Instructions for Submitting Case Reports and Letters
Case Reports
If your laboratory has isolated an uncommon organism,
a common organism from an unusual
patient, or an organism that presented a particular diagnostic challenge, why not share the
information
with your colleagues through the Clinical Microbiology Newsletter. The
editors would like to receive interesting case reports
from our readers for possible publication in
the Newsletter. Submitted case reports should contain: (i) a brief clinical history
summarizing the symptoms and course of the illness: (ii) a description of how the organism(s)
were cultured and differentiated from closely
associated organisms; and (iii) the results of
susceptibility tests for the isolate(s).
Letters
Letters expressing opinion
or offering helpful technical hints will be considered for publication
(subject to editing) provided they are signed by all authors and
do not exceed two typewritten
(double-spaced) pages.
Address for Submissions
Send the original typescript (typed double-spaced),
diskette if available, and four copies of
case reports and letters to:
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of references, which should include complete
publication information.
References should be listed in the numerical order by which
they occur throughout the text, numbered consecutively,
and cited in the text by these
numbers. List the first author in a reference with last name followed by first initials;
list
subsequent authors in the same reference with first initial followed by last names.
(Editors are always listed with first initials
followed by last names.) Include abstracts,* material in
press, and submitted material in the reference section. Some typical examples
of references are
listed below.
1. Rubin, S. J. et al. 1976. Combined serotyping and biotyping of Serratia
marcescens.
J. Clin. Microbiol. 3:582-585. (List all authors if three or fewer; if more than
three, list first author followed by the term “et
al.”
2. Hoeprich, P.D., M.A. Saubolle, and A.C. Houston. 1977. Susceptibility testing of fungi,
p. 101-106. In A.
Bondi et al. (ed.), The clinical laboratory as an aid in chemotherapy
of infectious disease. University Park Press, Baltimore. (List
all editors if three or fewer, if more
than three, list first editor followed by the term “et al.”
3. Ewing, W. H. 1986.
Edward's and Ewing's identification of Enterobacteriaceae, ,
4th ed. Elsevier Publishing Co., Inc. New York. (Underline only
words italicized
in the original; omit page numbers only if reference is made to the entire book.)
*For abstracts, us the following
style:
1. Knosp, O. and W. J. Page, Abstr, Annu. Meet. Am Soc. Microbiol. 1983, K174, p. 206.
2. Chu, F.S. and E. M. Foster, Bacteriol.
Proc., p. 63, 1970. Use this style for ASM
Annual Meeting abstracts up through 1971.
3. Powers, R.D., W. M. Dotson, Jr.,
and F.G. Hayden, Program Abstr. 22nd Intersci. Conf.
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother., abstr. no 448, 1982.
Editors
Mary
Jane Ferraro, Ph.D.
Paul A. Granato, Ph.D.
Josephine A. Morello, Ph.D.
Ronald J. Zabransky, Ph.D.
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