BMC Medicine
Submission checklist and article types
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- ISSN (online)
- 1741-7015
- Specialty
- Internal Medicine, Surgery
- Journal website
- bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com
Article types
| Article type | Reporting guideline | Extra Journal-specific Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Comment | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Debates | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Guidelines | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Matters Arising | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Registered Reports | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Research articles | Depends on study design | 7 |
| Reviews | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Software articles | Depends on study design | 4 |
The guideline shown is the one that usually applies to that article type. For original research it depends on the design: see the reporting guidelines. Every review also covers about 80 general content checks; the requirement counts above are the additional checks specific to this journal.
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