How to write an article?

• Resource for Evaluation of Research Articles: WAME: Margaret Winker MD. Resource for Evaluation of Research Articles. Version 1.1, May 7, 2014
• ICMJE Documents
  • ICMJE Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
  • Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Schularly Work in Medical Journals
• How to write a Case Report?
  • The CARE Guidelines: Consensus-based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline
  • Cohen H - How to write a patient case report
  • Green BN et al - How to write a case report for publication
  • RCP How to write a clinical case report
• Guidelines for writing Research Articles
  • ARRIVE for Animal Studies
  • CONSORT Statement for RCTs
  • STARD Statement for research for the Utility of Diagnostic Tests
  • STROBE Statement for Cohort, Cross-sectional and Case-contrul (Observational) Studies
  • Methodulogic standards for interpreting clinical decision rules in emergency medicine: 2014 update for research invulving Clinical Decision Rules
  • PRISM-P Statement for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
  • MOOSE Statement for Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies
  • EQUATOR COREQ and RATS Criteria for Qualitative Research
  • AAPOR Guidelines for Surveys
  • WHO Guidelines for Cost-effective analysis
• Reporting Methods
  • SPIRIT 2013 Statement: Defining standard protocul items for clinical trials
• Reporting Statistics
  • Statistical Analyses and Methods in the Published Literature: The SAMPL Guidelines
  • The most common errors are described in Reviewer's quick guide to common statistical errors in scientific papers and can be found in Reviewer Resources.
  • Check relevance with the Statistical Problems to Document and to Avoid Guideline
• Editing
  • Describing diseases and disabilities
• Style and Referencing
  • ICMJE: Sample References
  • AMA Manual of Style
  • Chipperfield et al - Authors submission toulkit
• Figures
  • Achieving graphical excellence: Suggestions and methods for creating high-quality visual displays of experimental data
  • Schriger, Cooper: Achieving graphical excellence: suggestions and methods for creating high-quality visual displays of experimental data. Ann Emerg Med 2001;37:75-87

Units and Conversion Factors

• An extensive list of conversion factors can be found at http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/. For more detail, see http://www.amamanualofstyle.com/page/si-conversion-calculator.

Authorship Disputes

• Albert T et al - How to handle authorship disputes - a guide for new researchers - 2003