Submissions

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About

Building a healthy academic community requires a variety of perspectives of people, thought, and research. We encourage submissions that cover a variety of wellness topics, including health promotion, wellness programming and management, environmental health and safety, epidemiology, preventive health care, and evidence-based wellness.

Focus and Scope

The Building Healthy Academic Communities (BHAC) Journal is the official journal of the National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities (https://healthyacademics.org/). It is an Open Access journal published by The Ohio State University (OSU) Libraries. No author fees are charged. The journal is published three times a year and is accepting manuscripts that cover a variety of wellness topics including health promotion, wellness programming and management, environmental health and safety, epidemiology, preventive health care, and evidence-based wellness.

Submission Checklist

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring an Anonymous Review have been followed.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
To comply with the terms of the publisher's Crossref membership, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) must be included with references when they are available. To check for DOIs, you can use the Free DOI Lookup form on the Crossref website. By checking the box, you assert that you have included DOIs where applicable.
All figures, charts, graphs, and images include alt text.

Copyright Notice

This Author Agreement for Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal ("Agreement") is entered into by and between The Ohio State University, on behalf of its University Libraries ("Publisher") and the author ("Author").

For good and valuable consideration, Publisher and Author agree as follows:

1. Author hereby grants to Publisher the right to publish, reproduce, distribute, translate, transmit and display his/her submitted work and an abstract thereof ("Work") in Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal in whole or in part and in all formats and all media. Author also hereby grants to Publisher the right for Publisher to enter into agreements with third parties that grant such third parties any or all of the rights that Author has granted to Publisher herein. The aforementioned rights may include the rights necessary to index and abstract the Work. The Author agrees that any subsequent publication of the Work will credit Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal as the site of first publication and provide a link to the Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal website. This Agreement is subject to the terms and expectations outlined on Publisher's website (https://go.osu.edu/publishing-services).

2. Author represents and warrants that: (1) they are the creator and rights holder of the Work; (2) Publisher's exercise of the rights granted to Publisher herein will not infringe or violate any copyright or any other right of a third party; (3) if the Work contains any third party content, they have obtained the unrestricted permission of the copyright owner or that use of third party material is allowed because the material is in the public domain or an appropriate fair use analysis has been performed and there is a reasonable belief that use is permitted and (4) the Work contains nothing libelous or otherwise unlawful. Author hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Publisher and its trustees, officers, employees, agents, and subgrantees from all claims related to Publisher's exercise of the rights granted to Publisher herein or related to the subject matter covered in Author's representations and warranties.

Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license, to allow for certain types of reuse without permission. By submitting this agreement, the Author agrees to apply a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license to the Work upon publication.

Peer Review

Submissions to BHAC are first reviewed by the editor to determine if they fit within the Focus and Scope of the journal. Submissions are then evaluated by peer-reviewers who are experts and/or leaders in health and wellness. BHAC’s submissions are peer-reviewed using a double-blind process, meaning that neither the authors of the submission know the identity of those who review the submission, nor do reviewers know the identity of those who submitted their work to BHAC. The final decision to accept or reject a submission is made by the Editor and is based on the reports of the peer-reviewers.

(Updated October 21, 2020)

Licences

The following licences are allowed:

CC BY 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
CC BY-ND 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
CC BY-NC 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
CC BY-SA 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
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Publication Fees

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Publication Cycle

This journal published continuously all year round/publishes in issues every x months.

Sections

Sections submission information
Section or article type	Public Submissions	Peer Reviewed	Indexed
297	Yes	Yes	Yes
Quality Improvement Project	Yes	Yes	Yes
Research or Policy Brief Report	Yes	Yes	Yes
Research Manuscripts	Yes	Yes	Yes
Educational Brief	Yes	Yes	Yes
Front Matter	Yes	Yes	Yes
284	Yes	Yes	Yes
Research Manuscripts	Yes	Yes	Yes
Research or Policy Brief Report	Yes	Yes	Yes
Case Study	Yes	Yes	Yes
Quality Improvement Project	Yes	Yes	Yes
Educational Brief	Yes	Yes	Yes
BHAC Summit Abstracts	Yes	Yes	Yes
Feature Articles	Yes	Yes	Yes
Research and Practice Briefs	Yes	Yes	Yes