Preparation of Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be sent via email as an email attachment to the Editor-in-Chief. Email: johce_fhcs@esn.ac.lk
Your article must be within the scope of the journal and be of sufficient quality. If not, it will not be reviewed. Please read the journal’s Scope (link this word to ‘scope’ tab) to see if your article is appropriate.
The manuscript must be your original work, you must have the rights to the work, and you must have obtained and be able to supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, including figures, illustrations, tables, lengthy quotations, or other material previously published elsewhere.
Journal of HealthCare Education publishes the following article types:
- Original research article
- Review
- Commentary
- Editorial
- Mini Review
- Case report
Click the relevant link to find style and formatting information for the article type you want to submit.
- Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: PRISMA
- Randomized Clinical Trials: CONSORT
- Observational studies: STROBE
- Qualitative studies: SRQR
- Other types of health-related research: Consult the EQUATOR web site for appropriate reporting guidelines.
General guidelines for the authors
Manuscript should be prepared in word processing format and should be well written in English without spelling and grammatical errors. The body text should be in Times New Roman font in size 12pt and numbers should be in Arabic numerals typed in double line-space with a margin of 1 inch on all sides. Footnotes should be avoided. Word limit for the manuscript should be no more than 5000 excluding the references.
Title page
This page should include title of the manuscript, author/s’ name and their affiliations, corresponding author’s contact information, and declarations.
Title: should be short, specific and informative. Include the study design if appropriate.
Author/s’ name and affiliations: Surname and initials of each author should be followed by their institution and country. In case of multiple authors, one of the authors should be designated as the corresponding author. The email address and telephone number of the corresponding author should be clearly stated.
Declarations:
All manuscripts must contain the following sections under the heading 'Declarations':
- Ethics approval and consent to participate
- Consent for publication
- Competing interests
- Funding
- Authors' contributions
- Acknowledgements
Please see below for details on the information to be included in these sections.
If any of the sections are not relevant to your manuscript, please include the heading and write 'Not applicable' for that section.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants, human data, human tissue or animals must:
- include a statement on ethics approval and consent (even where the need for approval was waived)
- include the name of the ethics committee that approved the study and the committee’s reference number if appropriate
If your manuscript does not report on or involve the use of any animal or human data or tissue, please state “Not applicable” in this section.
Consent for publication
If your manuscript contains any individual person’s data in any form (including individual details, images or videos), consent to publish must be obtained from that person, or in the case of children, their parent or legal guardian. All presentations of case reports must have consent to publish.
If your manuscript does not contain data from any individual person, please state “Not applicable” in this section.
Competing interests
All financial and non-financial competing interests must be declared in this section. Any competing interests related to the manuscript should be clearly stated. If the author has no conflict of interest, state “No potential competing interests related to this article was identified”
Funding
If the author has received any funds for conducting this study, it should be stated including the name and country of the funding agency. The role of the funding body in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript should be declared.
Authors’ contribution
If more than one author has contributed to the manuscript, the author’s responsibilities, and contributions should be stated.
Acknowledgment
Please acknowledge anyone who contributed towards the article who does not meet the criteria for authorship including anyone who provided professional writing services or materials.
Please note: Journal of HealthCare Education operates double-blind peer review. The above information should not be included in the main manuscript file, but should instead be uploaded as part of the Title page.
Abstract:should be a single paragraph not exceeding 300-word limit. It may be structured as introduction, objectives, methods, results, and conclusion if appropriate. Please minimize the use of abbreviations and do not cite references in the abstract.
Keywords: should not be more than five words. Keywords should be in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terminology and should be arranged in alphabetical order at the end of the abstract. Separate each keyword with a comma.
Main text
Tables and figures should be self-explanatory and include a brief descriptive title and should be numbered consecutively. Title should be placed above for the table and below for the figures. Tables and figures should be in line with text. Number of tables and figures together should not exceed 4.
Photographs should be of sufficiently high quality with respect to detail, contrast and fineness of grain. Photographs should be submitted in the desired final size so that the reduction can be avoided.
Reference
Authors should follow the American Psychological Association (APA) reference style 7th edition for in-text citation and reference list.
Please keep the reference list as up to date as possible and avoid referring extensively to your own published work.