About JMP
Information to Authors
The Journal of Medicine and the Person (JMP) publishes original scientific papers and/or reviews of general interest with the aim of broadening knowledge and promoting discussion among health care professionals, with particular reference to the humanistic aspects of medicine. The purpose of the Journal is to offer a cultural tool to all in the health care world who acknowledge the central role of the person in medicine.
Therefore, the JMP publishes scientific contributions from individual professionals or from specialized groups. The Editors solicit for submission of significant results generated by:
1. direct experience in various health care domains, ranging from daily clinical practice to nursing care or health care management;
2. combining rigorous scientific procedures with assiduous attention devoted to the sick person.
In particular, the Journal publishes contributions in the following fields:
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- TABLES >
- REFERENCES >
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- CONFLICT OF INTEREST >
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TYPE OF CONTRIBUTIONS
Manuscripts must be submitted to the Editor of JMP for one of the following sections:
- Focus on: original articles about general or specific issues in medicine, including bioethics, managerial issues, new or consolidated drug use, technology, health care economics, legislation and regulations, professional education and training, and doctor/patient relationship;
- Editorials: upon invitation from the Editor in chief. Editorial comments are related to the original articles;
- JMP Clinical Rounds: critical review and case presentation of common diseases or particularly relevant diseases, in which a rational methodological approach led to interesting perspectives in diagnosis, therapy or care.
- Reviews: critical reviews of literature by experts from different specialties;
- Images in medicine: photographs in medicine, noteworthy for their scientific, emotional and/or challenging content;
- New Methodologies: original contributions or critical literature reviews of clinical or diagnostic/therapeutic methods, validated experimental protocols, care flow-charts that are focused on professional excellence, protection of patient's integrity and efficacy/efficiency criteria(cost/benefit ratio, cost/effectiveness ratio, etc.);
- JMP Letters: correspondence, evaluations or suggestions in the form of a Letter to the Editor;
- News on-line: highlights on scientific reports deserving broader diffusion or suggesting new diagnostic, clinical or managerial hypotheses;
- Job opportunities: news concerning the rise and development of new medical disciplines or health care professions at large; a window on job opportunities for young doctors or nurses in western or developing countries.
Acceptance of manuscripts is based on editorial review, which is carried out by reviewers, who are expert in an equivalent discipline (Peer Review).
TECHNICAL NOTES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Manuscripts and editorial contributions must be sent to segreteria@jmpweb.com. A check list should be completed before submission. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a brief letter from the corresponding author, suggesting the section under which the paper may be published. The corresponding author must also state that the content of the article is original and not previously published or under review by other scientific journals.
All submissions must be accompanied by the following written declaration, which states that, in case of publication, the copyright transfers to the JMP and its publisher: "In case of acceptance of the manuscript entitled for publication in the Journal of Medicine and the Person, the responsible author hereafter listed (name: last, first) transfers all copyrights to Limes S.r.l., Via Melchiorre Gioia, 171 20125 Milano, Italy".
The manuscript must be addressed to the attention of:
Prof. Giancarlo Cesana, Editor-in-chief of the JMP.
JMP Letters must be addressed as an attachment to the attention of Dr. Raffaele Latocca, Editoral Office Director (segreteria@jmpweb.com). Where e-mail is not available, manuscripts and letters may be submitted as text files by sending a floppy disk and four complete printed copies, including tables, legends, illustrations and copyright declaration, to the attention of:
Editorial Secretary, JMP / Limes S.r.l., Via Melchiorre Gioia, 171 20125 Milano, Italy
EDITORIAL REQUIREMENTS
The manuscript must have numbered pages and may be written in Italian or English (except when otherwise indicated). It must be typed in Arial 13 point font, double-spaced, with a 2.5 cm edge on each side of an A4 paper.
The use of Word for Windows TM and/or Macintosh program is strongly recommended.
The following manuscript characteristics are required:
- Manuscripts submitted for "JMP Clinical Rounds" and "New Methodologies" must be no longer than 14,000 characters (with spaces), abstract in English included;
- "Original articles" must not exceed 21,000 characters (with spaces);
- "Reviews" cannot be over 28,000 characters (with spaces);
- "JMP Letters" should not exceed 7,000 characters (with spaces), and they may be reduced or summarized by the editor, in agreement with the author(s);
- "News On-line" and "Job Opportunities", when brought to the attention of the Journal, will be published in agreement with the Editorial Board.
Every article must be accompanied by an abstract (maximum 1,700 characters with spaces), both in Italian and English, and must be prepared according to the following order:
1. Title page, with the name of the author(s) (see below)
2. Abstract (both in Italian and English, on two separate sheets)
3. Introduction
4. Materials and Methods
5. Results
6. Discussion
7. Acknowledgements
8. References
9. Tables (numbered in order of appearance in the article)
10. Figures (numbered in order of appearance in the article)
11. Figure legends
Example:
Una nuova rivista in ambito sanitario "A new Journal in Medicine" Paolo Rossi(1) e Gianmarco Verdi(2).
(1) Istituto di Patologia Medica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, e (2) Clinica Medica, Ospedale S. Giuseppe, Siena, Italia
Running title: A new Journal
Corresponding autor address: Gianmarco Verdi, Clinica Medica, Ospedale S. Giuseppe, Via Rose Rosse 57, I-57200 Siena, Italy, tel- fax - e-mail
Key words: Journal, new, health
Total number of characters (with spaces): 16,947
Number of characters (with spaces) in the abstract: 1,698
Tables: 2 and Figures: 4
We would like to remind the authors of manuscripts submitted for publication, especially in the "JMP Clinical Round" section, that it is mandatory to:
- make sure that it will not be possible to identify the subject/patient described by clinical/instrumental data; this applies not only to data reproduced from charts, but also to photographs of reports and/or clinical-therapeutic actions;
- give authorization for publication, indicating specifically the source, in case the author submits a clinical case (even if anonymous), specifically described as deriving from the hospital he/she works for.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Illustrations (TIFF, JPG, EPS, Microsoft PowerPoint or other digital formats) included in the manuscript should meet publication-quality standards.
Photographs with a maximum size of 22x28 cm are accepted, but they will be reduced in size. When submitting color photographs (such as those sent for the "Images in Medicine" section), we recommend sending the original material by mail. Attach a label to the back of the illustration stating, in clear print, the first author's last-name, the figure number, and an arrow pointing at the figure top.
If requested at the time of submission, original illustrations will be returned to the authors.
All figures must be accompanied by an explanatory legend, which also contains the explanation of abbreviations in use. Figure legends must be gathered on a separate sheet.
Example (as it will appear in the final publication):
Figure 2. Bar graphs show diastolic diameter, compliance index, and isobaric compliance index of 10 control subjects (C), 9 hypertensive subjects (H), and 9 patients with mild congestive heart failure (CHF). Data are mean±SEM of baseline (open bars [left open bars in C subjects]), observational period of 4 or 8 weeks in C subjects (right open bars), 4 to 12 weeks of benazepril treatment in H subjects (hatched bars), 4 weeks of benazepril treatment in CHF patients (hatched bars), and 8 weeks of benazepril treatment in CHF patients (shaded bars) *p<.05
TABLES
Each table must be typed on a separate sheet, double-spaced, and with a heading and an explanatory caption above the table columns as well as a table legend.
REFERENCES
Number the references consecutively in the text as bracketed Arabic numbers. The list of references must be placed at the end of the text, on a separate sheet, numbered according to the order they are quoted in the text.
Indicate last-name and initials of all authors, followed by the title of the article, and the title of the journal (italics), abbreviated according to the International Serial Data System-list of serial title word abbreviations (1985). Indicate also year of publication, volume number, and first and last page numbers.
Example: Manco JC, Gallo L, Doday RAM, Fernandez RG, Armorine DS. Degeneration of the cardiac nerves in Chagas's disease, Circulation 1969; 40:879-885
In case of book chapters, cite editor(s), title of the book, publisher, place of publication, year and inclusive page numbers. Example: Lesh MD, Kalman JM, Olgin JE. An electrophysiologic approach to catheter ablation of atrial flutter and tachycardia: from mechanism to practice. In: Singer I, Ed., Interventional electrophysiology, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1997: 347-382
Personal communications, manuscripts in preparation, submitted or in press, or other non-published data should not be cited in the reference list. They can be enclosed within brackets in the text, or as a footnote where explanation is longer than ten words. In order to maintain a uniform style in the Journal, the Editorial Office can implement stylistic changes to accepted manuscripts when necessary.
PEER REVIEW
The Editor will forward the decision on manuscript acceptance to the corresponding author, according to the reviewers' evaluation. If changes are requested before publication, they will be indicated to the corresponding author together with instructions and suggestions on how to revise the manuscript.
INFORMATIVE NOTES
Whenever an accepted manuscript is not published within six months, or any notice related to later publication is not sent to the author(s), all copyrights will be automatically transferred back to the author(s).
It is the author's task to indicate in detail the source of the scientific material, including tables, illustrations and any further information; the Editors will be entitled to delete from the article any item whose source is not adequately documented.
Any "corrigendum" or "addendum" notes by the authors will be timely published in the same Journal section where the article has been published.
As to information drawn from web sources, it can only be taken from open and not from protected web-sites; in any case by exhaustively mentioning the information's source.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Using the cover letter on the electronic manuscript submission form, authors are required to disclose any potential conflict of interest such as consultancies, financial involvement, patent ownership, etc. In case such information is not already disclosed in the manuscript, it will be held in confidence during the review process. Should the article be accepted for publication the relevant information will be given in the acknowledgements.
DOWNLOAD THE SUBMISSION FORM
Therefore, the JMP publishes scientific contributions from individual professionals or from specialized groups. The Editors solicit for submission of significant results generated by:
1. direct experience in various health care domains, ranging from daily clinical practice to nursing care or health care management;
2. combining rigorous scientific procedures with assiduous attention devoted to the sick person.
In particular, the Journal publishes contributions in the following fields:
- Specialized expertise and multidisciplinary approach to patients
- Experimental methodologies for the integral care of the sick person
- New methodologies and technical approaches to health care problems
- Health care as a profession with a universal horizon
- Public health and social medicine
- Continuing education and training for health care professions
- TYPE OF CONTRIBUTIONS >
- TECHNICAL NOTES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION >
- EDITORIAL REQUIREMENTS >
- ILLUSTRATIONS >
- TABLES >
- REFERENCES >
- PEER REVIEW >
- INFORMATIVE NOTES >
- CONFLICT OF INTEREST >
- DOWNLOAD THE SUBMISSION FORM >
TYPE OF CONTRIBUTIONS
Manuscripts must be submitted to the Editor of JMP for one of the following sections:
- Focus on: original articles about general or specific issues in medicine, including bioethics, managerial issues, new or consolidated drug use, technology, health care economics, legislation and regulations, professional education and training, and doctor/patient relationship;
- Editorials: upon invitation from the Editor in chief. Editorial comments are related to the original articles;
- JMP Clinical Rounds: critical review and case presentation of common diseases or particularly relevant diseases, in which a rational methodological approach led to interesting perspectives in diagnosis, therapy or care.
- Reviews: critical reviews of literature by experts from different specialties;
- Images in medicine: photographs in medicine, noteworthy for their scientific, emotional and/or challenging content;
- New Methodologies: original contributions or critical literature reviews of clinical or diagnostic/therapeutic methods, validated experimental protocols, care flow-charts that are focused on professional excellence, protection of patient's integrity and efficacy/efficiency criteria(cost/benefit ratio, cost/effectiveness ratio, etc.);
- JMP Letters: correspondence, evaluations or suggestions in the form of a Letter to the Editor;
- News on-line: highlights on scientific reports deserving broader diffusion or suggesting new diagnostic, clinical or managerial hypotheses;
- Job opportunities: news concerning the rise and development of new medical disciplines or health care professions at large; a window on job opportunities for young doctors or nurses in western or developing countries.
Acceptance of manuscripts is based on editorial review, which is carried out by reviewers, who are expert in an equivalent discipline (Peer Review).
TECHNICAL NOTES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Manuscripts and editorial contributions must be sent to segreteria@jmpweb.com. A check list should be completed before submission. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a brief letter from the corresponding author, suggesting the section under which the paper may be published. The corresponding author must also state that the content of the article is original and not previously published or under review by other scientific journals.
All submissions must be accompanied by the following written declaration, which states that, in case of publication, the copyright transfers to the JMP and its publisher: "In case of acceptance of the manuscript entitled for publication in the Journal of Medicine and the Person, the responsible author hereafter listed (name: last, first) transfers all copyrights to Limes S.r.l., Via Melchiorre Gioia, 171 20125 Milano, Italy".
The manuscript must be addressed to the attention of:
Prof. Giancarlo Cesana, Editor-in-chief of the JMP.
JMP Letters must be addressed as an attachment to the attention of Dr. Raffaele Latocca, Editoral Office Director (segreteria@jmpweb.com). Where e-mail is not available, manuscripts and letters may be submitted as text files by sending a floppy disk and four complete printed copies, including tables, legends, illustrations and copyright declaration, to the attention of:
Editorial Secretary, JMP / Limes S.r.l., Via Melchiorre Gioia, 171 20125 Milano, Italy
EDITORIAL REQUIREMENTS
The manuscript must have numbered pages and may be written in Italian or English (except when otherwise indicated). It must be typed in Arial 13 point font, double-spaced, with a 2.5 cm edge on each side of an A4 paper.
The use of Word for Windows TM and/or Macintosh program is strongly recommended.
The following manuscript characteristics are required:
- Manuscripts submitted for "JMP Clinical Rounds" and "New Methodologies" must be no longer than 14,000 characters (with spaces), abstract in English included;
- "Original articles" must not exceed 21,000 characters (with spaces);
- "Reviews" cannot be over 28,000 characters (with spaces);
- "JMP Letters" should not exceed 7,000 characters (with spaces), and they may be reduced or summarized by the editor, in agreement with the author(s);
- "News On-line" and "Job Opportunities", when brought to the attention of the Journal, will be published in agreement with the Editorial Board.
Every article must be accompanied by an abstract (maximum 1,700 characters with spaces), both in Italian and English, and must be prepared according to the following order:
1. Title page, with the name of the author(s) (see below)
2. Abstract (both in Italian and English, on two separate sheets)
3. Introduction
4. Materials and Methods
5. Results
6. Discussion
7. Acknowledgements
8. References
9. Tables (numbered in order of appearance in the article)
10. Figures (numbered in order of appearance in the article)
11. Figure legends
Example:
Una nuova rivista in ambito sanitario "A new Journal in Medicine" Paolo Rossi(1) e Gianmarco Verdi(2).
(1) Istituto di Patologia Medica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, e (2) Clinica Medica, Ospedale S. Giuseppe, Siena, Italia
Running title: A new Journal
Corresponding autor address: Gianmarco Verdi, Clinica Medica, Ospedale S. Giuseppe, Via Rose Rosse 57, I-57200 Siena, Italy, tel- fax - e-mail
Key words: Journal, new, health
Total number of characters (with spaces): 16,947
Number of characters (with spaces) in the abstract: 1,698
Tables: 2 and Figures: 4
We would like to remind the authors of manuscripts submitted for publication, especially in the "JMP Clinical Round" section, that it is mandatory to:
- make sure that it will not be possible to identify the subject/patient described by clinical/instrumental data; this applies not only to data reproduced from charts, but also to photographs of reports and/or clinical-therapeutic actions;
- give authorization for publication, indicating specifically the source, in case the author submits a clinical case (even if anonymous), specifically described as deriving from the hospital he/she works for.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Illustrations (TIFF, JPG, EPS, Microsoft PowerPoint or other digital formats) included in the manuscript should meet publication-quality standards.
Photographs with a maximum size of 22x28 cm are accepted, but they will be reduced in size. When submitting color photographs (such as those sent for the "Images in Medicine" section), we recommend sending the original material by mail. Attach a label to the back of the illustration stating, in clear print, the first author's last-name, the figure number, and an arrow pointing at the figure top.
If requested at the time of submission, original illustrations will be returned to the authors.
All figures must be accompanied by an explanatory legend, which also contains the explanation of abbreviations in use. Figure legends must be gathered on a separate sheet.
Example (as it will appear in the final publication):
Figure 2. Bar graphs show diastolic diameter, compliance index, and isobaric compliance index of 10 control subjects (C), 9 hypertensive subjects (H), and 9 patients with mild congestive heart failure (CHF). Data are mean±SEM of baseline (open bars [left open bars in C subjects]), observational period of 4 or 8 weeks in C subjects (right open bars), 4 to 12 weeks of benazepril treatment in H subjects (hatched bars), 4 weeks of benazepril treatment in CHF patients (hatched bars), and 8 weeks of benazepril treatment in CHF patients (shaded bars) *p<.05
TABLES
Each table must be typed on a separate sheet, double-spaced, and with a heading and an explanatory caption above the table columns as well as a table legend.
REFERENCES
Number the references consecutively in the text as bracketed Arabic numbers. The list of references must be placed at the end of the text, on a separate sheet, numbered according to the order they are quoted in the text.
Indicate last-name and initials of all authors, followed by the title of the article, and the title of the journal (italics), abbreviated according to the International Serial Data System-list of serial title word abbreviations (1985). Indicate also year of publication, volume number, and first and last page numbers.
Example: Manco JC, Gallo L, Doday RAM, Fernandez RG, Armorine DS. Degeneration of the cardiac nerves in Chagas's disease, Circulation 1969; 40:879-885
In case of book chapters, cite editor(s), title of the book, publisher, place of publication, year and inclusive page numbers. Example: Lesh MD, Kalman JM, Olgin JE. An electrophysiologic approach to catheter ablation of atrial flutter and tachycardia: from mechanism to practice. In: Singer I, Ed., Interventional electrophysiology, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1997: 347-382
Personal communications, manuscripts in preparation, submitted or in press, or other non-published data should not be cited in the reference list. They can be enclosed within brackets in the text, or as a footnote where explanation is longer than ten words. In order to maintain a uniform style in the Journal, the Editorial Office can implement stylistic changes to accepted manuscripts when necessary.
PEER REVIEW
The Editor will forward the decision on manuscript acceptance to the corresponding author, according to the reviewers' evaluation. If changes are requested before publication, they will be indicated to the corresponding author together with instructions and suggestions on how to revise the manuscript.
INFORMATIVE NOTES
Whenever an accepted manuscript is not published within six months, or any notice related to later publication is not sent to the author(s), all copyrights will be automatically transferred back to the author(s).
It is the author's task to indicate in detail the source of the scientific material, including tables, illustrations and any further information; the Editors will be entitled to delete from the article any item whose source is not adequately documented.
Any "corrigendum" or "addendum" notes by the authors will be timely published in the same Journal section where the article has been published.
As to information drawn from web sources, it can only be taken from open and not from protected web-sites; in any case by exhaustively mentioning the information's source.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Using the cover letter on the electronic manuscript submission form, authors are required to disclose any potential conflict of interest such as consultancies, financial involvement, patent ownership, etc. In case such information is not already disclosed in the manuscript, it will be held in confidence during the review process. Should the article be accepted for publication the relevant information will be given in the acknowledgements.
DOWNLOAD THE SUBMISSION FORM