Updates to the BCMJ’s student writing prizes

Issue: BCMJ, vol. 64, No. 6, July August 2022, Page 252 News

The British Columbia Medical Journal welcomes article submissions from BC medical students and offers two writing prizes for the best submissions accepted for publication. Recently, the prizes have been updated to distinguish between student articles written with and without physician coauthors. The blog-post prize has been discontinued.

The J.H. MacDermot Prize for Excellence in Medical Journalism (Independent) recognizes a BC medical student’s significant achievement in writing an article without any physician coauthors. The J.H. MacDermot Prize for Excellence in Medical Journalism (Mentored) recognizes a BC medical student’s significant achievement in medical writing as part of an author team that includes physicians.

A winning article for each prize is selected from all eligible articles published in the BCMJ in a calendar year. There is no need to apply or be nominated. Each winner receives $750 and recognition in the BCMJ and at the Doctors of BC annual awards ceremony.

If a winning entry in either category is written by more than one student, the prize is divided equally among the student authors.

For more information about the prizes, visit https://bcmj.org/submit-article-award.

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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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