Instructions for Authors

GENERAL

Manuscripts can be submitted throughout the year.

No submission fees or publishing fees are charged.

All submitted manuscripts are first assessed by an editor who decides whether the manuscript is suitable to be sent for peer review. Manuscripts deemed suitable for further review are sent to two or more experts who are tasked with highlighting the manuscript's general and specific merits and shortcomings before its acceptance or rejection for publication. The peer review is single blind, ie the authors do not know who the reviewers are, but the reviewers know who the authors are. Criteria documents and expert reviews that have already undergone peer review according to established procedures are exempted.

Submissions will be checked for plagiarism.

The authors are strongly recommended to register at ORCiD (https://orcid.org)  and to include their ORCiD along with the author information in the manuscript.

Any use of generative AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT etc) must be declared.

LANGUAGE

Manuscripts written in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English are accepted.

All articles must include two abstracts: one in English and one in a Nordic language. If the article is written in a Nordic language, the Nordic-language abstract should be in the same language as the article.

Arbete och Hälsa does not provide language corrections or proof reading. The final, accepted version is expected to be proofread, corrected and ready to be published online.

FORMATTING STYLE

The following MS Word template should be used for original articles. For review articles, use this template.

In brief:

  • SI units are preferred
  • Use Calibri font for all text
  • Plain Calibri 10 for main text
  • Italic Calibri 10 for quotes
  • See template for headings and other types of text
  • Heading numbering is optional
  • Line numbering should be used
  • Footnotes and endnotes can be used
  • Figures, photos and small tables are positioned at the top or bottom of the page, or above a main heading. Large tables should are entered at the end (after the References) as an appendix.

CONTENTS

All manuscripts should have a title page with title, authors (including affiliations), two abstracts (one in a Nordic language, one in English) and up to 5 keywords.

Scientific papers typically have the following sections:  Introduction/Background, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, Ethics, Conflict of interest and References.

There is no formal page limit. However, the text should be concise.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Personal and financial support should be stated, including all individuals who contributed to the work as well as grants, including sponsor and reference number.

ETHICS

Where applicable, it should be stated that the research has been reviewed and approved by an appropriate ethics committee. The name of the committee and reference number should be given.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

All authors should declare any conflicts of interest related to the article, including but not limited to employments, grants, shares and other financial interests or support.

REFERENCES

References are given according to the Vancouver system: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html#journals

Addition of unique article identifiers, DOI or PMID, at the end of each reference is encouraged.

Endnote style template can be downloaded here.