Pain Medicine
Edited by:
Rollin M. Gallagher
Print ISSN: 1526-2375
Online ISSN: 1526-4637
Frequency: Eight times a year
Current Volume: 11 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 34/107 Medicine, General & Internal
Impact Factor: 2.125
TopAuthor Guidelines
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Manuscript Submissions: All manuscripts should be submitted online using Manuscript Central. Manuscript Central can be accessed by logging onto
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pme. Please follow instructions to 'create an account' located at the top of the right side of the page. You will only need to create an account one time. After you have created your account you can submit your article for consideration for publication in Pain Medicine by logging into the manuscript site using the user ID and password that you created. Please note that Word 2007 is not yet compatible with journal production systems. Unfortunately, the journal cannot accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents until such time as a stable production version is released. Therefore, please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.
Submission of a paper implies that it reports unpublished work, except in abstract form, and is not being submitted simultaneously to another publication.
Requirements for publication are consistent with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, which are published in: Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, Annals of Internal Medicine 1997; 126:36-47 (icmje.org).
Authors will be required to assign copyright in their paper to American Academy of Pain Medicine. Copyright assignment is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has been assigned.
Manuscripts will be considered in the form of:
Clinical Investigations: Present results of original clinical research.
Case Reports: Describe a single case or a small series. They must be educational and draw attention to important or unusual clinical situations, new treatments, or complications.
Brief Research Report: Brief reports of promising or new research (6-12 pages in length).
Reviews: Comprehensive surveys covering a broad area. They consolidate old ideas and may suggest new ones. They must provide a critique of the literature.
Special articles: On subjects not easily classified above (e.g., articles on history, education, demography, ethics socioeconomics, etc.).
Forensic Pain Medicine: Articles addressing the intersection of law and medicine.
Ethics Forum Cases: Case examples of ethical issues in pain medicine that will be followed by multidisciplinary commentaries.
Commentary: Invited as a companion to a full article presenting an alternative or a complimentary perspective.
Editorial: Opinion or perspective on the content of Pain Medicine or of relevance to the field of pain.
Letters to the Editor: These may offer criticism or commentary of published material, but must be objective, constructive, and educational. A few references, a small table, or relevant illustrations may be used.
Manuscripts must be submitted exclusively to Pain Medicine and will become the copyright of the journal. Please submit completed, signed Copyright Transfer Agreement with final accepted manuscript. Make sure the file is double-spaced and has no hard returns at the end of lines. Ragged right margins are preferable to justified lines. All textual elements should begin flush left with no paragraph indents and two returns after every element, such as titles, headings, paragraphs, legends, etc. Please be sure to keep a back up copy of the file for reference, as accepted manuscripts are not returned. The first text page should contain: 1. Title; 2. Full names and affiliations for all authors, including the highest academic degree; 3. Full postal address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address for the corresponding author, to whom the proofs will be sent; 4. Running title of no more than 6 words.
Abstracts: The abstract, on the page following the title page, must be 250 words or less, under the following headings, as appropriate: Objective, Design, Setting, Patients, Interventions, Outcome Measures, Results, and Conclusions (JAMA 1992;267:42-44). Abstracts are necessary for all papers. Up to six key words must be provided with the abstract.
Research papers should be structured as follows: Title page, as above; Abstract; Introduction; Methods; Results; Discussion; Acknowledgments (optional), References; Tables; Figure legends (double-spaced); Figures.
Other articles: The above format may be varied between the Introduction and Acknowledgments sections for other articles.
Details of Style: Follow guidelines set by American Medical Association Manual of Style, Ninth Edition, Williams and Wilkins, 1989. Double-spaced throughout, including title page, abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, legends for illustrations, and tables. Start each of these sections on a new page, numbered consecutively in the upper right-hand corner, beginning with the title page.
The body of the text must be in the following sequence: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions.
Drug names: Use generic names only in referring to drugs. If the trade name is necessary, e.g., in bio-availability studies, indicate it in parentheses.
Abbreviations: Keep abbreviations to the minimum, and define each at its first use. Do not use abbreviations in the abstract.
References: References for Pain Medicine should follow the Vancouver (or numerical) system. Identify with Arabic numerals inside parentheses. A full list of references should be provided in numerical order, sequentially as they appear in the text. Do not alphabetize.
Use the Index Medicus reference style (see Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. Ann Intern Med 1988;108:258-65). For abbreviations of journal names, refer to List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus. Provide names of all authors, full article titles and inclusive pages. Accuracy of reference data is the responsibility of the author.
Journal article:
1. Author AB, author CD. Title of paper. J Title Abbrev 1994;00:000-00. (In press.)
Article in edited book:
2. Author AB, Author CD, Author EF. Chapter title. In: Editor
AB, Editor CD, eds. Title of Book. Place: Publisher, 1994: 000-00.
Book:
3. Author AB. Book Title, 5th edn. Place: Publisher, 1994.
Tables: All tables should be double-spaced. Title all tables, and number them in order of their citation in the text. Any notes should appear at the bottom of the table.
Illustrations: Photographs (half-tones) should be original prints (i.e. not rephotographed) and suitable for reproduction. Remove all markings from x-rays before photographing (such as patient's initials, dates, clinic numbers). Lettering should be on an accompanying overlay. Magnification should be given in the legend or indicated by a scale or bar. For photographs of recognizable persons, submit a signed release form from the subject authorizing publication. Sequences of radiographs should be of the same magnification. The subject should be centered in clinical photographs. Crop out extraneous material and background. Each figure should have a separate fully explicit legend; all sections of the figure and all abbreviations and symbols used should be clearly defined. Color illustrations will be charged to the authors at a rate of $800 per color page.
All illustrations should be able to be reduced to 50-66% of their original size with no loss of clarity or legibility. Figure legends should be typed, double-spaced. Cite each figure in the text by its number. Figures should be numbered consecutively as they appear in the text. If a figure has been previously published, permission must be received in writing for its use regardless of authorship or publisher. Acknowledgment of the original source must be included at the end of the legend.
There are three preferred formats for digital artwork submission: Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Portable Document Format (PDF), and Tagged Image Format (TIFF). We suggest that line art be saved as EPS files. Alternately, these may be saved as PDF files at 600 dots per inch (dpi) or better at final size. Tone art, or photographic images, should be saved as TIFF files with a resolution of 300 dpi at final size. For combination figures, or artwork that contains both photographs and labeling, we recommend saving figures as EPS files, or as PDF files with a resolution of 600 dpi or better at final size. More detailed information on the submission of electronic artwork can be found at www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/digill.asp.
Policy on Review of Page Proofs: Manuscripts for Pain Medicine are copyedited by a freelance editor hired by the publisher, Blackwell Science, Inc. The Editor will not check the typeset proofs of accepted manuscripts for errors, thus it is the responsibility of the primary author of each paper to review page proofs carefully for accuracy of citations, formulas, etc., and to check for omissions in the text. It is imperative that the author do a prompt, thorough job of reviewing the returned proofs. Page proofs must be returned to the publisher within 48 hours of receipt. An order form for offprints will be enclosed with proofs.
Copyright, Authorship Responsibility, and Financial Disclosure: The American Academy of Pain Medicine will hold copyright on all published articles. In view of present U.S. copyright laws, all authors will be asked to sign Copyright Transfer Agreement, and Authorship Responsibility and Financial Disclosure statements. All forms will be sent to the corresponding author by the office of the Editor-in-Chief when a manuscript is accepted for publication, and must be signed by all authors.
Manuscript Checklist:
____1. Submit manuscript, tables, and figures online via Manuscript Central.
____2. Put references in proper format in numerical order, making sure each is cited in the text.
____3. Provide an abstract (250 words or less) with appropriate headings.
____4. Include complete consent forms for patient photographs. See the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (www.icmje.org; section II.E.1).
____5. Include consent forms for previously published illustrations and tables.
____6. Designate a corresponding author and provide an address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address.
____7. Complete disclosure form and acknowledgment of support.
English-language Editing Services
Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission or during the review process. Using such a service may increase the likelihood of an expeditious review of your manuscript. Authors wishing to pursue a professional English- language editing service should make contact and arrange payment with the editing service of their choice. For more details regarding the recommended services, please refer to http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/english_language.asp.
Pursuant to NIH mandate, Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted version of contributions authored by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance. This accepted version will be made publicly available 12 months after publication. For further information, see www.wiley.com/go/nihmandate.
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