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Author Guidelines

Submission to International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being (QHW) is taken to imply that the same manuscript is not under consideration by another journal. If the manuscript forms part of a book currently in press, the authors should specify details of the publisher and expected date of publication.

Publication fee For 2011, publishing in the journal is free of charge thanks to a generous grant from the Swedish Research Council. However, if the author's university or institute officially maintains a central fund to cover costs for Open Access Publishing, or the article describes results from research funded by a positive Open Access funder, a publication fee will be charged as follows:

Publication of an Article (up to 10 typeset A4 pages) €600, excl. VAT (Europe), $825 (rest of the world) . Articles exceeding 10 typeset pages may incur an additional charge of €45/$62 per page.

The publication of a Philosophical papers (up to 4 typeset A4 pages) incurs a charge of €425, excl. VAT (Europe), $585 (rest of the world).

For a list of universities/institutes and funders supporting Open Access publication, please check here. Additional information on how to claim reimbursement/support for publication fees can be found here.

As from 2012 a Publication fee of €600 (up to 10 typeset A4 pages) will be charged to the authors upon acceptance of their paper. Papers submitted after November 1st 2011 (and published primo 2012) will be subject to payment.

Covering letter - in his/her covering letter, the corresponding author should reveal whether the submitted article – or very similar work - has been previously published, or orally presented, or is under consideration elsewhere.

Title page Organize the title page in the following way: 1) title of manuscript, 2) name of author(s), 3) name of department(s) and institution(s), and 4) name and full postal address of the corresponding author who also acts as 'Guarantor' for all parts of the paper.

Language All articles should be written in English - British or American as long as consistency is observed. SI units should be used. Please subject the manuscript to professional language editing before submitting the final version if you are not a native speaker.

Acknowledgements All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chairperson who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.

Conflict of interest and funding Authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest that might affect their work. State relevant financial (e.g. patent or stock ownership, consultancies, speaker' fees), personal, political, intellectual or religious interests. Funding for any type of publication, for example by a commercial company, charity or government department, should be stated. This applies to all types of papers (including, for example, research papers, review papers, letters, editorials and commentaries). A conflict of interest should not prevent someone from being listed as an author if they qualify for authorship.

Ethics and consent When reporting experiments on patients please indicate whether the procedures followed were approved by your regional ethics committee and/or in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/17c.pdf). Please give date of issue and registration number, or other evidence of approval. Identifying information should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that the patient be shown the manuscript to be published.

Title The title should be informative and accurate and at the same time trigger the interest of the reader. A short running head will be derived from the title to appear on each page of the paper.

Figures Upon acceptance please supply figures/graphics/images in at least 300 dpi. For further information please see Guidelines.

If the figures/graphics/images have been taken from sources not copyrighted by the author, it is the author’s sole responsibility to secure the rights from the copyright holder to reproduce those figures/graphs/images for both worldwide print and web publication. All reproduction costs charged by the copyright holder must be borne by the author.

When figures/graphics/images are reproduced, a parenthesis should be added to the figure legend thus: (Reproduced with permission from xxx.)

Abstract Articles must include an abstract of up to 300 words. The abstract should stand alone, enabling a reader to decide whether or not to proceed to the full text of the article.

Keywords After the abstract, please give 5-10 key words for readers looking for material by key word searching on Internet. Avoid using the same words as in the title.

Biographical details Include full name(s), current professional affiliation, and an email address for correspondence. If more than one author, please indicate who the corresponding author is.

Section headings Please do not number section headings. Use a maximum of three levels of headings made clear by orthographic indicators, i.e. capitals, italics, bold etc.

Quotations Please use double quotation marks. Quotations longer than 40 words should appear in a separate paragraph, indented by tapping a ca 1cm right margin, without quotation marks.

Citation and Reference system - QHW applies the APA system. Check for full details here

APA style uses the author-date citation system allowing the readers to find the sources cited in the text in the reference list, where each source is listed alphabetically.

Style in the text
To insert a citation in text, include the author's surname and year of publication. For a direct quotation, include the page number of specific location of the phrase or sentences in the original work.

Examples:

Kessler (2003) found that among epidemiological samples ...

Early onset results in a more persistent and severe course (Kessler, 2003)

In 2003, Kessler's study of epidemiological samples showed that …

Training materials are available (Department of Veterans Affairs, 2001, 2003)

Several studies (Derryberry & Reed, 2005a, 2005b, in press-a, Rothbart, 2003a, 2003b) show …

Style in the reference list
All citations should be listed in the reference list, with the exception of personal communications and classical works.
Put references in order by the author's surname or first author's surname if there is more than one author.
Use the hanging indent paragraph style. Double-space the entire reference list.

Examples
Journal:
Mikulincer, M., Gerber, H., & Weisenberg, M. (1990). Judgment of control and depression: The role of self-esteem threat and self-focused attention. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 14, 589-608.

Herbst-Damm, K. L., & Kulik, J. A. (2005). Volunteer support, marital status, and the survival times of terminally ill patients. Health Psychology, 24, 225-229. doi:10.1037/0278-6133.24.2.225

Book:
Mitchell, T. R., & Larson, J. R., Jr. (1987). People in organizations: An introduction to organizational behavior (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Electronic book with DOI:
Schiralde, G. R. (2001). The post-traumatic stress disorder sourcebook: A guide to healing, recovery, and growth [Adobe Digital Editions version]. DOI: 10.1036/10071393722

Chapter in book:
Haybron, D. M. (2008). Philosophy and the science of subjective well-being. In M. Eid & R. J. Larsen (Eds.), The science of subjective well-being (pp. 17-43). New York, NY: Guildford Press.

Electronic document:
Make sure the version you are citing is the most recent one. Include journal volume number and inclusive page numbers if this information is available. Use the copy-paste function of your word processor to capture the article DOI and place it at the end of the reference. If there is no DOI, cite the home page URL.

Submission Preparation Checklist

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.

1. I, the corresponding author, am authorized by all of my co-authors to submit this paper.
2. 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).
3. The article, or any part thereof, is in no way a violation of any existing original or derivative copyright.
4. The article contains nothing obscene, indecent, objectionable or libelous.
5. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
6. When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g. www.ijqhw.net)
7. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all tables and legends are placed at the end of the manuscript following the references.
8. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
9. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
10. The same elements have been keyed in exactly the same way throughout the manuscript.
11. Only one space has been entered after the full-stop at the end of a sentence.
12. The text has not been justified; a ragged right-hand margin has been used.
13. Words have not been broken at the end of lines. Use a hyphen only to hyphenate compound words!
14. A double hyphen (--) has been used to indicate a dash in text.
15. Do not use the lowercase l for 1 (one) or the uppercase O for 0 (zero)!
16. The space bar has only been used as a word separator. TAB has been used when identifying paragraphs or separating columns in tables.
17. 'Italics' or singel quotes have been used for emphasis. Avoid using underlines!
18. Figure legends have been placed at the end of the article in the main manuscript, before text for tables and supplemental files, if any.
19. Illustrations have been provided as separate files, not embedded in the main manuscript file. See guidelines for preparing illustrations/figures.
20. Each figure of a manuscript should be submitted as a single file. See separate guidelines for preparing figures.
21. Multi-panel figures (those with parts a, b, c, d etc) have been submitted as a single composite file that contains all parts of the figure. See separate guidelines for preparing figures.
22. Supplemental files are submitted in accordance with guidelines and information is given on a separate page at the end of the main article.

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Authors contributing to International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Heath and Well-Being agree to publish their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license, allowing third parties to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it, under the condition that the authors are given credit, that the work is not used for commercial purposes, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear.

Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to Co-Action Publishing. However, authors are required to transfer copyrights associated with commercial use to the Publisher. Revenues from commercial sales are used to keep down the publication fees. Moreover, a major portion of the profits generated from commercial sales is placed in a fund to cover publication fees for researchers from developing nations and, in some cases, for young researchers.

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