Instructions for Authors
The Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion
Revised on July 1st, 2022 by the Editorial Board(This document is intended for authors who would like to submit a manuscript inEnglish. For those planning to submit a manuscript in Japanese, please refer to theJapanese version of the “Instructions for Authors”.)

The Journal of the Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion will consider
any original contribution that advances health education and promotion.

1. Eligibility:

The first and corresponding author(s) should be registered member(s) of the JapaneseSociety of Health Education and Promotion. Other authors may be non-members.

2. Deadline for submission:

There is no deadline for manuscript submission. Manuscripts may be submitted at any

time throughout the year.

3. Types of articles considered:

1) The Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion welcomes original

manuscripts that may contribute to health education and promotion. The Editorial
Board does not accept manuscripts that have been published elsewhere.

2) As shown in Table 1, nine types of articles are considered for publication. Authors
may choose the most suitable classification for their individual manuscripts.
Table 1. Article types
Perspectives

Review Articles

Description of content

Suggestions or opinions

regarding the theory andpractices related to healtheducation and promotion.
Review of articles related
to health education and

Main text word count(2000 words)(4000 words)

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promotion, including the authors’
analysis and comments on the
Systematic Reviews

reviewed literature.

A review of well- formulated
content that was searched,
selected, and critically(8000 words)

examined using a systematic
method, and data wereextracted and analyzed for theOriginal Article
Short Communication

Field Reports

selected reports.

Original research or scientific(4000 words)

Concise summary oforiginal(2500 words)

observationrelated to healtheducation and promotion.

research or articles related totheimprovement of methods ortechniques.

Reports that describe activities
in health education and(4000 words)

promotion,including the authors’
analysis and discussion of theSpecial Reports

content.

Summary of invited lectures
presented at academic(3500 words)

conferences. Special reports are
writtenin response to a direct
Commentary
Othersrequest from the editorial board.
Comments on articles
written in response to a direct
request from the editorial board.
Reviews of academic books,
comments from members, orletters to theeditor (rapid(1500 words)(700 words)

responses to published articles).

23) In addition to the article types designated above, the journal may publish information

derived from academic conferences, financial reports, and reports from thecommitteeof the Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion.

4) Manuscripts should be written in English or Japanese. Along with the manuscript,
authors should submit an “Application Card”, “Submission Checklist”, “CopyrightTransfer Agreement”, and “Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest”. For thoseconversant in Japanese, please prepare such documents in the Japanese formats.
5) All research involving either human participants or materials of human origin

should be carried out in accordance with the principles set forth in the Declaration of
Helsinki and other related ethical guidelines.

6) When submitting the results of intervention research, it is necessary to register the

research plan in the public trials registry that is acceptable for the International

Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Please refer to the following website for details: http://www.icmje.org

7) When you report results of randomized controlled trials, we encourage you to follow
the CONSORT Statement 2010 (Schulz KF, Altman DG, Moher D, for the CONSORTGroup. CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel grouprandomized trials. BMJ 2010; 340: c332.).

8) When submitting a systematic review, include a 27-item checklist and flowchart in
the paper in accordance with the PRISMA Statement (Preferred Reporting Items for

Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, http://www.prisma-statement.org/). We also
recommend that you register the protocol in PROSPERO (International prospective

register of systematic reviews, http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/) before conducting

the review.

34. Peer review:

The Journal of the Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion is a peer-

reviewed journal. All submitted manuscripts are reviewed by the editorial board andtwo referees; if the manuscript is accepted, it will be published. Referees are blinded tothe authorship and affiliations of submitted manuscripts.
5. Manuscript submission:
Manuscript format is available here

Although a manuscript may be sent by post, electronic submission is recommended.
(1) Electronic submission

1) Prepare two types of manuscripts, " manuscript" and "anonymized manuscript".

"Normal manuscript" is in the order of "cover page (including abstract), main text, andfigures/tables/photos". The "Anonymized manuscript" is in the order of "title page,anonymized main text, and figures/tables/photos". Both manuscripts should be created
and organized into one file using MS Word software according to “A Guide for

Preparation of the Manuscript”. If you use different software and multiple files are

created, please submit the original multiple files and PDF.

Please ensure that your manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'. If

not, we recommend doing so.

2) Manuscript submission is free. However, authors must pay for any offprints theywish to order. Reprint costs are as listed on the table.

3) Please submit your manuscript via our online submission system.
https://www.editorialmanager.com/kenkokyoiku/default.aspx

4) Please fill out the "Copyright Transfer Agreement" (downloadable from here) whensubmitting the manuscript, convert it to PDF, and submit it on our online submission
system.

5) Fill in the "COI self-report at the time of submission to the Journal of the Japan

Society for Health Education" (downloadable from here), convert it to PDF, and submit
it on our online submission system.

The submitted declaration will be managed in accordance with the COI guidelines of
the Society.

6) When sending by e-mail or mail, please send it in a separate note.

4Table 2. Offprint fee
Number ofpages in themain text

1 to 4 pages

5 to 8 pages
9 to 12pages

13 pagesand above

50 copies

4,400 yen

4,900 yen

100 copies

6,600 yen

7,700 yen

150 copies

8,800 yen

9,900 yen

5,500 yen

8,800 yen

11,000 yen

1,100 yen per

1,100 yen per

1,100 yen per

additional 4
pages

Additional notes:

additional 4
pages

additional 4
pages

200 copies

11,000 yen

12,100 yen
14,300 yen

1,100 yen per
additional 4

More than

200 copies
3,300 yenperadditional
50 copies

3,300 yenperadditional
50 copies

3,300 yenperadditional
50 copies

pages

1.

Shipping fees and consumption tax must be paid in addition to the reprint

3.

If you wish to order more than 500 offprints, please consult directly with thecosts listed above.

2.

A supplementary fee of 20 yen per copy must be paid for the cover page.

secretariat of the Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion
regarding costs.

6. Decision, copyright, and publication fees:(1) The Editorial Board discusses and decides on the acceptance of manuscripts

following a peer review process. Once a manuscript is accepted, authors are expected tosubmit the final revised version electronically. The Editorial Board may recommend
changes in the designated article type or request specific changes to the manuscript

content and/or format. In cases where the number of requested revisions exceeds threerounds, the Editorial Board may ask that the piece be submitted as a new manuscript.

(2) Following the editors’ request for revision, please send the revised manuscript backto the Editorial Board within a month. Failure to respond to a request within three5months will be considered as a withdrawal of the submission. Should authors prefer not

to follow one or more of the comments from the referees or the Editorial Board, please
include an appropriate justification at the time the manuscript is re-submitted to the
Editorial Board.

(3) Authors will be given one final opportunity to proofread their submitted manuscripts

prior to publication. This is the time to correct typos or misprints; however, please notethat substantial improvements or revisions to the manuscript will not be permitted at

this stage. If any discrepancies are found between the publishedversion and the authors’
proof, the Editor may be contacted with a request for correction, which will be printed
in the subsequent journal issue.

(4) Accepted manuscripts become the property of the Japanese Society of Health

Education and Promotion.

(5) When the designated word count is exceeded, a printing fee of 11,000 yen per extra

page will be charged to the authors. The total amount to be levied will be specified after
the paper is accepted for publication. Please transfer the printing fee and reprint cost
(if any) to the bank account below.

Japan Post Bank (Yu-cho Ginkou), Account Number: 00500-9-44161, Account Holder:
Head Office of the Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion (Nihon
Kenkou Kyouiku Gakkai Jimukyoku)(6) Reprinting of published papers, such as registration in institutional repositories, ispermitted; (1) reprinting on the website of the institution to which the author belongs(registration in the institutional repository), and (2) reprinting on the author's website.

If you wish to reprint, please submit the designated permission request (downloadablehere) to the editorial office. The electronic data that can be reprinted is limited to the
PDF of the paper published in the journal (downloadable from J-Stage).
(7) Submitted manuscripts will not be returned.

(8) Any further questions regarding manuscript submission may be directed to theSecretariat of the Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion, the address forwhich is shown at the end of the preceding section above.

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Note. Editorial office for Japanese Journal of Health Education and Promotion:

Publishing Center in International Academic Publishing Co. Ltd. 332-6, Yamabukicho,
Shinjukuku, Tokyo, Japan. 162-0801

Phone：+81-3-6824-9363 FAX：+81-3-5206-5332 E-mail：jjhep-edit@bunken.co.jp

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A Guide for Preparation of the Manuscript
The Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion Revised on Nov. 13th, 2020

by the Editorial Board

1. Structure of articles and accompanying materials

Guidelines regarding necessary documents for manuscript submission are summarizedin Table 1. Regarding the main text, submissions of the “Perspectives”, “Review

Article”, “Field Report”, “Special Report”, “Commentary”, and “Other” types need not
follow the structure presented in Table 1. The main text of “Field Reports” should
follow the structure presented in Table 2.

Please make the abstract within 250 words. Please summarize the contents of theabstracts of "Systematic Review", "Original", and "Short Report" in the items ofobjective, method, result, and conclusion. However, "Review", "Field reports", and"Special reports" do not have to follow this. "Field reports" may be summarized as

objective, program, or field activity, assessments, and future implications according to

the text. No abstract is required for "Perspective", "Commentary", or "Others". In

addition, the number of citations of “Commentary" and "Others" is limited to five.
Table 1. Structure and subdivision of articles and accompanying materials

Cover letter(a) Type of article(b) Title(c) Author(s)(d) Affiliation(s)(e) Abstract

Description of content

Make sure that the title is short andencapsulates the main idea of themanuscript. Only the first word of thesentence is capitalized.
Name(s) of author(s).

Place of employment or organization towhich each author belongs. Use

superscripts (e.g. * 1 , * 2) to collateaffiliations to each author.

Not exceeding 250 words, structure theabstract under the following headings:

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(a) Objective, (b) Methods, (c) Results,and (d) Conclusion. For “Field Reports”,
the headings can be as follows: (a)Objective, (b) Program or Field Activity,(c) Assessment, and (d) Future(f) Key words

Implications

Three to five keywords should be

supplied, preferably using terms fromthe medical subject headings (MeSH) listof Index Medicus. Use lowercase letters(g) Corresponding author(h) Running head(i) Number of pages(j) Number of figures/ tables/ photos
Title page
Main text(a) Introduction(b) Methods(c) Results(d) Discussion(e) Conclusion

in principle

The name and address of thecorresponding author should be indicatedhere. The phone and fax number/e-mailaddress may also be included as desired.
In case the title occupies more than one

line, a running head of no more than one
line should be indicated.

Number of pages from cover letter tobibliography

Each number of figures/ tables/ photos

A page with the title, abstract, keywords,
number of pages, figures, tables, andphotosBackground and objective.

Participants, methods, and ethicalissues.

Present results as simply as possibleusing tables and figures. (Tables andfigures should be placed at the end of thearticle.)Logical explication of ideas based on the
results.

Should be written based on thediscussion. (Not compulsory.)9

(f) Acknowledgement

This section is optional and may be(g) Conflicts of interest

If nothing to declare, please state as,(h) References
Anonymized text

omitted. (Not compulsory.)“The authors have no conflicts of interest
to declare.”

Refer to “2. Formatting guidelines”
below.

Information that may identify theauthor(s), such as acknowledgments,
grant information, ethics committeenames, and other information, should beblacked out or replaced with a symbol

Table, Figures, Illustrations

such as ●.

Each table, figure, and illustration

should be presented on a separate page.
Figures should be clear, as they will be
printed exactly as submitted. Titles

should appear at the tops of tables, andat the bottoms of figures andillustrations. Please do not use verticallines in tables.
Table 2. Structure of the main text for field reports(a) Objective(b) Program or field activity(c) Assessments(d) Future implications

Description of Content

Objective of the program or field activity.
Description of the program or field
activity and any associated ethicalissues.

Authors’ observations and assessments.

Authors’ comment on potential future
implications, based logically on theirassessment of the program or field(e) Acknowledgement(f) Conflicts of interest

activities.

This section is optional and may beomitted. (Not compulsory.)

If nothing to declare, please state as,
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“The authors have no conflicts of interest(g) References

to declare.”

Refer to “2. Formatting guidelines”
below.

2. Formatting guidelines(1) The text and abstract should be double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font
printed on A4-size paper, leaving margins of 20 mm at the top and bottom and 60 mm
at the right- and left-hand sides.

(2) Number pages consecutively from the cover letter through the references.

(3) Authors for whom English is a second language should have their manuscript
professionally edited before submission.

(4) Use half-size font characters for numeric and alphabetic characters. Arabic
numerals should be used for all numbers 10 and above.

(5) The notation of N and n indicating the number of subjects follows the "American

Medical Association Manual of Style". Use N to represent the entire sample size of yourstudy and n to represent the size of the subgroup. Example: Patients who were

urgently hospitalized in the past month were analyzed (N = 127), and the number ofpatients with angina was the highest (n = 38).

(6) The symbol indicating the p-value follows the "American Medical Association

Manual of Style". Mark it as " P " in italics, and leave a half-width space before andafter it. In addition, in the title part of the table, please indicate only "P " instead of "P -value" or "P value".

(7) Number tables, figures, and illustrations consecutively and cite in numeric order.

Indicate in the margin of the text where each table, figure, or illustration should

appear in the published article.

(8) Use images and photos with a resolution of 300 dpi or higher.

(9) Authors must obtain permission from the original publisher to include previously
11published tables, figures, or illustrations. Each previously published table, figure, or

illustration must carry a credit line stating the original source.

(10) References must be numbered sequentially as they appear in the text. Reference
numbers in the text should be given in superscript – for example,(11) In the reference list, indicate each reference as below.

1) or 1, 2) or 1- 3).

1) List the names and initials of all authors if there are three or fewer; otherwise, list
the first three authors and then add “et al”.

2) Verify journal abbreviations using MEDLINE. If a journal is listed in Medline, thenit should be spelled out in full.

3) In the citation description, leave a half-width space after the colon or semicolon, anduse a half-width hyphen.

4) For English references in the reference list, capitalize only the first word and proper
noun, and leave the rest in lowercase.

e.g. Health behavior．

5) Include spaces after colons or semi-colons.

e.g. Effects of advocacy on healthy food eating: A cross-sectional study.
Sample references:
Journal article

1) Aikawa R, Jimba M, Nguen KC, et al. Prenatal iron supplementation inrural Vietnam. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2008; 62: 946-952.
Chapter in book2) O’Neill M, Stirling A. The promotion of health or health promotion? In:
O’Neill M, Pederson A, Dupere S, et al. eds. Health Promotion in Canada:
Critical Perspectives. Second Edition. Toronto: 2007: 32-45.

Book3) Laverack G. Health Promotion Practice: Power and Empowerment. London:

Sage Publications 2004: 1-5.

Materials written in languages other than English

4) Miyasaka T. Kenkokyouiku no hensenn genjyo konngo no kadai. Hokenn No
Kagaku. 2000;42:508-513. [in Japanese]

12Electronic citations

Websites should be cited with their URL and access date. (See the 11th editionof the AMA Manual of Style.)5) Smith R. The polypill is about demedicalisation not medicalisation.

http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/05/01/richard-smith-the-polypill-is-aboutdemedicalisation-not-medicalisation. Accessed 17 July, 2009.

(12) For describing statistical results, please follow the guidelines set forth in thefollowing books:


Gardner MJ and Altman DG. Statistics with Confidence. London: BMJ PublishingGroup, 1990.

American Medical Association. AMA manual of style: a guide for authors andeditors, 11th edition. New York: Oxford University Press; 2020.

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