All submissions must meet the following requirements.
Review Articles provide critical and scholarly syntheses of existing evidence relevant to adolescent health, pediatric health, child development, nursing, clinical care, public health, health promotion, digital health, health technology, or related interdisciplinary fields.
IJAPH accepts systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and narrative reviews.
Review Articles should normally include:
Systematic and scoping reviews should clearly describe the search strategy, eligibility criteria, study selection, and synthesis methods.
Appropriate reporting guidelines, such as PRISMA or PRISMA-ScR, should be followed where applicable.
The recommended manuscript length is up to approximately 7,000 words, excluding the abstract, references, tables, figures, and supplementary materials.
Review Articles undergo double-blind peer review and are normally evaluated by at least two independent reviewers.
Original Research Articles report original empirical research relevant to adolescent health, pediatric health, child development, nursing, clinical care, public health, health promotion, digital health, health technology, or related interdisciplinary fields.
Manuscripts may use quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods designs.
Original Research Articles should normally include:
The recommended manuscript length is up to approximately 6,000 words, excluding the abstract, references, tables, figures, and supplementary materials.
Research involving human participants, children or adolescents, identifiable health information, or other ethically sensitive data must comply with the IJAPH Research Ethics Policy.
Authors should follow appropriate reporting guidelines where applicable, such as CONSORT, STROBE, COREQ, or other relevant standards.
All Original Research Articles undergo double-blind peer review and are normally evaluated by at least two independent reviewers.
Case Reports and Case Studies describe clinically, scientifically, educationally, or ethically relevant cases involving pediatric or adolescent health.
Manuscripts should provide a clear description of the case, its clinical or scholarly significance, relevant management or intervention, and the lessons that can be derived from the case.
Case Reports should normally include:
The recommended manuscript length is up to approximately 3,000 words, excluding references, tables, and figures.
Authors must protect patient and participant confidentiality. Appropriate written consent for publication must be obtained where identifiable personal or clinical information is included.
Ethics committee approval should be reported where required by applicable institutional or regulatory requirements.
Authors are encouraged to follow the CARE Guidelines where applicable.
Case Reports and Case Studies undergo double-blind peer review and are normally evaluated by at least two independent reviewers.
Short Communications and Brief Reports present concise empirical findings, pilot studies, preliminary results, methodological observations, feasibility studies, or focused scholarly findings that can be communicated effectively in a shorter format.
Manuscripts should normally include:
The recommended manuscript length is up to approximately 2,500 words, excluding the abstract, references, tables, and figures.
Ethical requirements applicable to Original Research Articles also apply to Short Communications and Brief Reports.
These manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review and are normally assessed by at least two independent reviewers.
Commentaries and Perspectives provide evidence-informed scholarly opinions, critical analyses, or perspectives on emerging issues, policies, ethics, clinical practice, public health, health systems, technology, or other topics relevant to adolescent and pediatric health.
Manuscripts should be academically grounded, appropriately referenced, and free from promotional or commercial content.
The recommended manuscript length is approximately 1,500–2,500 words.
An abstract is not normally required.
Commentaries and Perspectives undergo editorial assessment. External peer review may be requested when the Editor-in-Chief or handling editor considers additional subject-matter evaluation necessary.
Final publication decisions remain the responsibility of the editorial team.
Health Intervention, Education, and Practice Reports describe the development, implementation, feasibility, usability, or evaluation of health interventions, educational strategies, clinical innovations, digital health applications, technologies, or practice-based initiatives relevant to children and adolescents.
Manuscripts should normally include:
The recommended manuscript length is approximately 3,000–5,000 words, excluding the abstract, references, tables, figures, and supplementary materials.
Authors should provide sufficient methodological information to allow readers to understand how the intervention, innovation, technology, or educational approach was developed and evaluated.
These manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review and are normally evaluated by at least two independent reviewers.
Study Protocols describe planned or ongoing research relevant to adolescent or pediatric populations.
Protocol manuscripts should normally include:
The recommended manuscript length is approximately 3,000–4,500 words, excluding the abstract, references, tables, figures, and supplementary materials.
Research requiring ethical review must obtain appropriate ethics approval before participant recruitment.
Clinical trials must be prospectively registered in an appropriate publicly accessible clinical trial registry where applicable.
Authors should follow appropriate protocol reporting guidelines, such as SPIRIT, where relevant.
Study Protocols undergo double-blind peer review and are normally evaluated by at least two independent reviewers.
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