Clinical Geriatrics is a peer-reviewed, clinical journal dedicated to the dissemination of the most up-to-date, peer-reviewed information on the clinical and practical issues related to the care, treatment, and management of the older community-dwelling patient. Evidence-based, clinical review articles, case reports, and various departments are designed to educate clinicians about the often significant clinical differences found in this rapidly expanding patient population.
Submission
Clinical Geriatrics does not accept manuscripts whose content previously has been published elsewhere, in print or online.
Please submit all materials by e-mail as Microsoft Word attachments to: medwards@hmpcommunications.com.
Upon submission, list all authors on a title page indicating title and affiliation for each. Provide a mailing address, e-mail address, and phone/fax numbers for the corresponding author.
Full author financial disclosure and any information regarding conflict of interest must be included in the title page at the time of manuscript submission.
Tables, figures, and photographs that reflect the general subject matter of the article are encouraged and should accompany the manuscript when first submitted. Tables should be included at the end of the manuscript in the main document, excluding any use of table formatting features. Photos, charts, graphs, and other figures that are supplemental to the main document should be submitted as digital files in JPEG, TIFF, or EPS formats, or as printed copies of the originals (slides cannot be accepted). All graphics should be numbered in proper sequence and should include legends.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission and paying fees to reproduce any tables, figures, or other illustrations that were originally published elsewhere; written documentation of this permission should be submitted along with the manuscript.
Laboratory values should be expressed using conventional units of measure. (Système International [SI] conversion factors may be included in parentheses only at first mention.)
All references should be cited in full and provided in AMA style, as shown below. Please do not use an endnotes format, as this makes editing difficult. References with more than four authors listed should use “et al”; “et al” should be written after the third name. References should be numerically cited in the text and listed at the end of the article in the order in which they appear.
Style:
1. Das B, Greenspan M, Muralee S, et al. Late-life depression: A review. Clinical Geriatrics 2007;15(10): 35-44.
All medications should be referred to by their generic names throughout the manuscript and in all illustrations.
Categories
The Journal does not publish original research articles.
Review Articles
Review articles provide a thorough, critical, up-to-date overview of existing literature on a clinical topic.
Full-length review articles should be approximately 2000-3500 words in length, excluding references and tables/figures. As these are reviews, please limit the number of references so as not to exceed approximately 40 citations.
Case Reports
Case reports have instructional value, such as revealing successful interventions in managing uncommon syndromes or cautioning against a poor outcome of management of treatment. They should be approximately 2000 words in length, excluding references and tables/figures.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor are encouraged to be brief, approximately 250-750 words. Those referring to an article published earlier in the Journal should be submitted within 3 months of the article’s publication. Other letters may serve to express a viewpoint on a relevant topic or event or to comment on matters of general interest to healthcare professionals.
Other acceptable types of manuscripts include Point of View articles
(Authors of these articles are encouraged to share their opinions on clinical issues pertaining to the care of the older patient), practice management concerns, Medicare issues, or other special articles that address topics of interest regarding the care of the older patient.
Review Process
All manuscripts submitted for publication in Clinical Geriatrics will be sent out for review; the corresponding author is notified of the medical editor’s decision within approximately 6-8 weeks of submission; however, at certain times, delays are unavoidable. During the review process, authors are often requested to revise their manuscript.
The final decision on acceptance for publication can be made only after the revised version of the manuscript has been reevaluated.
Accepted manuscripts are edited according to AMA style; the corresponding author will receive a copy-edited manuscript for approval prior to publication.
Submit articles by e-mail (MS Word preferred; otherwise, indicate which program was used) to:
Meredith Edwards
Managing Editor, Clinical Geriatrics
HMP Communications
Phone: 800-237-7285, ext. 102
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