family and health journal ,Islamic Azad University Astara Branch
Guidance for authors
:This guideline is organized into three sections
Conditions of acceptance, registration of articles and submission of refereeing and printing fees
: Article acceptance conditions
It is a specialized family and health quarterly with a peer review process, which is published in Farsi and includes articles related to various branches of health, medical, psychological and social sciences, all sciences related to the fields of family health. Interested parties, researchers and experts can send their articles to the address of the quarterly in full compliance with the following principles, so that after review, if approved, it will be published in the quarterly. It is obvious that non-compliance with the mentioned principles will lead to non-acceptance or delay in the stages of scientific review, printing and publication of received articles.
Article submission or any subsequent revisions will be evaluated in the journal office and if correction is needed, the submission may be temporarily canceled and returned to the authors who are responsible for organizing the article submission and providing the required information. If you have any questions about submitting an article, you can contact the journal office
To submit an article, complete the registration form and upload your article using the article submission menu. If there is a problem, inform the internal manager of the magazine.
Submission conditions: open access license, copyright, fees After submitting the article, the authors must sign an exclusive license to publish their works in the journal, under Creative Commons license 4.0 (CC-BY-NC). Authors own the copyright of their works. For more information in this field, refer to the copyright policy and license agreement.
The author of the article, or in the case of a group, the first (main) author, must undertake that the submitted article has not been published in any other scientific journal, and that it has not been published in another journal at the same time as this one, and Time with this publication will not be submitted to another publication. The scientific responsibility of the material presented in the article is the responsibility of the author/authors of the article.
All the authors of the article should be aware of its submission and publication. Therefore, it is necessary for all respected authors of the article to commit these items by signing in the letter of request for publication.
:Letter accompanying the article (cover letter):
The letter accompanying the article is necessary for sending all articles. Authors must confirm the following when sending a letter with the article:
The originality of the submitted article, which is only sent to this journal and has not been published anywhere else, and is not under review for publication, unless this issue is mentioned in the letter accompanying the article.
That no sentence has been copied from another source. Refer to the plagiarism section in the editorial policy.
The author who sends the article assumes the responsibility of sending it on behalf of other authors as the responsible author.
All authors have reviewed, approved and consented to the submission of the article and are responsible for all aspects of its accuracy and integrity in accordance with ICMJE standards.
The cover letter of the article should include the following information and any additional information that is available in the special article guide.
An explanation of why the submitted article should be published in the journal (novelty of the work) An explanation of issues related to the journal's policies An explanation of any potential conflicts of interest A mention of the specific issue of the journal in which the submitted article should be published.
Authors can nominate peer reviewers for their submitted article by providing their name, institution email address, ORCID or Scopus ID.
Authors can also provide details of people who do not wish to review their articles.
Deliberately providing false information such as fake names or email addresses will result in article rejection and may lead to further investigation due to the misconduct policy.
Copyright letter: (commitment form) Before publishing the article, all authors must sign and send the copyright letter separately. The signature of the responsible author alone is not enough to publish the article.
The quarterly is free to reject or accept and modify articles, and if necessary, it informs the author or authors of its corrective and advisory opinions.
important points:
- If the article does not fully follow the structure mentioned in this instruction, it will be returned to the author for correction before judging.
- The editorial board is free to accept, reject, edit and summarize articles.
- The mentioned sources should preferably be related to the last five years and the published articles related to the title of the article in the Scientific Journal of Family and Health of Astara Azad University should also be used as sources.
- Authors should be careful that if at any stage of the article review process (first and second reviews, acceptance, during publication, printing, etc.) it is determined for the journal that the submitted article is not for Family and Health magazine or for other magazines If it is sent for review or printing, the article will be removed from the review process and no fees will be returned.
- The Journal of Family and Health will be indexed in Scopus in future issues, so it is necessary for the authors to send the English translation of the full text of their article. If the journal announces, the authors will have two weeks to prepare the article in English text.
- Due to the large volume of articles sent to the journal, articles extracted from doctoral theses and approved research projects will be accepted and published in priority if approved by the referees. Articles extracted from master's thesis and other research reports will be accepted and published only if they are indexed by the editor and referees.
- To access the desired format on the magazine website, follow the path for authors and adjust the article based on it. The main titles of the article should include: abstract, introduction, method, findings and discussion and conclusion. Please do not include additional titles.
- After uploading the article on the magazine website, it is necessary to pay the arbitration fee. The deposit of the amount related to the initial review is for the initial review of the article, and if the article is not approved at this time of review, the amount will not be returned.
- After the initial evaluation, the article will be sent to the author for making corrections, and the author (or authors) will be obliged to make the desired corrections within a maximum period of 14 days and send the corrected article file. If the desired corrections are not made within the set deadline, the article will be archived. At this stage, it is also necessary to pay the full cost of the article through the bank card number after the approval of the magazine, and send the deposit slip to the working number: 09113828012, mentioning the details and contact number, by WhatsApp.
In the continuation of the article (after the corrections are made and confirmed by the editor), it will be sent to the second referee and the result of the second referee will be announced to the author of the article to make corrections. The maximum period for sending corrections to the second referee will be a maximum of 5 days. If corrections are made and approved by the relevant reviewer and the editor, the article will be sent for final review.
It is necessary for the authors to check their profile on the journal website (which they completed during the initial registration) before sending the revised file of the article and make sure that all the information of the authors, including the name of the author(s), name of the university, position, group, etc., in all profiles and the organizational profile section at the bottom of the page must be completed correctly. Also, make sure that the affiliations (authors' details) are correctly inserted under the first page of the article itself.
- To get the Orchid code, visit www.orcid.org.
- Guidelines for depositing the arbitration fee and printing the article:
- The cost and duration of the normal acceptance (after the first and second referees and corrections and editor's approval), $200 and 100 working days) and the final acceptance cost of the article will be $400. - It is necessary to download the reviewers' opinion in a separate word file and read the specified corrections and apply them in the text of the article with a different color. Please highlight the corrections of the first referee in red and the second referee in green. Note that the final referee reviews the comments of both referees.
- Note that the presence or absence of even a single comma, dot or mistakes that may be small and unimportant for some authors causes interruptions and problems in the process of accepting and printing the article. So it is necessary for the authors of the article to make all corrections carefully.
- Sources are set in Vancouver style
Specific requirements
Set your content preferably in 8 to 21 pages.
Submitted articles must be sent exclusively through the journal system.
Submitting articles or paying for refereeing does not mean acceptance of the article, and until the last stage of scientific editing, the article is not considered accepted, and if the article is not accepted, the money received will not be returned.
Important note: Even after receiving the final acceptance letter, if the desired corrections are not made during the editing process, the article will not be published.
Set the page size of the article to 24x17 and type the Farsi text with B nazanin 12 fonts without spacing and the tables with B zar 10 fonts without spacing. English text with time new roman font