BioMed: Services

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When you send us your manuscript, we will do everything we can to make your paper acceptable to your intended audience.

Obviously, the initial work—and all of the decisions—will have to be performed by you, the author.

We’ll try to make what comes after that as easy as possible.

First, we'll do the basics: check and correct the spelling, grammar, usage and style.

Next, we'll conform the structure of your manuscript to your target's requirements: appropriate scientific terms and units, correct citation format, proper placement and treatment of your tables and figures, etc. Most published scientific or medical papers conform to ICMJE standards; and if they’re published in the United States, they’re usually also formatted according to Chicago, APA, or AMA style. Moreover, different journals have their own requirements.

We’ll do that for you.

Then, we'll read it for sense and readability. We'll rewrite overly complex sentences for clarity (taking care not to lose the authors' point); restructure the presentation of content so that your paper flows in a logical sequence; take out redundancies and jargon; and vet your references. We’ll leave comments suggesting ways to improve it even more.

Later, we can help you cope with reviewers’ remarks.

Science can be very competitive, and even the best research may be rejected for publication for the flimsiest reasons. The look and clarity of your manuscript shouldn’t be one of them.

● All information sent to BioMed is held in confidence, and will be destroyed upon completion of your project.

● To send us your manuscript, simply email it to us as an attachment, preferably in Microsoft Word.

● We will edit your manuscript using Word's tracking function, and return two copies to you—a tracked version (to show you what we’ve changed), and a clean version.

● Documents are usually returned within 4 to 7 business days.