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Author Guidelines

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Prepare your submission using the detailed guidance below. Read the requirements relevant to your article type before uploading files.

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Instructions to Authors

JMHMR welcomes original research, systematic and narrative reviews, case reports, brief reports, protocols and scholarly correspondence across medicine, public health, rehabilitation, allied health and biomedical sciences. Submit in clear English through this online system.

Files and anonymisation

Upload a separate title page containing the article title, all author names and affiliations, corresponding author email, ORCID identifiers where available, author contributions, funding, conflicts of interest and acknowledgements. Upload an anonymised manuscript in editable Word format. Remove identifying author details from the manuscript, file properties, tracked changes and comments. Provide unredacted ethics and registration information separately for editorial assessment if anonymisation is necessary.

Manuscript preparation

Include a concise title, abstract and 3–6 keywords. Original research should use a structured abstract (Background, Methods, Results and Conclusion) and Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion sections. Explain study design, setting, recruitment, sample-size rationale, outcomes, statistical methods and limitations. Report effect sizes and uncertainty where appropriate. Reviews must explain search and selection methods; systematic reviews should include a reproducible search strategy, risk-of-bias assessment and study-selection flow diagram. Case reports should include a clinical timeline and patient perspective where appropriate.

Number tables and figures consecutively, cite each in the text and provide self-contained titles or legends. Supply editable tables and high-resolution figures. Define abbreviations at first use and use SI units where applicable. Do not duplicate the same results unnecessarily in text, tables and figures.

References

Use Vancouver style: number references consecutively in order of first citation and provide a matching numbered reference list. Verify authors, titles, journal details, year, volume, pages or article numbers, and DOI where available. Cite relevant original sources; do not include fabricated, irrelevant or promotional references.

Ethics and reporting

For human or animal research, report the approving ethics committee and approval identifier, or explain a documented exemption. State how consent was obtained. Identifiable patient information and case reports require appropriate written consent for publication. Clinical trials must report registration and its timing; explain any retrospective registration transparently. Use the reporting guideline appropriate to the design, including CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, CARE, SPIRIT, STARD, TRIPOD or ARRIVE, and supply the applicable checklist.

Include statements on funding and funder involvement, competing interests, author contributions, data availability, and use of AI-assisted tools. All authors must approve the submission and accept accountability. AI tools cannot be authors; authors remain responsible for accuracy, originality and confidentiality. Identify simulated or synthetic data explicitly and never present them as participant observations.

Originality and peer review

Submissions must not be under consideration elsewhere. Disclose related publications, preprints and overlapping datasets in the cover letter. After editorial screening, suitable research manuscripts undergo double-anonymised peer review. Editors make decisions on scholarly merit independently of payment or waiver decisions. Acceptance and publication dates are not guaranteed.

Charges, access and publication

There is no submission fee. The article processing charge is US$99, payable only after acceptance. Full or partial waivers and discounts may be requested from editor@jmhmr.com before acceptance, explaining financial need or circumstances. Requests are assessed individually and do not influence editorial decisions. Authors retain copyright and accepted articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). JMHMR publishes twice yearly, in April and October.