SAHARA-J

Instructions for Authors

Peer Review and Ethics

The publisher is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double anonymized peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees, each delivering at least one report. If you have shared an earlier version of your Author's Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed. Further information on our preprints policy and citation requirements can be found on our Preprints Author Services page. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.

Preparing Your Paper

Structure

Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Word Limits

Please include a word count for your paper. There are no word limits for papers in this journal.

Style Guidelines

Please refer to the quick style guidelines when preparing your paper, rather than any published articles or a sample copy.

Please use British (-ise) spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.

Please use single quotation marks, except where 'a quotation is "within" a quotation'.

Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.

Authors should provide the authors' affiliations of no more than 20 words for each member of the authoring team as in the below format. This format is available in the style guidelines which appears at the aforementioned link. 

Formatting and Templates

Papers may be submitted in Word format. Figures should be saved separately from the text. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s). Please see further detail here. 

Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.

If you are not able to use the template via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact us.

References

Please use the reference style when preparing your paper which is available here.  An EndNote output style is also available to assist you.

Please refer to the full checklist available at the above link. 

Submitting Your Paper

This journal uses Taylor & Francis' Submission Portal to manage the submission process. The Submission Portal allows you to see your submissions across Taylor & Francis' journal portfolio in one place. To submit your manuscript please click here.

Please note that Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS: SAHARA-J uses Crossref™ to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS: SAHARA-J you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.

On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript.

This journal applies the Taylor & Francis Basic Data Sharing Policy. Authors are encouraged to share or make open the data supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns. Please refer to the Journal's Data Sharing Policy available here. 

Copyright Options

Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Read more on publishing agreements at the aforementioned link. 

Complying with Funding Agencies

We will deposit all National Institutes of Health or Wellcome Trust funded papers into PubMedCentral on behalf of authors, meeting the requirements of their respective open access policies. If this applies to you, please tell our production team when you receive your article proofs, so we can do this for you. Check funders OA policies on the link provided.