Free technology innovation forum in Vancouver

Issue: BCMJ, vol. 59, No. 10, December 2017, Page 532 News

Are you interested in developing and using innovative technologies to help solve clinical problems? If so, join fellow medical professionals at a free event on Thursday, 25 January 2018. The Technology Innovation Engagement Forum will provide examples of health care innovations developed by medical colleagues, resident, and students; pathways to consider if looking for technology partners, funding, or to introduce solutions; and opportunities to express your opinion and try out technology solutions to improve health care delivery.

The forum is co-sponsored by the Facility Engagement Initiative (a partnership of Doctors of BC and the BC government) and Vancouver Coastal Health.

Visit the forum website at http://digem.med.ubc.ca/efit.

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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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