Author Guidelines

Online submission is required.

Please download the journal author guidelines and submit your manuscript at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lgbtq.

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

The mission of Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health is to bring together state-of-the-art scholarship across disciplines, which seeks to enhance the health and well-being of sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals at the population level with an eye to the intersectional identities that SGM people possess.

Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.

MANUSCRIPT TYPES

Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health accepts Full-Length Articles and Brief Reports of empirical research in including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies. We do not publish case studies.

• Full-Length Articles: maximum of 3500 words of text and no more than 5 tables or figures.
• Brief Reports: maximum 1000 words and text and no more than 2 tables or figures.
• We will also consider the following pending approval from the Editor in Chief:
  • Systematic Reviews: maximum of 7500 words of text and no more than 5 tables or figures
    Systematic Reviews must consist of an extensive literature review conducted with a methodological approach and explicate public health and public policy implications.
  • Commentaries: maximum of 1000 words with no tables or figures.
    Commentaries should address developments in public or population health, national or world events, as these relate to the mission of the journal.
  • Letters to the Editor: maximum of 500 words with no tables or figures.
    Letters to the Editor should address an article previously published in the journal.

All submitting authors are expected to read and follow the Springer Publishing Company Journals Policies and Statements.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Submit manuscripts online at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lgbtq.

Style/Format: Before submitting any manuscript, please sure that the manuscript is prepared according to the most recent Publication Manual by the American Medical Association (AMA). Authors should also verify that all tables, graphs, and figures as cited in the text are included and prepared according to AMA style.

Authors should check to make sure that all references included in the text are accurate and consistent with those listed in the reference list. Manuscripts that contain these errors will be returned to the author before it is sent for peer review.

Copyright: Authors must release copyright ownership to their manuscript at the time of its submission to the journal via Editorial Manager. This release must accompany the manuscript before processing for publication can begin. Accepted manuscripts become the property of the journal and may be reproduced in other publications in whole or in part with the permission of publisher.

Note: To be considered for publication, articles should not be submitted to any other journal.

Conflict of interest: Authors must state all conflicts of interest related to content of articles. This includes financial, institutional, consultant, business, and other relationships that might lead to bias or a conflict of interest. If there are no conflicts of interest, state this explicitly as none are declared. Conflict of interest and source of funding statements are specified during the submission process.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Use Microsoft Word for word-processing the manuscript; pdf files are not accepted. This includes the abstract, body of the manuscript (including references), tables, figures, and appendices. Formatting notes are included below.

Masked/Blind submission:

The manuscript should contain no identifying information. The author should not include any of his/her/their information, including but not limited to name, credentials, institutional affiliation, and email address within the main body of the manuscript. For the submissions, indicate the name of the institution granting IRB approval with “XXX”; this information will be updated when a manuscript is accepted for publication.

Formatting:

• Double-space all text, including quotations, lists, and references/notes.

• Left justify only.

• Leave a one-inch margin on all sides

• Number pages consecutively.

• Use 12 point, Times Roman font.

• Please key all titles in initial caps/lowercase.

• Only use one space between words. Even after periods, only use one space. Before saving your document, search for two spaces and if they occur, delete the extra space.

• Turn justification off. If it is turned on it will introduce additional spaces.

• Indent all new paragraphs

Organization:

1. Title page
   Include contact details for submitting author.

2. Abstract, Keywords, and Statement of Public Health Significance

   a) an abstract in the form of one unstructured paragraph of 250 words maximum. The abstract should briefly highlight the conclusions of the article and should not include statistics or sub-headings.

   b) up to 8 keywords that describe the contents of the article like those that appear in The National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

   c) Manuscripts must include a statement of public health significance of 50 words maximum immediately following the abstract.

3. Main document

   These headers are required for Full-Length Articles, Brief Reports, and Systematic Reviews:
   Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions.
   
   Do not include numbers in any of the headings.

4. References

   References should be cited in-text. The reference list must adhere to the latest edition of the Publication Manual of the American Medical Association. Articles will be returned to the author prior to review if AMA style is not followed. The Editor will request a resubmission following revision according to AMA style.

   In short, in-text citations should be superscripted and should only appear AFTER terminal punctuation. They should not be styled with regular numbers in parentheses/brackets or superscripted numbers appearing before terminal punctuation.

5. Tables/Figures (with legends/captions)
   The number of tables/figures is limited to:
   Five (5) for Full-Length articles and Systematic Reviews
   Two (2) for Brief Reports.
   
   Each table/figure should be submitted as a separate file. Number tables and figures consecutively; mention all tables/figures in text. Supply a brief title for each table/figure.

Supplementary material and Appendices (if needed. Upload separately from the above files as "supplementary" content)
[Publisher note: If the total page count for tables/figures amounts to 10 pages or more, please try to keep the word count for the body text under 2800 and clearly mark any supplementary content intended only for review and special requests.
 

Reporting Numerical Results:

• Report all statistics (e.g. F, t etc.) and p values to 2 decimal places (hundredths place) except when p < .01 or p < .001
  • Never report p =.000
• Report means, standard deviations, confidence intervals etc., to2 decimal places (hundredths place)
• Report percentages, frequencies etc. to one decimal place (tenths place)
• In text, percentages must be followed by (n) ex. 32.3% (n = 22)

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].”

Permissions:

As the author, you are responsible for obtaining signed letters from the copyright holders granting permission to reprint material you are borrowing from other sources (including previously published material of your own). Permission is needed when you use any copyrighted table, figure, or illustration, and direct quotes of 200 words or more from a periodical article.

Any form or exhibit from a hospital or association that is copyrighted requires permission to reprint. All original, signed permission request letters must accompany the manuscript when you submit it to the journal. Type the permission notice (exactly as the copyright holder wishes it to appear) on your manuscript page, either close to or directly following the borrowed material.

• Permission to adapt. If you want to redraw, reword, modify, or adapt material being reprinted, you must obtain permission to do so from the copyright holder.
• Fee payment. Copyright holders sometimes require that a fee be paid before granting permission. It is the author's responsibility to pay this fee.