Submission Preparation

Requirements Before Submitting a Manuscript

Authors are responsible for ensuring that the manuscript is complete, original, scientifically relevant, methodologically sound, ethically compliant, transparently reported, and consistent with all Journal of Public Health and Pharmacy requirements before submission. Manuscripts that do not satisfy the applicable technical, ethical, reporting, or formatting requirements may be returned for correction before editorial evaluation.

Step 1. Review the Focus and Scope

Confirm that the manuscript addresses public health, population health, epidemiology, health promotion, disease prevention, environmental health, occupational health, health policy, health systems, pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences, clinical pharmacy, community pharmacy, pharmacotherapy, medication safety, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacovigilance, pharmacoeconomics, pharmaceutical technology, or another field included within the journal scope.

Step 2. Select the Article Type

Select the article type that accurately corresponds to the manuscript design and content. JPHP primarily considers Original Research Articles and structured Review Articles. The article type selected in OJS must be consistent with the study design, reporting guideline, manuscript structure, and scientific objective.

Step 3. Prepare the Required Files

Step 4. Use the Official Templates

Authors must prepare the Title Page and Anonymized Main Document using the official JPHP templates. All bracketed placeholders must be replaced with manuscript-specific information, and all instructional text, sample wording, comments, highlights, and guidance notes must be deleted before submission.

Step 5. Protect Double-Blind Peer Review

• Remove author names and affiliations from the Anonymized Main Document.
• Remove ORCID iDs, email addresses, telephone numbers, and correspondence details.
• Place acknowledgments and identifying declarations only in the Title Page.
• Avoid self-identifying expressions such as “our previous study” when they could reveal authorship.
• Replace identifying institutional details with neutral wording when necessary during peer review.
• Remove author-identifying information from document properties and file metadata.
• Remove tracked changes, comments, hidden text, revision history, and document annotations.
• Ensure that file names do not contain author names or institutional identifiers.
• Anonymize ethics information only to the extent necessary to protect peer review integrity.

Step 6. Apply the Appropriate Reporting Guideline

Use the reporting guideline that corresponds to the study design. Authors may be required to upload the completed checklist and relevant flow diagram during initial submission, editorial screening, or revision.

• CONSORT for randomized controlled trials
• STROBE for observational studies
• PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
• PRISMA-ScR for scoping reviews
• COREQ or SRQR for qualitative studies
• STARD for diagnostic-accuracy studies
• TRIPOD for prediction-model studies
• CHEERS for health-economic evaluations
• SQUIRE for healthcare-quality-improvement studies
• ARRIVE for animal studies
• TIDieR for detailed intervention reporting
• CARE for case reports when exceptionally considered

Step 7. Complete Ethics and Transparency Statements

Provide all applicable information regarding:

• Name of the ethics committee or institutional review board
• Ethics approval number and approval date
• Informed-consent procedures
• Consent for publication of identifiable information
• Clinical-trial or research-protocol registration
• Author contributions using appropriate CRediT roles
• Funding sources and the role of the funder
• Financial and nonfinancial conflicts of interest
• Data availability and access conditions
• Availability of study materials, analytical code, or protocols
• Use of generative artificial intelligence or AI-assisted technologies
• Acknowledgments and nonauthor contributions

Research involving human participants, identifiable personal data, biological specimens, or animals must comply with applicable ethical standards. Studies requiring ethics approval must not be submitted without adequate documentation or a clear justification for exemption.

Step 8. Check the Quality of Academic Writing

• Use clear, concise, grammatically correct, and academically appropriate English.
• Ensure that the title accurately reflects the study design, population, intervention, exposure, or principal topic.
• State the research gap, rationale, and objective clearly in the Introduction.
• Describe the Methods in sufficient detail for evaluation and replication.
• Present the Results objectively without unnecessary interpretation.
• Interpret findings critically in the Discussion and relate them to previous evidence.
• Describe the principal strengths and limitations of the study.
• Avoid unsupported causal claims, exaggerated novelty, and conclusions not supported by the findings.
• Define all abbreviations at first use and apply terminology consistently.
• Use generic names for medicines unless a brand name is scientifically necessary.
• Use International System of Units where applicable.

Step 9. Verify References, Tables, and Figures

• Use numbered citations in order of first appearance.
• Apply Vancouver reference style consistently.
• Ensure that every in-text citation appears in the reference list.
• Ensure that every reference-list entry is cited in the manuscript.
• Verify author names, article titles, journal titles, publication years, volumes, issues, and page numbers.
• Include a DOI in its current resolvable format whenever available.
• Use a stable URL only when a DOI is unavailable and online access is relevant.
• Prioritize relevant, authoritative, primary, and reasonably current scientific literature.
• Do not cite fabricated, unverifiable, retracted, or irrelevant references.
• Number tables and figures according to the order of first citation.
• Provide clear titles, notes, legends, sources, and abbreviation definitions.
• Do not duplicate the same data in the text, tables, and figures unnecessarily.
• Obtain written permission for copyrighted material when required.

Step 10. Verify Statistical and Methodological Reporting

• Identify the study design accurately.
• Describe the study setting, period, population, and eligibility criteria.
• Explain the sampling method and sample-size calculation or justification.
• Define exposures, interventions, outcomes, variables, and measurement instruments.
• Report validity and reliability information where applicable.
• Describe missing-data procedures and participant exclusions.
• Report effect estimates with confidence intervals where appropriate.
• Do not rely exclusively on p-values for scientific interpretation.
• Identify statistical software and version.
• Report model assumptions, adjustment variables, and sensitivity analyses when relevant.
• Distinguish statistical significance from clinical, pharmaceutical, or public-health relevance.

Step 11. Complete the Submission Checklist

Confirm that all required files, declarations, reporting elements, manuscript sections, references, tables, figures, supplementary materials, and OJS metadata are complete and mutually consistent.

Step 12. Request an Author Account

Direct user registration may be restricted for security and administrative reasons. Authors who require an account should follow the instructions provided on the Author Registration page. Authors should not create duplicate accounts when an account has already been registered under another email address.