Original Research
Article Types & Limits
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
Article Types & Limits
JDHAB accepts four public manuscript categories designed to support rigorous original research, critical evidence synthesis, methodological innovation, validation, reproducible scientific workflows, and clinically relevant case documentation within digital health and advanced biomaterials.
Authors must select the manuscript category that most accurately reflects the scientific design, purpose, evidence level, and reporting structure of the submission.
Each public article type has a dedicated official manuscript template. The limits below represent the maximum technical allowances unless an exception has been approved in advance by the editorial office.
Summary of Article Limits
Review Article
Review Article
Methods and Validation
Methods and Validation
Case Report / Case Series
Case Report / Case Series
General Notes
Word Count
Word counts refer to the main manuscript text and exclude the title page, abstract, keywords, references, tables, figure legends, acknowledgments, required declarations, and supplementary material.
Display Items
Display items include the combined number of tables and figures appearing in the main manuscript. Additional material should be submitted as supplementary content when scientifically justified.
Maximum Limits
The limits indicate maximum allowances rather than expected targets. Manuscripts should remain as concise as the scientific question and reporting requirements permit.
Exceptions
Requests to exceed a limit must be justified and approved by the editorial office before submission. Approval is not automatic and does not guarantee editorial consideration or acceptance.
Article Categories
Original Research
Reports of original clinical, laboratory, observational, experimental, computational, diagnostic, or translational investigations within the journal’s scope.
Manuscripts must present a clearly defined research question, appropriate study design, transparent methods, valid analysis, complete numerical results, uncertainty measures, limitations, and conclusions supported by the evidence.
Review Article
Systematic, scoping, narrative, critical, integrative, or other evidence-synthesis articles addressing an established or emerging question relevant to digital health, advanced biomaterials, or translational scientific practice.
The evidence-identification, selection, appraisal, synthesis, and interpretive methods must be described transparently. Systematic and scoping reviews must follow the applicable reporting guideline.
Methods and Validation
Articles describing methodological developments, validation studies, technical notes, software or digital workflow reports, reproducibility protocols, calibration procedures, analytical methods, or auditable clinical and laboratory processes.
Authors must define the intended use, technical setting, materials or data sources, workflow, performance criteria, validation strategy, failures, limitations, and conditions under which the method may be applied.
Case Report / Case Series
Reports of individual cases or small case series that provide a relevant clinical, diagnostic, technical, safety, or translational lesson within the journal’s scope.
Submissions must include appropriate clinical documentation, chronological reporting, diagnostic and management reasoning, meaningful follow-up, limitations, patient privacy protection, and written consent for publication when required.
Editorial Content
Editorials
Editorials are normally invited or commissioned contributions addressing journal priorities, scientific developments, publication ethics, policy matters, or institutional perspectives.
Editorials are handled through the journal’s internal editorial workflow and do not constitute a standard public submission category. No public manuscript template is provided. Length, structure, authorship, and review requirements are determined by the editorial office.
Official Author Resources
Manuscript Templates
Select and download the official editable template corresponding to the intended article type.
Manuscript Preparation Guide
Follow the complete preparation workflow for manuscript structure, metadata, declarations, tables, figures, references, anonymization, and submission files.
Instructions for Authors
Review the journal’s complete scientific, editorial, technical, ethical, formatting, and reporting requirements.
Submit a Paper
Proceed to the submission portal only after confirming the correct article type, template, limits, declarations, and reporting requirements.
Reference and Formatting Standard
All manuscripts must follow Vancouver style according to the ICMJE Recommendations and the National Library of Medicine’s Citing Medicine. Journal-title abbreviations must conform to the NLM Catalog or MEDLINE abbreviation system.
Authors must prepare the manuscript using the official template corresponding to the selected article type and remove all instructional text and unused placeholders before submission.
