期刊名称：WILDERNESS & ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Wilderness and Environmental Medicine
ISSN 1080-6032 Quarterly
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine presents original research and clinical reports from scientists and practitioners around the globe. It publishes articles on all aspects of wilderness medicine, including high altitude and climbing, cold- and heat-related phenomena, natural environmental disasters, immersion and near-drowning, diving and barotrauma, hazardous plants/animals/insects/marine animals, animal attacks, search and rescue, ethical and legal issues, aeromedical transport, survival physiology, medicine in remote environments, travel medicine, and wilderness trauma management.
Volume 15 Number 1 2004 |
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine (WEM) is the official international journal of the Wilderness Medical Society. It is published quarterly and is devoted to original scientific and technical contributions related in whole or in part to wilderness medicine.
Instructions to Authors
Manuscripts will be considered for the following categories:
Brief Reports: Preliminary findings or small sample-sized studies that generate new hypotheses for further research. Reports should generally follow the guidelines under "manuscript preparation" and be limited to 8 double-spaced pages and the structured abstract and no more than 10 references.
Case Reports: Brief descriptions of unique wilderness medicine problems or situations. Include narrative abstract, introduction, and discussion of implications.
Clinical Updates: Expert analysis, based on recent research, of a clinical topic in wilderness medicine. Papers should provide statistical evidence of prevalence, a brief historical perspective, etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and range of outcome for the injury, illness, reaction, or disorder.
Concepts: Descriptions of clinical and non-clinical wilderness medical problems and solutions. Articles may focus on practical "how-to" management techniques and/or new approaches to the planning, management or provision of wilderness medical services.
Editorials: Commentaries on major current issues or controversies with significant implications for wilderness medicine, generally not to exceed 6 double-spaced pages and references.
Images—Clinical: Pictures that teach about wilderness medicine, as well as tell an engaging story. The focus will be on clinical images, each accompanied by text explaining the photograph and briefly reviewing the diagnosis and treatment of the condition it illustrates.
Images—Wilderness: High-quality photographs of wilderness subject matter such as landscapes, flora and fauna.
Letters to the Editor: Observations, opinions, corrections, on topics appearing in WEM, generally not to exceed 4 double-spaced pages with a maximum of 5 references.
Lessons from History: Classic papers in the medical literature relating to wilderness medicine. Such papers should have been first to describe a new problem, provide new information about old subjects, or describe new effective methods of treatment or prevention.
Original Research: Original studies of basic or clinical research in areas relevant to wilderness medicine.
Review Articles: Extensive, well-referenced reviews of the literature on a narrow clinical topic.
Wilderness: Personal essays or anecdotes relating to the wilderness and medicine.
Wilderness Instructor: Articles focusing on teaching techniques and insights relevant to wilderness medicine education at any level.
Topics
Pertinent topics include, but are not necessarily limited to, medical, physiological, pharmacological, and expeditionary considerations of:
- High altitude and climbing
- Hypothermia and cold-induced injuries
- Heat-related disorders
- Weather-related phenomena and natural environmental disasters
- Drowning and near-drowning
- Diving and barotrauma
- Hazardous plants, reptiles, insects, and marine animals
- Ethnobotany
- Animal attacks
- Medical practice in rugged environments
- Tropical disease and immunizations
- Search and rescue
- Ethical and legal issues
Manuscript Submission
Manuscripts are considered for publication in WEM on the understanding that neither the manuscript nor any part of its natural text, figures, or tables have been published in, accepted for publication in, or submitted at the same time to another journal. This does not preclude consideration of a complete report that follows publication of preliminary findings elsewhere, such as an abstract. The author should always make a full statement to the editor about all submissions and previous reports that might be regarded as prior or duplicate publication of the same or very similar work. Copies of such material should be included with the submitted paper.
WEM endorses the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" (JAMA 1997:277:927-934). WEM uses the American Medical Association Manual of Style, 9th edition, for editorial style.
The manuscript submission packet must include the following components:
1. Cover letter providing corresponding author抯 information (name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address) and stating the category of article the manuscript represents.
2. Authorship Agreement signed by each author. This agreement is accessible on the website www.wms.org. A signed and dated Authorship Agreement must be on file in the editorial office before a manuscript can be published.
3. Four hard copies of the manuscript and a PC-formatted disk in an MS Word program with the full text. Tables and figures must be in separate files. The disk should be clearly labeled with a short running title, corresponding author抯 name, and software version.
4. Copies of any permission needed to reproduce previously published materials or to use photographs of identifiable subjects.
5. A signed Checklist for Final Manuscript Submission must be included with a revised manuscript (resubmission). A copy of this document is on the website.
Please send manuscripts to WEM抯 Editorial Manager:
Jonna Barry, Wilderness Medical Society, 3595 E. Fountain Blvd., Ste. A1, Colorado Springs, CO 80910, Tel: 719.572.9255 · Fax: 719.572.1514 · E-mail: jonna@wms.org.
Submitted manuscripts will not be returned. Original artwork, photographs, and similar materials will be returned only on request. Once accepted for publication, all manuscripts are subject to editorial changes, and the paper becomes the permanent property of WEM and may not be published elsewhere without permission.
The Editor reserves the right to edit manuscripts to comply with WEM抯 format, remove redundancies, and improve clarity without altering the meaning.
Preparation of Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced with 1-inch margins on 8.5 x 11-inch white bond paper. When preparing an electronic file, fonts, links, footnotes in a hidden field, field codes, bookmarks, comments, hypertext links, passwords, objects, worksheets, databases, artwork, or slides (such as PowerPoint) must not be embedded in the text.
Electronic files may be emailed as attachments, but they must be followed-up with a hard copy to ensure that formatting and symbols are not lost in conversion.
The final revision of the manuscript should include a PC-compatible disk (MS Word is preferred for text) labeled with software version number(s), manuscript title, first author抯 name, and a signed Checklist for Final Manuscript Submission (a separate document). All components of the manuscript should be in separate files on the disk. We do not accept "zip" disks.
All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. The order of authorship should be a joint decision of the co-authors. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions: (l) to conception and design or to analysis and interpretation of data; (2) to drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and (3) to final approval of the version to be published. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship.
Scientific submissions should contain the sections described below. Each section should begin on a new page and should be in the sequence shown below. Pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page. The author, institution, city, or state should not be identified anywhere in the abstract or text of the article.
Title Page. The title page (page 1) should contain (1) a concise and informative title; (2) an identified short running head (short title) of no more than 40 characters, including spaces; (3) the first name, middle initial, and last name of each author with highest academic degree(s) and institutional affiliation; (4) the name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work is attributed; (5) any disclaimer; (6) contact information for the author responsible for correspondence about the manuscript; (7) contact information for author who shall receive requests for offprints, or a statement that offprints will not be available from the author; and (8) the source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, and/or drugs. If the work described in the manuscript has been formally presented at a scientific meeting, the name of the organization, date, and location of the meeting should be provided.
Abstract. All manuscripts that are reports of original data from scientific investigations must be submitted with a structured abstract of no more than 250 words with the following headings: Objective, Methods (include information on design, setting, participants, interventions, and main outcomes measured), Results, and Conclusions.
Case Reports, Reviews, Clinical Updates, Wilderness Instructor, and Concept articles should include a narrative abstract of 250 words or less and outline the purpose of the article, major findings, and recommendations. Abstracts for reviews should specify how the literature was searched and how cited articles were chosen.
Key words. Below the abstract, 3 to 10 key words or short phrases that assist indexers in cross-indexing the article and that may be published with the abstract should be provided. Terms from the medical subject headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus should be used.
Text
Introduction. The purpose of the article should be clearly stated. The rationale for the study, report, or observation should be summarized. Only strictly pertinent references should be given, and the subject should not be reviewed extensively. Data or conclusions from the work being reported should not be included.
Methods. The selection of the observational or experimental subjects, including controls, should be described. The methods, apparatus (manufacturer抯 name and address—city, state, province, and country—in parentheses), and procedures should be identified in sufficient detail to allow other investigators to reproduce the results. References to established methods, including statistical methods, should be given; references and brief descriptions of methods that have been published but are not well known should be provided; and new or substantially modified methods should be described. All drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s) and route(s) of administration, should be precisely identified. Proprietary names may be included, but should be capitalized, enclosed in parentheses, and should follow the generic names.
All studies involving human or animal research must indicate approval by an institution抯 human or animal subject review committee. Authors should confirm that written informed consent was obtained from all human subjects, or that this requirement was waived by the review committee.
Results. The results should be presented in a logical sequence, using tables and illustrations where possible. Numbers of observations and statistical significance of the findings should be included when appropriate. The data found in the tables or illustrations should not be totally repeated in the text. Measurements should be reported in the units in which they were made. Syst鑝e International units should be included in parentheses whenever possible. Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in metric units; temperatures should be given in degrees Celsius (癈).
Statistics. All statistical techniques must be clearly identified and referenced where appropriate. Statistical methods should be described in enough detail to enable a reader with access to the original data to verify the reported results. When possible, findings should be quantified and presented with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty, such as confidence intervals. Eligibility of experimental subjects, randomization, methods of blindings, treatment complications, numbers of observations, and losses to observation, such as dropouts from the clinical trial, should be discussed. Computer programs should be specified.
General descriptions of statistical methods should be in the "Methods" section. When data are summarized in the "Results" section, the statistical methods used to analyze them should be specified. Tables and figures should be restricted to those needed to explain the argument of the paper and to assess its support. Graphs should be used as an alternative to tables with many entries: data should not be duplicated in graphs and tables.
Discussion. The new and important aspects of both the study and the conclusions that follow from them should be emphasized. Data given in the "Introduction" or the "Results" sections should not be repeated in detail. The implications of the findings and their limitations, including implications for future research, should be included in the "Discussion.?The observations should be related to other relevant studies. The conclusions should be linked with the goals of the study, and unqualified statements and conclusions not completely supported by the data should be avoided. New hypotheses must be clearly labeled. Appropriate recommendations may be included.
Acknowledgments. One or more statements should specify (l) contributions that need acknowledging but do not justify authorship, such as general support by a departmental chairman; (2) acknowledgments of technical help; (3) acknowledgments of financial and material support, specifying the nature of the support; and (4) financial relationships that may pose a conflict of interest.
References. Number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. References should be identified in the text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals. References cited only in tables or in legends should be numbered in accordance with a sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or illustration. Inclusive pages must be given for all references. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus. "Unpublished observation" and "personal communication" may not be used in the references. References to written, not oral, communications may be inserted (in parentheses) into the text. The references must be verified by the author(s) against the original documents. When in doubt, the American Medical Association Manual of Style, 9th edition should be followed.
Examples of Correct Forms of Reference Are:
Author Names
When 6 or less, all should be listed (first/middle initial, last name); when 7 or more, only the first authors should be listed and et al should be added.
Article
1. Hackett PH, Roach PC. Medical therapy of altitude illness. Ann Emerg Med. 1987;16:980-986.
Chapter in a book
2. Schantz EJ. Historical perspective on paralytic shellfish poisoning. In: Ragelis EP, ed. Seafood Toxins. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society; 1984:99-111.
Entire book
3. Schimelpfenig T, Lindsey L. National Outdoor Leadership School Wilderness First Aid, 3rd edition. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books; 2000. Conference proceedings
4. Vivian VL, ed. Child abuse and neglect: a medical community response. Proceedings of the First AMA National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect; 1984 Mar 30-31; Chicago, Ill. Chicago, Ill: American Medical Association; 1985.
In press
5. Lillywhite HB, Donald IA. Pulmonary blood flow regulation in an aquatic snake. Science. In press.
Conflict of interest. Authors must disclose to the editor any commercial associations that might pose a conflict of interest. These include patent-licensing agreements, stock ownership or other equity interest, consultancies, institutional affiliations, and corporate sponsorship.
Tables. Each table should be typed double-spaced on a separate sheet of paper. Tables should not be submitted as photographs. Tables should be numbered consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text, and a brief title for each should be supplied. Each column should have a short heading. Explanatory matter should be in footnotes, not in the heading. All nonstandard abbreviations should be explained in footnotes. Statistical measures of variation, such as standard deviation and standard error of the mean, should be identified. Internal horizontal and vertical rules should be omitted. If data are used from another published or unpublished source, permission should be obtained and acknowledged fully.
Figures. For computer-generated graphs or images, 4 laser-quality prints and a computer file on disk or CD should be submitted. For original drawings, roentgenograms, and other material, send 1 set of sharp, glossy, black-and-white photographic prints, not larger than 203 x 254 mm (8 X 10 inches), and 3 photocopies. Legends for figures should be typed double-spaced on a separate page, with Arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations. Each figure should be labeled on the back with the figure number, an abbreviated figure title, and an arrow indicating the top of the figure. Each figure should be cited in the text in consecutive order as Fig 1, Fig 2, etc. Figures in press-quality PDF, TIF, or EPS files are preferred. Low-resolution graphic files such as PowerPoint should not be used.
Peer review. The manuscript will be referred to acknowledged experts prior to a decision regarding publication. All reviewers?copies are blinded with respect to the identity of the author(s). The manuscript may be returned to the author(s) for revision(s) prior to a final decision. All attempts are made to obtain prompt review and a decision regarding need for revision, acceptance, or rejection.
Proofs. Your manuscript should be edited and proofread carefully prior to submission. Galley proofs are sent to the corresponding author for correction prior to publication. The difficulty and expense of making amendments at the proof stage make careful preparation of the original manuscript by the authors essential. Any alterations to the original text at the proof stage are strongly discouraged and may result in charges to author. To enable rapid publication, the authors are encouraged to return all correspondence within 72 hours.
Lessons from History. Lessons from History articles should be submitted in camera-ready form; that is an original copy of the journal, book, or other publication must be submitted in order for the article, including any figures or photographs, to be reproduced. (A high-quality photocopy of the article will be considered in lieu of an original.) Reproduction may necessitate removing the binding, a process that may not be reversible. Permissions from author and/or copyright holder should accompany the submission. A contributor may write a short commentary that emphasizes the importance of the paper and puts it in a historical context. If original copy cannot be obtained, references for the article should be sent to the editorial office in Colorado Springs.
Image submissions. Only clear, original or reproduction-quality photographs or transparencies, or high-resolution digital image files should be submitted. Each figure (photo or transparency) should have a label affixed to the back indicating the number of the figure, the top of the figure, and the name of the person submitting it. A separate legend must accompany digital files. Color may be submitted; images are usually printed in black and white, but posted on the website in color.
Editorial Board
Please send manuscripts to WEM抯 Editorial Manager:
Jonna Barry, Wilderness Medical Society, 3595 E. Fountain Blvd., Ste. A1, Colorado Springs, CO 80910, Tel: 719.572.9255 · Fax: 719.572.1514 · E-mail: jonna@wms.org.
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