Information for Authors

The aim of Prescriber is to provide authoritative, attractively presented articles that are easy to read and make clear points that readers will remember. They must also be relevant to readers’ needs and reflect current opinion. To ensure this, they are all reviewed by members of the editorial board.

We welcome article submissions and would suggest contacting us in the first instance by e-mail with a brief outline of your suggested article.

It would help us to achieve our aims if you adopt the following approach:

General considerations

  • Write as if you were talking to your audience, avoiding the use of jargon and abbreviations.
  • Try to spell out the practical implications of your article.
  • Draw on your experience to identify, and suggest solutions to, problems and practice pitfalls.
  • Provide helpful prescribing details (where relevant).
  • Provide a Key Points box if appropriate.
  • Use informative and interesting subheadings to break up the text, guide readers through the article and retain their interest.
  • Illustrate your article as imaginatively as possible, ideally with a mix of clinical slides, line drawings, flow charts, graphs, pie charts, histograms, etc, if relevant. All diagrams are redrawn by the Prescriber art department and can be provided as hand-drawn roughs.
  • Provide up to 10 references where appropriate

 

Specific considerations

  • Please email your article or suggestion to prescriber@wiley.com.
  • Ensure that you provide your full name, degrees, position held and professional address.
  • Make clear, at the end of your article, any conflict of interest that might influence your judgement.
  • Adopt the Vancouver style of references, mentioning them by superscript number in the text. Name the first three authors before using et al.
  • The style for journals is: Macgregor EA. Migraine and the menopause. J Br Menopause Soc 2006;12:104-8.
  • The style for books is: Beral V, Banks E, Reeves G, et al. The effect of hormone replacement therapy on breast and other cancers. In: Critchley H, Gebbie A, Beral V, eds. Menopause and hormone replacement. London: RCOG Press, 2004;136-50.
  • Number your illustrations and refer to them by number at appropriate points in the text. Where necessary, add arrows to slides or scans; alternatively, provide an accompanying sketch.
  • Whenever a patient is identifiable, ensure you have written permission to publish the patient’s picture.
  • Seek permission to publish non-original material.
  • Provide a list of figure captions that make good teaching points and relate the picture to the text. For example: “Figure 1. Bone scan with ‘hot-spots’ of prostatic bone metastasis. Patients presenting with severe bone pain in spite of hormone treatment should undergo bone scans and X-rays to determine further treatment.”

Conflict of interest

Authors are responsible for disclosing all financial and personal relationships between themselves and others that might bias their work. To prevent ambiguity, any possible conflict of interest, financial or otherwise, related to the submitted article must be clearly indicated on the manuscript.

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