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Author Guidelines

See Instructions for Authors for details.

Our requirements for submitted manuscripts are in accordance with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, drawn up by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (JAMA 1997;277:927-934 ). Please read these Uniform Requirements first, then read our complementing guidelines given below. The journal editor is member of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME, www.wame.org), and the Journal of Medical Internet Research is committed to adhere to WAME's principles. The Journal of Medical Internet Research also supports and acts in line with the Editorial Policy Statements of the Council of Science Editors (http://www.cbe.org/services/draft_approved.cfm [Archived in WebCite]). Instructions for Authors of JMIR The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is an innovative, international, peer-reviewed medical journal that aims to contain articles relevant for medical professionals, system developers, and system users alike. Instructions for authors are subject to frequent revision. Please look them over carefully before submission. See Instructions for Authors for further details on how to format your manuscript.

 

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. The submission has not been previously published nor is it before another journal for consideration; or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor.
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.doc), or RTF document file format. Please DO NOT submit .docx (Word 2007) files, as not all reviewers/editors may have access to a newer Word version. If you used Word 2007, please use "Save us Word 97-2003 document" to produce a .doc file.
  3. The text meets this journal's formatting requirements, in particular those summarizedin the Author Checklist found in Instructions for Authors. The text employs italics, rather than underlining or bold as emphasis; with figures and tables (portrait only, no landscape format) placed within the text, rather than at the end. Additional information has been put in separate files to be uploaded as Multimedia Appendix.
  4. I have read and understood the fee schedule. In particular, I understand and agree that unless my department/organization is a institutional member BEFORE submission (see dropdown-list in step 1 of the submission process), I/my department will be billed for the article processing fee (see Instructions for authors) in case of acceptance. PLEASE MENTION IN THE COVER LETTER ON SUBMISSION THAT YOU 1) AGREE TO PAY THE APF, OR 2) IF YOU THINK THAT THE APF SHOULD BE WAIVED DUE TO MEMBERSHIP OR FOR ANY OTHER REASONS. Journal sections marked with * may be eligible for a fee waiver or reduction under certain circumstances (must be justified in the comments field for the editor on submission).
    APFs may not apply for article categories marked with * (check instructions for authors). ** Special fees (in particular a submission fee) apply for research protocols and grant proposals.
    Note that the APF will also be billed if the author retracts the manuscript after acceptance, or if a case of scientific misconduct prevents us from publishing a manuscript after acceptance.
    PLEASE NOTE THAT THE APF IS CURRENTLY US$1900 PER ACCEPTED ARTICLE (new price since April 21st, 2010).
  5. All cited webreferences (webpages, online available PDF reports) which are NOT journal articles or which do not have a DOI have been cached using WebCite (www.webcitation.org) . Instead of citing the "live" webpage/website, the author should cite the WebCite archived webpage. All URLs are cited as references.
  6. (please check this checkbox even if you do not wish to fast-track as an indication that you read this). I understand that if I wish to fast-track the paper, I will pay the Fast-Track-Fee immediately after submission (a payment link will be provided after submission) or at a later stage. The FTF guarantees an editorial decision within 15 working days (see website for further instructions)
  7. I understand that all author names and their affiliations for the final publication will be taken from the database (metadata form), not the submitted manuscript, thus all author names must be entered in the metadata form during submission. Author names may be removed from the manuscript if the author prefers blind review.
  8. P-values are reported in accordance with our instructions for authors.
  9. Since 26 Oct 2006, we now require payment of a US$ 90 submission fee for ALL articles EXCEPT letters or invited articles. Paypal or credit card immediately after submission. Authors will not be able to complete the submission process without payment. This fee cannot be waived (only exception: invited articles), needs to be paid also by institutional members, and is non-refundable. This fee is in addition to other potential fees such as the optional fast-track fee (FTF) and the article processing fee (APF) for non-members. Authors should understand that the submission fee is non-refundable, even if the manuscript is quickly rejected without peer-review (we do send out the majority of papers for peer-review, but we reserve the right to reject papers without peer-review for any reason, including the topic not being deemed interesting enough, which is a subjective decision by the editor).
 

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 Journal of Medical Internet Research...") is properly cited with original URL and bibliographic citation information. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.

 

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site by readers, authors, reviewers and others will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. Readers who sign up for content alerts (User Homepage - Profile) agree to receive an email whenever an article has been published. Occasionally we will include sponsor messages in our content alerts or send out special messages (e.g. on conferences, job ads etc) to JMIR content alert subscribers, however, we will never share our data with third parties. For our record keeping policy for authors see "Record Keeping and Research Policy".