Guide for Authors JJPHPT

Updated: March 20, 2025

AUTHOR INQUIRIES

Authors must state all sources of funding and any other financial and personal relationships that could potentially bias their work in their manuscript. If any author has involvements that might raise any question of bias, they are required to provide details of such involvements. When submitting revised manuscript, all of the authors must complete and upload “ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest” in the submission system to declare their Conflicts of Interest to disclose interests that could influence how readers interpret your work. Failure to reveal all pertinent information could result in the article being classified as a fraudulent submission and may cause a published paper to be retracted.

Editorial Office of Japanese Journal of Public Health Physical Therapy
Email: jjphpt@outlook.com

Human and animal rights

Journal of Public Health Physical Therapy will not consider research and manuscripts that have been supported either directly or indirectly by tobacco companies.

• Articles are full-length reports of original research.
• Maximum length: 5000 words.
• Papers should include a structured abstract containing Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions (maximum length, 250 words).
• Figure legends should explain what is represented in the figure rather than repeating results, methods, and conclusions.
• Methods sections containing detailed, widely available protocols may be partly limited to online publication, at the Editor’s discretion.

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ver6 (20th Mar 2025)

INTRODUCTION

AFTER SUBMISSION

If the work involves the use of human subjects, the author should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.

Ethics in Publishing

Policy on funding by tobacco companies

6. Letters to the Editor

Submission declaration and verification

For information on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication see COPE.

• Opinions regarding any material of Epidemiology.
• Maximum length: 600 words.

Types of articles

Your manuscript will be copyedited after advance publication as “Accepted version.” Editorial office may contact authors if confirmation is needed. Copyedited manuscript will be sent to typesetting. Then, corresponding authors will receive an e-mail about proofs from editorial office. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures.

Publication Fee and Review Process

Starting from April 2025, the API will be free of charge. Submitted manuscripts will undergo an initial screening before being sent for peer review. After passing the pre-review screening, a peer review fee of $99 USD (15,000 JPY per manuscript) will be required. This fee will be distributed as follows: 40% to each reviewer and 20% to the research association.

The review fee can be paid via PayPal using a credit card. Please note that once the peer review process has been initiated, the fee is non-refundable.

If the manuscript is accepted, there will be no additional publication or issuance fees.

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that its publication is approved by all authors. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service Similarity Check.

Copyediting, Typesetting and Proofreading

You can also contact the journal directly:

4. Statistical Data

• Description of a study design or overview of a potentially influential cohort or intervention study.
• Includes background and purpose, participants and follow-up, main outcome measures, baseline descriptive statistics, and strengths and limitations.
• Maximum length: 2000 words.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

• Reports based on statistical analyses of data sets available in the public domain, such as information on mortality, morbidity, and disease surveillance systems.
• Maximum length: 2000 words.

• Review articles are summaries of recent insights into specific research areas within the scope of Japanese Journal of Public Health Physical Therapy.
• Key aims of reviews are to provide systematic and substantial coverage of established topics, evaluations of progress in specified areas, and critical assessments of emerging studies.
• Maximum length: 5000 words.

5. Study Profiles

• Short Communications are concise reports of preliminary findings, or an epidemiologic study with narrowly focused or limited findings.
• Manuscript style (excluding word length) should conform to the requirements for original articles.
• Maximum length: 2000 words.

1. Original Articles

Conflict of Interest

2. Short Communications

3. Reviews