JRCPE: Information for contributors

Submissions

Submissions are invited in the following areas:

• Reports of original research, including audits

• Cases of the quarter (investigation findings of general interest with images)

• Medical history articles

• Letters to the Editor

Manuscripts should not be submitted simultaneously to another journal, should not have been accepted for publication elsewhere, and must not have been published already. Manuscripts are subject to peer-review, but the Editor reserves the right to make the final decision regarding publication and to make textual amendments where considered necessary. On acceptance, manuscripts are published in the JRCPE online and thereafter in the earliest possible print issue at the discretion of the Editor.

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Peer review

All manuscripts are peer-reviewed.

Declarations of interest

All authors are required to declare relevant interest and this information is published in the JRCPE. All peer-reviewers and Editors of the JRCPE are also required to declare relevant interests. This information is held centrally and can be made available on request.

Copyright

Authors can choose to assign copyright to the JRCPE or grant the JRCPE a licence to publish, if wishing to retain copyright.

Misconduct

The Editors of the JRCPE view alleged, or suspected, medical or biomedical research misconduct as a serious offence and will not hesitate to refer suspected cases of misconduct to the appropriate bodies.

Citation

The JRCPE is currently included in the following Indexes – MEDLINE, Embase, Google Scholar and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Additional information

The JRCPE Editors have endorsed, in principle, the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publications, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, updated 2010. http://www.icmje.org/