We accept submission by e-mail or on disk/CD-ROM(for large files)

Electronic publication of original high-quality medical articles on the Internet is a relative new way to distribute knowledge and research results. We would like to encourage everybody to join this innovative method of reaching thousands of readers around the world. Our goal is to publish high-quality and if possible, interactive and multimedia content on the web. We will help authors with the formatting of their articles should they need any support.

Manuscripts by diskettes or e-mail:

Submission by e-mail: Files should be in Microsoft Word and in TIMES NEW ROMAN font. Please follow the instructions below for format of manuscript

Please e-mail your manuscripts to Terri O'Doherty (todohert@sju.edu)

A cover letter should be sent with every manuscript to identify the person (with address and telephone number) responsible for correspondence concerning the article. This letter should make it clear that the final manuscript has been seen and approved by all authors. ICB and our editors expect that all authors will disclose any commercial associations they have that might give rise to a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article.

Types of papers accepted:

• Editorial
• Original papers
• Case reports
• Reviews
• Letters to the Editor
• Undergraduate Reseach
• Graduate Research

General preparation of paper manuscripts:

The author(s) transfer(s) the copyright to her/their article to ICB, effective if and when the article is accepted for publication. The copyright covers the exclusive and unlimited rights to reproduce and distribute the article in any form of reproduction. ICB should be notified by the author if the submitted material has been published somewhere else. It is then the responsibility of the author to obtain authorization to re-publish the submitted material in our online journal. We will grant every author the right to re-publish all material that appeared in our online journals under the provision that the original source (name and URL of our online journal and URL of the original article in our journal) is mentioned.

All paper manuscripts must be written in standard grammatical English.

All manuscripts should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (Ann Intern Med 1997;126:36-47). We can provide help and support if needed: todohert@sju.edu

The manuscript should be arranged in the following order:

• name of the journal you are submitting the paper to
  
• title of the paper
  
• the first name(s) and last name of each author and his or her highest academic degree(s) and institutional affiliation
  
• name of the department and institution or hospital where the work was done
  
• the source of any support received
  
• the document abstract (no more than 150 words) REQUIRED
  
• up to 6 key words (terms from the medical subject headings of Index Medicus should be used whenever possible)
  
• text
  
• acknowledgments
  
• references
  

For any additional questions please contact todohert@sju.edu