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So you’re writing a JEMS article…
Congratulations on starting this wonderful journey of penning an article for JEMS. The editors, A.J., Ryan & Allie, are here to make this voyage smooth and pain-free. Use this cheat-sheet to avoid grandiose post-submission edits. Let us help you help yourself, which will, in turn, help us! (An example of a perfect article is included at the end.)
WORD COUNT Were you assigned a specific word count? If so, it’s best to stick to it. Going over the word count means either drastic cuts that could cause you to re-write sections (or waste all that hard work you spent on those eight paragraphs we can’t fit) or could mean the elimination of photos. If you weren’t assigned a word count, it’s best to ask for one.
PHOTOS/ILLUSTRATIONS If you’re also submitting photos with your article (and we want you to!), send them as separate files and do not embed them in the word document. We accept .jpg, .png, and .psd formats. In the article document, include a caption for each photo (or at least enough information about what is being shown so that the editors can write a caption) and list who should be credited for each photo.
TABLES/GRAPHS Tables and graphs must be included in the article document as part of the Word document, and not as a PDF or .jpg. Our designers will recreate these for you, so there’s no need to make it pretty. If you don’t know how to make a graph, you can write out a description of what you want.
AUTHOR BIOS At the end of your piece, include a small bio that begins with your name and credentials. Below is an example:
Gary Ludwig, MS, EMT-P, is a deputy fire chief with the Memphis (Tenn.) Fire Department. He has over 36 years of fire, EMS and rescue experience. He is also the immediate past chair of the EMS Section for the IAFC. He can be reached at www.garyludwig.com.
ARTICLE DATA We want you to have as much creative control as you can, and that means offering ideas. When submitting your article, please include suggestions for the following: Magazine headline (1–5 words), magazine subhead (sentence that describes article), online headline (longer, more descriptive than magazine headline), key words, 10-word summary of article and ideas for social media posts. We might change them, but we also might keep them.
REFERENCES—NUMBERING All clinical articles must have references. Non-clinical articles are not required to have references, but must properly cite sources if included. Format citations according to the style guide included below. If you have questions about citing or numbering references, it’s better to email your lead editor and ask rather than guess and hope for the best.
Footnotes: Do not use the footnote function on Word. The formatting doesn’t cross over into the program we use to design the magazine. Instead, add the superscript manually (if you don’t know how to make a superscript, just add the number and leave it regular-sized). All superscripts should come after the period. Add the reference manually at the end of your article in a consecutively numbered list. The number of the cited reference should match the number of the correlating superscript.
ibid: JEMS doesn’t use the ibid abbreviation. If you reuse a reference, simply reuse its number. Do not list the reference more than once in the list at the end of your article. For example, your superscripts may read: 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 5. Your list of references, however, should only read: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Resources: If you want to include items of information that you didn’t directly cite or use, add them to a list under the term “Resources” below your References list. All resources should be listed in alphabetical order and unnumbered.
REFERENCES—FORMATTING Use this guide to properly format your references and resources.
Journal Articles >>Do not abbreviate page numbers. Right: 342–348; Wrong: 342-8 >>List all authors up to three. After the third author is listed, use et al. >>Abbreviate journal title according to PubMed.com.
Last name First name initial, Last name First name initial. Article title lower case except first word. Journal title in italics. Year;Vol(Issue #):pages.
Chouten EG, Dekker JM. QT interval prolongation predicts cardiovascular mortality in an apparently health population. Circulation. 1991;84(2):1516–1523.
Books
Author Last name First name initial, title (if applicable): Book title in italics. Publisher name: City, State, pages, year.
Goldstein N, editor: The Associated Press stylebook and libel manual. Addison-Wesley: Reading, Mass., pp. 16–18, 1998.
Reference to an article or chapter in an edited book
Chapter/article author last name First name initial, Article or chapter title. In Editor first initial Editor last name (Ed./Eds.), Book title in italics. Publisher name: City, State, pages, year.
Doe J: Common grammar issues. In J Smith (Ed.), Everything you need to know about editing. Fantastic Publishing: San Diego, pp. 45–68, 2011.
Internet References
Author last name First name initial. (Date published if available; n.d.—no date—if not). Title of article. In Title of website. Retrieved date, from URL.
Landsberger J. (n.d.) Citing websites. In Study Guides and Strategies. Retrieved May 13, 2005, from www.studygs.net/citation.htm.
Note: If the author name is not available, start the reference with the article title, and move the date published (or n.d.) after the article title. Example: Citing websites. (n.d.) In Study Guides and Strategies. Retrieved May 13, 2005, from www.studygs.net/citation.htm.

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