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Author Guidelines
Your manuscript should be a Microsoft Word (.doc,.docx) file.
Please be certain that authors’ names do not appear in the file itself, or in the file name, or in the file properties.
Key Elements of the Research Paper
Your submission should consist of the following elements, in this order:
• Title page
The title page should:
Provide the title of the article
list the full names, institutional addresses and email addresses for all authors
Indicate the corresponding author
Please note:
Abbreviations within the title should be avoided
• Abstract
The Abstract of the manuscript should not exceed 250 words and must be structured into separate sections: introduction, the context and purpose of the study; Results, the main results; Conclusions, brief summary and potential implications. Please minimize the use of abbreviations and do not cite references in the abstract.
• Keywords
Three to six keywords representing the main content of the article.
• Introduction
The Introduction section should be written in a way that is accessible to researchers without specialist knowledge in that area and must clearly state - and, if helpful, illustrate - the introduction to the research and its aims. The section should end with a brief statement of what is being reported in the article.
• Material and Methods
The methods section should include the design of the study, the type of materials involved, a clear description of all comparisons, and the type of analysis used, to enable replication.
• Results and discussion
The Results and discussion may be combined into a single section or presented separately. The Results and discussion sections may also be broken into subsections with short, informative headings.
• Conclusions
This should state clearly the main conclusions of the research and give a clear explanation of their importance and relevance. Summary illustrations may be included.
• List of abbreviations
If abbreviations are used in the text they should be defined in the text at first use, and a list of abbreviations can be provided, which should precede the competing interests and authors' contributions.
• Competing interests
A competing interest exists when your interpretation of data or presentation of information may be influenced by your personal or financial relationship with other people or organizations. Authors must disclose any financial competing interests; they should also reveal any non-financial competing interests that may cause them embarrassment were they to become public after the publication of the manuscript.
Authors are required to complete a declaration of competing interests. All competing interests that are declared will be listed at the end of published articles. Where an author gives no competing interests, the listing will read 'The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests'.
When completing your declaration, please consider the following questions:
Financial competing interests
In the past five years have you received reimbursements, fees, funding, or salary from an organization that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of this manuscript, either now or in the future? Is such an organization financing this manuscript (including the article-processing charge)? If so, please specify.
Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organization that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of this manuscript, either now or in the future? If so, please specify.
Do you hold or are you currently applying for any patents relating to the content of the manuscript? Have you received reimbursements, fees, funding, or salary from an organization that holds or has applied for patents relating to the content of the manuscript? If so, please specify.
Do you have any other financial competing interests? If so, please specify.
Non-financial competing interests
Are there any non-financial competing interests (political, personal, religious, ideological, academic, intellectual, commercial or any other) to declare in relation to this manuscript? If so, please specify.
If you are unsure as to whether you, or one your co-authors, has a competing interest please discuss it with the editorial office.
Authors' contributions
In order to give appropriate credit to each author of a paper, the individual contributions of authors to the manuscript should be specified in this section.
An 'author' is generally considered to be someone who has made substantive intellectual contributions to a published study. To qualify as an author one should 1) have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) have been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) have given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group, alone, does not justify authorship.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Acknowledgements
Please acknowledge anyone who contributed towards the article by making substantial contributions to conception, design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, or who was involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content, but who does not meet the criteria for authorship. Please also include the source(s) of funding for each author, and for the manuscript preparation. Authors must describe the role of the funding body, if any, in design, in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Please also acknowledge anyone who contributed materials essential for the study. If a language editor has made significant revision of the manuscript, we recommend that you acknowledge the editor by name, where possible.
Authors should obtain permission to acknowledge from all those mentioned in the Acknowledgements section.
• Endnotes
Endnotes should be designated within the text using a superscript lowercase letter and all notes (along with their corresponding letter) should be included in the Endnotes section. Please format this section in a paragraph rather than a list.
• References
All references, including URLs, must be numbered consecutively, in square brackets, in the order in which they are cited in the text, followed by any in tables or legends. Each reference must have an individual reference number. Please avoid excessive referencing. If automatic numbering systems are used, the reference numbers must be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted before submission.
Only articles, datasets and abstracts that have been published or are in press, or are available through public e-print/preprint servers, may be cited; unpublished abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications should not be included in the reference list . When citing government, project or other reports that have limited distribution, it is recommended that the authors provide additional information on where this material can be located, e.g. in archives, specialist libraries or private collections. Footnotes are not allowed, but endnotes are permitted. Journal abbreviations follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE. Citations in the reference list should include all named authors, up to the first 30 before adding 'et al.'..
Any in press articles cited within the references and necessary for the reviewers' assessment of the manuscript should be made available if requested by the editorial office.
Style files are available for use with popular bibliographic management software:
BibTeX
EndNote style file
Reference Manager
Zotero
Examples of the Iranian Journal of Health, Safety and Environment reference style are shown below. Please ensure that the reference style is followed precisely; if the references are not in the correct style they may have to be retyped and carefully proofread.
All web links and URLs, including links to the authors' own websites, should be given a reference number and included in the reference list rather than within the text of the manuscript. They should be provided in full, including both the title of the site and the URL, in the following format: The Mouse Tumor Biology Database [http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/mtbwi/index.do]. If an author or group of authors can clearly be associated with a web link, such as for weblogs, then they should be included in the reference.
Examples of the the Iranian Journal of Health, Safety and Environment reference style
Journal article:
Kadivar MR, Moradi F, Massumi SJ, Shenavar R. Folic Acid Consumption in Fars Province, Southern Iran. J Res Health Sci. 2005;5(2): 11-14.
Book:
Gordis L. Epidemiology. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders; 2008.
Book chapter:
Greenland S. Introduction to regression modeling. In: Rothman KJ, Greenland S, Lash TL, editors. Modern epidemiology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2008. pp. 418-455.
Dissertation:
Poorolajal J. Assessing the duration of protection provided by hepatitis B vaccine and the need for booster dose: A meta-analysis [PhD thesis]. Tehran: Tehran University of Medical Sciences; 2009.
Abstract:
Joffe M, Santanna J, Feldman H. Partially marginal structural models for causal inference [abstract]. Am J Epidemiol. 2001;153 (suppl):S261.
Conference:
Poorolajal J, Mahmoodi M, Haghdoost A, Majdzadeh R, Nasseri-Moghaddam S, Fotouhi A, et al. Long-term protection provided by hepatitis B vaccine and need for booster dose: a meta-analysis. EPS Global-Shanghai 1st International Biomedicine Forum; September 10 - September 11; Shanghai 2010.
Web page:
Chan M. Progress in public health during the previous decade and major challenges ahead. WHO Web Site; 2010 [updated 18 January, 2010; cited 10 January, 2011]; Available from:
http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2010/executive_board_126_20100118/en/index.html
PhD thesis
Kohavi R: Wrappers for performance enhancement and oblivious decision graphs. PhD thesis. Stanford University, Computer Science Department; 1995.
Link / URL
The Mouse Tumor Biology Database [http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/mtbwi/index.do]
Link / URL with author(s)
Neylon C: Open Research Computation: an ordinary journal with extraordinary aims. [http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/open_research_computation_an_ordinary]
Dataset with persistent identifier
Zheng, L-Y; Guo, X-S; He, B; Sun, L-J; Peng, Y; Dong, S-S; Liu, T-F; Jiang, S; Ramachandran, S; Liu, C-M; Jing, H-C (2011): Genome data from sweet and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). GigaScience. http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100012.
• Preparing illustrations and figures
Illustrations should be provided as separate files, not embedded in the text file. Each figure should include a single illustration and should fit on a single page in portrait format. If a figure consists of separate parts, it is important that a single composite illustration file be submitted which contains all parts of the figure. There is no charge for the use of color figures.
Formats
The following file formats can be accepted:
PDF (preferred format for diagrams)
DOCX/DOC (single page only)
PNG (preferred format for photos or images)
TIFF
JPEG
BMP
Figure legends
The legends should be included in the main manuscript text file at the end of the document, rather than being a part of the figure file. For each figure, the following information should be provided: Figure number (in sequence, using Arabic numerals - i.e. Figure 1, 2, 3 etc); short title of figure (maximum 15 words); detailed legend, up to 300 words.
Please note that it is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce figures or tables that have previously been published elsewhere.
• Preparing tables
Each table should be numbered and cited in sequence using Arabic numerals (i.e. Table 1, 2, 3 etc.). Tables should also have a title (above the table) that summarizes the whole table; it should be no longer than 15 words. Detailed legends may then follow, but they should be concise. Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
Smaller tables considered to be integral to the manuscript can be pasted into the end of the document text file, in A4 portrait or landscape format. These will be typeset and displayed in the final published form of the article. Such tables should be formatted using the 'Table object' in a word processing program to ensure that columns of data are kept aligned when the file is sent electronically for review; this will not always be the case if columns are generated by simply using tabs to separate text. Columns and rows of data should be made visibly distinct by ensuring that the borders of each cell display as black lines. Commas should not be used to indicate numerical values. Color and shading may not be used; parts of the table can be highlighted using symbols or bold text, the meaning of which should be explained in a table legend. Tables should not be embedded as figures or spreadsheet files.
Larger datasets or tables too wide for a landscape page can be uploaded separately as additional files. Additional files will not be displayed in the final, laid-out PDF of the article, but a link will be provided to the files as supplied by the author.
Tabular data provided as additional files can be uploaded as an Excel spreadsheet (.xls ) or comma separated values (.csv). As with all files, please use the standard file extensions.
• Preparing additional files
Although Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering does not restrict the length and quantity of data included in an article, we encourage authors to provide datasets, tables, movies, or other information as additional files.
Please note: All Additional files will be published along with the article. Do not include files such as patient consent forms, certificates of language editing, or revised versions of the main manuscript document with tracked changes. Such files should be sent by email to editorial@ijehse.com, quoting the Manuscript ID number.
Results that would otherwise be indicated as "data not shown" can and should be included as additional files. Since many weblinks and URLs rapidly become broken, Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering requires that supporting data are included as additional files, or deposited in a recognized repository. Please do not link to data on a personal/departmental website. The maximum file size for additional files is 20 MB each, and files will be virus-scanned on submission.
Additional files can be in any format, and will be downloadable from the final published article as supplied by the author. We recommend PDF for tabular data.
Certain supported files formats are recognized and can be displayed to the user in the browser. These include most movie formats (for users with the Quicktime plugin), mini-websites prepared according to our guidelines, chemical structure files (MOL, PDB), geographic data files (KML).
If additional material is provided, please list the following information in a separate section of the manuscript text:
File name (e.g. Additional file 1)
File format including the correct file extension for example .pdf, .xls, .txt, .pptx (including name and a URL of an appropriate viewer if format is unusual)
Title of data
Description of data
Additional files should be named "Additional file 1" and so on and should be referenced explicitly by file name within the body of the article, e.g. 'An additional movie file shows this in more detail [see Additional file 1]'.
Additional file formats
Ideally, file formats for additional files should not be platform-specific, and should be viewable using free or widely available tools. The following are examples of suitable formats.
Additional documentation
PDF (Adode Acrobat)
Tabular data
XLS, XLSX (Excel Spreadsheet)
CSV (Comma separated values)
As with figure files, files should be given the standard file extensions.
Style and language
General
Currently, Iranian Journal of Health, Safety and Environment can only accept manuscripts written in English. Spelling should be US English or British English, but not a mixture.
There is no explicit limit on the length of articles submitted, but authors are encouraged to be concise.
Iranian Journal of Health, Safety and Environment will not responsible to edit submitted manuscripts for style or language; reviewers may advise rejection of a manuscript if it is compromised by grammatical errors. Authors are advised to write clearly and simply, and to have their article checked by colleagues before submission. In-house copyediting will be minimal. Non-native speakers of English may choose to make use of a copyediting service.
• Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be used as sparingly as possible. They should be defined when first used and a list of abbreviations can be provided following the main manuscript text.
• Typography
Please use double line spacing.
Type the text unjustified, without hyphenating words at line breaks.
Use hard returns only to end headings and paragraphs, not to rearrange lines.
Capitalize only the first word, and proper nouns, in the title.
All pages should be numbered.
Use the Iranian Journal of Health, Safety and Environment reference format.
Footnotes are not allowed, but endnotes are permitted.
Please do not format the text in multiple columns.
Greek and other special characters may be included. If you are unable to reproduce a particular special character, please type out the name of the symbol in full. Please ensure that all special characters used are embedded in the text, otherwise they will be lost during conversion to PDF.
• Units
SI units should be used throughout (liter and molar are permitted, however).
• Where to send your contribution
Manuscripts should preferably be submitted to IJHSE@gmail.com or IJHSE@yahoo.com
Review articles
• Criteria
Review articles are summaries of recent insights in specific research areas within the scope of Iranian Journal of Health, Safety and Environment.
Key aims of reviews are to provide systematic and substantial coverage of mature subjects, evaluations of progress in specified areas, and/or critical assessments of emerging technologies.
• Submission process
Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript, and should not be submitted by anyone on their behalf. The submitting author takes responsibility for the article during submission and peer review.
• File formats
The following word processor file formats are acceptable for the main manuscript document:
Microsoft word (DOC, DOCX)
Note that figures must be submitted as separate image files, not as part of the submitted manuscript file.
Preparing main manuscript text
General guidelines of the journal's style and language are given below.
• Length of article
Review articles should be approximately 3000 words.
• Overview of manuscript sections for Review articles
Manuscripts for Review articles submitted to Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering should be divided into the following sections (in this order):
• Title page
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Review
• Conclusions
• List of abbreviations used (if any)
• Competing interests
• Authors' contributions
• Authors' information
• Acknowledgements
• Endnotes
• References
• Illustrations and figures (if any)
• Tables and captions (if any)
• Preparing additional files
• Title page
• The title page should be the same a research paper
• Abstract and Keywords would be the same a research paper
• Review
This should contain the body of the article, and may also be broken into subsections with short, informative headings., Conclusions, List of abbreviations, Competing interests, Acknowledgements, Endnotes, References, Illustrations and figures (if any), Tables and captions (if any) and Preparing additional files would be the same as research paper.
• Short report:
• Criteria
Short report care suitable for the presentation of research that extends previously published research, including the reporting of additional controls and confirmatory results in other settings, as well as negative results. Authors must clearly acknowledge any work upon which they are building, both published and unpublished.
• Preparing main manuscript text
General guidelines of the journal's style and language are given below.
• Length of article
Short reports should not be more than2,500 words and have no more than 25 references.
• Manuscript sections for Short reports
Manuscripts for Short reports submitted to Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering should be divided into the following sections (in this order):
• Title page
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Material and Mothods
• Results and disscation
• List of abbreviations used (if any)
• Competing interests
• Authors' contributions
• Acknowledgements
• Endnotes
• References
• Illustrations and figures (if any)
• Tables and captions (if any)
• Title page, Abstract, Introduction, Material and methods, result and discussion, List of abbreviations, Competing interests, Acknowledgements, Endnotes, References, Preparing illustrations and figures, Preparing tables, Style and language, Abbreviations and Typography would be the same as research paper.
Iranian Journal of Health, Safety and environment plagiarism policy
The IJHSE decide that plagiarism is not acceptable and thus establishes the following actions (penalties) will be done when plagiarism will identified in an submitted manuscript for publication
in IJHSE.
Definition:
Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work." [1995 Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary].
Policy: The Journal assigns equal responsibility of intellectual integrity of the manuscript to all authors whose names appear on the manuscript. When submitting a manuscript, the Journal requires that all authors sign a statement accepting this responsibility. This statement must indicate that no part of the manuscript has been plagiarized.
Any such material should be made accessible to the Editor and should only be used with referencing according to the author guidelines. This may otherwise form the basis of a redundant publication/duplicate publication/"salami slicing" and appropriate action may be taken by the Editor which may range from rejection of the manuscript to debarment of the authors(s) from further publication in the Journal.
• It is emphasized that the Journal considers self-plagiarism as equally unethical as plagiarism in any other form. If material is to be used from the author’s previous work, standard referencing guidelines must be followed.
• All manuscripts submitted to the Journal will be checked for plagiarism. If a manuscript submitted for publication (or a manuscript accepted for publication or an article that has already been published in the Journal) is found to be based on plagiarized material, the Editor will be obliged to write to the author(s) seeking an explanation. The corresponding author will be required to respond with an explanation within 30 days of receiving the letter from the editor.The manuscript for review will be held up till the matter is resolved.
• In the case of a manuscript that was originally published in conference proceedings and then is submitted for publication in IJHSE either in identical or in expanded form, the authors must identify the name of the conference proceedings and the date of the publication and obtain permission to republish from the copyright holder.
When plagiarism is identified, the Editor responsible for the review of this paper and the Editor-in-Chief will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in agreement with the following guidelines:
Plagiarism Measures
• Minor
A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper
A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article is made
• Intermediate
A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper
The submitted article will be rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for one year
• Severe
A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication.
The paper will be rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for 6 years.
Authorship:
Authorship credit should be based on:
(1) substantial contributions to conception and
design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and
interpretation of data;
(2) drafting the article or revising it critically for
important intellectual content; and
(3) final approval of the version to be published.
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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- 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.
Copyright Notice
Creative Commons Copyright Notices
Policy for copyright of Iraina Journal of health, safety and environment:
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
a.Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
b.Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
c.Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
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