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Contents

• About the Journal
• Peer Review
• Preparing Your Paper
• • Style Guidelines
  • Checklist
  • Formatting and Templates
• Using Third-Party Material
• Submitting Your Paper
• Data Sharing Policy
• Publication Charges
• Copyright Options
• Complying with Funding Agencies
• Open Access
• Accepted Manuscripts Online
• My Authored Works
• Reprints

About the Journal

Health Psychology Review is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal's Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy.

Peer Review

Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.

Preparing Your Paper

General Guidelines

Manuscripts must be written in English. American or British spelling and punctuation are acceptable, provided authors apply the style consistently throughout the manuscript. Manuscripts with incorrect grammar or errors will be returned to to authors. Authors are encouraged to proofread their manuscript prior to submission. Authors requiring English language editing services are directed to the Taylor & Francis Author Services website.

The manuscript must not contain any content that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.

Manuscript Length

The editorial team acknowledge that review articles are usually longer than articles reporting findings or primary research. Health Psychology Review does not impose any length restrictions on submitted articles. However, it is also recognised that articles should be appropriately concise and pithy so that the main focus is not lost and the argument is not encumbered by unnecessary detail. Authors can include supplemental materials such as figures and tables not directly germane to the main argument of the manuscript as online supplemental materials. For meta-analyses and systematic reviews, references for studies included in the review should only appear in a separate supplemental list that the journal will make available as an online supplement. These materials will not count toward the page length of the manuscript, but will be included as a permanent record of supplemental materials alongside the online version of the manuscript (see later). Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page including acknowledgements and funding details as an author note; abstract; keywords; main text; references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures and figure caption(s).

Style Guidelines

Authors should follow the style guidelines of the American Psychological Association Publication Manuel (6th Edition).

Meta-analyses and systematic reviews
In order to comply with international standards and for academic transparency, authors of meta-analyses and systematic reviews submitted to Health Psychology Review are required to include a statement in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement ( http://www.prisma-statement.org/ ) as a supplemental file for review (the final document will be included as online supplemental material). In addition, authors of meta-analyses should include the information recommended by the APA's Meta-Analysis Reporting Methods (MARS) which can be found here (http://www.apastyle.org/manual/related/JARS-MARS.pdf)

Open Science Policies 

Open Data 

Health Psychology Review is committed to the principles of open science. Authors are therefore required to publish any raw data and any code or syntax used in data analysis in the interests of full disclosure and transparency. Please see a recent article outlining the recommendations: Peters, G.-J. Y., Abraham, C., & Crutzen, R. (2012). Full disclosure: Doing behavioural science necessitates sharing. European Health Psychologist, 14, 77-84. Authors of articles that make use of data (e.g., meta-analysis, systematic reviews) are required to make all raw data files and code or syntax used in data analysis available when submitting the manuscript. This can be done using the HPR online submission portal. Authors should upload files as supplemental materials (for review). Authors should choose formats that are able to be read using commonly available software (e.g., text or rtf files). Authors of articles accepted for publication can opt to have the data and analysis files published as supplemental materials permanently linked with the online version of the article, or with another archival service provider such as the Open Science Framework website or Dryad, or both. 

Pre-Registration

From January 1, 2020 all reviews with empirical content (e.g., systematic reviews, meta-analyses) will be required to be pre-registered on an appropriate independent, institutional registry such as Prospero https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/, the Open Science Framework https://osf.io/ or other registry (e.g., http://clinicaltrials.gov/, http://socialscienceregistry.org/, http://egap.org/designregistration/, http://ridie.3ieimpact.org/). Pre-registration of studies involves registering the study design, variables, and treatment conditions prior to conducting the research. Authors must confirm that the study was registered prior to conducting the research, and that the preregistration adheres to the disclosure requirements of the institutional registry or those required for the preregistered ‘badge’maintained by the Center for Open Science: see https://osf.io/tvyxz/wiki/home/. Authors must report the web link to the timestamped pre-registration at the institutional registry or the pre-registration trial number prominently (e.g., in the Methods section) in their manuscript. For registries that do not provide a standard template for pre-registering a review, authors are advised to use a template that includes the required information. An example is provided here.  There will be a one year grace period between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019 in which pre-registration is not a requirement for submission, but strongly encouraged. From January 1, 2020 pre-registration will be a mandatory requirement for submission for all empirical reviews. It is acceptable to pre-register a review after the initial search has been completed, but not before any screening according to eligibility criteria has been conducted. Post-registration is not acceptable. Conceptual and narrative reviews do not need to be pre-registered. 

Checklist: What to Include

1. The Title Page (p. 1) should contain the article title, authors' names and affiliations. It should also contain a author note with authors’ full affiliations and the address for manuscript correspondence (including e-mail, address and telephone and fax numbers) in accordance with the APA Publication Manual (6th Ed.). No information that would indicate authors’ identity or affiliation should be contained in the manuscript itself, all such information should be included on the title page only Where available, please also include ORCiDs and social media handles (Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn). One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted. Read more on authorship.
2. The Abstract (p. 2) must be a single paragraph that summarizes the main findings of the paper in fewer than 200 words. After the abstract a list of up to six Keywords that will be useful for indexing or searching should be included.
3. Figures. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, GIF, TIFF or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX). For information relating to other file types, please consult our Submission of electronic artwork document. Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the manuscript file. All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the manuscript, and numbered correspondingly.The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
4. Tables. should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numbers in order of appearance in the text. Type each table double-spaced on a separate page, with a short descriptive title typed directly above and with essential footnotes below.
5. Authors' contributions. All authors are expected to have made substantive intellectual contributions to, and to have been involved in drafting or revising the manuscript. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group, alone, does not justify authorship. With the submission of a manuscript, it is assumed that all authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
6. Acknowledgements. All contributors who do not meet the above criteria for authorship, should be listed in an acknowledgements section in accordance with the APA guidelines. The acknowledgements should be contained on the title page of the manuscript as making acknowledgements available to reviewers will compromise the masked peer-review process. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include those who provided general, technical, or writing assistance. Acknowledgement of funding/grants are also included in this section.
7. Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
   For single agency grants
   This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
   For multiple agency grants
   This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
8. Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, fileset, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper. We publish supplemental material online via Figshare. Find out more about supplemental material and how to submit it with your article.
9. Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial interest or benefit that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. Further guidance on what is a conflict of interest and how to disclose it.
10. Data availability statement. If there is a data set associated with the paper, please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). Templates are also available to support authors.
11. Data deposition. If you choose to share or make the data underlying the study open, please deposit your data in a recognized data repository prior to or at the time of submission. You will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-reserved DOI, or other persistent identifier for the data set.
12. Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable. More information about mathematical symbols and equations.
13. Units. Please use SI units (non-italicized).

Formatting and Templates

Papers may be submitted in Word or LaTeX formats. Figures should be saved separately from the text. 

Using Third-Party Material in your Paper

You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission. More information on requesting permission to reproduce work(s) under copyright.

Submitting Your Paper

This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts to manage the peer-review process. If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in ScholarOne. Please read the guidelines above and then submit your paper in the relevant Author Centre, where you will find user guides and a helpdesk.

If you are submitting in LaTeX, please convert the files to PDF beforehand (you will also need to upload your LaTeX source files with the PDF).

Please note that Health Psychology Review uses Crossref™ to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to Health Psychology Review you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.

On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript. Find out more about sharing your work.

Data Sharing Policy

This journal applies the Taylor & Francis Basic Data Sharing Policy. Authors are required to make data supporting the results or analyses of empirical reviews open where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns. Authors of conceptual or narrative reviews are not expected to share data.

Authors are required to deposit the dataset(s) in a recognized data repository that can mint a persistent digital identifier, preferably a digital object identifier (DOI) and recognizes a long-term preservation plan. If you are uncertain about where to deposit your data, please see this information regarding repositories.

Authors are further encouraged to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.

At the point of submission, you will be asked if there is a data set associated with the paper. If you reply yes, you will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). If you have selected to provide a pre-registered DOI, please be prepared to share the reviewer URL associated with your data deposit, upon request by reviewers.

Where one or multiple data sets are associated with a manuscript, these are not formally peer reviewed as a part of the journal submission process. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of data. Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the data set(s).

Publication Charges

There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.

Colour figures will be reproduced in colour in your online article free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in colour in the print version, a charge will apply.

Charges for colour figures in print are £300 per figure ($400 US Dollars; $500 Australian Dollars; €350). For more than 4 colour figures, figures 5 and above will be charged at £50 per figure ($75 US Dollars; $100 Australian Dollars; €65). Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to local taxes.

Copyright Options

Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Taylor & Francis offers a number of different license and reuse options, including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access. Read more on publishing agreements.

Complying with Funding Agencies

We will deposit all National Institutes of Health or Wellcome Trust-funded papers into PubMedCentral on behalf of authors, meeting the requirements of their respective open access policies. If this applies to you, please tell our production team when you receive your article proofs, so we can do this for you. Check funders’ open access policy mandates here. Find out more about sharing your work.

Open Access

This journal gives authors the option to publish open access via our Open Select publishing program, making it free to access online immediately on publication. Many funders mandate publishing your research open access; you can check open access funder policies and mandates here.

Taylor & Francis Open Select gives you, your institution or funder the option of paying an article publishing charge (APC) to make an article open access. Please contact openaccess@tandf.co.uk if you would like to find out more, or go to our Author Services website.

For more information on license options, embargo periods and APCs for this journal please go here.

Accepted Manuscripts Online

This journal posts manuscripts online as rapidly as possible, as a PDF of the final, accepted (but unedited and uncorrected) paper. This is clearly identified as an unedited manuscript and is referred to as the Accepted Manuscript Online (AMO). No changes will be made to the content of the original paper for the AMO version but, after copy-editing, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof, the final corrected version (the Version of Record [VoR]), will be published, replacing the AMO version.

The VoR is the article in its final, definitive and citable form (this may not be immediately paginated, but is the version that will appear in an issue of the journal). Both the AMO version and VoR can be cited using the same DOI (digital object identifier). To ensure rapid publication, we ask you to return your signed publishing agreement as quickly as possible, and return corrections within 48 hours of receiving your proofs.

My Authored Works

On publication, you will be able to view, download and check your article’s metrics (downloads, citations and Altmetric data) via My Authored Works on Taylor & Francis Online. This is where you can access every article you have published with us, as well as your free eprints link, so you can quickly and easily share your work with friends and colleagues.

We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article. Here are some tips and ideas on how you can work with us to promote your research.

Article Reprints

You will be sent a link to order article reprints via your account in our production system. For enquiries about reprints, please contact the Taylor & Francis Author Services team at reprints@tandf.co.uk. You can also order print copies of the journal issue in which your article appears.

Queries

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Updated 05-12-2018