ICMJE recommendations

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Recommendations
Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals
AbbreviationICMJE Recommendations
Formation1979
Parent organization
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
Vancouver Group (formerly)
Websitehttps://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
Formerly called
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (URMs)

The ICMJE recommendations (full title, "Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals") are a set of guidelines produced by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors for standardising the ethics, preparation and formatting of manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals for publication.[1] Compliance with the ICMJE recommendations is required by most leading biomedical journals. Levels of real compliance are subject to debate.[2] As of 9 January 2020, 5570 journals worldwide claim to follow the ICMJE recommendations.[3]

The recommendations were first issued in 1979 under the title "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" (abbreviated URMs and often shortened to "Uniform Requirements").[4] After a series of revisions, they were given their current name in 2013.[5]

  1. ^ ICMJE (16 December 2014), Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (PDF).
  2. ^ Dal-Ré, Rafael; Caplan, Arthur L; Marusic, Ana (23 July 2019). "Editors' and authors' individual conflicts of interest disclosure and journal transparency. A cross-sectional study of high-impact medical specialty journals". BMJ Open. 9 (7): e029796. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029796. ISSN 2044-6055. PMC 6661703. PMID 31340971.
  3. ^ International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Journals that have Requested Inclusion on the List of Publications that follow the ICMJE's Uniform Requirements For Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals [homepage on the Internet]. Philadelphia: ICMJE; c2005 [updated 27 May 2006; cited 30 May 2006]. Available from: http://www.icmje.org/journals.html
  4. ^ "Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. International Steering Committee of Medical Editors" (PDF). BMJ. 1 (6162): 532–535. 1979. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.6162.532. PMC 1598112. PMID 444872. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Archives The ICMJE". Retrieved 22 August 2020.