Canadian Medical Association Journal
Submission guidelines
Shortcuts to Research, Practice, Analysis, Commentary, Review, Humanities
All manuscripts must be submitted on ScholarOne, our online submission system.
To submit a letter, see Submitting a Letter to the Editor.
To submit an obituary, please contact inmemoriam@cma.ca. (In Memoriam page)
Scientific articles should conform to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommendations for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) also follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines.
Required At First Submission For All Article Types
Cover letter (should provide context for the submitted manuscript within the existing medical landscape and literature and should outline why you think your manuscript should be published in CMAJ. State the specific contributions of each author to the preparation of the manuscript. Please note the maximum number of authors for specific article types)
Title page (may be uploaded as a separate file, or as the first page of the manuscript)
title (for research, the title must include the study type)
authors' names, degrees (no fellowships) and up to two affiliations for each author
corresponding author's email address
funding statement
declaration of author(s) competing interests
Text (editable files), tables, figures, references, appendices (clear, legible; they should adhere to CMAJ's requirements for the manuscript type)
Required At Revision
A contributor's statement (states the specific contributions of each author to preparation of the manuscript). Each author must meet the four authorship criteria of the ICMJE: substantial contributions to the conception, design, acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data for the work; drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version to be published; agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved
Contributors who do not meet all four authorship criteria may be listed in the Acknowledgements section
Editable text, table and figure files
graphs, charts and diagrams: Microsoft Word (doc, docx), Excel (xls, xlsx), PowerPoint (ppt, pttx), Windows Metafile (wmf) or Enhanced Metafile (emf)
photographs and images: high-resolution (300 dpi or greater), grayscale or CMYK, Graphics Interchange Format (gif), JPEG (jpeg, jpg, jpe), Tagged Image File Format (tiff, tif); any manipulation of the image should be identified in the Methods section; see examples on our Pinterest page
tables and figures should not duplicate information in the text
text should be written in the active rather than the passive voice
No footnotes
Formatting of references must follow Vancouver style
Multimedia, if possible; we encourage submission of video abstracts or clinical demonstrations on video; see examples on our YouTube channel
Relevant signed forms: copyright/publication agreement, ICMJE (declaration of competing interests), acknowledgment, personal communication, permissions, etc. (See Author Forms)
Permission To Reproduce Previously Published Material
If your article contains previously published material (table, figure, appendix, box) or modified material, you must obtain permission from the publisher and/or copyright or licence holder. CMAJ Group's requirements are as follows:
Commercial use
In perpetuity
Online and print publication
Reuse as per CC BY-NC-ND content license terms.
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