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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, Open Office, or RTF document file format.
  3. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); with figures and tables placed within the text, rather than at the end. URLs are cited as references at the end of the article and are archived with WebCite (see below).
  4. The text meets this journal's formatting requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines found in About the Journal.
  5. 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, 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 HAS RECENTLY BEEN RAISED AND IS NOW US$/CDN$ 1500 PER ARTICLE.
  6. 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.
  7. (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)
  8. ONE corresponding author should be clearly listed as such with complete address, including email, fax and phone number in the manuscript.
  9. P-values are reported in accordance with our instructions for authors.
  10. Starting 26 Oct 2006, we now require payment of a US$ 90 submission fee for ALL articles EXCEPT letters or invited articles. This fee is payable via 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).
  11. We are currently conducting an open peer-review experiment. Please indicate in your cover letter whether you wish to participate in this trial. If you participate, we may choose to select your paper for open peer review, inviting a broader community of peers to comment on your paper before formal publication, instead of or in addition to sending it out to editor-selected peer-reviewers. Your paper would be deleted from the Internet once the comments' period has ended.
 

Copyright Notice

Creative Commons License

Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted exclusively to JMIR. By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to use, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings. JMIR papers are published under a 
Creative Commons License. The license relieves the author of any liability or implication of warranty, grants others permission to use the content in whole or in part, and insures that the original author and publisher / publication venue (the Journal of Medical Internet Research) will be properly credited when content is used. It grants others permission to redistribute the content in a non-commercial context. This ensures for the author widest possible distribution of his/her research. Under this license, JMIR becomes the original publisher of the work, but the article may be redistributed by anybody, e.g. on the web, in books as book chapters, or on a CD-ROM (however, authors should not publish the same article again in the academic body of literature, as this constitutes duplicate publication and scientific misconduct). Redistributors of JMIR content are required to

  1. acknowledge the original author and publisher, i.e. the original source must be exactly cited as indicated at the bottom of each published article, including a hyperlink to the original article on the JMIR website [e.g. as "Originally published as: Authorname. Title. J Med Internet Res Vol(Iss): pg. URL: www.jmir.org/..."],
  2. mention that the article/figure is distributed under the Creative Commons license (CC-BY 2.0)
  3. articles may not be altered
  4. while not required, it is considered good practice to inform editor, author and publisher if articles are redistributed. If books or CD-ROMs are produced, author and publisher should receive a free copy.
  5. we do not recommend to mirror the entire JMIR site, unless you can make sure that the content (including instructions for authors, editorial board etc.) is updated automatically. We really want to avoid having multiple outdated copies of the same article or webpage floating on the web.
If the paper is accepted, authors will have to be sign and return by fax a publication agreement, an authorship responsibility form, and a declaration of competing interest form before the manuscript can be published. A preview of these forms is available here.

 

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