The act of submission to Prehospital and Disaster Medicine indicates confirmation by the submitting author that they have sought and obtained the approval of all co-authors, and that the authorship is in accordance with the journal’s policy.
All manuscripts must be submitted through the Journal’s online submission platform, ScholarOne Manuscripts, at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pdm. The following must be included with the submitted manuscript:
Cover Letter
Each manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter addressing the following:
- The primary author attests to the original nature of the material, that the paper has not been published elsewhere, and is not under consideration by any other publication
- If the paper has been or is to be presented in a forum orally or as a poster, indicate the title of the forum, sponsoring institution, and the date of presentation.
- The authors retain copyright of their articles accepted for publication, while granting WADEM either an exclusive license to publish, or a non-exclusive license to publish (in the case of the gold OA option).
- The institution(s) in which the work was performed, the sponsoring institution(s), and the respective departments are noted.
- The name of the author to whom any correspondence should be directed, along with correspondence street address and email address.
- Three to five keywords or phrases in alphabetical order separated by semicolons to facilitate indexing or electronic searches. Use the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh) to develop these keywords or phrases.
Do not indicate author names or institutions anywhere in the manuscript other than on the title page.
For formatting guidelines, please refer to the 'Preparing Your Materials' page.
ORCID
We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
If you don’t already have an iD, you will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Licence to publish
Before Cambridge can publish your manuscript, we need a signed licence to publish agreement. Under the agreement, certain rights are granted to the journal owner which allow publication of the article. The original ownership of the copyright in the article remains unchanged. For full details see the publishing agreement page.