References


Reference style in Clinical Health Promotion

References in the text are to be cited sequentially in the Vancouver numbering style. Please use Arabic numbers in brackets.

  • E.g. … first defined by Nielsen and Small (5).
  • Two references are cited separated by a semicolon, with no space between (2;3) or (10;15).
  • Three or more consecutive references are given as a range with a hyphen between the numbers (5-8).
  • Three or more references (including consecutive) are separated by seimcolon and with a hyphen between the consecutive numbers (2;6;17), (2;5-8) or (6;8-10;25).
  • References in tables, figures, and panels should be in numerical order according to their place in the text.


The reference list
should be performed according to the guidelines stated by the ICMJEgroup (www.icmje.org). For Clinical Health Promotion the following exceptions apply:

  • If there are six authors or fewer, please fill in all authors; surname space initials comma. E.g.: Thompson KA, Larsson C.
  • If there are seven or more give the names of the first three, followed by et al. If there are more than six authors on a given publication, only the first three authors should be stated in the reference list followed by et al.
    Punctuation mark after the name of the journal.
    No issue number of the journal, only volume number and page numbers.
  • Journal titles should be abbreviated according to MEDLINE (www.nlm.nih.gov).


Doi reference:

When available doi and the related hyperlink should be provided at the end of the reference in the format:
doi:10.1213/ane.0b013e31819a6cf0

Example on reference list

  • Gögenur I, Kücükakin B, Bisgaard T, et al. The effect of melatonin on sleep quality after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a randomized placebo-controlled trial. Anesth Analg 2009; 108:1152-6. doi:10.1213/ane.0b013e31819a6cf0.
  • Nielsen AC, Alberdi F, Rosenbaum B. Collaborative assessment and management of suicidality method shows effect. Dan Med Bull 2011; 58:A4300.
  • Laan MT, van Dijk MC, Staal MJ, et al. Electrical modulation of the sympathetic nervous system in order to agument cerebral blood flow: a protocol for an experimental study. BMJ Open 2011; 1:e000120. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000120.

 

Figures and tables


When presenting exact data use a table, whereas a graph is more adequate when the aim is to illustrate a tendency. Avoid three-dimensional presentations.
Do not present your data twice (e.g. in text and table or figure). Illustrations should be submitted in .png, .jpg, .tiff or .gif format. Alternatively they can be submitted as e.g. PowerPoint or Excel files.
All illustrations should be submitted as separate files. If an illustration has been published before, we need a written permission from the copyright holder if the illustration is going to be reproduced in your article. We strongly encourage the submission of illustrations including photographs.

  • Figures should be attached in additional files preferably in .png, .jpg, .tiff or .gif format and in high resolution; 300 dpi or higher. Alternatively, they can be submitted in .pdf format.
  • Descriptive text allows up to 30 words per figure or table.
  • We urge all authors to consider the use of tables. If possible all tables should be attached in .doc format. If that is not possible tables can alternatively be submitted in .pgn or .jpg in high resolution; 300 dpi or higher.


For submitted papers, we refer to the Requirements outlined by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: http://www.icmje.org/

Authors


Authors should fulfil all four criteria for authorship set by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE-group at www.icmje.org). This has to be stated in the authorship declaration and should be submitted with the article.

Authorship credit should be based on
The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following four criteria:

  1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
  2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
  3. Final approval of the version to be published; AND
  4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.


Authors should meet conditions 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Contributorship
Contributors who meet fewer than all four of the above criteria for authorship should not be listed as authors, but they should be acknowledged. Those whose contributions do not justify authorship may be acknowledged individually or together as a group under a single heading.

 

Declarations


Each of the following declarations must be provided after the discussion and before the references. 

Each of the authors’ contribution could be presented as follows:
Conception and design: TLS, HP.
Acquisition of data: TLS.
Analysis and interpretation of data: TLS, HP.
Drafting, revising and final approving of the article: TLS, HP.

Conflicts of interest
Any conflicts of interests for the submitted paper in the form of an “ICMJE Uniform Disclosure Form for Potential Conflicts of Interest” (Link to CoI form) should be submitted for each author of the paper. These forms should be submitted when sent with the article. The CoI forms will be made visible in the online archive of all published articles. 

Funding
Any funding for the submitted paper must be stated including grant numbers if possible.  You are welcome to use the following “This research received no external funding” or “This research was funded by [name of funder] grant number [xxx].” 

Ethical approval
All studies that recuire ethical approval must state the number for the ethical appoval. If the study does not require ethical approval, please state "Not applicable". 

 

Trial registration


All studies, which include human subjects, should be registered on an open web-site such as e.g. www.clinicaltrials.gov. The registration number should be included in the abstract of the original article or protocol article as well as in the methods section in the paper.