Author Guidelines

Preventif: Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat publishes scholarly articles relevant to public health research, policy, and practice. Authors must prepare submissions according to these guidelines, the applicable manuscript template, and the journal’s publication policies.

Scope and General Requirements

Submissions must address a topic within the journal’s objectives and scope and explain their contribution to public health knowledge.

Manuscripts must be original, must not have been published as a journal article, and must not be under consideration by another journal. Authors must disclose related publications, overlapping datasets, preprints, and material derived from theses or conference presentations.

All authors must approve the submission. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the manuscript, references, metadata, and declarations.

Manuscript Types

The journal considers:

• Original Research Articles.
• Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.
• Scoping Reviews.
• Narrative Reviews.

Authors must identify the manuscript type during submission and follow the corresponding structure below. The editorial team may request reclassification when the submitted methods do not support the stated article type.

Submission Procedure

Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal’s online submission system:

https://jurnal.fkm.untad.ac.id/index.php/preventif

Authors must enter complete and accurate metadata, including the article title, abstract, keywords, author names, affiliations, and corresponding author details. Names must not contain academic degrees, affiliation numbers, or unnecessary repetition.

Submit an editable manuscript file, preferably in Microsoft Word format. Provide supplementary files where necessary, including reporting checklists, search strategies, additional tables, and supporting methodological information.

A cover letter should identify the manuscript type, explain its contribution, and disclose any related publications or circumstances relevant to editorial assessment.

Language and Formatting

Manuscripts should be written in clear academic English. Provide English and Indonesian abstracts.

Use the latest journal template available at:

https://jurnal.fkm.untad.ac.id/index.php/preventif/JournalTemplate

Follow the template for font, spacing, margins, headings, and page layout. Apply formatting consistently throughout the manuscript. Tables and figures should appear near their first mention unless the submission instructions require separate files.

Manuscripts should be concise while providing sufficient information to assess and understand the work. Detailed supporting material may be submitted as supplementary files.

Title and Author Information

The title should accurately describe the article and normally contain no more than 15 words. Identify the study or review design when this improves clarity or is required by the applicable reporting guideline.

List each author’s full name without academic titles, followed by the appropriate institutional affiliation. Affiliations should include the institution, city, and country.

Identify the corresponding author and provide an active email address and institutional postal address. ORCID identifiers are encouraged where available.

Abstract and Keywords

Provide an English abstract and an Indonesian abstract, each containing no more than 250 words.

Write each abstract as a single paragraph covering the objective, methods, principal findings, and conclusion. Adapt these elements to the manuscript type.

Report the main results accurately and consistently with the manuscript. Avoid citations, unexplained abbreviations, and conclusions extending beyond the evidence.

Provide three to five keywords in each language. Arrange keywords alphabetically and select terms that support accurate indexing and retrieval.

Original Research Articles

Recommended main-text structure:

• Introduction.
• Methods.
• Results.
• Discussion.
• Conclusions.
• Declarations.
• References.

Introduction

Explain the public health problem, relevant evidence, knowledge gap, and study objective. Establish the study’s contribution without presenting an extensive general literature review.

Methods

Describe the study design, setting, dates, participants or data sources, eligibility criteria, sampling, sample size rationale, variables, measurements, procedures, and analysis.

Explain instrument validity and reliability where relevant. Intervention studies should describe the intervention and comparator sufficiently for replication. Qualitative studies should explain recruitment, data collection, analysis, and relevant researcher considerations.

Include ethical approval and consent information where applicable. Report trial registration details where applicable.

Results

Present findings in a logical sequence. Ensure consistency between the abstract, text, tables, and figures. Explain participant flow, missing observations, and analysis denominators where relevant.

Discussion

Interpret the findings in relation to the study objective and existing evidence. Explain their contribution, limitations, potential biases, generalizability or transferability, and implications for public health.

Conclusions

Answer the study objective using statements supported by the findings. Distinguish practical implications from recommendations requiring further evidence.

Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

Use the following main-text structure:

• Introduction.
• Methods.
• Results.
• Discussion.
• Conclusions.
• Declarations.
• References.

Follow PRISMA 2020 and applicable extensions. Submit a completed reporting checklist and study selection flow diagram.

Methods must describe the review question, eligibility criteria, information sources, search dates, reproducible search strategies, selection procedures, data extraction, risk-of-bias assessment, and synthesis methods.

Provide protocol registration details where available. Explain relevant deviations from the protocol.

Results must include study selection, characteristics of included studies, appraisal findings, and the synthesis. Clearly distinguish included primary studies from background references.

Meta-analyses must explain effect measures, pooling methods, statistical models, heterogeneity assessment, and additional analyses performed. Report uncertainty around pooled estimates and explain when pooling is inappropriate.

Discuss the limitations of both the evidence and the review process.

Scoping Reviews

Use the same principal headings as Systematic Reviews and follow PRISMA-ScR.

Explain the review objectives, eligibility criteria, information sources, search strategies, selection procedures, data charting, and mapping or synthesis methods.

Provide a selection flow diagram and a clear summary of the included evidence. State whether critical appraisal was undertaken and explain its role, if any.

Conclusions must reflect the purpose of mapping evidence and identifying gaps. Avoid presenting a scoping review as establishing intervention effectiveness when its methods do not support that conclusion.

Narrative Reviews

Recommended main-text structure:

• Introduction.
• Literature identification and selection approach.
• Thematic discussion.
• Conclusions.
• Declarations.
• References.

Define the review’s objectives and boundaries. Explain how relevant literature was identified and selected without claiming systematic methods that were not performed.

Provide critical interpretation rather than a descriptive list of publications. Discuss contradictory findings, evidence limitations, and implications for research or practice.

Tables, Figures, and Supplementary Material

Number tables and figures separately in order of appearance and cite each in the text.

Provide informative titles or captions, define abbreviations, and identify units. Tables should be editable. Figures must remain legible at publication size.

Avoid duplicating the same information across text, tables, and figures. Explain the principal findings in the text.

Obtain permission for reused material when required and provide appropriate attribution.

Label supplementary files clearly and refer to them in the manuscript. Remove identifying participant information unless its publication is justified and appropriately consented.

Statistical Reporting

Describe the analytical methods, software, and relevant assumptions. Explain sample size determination, missing-data handling, and adjusted analyses where applicable.

Use descriptive statistics appropriate to the data. Report effect estimates and confidence intervals where appropriate, rather than relying solely on statistical significance.

Report sufficiently precise p-values; use p < 0.001 rather than p = 0.000. Distinguish statistical significance from practical importance.

Interpret findings according to the design. Associations from observational studies should not be presented as proof of causation.

Research Ethics

Research involving human participants must report the ethics committee name and approval reference where applicable, together with the consent procedure.

If consent was waived or formal ethics review was not required, provide the basis and identify the responsible authority where applicable.

Protect participant confidentiality. Identifiable personal information or images require appropriate publication consent.

Animal research must describe relevant approval and welfare measures. Secondary-data research must explain permissions and applicable ethical requirements.

Declarations

Include clearly labelled statements, as applicable, covering:

Acknowledgments

Recognize assistance that does not qualify for authorship and obtain permission from named individuals.

Funding

Identify funding sources and grant numbers where available. Explain the funder’s role. If no specific funding was received, state this.

Conflict of Interest

Disclose relevant financial and non-financial interests. If none exist, state that the authors declare no conflicts of interest related to the work.

Data Availability

Explain where supporting data can be accessed or why access is restricted. Any offer to share data must be consistent with consent, confidentiality, and legal obligations.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Disclose relevant AI-assisted work, identifying the tool and its purpose. Describe research-related use in Methods and writing assistance in an appropriate declaration or acknowledgment. AI tools cannot be authors; human authors remain responsible for the content.

Author Contributions

An Author Contributions statement is mandatory for articles published in the 2027 issues onward, beginning with the first issue of 2027, in accordance with the Authorship Criteria and Contributorship policy.

Identify each author’s contribution. CRediT terminology is encouraged. All authors must approve the statement.

References

Use the numbered Vancouver style consistently. Number citations according to their first appearance in the text and use the same number for subsequent citations of the same source.

Every cited source must appear in the reference list, and every listed reference must be cited in the manuscript.

Check author names, titles, publication years, journal details, page ranges or article numbers, and DOI information against the original sources.

Cite original publications rather than Google or Google Scholar search results. Include DOI links where available and appropriate URLs for online sources. Remove duplicate entries.

Use relevant, credible references and avoid unnecessary citation of the journal or any particular author. Identify preprints and other non-peer-reviewed sources appropriately.

Reporting Guidelines

Use reporting guidance appropriate to the design, including applicable versions and extensions:

• CONSORT for randomized trials.
• STROBE for observational studies.
• COREQ or SRQR for qualitative research.
• PRISMA for systematic reviews.
• PRISMA-ScR for scoping reviews.
• ARRIVE for animal research.

Reporting resources:

https://www.equator-network.org/

https://www.prisma-statement.org/

Final Submission Checklist

Before submission, confirm that:

• The manuscript matches the journal’s scope and a supported manuscript type.
• The latest template has been followed.
• Author metadata and affiliations are accurate.
• Both abstracts meet the word limit.
• Methods and findings are consistently reported.
• Tables and figures are complete and cited.
• Ethical requirements and declarations are addressed.
• References are accurate and synchronized with citations.
• Supplementary files and applicable reporting checklists are included.
• All authors have approved submission.
• Related or overlapping publications have been disclosed.

Review, Revision, and Publication

Eligible manuscripts undergo single-blind review by at least two reviewers before acceptance, as described in the Peer Review Process policy.

Revisions must include a point-by-point response and clearly identified changes. Authors may disagree with a recommendation when they provide a reasoned explanation.

Accepted manuscripts proceed to editing and production. Authors must check proofs carefully. Substantial changes at proof stage require editorial approval.

Current publication fees are disclosed on the Publication Fees page. Payment does not guarantee acceptance or influence editorial decisions.