The Journal of Regional Medical Campuses (JRMC) is an open-access, peer-reviewed, web-based journal. Manuscripts accepted for publication are posted on the website immediately upon final acceptance. There are no submission or article processing charges. As an open-access journal, JRMC does not require authors to transfer full copyright ownership to the journal as a condition of publication.
This journal follows the recommendations in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). We also ask reviewers to follow the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.
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Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in the Journal of Regional Medical Campuses provided the author(s) owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. There are no fees for authors to publish in the journal.
Submission of articles to the Journal of Regional Medical Campuses should be as a Word document, with the body of text in 12pt font, double-spaced, using the AMA format and style. Make sure you have the following items: article title, abstract, keywords for your article.
Also, provide information about yourself and any other authors. For more information about who should be included as an author on a paper submitted to JRMC, please see our Authorship Policy.
Submitted articles cannot have been previously published or forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication, nor do submissions to preprint servers (e.g. biorXiv). In addition, by submitting material to JRMC, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that they will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at JRMC. If you have concerns about the submission terms for JRMC, please email the editors.
Authors should disclose details of preprint posting, including permanent identifiers (e.g. DOI) and licensing terms, upon submission of the manuscript or at any other point during consideration at JRMC. Once the preprint is published, it is the author’s responsibility to ensure that the preprint record is updated with a publication reference, including the permanent identifiers and a URL link to the published version of the article on the journal website.
Any work that is conducted using surveys or information obtained from human subjects is required to follow our Treatment of Human Subjects policy which requires review by an Institutional Review Board.
Authors will grant a nonexclusive license in their work to JRMC and the University of Minnesota Libraries. Such a license gives JRMC and the Libraries the necessary rights to publish, distribute, archive, and preserve the work. However, since the license is non-exclusive, all rights will still belong to the creator, who may make any use they wish and may grant other licenses as desired. The result of this license agreement is that the author, JRMC, and the Libraries will each have broad rights to the work.
To publish with JRMC, authors represent and warrant that they are the sole creators of the work and owners of all rights, titles, and interests in the work, including the complete and undivided copyright interest to the work. The authors represent and warrant that they have not granted any person any interest, including permissions, licenses, or assignments, in the work that conflicts with the rights, titles, and interests granted here. To each author's knowledge, the work does not infringe the copyright or other intellectual property rights of any person nor defame, slander, or libel any person nor invade the privacy or other like rights of a person. The authors represent and warrant that they either have express written permission to any third-party content used in their submission to JRMC or that they have a good-faith belief that the works they are using are in the public domain, that their use is fair, or that they are using works under an appropriate Creative Commons (or other open-content) license.
Authors must declare any conflicts of interest that may affect the information, research, analysis, or interpretation presented in the manuscript. The cover page of the manuscript should disclose any conflicts of interest. A conflict of interest exists when professional judgment concerning a primary interest (such as the validity of the research) may be influenced by secondary interests (such as financial gain). If there are none to declare, please indicate “Conflicts of Interest: None” on the manuscript's cover page. Additional information on Conflicts of Interest is available for downloading through the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Although JRMC does not require this form, it may assist authors in identifying conflicts.
Authorship is intended not only to give appropriate credit to researchers but also to indicate who is ultimately responsible for the work being published.
JRMC conforms to the recommendations of the ICMJE in defining the role of authors and contributors. The ICMJE states that authorship should be based on four criteria:
All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, and all who meet the four criteria should be identified as authors. Those who meet some but not all four criteria should still be acknowledged for their contributions. Authors are collectively and solely responsible for identifying contributors that should be named as an author or acknowledged; authors are also collectively and solely responsible for determining the order in which their names will appear. .
Corresponding authors have additional responsibilities. These authors must take primary responsibility for communication with the journal during the manuscript submission, peer-review, and publication process.
For information about other, specific circumstances, please refer to the ICMJE recommendations on authorship.
At the time of submission, authors must disclose whether they used artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted technologies (such as Large Language Models [LLMs], chatbots, or image creators) in the production of submitted work, including for generating transcripts from audio interviews or writing support. AI use must be disclosed and described as an acknowledgement; if AI tools were used to generate figures or data, including generating themes from qualitative data sets, it must also be disclosed and described in the methods section.
JRMC's authorship policy states that authors must be accountable for the work they have submitted; accordingly, no AI tool may be listed as an author on a paper submitted to JRMC. Authors are solely responsible for ensuring that citations are accurate and that no submitted material is plagiarizing. Failure to disclose AI use may be grounds for a paper to be retracted. Additional information on the use of artificial intelligence in crafting manuscripts is available from the ICMJE's website. This policy is subject to change.
As part of submitting to JRMC, the corresponding author must affirm that an Institutional Review Board (IRB) has reviewed research projects which involve human subjects to ensure those subjects are not placed at undue risk and that they can give uncoerced and informed consent to participation in a research study. Even educational studies involving participants, including questionnaires that collect information that could potentially identify participants, are human subject research and must adhere to this policy.
If the research published in JRMC was subject to IRB oversight, the name of the institution supporting the IRB and the protocol number must be included in the methods section of the submitted manuscript.
If an IRB determined that a project met the criteria for exemption from further IRB oversight, the name of the institution supporting the IRB and the reason the study was not subject to further review must be provided within the methods section of the submitted manuscript:
Example: "This study was reviewed and deemed exempt by the [University Name] Institutional Review Board (IRB) because [short description of rationale]."
When animals are used in research, the journal requires written confirmation that an institutional animal care and use committee approved the research. The article should contain a description of the research protocols and methods used and the research standards set by the institutional or national guides for the care and use of laboratory animals.
If you have questions or concerns about any of the above statements, please email the editors at jrmceditors@umn.edu.
The Journal of Regional Medical Campuses provides immediate open access to its content, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. This also means that the Journal of Regional Medical Campuses does not charge article processing fees. All articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Attribution license (CC BY-NC 4.0).
All articles published in the Journal of Regional Medical Campuses are distributed with a Creative Commons Noncommercial Attribution (CC BY-NC 4.0) license meaning that authors hold the copyright to their work. This also means that users have the right to share or adapt the article, as long as the author(s) and source are cited, and the use is for noncommercial purposes. Permission is not needed for these noncommercial uses. For permission for other uses or questions about use, don't hesitate to contact the editors at jrmceditors@umn.edu.
The author(s) retains their copyright in their work.
The copyright of each article belongs to the author(s) and grants each author the right to deposit the article in their institutional repository or any suitable subject repository, provided they do not contravene the requirements of the CC license associated with the article.
JRMC encourages deposits of data sets in established repositories as required by funding agencies or as desired by authors. If data supporting a paper submitted to JRMC is deposited prior to submission or after submission but prior to publication, information about that deposit — including permanent identifiers — may be provided in the abstract of the related article.
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