This page is designed to help you ensure your submission is ready for and fits the scope of the journal.

Before submitting you should read over the guidelines below:

About

Focus and Scope

Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine (CPC-EM) is a leading international, open-access journal that publishes high-quality case reports, case series, clinicopathological cases (CPCs), and medical legal reports with special focus on point-of-care ultrasound videos. It focuses on cutting-edge advancements at the forefront of emergency medicine (EM), providing clinicians with critical information on the newest diseases and treatments in the field. It also publishes CPCs for educators­, analyzing and emphasizing complex diagnostic processes, and medico-legal cases for clinicians elucidating legal pitfalls in EM. Through free and  unrestricted international dissemination of this important clinical content, CPC-EM aims to serve as an asset to researchers and to meet the needs of all groups in healthcare.

Submission Checklist

CPC-EM Case Report Guidelines

Please review the submission guidelines here.

To be considered for external review and publication, case reports must describe a very rare or unique clinical condition that demonstrates major importance and impact towards public and population health in emergency medicine. Authors are encouraged to submit case reports that are educational/beneficial, furthering knowledge in emergency medicine. Abstracts should be no more than 100 words, and reports should be no more than 1750 words. Please note that figures, illustrations, or videos are highly recommended to be included (maximum of 3 figures / tables.) The case report should not be submitted if a similar case report has previously been published in CPC-EM.

CPC-EM Images in Emergency Medicine Guidelines

Please review the submission guidelines here.

Submissions are limited to 300 words. All Images submissions must have at least 1 Figure/Table/Image; no more than 3 Figures/Tables/Images are permitted per submission. We highly encourage both videos (ultrasound and otherwise) and high quality images. However, it is important to cross reference any media with our image bank on our website to avoid similar publications. In our review and publication process, we make an active effort to avoid submissions that create redundancy within our journal.

CPC-EM Clinicopathological Cases Guidelines

Please review the submission guidelines here.

Copyright Notice

Peer Review

CPC-EM adhere to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publications.1 All manuscripts submitted to the CPC-EM undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process, whereas the authors and reviewers are blinded from each other’s names or affiliations. Editors are not to disclose the confidentiality of reviewers or authors. Details of the review are not revealed to the authors until review is complete and an official decision on the manuscript is made. Editors, editorial staff and reviewers are not to discuss publicly any authors’ works until publication. Manuscripts sent for review are privileged information and are the sole property of the authors’ until publication, at which time the manuscript is under the creative common license. For more information, click here.

All section editors assign at least 3-5 reviewers to whom the identities of the authors remain anonymous. Reviewers provide thorough feedback on the assigned article and make recommendations to the editors regarding the following:

• Critique of the methodology

• The impact and strength of the article

• Significant limitations that need to be addressed

• Are tables and figures relevant and suitable to the manuscript

• Comments on the clarify, brevity and grammar

The Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editors will register the final decision. The reviewer’s identity will remain confidential throughout the peer review process.

Licences

Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine allows the following licences for submission:

• CC BY 4.0
  Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Publication Fees

Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine (CPC-EM)

If the first author of the accepted article is a full-time member of a WestJEM department subscription, there is a 20% reduced fee for an accepted article to CPC EM. This page allows authors with accepted CPC EM manuscripts to submit the article processing fee. This fee is only required for accepted manuscripts to CPC EM. There is no fee for editorials, nor is there a fee to submit an article. CPC EM is willing to waive the article processing fee after the article has been accepted for authors who come from low income or lower middle income countries on a case by case basis. Please contact sales@westjem.org if you believe you qualify for this fee waiver only after your article has been accepted.

• CPC-EM Image - Discounted Price $400 (rather than $500)
• CPC-EM Case Report - Discounted Price $600 (rather than $750)
• CPC-EM Case Series - Discounted Price $800 (rather than $1000)

Additional benefits of becoming a faculty department subscription to WestJEM can be found here.

If you would like to become a department subscriber click here. If you have any questions, please contact sales@westjem.org or call 1-800-884-2236.

Please click here for the article processing fee payment portal.

Publication Cycle

This journal published continuously all year round/publishes in issues every 3 months.

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