Journal
of Medical Safety (JMS)
(Print version)ISSN 1349-5232
(Online version)ISSN 1349-5240
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update
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(Note) This page is
information of the journal guideline, only.
Printed journals are published a couple of times per year.
No (6) October 2008.
No
(5) March 2008.
No
(3) June 2005.
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.
4) 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
①
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.
②
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.
③
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