期刊名称：BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL ISSN： 0959-535X 版本： Science Citation Index 出版频率： Monthly 出版社： B M J PUBLISHING GROUP, BRITISH MED ASSOC HOUSE, TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON, ENGLAND, WC1H 9JR   出版社网址： http://www.bmj.com/ 期刊网址： http://group.bmj.com/products/bmj 影响因子： 13.471 主题范畴： MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal The BMJ (British Medical Journal) is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully “online first” publication. Our publishing model—”continuous publication”— means that all articles appear on bmj.com before being included in an issue of the print journal. The website is updated daily with the BMJ’s latest original research, education, news, and comment articles, as well as podcasts, videos, and blogs. All the BMJ’s original research is published in full on bmj.com, with open access and no limits on word counts. The BMJ’s vision is to be the world’s most influential and widely read medical journal. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors to make better decisions. The BMJ team is based mainly in London, although we also have editors elsewhere in Europe and in the US.   Reach and impact About 1.5 million unique users download 6 million pages from bmj.com each month (ABCe audit, October 2009). The BMJ’s Impact Factor is 13.66 (ISI Web of Science, 2009). We audit the performance of BMJ research articles, using a wide range of indicators to assess their impact on readers and their dissemination to the wider world. The print BMJ has a long history and has been published without interruption since 1840, when it began as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal. The print BMJ is now published weekly in three editions that vary only in their advertising content. Together, their weekly circulation totals about 122 000 copies, of which 10 000 are distributed outside Britain. International editions reach another 55 000 readers.  The BMJ is printed on 100% recycled paper and mailed in a recyclable wrapper. In May 1995 the BMJ became the first general medical journal to launchitself into cyberspace as bmj.com going on to win Best Business Product or Service at the PPAi Interactive Publishing Awards 2000, Best Integration of Media at the AOP UK Interactive Publishing Awards 2002, and to be voted one of the web's five most useful health sites by Guardian Online readers and contributors in 2004. Continuous daily publication on bmj.com started in July 2008, with all content appearing online before print publication. We abridge many articles for the print BMJ, including all research.  In July 2008 the BMJ was named Medical Publication of the Year at the Medical Journalist Association's awards in London. BMJ News Editor Annabel Ferriman was jointly awarded Health Editor of the Year award, and Susan Mayor was named Medical Journalist of the Year.   Owner and publisher The BMJ is published by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association. The editor of the BMJ is Fiona Godlee. The BMA grants editorial freedom to the editor of the BMJ. The views expressed in the journal are those of the authors and may not necessarily comply with BMA policy. The BMJ follows guidelines on editorial independence produced by the World Association of Medical Editors and the code on good publication practice produced by the Committee on Publication Ethics.     The BMJ's sources of revenue The BMJ receives revenue from a range of sources, to ensure wide and affordable access while maintaining high standards of quality and full editorial independence. The sources of income include subscriptions from institutions and individuals; classified advertising for jobs and courses; display advertising for pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical products; events (exhibitions, sponsorship, and visitor fees); sale of reprints, rights, and royalties; and sponsorship. Instructions to Authors How to submit All articles for the Student BMJ should be submitted through our online editorial office, BenchPress. Most articles are peer reviewed, and this is organised through BenchPress. Register as an author at http://submit.bmj.com and follow the instructions to submit your article.   Pictures You can upload diagrams with your article, and we will have these redrawn. You must submit images for Picture Quizzes and People articles. Submit pictures as supplementary files, not in your manuscript. Photographs and radiological imaging must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi) and at least 10 x 10 cm large. We prefer JPEG or TIFF formats. You can supply written suggestions for pictures at the end of your article to help us commission illustrative pictures.   Checklist before submitting Editorials and Education articles need an expert coauthor Is it the right length? Is it properly referenced? Picture Quizzes and People articles need high resolution pictures Include the copyright statement in your manuscript: "The corresponding author has the right to grant on behalf of all authors and does grant on behalf of all authors, an exclusive licence (or non exclusive for government employees) on a worldwide basis to the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, and its licensees to permit this article (if accepted) to be published in BMJ editions and any other BMJPGL products and to exploit all subsidiary rights, as set out in our licence at http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/authors/checklists-forms/licence-for-publication)." (See http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/authors/editorial-policies/copyright) Include a competing interests statement in your manuscript: "All authors declare that the answer to the questions on your competing interest form, http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/authors/checklists-forms/competing-interests, are all No and therefore have nothing to declare." or list your competing interests (See http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/authors/editorial-policies/competing-interests) Include patient consent, if needed. Include the details of all authors-name, position, phone number, email, and institutional address.   What happens next? There is no guarantee that we will publish your article. The editor's decision is final and may not always accord with the views of advisers and reviewers. We sent most submitted articles for review to two of our medical student advisers. We have more than 120 student advisers from around the world. (Interested in becoming a reviewer? E-mail studenteditor@bmj.com) They each write a report on the article's importance, relevance, and content and advise the student editor whether to accept, reject, or return the article to the author for revision. We also send more technical articles, especially Editorials and Education articles to one or more specialist peer reviewers.   Once your article is accepted If your article is accepted for publication, it will be edited. If we make substantial changes the technical editor will send it to you to approve. If you are emailed to check your article we need you to get back to us within three days if we are to consider any further changes you make. We try to publish accepted articles as soon as possible, but some delay may be inevitable. We usually publish accepted article within 2 months after acceptance. If you submit work to the Student BMJ you may not submit it elsewhere for publication without our explicit consent. We hold the exclusive licence to publish your article. Also we will not publish an article that has been published elsewhere.   Patient consent If patients are identifiable to themselves or others, in images or text, you need to give us their full consent to publication. Having consent to interview or examine a patient or to read his or her clinical notes is not enough: we need to see every patient's written consent to have information about them published in the Student BMJ. To obtain consent please ask all patients to sign the form at http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/authors/checklists-forms/patient-consent-form We follow the BMJ's requirements. See http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/advice/editorial_policies.shtml and http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/authors/editorial-policies/copy_of_patient-confidentiality You may remove some or all of a patient's identifying details from a Student BMJ article to make them feel less exposed, but we will still need to see their written consent to publication. Do not change the personal details of patients to try to disguise them: this is bad scientific practice because it could mislead readers. We also need patients' written consent to publication of all pictures of patients, including radiographs, scans, and clinical photos of any part of the body or anything else relating to a specific patient's clinical story.   Plagiarism Plagiarism is the use of others' published and unpublished ideas, words, or other intellectual property without attribution or permission and presenting them as original rather than derived from an existing source. The intent and effect of plagiarism is to mislead the reader. This applies whether the ideas or words are taken from abstracts, research grant applications, ethics committee applications, or unpublished or published manuscripts in any publication format. We now have a system to detect plagiarism called i-thenticate.   Libel The United Kingdom has strict libel laws. You can be sued for libel "if you lower someone's standing in the eyes of his or her peers." To defend itself against an accusation of libel, a publication has to prove that the statement it published was true, that it was published without malice, and, where possible, was in the public interest. If an allegation turns out to be false (based on incorrect facts), we will find it hard to defend, so fact checking is imperative. But we may have a small chance of defending ourselves if the allegation has been shared fully with the "accused" and he or she has had a chance to respond, and if that response has been forwarded unedited to us. Here are a few musts for authors of articles which criticise people or organisations: Ensure that you check all your facts Ensure that all articles are balanced. If you are publishing an allegation against someone, you must give the accused a chance to reply. When you approach the accused, you must reveal in detail what your allegations are, so that he or she can have a chance to answer them in full. If, for example, you are going to claim that a hospital employed a doctor who was not properly qualified, and it did not investigate complaints against that doctor, you must put all the allegations in full to the hospital management, so that it has the chance to answer each and every one of the allegations. It is no defence to say that an allegation has already been published elsewhere. If an allegation about a doctor or a drug company has appeared in a newspaper in Spain, for example, we cannot rely on that fact to defend ourselves. Firstly, that local newspaper might have got the facts wrong; secondly, the libel laws might be different in that country. So although the doctor or company might not have sued in that location, he or she could come after the BMJ in the UK.   References Authors must verify references against the original documents before submitting the article. These should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text. At the end of the article the full list of references should follow the Vancouver style. Please give the names and initials of all authors (unless there are more than six, when only the first six should be given followed by et al). The authors' names are followed by the title of the article; the title of the journal abbreviated according to the style of Index Medicus; the year of publication; the volume number; and the first and last page numbers. References to books should give the names of any editors, place of publication, editor, and year. In the text, reference numbers are given in superscript. Notice that issue number is omitted if there is continuous pagination throughout a volume, there is a space between volume number and page numbers, page numbers are in elided form (51-4 rather than 51-54) and the name of journal or book is in italics.   Examples: Nantulya V, Reich M. The neglected epidemic: road traffic injuries in developing countries. BMJ 2002;324: 1139. Murray C, Lopez A. Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1990-2020: global burden of disease study. Lancet 1997;349: 1498-504. Soter A, Wasserman SI, Austen KF. Cold urticaria: release into the circulation of histamine and eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis during cold challenge. N Engl J Med 1976;294:687-90 Land Transport Safety Authority. New Zealand household travel survey. Wellington: Safety Standards Branch, Land Transport Safety Authority, 1991. World Health Organization. International classification of diseases, 9th revision: clinical modification. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, 1980. Department of Health. National service framework for coronary heart disease. London: DoH, 2000. www.doh.gov.uk/nsf/coronary.htm (accessed 6 Jun 2003). Osler AG. Complement: mechanisms and functions. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1976.   Information from manuscripts not yet in press, papers reported at meetings, or personal communications should be cited only in the text, not as a formal reference. Authors should get permission from the source to cite personal communications.   Electronic citations You may know of other websites that will interest people reading your article. If you know the web addresses (URLs) of those sites, please include them in the relevant places in the text of your article.   Illustrations and photographs   Include relevant photographs, figures, or other illustrations when you're submitting articles to the Student BMJ. However we won't always have room for these images. You must seek the patient's written consent to publication in the Student BMJ if there is any chance that he or she may be identified from a picture, from its legend or other accompanying text. Patients are almost always willing to give such consent. We no longer publish pictures with black bands across the eyes because bands fail to mask someone's identity effectively. We can only accept our Consent Form (http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/authors/checklists-forms/patient-consent-form) to be able to publish the article. We can use an image that has been published before only if it has no copyright or if the copyright holder has given us permission for its use on bmj.com, in the print BMJ and in associated publications such as Student BMJ. If you would like to use in a Student BMJ article an illustration that has already been published elsewhere in a journal or book please ask the publishers to give permission. Most will agree as long as the Student BMJ credits the original publisher, although some will charge you a reproduction fee. If an image has no copyright, please tell us the precise details of where you obtained it and who gave you permission to use it in the Student BMJ. Please note that many medical illustration departments expect to be acknowledged. If images come from your colleagues you will need to seek their written permission and check whether the photographs have been published previously in other books and journals. If you are using line drawings or tables that have been taken from or adapted from published papers, then you are responsible for getting the publisher's permission to republish or adapt them. We would then publish such an image with a legend saying something like "Adapted with permission from...[ref]" or "Reproduced with permission of the American Academy of Sciences from xxx et al[ref]". Resolution - We need a picture to have a pixel strength of 300 dots per inch. Please supply image files at least 100% of the intended printed size. We are unable to enlarge images by more than 5% from the original size supplied without a corresponding loss of quality. The Student BMJ redraws all technical figures and line drawings, so please supply these in a clear enough format for our artist to follow. Editorial Board Kamal Badr, Lebanon Mary Baker, UK Zulfiqar Bhutta, Pakistan Silvia Bonaccorso - USA Nicholas Christakis, USA Tony Grabham, UK Yuan Gu, China Zviad Kirtava, Georgia Leonard Lebovici, Israel Idris Mohammed, Nigeria Nicola Magrini, Italy Daniel Ncayiyana, South Africa Samiran Nundy, India Anthony Pelosi, UK Gretchen P Purcell, USA Pat Reid, UK Dave Sackett, Canada Rosalind Smyth, UK Julio Sotelo, Mexico Cathie Sudlow, UK Susumu Wakai, Japan Hugh Watkins, UK Ross Wilson, Australia Tim Wilson, UK Anthony Zwi, Australia   BMJ editorial office: papersadmin@bmj.com