Instructions for authors
Please read these instructions before submitting to Clinical Medicine and Health Research. Manuscripts are submitted online; the system guides you step by step.
Before you submit
- The work must be original, not published elsewhere and not under consideration by another journal. Preprints are welcome; please cite them.
- All authors must have approved the submission and meet the ICMJE authorship criteria. Contributions are described with the CRediT taxonomy.
- Use the journal's Word template or LaTeX template. Your first submission may be in any clear, consistent format.
Manuscript structure
- Title: concise and informative, without abbreviations.
- Authors and affiliations with ORCID iDs; mark the corresponding author. For double-blind review, upload names and affiliations only in the online form and remove them from the manuscript file.
- Highlights: 3–5 bullet points, each no more than 85 characters.
- Abstract: 150–300 words without references; structured where conventional in the field.
- Keywords: 3–6.
- Main text: Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions (reviews may use their own structure).
- Declarations: CRediT contributions, funding, competing interests, data availability, ethics approval and consent, use of generative AI, acknowledgements.
- References: numbered (Vancouver-style, [1], [2]) in order of first citation, with DOIs wherever available.
Figures, tables and data
Figures at 300 dpi or more (1000 dpi for line art) as separate files at revision; tables editable, not images. Deposit research data in a recognised repository and cite it in the reference list.
Research and publication ethics
Research with humans or animals needs approval from an ethics committee, named with its approval number. Follow the reporting guideline for your study type (CONSORT, PRISMA, STROBE, ARRIVE, CARE, etc.). See Publication ethics.
After acceptance
All authors sign the publishing licence online. Proofs are checked online within 3 days. Articles are published online with a DOI and assigned to an issue.
Article processing charge
No APC is charged for articles accepted until 31 December 2027. The APC is USD 500 per article for articles accepted from 01 January 2028. See APC policy.