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Author guidelines

How to prepare a manuscript for any Scholix journal. Each journal's author page adds the article types it accepts and its publication charge.

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Before you submit

  • Check that the manuscript fits the aims and scope of the journal you have chosen.
  • Confirm that the work is original and not under consideration elsewhere.
  • Follow the reporting guideline for your design: CONSORT for trials, STROBE for observational studies, PRISMA for systematic reviews, CARE for case reports and ARRIVE for animal research.
  • Obtain ethics approval and consent where required, and the agreement of every author.

Manuscript files

Cover letter
Why the work matters to the journal's readers, confirmation that it is original, and any preprint.
Title page
Title, authors, affiliations, corresponding author, word count and declarations, as a separate file so review stays anonymous.
Manuscript
The anonymized main text in Word (.docx) or LaTeX, double-spaced, with line and page numbers.
Figures
Separate files in TIFF, EPS or PNG at 300 dpi or more, with legends in the manuscript.
Supplementary files
Additional data, code or appendices, each cited in the text.

Structure of a research article

Research articles follow the IMRaD structure, in this order:

  1. A title of no more than 25 words.
  2. A structured abstract of up to 250 words (Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions) with four to six keywords.
  3. Introduction.
  4. Materials and Methods, in enough detail for the work to be repeated.
  5. Results, with tables and figures cited in numerical order.
  6. Discussion, including the limitations of the study.
  7. Conclusion.
  8. Declarations and references.

Article types and lengths

Word counts exclude the abstract, tables, figure legends and references. Not every journal accepts every type: check the author page of your journal.

Article types, lengths, abstracts and reference limits
Article typeLengthAbstractReferences
Original Research3,000–6,000 wordsStructured, up to 250 wordsUp to 60
Review Article4,000–8,000 wordsUnstructured, up to 250 wordsUp to 120
Systematic Review4,000–7,000 wordsStructured, up to 300 wordsUp to 100
Case Report1,500–2,500 wordsStructured, up to 200 wordsUp to 25
Short CommunicationUp to 2,500 wordsStructured, up to 200 wordsUp to 30
Perspective1,500–3,000 wordsUnstructured, up to 150 wordsUp to 40
EditorialUp to 1,500 wordsNot requiredUp to 15

References

Use the Vancouver style. Number references in the order they are first cited, with numerals in square brackets such as [1] or [2–4]. List up to six authors before “et al.”, abbreviate journal titles as in the NLM Catalog, and include a DOI where one exists.

Example

Okafor L, Menon R, Silva PT. Community health workers and blood pressure control: a cluster randomized trial. Int Epidemiol Public Health. 2025;5(2):118–127.

Declarations

Every research article ends with the following statements, even when the answer is “none” or “not applicable”:

  • Ethics approval and consent to participate, naming the committee and reference number.
  • Consent for publication, for case reports and identifiable images.
  • Funding, with funder names and grant numbers.
  • Conflict of interest for every author.
  • Data availability: where and how the data can be accessed.
  • Author contributions, using author initials.
  • Any use of AI tools, as described in our publication ethics.

Read the publication ethics policy for the standards behind these statements.

After acceptance

Accepted manuscripts are copyedited and typeset. The corresponding author receives proofs and returns any corrections within 48 hours; only typographical and factual errors can be changed at this stage. The article is then published online with its DOI in the current issue, and the article processing charge is invoiced.

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