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Author Guidelines

How to prepare your submission

We currently only accept submissions from presenters at Medicine 2.0 conferences and workshops.

Submissions must adhere to the JMIR Instructions for Authors. Please pay particular attention to the pre-submission checklist to avoid common formatting issues. As an alternative to preparing a paper you can also order a transcript of your talk to be considered for publication (see section below for details).

Special care should be taken to prepare your bibliography. In -text citations look like this [1] - do not use superscript or footnotes. Add a “References” section at the end of the manuscript, enumerating all references (1.-n.). For journal references, include the PubMed Identifier (PMID:123456), for book references the ISBN (ISBN: 123453x), for WebCite references the WebCite URL (obtained at webcitation.org) in your bibliography (if you do, your references can be automatically formatted during typesetting, so the actual format is less important). 

In addition, there are a few special limitations, which are not applicable for JMIR submissions:

  • Papers may not exceed 4500 words (without abstract, references, and tables)
  • Papers should not have more than 30 references (except systematic reviews)
  • There is a maximum of 1 simple table within the paper (if you wish to present more data, please write them into a "Multimedia Appendix", and upload it as supplementary file)
  • There is a maximum of 1 figure within the paper
  • There is a maximum of 1 Multimedia Appendix

 

Transcripts of Medicine 2.0 Talks

An alternative to preparing a paper is to publish a transcript of your Medicine 2.0 talk in this serial. You can either prepare your own transcript (in this case, please format as per instructions above, edit it, and submit it as paper), or order a transcript from us (we have all audio files on file).

  • To order a transcript, simply upload an "empty" manuscript file which contains the title of your presentation, an abstract, and the sentence "I hereby order a transcript of my talk at (Medicine 2.0 Conference year/location). I understand I will be charged $180 per each 20 min for the transcript".
  • When you submit a transcript order, please carefully fill in the authorship metadata form (names and affiliations of all authors), as these are the authors that will be listed in the final publication and ultimately in PubMed. Discuss with your co-authors (if any) in advance whether they should all be listed, or whether just the presenting author should be listed.
  • We also highly recommend to upload your slideshow (ppt, or slidecast movie with audio) as supplementary file, if you intend to publish it as well.
  • If you have the audio or video file, also upload it as supplementary file (but if you don't, you can order the transcript anyways, as we have them on file)
  • You can add a references section when you receive the transcript, or already in your "empty" manuscript file.
  • Note that transcripts usually require some editing from authors (as spoken English often looks awkward, and because there may be transcription errors). We cannot guarantee that the transcript will be of suitable quality for publication (portions of the audio may be unintelligible). There will be no copyediting from our side (but we can refer you to paid copyediting services).  

We currently only accept transcript orders from official Medicine 2.0 events. Workshop/Tutorial/Conference organizers interested in having their transcripts published here, should contact Dr Gunther Eysenbach about the option of branding their event as Medicine 2.0 workshop/tutorial/conference.

Transcripts of talks not related to Medicine 2.0 (from any other conference) can be submitted to our forthcoming sister-publication iproceedings.

Prepublishing review (optional)

If you have existing review reports (e.g. from publishing on the Medicine 2.0 Knol) please upload them as supplementary file. They may be used in lieu of soliciting another review.

Alternatives to publishing in the Medicine 2.0  Proceedings

You can also submit papers to the Medicine 2.0 Knol (a moderated collection, not PubMed indexed, if you do not require an "official" PubMed indexed paper, and do not want to format you paper, OR if you wish to post your paper there for pre-submission peer-review) or (for high-impact journal papers which have not "proceedings" character) to the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

For a full description of these publishing options for Medicine 2.0 speakers see Call for Papers.

 

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. Papers must adhere to the JMIR Instructions for authors - see in particular the pre-submission checklist
  2. Papers may not exceed 4500 words (without abstract, references, and tables)
  3. Papers should not have more than 30 references (except systematic reviews), max 1 table, max 1 figure, and max 1 Multimedia Appendix.
 

Copyright Notice

Unless stated otherwise, all articles are open-access distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ("first published in the Medicine 2.0...") is properly cited with original URL and bibliographic citation information. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.medicine20.com/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.

 

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