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Author guidelines

Submission standards for clear methods, ethical reporting, and publication-ready manuscripts.

Authors must ensure that manuscripts fall within the scope of JDHAB and comply with the journal’s ethical, reporting, formatting, reference, and article-type requirements before submission.

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Before submission

Submissions that do not follow the official manuscript template, required manuscript structure, reporting requirements, or Vancouver reference style may be returned for technical correction before peer review.

Authors should draft the manuscript in the official JDHAB template and, when double-anonymized review is required, derive the blinded review file from that same structure.

Instructions for AuthorsDetailed requirements for scope, manuscript preparation, technical standards, declarations, references, and ethical reporting.
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Manuscript TemplateThe official JDHAB author-file template for preparing submissions in the correct structure and format.
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Scope and fit

JDHAB publishes scientifically rigorous contributions at the interface of digital health and advanced biomaterials. Digital health is understood as the purposeful application of digital technologies to health assessment, diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, rehabilitation, imaging, structured clinical documentation, and the generation of reproducible, clinically relevant evidence.

Submissions involving computational methods, digital workflows, imaging systems, measurement technologies, or artificial intelligence are welcome when supported by methodological transparency, analytical reliability, validation, and auditable workflows.

Manuscripts that invoke technology in broad or generic terms, without clear scientific or translational relevance, may be considered outside the journal’s scope.

Article types and limits

The summary below gives authors a quick overview of expected manuscript size, abstract style, keyword range, display-item limits, and reference limits before full preparation.

Article type Main text Abstract Keywords Display items References
Original research 3,500–5,000words Structuredup to 300 words 3–6 Up to 6figures + tables Up to 60
Review article 5,000–7,000words Structuredup to 300 words 3–6 Up to 8figures + tables Up to 120
Methods / technical note 3,000–4,500words Structuredup to 250 words 3–6 Up to 6figures + tables Up to 60
Case report / case series 1,500–3,000words Structured or semi-structuredup to 200 words 2–5 Up to 4figures + tables Up to 25
Editorial 1,000–1,500words Not required 0–4 Up to 2figures + tables Up to 20

Original research

Research
Main text3,500–5,000 words
AbstractStructured, up to 300 words
Keywords3–6
Display itemsUp to 6
ReferencesUp to 60
NotesAnalytical, experimental, observational, or clinically oriented original studies.

Review article

Review
Main text5,000–7,000 words
AbstractStructured, up to 300 words
Keywords3–6
Display itemsUp to 8
ReferencesUp to 120
NotesCritical, narrative, scoping, or structured review manuscripts.

Methods / technical note / validation study

Methods
Main text3,000–4,500 words
AbstractStructured, up to 250 words
Keywords3–6
Display itemsUp to 6
ReferencesUp to 60
NotesTechnical development, workflow validation, or methodological reports.

Case report / case series

Clinical
Main text1,500–3,000 words
AbstractStructured or semi-structured, up to 200 words
Keywords2–5
Display itemsUp to 4
ReferencesUp to 25
NotesClinically grounded reports with explicit rationale and cautious interpretation.

Editorial

Editorial
Main text1,000–1,500 words
AbstractNo abstract required
Keywords0–4
Display itemsUp to 2
ReferencesUp to 20
NotesInvited or commissioned perspective aligned with the journal’s editorial mission.

Word counts refer to the main text only and exclude the title page, abstract, references, tables, and figure legends.

Manuscript preparation

Core format

A4 portrait. Single-column author files only. Two-column author files are not accepted. Do not insert manual pagination in the author file.

Headings and layout

Use sentence case only. Do not use improvised Title Case, all caps, tabs, repeated spaces, floating text boxes, or manual line breaks to force alignment.

Title page

Provide full article title, full author names, academic degrees, institutional affiliations, ORCID iDs, and complete corresponding author information.

Figures and tables

Tables must be editable Word tables. Figures must be publication quality; raster images should generally be at least 300 dpi.

References

References must follow Vancouver style in accordance with the ICMJE Recommendations and NLM Citing Medicine. Text citations must be numbered consecutively in the order of first appearance and presented as Arabic superscript numerals.

References cited only in tables or figure legends must be numbered according to the first mention of the corresponding table or figure in the main text. Journal title abbreviations must conform to the NLM Catalog / MEDLINE.

Authors’ names must be presented as surname followed by initials, without periods between initials. For references with more than 6 authors, list the first 6 authors followed by “et al.” Article titles must use sentence case. DOI must be provided whenever available.

Required declarations

Ethics approvalState the approving committee or institutional body and approval number, when applicable.
ConsentState whether consent to participate and consent for publication were obtained, waived, or not applicable.
Competing interests and fundingProvide conflict-of-interest statements for all authors and report all funding sources or state that no external funding was received.
Data and code availabilityState where supporting data and code are available, under what conditions, or why access is restricted.
AI use disclosureDeclare any use of artificial intelligence tools in drafting, image generation, coding, analysis, or other manuscript-related work.

Submission checklist

The submission is original and is not under consideration by another journal, unless explicitly disclosed to the editor.
The manuscript has been prepared in an accepted editable format, preferably as a Word file (.docx).
The text follows the structure and requirements appropriate to the selected article type.
Ethics approval, informed consent, and permission for clinical images have been provided where applicable.
Funding sources, conflicts of interest, and author contributions have been disclosed.
A Data Availability Statement has been included whenever relevant.
References follow Vancouver style, with DOI provided whenever available.

Open access and copyright

JDHAB publishes all content in immediate open access. Published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license. There are currently no submission fees and no article processing charges.

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