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Authors of research articles please use the
research submission system.
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Thank you for agreeing to contribute to Critical Care.
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Many thanks for agreeing to contribute an article to Critical Care.
We want to make the submission process as easy as possible for you. Should you encounter any
problems during the process or have any questions, please contact the editor who commissioned
your article, or get in touch with the editorial office at
editorial@ccforum.com,
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3192 2013.
1. Instructions for Authors
For further information on manuscript formatting and details of the copyright
agreement visit our Instructions for authors.
2. How to upload your manuscript
On the following pages, we will guide you through the various stages of uploading
your manuscript files. Don't worry if you make a mistake, you can go back and amend
your details using the buttons at the top of each page.
3. Acceptable manuscript formats
If your files are not in one of the following formats
below please do not continue with your article submission. Contact the
editorial office for further information.
Main manuscript
Formats:
MS Word (Version 2.0 and above), PDF, RTF (rich text format), TEX
Tables less than 2 pages (about 90 rows) should be included at the end of the manuscript.
Longer tables should be submitted, and referred to in the text, as additional files.
TeX files must use the
BioMed Central TeX template.
Figure files
Formats:
EPS, PDF (for line drawings), PNG, TIFF (for photographs and screen dumps), JPEG (for photographs and screen dumps), BMP, DOC, PPT
Must be separate files, not embedded in the main manuscript.
Critical Care will edit all figures supplied by the author. For this reason it is
especially important that authors should supply figures in
vector form,
to facilitate such editing.
Additional files
May be any standard type of file, eg. movies, datasets, large tables etc.
Files must be named with the three letter file extension appropriate to the file
type (eg .pdf, .xls, .txt)
Additional material files should include necessary material that cannot be
included in the PDF version of the published article, such as large datasets
or movies. Tables should ordinarily be included in the manuscript file,
unless they are exceptionally large (more than 2 manuscript pages or 90 rows).
The main manuscript should include a short description of any additional files
and software necessary to view them.
If the manuscript is published, additional files will only be made
available in exactly the same form as originally provided.
Please refer to the
Instructions for Authors for
further information about suitable file types.
4. No article processing charge needs to be
paid by the author
The publication costs for commissioned articles
in Critical Care are covered by the journal, so authors do not need to pay an article
processing charge.
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