WHO South-East Asia
Journal of Public Health
Editorial Guidelines
Jennie Greaney
World Health Organization

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WHO South-East Asia Journalof Public Health Publication of original
research work for evidencebased public health action.
 Launched in April 2012.
 No cost to publish; no cost toaccess articles.
 www.searo.who.int/
publications/journals/seajph2|International Advisory Board Samlee Plianbangchang(Chair; Regional Director WHO South-East Asia)

 Richard Horton (Lancet)
 Hooman Momen (WHO Press, Geneva)

 David Sanders (Purdue University, USA)
 Fran Baum (Flinders University, Australia)

 Lalit M Nath (formerly Centre for Community Medicine, India)
 Chitr Sitthi-amorn (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)3|

Research topics covered public health public health nutrition

 primary health care

 communicable and noncommunicable diseases

 epidemiology

 health administration
 health systems
 health economics
 health promotion
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 maternal and child health occupational andenvironmental health social and preventivemedicine

Additional article types
 editorial reports from the field commentaries public health classics

 perspectives

 letters to the editor state of the art reviews

 book reviews

 research briefs
 policy and practice

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Future directions
 Content improvement– Strengthening and supporting peer review– Capacity-building of researchers
 Management improvement Marketing and promotion
 Risk management
 Evaluation and monitoring Involvement in networks/associations/forums

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Current journal editorial guidelines
Refer to:“Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical
Journals should be consulted before submission of the manuscript(http://www.icmje.org).”
“When reporting experiment on human subjects indicate whether theprocedures followed were in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration(http://www.wma.net).”“References: ANSI standard style adapted by the National Library ofMedicine should be followed (http://www.nlm.nih.
gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html).”8|

New journal editor
Sarah Ramsay(Email: ramsays@who.int)
Former Executive Editor for the Lancet

For WHO, has relaunched Weekly Epidemiological Record

9|Your ethics policies
 Examples of referee peer-review forms.

 Policy on disclosure of competing interests by referees.
 Definitions of authorship/contributorship.

 Policies on obtaining declarations ofauthorship/contributorship.
 Experience with use of CrossCheck (or similar).
 Experience with introduction of trial registry requirements.
10 |Editorial forums
 To what extent are journals in the Asia Pacific participatingin overarching editorial forums such as ICMJE, COPE,etc.?

11 |“Your paper, your way”
“Although standard formats do make it just thatlittle bit easier for editors and reviewers to see
everything in the correct style, the reality is thatthe advantage is very small, and we should
really be focusing on the quality of scienceand not the format.”
Sir Kelvin Davies, PhD, DSc,
Editor-in-Chief of Free Radical Biology & Medicine(Elsevier Journal)

12 |Source: Editors’ Update,Elsevier, issue 39, June
2013

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Source: Editors’ Update,Elsevier, issue 39, June
2013

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Editorial guidelines should focus oncontent not format
 Type the article in double space (including references)using 12 point font with at least one inch margin on allsides…..

15 |Building capacity

16 |Is it true that…

Only ‘good’ articles get published?
If I write a ‘good’ article it will getpublished?

17 |Getting your research article
written and published The skill of writing an article – and getting it publishedin a peer-reviewed journal – is highly prized, but rarely
taught.
 Participants come with an idea for a research article,
and during the day they work it up in easy stages.

18 |Learning objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will:understand the publications game – and how to be a winnermake logical and informed decisions on where to send research articles
reduce rewriting in the final stages by early planningcut 'information overload' by using simple brainstorming techniquesmake the most of scarce time by writing for 10 minutes a day
use 'evidence based' writing to solve disputes with others
apply simple marketing techniques to increase the chances of a submitted
research article being looked at favourably.

19 |“What’s in it for me?”WIIFM ?

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