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| AUTHOR INFORMATION GUIDELINES |
What are the deadlines?
The deadlines for Medicine™ Magazine is late-October.
To qualify for the next issue, your topic material should be submitted to our office
for approval in advance unless you have been invited by the Publisher. Your article
draft should be provided by the deadline above. As always, the sooner the better to
assure the finest draft possible of your article.
How should I pick my topic?
The decision
of topics is left up to the author with only three exceptions:
1. You may not write directly about your own company or about
yourself.
2. A commercial about you or your institution/company is not
acceptable.
3. The article cannot have been previously published. Contact
the Publisher if you have any questions concerning this.
Articles may come from medical industry issues, technology,
management issues, business strategy, personnel issues or from
areas of personal interest. We suggest the author pick a topic
that is appealing to him or her. Our experience has shown us
if the author is interested in a subject, so are his peers and
colleagues. Often, subjects for the publication come from topics
about which the individual speaks. Topics may come from the
headlines, internal papers, reports or from areas in which the
individual's institution is involved. Once a topic has been
selected, it should be relayed to our office by fax or e-mail.
We will notify you if another author is writing on a similar
topic and supply you with any articles that have been published
that might be similar in content.
How much should I write?
Articles should be approximately 1500-2500 words. HOWEVER - longer articles may be
edited/reduced shortly before an issue goes to print due to space considerations.
Authors are encouraged to write for the broadest audience possible since our readership
is comprised of not only medical professionals, but business and consumers as well.
References should be incorporated in the text. Medicine™ Magazine does not print references.
Will anyone see my article before it is ready?
The simple answer to this question is, NO. The author is in complete control of the article
until it is signed off in its final form and ready for publication. As an author, you may
confidentially send your article to our editorial support team at any time. You also may control
who else on the team will see the article before it is completed. Other team members, authors and
supporters will not have access to your article until you say so.
How do I communicate with Medicine™ Magazine?
We would like to receive your information in the format that is most comfortable for you, the author.
The following formats will help.
Author Bio: Usually this is a 150-word to one half-page biography on the individual.
The goal is to tell our readers and supporters who you are and why you are qualified as an
author for Medicine™ Magazine. This may be submitted by mail (with .doc or .txt file on a disc)
or e-mail the file in .doc or .txt format. For those who do not have a formal biography prepared,
please do NOT send CVs or BioSketches. This can be discussed with the Editor, should it be necessary.
Article Subjects: Subjects should be supplied with one or two sentences that describe the article.
We would like to receive these as soon as possible by fax or e-mail. Once the subject has been provided,
we will supply copies of other articles that may have been written on similar subjects along with information
on other articles in process also covering those areas. As the article takes shape, you may wish to change
the subject. Should this be necessary, please notify our office so we can update our records.
Article Drafts: Once the article is finished, or at any time during the preparation of the article, you
may provide the draft to Medicine™ Magazine™s Editor. The article should be mailed as a disk containing
the digital file or sent by email (preferably). The digital file should be the text of the article saved
in the most generic format possible (.doc or .txt files only please.) If you have questions on the file
format please call our office. Any images you would like to use or illustrations for your article also
should be submitted at this time. Images may be slides, photos, digital images, graphs, or illustrations.
Your article and images may be delivered by mail or e-mail.
Corrections: Once we have received your draft, we will prepare the article in the format in which
it will be used, either for the Internet or for the magazine itself. Once this is completed, our graphics
team will fax the layout to you. At that time, if you have any corrections or updates on the article please
write them on the faxed copy and fax them back to our office.
Final Approval: Before we can publish your article we will need your final approval. Signing the faxed copy, returning it to our office or a simple email/letter stating the article is fine will suffice. Again, these may either be faxed or e-mailed directly to our office.
Please feel free to communicate
directly with our Houston office regarding any further questions
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