Journal of General Internal Medicine
Submission checklist and article types
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- ISSN (online)
- 1525-1497
- ISSN (print)
- 0884-8734
- Specialty
- Internal Medicine
- Journal website
- link.springer.com/journal/11606
Article types
| Article type | Reporting guideline | Extra Journal-specific Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Bottom Line Summaries | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Clinical Guidelines | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Clinical Images | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Clinical Vignettes | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Concise Research Report | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Editorials(invitation only) | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Exercises in Clinical Reasoning | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Healing Arts: Materia Medica | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Healing Arts: Sketchbook | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Healing Arts: Text and Context | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Innovation and Improvement | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Innovations in Medical Education | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Letters | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Medicine Then and Now | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Narrative Review | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Original Research | Depends on study design | 7 |
| Perspectives | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Position Papers | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Qualitative Original Research | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Research and Reporting Methods | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Shared Decision-Making Cases in Clinical Practice | Depends on study design | 4 |
| Systematic Review | PRISMA | 4 |
| Viewpoints | 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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