This Journal celebrates the use of AI. Our view is that 'AI' means 'Augmented Intelligence'. We do have guardrails:

- All use of AI beyond grammar and spell check must be declared

- Generative AI is not to be used to create new content in an author's name.

    The correct approach is for you to write your paper using your human intellect and selecting your references, then run spelling and grammar-checks in your writing App to augment your writing. Then you may use an AI tool to review and critique your paper.

    Our recommended AI agent is Grok for the reason we have tested several agents and Grok is the better performer in using scientific language and understanding Chiropractic. Remember, every prompt you enter is training Grok to better understand our discipline. We found ChatGPT to be childish in its expressions. Others were ridden with errors. Sadly, Elon is not paying us to say this.

Why?

    At the end of the day, you are signing-off on your paper as YOUR work which means YOU must defend it. You must know that what you have submitted is true.

This means you have made the intellectual input and organised your ideas within a context you have provided, and AI may then improve your flow and readability.

    Any new information provided by AI in this scenario must be checked and validated by you, including the standard process of you actually holding a copy of any cited reference (and reading it).

    You, the author, always remain directly responsible in person for statements published in your name.

    We now also recommend readers use Grok with prompts for papers of substance to become a their 'Private Tutor' which can analyse your reading, extract the key learning points, and even quiz you to test your understanding.

    We now publish with each paper a Grok review which brings that paper to 2 or 3 paragraphs of grunt, and we include a 5-point quiz for you to test your understanding of the work. This costs you and the authors, nothing.  

At July 2026.

• The Journal uses familiar main headings such as Introduction, Methods, Literature Review, Results, Discussion, Conclusion. For case reports we prefer Background, Intervention, Outcomes, Conclusion. 
• Indexing terms: We tend to run 5 indexing terms, starting with 'Chiropractic', and 'Subluxation' (where relevant) so your remaining 3 or 4 terms should include the topic of your paper including a generic indexing term such as the name of your core technique, as ‘Gonstead’, or ‘SOT’, or ‘AK’, and so on. Vague matters should be included such as ‘adaptability’, ‘well-being’, ‘women’s health’ for example.
• In the ms we use two levels of subheading. One example could be Discussion (level 1, centred); The historical review, and Contemporary considerations (Level 2, smaller font). As a rule of thumb there should be more than one paragraph of text under any one heading or subheading, but use as many as are needed for reader clarity.
• Figures and Tables: You will submit a figure or a table within your text where you think it best fits. For publication as a live translatable paper on-line, tables must be kept to 2 columns, 3 at the most, and no more than 10 rows. Manuscripts with more complex tables and a lot of images will be published in English only as PDF, however the abstract will remain translatable.
• Ephemera: Give the names of each author with all of their academic qualifications in the year-order of attainment. Include Fellowships earned by examination or outstanding contributions (such as FICCS). Give the affiliation of each author as ‘Institution, position’, or 'private practice, City'.
• Assignment: Submitting by email means you agree to the policies of the Asia-Pac Chiropr J as they may be from time to time. In summary, you retain the copyright of your submission and licence the Asia-Pac Chiropr J to publish and promote your work as we see fit at no cost or obligation to you. Once published you may not withdraw your paper as it will be indexed within various data bases however you may submit a correction or subsequent explanation. We may however redact a paper should he passing of time indicate this is needed for our integrity, in which case the paper will disappear.
• The Journal's commitment to you as an author is to:

1. Acknowledge receipt of your manuscript within 12 to 24 hours
2. Immediately undertake technical review to ensure alignment with the Journal's style and to return within 48 hours of receipt any ms that requires refinement
3. Respond overnight with comments to the author
4. Provide you with a proof and the opportunity to make corrections
5. Advise the status of the ms at the earliest opportunity and proceed to publication, and
6. Publish.

The test our editors will apply is simple, ‘can we find it?’ We actually check every reference and expect all links to be active, current, and correct.  Web addresses are now ubiquitous in citations and it is redundant to label them as a 'URL', this is self-explanatory, thus do not enter 'URL'

When giving the string for a doi: we prefer you to capitalise the preface letters as DOI with no colon, space, and then the string. 

    The style of referencing is where we most strongly honour the Journal’s pillar of Freedom. The Journal welcomes and recognises all referencing styles and does not have a single preferred format. Therefore we accept the format you, the writer, are most comfortable with using. 

    We have equal respect for APA, Chicago, Harvard, so please simply use the format with which you are comfortable, but do it properly in accord with the manual for the style you choose. Got it? Use your familiar style but use it well! 

    Within the text, use a baseline Arabic number in normal curved parentheses thus. (12) Or use (Author, date) We need this style to ensure your paper is of maximum readability on as many devices as possible. Place the (reference) in-text to something specific (11) you have cited, or outside all punctuation, including the period at the end of a sentence. (12) Do not punctuate after the insertion. (Ebrall, 2019) 

    We think Author/Date works well with endnotes with ‘author, date’ in text. Gather at the end of the paper as references (numbered) or bibliography (not numbered) in alphabetical order of first author surname. If (Author, Date) then separate with a semi colon and space. (Ebrall, 2019; Cuthbert, 2020)

    You may also gather as 'footnotes'. One benefit of footnotes is your ability to enter an explanatory comment to support your text. History and philosophy writers love this approach. In-text, simply enter (a number, starting from 1) and against that number in the footnotes provide your narrative comment. Footnotes don't really work with (Author, Date) in-text. Again the punctuation is before the bracketed insert. (note n)

    Where you cite a range of references in text, use all citation numbers. Do not abbreviate with a dash as in (23-27), rather enter (23, 24, 25, 26, 27) Use one space between citation numbers. Citation numbers work with either footnotes or endnotes. Don't do both.

    We celebrate professionalism in our writers. The Asia-Pac Chiropr J  is specifically for contemporary Chiropractors and students. Like us, we want instant information, so every reference must be readily accessed. 

    We are aware that AI is generating fake references. We expect you to not do this and to personally verify each reference which we will confirm.