Checklist for authors

Before you submit please make sure you have taken into account the below:

1. Make sure Health Policy and Planning is the most suitable journal to submit your manuscript. Please read the objectives of the journal on the 'About' page.
2. You may wish to use a language-editing service before submitting to ensure that editors and reviewers understand your manuscript. Our publisher, Oxford University Press, partners with Enago, a leading provider of author services. Through the OUP-Enago partner page, prospective authors are entitled to a discount for language editing, abstract and layperson summary writing, rejected manuscript editing, and creation of graphical abstracts, illustrations, and videos.
   
   Enago is an independent service provider, which will handle all aspects of this service, including payment. As an author you are under no obligation to take up this offer. Language editing and other services from Enago are optional and do not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted. Edited manuscripts will undergo the regular review process of the Journal. For more details and a list of additional resources, please see OUP’s page on language services.
   
   Authors can also use AuthorAID. AuthorAID is a free global network that provides support, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in developing countries. 
3. Make sure your manuscript conforms to the manuscript format and style described on the Instructions for Authors page. For specific article type requirements please refer to this section:
   • Original research
   • Review articles
   • Methodological musings
   • Innovation and practice reports
   • Commentaries
   • 'How to do (or not to do)...' [for example, see Hutton & Baltussen, HPP, 20(4): 252-9] and
   • '10 best resources' [for example, see David & Haberlen, HPP, 20(4): 260-3].
4. Make sure your submission is complete:
   • Full names and email addresses of all co-authors should be included in your manuscript.
   • For research involving human subjects ethical approval of the appropriate bodies in the country where the research was conducted and of the ethical approval committees of affiliated research institutions elsewhere is required. A clear statement must be made in any submitted manuscript presenting such research, specifying that the free and informed consent of the subjects was obtained.
   • All sources of funding for research or other financial and material support specifying the nature of the support must be explicitly stated, including grant numbers if appropriate.
5. Please read through our Prior Publication Policy, including for previously published working papers.