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General
Information
Geriatrics & Aging is a clinical journal with
over 10,000 requested readers among Canadian physicians. It
serves as a review publication of geriatric
issues for primary care practitioners and other
health care professionals. Our publication reaches,
in addition to general practitioners,
physicians from varying specialties
including geriatric medicine, rheumatology,
urology, and dermatology. We also mail to libraries,
nursing home directors, and gerontology
nurse specialists across Canada.
The editors of Geriatrics & Aging seek high-calibre
articles from exceptional writers who are expert
researchers and/or clinicians in their particular
field. We invite submissions on a variety of
topics in different areas of geriatric medicine.
Further details can be obtained from the managing
editor.
Copy Address
All articles should be sent to Geriatrics & Aging to
Andrea Németh, Managing Editor
E-mail:
Copy Flow
Once submitted work is edited for flow, syntax, and content, articles will be returned to the author. All corrections and queries will appear in different coloured text. The author has four business days to make corrections to the article (unless otherwise stated) and return it via e-mail.
Copy Format
- Articles should be 1,500-1,700 words (500-800
for book reviews or case studies).
- All articles must be accompanied by a 100-word
abstract, as well as a list of 5 keywords.
- We ask that you include at least one table
of the article's key points, though we welcome
multiple tables and figures. These do not need
to be formatted and should also be included
in the emailed document.
- Photos, slides, digital images, graphs, charts,
and tables are encouraged, especially color
images of clinical entities being discussed.
Images can be sent by e-mail, preferably as
an illustrator eps or tiff format (300dpi).
- We encourage authors to communicate ideas
regarding potential medical illustrations. Our
medical illustrator may contact authors during
the editorial process to discuss possible visual
accompaniments to articles.
- For all illustrative material, type legend
on a separate sheet, and number the legend to
correspond to the figures.
- If submitting copyrighted material, enclose
copies of permissions if possible. Please note
that the editor may choose art to accompany
article; authors are not charged for such illustrations,
and author approval may not be sought.
Conflict
of Interest Guidelines
All authors must disclose any commercial associations, sources of funding or any other arrangements that may pose a potential conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article. Some or all of this disclosed information, at the discretion of the editors, may be published in a footnote to the article.
Measurements and Units
Please use Canadian/metric units for
all figures (drug amounts, etc.). You may also
include imperial measurements, if desired.
Copy Style
Spellings from the Canadian Oxford Dictionary are used.
Please limit the number of references to
25 per article. If more references are used,
they will not be printed in our journal, but
will appear in the electronic version on our
website.
Please
do not use reference formatting; simply
add superscripted numbers in the text and provide
a corresponding list of references at the end
of your article.
Generic (non-proprietary) names
of drugs should be used except in the first
instance where the trade name
may appear in
brackets.
All abbreviations and acronyms must
be spelled out the first time they are used.
Abbreviations and
acronyms should be put in
parentheses following the complete spelling.
Formatting of References
Our standard reference format follows the common
usage of scientific and medical journals. References
are numbered consecutively in the order in which
they are first mentioned in the text.
An alternative
format is to include a list of suggested reading.
Use the style of the examples below, which are
based, with slight modification, upon the formats
used by the U.S. National Library of Medicine
in Index Medicus. The titles of journals should
be abbreviated according to the style used in
Index Medicus.
References
must be verified by the author(s) against the
original documents.
Articles in Journals
(1) Standard journal article (List the
first three authors; if the number exceeds three,
give three followed by et al.)
You CH, Lee KY, Chey RY. Electrogastrophic study of patients with unexplained nausea, bloating and vomiting. Gastroenterology 1980;79:311-4.
Goate
AM, Haynes AR, Owen MJ, et al. Predisposing
locus for Alzheimer's disease on chromosome
21. Lancet 1989;1:352-5.
(2)
Organization as author
British Cardiac Society, British Hyperlipidaemia
Association, British Hypertension Society, and
British Diabetic Association. Joint British
recommendations on prevention of coronary heart
disease in clinical practice: summary. BMJ 2000;
320: 705-8.
(3)
No author given
Coffee drinking and cancer of the pancreas [editorial].
BMJ 1981;283:628.
(4)
Article in a foreign language
Massone L, Borghi S, Pestarino A, Piccini R,
Gambini C. Localisations palmaires purpuriques
de la dermatite herpetiforme. Ann Dermatol Venereol
1987;114:15457.
(5)
Volume with supplement
Meltzer S, Leiter L, Daneman D, et al. 1998
Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management
of Diabetes in Canada. CMAJ 1998;159 Suppl 8:S1.
(6)
Issue with supplement
Gardos G, Cole JO, Haskell D, Marby D, Paine
SS, Moore P. The natural history of tardive
dyskinesia. J Clin Psychopharmacol 1988;8(4
Suppl):31S-37S.
(7)
Volume with part
Hanly C. Metaphysics and innateness: a psychoanalytic
perspective. Int J Psychoanal 1988;69(Pt 3):389-99.
(8)
Issue with part
Edwards L, Meyskens F, Levine N. Effect of oral
isotretinoin on dysplastic nevi. J Am Acad Dermatol
1989;20(2 Pt 1):257-60.
(9)
Issue with no volume
Baumeister AA. Origins and control of stereotyped
movements. Monogr Am Assoc Merit Defic 1978;(3):353-84.
(
10) No issue or volume
McCrimmon RJ, Frier BM. Hypoglycaemia, the most
feared complication of insulin therapy. Diabetes
& Metabolism 1994:503-4.
(11) Type of article indicated as needed
Spargo PM, Manners JM. DDAVP and open heart
surgery [letter]. Anaesthesia 1989;44:363-4.
Rovati
L, Giacorelli G, Annefeld M. A large, randomised
placebo-controlled double-blind study of glucosamine
sulfate versus piroxicam and versus their association,
on the kinetics of symptomatic effect on knee
OA (abstract). Osteoarthritis Cartilage 1994;
2 Suppl 1.
(12) Article containing comment
Piccoli A, Bossatti A. Early steroid therapy
in IgA neuropathy: still an open question. [comment]:
Nephron 1989;51:289-91. Comment on: Nephron
1988;48:12-7.
(13)
Article commented on
Kobayashi Y. Fujii K, Hiki Y, Tateno S, Kurokawa
A, Kam therapy in IgA nephropathy: a retrospective
study in heavy proteinuric cases [see comments].
Nephron 1988;48:127. Comment in: Nephron 1989;51:289-91.
Books
and other Monographs
(14)
Personal author(s)
Colson JH, Armour WJ. Sports injuries and their
treatment. 2nd rev. ed. London:
S, Paul, 1986.
(15)
Editor(s), compiler as author
Diener HC, Wilkinson M, editors. Drug-induced
headache. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988.
(16)
Organization as author and publisher
Virginia Law Foundation. The medical and legal
implications of AIDS. Charlottesville: The Foundation,
1987.
(17)
Chapters in a book
Weinstein L, Swartz MN. Pathologic properties
of invading microorganisms. In:
Sodeman WA Jr, Sodeman WA, editors. Pathologic
physiology mechanisms of disease. Philadelphia:
Saunders, 1974: 457-72.
(18)
Conference proceedings
Vivian VL, editor. 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. Chicago:
American Medical Association, 1985.
(19)
Conference Paper
Harley NH. Comparing radon daughter dosimetric
and risk models. In: Gammage RB, Kaye SV, editors.
Indoor air and human health. Proceedings of
the Seventh Life Sciences Symposium; 1984 Oct
29-31; Knoxville (TN). Chelsea (MI): Lewis,
1985:69-78.
Other
Published Material
(20)
Newspaper article
Rensberger B, Specter B. CFCs may be destroyed
by natural process. The Washington Post 1989
Aug 7;Sect. A:2 (col. 5).
(21)
Audiovisual
AIDS epidemic: the physician's role [videorecording]
Cleveland (OH): Academy of Medicine of Cleveland,
1987
(22)
Dictionary and similar references
Ectasia. Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary.
27th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1988: 527.
Unpublished
Material
(23)
In press
Lillywhite HB, Donald JA. Pulmonary blood flow
regulation in an aquatic snake. Science. In
press.
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