Online Submissions
Terms and Conditions

**~Open Access Publishing~**

Type of Article
1. Currently we give preference to Feature Articles for online publication. However, submissions in any other format will be considered. Any medical or medically related topic will be considered. Of course we expect authors to follow a general style with a minimum of medical jargon. Please remember that the readers of your articles will not only be doctors but a much wider audience.

Content of Article
2. Whilst we encourage authors to adhere to their own style, we would ask you to avoid lengthy sentences. Plain English is our preferred choice. Please also read paragraphs under 'Legal Position' below for further details.

3. Feature Articles should not contain any clinical photographs, charts, tables, or drawings of any nature.

4. Any comments made should be based on generally established scientific and/or medical data with reasonably logical justifications for any view points you may express.

5. References are not generally required, but you may cite up to two references at the end of your article in italics, or next to the relevant statement in the text (within brackets & in italics like this).

6. The number of words in your article should not exceed 1500 and must be sent electronically to [email protected]

7. No medical details of a patient/person should be mentioned in a way that it would lead to identification of the individual concerned. Always obtain the full informed consent of the individual concerned whenever necessary,and that will be the responsibility of submitting authors.

8. Any material in an article which the Medical Journals considers to be offensive, untrue, libellous, or in breach of medical confidentiality will not be published.

Author Details
9. We will consider articles from doctors, dentists,medical researchers, nurses,pharmacists, psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, medical laboratory technicians, radiographers and other allied health professionals. We will also consider submissions from solicitors or barristers with an interest in clinical negligence and/or other medico-legal issues.

10. All authors must send the following details with their electronically submitted articles: -

Full Name with appropriate professional titles (please underline your surname).
All professional qualifications including postgraduate diplomas & degrees.
Current/last position and employer's/business address--if retired or unemployed please say so.
Registration details with the appropriate professional body - for an example, UK doctors should send their registration number with the General Medical Council.
Personal address, contact telephone number, and e-mail address so that Medical Journals could contact you if necessary; these personal details will not be published online with your article or forwarded to a third party without your consent.
All authors must give an undertaking to Medical Journals that the material that they submit has not been previously published elsewhere either in electronic or paper format. If your original submission had been rejected by another publisher, that does not matter - you can still send it to us for our fresh consideration.
You may also submit a digital photograph of yourself, which we may publish along with your article.

Legal Position
11. Medical Journals will NOT indemnify the authors of articles which are published on this journal. So any matter arising out of or as a result of a particular article, will be referred to the author concerned and so he/she may deal with the matter in an appropriate way.

12. Medical Journals reserves all rights as to the frequency of publishing articles from any author. Whilst respecting the principle of freedom ofexpression ,we will not be publishing any offensive, libellous, misleading statements or any other material which we consider not suitable for public dissemination.

13. Given this is a free service, Medical Journals will not be making any payment to authors who submit articles whether or not they are published on this site. There is no peer-review of material submitted for publication, thus the entire responsibility will lie with the author/s.

14 Medical Journals will usually take a decision as to whether an article should be published within four(4) weeks of submission. In the event that we anticipate a delay, we will let you know. Whilst every effort will be made to publish an article as soon as possible, the timing of publication will be at the sole discretion of Medical Journals.

15. Medical Journals will not accept any liability for loss or damage arising as a result of accessing this site or placing reliance upon any of its content. Nor would we accept liability for any material lost or damaged during the process of electronic transfer.

16. The copyright of all material published on this site will be that of Medical Journals except the content of an article/paper published which will be of the respective author.