African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
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Author Guidelines
How to submit your paper online:
To download, instructions to authors for submitting your article:
To download, documentation to be completed and submitted in Step 4 of the submission process:
Review policy and timelines
Note: Manuscripts are initially examined by editorial staff and are sent by the Editor to independent reviewers who are not informed of the identity of the author(s). When publication in the article's original form is not recommended, the reviewers' comments (without the identity of the reviewer being disclosed) may be passed to the corresponding author and may include suggested revisions. Manuscript not approved for publication will not be returned, in any format. Production policy and timelines After the Editor accepts the article for publication the editorial staff copyedits your manuscript, they will return it to you for review. This will be the final stage at which you may make content changes. Later the editorial staff will send you one set of galley proofs, at which time you will have 48 hours to mark any typographical errors. If you do not respond by fax, email, or telephone within 48 hours the editors will assume acceptance of the galley, on your part and proceed with the publication process. We may not be able to incorporate your corrections into the printed version of your manuscript after failure to respond to proofreading request, please ensure that you frequently visit your author home page to access the location of your manuscript, or contact the Title Operations Coordinator at submissions@phcfm.org |
Aims, scope and review policy
The African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine aims to publish original research and review articles of relevance to primary health care practitioners, family medicine specialists and academics from both the developing and developed worlds, public sector and private practice. Papers are peer reviewed to ensure that the contents are understandable, valid, important, interesting and enjoyed. All manuscripts must be submitted online. All articles in PHCFM will be peer reviewed.
Article sections and length
The author guidelines are available in PDF format for convenience, as they contain a large amount of information. If you experience any difficulties please do not hesitate to contact us. For a video tutorial showing you how to submit your manuscript click here.
| The following contributions are accepted (word counts exclude abstracts, tables and references): * Original research (3500 to 5000 words) |
Operations coordinator contact: Title Operations Coordinator, email: submissions@phcfm.org
Editor-in-chief contact: Prof Ogunbanjo, email: editor@phcfm.org
All submissions must be made online at www.phcfm.org
Note: Ensure that the article ID [reference] number is included in the subject of your email correspondence.
Format of compulsory cover page: Provide a short title of 50 characters or less and indicate briefly the significance of the work being reported. State the full name(s) and title(s) of the author(s) with the position, affiliation and contact details (postal address, email, telephone and cell number) of each author. Please identify the author to whom all correspondence should be addressed.
A student should normally be listed as the principal author on any multi-authored manuscripts derived from the student’s research, dissertation or thesis.
Include a paragraph briefly summarising the nature of the contribution made by each of the authors listed, along the lines of the following: Author contributions: J.K. was the project leader, L.M.N. and A.B. were responsible for experimental and project design. L.M.N. performed most of the experiments. P.R. made conceptual contributions and S.T., U.V. and C.D. performed some of the experiments. S.M. and V.C. prepared the samples and calculations were performed by C.S., J.K. and U.V. wrote the manuscript.
Authors are encouraged to provide the names and full contact details (including email) of two or three potential referees to evaluate the work (referees should not be people with whom the researcher has recently collaborated or published). Lastly, a list containing the number of pages of the manuscript and the number of tables, figures and/or other supplementary material should accompany the submission.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor). - The submission file is in Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g., http://www.openjournals.net). - The text is 1.5-spaced; uses a 12-point font for Times New Roman; employs italics for emphasis, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables placement indicators are within the text at the appropriate points.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal. - If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Electronic images are saved as either jpeg or gif files. All photographs were scanned at a high resolution (300dpi, print optimised) and saved/numbered appropriately corresponding with the text. - Have you asked a colleague or language expert to proofread your final manuscript?
All supplementary files such as survey instruments or scanned photographs are separated from the main text and will be uploaded as supplementary files.
Copyright Notice
Copyright on published articles is retained by the author(s). The exclusive responsibility in respect of the acknowledgment of author's rights and/or copyright rests with the responsible author(s). The Editor and reviewers of this journal cannot accept responsibility for the infringement of authors’ rights or copyright. The author grants the publisher unlimited rights to publish the work in any format and/or medium, whether for gain or any other purpose.
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