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Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that
- the manuscript is your own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work.
- the manuscript has been submitted only to Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice; it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere.
- the manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
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Contents List
Manuscript preparation
- General guidelines
- Style guidelines
- Figures
- Publication charges
- Reproduction of copyright material
- Supplemental online material
Manuscript submission
Copyright and authors’ rights
Free article access
Reprints and journal copies
Open access
Manuscript preparation
1. General guidelines
PLEASE NOTE: The main text should be formatted according to the Taylor & Francis layout guidelines. These guidelines include information on section headings, table and figure formatting, and other essential main text elements. The references should be formatted in APA style. Links to both the Taylor & Francis layout guidelines and the APA references guidelines can be found below.
- Manuscripts are accepted in English. Any consistent spelling and punctuation styles may be used. Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Long quotations of words or more should be indented without quotation marks.
Research and policy manuscripts
A typical manuscript will not exceed 6500 words including tables, references, captions, footnotes and endnotes. Manuscripts that greatly exceed this will be critically reviewed with respect to length. Authors should include a word count with their manuscript.
- Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
- Abstracts of 150 words are required for all manuscripts submitted. The abstract must be divided into the following sections: Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions.
- Each manuscript should have 3 to 5 keywords.
- Search engine optimization (SEO) is a means of making your article more visible to anyone who might be looking for it. Please consult our guidance here.
- Section headings should be concise and follow the Taylor & Francis guidelines on hierarchy.
- All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.
- All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.
- Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as an Acknowledgement on the title page of the manuscript, in a separate paragraph, as follows:
- For single agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx]."
- For multiple agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency 1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency 2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency 3] under Grant [number xxxx]."
- Authors must also incorporate a Disclosure Statement which will acknowledge any financial interest or benefit they have arising from the direct applications of their research.
- For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms must not be used.
- Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised.
- When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
Additional guidelines for original research papers
While these guidelines are not intended to be prescriptive it is important that authors of original research also take into consideration the following points:
Title page:
The title of the article should convey something specific about the topic
e.g. The role of service user participation in a community based visual arts and health programme: an ethnographic case study.
Main part of manuscript:
Background. This should establish the context and rationale for the research and provide an overview of the paper. It should also provide a critical account of current relevant research, showing how evaluation of its strengths, limitations and gaps supports the rationale for the current study.
Research approach and methodology. This should begin with a statement of the research aims and objectives. As well as informing the reader about the rationale for the approach taken this section should provide a critical account of the methods used. It should address the responses by the researcher/s to any methodological or ethical challenges they faced during the study.
Results. This should outline the main findings from the research.
Discussion/conclusions and implications. This should situate the research findings within the broader context of current knowledge as well as addressing the implications of the study for research, policy and practice.
References
Contact information
Systematic and Literature Review
The journal welcomes systematic reviews and literature reviews that are deemed to make a substantial contribution to the field. Systematic reviews should follow internationally recognised guidelines (e.g. Cochran Reviews) for the development, organisation and reporting of reviews. Literature reviews should present a clear rationale for the review, be well organised into coherent subsections that are appropriately titled, and present well-defined conclusions and recommendations for future research. The length for systematic and literature reviews is 8000 words including tables, figures and references. Longer submissions will be considered but we urge authors only to do this in exceptional circumstances. Similar to research and policy manuscripts, literature reviews require a structured abstract.
Practice-Based Reports
Each issue will publish one or two articles focusing on programmes that demonstrate ‘best practice' in the arts and health field. Programmes can be delivered in any venue (e.g. hospital, clinic, community centre, museum, etc.) but must address an issue or problem broadly related to healthcare. Practice-oriented articles are meant to inform the reader about innovative, groundbreaking, emerging and/or longstanding programmes from around the globe. A typical article will be between 2000-3000 words. Abstracts should be approximately 100 words in length and are not required to be structured.
While these guidelines are not intended to be prescriptive it is important that authors take into consideration the following points:
Title page:
The title of the article should convey something specific about the programme
a. Story telling and poetry in a children's cancer unit
Main part of manuscript:
Abstract: Not to exceed 100 words.
Introduction: A description of the programme, it's history, how it is funded, location, and population served
Programme rationale and goals
How the programme is evaluated. This is a key area and authors should describe the evaluative aspects of the programme in detail. Please include any data the programme has collected if possible. Include a discussion of any challenges relating to evaluation, e.g. methodological issues, ethical issues, resource issues
Future plans for creative activity
References (if relevant)
Recommended reading (if relevant)
Contact information
2. Style guidelines
3. Figures
- Please provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
- Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the manuscript file.
- Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
- All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
- Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the manuscript, and numbered correspondingly.
- The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
4. Publication charges
Submission fee
There is no submission fee for Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice.
Page charges
There are no page charges for Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice.
Colour charges
Colour figures will be reproduced in colour in the online edition of the journal free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in colour in the print version, a charge will apply. Charges for colour figures in print are £250 per figure ($395 US Dollars; $385 Australian Dollars; 315 Euros). For more than 4 colour figures, figures 5 and above will be charged at £50 per figure ($80 US Dollars; $75 Australian Dollars; 63 Euros).
Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to Value Added Tax.
5. Reproduction of copyright material
If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission. Such material may be in the form of text, data, table, illustration, photograph, line drawing, audio clip, video clip, film still, and screenshot, and any supplemental material you propose to include. This applies to direct (verbatim or facsimile) reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).
You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption. You are solely responsible for any fees which the copyright holder may charge for reuse.
The reproduction of short extracts of text, excluding poetry and song lyrics, for the purposes of criticism may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.
For further information and FAQs on the reproduction of copyright material, please consult our Guide.
6. Supplemental online material
Authors are encouraged to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.
Manuscript submission
All submissions should be made online at the Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice ScholarOne Manuscripts site. New users should first create an account. Once logged on to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this website.
Manuscripts should be submitted in Word. These files will be automatically converted into a PDF file for the review process. LaTeX files should be converted to PDF prior to submission because ScholarOne Manuscripts is not able to convert LaTeX files into PDFs directly. All LaTeX source files should be uploaded alongside the PDF. The journal does not allow Microsoft Word 2007 documents. Please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.
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Copyright and authors' rights
To assure the integrity, dissemination, and protection against copyright infringement of published articles, you will be asked to assign us, via a Publishing Agreement, the copyright in your article. Your Article is defined as the final, definitive, and citable Version of Record, and includes: (a) the accepted manuscript in its final form, including the abstract, text, bibliography, and all accompanying tables, illustrations, data; and (b) any supplemental material hosted by Taylor & Francis. Our Publishing Agreement with you will constitute the entire agreement and the sole understanding between you and us; no amendment, addendum, or other communication will be taken into account when interpreting your and our rights and obligations under this Agreement.
Copyright policy is explained in detail here.
Free article access
As an author, you will receive free access to your article on Taylor & Francis Online. You will be given access to the My authored works section of Taylor & Francis Online, which shows you all your published articles. You can easily view, read, and download your published articles from there. In addition, if someone has cited your article, you will be able to see this information. We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article and have provided guidance on how you can help. Also within My authored works, author eprints allow you as an author to quickly and easily give anyone free access to the electronic version of your article so that your friends and contacts can read and download your published article for free. This applies to all authors (not just the corresponding author).
Reprints and journal copies
Article reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when you receive your proofs. If you have any queries about reprints, please contact the Taylor & Francis Author Services team at reprints@tandf.co.uk. To order a copy of the issue containing your article, please contact our Customer Services team at Adhoc@tandf.co.uk.
Open Access
Taylor & Francis Open Select provides authors or their research sponsors and funders with the option of paying a publishing fee and thereby making an article permanently available for free online access – open access – immediately on publication to anyone, anywhere, at any time. This option is made available once an article has been accepted in peer review.
Updated 14 March 2014
