期刊名称：JOURNAL OF HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH & POLICY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Journal of Health Services Research & Policy provides a unique opportunity to explore the ideas, policies and decisions shaping health services throughout the world. Edited and peer-reviewed by experts in the field and with a high academic standard and multidisciplinary approach, readers will gain a greater understanding of the current issues in healthcare policy and research. The journal's strong international editorial advisory board also ensures that readers obtain a truly global and insightful perspective.
Indexing and abstracting
Journal of Health Services Research & Policy is abstracted or indexed by Medline/PubMed, EMBASE, CABI, Cinahl, ASSIA and AHA Hospital & Health Administration Index.
Instructions to Authors
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For details of our policy on open access articles, please visit our RSM Open page.
These instructions comply with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (for further details, see the ICMJE site)
1. Aims and scope
The Journal of Health Services Research and Policy publishes scientific research on health services from a wide variety of disciplines and rigorous health care policy analysis. The Journal also engages in, and responds to, current scientific, methodological and policy debates in health care. The Journal aims both to reflect current concerns and to contribute to setting the agenda.
2. Editorial policy
Covering letter
The covering letter is important. To help the Editors in their preliminary evaluation, please indicate why you think the paper suitable for publication.
Peer review
All papers submitted for publication undergo peer review.
Ethical approval
All research submitted for publication must be approved by an ethics committee.
Patient consent
Any article containing identifiable patient information must be accompanied by a statement of consent to publication. If there is any doubt about whether or not information is identifiable, the Editors are happy to discuss this before an article is submitted. Reviewers will also be asked to take careful account of issues relating to patient confidentiality when reviewing articles.
Case studies are not the only kinds of article to which this rule will be applied, but they will be subject to additional scrutiny. Not only should submissions be accompanied by a statement of consent, but the Editors also expect to be informed about the measures that have been taken to anonymise the details that could have led to parties being identified. They also reserve the right to work with the authors to make additional anonymising changes as they or the reviewers see fit. The Editors may also ask authors to remove personal information that, whilst interesting and colourful, does not add to the substance of an article, but does increase the likelihood of parties being identified. The exception to this will be where the patient has indicated in writing that she/he wants to be identified, has read the material, has discussed the consequences of being identified, and has agreed to the disclosure of all the personal information contained in the article.
In order to ensure that valuable and novel issues are aired, the Editors will sometimes consider publishing cases studies that contain potentially identifiable information where it has been impossible or clearly undesirable to seek consent from relevant parties. However, given the strong preference for consent having been sought and obtained the reasons for not seeking consent must be compelling, and the public interest arguments for publishing the case must be powerful. In cases where consent has not been obtained, the authors must provide a statement from a Medical Director or equivalent that the hospital or medical centre is happy for the case to be published.
Competing interests and other declarations
All authors are required to declare any conflicts of interest when submitting papers for publication. Declarations of funding sources, a guarantor and a statement of contributorship are also required.
Permissions
All previously published material must be accompanied by the written consent to reproduction of the copyright holder. An acknowledgement of permission should be included at the relevant point in the paper, and a full reference to the original place of publication should be included in the reference list.
Copyright
Authors of accepted manuscripts will be required to allocate copyright to the publisher prior to publication.
3. Types of articles Please note that all word counts include the abstract, acknowledgements and references. Please take care not to exceed the word limit.
4. How to submit a manuscript
Only manuscripts submitted via the online manuscript submission and peer review site, which can be found at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jhsrp will be considered for publication.
All manuscripts submitted must be accompanied by an Author Statement which must be signed by all authors. The form can be scanned in and uploaded as a supplementary file on submission. Alternatively, send by fax or by mail to: Christine Rivett-Carnac, Editorial Administrator, Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, LSHTM, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK - [FAX: +44 (0)20 7927 2285].
All submissions must be in English.
To allow for blinded peer review, details of authorship (for each author: one qualification, job title, appointment at the time of the research, current address and email address) and acknowledgements must not be included in the main manuscript, but must be supplied separately.
When submitting a manuscript, the title page, main text, tables, figures and acknowledgements must be saved and uploaded as separate files:
File formats
Text files must be saved in .doc or .rtf format. Other suitable formats include .tif for photographic images, .xls for graphs produced in Excel, and .eps for other line drawings.
5. How to prepare a manuscript
Formatting
Manuscripts should be prepared using word processing software on single-sided A4 paper, in double-spaced, unjustified text with margins of not less than 25 mm. Please use minimum font size of 12 points (6 cpi) and number all pages. Footnotes are not permitted.
Title page
The first page should contain the full title of the manuscript, a short title, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the name, postal and email addresses of the author for correspondence, as well as a full list of declarations.
The title should be concise and informative, accurately indicating the content of the article. The short title should be no more than six words long.
Abstract
Theoretical and review articles should include an abstract (maximum 250 words). Articles reporting primary or secondary empirical research should include a structured abstract (maximum 250 words: objectives, methods, results, conclusions).
Tables
Tables must be prepared using the Table feature of the word processor. Tables should not duplicate information given in the text, should be numbered in the order in which they are mentioned in the text, and should be given a brief title.
Figures
All figures should be numbered in the order in which they are mentioned in the text. All figures must be accompanied by a figure legend. If figures are supplied in separate files, the figure legends must all be listed at the end of the main text file.
Line drawings should be produced electronically and clearly labelled using a sans serif font such as Arial. Graphs may be supplied as Excel spreadsheets (one per sheet). Other line drawings should be supplied in a suitable vector graphic file format (e.g. .eps)
All photographic images should be submitted in camera-ready form (i.e. with all extraneous areas removed), and where necessary, magnification should be shown using a scale marker. Photographic images must be supplied at high resolution, preferably 600 dpi. Images supplied at less than 300 dpi are unsuitable for print and will delay publication. The preferred file format is .tif.
References
Only essential references should be included. Authors are responsible for verifying them against the original source material. RSM Press uses the Vancouver referencing system: references should be identified in the text by superscript Arabic numerals after any punctuation, and numbered and listed at the end of the paper in the order in which they are first cited in the text. Automatic numbering should be avoided. References should include the names and initials of up to six authors. If there are more than six authors, only the first three should be named, followed by et al. Publications for which no author is apparent may be attributed to the organization from which they originate. Simply omit the name of the author for anonymous journal articles ?avoid using ’Anonymous? Punctuation in references should be kept to a minimum, as shown in the following examples:
- Handy CB. Understanding organisations. 3rd edn. London: Penguin, 1985
- Hart E. Ghost in the machine. Health Serv J 1991;101:20?
Abbreviations
Symbols and abbreviations should be those currently in use. Authors should not create new abbreviations and acronyms. The RSM’s book Units, Symbols and Abbreviations provides lists of approved abbreviations.
Units
All measurements should be expressed in SI units.
Statistics
If preparing statistical data for publication, please read the statistical guidelines.
6. Proofs and eprints
Proofs will be sent by email to the designated corresponding author as a PDF file attachment and should be corrected and returned promptly; corrections should be kept to a minimum.
A PDF eprint of each published article will be supplied free of charge to the author for correspondence; hardcopy offprints may be ordered from the publisher when the proofs are returned.
Editorial Board
Editors
Nick Black , London, UK
Nicholas Mays , London, UK
Associate Editors
Jacqueline Cumming, Wellington, New Zealand
Maria Goddard, York, UK
Scott Greer, Ann Arbor, USA
Steven Lewis, York, UK
Trevor Sheldon, York, UK
Francesco Taroni, Bologna, Italy
Eddy van Doorslaer, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Sally Wyke, Stirling, UK
Editorial Advisory Board
Linda Aiken, Philadelphia, USA
Reinhard Busse, Berlin, Germany
Roy Carr-Hill, York, UK
Bronwyn Croxson, Wellington, New Zealand
Nicky Cullum, York, UK
Huw Davies, St Andrews, UK
Alain Enthoven, Stanford, USA
Josep Figueras, Brussels, Belgium
Colleen Flood, Ottawa, Canada
Peter Groenewegen, Utrecht, Netherlands
Jane Hall, Sydney, Australia
Chris Ham, Birmingham, UK
Johan Hansen, Utrecht, Netherlands
Karen Hassell, Manchester, UK
Jan Kees Helderman, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Lisa Iezzoni, Boston, USA
John Lavis, Hamilton, Canada
Jenny Lewis, Melbourne, Australia
Theodore Marmor, New Haven, USA
John McKinlay, Boston, USA
David Mechanic, New Brunswick, USA
Gavin Mooney, Sydney, Australia
Duncan Neuhauser, Cleveland, USA
Jon Nicholl, Sheffield, UK
Kieke Okma, New York, USA
John Øvretveit, Stockholm, Sweden
Bonnie Sibbald, Manchester, UK
Neil Söderlund, Sydney, Australia
Michael West, Birmingham, UK
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