Your story in Global Medicine?
Global Medicine welcomes journalistic articles on any issue related to Global Health, but we also encourage students to share their experiences abroad in an elective or research report. Furthermore, we welcome colums, book reviews and public health related project reports.When considering to submit an article for publication in Global Medicine, please first closely read the author guidelines below before and after finishing writing. Because we receive more articles we are able to publish in our magazine, we can't garantee your submission will be placed. Ofcourse you will be informed personally when we receive your article.
General guidelines
The maximum length for in-depth articles is 1200 words, reports should not exeed the limit of 1000 words and for columns and book/film/web reviews we employ a maximum of 400 words. If your submission contains more words, we will not accept it.
All submissions should be written in English (UK spelling). Global Medicine works with native proof readers before publication but we do appreciate your efforts to optimize the spelling and grammer of your article before submission.
If you have any high quality pictures to accompany your article, please attach them with your submission. All visuals must be free from copyrights or submitted with the permission for publication by the author. Attachment must be high resolution JPEG or TIFF files.
Patient consent: If you write about or hand in pictures of people (especially: patients) you have worked with, a specific consent is needed before publication is possible. If no consent is handed over, Global Medicine will not publish the article or will edit out the particular part.
When writing an elective report, please keep in mind that we do not publish travel reports on personal experiences, but expect insightful information on for example the (global health related) research you conducted or a specific aspect of the health care system in the country you have worked in.
Global Medicine is not peer reviewed but the editors will read contributions critically and may suggest alterations or shortening. Unless explicitly stated by the editor, there is no guarantee of publication of your article. If your article is accepted for publication, it will normally undergo changes before it hits the pages. If we make major changes to your article, we will send it to you to approve. Please note that if you submit work to Global Medicine then you may not submit it elsewhere for publication without our explicit consent.
Submit your manuscript as a Word file (font Arial, font size 11, line space 1.5) attached to an e-mail to
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. The dates below are indicatory deadlines for the upcoming issues, but we continuously welcome draft articles to take into consideration.
- Deadline for manuscripts edition 11: August 15th, 2010
Reference guidelines
Global Medicine is not a scientific journal, however we do ask authors to refer in a correct manner. For readability reasons, we ask you to avoid in text referencing as much as possible. When necessary (e.g. when referring to data), try to incorporate the author's or organization's name in your wording. Please check previous editions of Global Medicine for examples.
Submit your article with a full list of references following the guidelines below. This list will only be published online. In the printed version of Global Medicine, we add a 'further reading' section with suggestions for easily accessible books, articles or webpages for interested readers. These can but do not necessarily have to be sources from your full reference list. Below you find the guidelines for the full reference list and the suggestions for further reading, respectively. Do not hesitate to contact us for any questions on these guidelines.
A – Referencing guidelines for full reference list
The full list of references for Global Medicine articles will only be published through our website.
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Standard journal article
List the first three authors followed by et al. If the author is an organization, please list the organization as author.
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002 Jul 25;347(4):284-7.
Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension, insulin, and proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension. 2002;40(5):679-86.
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Books
Please list all authors, followed by title, edition and publication year.
Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. 2002.
Chapter in a book:
Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. 2002. p. 93-113.
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Newspaper article
Tynan T. Medical improvements lower homicide rate: study sees drop in assault rate. The Washington Post. 2002 Aug 12;Sect. A:2 (col. 4).
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For possible references not discussed here, we refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Sample References: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
B- Suggestions for further reading
We ask you to suggest the two or three most relevant resources for the ‘Further Reading’ section in the printed version of Global Medicine. These references are shorter and should be formulated as follows
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Standard journal article
List the first author followed by et al. If the author is an organization, please list the organisation as author.
Halpern SD et al. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002.
Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension, insulin, and proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension. 2002.
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Books
Please list first author followed by et al.
Murray PR, et al. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. 2002.
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Newspaper article
Tynan T. Medical improvements lower homicide rate: study sees drop in assault rate. The Washington Post. 2002 Aug 12.
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