where required by the study or article type.
The file requirements may vary according to the article type and study design.
Where necessary for production after acceptance, the journal office may request an editable Microsoft Word or LaTeX source file in a clear, standard, and usable format. Authors are not required to apply the journal's final publication layout or typesetting to the source file.
LaTeX Template
A LaTeX template is provided for authors who prefer to prepare their manuscripts using LaTeX.
Use of the journal's LaTeX template is optional and is not required for submission, peer review, or acceptance. Authors may instead submit their manuscript using a clear and consistent standard academic format.
The journal's production team will apply the appropriate publication layout and LaTeX typesetting to accepted manuscripts during the production process.
Sample LaTeX template file: Download here
Submission Process
Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal's designated online submission system.
Throughout the submission and peer-review process, the manuscript remains under the responsibility of the submitting author, who is normally the corresponding author.
The submitting author must ensure that:
all appropriate co-authors have been included;
all listed authors have approved the submitted manuscript;
the manuscript is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal;
the information supplied during submission is accurate;
applicable ethical requirements have been satisfied;
relevant declarations have been provided; and
all authors are aware of and agree to the journal's publication policies.
Manuscript Preparation
General Considerations
Manuscripts submitted to the journal should be original and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
A manuscript that has already been published in substantially the same form should not normally be submitted as a new article.
Authors should disclose relevant prior dissemination, conference presentations, preprints, datasets, or related publications where these may affect the originality or interpretation of the submission.
Authors should select the article type that most appropriately reflects the content and purpose of the manuscript.
Article Types
The Journal of Applied Health Sciences and Medicine considers the following article types, subject to the journal's aims and scope and the suitability of the manuscript:
Research Article
Original Research Articles report original clinical, laboratory, epidemiological, public-health, biomedical, health-science, or healthcare investigations.
The manuscript should provide sufficient information regarding the study design, participants or study population, methodology, data collection, statistical analysis where applicable, results, and interpretation to permit appropriate scientific evaluation.
Review Article
Review Articles provide a comprehensive or critical analysis of existing knowledge on a defined medical, biomedical, public-health, or healthcare topic.
Systematic reviews, scoping reviews, meta-analyses, and other structured reviews should follow appropriate reporting standards applicable to the review methodology.
Brief Report / Short Communication
Brief Reports or Short Communications present concise but scientifically relevant findings, preliminary results, focused analyses, methodological observations, or other significant contributions that can be communicated in a shorter format.
Case Report
Case Reports describe individual clinical cases that provide a meaningful educational, diagnostic, therapeutic, or scientific contribution.
Where a case involves a patient, authors must comply with applicable ethical and patient-consent requirements and must protect patient confidentiality.
Case Reports should follow the CARE reporting guideline, where applicable.
Case Series
Case Series describe a group of clinically related cases and should provide sufficient information regarding patient characteristics, clinical presentation, investigations, treatment, and outcomes.
Applicable ethical approval, exemption, and patient-consent requirements must be addressed.
Technical Note / Methodological Article
Technical Notes or Methodological Articles may describe new or improved clinical, laboratory, diagnostic, analytical, research, or healthcare methods, procedures, instruments, protocols, or techniques relevant to the journal's scope.
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor may provide concise scholarly comments on articles published in the journal or discuss important developments relevant to medical and health sciences.
Editorial
Editorials are concise scholarly discussions of significant issues relevant to medicine, healthcare, biomedical sciences, or public health and may be invited by the Editor-in-Chief or editorial team.
Commentary / Perspective
Commentaries and Perspectives may provide informed discussion, critical analysis, conceptual viewpoints, or emerging perspectives relevant to medical and health sciences.
Title and Abstract
The title should be concise, informative, and accurately reflect the content of the manuscript.
Authors should provide an abstract appropriate to the article type and study design.
For Original Research Articles, authors are encouraged to provide a structured abstract where appropriate. A structured abstract may include the following sections:
Background
Objective
Methods
Results
Conclusions
However, the journal does not require a specific abstract structure or format. Authors may follow an appropriate unstructured or structured abstract format according to the nature and requirements of their manuscript.
The abstract should accurately and concisely summarize the purpose, methodology, principal findings, and conclusions of the work, as applicable to the article type.
For Review Articles, Case Reports, Case Series, Short Communications, Editorials, Letters, and other article types, the abstract format may vary according to the nature of the manuscript.
Authors should provide relevant keywords that accurately represent the subject matter of the manuscript.
Author Information
Authors should provide accurate information for all contributors, including:
Full name
Department or organizational unit, where applicable
Institutional affiliation address
Email address of the corresponding author
ORCID iD for the corresponding author
ORCID iDs for co-authors, where available
Authors are responsible for ensuring that names, affiliations, and contact information are accurate at the time of submission.
Authorship
Authorship should reflect substantial contributions to the conception, design, conduct, analysis, interpretation, or other substantive aspects of the work.
For biomedical and health-related research, authors should follow the relevant ICMJE authorship recommendations.
All listed authors should have made meaningful contributions to the work, participated sufficiently in the manuscript, approved the final version, and accepted responsibility for the appropriate aspects of the work.
Individuals who contributed to the work but do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged where appropriate.
Changes to Authorship
Requests to add, remove, or change the order of authors after submission must be submitted to the editorial office with an explanation and appropriate confirmation from the affected authors.
The journal may suspend editorial processing until the authorship issue has been resolved.
ORCID iD
Providing an ORCID iD for the corresponding author is mandatory at submission.
ORCID iDs for all co-authors are strongly recommended to improve author identification and attribution of scholarly work.
Authors who do not have an ORCID iD are encouraged to register for one before submission.
Research Ethics
Authors must comply with all applicable ethical requirements relevant to their research.
Where research involves human participants, animals, identifiable personal information, human biological materials, clinical records, sensitive health data, or other ethically regulated activities, authors must provide appropriate ethical information.
Where applicable, the manuscript should identify:
the relevant ethics committee or institutional review board;
approval or reference number;
informed-consent procedures;
applicable ethical standards; and
relevant ethical limitations or considerations.
Research involving human participants should comply with applicable ethical principles, including the Declaration of Helsinki where relevant.
If formal ethical approval was not required, authors should provide an appropriate explanation.
Human Participants
Manuscripts reporting research involving human participants should clearly state whether ethical approval or an exemption was obtained.
The manuscript should identify the ethics committee or institutional review board responsible for the study and provide the approval or reference number where available.
Authors must ensure that participants' rights, privacy, safety, and confidentiality have been appropriately protected.
Informed Consent
Where required, authors must obtain appropriate informed consent from participants.
For manuscripts containing identifiable personal information, photographs, case details, interviews, clinical images, or other potentially identifying material, authors must comply with applicable consent and privacy requirements.
For Case Reports and Case Series, publication consent should be obtained where required.
Identifying information should not be published unless it is necessary for the scientific purpose and appropriate consent has been obtained.
Clinical Trials
Clinical trials should be registered in an appropriate publicly accessible clinical trial registry in accordance with applicable requirements.
The trial registration number and registry name should be provided in the manuscript.
Authors should report clinical trial registration information accurately and transparently.
Animal Research
Research involving animals must comply with applicable institutional, national, and international requirements for animal welfare.
Authors should provide information regarding:
ethics committee or institutional approval;
animal welfare procedures;
species, strain, sex, age, and number of animals where relevant;
experimental procedures; and
measures taken to minimize pain, distress, or suffering.
Authors should follow the ARRIVE reporting guidelines, where applicable.
Human Biological Materials and Medical Records
Research involving human tissues, biological specimens, genetic materials, medical records, or other human-derived materials must comply with applicable ethical and regulatory requirements.
Authors should state the source of the materials or records and provide relevant ethical approval or exemption information.
Patient confidentiality and applicable data-protection requirements must be maintained.
Reporting Guidelines
Authors should follow internationally recognized reporting standards appropriate to the study design.
Examples include:
CONSORT – Randomized Controlled Trials
STROBE – Observational Studies
PRISMA – Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
CARE – Case Reports
STARD – Diagnostic Accuracy Studies
ARRIVE – Animal Research
SRQR / COREQ – Qualitative Research
SPIRIT – Clinical Trial Protocols
PRISMA-P – Systematic Review Protocols
CHEERS – Health Economic Evaluations
Authors may consult the EQUATOR Network for additional reporting guidelines and extensions applicable to their study design.
Completed reporting checklists should be submitted as supplementary material where applicable.
Data Availability
Authors should provide a Data Availability Statement where applicable.
The statement should indicate whether supporting data are:
publicly available;
available through a recognized repository;
available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request; or
unavailable because of ethical, privacy, legal, confidentiality, or other restrictions.
Authors must not disclose confidential or personally identifiable health information without appropriate authorization.
Funding Information
All sources of financial support for the research or preparation of the manuscript should be disclosed.
Where no external funding was received, authors may provide an appropriate statement such as:
"No external funding was received for this study."
Where applicable, authors should describe the role of the funding organization in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation, or the decision to submit the manuscript.
Conflict of Interest
Authors must disclose financial, personal, professional, institutional, or other relationships that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the research, interpretation, or publication of the work.
If no relevant conflict exists, authors should provide an appropriate declaration such as:
"The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest."
Author Contributions
Authors should provide a clear statement describing the contribution of each author.
Contributions may include:
Conceptualization
Methodology
Investigation
Data curation
Formal analysis
Resources
Supervision
Writing – original draft
Writing – review & editing
Project administration
The contribution statement should accurately reflect the actual contributions of each author.
Acknowledgements
Individuals who contributed to the work but do not qualify for authorship may be acknowledged with their permission.
Authors should disclose relevant technical, editorial, statistical, research, or other assistance where appropriate.
Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI
Authors must disclose the use of generative artificial intelligence or other AI-assisted technologies when such tools have been used substantially in preparing the manuscript.
AI tools must not be listed as authors.
Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, citations, interpretation, and ethical compliance of their manuscript, including content generated or assisted by AI tools.
AI tools must not be used to fabricate or manipulate data, results, references, images, citations, or other scholarly information.
Where applicable, authors should disclose the AI tool used and describe the general nature or purpose of the assistance.
Reference Style
References should be accurate, complete, and consistently presented so that all cited sources can be identified and verified.
The journal recommends a numbered citation style. Numbered citations may be presented in square brackets, for example [1], [1–3], or [1,3], and should correspond to the numbered reference list.
Authors may use any clear, consistent, and standard academic reference style when preparing their manuscript. The journal does not require authors to follow a specific JPUB-formatted reference style or citation formatting at any stage.
Authors should ensure that references contain sufficient bibliographic information to identify and verify each source, including author names, article or chapter title, journal or book title, volume, issue where applicable, page range or article number, year of publication, and DOI or other persistent identifier where available.
Examples:
[1] A. M. Ostrowski. Solutions of Equations and System of Equations. Academic Press, New York, 1960.
[2] D. K. R. Babajee, K. Madhu, and J. Jayaraman. A family of higher order multi-point iterative methods based on power mean for solving nonlinear equations. Afr. Mat., 27(5):865–876, 2016.
[3] K. Madhu. Some New Higher Order Multi-Point Iterative Methods and Their Applications to Differential and Integral Equation and Global Positioning System. PhD thesis, Pondicherry University, 2016.
Authors should verify all bibliographic information, including author names, article titles, journal names, volume, issue, pages, year, DOI, and other persistent identifiers where applicable.
Peer Review
The Journal of Applied Health Sciences and Medicine uses a single-anonymous (single-blind) peer-review process.
Reviewers remain anonymous to authors, while reviewers are aware of the authors' identities.
All submitted manuscripts undergo an initial editorial assessment to determine their suitability for the journal's aims and scope, scientific quality, originality, methodological soundness, completeness of reporting, and ethical requirements.
Manuscripts considered suitable for peer review are assigned to qualified reviewers with appropriate medical, biomedical, public-health, allied-health, or healthcare subject expertise.
Reviewer recommendations are advisory and do not constitute the final publication decision.
The Editor-in-Chief has overall responsibility for editorial decisions and may delegate the handling and editorial decision-making of individual manuscripts to a Associate Editor, or another formally designated editor with appropriate subject expertise.
The final editorial decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief or by a formally designated editor acting under authority delegated by the Editor-in-Chief.
Reviewer Suggestions
Authors may suggest three to five potential reviewers during submission.
Suggested reviewers should:
have appropriate expertise in the subject of the manuscript;
have no relevant conflict of interest with the authors or research;
be independent of the submitted work; and
be able to provide an objective assessment.
Authors should provide, where available:
full name;
institutional affiliation;
professional address;
email address; and
research expertise or research interests.
The editorial team is not required to select reviewers suggested by the authors and may identify alternative reviewers independently.
Authors should not recommend individuals with whom they have a close personal, professional, financial, supervisory, or recent collaborative relationship that could compromise impartiality.
Plagiarism and Similarity
The journal is committed to maintaining academic and research integrity and does not tolerate plagiarism, inappropriate text reuse, fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, inappropriate image manipulation, or other forms of research and publication misconduct.
Submitted manuscripts may be screened using plagiarism and similarity-detection software.
A similarity report is an editorial screening tool and does not by itself establish plagiarism.
Editors consider the nature, location, extent, and context of identified similarities, including legitimate quotations, references, standard terminology, methodological descriptions, and commonly used expressions.
The journal does not apply an automatic fixed similarity-percentage threshold for determining plagiarism.
Where substantial or inappropriate overlap is identified, the journal may request clarification or revision, reject the manuscript, or initiate an investigation in accordance with the journal's publication-ethics procedures.
If concerns are identified after publication, the journal may investigate the matter and, where appropriate, publish a correction, expression of concern, or retraction.
Research and Publication Misconduct
The journal may investigate concerns involving:
plagiarism;
fabrication;
falsification;
duplicate or redundant publication;
inappropriate image manipulation;
authorship disputes;
undisclosed conflicts of interest;
ethical approval concerns;
manipulation of peer review;
inappropriate research practices; and
other forms of research or publication misconduct.
Where appropriate, the journal may request clarification or supporting information from authors, institutions, ethics committees, or other relevant parties.
Editorial action will depend on the nature and seriousness of the concern and the available evidence.
Copyright and Open Access
Articles published by the journal are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, unless otherwise stated.
Authors retain copyright in their work and grant the journal the rights necessary to publish and distribute the article under the applicable open-access license.
Readers may share and adapt published work in accordance with the terms of the applicable Creative Commons license, provided appropriate attribution is given.
Proofs
A final proof may be sent to the corresponding author before publication.
Authors should carefully check the proof for:
typographical errors;
author names;
affiliations;
figures;
tables;
references;
metadata; and
other publication information.
Proof corrections should normally be returned to the editorial office within two to three days of receipt.
Substantive changes at the proof stage may require additional editorial assessment.
Article Withdrawal Charges
Authors should carefully consider withdrawal before submitting a manuscript.
If an author requests withdrawal after the manuscript has undergone peer review or after it has entered the typesetting/production stage but before publication, a withdrawal charge of USD 75 may apply.
The charge relates to editorial and production resources already used in processing the manuscript.
Withdrawal requests should be submitted by the corresponding author with an appropriate explanation.
Once an article has been formally published, withdrawal is generally not possible. Post-publication concerns are handled through the journal's correction, expression-of-concern, and retraction procedures.
Corrections and Retractions
The journal recognizes that different types of post-publication problems require different editorial responses.
Corrections
A correction may be issued when a published article contains an error that affects accuracy or clarity but does not invalidate the overall scholarly record.
Retractions
An article may be considered for retraction where there is reliable evidence that the published work is substantially unreliable or involves serious research or publication misconduct.
Possible grounds may include:
major errors that invalidate the findings;
fabrication or falsification;
plagiarism or substantial inappropriate text reuse;
duplicate or redundant publication;
serious ethical violations;
unreliable or manipulated data;
serious authorship or publication misconduct; or
other circumstances that materially compromise the integrity of the published record.
A retracted article will normally remain part of the published scholarly record with a clear retraction notice explaining the reason for retraction.
Expressions of Concern
Where a significant concern exists but available evidence is insufficient to reach a final conclusion, the journal may publish an Expression of Concern while further investigation is undertaken.
Editorial Independence
Editorial decisions are based on scholarly, scientific, ethical, and editorial considerations.
Editorial decisions must not be influenced by commercial interests, advertisers, sponsors, authors, reviewers, or other inappropriate external pressure.
The Editor-in-Chief has overall responsibility for editorial oversight and may delegate individual manuscript handling and decision-making to appropriately qualified editors.
Submission Checklist
Before submitting a manuscript, authors should confirm that:
The manuscript is original and has not been published elsewhere in substantially the same form.
The manuscript is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal.
All listed authors have approved the manuscript and its submission.
The corresponding author is authorized to communicate with the journal.
Author names and affiliations are accurate.
The manuscript is appropriate for the journal's aims and scope.
References are complete and accurate.
Relevant ethical requirements have been satisfied.
Required ethical approval or an explanation of why approval was not required has been provided, where applicable.
Informed consent has been obtained where applicable.
Clinical trial registration information has been provided where applicable.
Animal ethics approval has been provided where applicable.
Funding information has been disclosed.
Conflicts of interest have been disclosed.
Author contributions have been provided.
Data availability information has been provided where applicable.
Relevant reporting guidelines have been followed where applicable.
Required reporting checklists have been submitted where applicable.
The manuscript does not contain plagiarism or inappropriate text reuse.
Any substantial use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies has been appropriately disclosed.
The manuscript complies with the journal's publication-ethics requirements.