BCMJ’s iPad winner

Issue: BCMJ, vol. 57, No. 9, November 2015, Page 397 News


Brandon Evtushevski

Congratulations to Brandon Evtushevski, winner of the BC Medical Journal’s draw for an iPad. And thank you to everyone who entered the draw at UBC’s Medical Student Orientation on 4 September by signing up to receive the journal’s monthly e-newsletter.

Brandon is thrilled to be joining the UBC Medicine Class of 2019. Born in Germany and raised in Kelowna, Brandon sees Montreal as his third home—though he says that his French doesn’t vouch for it. Brandon completed his BSc (neuroscience) in 2014 at McGill University and spent his year off involved in concussion research and backpacking around Asia for the summer. Living in Kelowna, Brandon stays active with all the outdoor activities the area has to offer and, in addition to his slight obsession with music, he enjoys scuba diving, skiing, soccer, and traveling.

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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.

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  • Only the first three authors are listed, followed by "et al."
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