LibGuides: Clinical Research: Submit a Manuscript

Instructions to Authors

Instructions to Authors
Most popular collection of instrutions to authors from over 6,000 journals in the health and life sciences

Instruction to authors from different journals:

Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals
Formerly known as Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME).

Journal Citation Reports : JCR This link opens in a new window
Contains aggregated citation data for over 10,000 journals from 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. Divided into two different databases: Science Edition and Social Sciences edition.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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Portal to several databases that index scholarly and technical literature in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

NIH Public Access Policy
"It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PMC (formerly PubMed Central) upon acceptance for publication."

Is your research NIH-funded? Please read the NIH public access policy.

What Is PMCID in Citations?
"Anyone submitting an application, proposal or report to the NIH must include the PMC reference number (PMCID) when citing applicable papers that they author or that arise from their NIH-funded research."

PMC (formerly PubMed Central) This link opens in a new window
NIH free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature

BioMed Central
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Online, open-access journal publisher of over 200 open access journals
PLoS ONE
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An international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication
Open Access Overview by Peter Suber