- General information
- Manuscript preparation
- Title page
- Abstracts
- Text
- Figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- References
- After acceptance
General information
Clinical and Investigative Medicine invites the submission of high-quality research and review articles dealing with: clinical investigation, laboratory research, epidemiologic analysis, health care research, medical education studies, symposia and clinical science conferences.
Manuscripts, in English or French, should be sent to the editor, Dr. George Sweeney, Clinical and Investigative Medicine, Room 3N51D, McMaster University Health Sciences Centre, 1200 Main St. W, Hamilton ON L8N 3Z5, Canada. Fax and e-mail submissions are not acceptable.
"Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals" (CMAJ 1997; 156:270-77) should be consulted as a guide to submitting papers to the Journal.
Reporting on studies involving human experimentation must be accompanied by a copy of the statement of approval of an independent ethical review committee and an assurance that individual informed consent forms have been signed by each patient or experimental subject, as and when required by the ethical review committee.
A cover letter signed by the corresponding author should state that the manuscript has not been published previously and is not under consideration by any other journal. Included should be a signed letter of permission from all people identified as sources of personal communications and those mentioned in the acknowledgements or identifiable in illustrative material. Written permission is also required from the copyright holder of previously published material (e.g., tables, figures and long quotations) that is being reproduced, with or without modification. The corresponding author must disclose all sources of financial or material support, or commercial interest that any of the authors may have in the subject of the study and any affiliation or involvement with an organization that has a financial interest in the research materials or the topic.
Manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced (including references, tables, figure legends and the title page) on standard letter-size paper. An original and three copies of the manuscript are required as well as four sets of glossy prints or good-quality laser prints for the illustrations. Please also submit a diskette with separate files for text and graphics. Indicate the software that has been used.
All authors' names, degrees and affiliations should appear on the title page, and any meeting(s) at which the work covered in the submission has been presented, in whole or in part, should be indicated. The author must provide an address for reprints and correspondence, a street address for delivery of material by courier, telephone and fax numbers, and an e-mail address if available. Also included on the title page should be an abbreviated title not exceeding 55 characters.
These should not exceed 250 words and should be in structured form according to the format proposed by Haynes and colleagues (Ann Intern Med 1990;113: 69-76).
The use of abbreviations and acronyms is discouraged. When they are used, they should be spelled out in full when they first appear. Units of measurement should be those used in accordance with current custom. SI units are preferred and when traditional units are used, the SI equivalent should also be given.
Tables and figures should be prepared according the criteria set forth in "Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals" (CMAJ 1997;156:278-85). For figures the orientation, figure number and corresponding author's name should all appear on the back of every illustration. Colour figures will be reproduced in colour at the editor's discretion.
Specifications for electronic submission of figures [PDF format]
PDF Specifications [PDF format]
These are to be inserted, on a separate page, after the text.
References should be cited in numerical order of their appearance in the text. Those cited in tables or figures should be numbered according to where the table or figure is cited in the text. The numbers should not be in superscript but placed between angle brackets and closed up to the preceding word or punctuation mark (e.g., medicine<4> and surgery,<5>). Use a hyphen to link the first and last numbers in a series but commas to separate nonconsecutive numbers (e.g., <1,47,9,11>). References in the reference list should be in the style used in "Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals" or MEDLINE. The accuracy of the references is the responsibility of the author. Do not prepare references using the Endnote or Footnote format in word-processing software.
The author of an accepted manuscript will be asked to provide a diskette of the most recent version of the article, tables and figures (if applicable). Please indicate the software used. WordPerfect or Word is preferred for text. A wide variety of software is available for figures. We cannot read the following programs: Ventura, PageMaker and Harvard Graphics.
All authors will be expected to sign a document transferring copyright to Clinical and Investigative Medicine and attesting to the fact that the work is original and unpublished. All accepted manuscripts become the property of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and may not be published elsewhere, in whole or in part, without written permission from the publisher.
The accepted manuscript will be edited to conform to CMA style, for correctness of grammar, syntax and punctuation and also for clarity and brevity. The corresponding author will receive page proofs before publication and is responsible for making the necessary changes and corrections on the manuscript and for obtaining coauthors' approval of it. A form for ordering reprints will be sent at the same time.
There will be a page charge of $25/page for publication. Authors will be notified of the amount at the page-proof stage. This charge may be waived under special circumstances, at the discretion of the Editor.
Unpublished manuscripts are privileged communications between authors and editors. Editorial staff will discuss them only with the corresponding author and the peer reviewers, who are not to discuss the paper with others without the Editor's permission. To maintain confidentiality, authors should indicate whether they wish the edited manuscript to be sent by courier or fax.
