Manuscript Preparation Guidelines

The following items are needed for submission to the Journal.

Manuscript Text File. Please submit the manuscript as a text file (e.g., MS Word).

Title page should include the following.

  • Main title of approximately ≤15 words and short title ≤10 words.
  • Authors. The Journal follows International Council of Medical Journal Editor’s (ICMJE) authorship guidelines. Please include all author affiliations and include corresponding author’s professional address and email. Author names can also include the native language along with the English version. Use standard Microsoft fonts for these characters
  • Key words. Include MeSH terms as applicable.
  • Total word count. Including main body text, references, and tables.
  • Acknowledgements, Conflicts of interest, Funding sources. Please list according to the following three distinct sections.
  • Acknowledgments. All individuals, organizations, and/or and entities listed must have seen and approved mention of their names in the article, as readers might infer their endorsement of data and conclusions. Please be prepared to provide written acceptance from stated individuals (email) upon request, as necessary. Please ensure the manuscript number or title is included in all correspondence.
  • Conflicts of interest/disclosures. All actual or potential perceived conflicts of interests should be stated. If authors have nothing to disclose, please state "None". Kindly disclose any use of AI in the creation of any submitted work, including technical and editorial support.
  • Funding sources. State funding that supported the studies. Please include all sources of research support, including public and private entities, commercial or institutional support, and any substantial contributions by individuals. All grant funding agency abbreviations should be completely spelled out, with the exception of NIH.

Abstract: Within 300 words and organized into a structured abstract format with the following categories: Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusion. When applicable, clinical trial registration information should be included at the end of the Abstract with the URL and Unique Identifier for the publicly accessible website on which the trial is registered.

Popular Scientific Summary: Authors are encouraged to provide a brief (2 paragraph) popular summary written for a general audience.

Tables: Please either include tables within the main text file placed after the references, or as a separate file (indicating placement in the main text file). NOTE: Indicate whether any table or figure has previously appeared online (e.g., article for an internal website or newsletter) or in previous published work including conference abstract/poster or proceedings, even if the data has changed or has been updated.

Figures: Place titles and footnotes outside the main figure image to permit editing to Journal style. Full resolution figure files are not required at initial submission; figures for review can be uploaded as a single PDF or within the main text file placed after the references and tables.

Supplemental Material: Supplemental tables and figures must be submitted at the time of original manuscript submission as a single file separate from the main text. Videos must be provided in a filetype that is playable on both PC and Mac computers. We recommend the use of MP4 video files (mp4, .m4v, .mp4v extensions) or the .mov filetype. NOTE: As applicable, for supplemental materials that are abridged from a larger source (e.g., survey instrument or transcripts; large video files; or large datasets in an Excel file format), please indicate whether the source materials are available upon request either in the text (Results section) or as a footnote beneath the supplemental table or figure.

Conference materials. If applicable, indicate whether manuscript content (full or in part) has been presented at professional meetings (as an abstract, poster, or conference paper) or published in conference proceedings.

Press release/web article. Kindly provide a copy of any internal or external press releases or web articles that cite research-derived manuscript content.

Please ensure your submission files adhere to the following guidelines.

Manuscript order. Title page (please see necessary items, above), abstract, text (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion), references, tables, and figures. As an aid to reviewers, number all text (after the title page) and reference pages. Please include line numbers and use 12-point, sans serif font for manuscript text and references and leave 1-inch margins on all sides.

References. JAH adheres to National Library of Medicine (NLM) [https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html} citation style. In text citations must be listed sequentially and references must correspond (i.e., listed in the order in which they appear in the text); please include the docid when available.

Grey literature is permissible but must be limited to reputable sources such as conference proceedings; technical reports or clinical guidelines from  governmental, organizational, or institutional sources; preprints; and clinical trial data.

Tables and Figures. Please report relevant table and figure data in the Results and Discussion sections only. Supplemental tables and figures will be published as appendices. Use 11-point font for title (using Title case) and contents, 9-point type for abbreviations list and footnotes.

Acronym/abbreviations. Terms for organizations, institutions, and medical/disease conditions must be written in full at first use with the acronym/abbreviation in parentheses. For example: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Please keep improvised abbreviations to a minimum and only for terms used more than twice.

Methods. The methods section should provide clear and sufficient detail about the study design, sample population, and statistical analyses employed to ensure reproducibility of the results. Please include a statement about ethical procedures, (e.g., informed consent) and institutional review board approval as appropriate. Additional methods and information may be included as Supplemental Material. 

Please follow these guidelines for graphic elements and references.

Figures. For initial review, each figure and its corresponding legend should be presented together on its own page within the manuscript text file (after the references) or as a separate file. Title and content text should be in 11-point sans serif font; abbreviations and footnotes in 9-point sans serif font.

  • Label all parts of the figure clearly. Letters and locants must be uniform in size and style within each figure, and when possible, between figures. Headings must appear above and not within the figure image. Abbreviations (defined) and footnotes should be listed beneath the image. Limit white space between the panel and panel label.
  • Linear adjustment of contrast, brightness or color must be applied equally to all parts of an image.
  • Blots and gels need to be presented with as much context as possible (i.e., panels should not be cut up into individual blots).
  • Supply a scale bar with photomicrographs.
  • Authors must be prepared to submit the original, unaltered files from which the submitted figures were derived, if requested by the editorial office.

Tables. All table(s) in the main manuscript document should be included as text, not as an image. Table(s) are counted in the word limit. 

  • Number title sequentially using Arabic numerals and use title case for headings (e.g., Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19 among Korean Americans with Chronic Hepatitis B: A Mixed Methods Exploration).
  • Use 11-point sans serif text for table headings, column headings (sentence case for the latter, e.g., Invasive lung cancer detection rate).
  • Denote footnotes in tables and figures with superscripted lowercase letters (a,b,c...).
  • Abbreviations should be listed below tables and figures in 9-point sans serif font (e.g., Abbreviations: BMI = body mass index; SD = standard deviation.).

References: Please see the following examples for citation format. Refer to National Library of Medicine and AMA Style Guide 11th edition for more examples.

Journal

List first six authors, if more than six list first 3 followed by et al.

Wolf MS, Serper M, Opsasnick L, et al. Awareness, attitudes, and actions related to COVID-19 among adults with chronic conditions at the onset of the U.S. Outbreak. Ann Intern Med. 2020;173(2):100–109. doi:10.7326/M20-1239

Report

Print (available online)

National Institutes of Health. Strategic Plan for NIH Obesity Research: A Report to the NIH Obesity Research Task Force. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 2004. NIH publication 04-5493. 

Online

Budiman A, Ruiz NG. Key facts about Asian origin groups in the U.S. Pew Research Center. Published April 29, 2021. Accessed May 14, 2024. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/04/29/key-facts-about-asian-origin-groups-in-the-u-s/

Preprint

Doe J, Smith A. The impact of climate change on biodiversity [Preprint]. bioRxiv. June 15, 2024 [cited July 25,2024]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.15.598765

Website page

International Diabetes Federation. Facts & figures. https://idf.org/about-diabetes/facts-figures/ Accessed July 21, 2023.

Personal communications (in-text)

e-Mail: (Gerald P. Mackenzie, MD, email communication, January 2012).

Verbal communication: (Gerald P. Mackenzie, MD, personal communication, January 2012).

Revised Submissions

If revisions are requested for your manuscript, please upload a “clean” version of the revised manuscript and a version with tracked changes to the portal. If any changes to the author list have been made to the revised submission, please indicate this in a cover letter.

With the revised manuscript, please include a separate document with detailed responses to each of the reviewers’ and editors’ comments, providing each comment verbatim in bold followed by your response. Please give the exact page number(s), paragraphs, and line number(s) where each revision was made. If you made substantive changes to the manuscript outside of reviewer and editor comments, please indicate the nature and location of the changes in your response. Please also clearly indicate any deletions in the manuscript.

Authorship Criteria & Responsibilities

Please refer to ICMJE authorship criteria. Credit for authorship requires substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and final approval of the version to be published. Prior to publication, authors will need to attest that they fulfil the authorship criteria and identify their contributions to the work described in the manuscript. One author should be designated as the corresponding author for the submission, peer review, and production process, and they will be identified as such in the published article.

JAH will consider name change requests without requiring a correction notice for reasons including, but not limited to, gender identity, marriage, divorce, and religious conversion.