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Public Health Reports welcome contributions that help to meet the informational needs of public health professionals and students by describing important scientific and programmatic developments, new technologies, relevant policy issues and current scientific debates. Specific manuscripts for publication can include:
• Letters to the editor
• Feature articles
• Research articles
• Practice articles
• Viewpoints and Commentaries
• Special columns
Please refer to the following sections for more detailed information and guidelines:
 Writing for PHR
Contributions & Their Length
Conflicts of Interest
Cover Letter
Acknowledgment of Receipt
Peer Review
The Manuscript
Copyright
Abstracting
"From the Schools of Public Health" Section
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In general, the Journal conforms to Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (Public Health Rep 1997;112:253-63), available on-line at www.icmje.org/index.html .
Submit manuscript to:
Public Health Reports
7774 Heatherglen Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45255
Phone: (513)636-0257
Electronic submissions should be sent as an attachment in MS Word or WordPerfect to manuscripts@publichealthreports.org.
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Letters to the Editor: We welcome and encourage letters; brevity is a virtue.
News and Notes: These are brief news items and announcements, used and rewritten at the discretion of the editors. 500-word maximum.
Feature Articles: Features, often solicited, present the current status of a subject area and implications for policy, practice, or future research. Include a 150-word unstructured synopsis.
Research Articles: We seek to publish research that is fully developed and original. To avoid redundant publishing, we do not accept preliminary reports or reports of studies that are only incrementally different from previously published research. Include a structured synopsis (Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusions) of up to 250 words.
Practice Articles: We publish articles describing innovative public health programs and initiatives, their current status, and documented outcomes. Include a 150-word unstructured synopsis.
Viewpoints and Commentaries: These are short opinion pieces, often solicited, addressing contemporary public health issues. Commentaries are written in response to Feature, Practice or Research articles.
Departments: Overseas Observer, Public Health and the Law, Information Technology, Public Health Chronicles, Book and Film Reviews. We welcome letters of inquiry proposing article ideas.
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Full disclosure and avoiding the appearance of a confiict are our guiding principles. If any financial influence or other conflict of interest might have biased your work, you are obliged to disclose it to us - even if you are confident that no bias intervened. Please let us decide what should be disclosed to our readers. Similarly, you must disclose any similar or related work submitted or published elsewhere.
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When submitting your manuscript, include a statement that the material has not been published nor is being considered for publication elsewhere.
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We acknowledge each submission when it arrives.
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After an initial reading by our editors, we select promising contributions for peer review; these are sent to two or more external reviewers.
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Here's what your manuscript should look like:
Title Page: (a) title (short and descriptive); (b) full names of all authors, including their graduate degrees; (c) all authors' institutional affiliations and job titles during the course of the research (and current affiliations and titles if different); (d) name, street address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of corresponding author; (e) word count of the text (inclusive of references) and the number of charts/figures.
Synopsis: The abstract is your work's face to the world, as published in various medical indexes; a good abstract promotes readership. Synopsis of Feature and Practice articles should be a maximum of 150 words without abbreviations, symbols, or references to tables or graphs. Structured synopses of Research articles (250-word maximum) should contain four parts labeled Objectives, Methods, Results, and Conclusions.
Text: In writing for PHR, keep in mind that public health is an extremely broad field and most readers will be in parts of the field other than your own. Your introduction or lead is particularly important. Please define terms that are not universally understood and avoid the use of jargon.
Research Articles: Research articles should be divided into four sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion. In the Methods section, use active, not passive, voice and tell readers "who, what, when, where, and why." Provide a full explanation in the Methods section of how you arrived at each finding reported in the Results section.
References: Please consult the Uniform Requirements and recent issues of the Journal. Citations of personal conversations or unpublished material should appear in the text. PHR does not use substantive footnotes.
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Authors assign copyright to the Association of Schools of Public Health. Authors may use their own material in other publications provided PHR is acknowledged as the original place of publication and ASPH is notified in writing and in advance.
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Contributions by ASPH member faculty are also needed for the two ASPH sections of the journal. ASPH sponsors two columns in the journal which feature articles written by ASPH faculty that highlight either 1) practice-based activities at the schools or 2) articles about academic public health. To submit an article to this section of Public Health Reports, faculty should send a short abstract using an abstract guideline form via email to Allison Foster, ASPH Deputy Executive Director, at afoster@asph.org.
Subsequent to feedback from the abstract review process, submitted manuscripts will be subject to a peer-review process. Submitted articles may be up to 3,000 words (approximately four pages), adjusted for any graphics to be included. Inclusion of graphics and/or pictures in the articles is encouraged.
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