Submissions. Ethnicity & Health welcomes original contributions from all parts of the world on the understanding that their contents have not previously been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

All submissions should be made online at Ethnicity and Health's Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.

Authors are requested to nominate up to three independent reviewers. Please submit suggested reviewers with your manuscript, together with their e-mail addresses.

Abstracts. All papers must be summarized in an abstract, structured under the headings Objective(s), Design, Result(s) and Conclusion in 300 words or fewer. If they so wish, authors are welcome to prepare an abstract in a second language, where appropriate, alongside the abstract in English. Please supply keywords, no more than 15 words, for both languages.

Key messages. All papers should include a final section, numbering no more than 100 words, which specifies up to 4 key messages of the paper.

Acknowledgements. External funding for research being reported should be clearly acknowledged.

Article length. The journal welcomes the submission of papers of up to 7,000 words maximum, as well as shorter papers of about 3,000 words. The references (usually no more than 30) are to be included in the word count.

Letter of submission. Authors are requested to send a description of how their paper fulfils the journal's aims as a separate letter to the editors of no more than 500 words.

Units of measurement must be cited in SI units.

Illustrations (including photographs, graphs and diagrams) should be referred to as Figures and their position indicated in the text (e.g. Figure 3). Each should numbered in Arabic numerals. The captions should include keys to symbols and should make interpretation possible without reference to the text. Figures should ideally be professionally drawn and designed with the format of the journal (248×175 mm) in mind and should be capable of reduction.

Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals, and their position indicated in the text (e.g. Table 1). Each table should have a short, self-explanatory title. Vertical rules should not be used to separate columns. Units should not appear in the body of the table. Any explanatory notes should be given as a footnote at the bottom of the table.

Free article access: Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

Copyright. It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may, of course, use the article elsewhere after publication without prior permission from Taylor & Francis, provided that acknowledgement is given to the Journal as original source of publication, and that Taylor & Francis is notified so that our records show that its use is properly authorised. Authors retain a number of other rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies documents. These policies are referred to at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position for full details. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.