Journal of Medical Safety (JMS)
(Print version)ISSN
1349-5232
(Online
version)ISSN 1349-5240
Last update September 1, 2009
Official academic journal for
original manuscripts by
‘Union of Risk Management for
Preventive Medicine’ (URMPM)
(Note) This page is
information of the journal guideline, only.
Printed journals are
published a couple of times per year.
JMS No (9) April, 2010.
JMS No (8) November, 2009.
JMS No (7) August, 2009.
JMS No (6) October 2008.
JMS No (5)
March 2008.
JMS
No (3) June
2005.
JMS
No (1) December
2003.
The special editions of
electronic version are released unperiodically for short and rapid paper
publications
Purposes
and Scope: Journal of Medical Safety (JMS)
is an official English journal for Union of Risk Management
for Preventive Medicine (URMPM)’. The journal welcomes any manuscripts around
the world, while the first author of each manuscript should be the registered
member of URMPM. The purpose of this publication is to distribute original
articles, short communications and review articles on risk management and
preventive medicine. Appropriate topics include, but not limited to, problems
related to global environment issues, life-style disease, community health,
occupational health, medical accidents, food product health, international
health, mental health and health issues for aging population. an All
manuscripts are registered into a worldwide database of medical journals,
'MEDLINE' and so on.
This print version
journal will
be distributed to the registered members of URMPM 2 times every year and the e-version journal will be published
at any time. You should use e-mail for rapid communication with the editorial
office concerning submission of your manuscripts. Each copy contains information
for URMPM members (i.e., Committees' Announcement, Meeting Summary, Information
of Conference, Free Basic Textbook, Library, Information of Patient Safety,
Drug Safety, Food Safety, Chemicals Safety, Environment Safety, Occupational
Safety, and Available Position)
This
journal is a sister journal of URMPM official journal 'Health',
of
which purpose is to distribute the leading review articles in medical sciences
and several leading original articles. Thus, we hope this journal is also effective to promote the worldwide
scientific activities in risk management and safety medicine, in addition to
URMPM official review journal 'Health'.
Editorial Board
Nicholas Mascie-Taylor (The
Kazuo Yamamoto (The
Editor in Chief
Ryoji
Sakai (World health
Vice-Editor in Chief
Kjell
Andersson (
Bruno Gottestein (
Editorial board
(Canada)
Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin (Ecole Polytechnique de
Montreal, Montreal)
(
Alcira
Castillo (The
Phillip
Beh (The
Joon
Pil Cho (
Yoon
Shin Kim (
Toru
Hijikata (
Toru
Inoue (National Institute of Health Sciences,
Naoyasu
Motomura (
Atsuo
Murata (
Yushi
Okazaki (
Hedihiko
Tamaki (The
Shigeyuki
Tsunemari (
Chiho
Watanabe (The
Ab
Aziz al-Safi bin Ismail (University Sains
Rusli
B. Nordin (University Sains
Irma R. Makalino (University
pf the Philippines College of Medicine)
Alexander Deev (
Galina Kh. Merzhanova (
Elena
Ryabchikova (
Vladislav
N. Solntsev(
Vladmir V. Tkachov (
(
Gilbert Lau (
(
B.L. Meel, (
(
(
Orapun
Metadilogkul (Occup. and Env. Medicine Association of
(Tunisia)
Zourgui Lazhar (Fac des sciences de Gafsa,
Universit de Sfax pour le Sud)
(
Simon
Cohn (University of London, Goldsmiths College, London)
Louella
L. Matsunaga (Oxford Brookes University, Oxford)
Iqbal
M. Mujtaba (University of Bradford, West Yorkshire)
(Ukraine)
G. Kremenchuts ?yy (Dniepropetrovsk State Medical
Academy, Dniepropetrovsk)
Alexander Pivovarov (Ukrainian State
Chemical-Technology University)
(USA)
Neal
Richard Boyd (George Washington University Medical Center, Washington DC)
Mike Fremont (Rivers Unlimited)
James S. Kesher (National Institute for Occupational
Safety & Health, Ohio)
JMS Assistant Editor
Shirley V. V. Chaves (URMPM International Secretary, Costa Rica)
Subscription: Each copy will be distributed as a printed material
and an e-version or off-line mail magazine, while the content can be also seen
in URMPM homepage. The annual subscription fee is 400 USD per person, if you
are not the registered members of URMPM. Those who wish to subscribe this
journal should contact the Editorial Office about payment.
1.Journal
of Medical Safety (JMS) is accepting online to
the Society Office secr-office@umin.ac.jp.
Authors will be sent more
information about how and where to send their papers after they are accepted.
The entire manuscript should be contained in one file. Tables and figures may be
excluded from the electronic file and presented only in the accompanying hard
copies. The following word processing programs and format files are accepted:
Microsoft Word and WordPerfect for Windows version, Text files, RTF form files,
and PDF form files. An electronic file by other languages than English are not
be accepted.
2. Manuscripts previously published are not acceptable.
Submission of a manuscript to the journal implies that it has not been
published elsewhere, that it does not duplicate material already published in
any languages elsewhere.
3. Human studies should not be conducted in accordance
with the recommendations outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki (1964, revised
1975 and 1983).
4.
The
following types of contributions will be published: 1) articles reporting
original research; 2) short communications; 3) other articles. Review articles
will be published to URMPM official journal, HEALTH, which consists of leading
review articles and several original manuscripts. While, thus, all review articles
should be submitted to HEALTH at first, any review article can be published by
JMS till the journal, HEALTH will launch the publication in Spring of 2004. All
submissions are peer-reviewed and subject to final decision of the Editorial
Board.
5. If the manuscript is accepted for publication,
copyright of the article shall be assigned to the Union of Risk Management for
Preventive Medicine.
6. Manuscript should be prepared in the following
manner:
(1)
Manuscript
should be written in English. Each manuscript should be sent by e-mail to the
following Editorial Office.
Also, one original and two copies should be
submitted.
(2) The English abstract (250 words) should be
attached to manuscripts.
(3) The
title page of the manuscript should include name(s) of author(s), affiliated
organization(s), address of representative author, type of contribution,
running title (not more than 60 letters including spaces) and number of tables
and figures.
(3) Manuscript
should be typed in double-spacing on A4 (ca. 22x28 cm) paper.
(5) Original
article should be limited to 8 printed pages including tables and figures. This
would be equivalent to 20 pages of double-spaced text. Exceeded print page will
be charged by 100 USD per page.
(6) Short
communications and case studies should be limited to 2 printed pages including
tables and figures. This would be equivalent to 5 pages of double-spaced text.
(7) Key
words up to 10 words will be placed after the abstract for reviews, originals,
and field studies, but only after the title of the title page for short
communications and case studies.
(8) Tables
and figures should be of adequate quality to withstand reduction in size. Each
table and figure should be submitted on a separate A4 sheet. Their location in
the text should be indicated in the margin of the text.
(9) The
following units and symbols should be used for quantities and measurements: km,
m, cm, mm, ㎛, nm, kg, g, mg, ㎍,; ℓ, mℓ, ㎕; yr (year), wk(week), d(day),
h(hour), min(minute), s(sec) .
(10) References
should be numbered according to the order in which they appear in the text and
should be listed at the end of the text according to the following format. The
number of the references should be indicated in the text as follows.
Examples of references
i)Papers published in Journals
Adamson J, Hunt K, Ebrahim S. Socioeconomic
position, occupational exposures, and gender: the relation with locomotor
disability in early old age. J Epidemiol. Community Health 2003;57: 453-455.
ii) Books
and other monographs
Detels R, McEwen J, Beaglehole R, Tanaka H. Oxford
Textbook of Public Health. The Scope of Public Health. Fourth Edition. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2002.
iii)Contributions in Books
Detels R, Breslow. Current scope and concerns in
public health. In: Detels R, McEwen J, Beaglehole R, Tanaka H. Oxford Textbook
of Public Health. The Scope of Public Health. Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2002: 3-20.
JMS Editorial Office:
c/o URMPM Head Office
URMPM Secretary, Shirley V. V.
Chaves
(E-mail) secr-office@umin.net
(Tel/Fax) +81-3-3817-7010 (81 is a country code of Japan).
(Postal
Address) 4-7-12-102 Hongo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
c) URMPM 2003