Author Declaration and License to Publish
Required for every submission. This document records originality, authorship approval, ethical compliance, disclosures, permissions, and the publication license.
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SUBMISSION PORTAL
Submit a Paper
Submit your manuscript to the Journal of Digital Health and Advanced Biomaterials — JDHAB after confirming that it follows the journal’s scope, the appropriate official manuscript template, article-type limits, ethical requirements, reporting standards, and Vancouver reference style.
The Journal of Digital Health and Advanced Biomaterials (JDHAB) welcomes scientifically rigorous manuscripts in digital health, advanced biomaterials, biomedical technologies, imaging, artificial intelligence, digital workflows, clinical measurement, and translational clinical research.
Before starting a submission, authors must review the journal’s instructions, select the official template corresponding to the intended article type, prepare identified and blinded manuscript files, and complete all required ethical and editorial documents.
The official JDHAB manuscript templates and author forms are publicly available and may be downloaded without registration or login. Registration or login is required only to initiate, continue, or monitor a manuscript submission.
Required Submission Documents
Prepare the two documents required for every submission and review the additional forms that apply to identifiable or third-party material.
Cover Letter to the Editor
Required for every submission. The letter introduces the manuscript, explains its relevance and original contribution, and confirms its suitability for JDHAB.
Documents Required When Applicable
Consent for publication of identifiable material and permission for third-party material must be completed when applicable. Original identifying records must be retained securely by the authors.
Access the Submission System
Authors with an existing account may log in to begin, continue, or monitor a submission. New authors may create an account free of charge.
No login is required to download manuscript templates or author forms.
Official Manuscript Templates
Select the template corresponding to the manuscript category. Authors must retain the required scientific structure and remove all instructional text and unused placeholders before submission.
Original Research
For clinical, laboratory, observational, experimental, computational, diagnostic, and other original research studies.
Review Article
For systematic, scoping, narrative, critical, integrative, and other evidence-synthesis manuscripts.
Methods and Validation
For methodological studies, validation studies, technical reports, software, protocols, reproducibility studies, and digital workflows.
Case Report / Case Series
For clinically relevant individual cases or case series with appropriate documentation, analysis, follow-up, privacy protection, and written consent for publication when required.
Before Submission
Instructions for Authors
Review the complete editorial, ethical, technical, formatting, reporting, and reference requirements.
Article Types & Limits
Confirm the accepted manuscript category and its maximum allowances before preparing the submission.
Manuscript Preparation Guide
Follow the complete workflow for templates, manuscript files, declarations, figures, references, and anonymization.
Author Forms & Declarations
Download the required author declaration, license, cover letter, consent, and permission documents.
Publication Ethics
Confirm originality, authorship responsibility, ethical approval, informed consent, disclosures, data, code, and artificial intelligence requirements.
Peer Review Process
Understand technical screening, double-anonymized review, independent handling, revisions, and editorial decisions.
Submission Preparation Checklist
- The submission is original and is not under consideration by another journal.
- The correct official JDHAB template has been used for the selected article type.
- The manuscript is written in clear, formal, and scientifically precise English.
- Word count, abstract length, display items, references, and other article-type limits have been checked.
- The identified manuscript is an editable Word file and includes complete author, affiliation, ORCID iD, corresponding-author, and declaration information.
- A separate blinded Word manuscript has been derived from the same template and audited for identifying text, filenames, comments, tracked changes, document properties, and embedded metadata.
- References follow Vancouver style, use NLM journal abbreviations, and include verified DOI information whenever available.
- Tables remain editable, and figures and supplementary files are correctly numbered, cited, and suitable for assessment.
- Ethics approval, informed consent, consent for publication, registration, funding, competing interests, author contributions, data and code availability, and artificial intelligence use statements are included when applicable.
- The Author Declaration and License to Publish and the Cover Letter to the Editor are complete and ready for upload.
- Applicable consent and third-party permission requirements have been satisfied without uploading original identifying records through the routine submission workflow.
- The applicable reporting checklist, flow diagram, protocol, or registration information is ready for submission when required.
- All instructional text, examples, brackets, and unused placeholders have been removed from the final manuscript files.
- All authors have approved the manuscript, authorship order, declarations, files, and submission to JDHAB.
Ready to Submit?
Proceed to the online system only after confirming that the submission package includes the identified manuscript, blinded manuscript, required author forms, and all applicable figures, supplements, reporting documents, permissions, and consent records.
Authors who have already started a submission should use the login option to access their dashboard and continue the editorial process.
Open Access, Copyright and License
JDHAB operates under a Diamond Open Access model and does not charge submission fees, article processing charges, or other mandatory publication fees.
Authors retain copyright and grant JDHAB a non-exclusive right of first publication. Published scholarly articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise indicated for a specific item.
The license permits sharing and adaptation, including commercial reuse, provided that appropriate attribution is supplied, changes are indicated, and applicable third-party rights, privacy, confidentiality, and consent requirements are respected.
Read the complete Open Access, Copyright and Licensing policy.
Last updated: 11 August 2026.
