Give someone the recognition they deserve: Doctors of BC awards

Issue: BCMJ, vol. 65, No. 3, May 2023, News
By: Jessica Cavers

Now more than ever, Doctors of BC wants to showcase the amazing work being done by doctors across the province and recognize the individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to medicine and their community, those who have dedicated their careers to improving the welfare of British Columbians, and those who inspire others around them. To do this, May 2023 will be the first annual Doctors of BC Awards Month.

Do you know a colleague or mentor who has made a difference? Perhaps a medical student or resident who advocates for a stronger and better health care system through leadership and grassroots advocacy work? Or maybe an individual or group working to make our province a healthier, safer place to live?

If so, nominate them for one of the following Doctors of BC awards:

Nominations are open now; the deadline for all award nominations is Wednesday, 31 May 2023.
—Jessica Cavers
Communication Officer, Doctors of BC

hidden

Creative Commons License
 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Jessica Cavers. Give someone the recognition they deserve: Doctors of BC awards. BCMJ, Vol. 65, No. 3, May, 2023, Page(s) - 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

Leave a Reply