ICU Management welcomes submissions on relevant intensive care and emergency medicine topics.

Content

Articles may focus on any management or practice issue in intensive care related to economics, quality of care or patient outcome. We only accept scientific papers with a clear connection to management and practice issues. We also invite opinions for publication in our Viewpoints section, which can be personal opinions of the author and/or reactions to articles published in prior issues. These are published at the discretion of the editors. Submissions may not have been published previously or be currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Articles must be written by independent authorities and any sponsors for research must be named. If manufacturers are named in an article, the text must present an unbiased view, not in support of any particular company.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are responsible for all statements made in their work, including changes made by the editor and authorised by the submitting author. The text should be provided as a word document via email to editorial@icu-management.org. Please provide a contact email address for correspondence. Following review, a revised version, which includes the editors’ comments and recommendations, is returned to the author (at the contact email address) for authorisation.

Length

• Articles: maximum 1400 words (less if figures or tables are included)

• Viewpoints: maximum 700 words

• News/research/product updates: maximum 200 words

Please note that contributions longer than the specified number of words may not be accepted.

Structure
Article texts must contain:

• Title

• Names of authors with abbreviations for the highest academic degree

• Affiliation: Department and institution, city and country

• Main authors are requested to submit a portrait photo (see specifications below)

• Summary of one or two sentences (no more than 30 words) describing content

• Contact name for correspondence and an email address which may be published with the article

• Website, if appropriate

• Acknowledgements of any connections with a company or financial sponsor

• Introduction, main text and summary/ conclusion, with subheadings as appropriate

• Authors are encouraged to include checklists and/or guidelines, which summarise findings or recommendations

• References or sources, if appropriate, as specified below

Writing Style

Articles must be written in UK/British English (e.g. organisation, not organization), with short sentences, a clear structure (see above) and no bias. Full stops in numbers may only be used to indicate a decimal place; otherwise use commas as separators.

Images
 

Main authors are asked to submit a portrait photo for publication with their article. This and any other relevant images for publication with an article should be sent by email as separate files (only high resolution images with 300dpi) and their order of placement in the article must be clearly indicated. Only the electronic formats “.tif” or “.jpg” can be used for images, i.e. not Microsoft Word or Power- Point. Images must be no smaller than 9cm x 9cm at 100% scale. Only images meeting these specifications can be published. If an image has been published before, permission to reproduce the material must be obtained by the author from the copyright holder and the original source acknowledged in the text, e.g. © 2010 Sherry Scharff.

Format for References

Any references that are deemed important to understanding of the article should be cited in concise form within the article. Please use the Harvard reference system. Citations within the text for a single author reference should include the author surname and year of publication; for a citation with two authors include both author surnames and year of publication; for more than two authors, include the first author surname followed by "et al." and the year of publication. Multiple citations should be separated by a semicolon, and listed in alphabetical order.

Example of within text citation: (Edwards 2004; Edwards and Miller 2002; Miller et al. 2003).

Reference lists should be alphabetised by lead author and included at the conclusion of the submission.

Example of standard journal reference: Sydow Campbell, K. (1999) "Collecting information; qualitative research methods for solving workplace problems", Technical communication, 46 (4) 532-544.

Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references they cite.

Acceptance

It is always at the discretion of our editorial board to accept or refuse submissions. We will respond to submissions within 8 weeks of receipt. We reserve the right to revise the article or request the author to edit the contents, and to publish all texts in any EMC Consulting Group journal, on the Internet and to list them in online literature databases.

For any further questions, or to forward submissions or proposals, please contact Managing Editor, Sherry Scharff at s(at)icu-management.org