For Authors

How to Submit

Please use the red Submit Manuscript button above to submit your manuscript. The submitting author will be prompted to create an account on Scholastica.

Questions to the editors can be directed to:
andrew.spieker@vumc.org
nanditam@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

An overview of the journal’s aims and scope can be found here.

A description of the journal’s peer review process can be found here.

A desciption of additional journal policies can be found here.

Preparing Papers

Authors are required to use the journal’s LaTeX template and style file, which can be found here. This link also includes a sample .bib file.

A description of manuscript submission types can be found here.

Reference Style

Citations within the text should include the author’s last name and year, for example (Cheeseman and Carrotwoman, 1992). Append lower-case letters to the year in case of ambiguity, as in (Cheeseman, 1993a). References in the text should be ordered by author’s surname and publication date. In publications by three or more authors, all are listed the first time, and first author et al. used subsequently. In publications with more than six authors, first author et al. is used throughout.

The style file, obs_study.sty, includes natbib, which supports citations with macros such as \citep{} and \citet{}. The basic uses of \citep{} and \citet{} are as follows:

\citet{jon90} => Jones et al. (1990)
\citet[chap.~2]{jon90} => Jones et al. (1990, chap. 2)
\citep{jon90} => (Jones et al., 1990)
\citep[chap.~2]{jon90} => (Jones et al., 1990, chap. 2)
\citep[see][]{jon90} => (see Jones et al., 1990)
\citep[see][chap.~2]{jon90} => (see Jones et al., 1990, chap. 2)
\citet*{jon90} => Jones, Baker, and Williams (1990)
\citep*{jon90} => (Jones, Baker, and Williams, 1990)