Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. INTRODUCTION

Thank you for your interest in Annals of Health and Allied Sciences (AHAS). Here, you will find author guidelines to assist you. AHAS publish three types of the manuscript; review article, original article, short reports and commentaries. Please follow the relevant author guidelines below for your manuscript type.

2. AIMS AND SCOPE

AHAS welcomes case studies, evaluation and research illustrating successful practice or lessons learnt. We welcome manuscripts in the following areas:

• Sciences
• Basic Medical Sciences
• Allied Health Sciences
• Clinical Practices
• Nursing Science
• Medical Rehabilitation
• Community and Public Health
• Pharmaceutical Science, and related issues

Each issue of the journal would cover major topics that are particularly relevant to human health.

3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS

i. Original Articles

Word limit: 3,000 – 4,000 words, excluding references, abstract, tables, illustrations and appendices.

Main text:
Background: the issue the study seeks to address, incorporating a review of the international literature, and objectives (aims) of the study
Methods: the research tools, techniques and processes used.
Results: a brief summary of main results, with figures if appropriate.
Discussion: an interpretation of the findings in light of existing research and knowledge on the subject, including an explanation of how the study benefits and develops on what is presented in the Background section.
Conclusions: primary conclusions and their implications, including suggestions of areas for further investigation (if appropriate)

ii. Review Articles

Word limit: 10,000 words maximum, excluding references, abstract, tables, illustrations, key messages and appendices.

The review should ideally be based on a search conducted within the last 12 months.  It may be required to re-run the search at the point of manuscript revision to ensure currency.

4. PREPARING THE MANUSCRIPT FOR SUBMISSION

Parts of the Manuscript
The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: title page; main text file; figures.

Title page
The title page should contain:
(i) a short informative title that contains the major key words.

(ii) the full names of the authors;

(iv) the authors’ institutional affiliations at which the work was carried out;

(v) acknowledgements;

(vi) conflict of interest statement;

(vii) source of funding statement

Authorship

The list of authors should accurately reflect who contributed to the work. All those listed as authors should qualify for authorship according to the following criteria:

1. Have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
2. Must have been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
3. Must have given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content; and
4. Agreed 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.

Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section (for example, to recognize contributions from people who provided technical help, collation of data, writing assistance, acquisition of funding, or a department head who provided general support). Prior to submitting the article, all authors should agree on the order in which their names will be listed in the manuscript.

Main text

• As review and original article manuscripts are double-blind peer reviewed (at a minimum), the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors.
• The main text file should be presented in the following order: (i) title, (ii) abstract, (iii) key words, (iv) main text, (v) references, (vi) tables (vii) figures (viii) appendices (if relevant). Tables, figures and supporting information should be supplied as separate files.
• AMSR uses British English, however authors may submit using either British or American English as spelling of accepted papers is converted during the production process.
• Footnotes to the main text are not allowed and any such material should be incorporated into the text in parentheses.

Abstract

Please provide a structured abstract, of no more than 200 words, with information on the background, objectives, methods, results, and conclusion from the main text.

Keywords

Please provide three to five keywords.

References

APA Style

Manuscripts should follow the American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. Please note APA referencing style requires that a DOI be provided for all references where available.

Acknowledgments

Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section.

Table and Figure Legends

Legends should be concise but comprehensive – both the table/figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.

Tables

Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text. They should be supplied as separate, editable files, not pasted as images or included in the main text file. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as standard deviation (SD) or standard error of the mean (SEM) should be identified in the headings.

Figures

Although we encourage authors to send us the highest-quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes we are happy to accept a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions.

Colour figures

Figures submitted in colour may be reproduced in colour online free of charge. Please note, however, that it is preferable that line figures (e.g. graphs and charts) are supplied in black and white so that they are legible if printed by a reader in black and white. If you wish to have figures printed in colour in hard copies of the journal, a fee will be charged by the Publisher.

Appendices

Appendices will be published after the references. For submission they should be supplied as separate files but referred to in the text.