SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

From 1st March 2008: please see the NEW online submission instructions here.

Articles must be submitted in English. The length of the text should not exceed 4000 words. Please include a brief summary of about 300 words, together with no more than four 'key' words to aid literature searching. Due to the heavy pressure to publish high quality articles the total article must not exceed 4500 words. Please state clearly on the article the total word count. Over-length articles will not be considered.

The Editorial Office will correspond directly with authors on the acceptability of their papers. Authors may not submit manuscripts that are under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Manuscripts must be submitted online via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hpi

REFERENCES

References should be listed at the end of the main text using the Harvard system, whereby the surname of the author and year of publication of the reference are used in the text. The list of references should be in alphabetical order of surnames. References by the same author(s) should be in chronological order.

References should be cited in the text as 'Reports by Author (Author, 1989) have confirmed...' or '...as reported earlier (Author and Author, 1985; Author et al., 1998)'. Do not place text other than the author and date within the parentheses. The normal form of listed references is author's surname, initials; year in parenthesis; article title; journal name in full, volume number and page numbers. For example: Bunton, R. and Macdonald, G. (eds) (1992) Health Promotion: Disciplines and Diversity. Routledge, London.

Online references should be cited as in example 1, below. Please see examples 2 and 3 for papers that have been published online in more than one version. The initial version of a paper published in this way can be cited by the Digital Object Identifier (doi) but, if available, the reference should also include the citation of the final version. Authors should check all references carefully, and in particular ensure that all references in the Reference section are cited in the text. Note that multiple references or page spans under one number are not allowed. Personal communications, unpublished results, manuscripts submitted or in preparation, statistical packages, computer programs and web sites should be cited in the text only, NOT included in the References section. Accession numbers may be cited either within the text or in the form of a reference.

Xu, L. S., Pan, B. J., Lin, J. X., Chen L. P., Yu, S. H. and Jones, J. (2000) Creating health-promotingg schools in rural China: A project started from deworming. Health Promotion International, 15, 197-206.

Salmon, J., Ball, K., Crawford, D., Booth, M., Telford, A., Hume, C., Jolley, D. and Worsley, A. (2005) Reducing sedentary behaviour and increasing physical activity among 10-year-old children: overview and process evaluation of the ‘Switch-Play’ intervention. Health Promotion International, January 24, 2005: 10.1093/heapro/dah502.

Messerlian, C., Derevensky, J. and Gupta, R. (2005) Youth gambling problems: a public health perspective. Health Promotion International, 20, 69-79. First published on January 28, 2005: 10.1093/heapro/dah509.

PROOFS

Authors are sent page proofs. Please provide an e-mail address to enable page proofs to be sent as PDF files via e-mail. To avoid delays in publication, proofs should be checked immediately for typographical errors.

Health Promotion International authors have the option, at an additional charge, to make their paper freely available online immediately upon publication, under the Oxford Open initiative. After your manuscript is accepted, as part of the mandatory licence form required of all corresponding authors, you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay to have your paper made freely available immediately. If you do not select the Open Access option, your paper will be published with standard subscription-based access and you will not be charged.

For those selecting the Open Access option, the charges for Health Promotion International vary depending on the institution at which the Corresponding author is based:

Optional Oxford Open charges:
For a Corresponding author based at an institution with an online subscription to Health Promotion International:
Regular charge per paper - £800 / $1500
List B developing country charge* - £400 / $750
List A developing country charge* - £0 / $0

For a Corresponding author based at an institution that does not subscribe to the online journal:
Regular charge per paper - £1500 / $2800
List B developing country charge* - £750 / $1400
List A developing country charge* - £0 / $0

*Visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org/jnls/devel/ for list of qualifying countries.

Please note that from July 2008 the new open access charges will be:

Regular Subscribers - £900/€1350/$1800
Regular Non-subscribers - £1500/€2250/$3000

The above Open Access charges are in addition to any page charges and colour charges that might apply.

If you choose the Open Access option you will also be asked to complete an Open Access charge form online. You will be automatically directed to the appropriate version of the form depending on whether you are based at an institution with an online subscription to Health Promotion International. Therefore please make sure that you are using an institutional computer when accessing the form. To check whether you are based at a subscribing institution please use the Subscriber Test link for Health Promotion International.

Orders from the UK will be subject to a 17.5% VAT charge. For orders from elsewhere in the EU you or your institution should account for VAT by way of a reverse charge. Please provide us with your or your institution’s VAT number.

LICENCE TO PUBLISH/OFFPRINTS

It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In granting an exclusive licence, authors may use their own material in publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance. In consideration for granting an exclusive licence, the publisher will provide free online access to your article. Printed offprints may be ordered at extra cost at the proof stage.

To download the offprint form, please click here.

Orders from the UK will be subject to a 17.5% VAT charge. For orders from elsewhere in the EU you or your institution should account for VAT by way of a reverse charge. Please provide us with your or your institution’s VAT number.

COMMUNICATIONS

The Editorial Office may be contacted at: Health Promotion International Deakin University 221 Burwood Highway Burwood, Victoria 3125 Australia Fax: +61 3 9589 0442 Email:hpi@deakin.edu.au

FUNDING

Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section.

The following rules should be followed:

• The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
• The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) Grant numbers should be given in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number xxxx]’
• Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]’
• Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
• Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.

An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].’

AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING/PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY

Author Self-Archiving/Public Access policy from May 2005

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.

GUIDE FOR AUTHORS PREPARING DOCUMENTS FOR SUBMITTAL

DO

Enter text in the style and order of the Journal.

Insert figure captions and tables at the end of the file.

Save any tables, diagrams, figures, graphs or illustrations generated electronically as separate files and not embedded into the text file.

Type references in the correct order and style of the Journal.

Type unjustified, without hyphenation, except for compound words.

Type headings in the style of the Journal.

Use the TAB key once for paragraph indents.

Where possible use Times for the text font and Symbol for the Greek and special characters.

Use the word processing formatting features to indicate Bold, Italic, Greek, Maths, ^Superscript and _Subscript characters.

Indicate clearly any special characters or accents for which you have used alternative key/characters.

DO NOT

Enter carriage returns to obtain spacing between lines, paragraphs, references etc. The space required is generated automatically by the typesetters.

Use double spaces after each sentence within a paragraph.

Use the automatic page numbering (number the hard copies by hand at the bottom of the page), running titles and footnote features of your word processing program.

Leave blank spaces if special characters or accents are not available from your word processing package. These should be substituted by alternative key/characters.

Include any copyright material (e.g. word processor software or operating system files).

FIGURE SUBMISSION

Images on disk can be accepted in Adobe PhotoShop compatible formats. Images should be saved in TIFF format.

Image resolution should be a minimum of 300 dpi.