To assist authors in preparing high-quality manuscripts and streamline the submission process, JDHII provides this standardized submission template for all new contributions. Utilizing this template ensures that your research is presented in a consistent format that meets our technical and editorial requirements, which is essential for a smooth peer-review process. Authors are encouraged to download and use this document as a structural blueprint, as it includes pre-formatted sections for the title page, structured abstract, keywords, and main body components such as the introduction, methodology, and results. Please ensure that all guidance text within the template is removed before final submission and that the file is saved in an approved format (e.g. .docx) to facilitate efficient processing by our editorial team.
Key Components
Purpose: State that the template exists to ensure consistent formatting and meet technical standards.
Efficiency: Mention that adherence helps the peer-review and production systems move more seamlessly.
Structure: Briefly list what is included in the template, such as the title page, abstract, and references.
Submission Checklist: Remind authors to remove instructional text and use specific file formats before uploading.
Template Preparation
JDHII paper sample template is in single-column format, with normal margins (typically 1 inch / 2.54 cm on all sides), Times New Roman title at 24 pt, and Vancouver-style references.
Step-by-Step Instructions to Create the Template in MS Word
Margins → Normal (1″ / 2.54 cm top, bottom, left, right)
Columns → One (make sure it’s single-column layout)
Font: Times New Roman
Size: 12 pt (body text standard; some journals use 9–11 pt)
Line spacing: 1.05
Paragraph → Spacing: Before 0 pt, After 6 pt
For title text: Font: Times New Roman, Size: 24 pt, Bold: No; Alignment: Center
Add author block (typical IEEE style): Center aligned, 12 pt, Times New Roman
Example: Ravi Kumar¹, Second Author², Third Author3
¹Department of Example Science, Example University, Uttar Pradesh, India.
²,3Department of XYZ, Another University, City, Country.
Email: ravi@example.com
Add abstract and keywords: Type in bold, 10 pt
Abstract: This is a sample abstract. Abstracts are usually 150–250 words. Write a concise summary of the paper here …
Keywords: keyword1, keyword2, keyword3, keyword4, keyword5, keyword6, keyword7.
Section headings style (IEEE common hierarchy):
Level 1 heading: I. INTRODUCTION (all caps, bold, 12 pt, centre aligned)
Level 2 heading: Subsection Title (bold, title case, left aligned)
Level 3 heading: Sub-subsection (bold italic or just bold, left aligned)
Set up Vancouver reference style: Style → Vancouver
Sample Vancouver bibliography entries:
Journal Article
- Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347(4):284-7.
Book – Single Author
- Shortliffe EH. Biomedical informatics: computer applications in health care and biomedicine. 5th ed. Cham: Springer; 2021.
Book – Multiple Authors (3 or more)
- Coiera E, Ammenwerth E, Talmon J, Andersen SK. Health informatics: an overview. 3rd ed. Amsterdam: IOS Press; 2022.
Chapter in an Edited Book
- Ohmann C, Trampisch HJ. Clinical trials and medical informatics. In: Haux R, Winter A, editors. Health information systems: architectural and methodological approaches. London: Springer; 2013. p. 345-68.
Conference Paper / Proceedings (Published)
- Obermeyer Z, Emanuel EJ. Predicting the future – big data, machine learning, and clinical medicine. In: Proceedings of the 2016 Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference; 2016 Aug 19-20; Los Angeles, CA. PMLR; 2016. p. 1-12.
Thesis / Dissertation
- Chen M. Federated learning for privacy-preserving predictive modeling in electronic health records [dissertation]. Stanford (CA): Stanford University; 2024.
Preprint (e.g. medRxiv or bioRxiv)
- Rajpurkar P, Irvin J, Ball RL, Zhu K, Yang B, Mehta H, et al. Deep learning for chest radiograph diagnosis: a retrospective comparison of the CheXNeXt algorithm to practicing radiologists. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2017 [cited 2026 Mar 10]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1101/274977.
Government or Agency Report (Online)
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Artificial intelligence in health care: the hope, the hype, the promise, the peril. Washington (DC): National Academies Press; 2019 [cited 2026 Feb 20]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17226/27111.
Dataset Citation
- Johnson AEW, Pollard TJ, Shen L, Lehman LWH, Feng M, Ghassemi M, et al. MIMIC-III, a freely accessible critical care database. Sci Data. 2016;3:160035. doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.35. Dataset available from: https://physionet.org/content/mimiciii/1.4/.
Note: List references in order of appearance (not alphabetical).
Finally: Save the file as JDHII_Paper.docx
Quick Summary:
| Element | Setting |
|---|---|
| Paper size | A4 |
| Margins | Normal (1 inch / 2.54 cm all) |
| Columns | 1 (single-column) |
| Font family | Times New Roman |
| Title | 24 pt, centered |
| Author block | 12 pt, centered |
| Abstract/Keywords | 10 pt, bold heading |
| Body text | 10 pt, single spaced |
| Headings | I. , a. , i. style |
| References | Vancouver numeric style 1., 2., 3. … |