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This page gives links to the resources for scientific authors.  There are also links to the instructions to authors for various medical journals. As always, we welcome the suggestions of our visitors.  Please tell us what we are doing right and what is missing from this page.

Books and Software for the Scientific Author   We have provided some recommendations for books and software to help the medical/scientific author.  Click here.  We also have an excellent selection of medical dictionaries available for purchase.  Selection of bestselling books in your field of medicine or science.

Professional Editing Service for Your Medical or Scientific Paper  See our services page for a description of how we can help you with your paper, presentation or abstract.

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Instructions to Authors for Selected Medical Journals

These instructions detail the requirements for submission of an article to a biomedical journal.  Sometimes these instructions state that articles that do not follow these rejected will be rejected without scientific review.  Click here to review the services that Life Sciences Publishing offers.

Circulation

Europace

European Heart Journal

HeartWeb (an online journal)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

JAMA

Lancet  (click on "Info for Authors" after registering & logging in)

Medical Science Monitor (also online)

New England Journal of Medicine

PACE

 

Instructions to Authors for Most Medical Journals

 

Guide to Instructions to Authors  This is a more complete listing of links to the instructions for authors for many medical journals.

 

General Writing Resources

Criscadian's Active Voice | Quick Tips Some tips to help you improve your writing skills

Emory Writing Center Online Guidelines and materials for writers

Online Writing Laboratory  This is the online writing lab of Purdue University.  You can download 130 instructional handouts on writing here. They also have a large section on help with English as a second language.

Readers and Writers Resource Page Another collection of links on general and specific writing topics
Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style Old, but still relevant

Writer's Resource Center A collection of links on general and specific writing topics (by John Hewitt)
Writing Tools A collection of links - part of the Readers' and Writers' Resource Page

Dictionaries

Be sure to see our dictionary page. Click here.

Allwords   General English dictionary with definitions given in 5 other languages in (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish). Also has multi-lingual search capacity.

Babelfish  Simple translations on the web between English and 5 other languages (French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish).

Online-Medical Dictionary is a searchable medical dictionary published by CancerWeb and contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, history, in fact anything to do with medicine or science.

 

Other Resources for Biomedical Authors

American Medical Writers Association

EndNote Bibliographic Styles  This page provides you with free downloadable journal styles for the bibliographic program EndNote. 

University of Washington Bibliographic Software Support Page

Good support for EndNote and several other software packages.

For more information about EndNote, click here.

Free Medline from PubMed  The premier database on medical literature. You can also arrange to have copies of articles sent to you using this service.

New Version of PubMed   This new version of PubMed has a single search interface with pull-down menus that display search field limits, indexes, your search history, and a clipboard for gathering selected articles.

R & P Manager  This is a service that will send you regular email notifications with new medical articles are published in your field or under keywords that you select. It uses medline to obtain this data. Recommended!!

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals  Important information for authors submitting papers to medical journals.

Medical Writing Centre  The Guidelines from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors are published here.  These include the Uniform Requirements mentioned above.

Sciencekomm  An excellent web site with numerous links to resources for the scientific and medical author. 

Statistical consulting service for your scientific work by Jonas Ranstam, PhD, CStat.

 

Health Related:

American Pharmaceutical Association, top stories from the APhA, searchable by date.
Healthfinder, a government-sponsored resource site designed for consumers.
Jeffline, access the Thomas Jefferson University Medical School online library, including electronic journals and MEDLINE searching.
Medscape, read full-text, clinical articles, some for CME credit. Daily questions. 
NCQA, assesses and reports on the quality of managed care plans and HMOs.
American Public Health Association, an independent source of news and professional and scientific information.
American Medical Association, access CME resources and online journals; search a doctor database by name, specialty, geographic location.

DocGuide, Customizable and useful web page designed for physicians.  

U.S. Government

Food and Drug Administration, review the latest government updates on foods, drugs, toxicology, medical devices, and more.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides a wealth of scientific data; number-crunching software to download; international health travel advisories.
Drug Evaluation and Research, supplies a variety of national reports, including labeling changes, adverse drug experience cases, and the National Drug Code directory.
National Institutes of Health, provides the latest news, grant information, and a variety of health networks and databases.

Scientific presentations

Guide to Scientific Presentation Resources for those who are not native speakers of English 

Powerful Posters: Guidelines for poster presentations at scientific conferences by Dr. Pamela Alean-Kirkpatrick

Presenting solutions A useful guide to effective presentations
The 12 minute talk A short article from the University of Canberra

 

Resources for Cardiovascular Medicine

Cardiology Journals  Listing of cardiology journals from around the world with links.

Online Cardiology Journals  Journals and abstracts in cardiology available online.

More Cardiology Journals  Listing of links to cardiology journals.

 

Books and Software for the Scientific Author   We have provided some recommendations for books and software to help the medical/scientific author.  Click here.

Professional Editing Service for Your Medical or Scientific Paper  See our services page for a description of how we can help you with your paper, presentation or abstract.

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