The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Author Instructions
Note: All manuscripts on COVID-19 will be fast tracked for review and publication, if accepted, and will be published as Open Access. The Journal will resume collecting author page charges for COVID-19 papers that are submitted on or after October 1, 2020. The AJTMH welcomes manuscripts that have been posted on pre-peer review sites (e.g. bioRxiv, medRxiv).
The AJTMH publishes a broad range of papers covering topics in tropical medicine. Authors uncertain about the appropriateness of a manuscript for the Journal are encouraged to review recent issues of the Journal and to contact editorial staff with any questions. Manuscripts and correspondence should be submitted at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ajtmh. Questions about the submission process can be directed to the AJTMH editorial office and technical support questions should be sent to ts.mcsupport@clarivate.com.
Cover letter
All manuscripts should be accompanied by a cover letter with the following information:
The title of the paper.
A brief description of the significance of the paper to the readers of the AJTMH.
A statement confirming that the material is original, has not already been published, and has not and will not be submitted for publication elsewhere as long as it is under consideration by the AJTMH. This does not include preprints posted on bioRxiv or medRxiv.
Written disclosure of any relationships or support which might be perceived as constituting a conflict of interest.
Cover letters should be uploaded with the manuscript documents and designated as "For AJTMH Internal Use".
Forms
All manuscripts should be submitted with the following forms:
A completed AJTMH copyright form signed by the corresponding author
The AJTMH authorship agreement form signed by all authors.
Please upload these forms upon submission and designate them "For AJTMH Internal Use" when uploading to the site.
Ideally, the corresponding author will collect these forms from all authors and submit them to the journal at the time of initial submission. If the corresponding author does not have all forms at the time of submission, the forms can be uploaded at the time of a subsequent revision or emailed to the journal office with the manuscript number clearly noted in the subject line.
Authorship
There is no limit to the number of authors that may be listed (except for Images in Clinical Tropical Medicine articles; see below). Only two individuals may be listed as first authors.
All authors must meet the standards described in the ICMJE authorship guidelines: 1) Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; 2) Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; 3) Final approval of the version to be published; and 4) Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. Please read Section II.A.2 of the ICMJE recommendations for more information on authorship guidelines.
In some cases, for papers with a large number of authors participating in a working group, the group may be cited as author, and all individual authors listed in a footnote.
Manuscript types
Original research reports. These form the large majority of papers published by the AJTMH and consist of reports of novel research. There is no word limit or limit to the number of references, but efforts should be made to keep manuscripts as succinct as possible. Full reports should include separate sections entitled Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion; the last two sections can be combined. The abstract should not include sub-headings and should contain no more than 250 words. The following sections should be included after the text: Acknowledgments, Financial Support, and Disclosures regarding real or perceived conflicts of interest. Manuscripts should end with a listing of all authors’ current addresses, including affiliation, city, country, and email address, followed by References (see Reference section below).
Short reports. This format can be used for submission of important preliminary observations, technique modifications, or data that do not warrant publication as a full paper. Short reports should contain no sub-headings, and be no more than 1500 words in length, with no more than 150 words in the abstract, 3 tables and/or figures, and 20 references.
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