Uniform requirements to prepare manuscripts sent to biomedical journals

Abstract

In January 1978, editors of general medical journals met in Vancouver, British Columbia, to establish guidelines for manuscripts sent to their journals. The group has come to be known as the Vancouver Group. Their requirements for the presentation of the manuscripts, including standards for bibliographic references developed by the National Library of Medicine, were published for the first time in 1979. The Group expanded and evolved in the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the which meets annually and whose concerns have become more general.