의학잡지에 게재할 논문의 투고양식 — 신경정신의학 투고규정과 비교를 중심으로 一

Technical Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Medical Journals — Mainly in Comparison with Introduction of Journal of The Korean Neuropsychiatric Association —

The content of medical paper that will cany for its support may point to the right format and this means that the two components, content and structure, are equally important to evaluate a journal’s quality. The medical literature of our time is so large that no one can read more than small fraction of it and recent development and generalization of computer technology make the people to search an online bibliographic database or its equivalent easily. So, many international index systems, such as Index Medicus, Science Citation Index, MEDIL INE have been developed and widely used. The registration to such a index system may be important because it is one of the way to introduce our papers to the international scientific society. To establish the right format and gratify the minimal requirement of a such system, revision of our journal’s introduction must be carried out. For this purpose, the authors compared our journal’s introduction with that of 85 foreign and 43 domestic journals and also reviewed The 4th edition of the Vancouver style