R. Zatina ... have you located in your searching ... the Uniform Requirements
for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals?  Canadian Medical Association
Journal 1997;156)2):270-7.

There was also a feature in the Ontario Health Promotion Bulletin, 33.1 December
12, 1997 edition on suggestions for writing a article for a medical journal.
See the web site for back issues of the bulletins:
http://www.opc.on.ca/ohpe/ohpeflyr.htm

Hope this helps.

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> > Sorry for the repeat of this posting (I posted a message about a year
> > ago asking the same question - sorry for taking up SPAM space)!
> >
> > Over the past two years, I've been working with a clinical trial in which
> > I'm comparing patient education techniques in asthmatics, using emergency
> > department admissions and re-admissions as a secondary variable.
> >
> > I've got all my data and I'm ready to publish - but I know each journal
> > has their own specific guidelines. I'm running around in circles -
> > there's just so many journals out there! I started writing to editors
> > and publishers, but it's just taking so much time with everything that's
> > out there! A few of you posted responses to my last year posting (thanks
> > everyone!!) with a lot of web sites, but I found that most were outdated
> > - the links didn't work, or they didn't have the guidelines on-line;
> > etc. - I found that I was spending just as much time on-line going from
> > internet web site to internet web site as I would be writing letters.
> >
> > Anybody know of a book I could buy (or get from a library - better!),
> > wherein the journals might be listed with their specific "requirements
> > for manuscript publication"?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > R.Zatina RN MN
> > Henry Ford Hospital - Detroit USA
> > (downtown West Grand Blvd campus)
> >
>
> Dear R.(Zatina):
>
> Who said research was easy!!! I thought the hard part was doing the
> project. It wasn't until I finished that I learned that the real work
> began! (and very quickly).
>
> I found this site from another newsgroup:
>
> http://www.windsor.igs.net/~nhodgins
>
> They're mostly medical-oriented and do stuff like web-sites and
> databases (Thank God I don't need databases anymore!).
>
> They have a nursing section and they've got a database of all the
> nursing journals (with everything you need to know about each particular
> journal) which works off-line, so you don't have to be on the internet
> because the information is in the database (i.e. no "No-Such-Number" web
> sites). I think they update it yearly to keep it current ('cause they
> use it for their own business). Why I liked it, was because they had all
> the journals particulars (esp authors guidelines) even if they weren't
> anywhere on the Internet!
>
> When I was there, they had a lot of useful links to more general
> publishing guidelines & style requirements (i.e. like "APA Style Format"
> and "Uniform requirements"; etc.) in addition to the more specific ones
> for the individual journals. I think they also had links to doing
> on-line lit searches too (but you're probably beyond that at this
> point).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Terri MacArthur, RN, MN
> School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine,
> Tulane University - New Orleans, LA
>