Manuscript Submission Checklist

This checklist is designed to help you prepare your manuscript for submission to the Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.  Please thoroughly check your manuscript against the guidelines (see ????) before uploading it.

Item

Tick when completed

Structured abstract (Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusion)

  

All tables/figures referred to in the text are enclosed

  

Figure showing flow of patients through the study (state ‘none’ if not applicable)

  

CONSORT checklist for randomised controlled trials (state ‘none’ if not applicable)

  

STARD checklist for studies of diagnostic accuracy (state ‘none’ if not applicable)

  

QUOROM checklist for meta analyses of randomised controlled trials 

(state ‘none’ if not applicable)

  

MOOSE checklist for meta-analyses of observational studies in epidemiology

(state ‘none’ if not applicable)

  

Text and references double spaced.

  

Vancouver style for references (see Guidelines for authors)

  

All references are complete (authors, full title, and full reference to the journal).  

This is your responsibility.

  

Correspondent’s full address including fax and e-mail

  

Full names and affiliations of all authors

  

Details of any acknowledgements (state ‘none’ if not applicable)

  

Details of contributions of individual authors

  

Details of source of funding for work described (state ‘none’ if not applicable)

  

Details of any potential conflict of interest (state ‘none’ if not applicable)

  

Statement indicating whether ethical approval has been received (state ‘none’ if not applicable)

  

Your manuscript is ready for upload when all items are ticked off