As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format. For multimedia submissions, authors are encouraged to contact the editors to determine which format best matches the genre of their submission.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
For articles and reviews, the text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Author Guidelines
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Submission Guidelines
We welcome submissions on a rolling basis from anyone working in arts in health, especially early-career authors. Arts in health is a field dedicated to using the power of the arts to enhance health and well-being in diverse institutional and community contexts. Comprised of many subfields and affiliated fields, arts in health supports health as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO): “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (“Arts, Health, & Well-being in America,” National Organization for Arts in Health, 2017)
Submission types:
Manuscripts to be formatted in APA style. Please refer to the APA 7th edition style guide.
Articles are typically about 3,000 words.
Reviews (literature conference, multimedia, etc.) should not exceed 1,500 words.
Multimedia (audio, video, image, etc.) submissions should not exceed 10 minutes in length.
The maximum file size is 500 MB.
All submissions should be:
In a narrative style with jargon-free language.
Original work and should not be under consideration by other publications.
Submissions should include a financial disclosure statement and funding details.
The use of AI tools should be disclosed, and authors are responsible for ensuring that AI-generated content is accurate and cited correctly.
If you are including an acknowledgment section, please keep acknowledgments brief. Acknowledgements will be published at the end of your article.
Ethical Standards
If your submission features research on human subjects, you will need to include a copy of your institutional review board approval letter.
To affirm that the manuscript submitted is not under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere.
To participate in the journal’s peer review process.
To confirm that the work submitted is original and to acknowledge and cite content drawn or reproduced from other sources. Authors should obtain all permissions necessary when reproducing content drawn from other sources.
To notify promptly the journal editor or journal publisher if/when a significant error in the publication is identified. Authors should work with the journal editor and journal publisher to publish an erratum, addendum, or retraction where this action is deemed appropriate and necessary.
To formally inform the editors if they wish to withdraw an article from consideration for any reason.
Review Process
Timeline for the Review Process
A decision will be made about whether to send a manuscript for review within 4 weeks of submission.
A decision about publication will usually be made within 8-12 weeks of submission.
Acceptances will be published on a rolling basis once a submission is accepted and gone through the production process.
Published submissions are gathered twice a year into issues.
Peer Review Policy
Transparency is a core value of this journal. For this reason, we don't utilize anonymous reviews. We will identify authors and reviewers. Having names on a submission does not make the process less rigorous. Collaborative reviewing is where editorial board members work together (with at least two reviewers per submission) to provide collaborative feedback. Our goal is to ensure a thorough and helpful review.
Editorial Mentorship Program
If your submission receives a revise and resubmit, you will be given the option to be paired with a mentor to help you revise your publication based on the peer-review feedback. Please request a mentor if this applies to you. It is the author’s responsibility to be conscientious of the mentor’s time. The mentor and author will have one month to complete revision support. Working with a mentor does not guarantee acceptance of publication, but it does require you to resubmit to PAH after the mentorship concludes.
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