Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
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The Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (abbreviated URM and often shortened to Uniform Requirements) is a set of guidelines produced by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, for standardising the ethics, preparation and formatting of manuscripts submitted for publication by biomedical journals. Compliance with the Uniform Requirements is required by most leading biomedical journals and over 629 journals internationally (circa June 2006) follow the Uniform Requirements.[1]
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[edit] International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) was originally known as the Vancouver Group, after the location of their first meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. Current members of the ICMJE are:[2]
- Annals of Internal Medicine
- BMJ
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Croatian Medical Journal
- Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
- Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde
- New England Journal of Medicine
- The Lancet
- The Medical Journal of Australia
- The New Zealand Medical Journal
- Tidsskrift for Den Norske Llegeforening
- Ugeskrift for Læger
[edit] Citation style
The citation style currently recommended by the Uniform Requirements, also known as the Vancouver system, is the ANSI style used by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
References are numbered consecutively in order of appearance in the text – they are identified by Arabic numerals enclosed in parentheses.
Example of a journal citation:
- Leurs R, Church MK, Taglialatela M. H1-antihistamines: inverse agonism, anti-inflammatory actions and cardiac effects. Clin Exp Allergy 2002 Apr;32(4):489-98.
[edit] Grey literature
The Uniform Requirements were adapted by the Grey Literature International Steering Committee GLISC for the production of scientific and technical reports included in the wider category of grey literature. These GLISC Guidelines for the production of scientific and technical reports are translated in French, German, Italian and Spanish and are available on the GLISC website [1].
[edit] References
- ^ International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Journals that have Requested Inclusion on the List of Publications that follow the ICMJE's Uniform Requirements For Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals [homepage on the Internet]. Philadelphia: ICMJE; c2005 [updated 2006 May 27; cited 2006 May 30]. Available from: http://www.icmje.org/journals.html
- ^ Drazen JM, Van der Weyden MB, Sahni P, Rosenberg J, Marusic A, Laine C, Kotzin S, Horton R, Hébert PC, Haug C, Godlee F, Frizelle FA, de Leeuw PW, DeAngelis CD (November 2009). "Uniform format for disclosure of competing interests in ICMJE journals". The New England Journal of Medicine 361 (19): 1896–7. doi:. PMID 19825973.
