Official Publication of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) Former title: Archives de Investigación Médica
Guide for Authors
Archives of Medical Research
Guidelines for Authors
Including New Information for Mandatory
Manuscript and
Peer Review Submission with the
Elsevier Electronic System (EES)http://ees.elsevier.com/arcmed/
Archives of Medical Research, published and distributed
by Elsevier Inc., is the official medical research publication
of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS
(Mexican Institute of Social Security), Mexico. This peer-reviewed
Journal is published
eight times per year and
includes articles covering all areas of medical research
relevant to human disease. Articles reporting original
research that demonstrate pertinence to human medical
investigation are encouraged and published as Original
Articles and Brief Reports,
along with Rapid
Communications, Book Reviews, News and Comments,
Opinion, Case Reports, and Letters to the Editor. Review
Articles,
written by experts in their field and with
references to their own published works, will be at the
invitation of the Editors of Archives
of Medical Research.
Manuscripts written proficiently in scientific English are
accepted from authors from any country and should
besubmitted only via http://ees.elsevier.com/arcmed/,
c/o Luis Benítez-Bribiesca, MD, Editor-in-Chief.
The Editorial
Office of Archives of Medical Research continues at
Centro Médico
Nacional Siglo XXI, Unidad de Congresos,
Bloque B, 4th Floor, Av. Cuauhtémoc #330 Col. Doctores, 06725 México,
D.F., México (Telephone and fax: (+52) (55)
5761-1503. Once all EES manuscript submission requirements
are fulfilled, the work will be accepted for submittal and an
immediate acknowledgment
of receipt letter will
automatically be sent to the corresponding author,
along with an EES accession number to be used for all
further
correspondence. After peer review and acceptance,
manuscript production status from the Elsevier Production Tracking System may be obtained
at:
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/arcmed In addition, all
manuscript reviewers who kindly afford their much appreciated
time and expertise to our peer review process
will be asked to enter the EES system at
http://ees.elsevier.com/arcmed/
for all communications
regarding the manuscript.
Submission of a manuscript implies that it reports
unpublished work and, if
accepted for publication, will not
be published elsewhere without Journal consent. A letter
signed by each author expressly stating
that he/she has
contributed substantially to the article, describing those
contributions, and agreeing to submission of the article
must
be received with electronic signatures of all coauthors:
this letter should express that the final manuscript
has been seen and approved
by all authors and that they
have taken due care to ensure the integrity of the work. As
stated in the Uniform Requirements (see later),
credit for
authorship requires substantial contributions to a)
conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of
data, and b)
the drafting of the article or critical revision for
important intellectual content; these contributions should be
listed in each co-author
letter.
Include separately the complete names and e-mail addresses
of two internationally recognized experts in the scientific
area of your manuscript, to be used at the discretion of the
Editorial Board of the Journal.
Natural Products. Studies mentioning
the use of natural
products must first describe active compounds and
significant actions. Studies that do not include these may be
rejected
without further review. The use of purified agents
is encouraged. All active agents should be sufficiently
identified with chemical names
as well as registry numbers
and common names where appropriate.
Form. Manuscripts should be submitted only electronically via
the EES system with text and tables preferably in Word format.
Number pages consecutively, beginning with the title page.
Manuscript
Preparation. Assemble the manuscript in
this order: Title page, Abstract, Text, Acknowledgments,
References, Tables, Figure Legends
and Figures. Prepare the
manuscript in Word using 1 inch margins all around, flush left
margin without paragraph indents, unjustified
right margin.
This format includes the title page, where all information
should be presented as previously mentioned. Do not boldface
any
information unless it is explained and necessary. Do not center
any information.
Organization. Organize manuscripts as
follows: Title Page. The title page should contain a brief, concise
title (without abbreviations) of not more than 150
characters.
Titles should accurately reflect the content of
the article. Provide a running title of no more than 50
characters. The Editors of Archives of Medical Research
reserve the right to modify titles when deemed
appropriate. Following the title and running
title, all author
names should be listed, without any degrees or titles.
Affiliations (without street addresses) should be listed
below
author names, using a superscript letter to identify
the authors with their corresponding affiliation. The author
to whom correspondence
should be sent should be listed
below the affiliations and should include complete name,
street address, city, state, country, postal
code, FAX
number (if applicable), and e-mail address (obligatory for
submission). If two authors have contributed equally to the
work, this should be noted under the corresponding author
information.
Abstract. Include a Structured (unstructured for Brief
Reports, Review Articles and Case Reports) Abstract
(sections entitled Background, Methods, Results, and
Conclusions, no more than 250
words) followed by four to
six key words or short phrases for cross-indexing. Refer to
the Medical Subject Headings-Annotated Alphabetic
List,
1997 (National Institutes of Health, National Library of
Medicine, Library Operations, Medical Subject Headings,
Bethesda,
MD 20894, USA, August 1996) for internationally
accepted subject headings. Do not cite References
in the Abstract.
Sections
should be in the following order: Introduction,
Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion (no
separate Conclusion
section is included in Original
Articles). Acknowledgments (if any), and References
follow the text. Tables, with
included titles, and Figure
Legends follow. Figures should be sent separately. See
Section on Illustrations.
References.
Accuracy of references is the responsibility of
the authors. Be sure to copy author's names, article titles
and other publisher information
accurately. Confirm that all
references mentioned in the text are presented in the
Reference section at the end of the paper (and vice
versa).
References mentioned within text should be presented in
Arabic numbers in parentheses and appear before the
ending punctuation
if at the end of the sentence. Do not
superscript reference numbers. References are numbered
sequentially in the text. The Reference
list at the end of the
paper should be numbered in the order as mentioned in the
text and must match the in-text citation. Limit the
number
of authors listed to six, after that, use et al. References may
contain only published works and papers in press. Works
in
progress, manuscripts submitted but not yet accepted,
unpublished data, and personal communications may only
be acknowledged (in parentheses)
within the text (including
year). Adhere to the following formats for journals, books,
journal articles in electronic form, and computer
files,
respectively.
Adhere to the following format when presenting references:
130. Schuetz JD, Wallace HJ, Diasio RB. 5-Fluorouracil
incorporation
into DNA of CF-1 mouse bone marrow cells as a
possible mechanism of toxicity. Cancer Res 1984;44:138?139.
131. Gutiérrez
G, Muñoz O. Epidemiology of amebiasis. In:
Kretschmer R, ed. Amebiasis: Infection and Disease byEntamoeba histolytica.
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press;1990.
pp. 173?174.
132. Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases.
Emerg Infect Dis [serial
online] 1995 Jan-Mar [cited
1996 Jun 5]; 1 Computerized Educational Systems;1993.
133. Hemodynamics III: the ups and downs of hemodynamics
[computer program]. Version 2.2. Orlando, FL:
Computerized Educational Systems;1993.
Periodical abbreviations should conform to those
used in
the Index Medicus as first published in its January issue
each year, and in the first volume of the annual Cumulated
Index Medicus.
Tables and Figures. Be sure that all Tables and Figures are
mentioned in the text. The publisher will prepare
the final
layout of all Tables and Figures appropriately, as close to
the mention in the text as possible. It is not necessary to
indicate
where Tables and Figures should be placed. Tables
or Figures used from another published source (either
exactly or closely adapted) require written permission
from the publisher. It is the author's responsibility to
obtain this permission upon acceptance of the
manuscript
by Archives of Medical Research. Elsevier will not publish
any material that has been previously published without
this
permission.
Tables. Each Table should be typed on a separate page. Type
all material, double-spaced. Tables should be
self-contained
and self-explanatory. Provide a title for each table and
use Arabic numbers. There is no ending period after a Table
title.
Do not use vertical lines to separate information within
the table. Avoid the use of both tables and graphs to illustrate
the same results
and detailed description of information
in either within the text that can be easily observed in the
Tables and Figures. Use superscript
letters for table legends.
Illustrations. Instructions for submitting Figures may be
found on the EES page (http://ees.elsevier.com/arcmed/
under Author Information Artwork Guidelines. Original
illustrations should be professionally designed, in two
dimensions, separately
from the text (Tables are included
with the Text), and submitted with the manuscript in recent
versions of software programs. (Elsevier
recommends that
only TIFF, EPS, or PDF formats be used for electronic
artwork; please see EES page.) Color illustrations are
encouraged,
and may be requested of the corresponding
author by the Editor-in-Chief for certain figures; however, the
cost of color printing is at
the author's expense and arranged
directly with the publisher (t.monturano@elsevier.com).
Proofs, Reprints, Subscriptions,
and Copies. The corresponding
author will receive proofs electronically that must
be corrected and returned to Elsevier according
to their
indications via FAX to Ms. Kathryn Stadel, Elsevier, Philadelphia,
PA (215-238-6445) within 48 hours to meet publication
schedules.
Elsevier reprint permissions information: http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/authors/?form=permis
Twenty-five complimentary
reprints of each article are
mailed to the corresponding author. An order form for
requesting additional reprints will be sent by the
publisher.
Inquiries concerning reprints may be addressed to Katrina
Pinckney at: K.Pinckney@elsevier.com, while all subscription
queries may be directed to Emily Nichols at:E.Nichols@Elsevier.com and journal copies may be requested
by phone at (+880)
4ES-INFO or at the Elsevier
Customer Support Office (+212) 633-3730.
Copyright. Upon acceptance of an article by the Journal,
the author(s) will be asked, in a separate letter with forms
attached, to transfer copyright to the Instituto Mexicano
del Seguro Social
to provide the widest diffusion of
information. This copyright must be signed and returned
via FAX to Elsevier Log-In in Philadelphia
within
48 hours. Non-compliance will delay issue publication of
the individual article. Elsevier copyright information:
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/authors/copyright
.
Elsevier Further Liberalization of Copyright. To demonstrate
their continued support for scholarly communications,
on June
3, 2004, the following was published in a communication
from Arie Jongejan, CEO, Science and Technology,
Elsevier, entitled Building
Insights, Breaking Boundaries:Authors of papers published in any Elsevier journal can
now post the final text of their articles,
as accepted by the
journal, i.e., with all of the changes made during the peer-review
and editing process, on the authors' personal or
their
institutions' websites.
Instructions included in these Archives of Medical
Research guidelines conform to guidelines
indicated by the
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (seeUniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to
Biomedical
Journals [1997]: N Engl J Med 335:309-315).
Download the Uniform Requirements at www.icmje.org
Archives of Medical Researchis indexed in Current
Contents (Life Sciences)-Science Citation Index-Index
Medicus—Excerpta
Medica-Chemical Abstracts—LILACS
(Brazil).Consult the Archives of Medical Research electronic page at
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/arcmed
and the Elsevier
home page at: http://www.elsevier.com
