期刊名称：MEDICINE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Medicine provides insight from leading scholars about the latest results in clinical investigation. Relevant to both hospital and office practice, the journal includes analytical reviews of Internal Medicine, Dermatology, Neurology, and Pediatrics topics. Medicinealso offers follow-up studies and practice-oriented reports of clinical observations. It is one of the most respected and frequently cited journals in the field. Plus, a new feature has been added: "Reviews in Molecular Medicine," designed to keep readers up-to-date with this important facet of the field. |
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Instructions to Authors
Manuscripts should be submitted to Victor A. McKusick, M.D., Editor, Medicine, Blalock 1007, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287-4922. The covering letter should contain statements that the manuscript has been seen and approved by all authors, that it has not been published elsewhere, and that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. If a manuscript is accepted for publication, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins must receive in writing the assignment of copyright from all authors. The forms requiring signatures will be mailed from the Editorial Office. Direct queries to the Staff Editor, Susan Shock (Tel.: 410-955-4864; fax: 410-955-4999; e-mail: sshock@jhmi.edu).
The editors encourage articles that review original data from the experience of the authors as well as survey the literature. The subject should be broad enough to be of interest to MEDICINE's multispecialty readership.
Style of manuscripts. Medicine 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.
General rules. Manuscripts should be double spaced with wide margins. Submit an original and 3 copies. Number the pages. A separate title page should give title, authors, institutions for each author, city and state of origin, complete address for mailing proofs (with e-mail address), running head (of less than 50 characters, including spaces between words). Type each table on a separate sheet. Type references, footnotes, and legends for illustrations double-spaced on separate sheets. Submit 4 sets of illustrations. Medicine now uses an abstract at the beginning of the article instead of a summary at the end.
Medicine's guidelines are in accord with "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" (see the January 23, 1997, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine) except that references in articles submitted to Medicine should be listed in alphabetical order. Authors should pay particular attention to those guidelines relating to ethics, authorship, and prior or duplicate publication.
Medicine uses the nonpossessive form of eponyms-for example, Marfan syndrome, not Marfan's syndrome. In accordance with the Council of Biology Editors guidelines, MEDICINE uses numerals (symbols), not words, for numbers used in text, including numbers 1-10.
Manuscripts submitted on diskettes. Authors are encouraged to submit electronic diskettes of the final version of their manuscript along with the typescript of the final revision. Identify the diskette by providing the name of the first author and the manuscript title; the name of the computer file; the type of hardware, operating system, and version number; and the name of the software program and version number.
Medicine does not assume responsibility for errors in conversion of software.
Conflict of interest. Authors must inform the editors, when submitting the manuscript, of any financial connection to, or interest in, a company whose product is the subject of the manuscript.
Abbreviations, nomenclature and symbols. Abbreviations must be defined when first used; a list of abbreviations should be submitted on a separate page. Any medications, materials, and devices must be identified by full nonproprietary name as well as brand name and manufacturer's name, city, state, and country when brand name is relevant.
References. References to literature cited are listed in alphabetical order, according to authors' last names. References are numbered consecutively according to this alphabetical listing. Citations in the text should use the reference number in parentheses. All authors should be included. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the style in Index Medicus/MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine).
5. Billings FT Jr, DePree HE. Diagnosis of portal vein obstruction: Studies of intestinal absorption of glucose using abdominal collateral veins. Johns Hopkins Med J 85: 183-99, 1949.
79. Lawson HC. The volume of blood. In: Hamilton WF, ed. Handbook of physiology. Washington, DC: American Physiological Society, p. 23, 1962.
References to articles in press must state name of journal and if possible, volume and year-that is, articles in press must genuinely have been accepted. Citations such as "Personal communication" and "Submitted for publication" should not be entered in the list of references but may be noted parenthetically in the text. Written permission to cite someone else's unpublished observations must be obtained from the observer and must accompany the manuscript.
The accuracy of references is of great concern to the editors because Medicine is a review journal and serves as a bibliographic source for readers around the world. Authors are responsible for checking the accuracy of each citation.
Tables. Tables should be prepared with the size of a page of Medicine in mind. Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals, should have a brief heading, and should not duplicate text or figures. Include a list of abbreviations at the end of each table.
Illustrations. All illustrations should be referred to as figures and numbered in Arabic numerals. Submit 4 sets of illustrations for review; original figures for reproduction may be submitted as electronic art (see below) or as good-quality printed originals. Identify each figure on the reverse side with figure number and author's name; mark the top of the figure. Lettering should be scaled so the smallest elements (eg, subscripts) will be readable when reduced. Give actual magnification of each photomicrograph. Permission to use material published previously must be obtained from the copyright holder.
Digital figures. Electronic art should be created/scanned and saved and submitted as a TIFF (tagged image file format), an EPS (encapsulated postscript), or a PPT (Power Point) file. Line art must have a resolution of at least 1,200 dots per inch (dpi), and electronic photographs (radiographs, CT scans, etc) 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. All electronic art must be accompanied by high-resolution laser prints of the images. Files can be submitted on a 3.5-inch high-density disk, a CD-ROM, or an Iomega Zip disk. Submit a file for each figure, separate from the manuscript text file. Please note that artwork generated from office suite programs such as Corel Draw and MS Word and artwork downloaded from the Internet (JPEG or GIFF files) cannot be used.
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 with complete instructions for downloading and printing the files and for faxing the corrected page proofs to the editor. 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. Changes that are stylistic or 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.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Victor A. McKusick, M.D
Blalock 1007
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287-4922
Phone: 410-955-4864
Staff Editor
Susan Shock
E-mail:sshock@mail.jhmi.edu
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