Instructions to Authors
Submission of manuscripts
Articles must be submitted in English. Attach a brief summary of about 300 words, together with no more than four `key words' to aid literature searching. Send four copies of manuscripts to the Editorial Office together with the originals and two photocopies of any illustrations. Only the originals of illustrations will be returned to authors if a paper is not accepted for publication.The Editorial Office will correspond directly with authors on the acceptability of their papers. Authors may not submit manuscripts that are under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Word-processor disks/diskettes can be used for setting accepted articles. Contributors considering the submission of a disk should refer to the separate information for submission of disks.
Manuscript layout
Manuscripts must be typewritten on one side of the page only, with wide margins on high-quality paper using double spacing throughout. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered. The front page should contain the article title, author's full name and affiliation and a summary that is intelligible without recourse to the main text. Articles should not normally exceed 4000 words.References
References should be listed at the end of the main text using the Harvard system, whereby the surname of the author and year of publication of the reference are used in the text. The list of references should be in alphabetical order of surnames. References by the same author(s) should be in chronological order.References should be cited in the text as 'Reports by Author (Author, 1989) have confirmed...' or '...as reported earlier (Author and Author, 1985; Author et al., 1998)'. Do not place text other than the author and date within the parentheses.
The normal form of listed references is author's surname, initials; year in parenthesis; article title; journal name in full, volume number and page numbers.
For example:
Bunton, R. and Macdonald, G. (eds) (1992) Health Promotion: Disciplines and Diversity. Routledge, London.
Geller, E. S. (1983) Rewarding safety belt usage at an industrial setting. Journal of Applied Behaviour & Analysis, 16, 198--202.
Book reviews
Publishers submitting books for review should send them to their local Regional Editors as detailed below, or otherwise to the Editorial Office.Copyright/offprints
It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors assign copyright to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In assigning copyright, authors may use their own material in publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance.In consideration for assignment of copyright, the publisher will supply 50 offprints without covers of each article. Further offprints may be ordered at extra cost at the proof stage.
Communications
The Editorial Office may be contacted at:Health Promotion International
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood, Victoria 3125
AUSTRALIA
Fax 61 3 9589 0442
Regional Editors can be contacted at:
Hiram Arroyo (Central and South America)
Escuela de Salud Publica
Recinto de Ciencias Medicas
Universidad de Puerto Rico
PO Box 36506
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Gordon Macdonald (Western Europe)
University of Glamorgan
Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care
Glyntaff Campus
Pontypridd CF37 1DL
UK
Peter Makara (Central and Eastern Europe)
World Health Organization
Regional Office for Europe
8 Scherfigsvej
DK-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
Lawrence St Leger (Western Pacific)
Deans Office
Deakin University
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood 3125, Victoria
Australia
David Nyamwaya (Africa)
African Medical and Research Foundation
Wilson Airport
PO Box 30125
Nairobi
Kenya
David McQueen (North America)
Global Health Promotion
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Atlanta
GA 30341-3724
USA
Khurshida Khanom (Asia)
Department of Education
National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine
Mohakhali
Dhaka-1212
Bangladesh
GUIDE FOR AUTHORS PREPARING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS FOR DISK SUBMITTAL
DOEnter text in the style and order of the Journal.
Insert figure captions and tables at the end of the file.
Save any tables, diagrams, figures, graphs or illustrations generated electronically as separate files and not embedded into the text file.
Type references in the correct order and style of the Journal.
Type unjustified, without hyphenation, except for compound words.
Type headings in the style of the Journal.
Use the TAB key once for paragraph indents.
Where possible use Times for the text font and Symbol for the Greek and special characters.
Use the word processing formatting features to indicate Bold, Italic, Greek, Maths, Superscript and Subscript characters.
Indicate clearly any special characters or accents that you have drawn by hand, or for which you have used alternative key/characters. These must be listed on a separate sheet or form and submitted with your disk.
Check the final copy of your paper carefully, as any spelling mistakes and errors may be translated into the typeset version. In the case of a mismatch between disk and hard copy, the hard copy will be taken as the definitive version.
Indicate on a separate sheet or form the contents of each file and submit at the appropriate time with your disk.
Supply four hard copy printouts of the paper.
DO NOT
Enter carriage returns to obtain spacing between lines, paragraphs, references etc. The space required is generated automatically by the typesetters.Use double spaces after each sentence within a paragraph.
Use the footnote feature of your word processing program.
Leave blank spaces if special characters or accents are not available from your word processing package. These should be substituted by alternative key/characters or drawn on the hard copy by hand.
Include any copyright material (e.g. word processor software or operating system files) on the disk.
Disk submission
After the manuscript has gone through all the review and editing stages, copy the data onto a clean, newly formatted disk. The data should be saved in the word processor's native format and also in Rich Text Format (.rtf file). To avoid confusion do not copy any irrelevant files and/or back-up files onto the disk. Apple Mac users should ensure the disk wastebasket is empty before submitting the disk.Use the first-named author's name or manuscript number for the file name.
To avoid loss or damage in transit ensure that the disk is adequately protected and always keep a copy of the data on your computer and/or back-up disk.
Figure submission
Images on disk can be accepted in Adobe PhotoShop compatible formats. Images should be saved in TIFF format.Image resolution should be a minimum of 300 dpi.
Publication quality hard copies of all figures should still be submitted and will be used for reproduction if the electronic files cannot be used.