System Login and New Article Submission

Submission and tracking of manuscripts in the "Journal of Research on Religion and Health" are conducted exclusively online via the journal's electronic system. If you have not previously registered in the system, please register first.

1. File and Documentation Preparation Checklist

Respected authors are required to ensure the following items are prepared prior to initiating the article submission process in the system:

  • Anonymized Main Manuscript File: Submitted in Word format (.docx) and strictly devoid of any names, emails, institutional affiliations, or references to the study location within the text, headers, or document properties.
  • Manuscript Structure: Must include a structured abstract (Background and Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusion - maximum 250 words in both Persian and English), keywords based on MeSH, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion, Limitations, and supplementary sections (Acknowledgments, Authors' Contribution per CRediT, Conflict of Interest, Funding Support, and AI Declaration).
  • Research Ethics Approval Code: Inserting the approval number from the Biomedical Ethics Committee at the end of the Methods section is mandatory for all human and animal studies. Clinical trials must provide an official registration code (e.g., IRCT).
  • References Formatting according to Vancouver Style: The reference list must be in English and accompanied by a persistent DOI link for all indexed articles.
  • Independent Title Page: Must include the full title of the article, first and last names of all authors, academic rank, exact institutional affiliations, official academic emails, contact numbers, and ORCID identifiers, with the corresponding author explicitly designated.
  • Supplementary Files and Images: Charts and images must possess a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
  • Signed Forms: Uploading the completed Authors' Commitment Form and the Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form is mandatory.

2. Official Forms and Author Guidelines

Please download and complete the following forms, and after obtaining the signatures of all authors, attach them during the supplementary files upload stage in the system:

3. Legal Terms, Copyright, and Open Access

The Journal of Research on Religion and Health is a fully open-access journal. The copyright remains with the authors, and articles are published under the international Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0). Authors are permitted to self-archive pre-prints, the accepted manuscript, and the final published version in institutional and academic repositories as well as scientific pages immediately following publication.

Last Revision: September 2026