Submissions

Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. The journal Health and Addictions/Salud y Drogas will accept papers of an empirical nature with methodological rigor and papers of a theoretical or review nature, which are related to the general objectives of the journal. It is strongly recommended that review articles be systematic, following the PRISMA protocol.

Only unpublished articles will be published, not those that have been published in whole or in part, nor those that are in the process of publication.

3. Research articles will consist of the characteristic headings of scientific research.
4. Review articles shall consist of a) Introduction b) Development of the topic c) Discussion and Conclusions d) References.
5. Papers will have a maximum length of 30 pages, including figures and tables, and will be submitted following the journal's template (link). In addition, together with the text of the article, the authors' data sheet (link) must also be attached to the platform.
6. Language: papers will be accepted in Spanish and English.
7. For the preparation of manuscripts, the APA 7th Edition publication guidelines should be followed. Some of the most significant changes are:

• It is not necessary to indicate geographically the publisher in book references.
• It is not necessary to indicate "retrieved from" in web references.
• DOIs must include the URL
• Authors should not be omitted in references with ellipses until they reach 20 authors
• In-text citations in references with more than three authors can be shortened to the first author and "et al." added.

8. The number of Tables and Figures shall not exceed 5.
9. At the time of submission of the manuscript, the authors will propose 2 reviewers for consideration, based on their suitability to the subject matter of the article, including the full name and e-mail of the proposed reviewers on the first page of the manuscript.
10. Authors should explicitly state the data availability statement at the time of submission by including it in the authors' sheet. The Health and Addictions/ Salud y Drogas data policy is based on transparency and requires authors to include this statement in their paper. The statement should indicate how the data supporting the results of the study can be accessed. If the data are in an open repository (e.g. OSF), the appropriate link or DOI should be included. If for any reason the data cannot be made publicly available (e.g. due to anonymity issues), the authors should clearly state the reasons. Both original data generated in the work and secondary use of data should be included.
11. The author who uploads the manuscript to the OJS system must include, in addition to the contact e-mails and affiliation of the other authors, the corresponding ORCID of all the signatories of the article, filling in the user in the web system.
12. Manuscripts will be reviewed anonymously by independent experts using the double-blind method. The authors will avoid that the text contains keys or suggestions that identify them.
13. Upon receipt of the manuscript, the system will acknowledge receipt of the paper to the corresponding author. The review and plagiarism detection period will last a maximum of two months. Once the review process has begun and if there has been no eventuality in the process, the authors will receive a response of acceptance, resubmission or rejection within a maximum period of 6 months. Final acceptance may depend on improvements or modifications to the work that the layout designers or the editorial board may propose to the author. When the paper is definitively accepted, it will be published in the Online First section with the corresponding DOI and will be available until it is included in the next issue in which it may appear.
14. The review process will be carried out through the OJS platform. Updates to the manuscript will be informed through the platform, as well as the actions required to continue with the process. The deadline for modifications requested by the reviewers or any request by the editorial team is 15 days. If the authors require more time, they must communicate and justify it in due time and form. Communications with the authors that are not attended or responded to within the established deadlines will result in the withdrawal of the article from the review process.
15. The rights of the published material will belong to their respective authors. The articles published in HAAJ can be used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, so they can be read, copied, distributed, printed, searched or linked to the full text of this journal without requesting prior permission from the editor or the author, as long as HAAJ and the authors are referenced and not used for commercial purposes. Authors may include the work in institutional repositories or other publications as long as this journal is properly acknowledged and cited. The HAAJ editorial team encourages authors to disseminate their published work through any means (conferences, classes, lectures, talks, etc.) and/or platforms (social networks, repositories, websites, etc.).
16. The opinions expressed in the articles are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not compromise the scientific opinion and policy of the journal. Authors must accept the Code of Conduct, Best Practices and Ethical Statement of Health and Addictions/Salud y Drogas.

 FORMAL AND FORMATTING ASPECTS TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT

• Structure both the summary and the abstract in Introduction, Objectives, Results and Conclusions.
• Use periods instead of commas for numerical figures (i.e. 4.3 instead of 4.3).
• Unify the number of decimal places in the text and tables.
• Use of "&" instead of "and" in references, both throughout the text of the manuscript and in the reference section (i.e. Dí­az & Ramí­rez instead of Dí­az y Ramí­rez).
• Review the use of localisms.
• Tables and Figures throughout the text should be named with the first letter capitalized (i.e. Table 1 instead of table).
• To exemplify in the text, use the abbreviation e.g. (equivalent to "for example").
• For clarification in the text, use the abbreviation i.e. (equivalent to "i.e.", "that is").