Get your Health Promotion Perspectives paper right the first time: a ready-made structure with the right abstract and citations, so editors see your science, not formatting slips.
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Authored by Sumalatha Gangadhar | Published on 13 August, 2026
Submitting to Health Promotion Perspectives goes smoothly when your draft already matches the journal's own rules. Editors screen new manuscripts against the Health Promotion Perspectives guide for authors before peer review, so formatting, structure, and required statements should be right on the first draft rather than repaired during upload. This template sets that structure up for you.
It is a manuscript shell aligned to Health Promotion Perspectives. It covers front matter, the abstract the journal expects, a body organized to the journal's article types, and a reference list in the journal's required style. Confirm current scope and article types on the Health Promotion Perspectives journal page before you draft.
Prepare the title, authors, affiliations, and ORCID iDs. Write the abstract to the journal's rule and word limit, organize the body to the article type, and apply the required reference style from the first citation. Complete every declaration (ethics, competing interests, funding, data availability) the Health Promotion Perspectives guide for authors lists, and cite figures and tables in order.
The common failure modes are formatting or reference style that does not match the guide for authors, missing required statements, and an incomplete portal checklist. Clear all three against the Health Promotion Perspectives guide for authors before you submit.
The shell mirrors what editorial staff check first: article-type fit, the abstract rules, required declarations, and the journal's reference style. For more detail see the author resources. When your draft is ready, upload it through the journal's submission system.
| Element | Health Promotion Perspect requirement |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Structured abstract (maximum 250 words) for Research Articles and Short Communications with major subheadings: Background (includes background and purpose/hypothesis), Methods (setting, subjects, treatment/intervention, statistical analysis), Results (outcome and statistical significance), and Conclusion (significance of results). Clinical trials must include trial registration number on last line of abstract. Unstructured abstract (maximum 150 words, no subheadings) for Case Reports and Perspectives. Review articles have abstracts with Keywords, Introduction, Search method/s, findings, Discussion, Conclusion. Commentaries (max 1500 words total) and Letters do not require abstracts |
| Main text | Commentaries: maximum 1500 words total. Perspectives: 2000-3000 words (described as 'usually short peer-reviewed articles'). Research Articles, Short Communications, Reviews, Systematic Reviews, Case Reports, and Letters: no overall word count limit specified in the official guide |
| Declarations | Ethics approval/consent as applicable; competing interests; funding; data availability |
| Figures/tables | Publication-ready; cited in order |
| Supplemental | Upload separately when used |
| Keywords | 3 to 10 keywords selected from MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) words. List keywords in alphabetic order, all lower case except where necessary |
| References | Vancouver style with sequential superscript numbering for in-text citations placed after punctuation marks. References formatted according to International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations. Journal titles abbreviated according to Index Medicus/MEDLINE (PubMed). List all authors if 6 or fewer; for more than 6, list first 6 followed by ', et al.' Include DOI at end of reference when available |
| Peer review | Double-blind peer review (also referred to as 'closed double-blind'). Both authors and reviewers are treated anonymously. Authors must upload a separate Title Page file containing author information to ensure blind peer review, while the main manuscript file must not contain any author-identifying information |
| Submission | hpp.tbzmed.ac.ir/Login |
Read the Health Promotion Perspectives guide for authors once before drafting and once before upload. Draft the abstract after results are stable. Set the reference style before adding citations. Keep a cover letter that states your contribution and fit to Health Promotion Perspectives in under a page.
Skim two or three recent Health Promotion Perspect papers to calibrate depth and figure style. Make the novelty clear in the first two pages. Deposit data and code when the policy on the Health Promotion Perspectives journal page requires it. Disclose any preprint or conference version with identifiers in the cover letter.
Do one focused pass against the Health Promotion Perspectives guide for authors: scope, length, reference style, required declarations, and figure quality. Then submit through the journal's submission system.