Core-Plus Plan reminder

Issue: BCMJ, vol. 52, No. 8, October 2010, Page 416 News

The open enrollment period for the Core-Plus Plan under the BCMA Health Benefits Trust Fund is underway. The deadline to enroll in this program, or to make changes to your coverage if you are already participating, is 31 October 2010. 

New coverage or changes to existing coverage for members who submit the required plan documents by the deadline will be effective 1 January 2011.

If you have any questions regarding the open enrollment period or the plans offered under the BCMA Health Benefits Trust Fund, please visit www.bcma.org/hbtf or contact an HBTF Administrator:

Cory St Jean
Toll free: 800 665-2262 ext. 2865
Direct: 604 638-2865
cstjean@bcma.bc.ca 

Darlene Laird
Toll free: 800 665-2262 ext. 2818
Direct: 604 638-2818
dlaird@bcma.bc.ca

—Sandie Braid, CEBS
Assistant Director, BCMA Insurance

 

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Above is the information needed to cite this article in your paper or presentation. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommends the following citation style, which is the now nearly universally accepted citation style for scientific papers:
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347:284-7.

About the ICMJE and citation styles

The ICMJE is small group of editors of general medical journals who first met informally in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1978 to establish guidelines for the format of manuscripts submitted to their journals. The group became known as the Vancouver Group. Its requirements for manuscripts, including formats for bibliographic references developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), were first published in 1979. The Vancouver Group expanded and evolved into the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which meets annually. The ICMJE created the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals to help authors and editors create and distribute accurate, clear, easily accessible reports of biomedical studies.

An alternate version of ICMJE style is to additionally list the month an issue number, but since most journals use continuous pagination, the shorter form provides sufficient information to locate the reference. The NLM now lists all authors.

BCMJ standard citation style is a slight modification of the ICMJE/NLM style, as follows:

  • Only the first three authors are listed, followed by "et al."
  • There is no period after the journal name.
  • Page numbers are not abbreviated.


For more information on the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, visit www.icmje.org

BCMJ Guidelines for Authors

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