World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

Council of Science Editors (CSE)

European Association of Science Editors (EASE)

Cochrane Collaboration

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

EQUATOR Network

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts (URM)

• Statement of Purpose
  • About the URM
  • Potential Users
  • How to Use the URM
• Ethical Considerations
• Authorship and Contributorship
• Editorship
• Peer Review
• Conflicts of Interest
• Privacy and Confidentiality
• Protection of Human Subjects and Animals in Research
• Publishing and Editorial Issues
• Obligation to Publish Negative Studies
• Corrections, Retractions, and "Expressions of Concern"
• Copyright
• Overlapping Publications
• Correspondence
• Supplements, Theme Issues, and Special Series
• Electronic Publishing
• Advertising
• Medical Journals and the General Media
• Obligation to Register Clinical Trials
• Manuscript Preparation
• Preparing a Manuscipt for Submission to Biomedical Journals
• Sending the Manuscript to the Journal
• References
• Print References Cited in this Document
• Other Sources of Information Related to Biomedical Journals