CPRSP and CME entitlement

Issue: BCMJ, vol. 49, No. 9, November 2007, Page 508 News

In an effort to be more eco-friendly, the BCMA has distributed the CME and CPRSP entitlement packages by e-mail this year. You will be able to view all information electronically and should print only the respective application form from each package for submission.

We continue to look for more efficient and cost-effective ways of communicating with our members and feel that this initiative is a step in the right direction. The traditional distribution of these two packages in printed form to the entire membership has cost approximately $20 000 per annum. This translated into a cost to you as a member of the BCMA. By e-mailing these packages, we anticipate a 70% savings, based on the number of members who have signed up to accept information via e-mail.

Members who wish to receive information via e-mail in the future may contact us at the telephone numbers listed in this table or e-mail benefits@bcma.bc.ca to change their preferences.

. CPRSP and CME entitlement. BCMJ, Vol. 49, No. 9, November, 2007, Page(s) 508 - News.


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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