Journal of Medical Safety
(JMS)
(Online version)ISSN 1349-5240
Official academic journal
for original manuscripts by
‘International
Association of Risk Management in Medicine’ (IARMM)
(Note)
This page is information of the journal guideline, only.
Since
2017 JMS is distributed only by electronic material in internet since
2017. Any print version is not
available.
Purposes
and Scope:
Journal
of Medical Safety (JMS) is an official
English journal for `International Association of Risk Management in Medicine
(IARMM)’. The journal welcomes any
manuscripts around the world. The
purpose of this publication is to distribute original articles, short
communications and review articles on health and safety improvement based on quality and
quantity Aspects. Appropriate
topics include, but not limited to, problems related to patient safety
(clinical safety), environment health, life-style disease, community health,
occupational health, medical accidents, food product health, international
health, mental health and health issues for aging population.
This online journal (ISSN 1349-5240) is distributed 1
or 2 times every year. You should use
e-mail for rapid communication with the editorial office concerning submission
of your manuscripts. Each copy contains
information for IARMM 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).
We hope
this journal is effective to promote the worldwide scientific activities in
safe medicine.
Editorial Board
1 April 2024
Editor
in Cair
Shoji Kawachi (IARMM
vice-chair, Teikyo University Hospital, Tokyo)
Vice-Cair
Atsushi
Kudou (IARMM
vice-chair,
Tokyo Med. Dent.
University Hospital,
Tokyo)
Editorial members
(Canada)
Nathalie de
Marcellis-Warin (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal)
Joon Pil
Cho (
(Japan)
Maki Q
Fujita (Keio University, Forensic Medicine)
Kazuhisa Takemura (Waseda University
(psychology))
(Russia)
Vyacheslav K. Ilyin (Russian Acadey of Science, RF State Scientific Cent. Inst. Biomed. Problems,
Elena Ryabchikova (State Research Center of Virology and
Biotechnology "Vector", Novosibirsk)
(Switzerland)
Bruno Gottestein (University of Bern, Faculty of Medicine, Bern)
(Sweden)
Kjell
Andersson (
(UK)
Simon Cohn (University of London, Goldsmiths College, London)
Iqbal M. Mujtaba (University of Bradford, West Yorkshire)
Subscription: Each copy will be distributed as an e-version or
off-line mail magazine, while the content can be also seen in IARMM homepage.
The annual subscription fee is 300 USD per person, if you are not the
registered members of IARMM. 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 (jms@iarmm.org).. 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 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. 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 International
Association of Risk Management in 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 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 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 in-text reference numbers be in
superscript (small above the words). 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
Publication Office
c/o IARMM World HQ
(E-mail) jms@iarmm.org
(Tel/Fax) +81-3-3817-7010
(Postal Address) 4-7-12-102
Hongo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, 113-0033, JPN
c) IARMM 2017