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Medicine
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Ethical/Legal Considerations: A submitted manuscript must
be an original contribution not previously published (except as an abstract
or a preliminary report), must not be under consideration for publication
elsewhere, and, if accepted, must not be published elsewhere in similar
form, in any language, without the consent of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Each person listed as an author is expected to have participated in the
study to a significant extent. Although the editors and referees make every
effort to ensure the validity of published manuscripts, the final responsibility
rests with the authors, not with the Journal, its editors, or the publisher.
All manuscripts must be submitted online through the journal's Web
site at https://md.edmgr.com.
See submission instructions under "Online manuscript submission."
Patient Anonymity and Informed Consent: It is the author's
responsibility to ensure that a patient's anonymity be protected and to
verify that any experimental investigation with human subjects reported
in the manuscript was performed with informed consent and following all
the guidelines for experimental investigation with human subjects required
by the institution(s) with which the authors are affiliated. Authors should
mask patients' eyes and remove patients' names from figures unless they
obtain written consent from the patients and submit written consent with
the manuscript.
Copyright: All authors must sign a copy of the Journal's
"Authorship Responsibility, Financial Disclosure, and Copyright Transfer"
form.
Compliance with NIH and Other Research Funding Agency Accessibility Requirements:
A number of research funding agencies now require or request authors to submit the post-print (the article after peer review and acceptance but not the final published article) to a repository that is accessible online by all without charge. As a service to our authors, LWW will identify to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) articles that require deposit and will transmit the post-print of an article based on research funded in whole or in part by the National Institutes of Health, Wellcome Trust, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, or other funding agencies to PubMed Central. The revised Copyright Transfer Agreement provides the mechanism.
Permissions:Authors must submit written permission from
the copyright owner (usually the publisher) to use tables or illustrations
that have appeared in copyrighted form elsewhere, along with complete details
about the source. Any permissions fees that might be required by the copyright
owner are the responsibility of the authors requesting use of the borrowed
material, not the responsibility of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Manuscript Submission: Online manuscript submission:
All manuscripts must be submitted online through the new Web site at https://md.edmgr.com.
First-time users: Please click the Register button from
the menu and enter the requested information. On successful registration,
you will be sent an e-mail indicating your user name and password. Print
a copy of this information for future reference. Note: If you have
received an e-mail from us with an assigned user ID and password, or if
you are a repeat user, do not register again. Just log in. Once you have
an assigned ID and password, you do not have to reregister, even if your
status changes (that is, author, reviewer, or editor). Authors:
Please click the log-in button from the menu at the top of the page and
log in to the system as an Author. Submit your manuscript according to the
author instructions. You will be able to track the progress of your manuscript
through the system. If you experience problems or do not have the technology
to submit your manuscript electronically, please contact Susan Shock, Staff
Editor, e-mail: sshock@jhmi.edu;
telephone: 410-955-4864; fax: 410-955-4999.
Manuscript Preparation: Manuscripts that do not adhere
to the following instructions will be returned to the corresponding author
for technical revision before undergoing peer review.
Title Page: A title page must be included in the manuscript file.
Include on the title page (a) complete manuscript title; (b) authors' full
names, highest academic degrees, and affiliations; (c) name and address
of corresponding author, including fax number, telephone number, and e-mail
address; (d) address for reprints if different from that of corresponding
author; (e) suggested running head (short title that runs across the top
of the page) of fewer than 50 characters, including spaces; and (f) all
sources of support, including pharmaceutical and industry support, that
require acknowledgment.
The title page must also include disclosure of funding received for this work from any of the following organizations: National Institutes of Health (NIH);
Wellcome Trust; Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI); and other(s).
Unstructured Abstracts: The abstract should be submitted on a separate
page. The abstract must be factual and comprehensive. Limit the
use of abbreviations and acronyms, and avoid general statements (eg, "the
significance of the results is discussed").
Text: The Journal makes it possible for authors to develop
their subjects more completely than is usual in most journals, but accurate
and concise writing is as essential in a review article as in other forms
of scientific reports. Authors are urged to edit their own manuscripts rigorously
before submitting them for consideration for publication. Authors who usually
write in a language other than English should have their manuscripts reviewed
by a native English speaker before submission. Organize the manuscript into
sections with appropriate section headings. A suggested sequence is title
page, abstract page, introduction, patients and methods, results, discussion,
acknowledgments, references, tables, figures.
Abbreviations: Write out the full term for each abbreviation
when first mentioned in the text and in each table and figure unless it
is a standard unit of measure. (Units of measure are discussed below in
Style section.)
References: The authors are responsible for the accuracy
of the references. Because Medicine is a review journal and serves
as a bibliographic source for readers around the world, the accuracy of
references is of great concern to the editors. All references included in
the reference list must be cited in the text or in a table or figure. Cite
unpublished data—such as papers submitted but not yet accepted for
publication and personal communications, including e-mail com-munications—in
parentheses in the text but do not list these in the reference list. Key
the references (double-spaced) at the end of the manuscript. List references
in alphabetical order according to the authors' last names; number the references
consecutively according to this alphabetical listing. All authors' names
should be included (do not use "et al"). Journal titles should be abbreviated
according to the style in Index Medicus/MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine);
refer to the List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus or access
the list at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html.
Sample references are given below:
Journal Article
1. Billings FT Jr, DePree HE. Diagnosis of portal vein obstruction: studies
of intestinal absorption of glucose using abdominal collateral veins. Johns
Hopkins Med J. 1949;85:183-199.
Book Chapter
2. Lawson HC. The volume of blood. In: Hamilton WF, ed. Handbook of Physiology.
Washington, DC: American Physiological Society; 1962;23.
Entire Book
3. Kellman RM, Marentette LJ. Atlas of Craniomaxillofacial Fixation.
Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1999.
Software
4. Epi Info [computer program]. Version 6. Atlanta, GA: Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention; 1994.
Online Journals
5. Friedman SA. Preeclampsia: A review of the role of prostaglandins. Obstet
Gynecol [serial online]. January 1988;71:22-37. [List URL and date accessed.]
Database
6. CANCERNET-PDQ [database online]. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute;
1996. [List date accessed.].
World Wide Web
7. Gostin LO. Drug use and HIV/AIDS [JAMA HIV/AIDS Web site]. June 1, 1996.
Available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/special/
hiv/ethics. Accessed June 26, 1997.
Figures: Cite figures consecutively in the text, and number
them in the order in which they are discussed. We encourage authors to submit
figures electronically; if this is not possible, authors should contact
the Staff Editor as directed above. Art submitted electronically should
be created/scanned and saved and submitted as either a TIFF (tagged image
file format), an EPS (encapsulated PostScript) file, or a PPT (PowerPoint)
file. Line art must have a resolution of at least 1200 dpi (dots per inch),
and electronic photographs–radiographs, CT scans, and so on–and
scanned images must have a resolution of at least 300 dpi. If fonts are
used in the artwork, they must be converted to paths or outlines or they
must be embedded in the files. Color images must be created/scanned and
saved and submitted as CMYK files. Please note that artwork generated from
office suite programs such as CorelDRAW and MS Word and artwork downloaded
from the Internet (JPEG or GIF files) cannot be used. Electronic art that
cannot be successfully uploaded must be submitted on a 3.5-inch high-density
disk, a CD-ROM, or an Iomega Zip disk, accompanied by high-resolution laser
prints of each image.
Figure Legends: Include legends for all figures. They should
be brief and specific, and they should appear on a separate manuscript page
after the references. Use scale markers in the image for electron micrographs,
and indicate the type of stain used.
Color Figures: The journal accepts color figures that will
enhance an article (see specifics for electronic submission of figures,
above). Authors who submit color figures will receive an estimate of the
cost for color reproduction. Those who decide not to pay for color reproduction
may request that the figures be converted to black and white at no charge.
Tables: Create tables using the table-creating and -editing
feature of your word processing software (eg, Word, WordPerfect). Do not
use Excel or comparable spreadsheet programs. Group all tables in a separate
file. Cite tables consecutively in the text, and number them in that order.
Each table should appear on a separate sheet and should include the table
title, appropriate column heads, and explanatory legends (including definitions
of any abbreviations used). Do not embed tables within the body of the manuscript.
They should be self-explanatory and should supplement, rather than duplicate,
the material in the text.
Style: In general, pattern manuscript style after the American
Medical Association Manual of Style (9th edition). Note that, in contrast
to AMA style, Medicine lists references alphabetically by authors'
names, as described above, not by the order cited in text. Similarly, Medicine
uses roman type, not italic, for human gene symbols. In accordance with
AMA style, Medicine uses the nonpossessive form of eponyms (for example,
Marfan syndrome, not Marfan's syndrome) and uses numerals (symbols), not
words, for numbers used in text, including numbers 1 to 10. Stedman's
Medical Dictionary (27th edition) and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary (11th edition) should be used as standard references. Refer
to drugs and therapeutic agents by their accepted generic or chemical names,
and do not abbreviate them. Copyright or trade names of drugs should be
capitalized and placed in parentheses after the name of the drug. Names
and locations (city and state or country) of manufacturers of drugs, supplies,
and equipment cited in a manuscript are required to comply with trademark
law and should be provided in parentheses. Units of measure should be expressed
in the metric system, and temperatures should be expressed in degrees Celsius.
Conventional units should be written as SI units as appropriate (authors
may give conventional units in parentheses)
After Acceptance:Page proofs and corrections: Corresponding
authors will receive electronic page proofs to check the copyedited and
typeset article before publication. Portable document format (PDF) files
of the typeset pages and support documents (eg, reprint order form) will
be sent to the corresponding author by e-mail. Complete instructions will
be provided with the e-mail for downloading and printing the files and for
faxing the corrected page proofs to the editor. Those authors without an
e-mail address will receive traditional page proofs. It is the author's
responsibility to ensure that there are no errors in the proofs. Changes
that have been made to conform to journal style will stand if they do not
alter the author's meaning. Only changes critical to the accuracy of the
content will be made. Changes that are stylistic or are a reworking of previously
accepted material will be disallowed. The publisher reserves the right to
deny any changes that do not affect the accuracy of the content. Authors
may be charged for alterations to the proofs beyond those required to correct
errors or to answer queries. Proofs must be checked carefully and corrections
faxed to the editor within 24 to 48 hours of receipt, as requested in the
cover letter accompanying the page proofs.
Reprints: Authors will receive a reprint order form and
a price list with the page proofs. Reprint requests should be faxed to the
publisher as directed on the form at the time the corrected proofs are returned,
if possible. Reprints are normally shipped 6 to 8 weeks after publication
of the issue in which the item appears. Contact the Author Reprints Department,
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 351 West Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21201,
Tel: 800-341-2258, with any questions.
Editor's Contact: Complete editor contact information:
Susan Shock, Staff Editor, Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Blalock 1007,
600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287; telephone: 410-955-4864; fax:
410-955-4999; e-mail: sshock@jhmi.edu.
