The Content of Medical Journal Instructions for Authors

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Schriger, David L ^a,b   Arora, Sanjay ^a   Altman, Douglas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RELIABILITY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

GUIDELINES; PERIODICALS; PUBLISHING; WRITING;

EID: 33750956540     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.03.028     Document Type: Article

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