Editorial guidelines

The PHANZ website, social media channels, newsletters and journal have been developed to support the public health workforce. We invite contributions from members, supporters and friends of the PHANZ.

Articles for use in our pānui/newsletters and social media channels should be 100-200 words in length, longer articles can be published to our website blog and accompanied with a brief abstract in the newsletter and/or on social media. Newsletter articles can also feature a link to a pdf.

Please note, advertising of events, job vacancies, conferences and courses are subject to a fee. We reserve the right to waive this fee for our strategic partners. We usually include free events in our newsletter without charging a fee.

Submission Deadlines

Submissions for the website can be made at any time or 1 week prior to our pānui (3rd Friday of the month). Please contact us to discuss if you are planning to make a submission to ensure it is relevant to our audience and PHANZ values.

Submissions should;

• be copy ready (with proper grammar, spelling, macrons, etc)
• have a byline: author’s name, email address, affiliation, city, country
  
• have a 50 to 100 word teaser (abstract)
• have a 2- to 3-sentence bio at the end for each author
  
• be no longer than 1000 words (including tables and citations).
• contain no more than five citations
  
• be formatted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or Notepad (.txt or .rtf)
• not have photos or other graphics embedded in the Word file (see Pictures below). 

Photos and other graphics should be submitted in the same email message as the text.

Pictures

Please do not embed photos, figures, and other graphics in the text of the submission. Include each one in a separate file instead.

Please include photo captions and, if you have them, photographer credits. Please include the names of each person appearing in the photo whenever possible.

All photos must be

• clear, clean, professional, appropriate to the article
  
• attached as a separate file in the same email as your article.
  

File format: GIF, JPG, JPEG

Maximum file size: 1MB

Quality: Low Resolution (Web quality) 200 dpi

Please send your submission to comms@pha.org.nz.