Resources for Medical Editors
Resources for Medical Editors
Policy Statements Prepared by the WAME Editorial Policy Committee
Resources for Editors from Sources Other Than WAME Prepared by the Editorial Policy, Education, and Web Committees
Syllabus for Prospective and Newly Appointed Editors Prepared by the WAME Education Committee
Publication Ethics Policies for Medical Journals Prepared by the WAME Publication Ethics Committee
Ethics Resources Prepared by the WAME Publication Ethics Committee
WAME Listserve Discussions Lightly edited compilations of listserve discussions by WAME Members
Organizations and Journals Supporting the Statement on Geopolitical Intrusion on Editorial Decisions
Resources for Editors from Sources Other Than WAME
Prepared by the Editorial Policy, Education, and Web Committees
Updated August 14, 2009
This is not intended to be a complete list. If you have additional suggestions for this list, please contact Margaret Winker.
- Policies of Related Organizations
- Selected Books and Web Sites
- Journal-Based Resources
- Ethics Web Resources
- Peer Reviewer Instructional Guide
- Journal Instructions for Authors
- Other Organizations for Editors
Policies of Related Organizations
For WAME Policy Statements, see http://www.wame.org/resources/policies/
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Council of Science Ediors
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
Office of Research Integrity
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Guidelines on good publication practice
Council of Science Editors
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/services/draft_approved.cfm
Policy on Responsibilities and Rights of Editors of Peer-Reviewed Journals
Policy on Journal Access to Scientific Data
Policy of Journal Referral of Possible Misconduct
Conflicts of Interest and the Peer Review Process
ICMJE
Uniform requirements for submission of medical manuscripts
Update on Trials Registration: October 2004
ICMJE Translations
Note: The ICMJE and WAME do not assume responsibility for the accuracy of translations.
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
(Korean, 2006 edition)
Comité Internacional de Editores de Revistas Médicas
Requisitos Uniformes para los Manuscritos Enviados a Revisitas Biomédicas: Redacción y Edición para Publicación Biomédica (Spanish, 2003 edition) PDF
Requisitos Uniformes para los Manuscritos Enviados a las Revistas Biomédicas: Muestra de Referencias (Spanish, 2003 edition) PDF
English version appears at www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
Requisitos uniformes para originais submetidos a revistas biomédicas
(Portugese, 2003 edition)
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
(Chinese, 2000 edition)
Exigences uniformes pour les manuscrits présentés aux revues biomédicales
(French, 2000 edition)
International committee of medical journal editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals (Russian, 1997 edition)
Office of Research Integrity
Working Definition of Plagiarism
Analysis of Institutional Policies for Responding to Allegations of Scientific Misconduct
Copyediting‘s recommended resources for editors
Editors’ Organizations
Associations and societies for editors
A professional organization of copyeditors (mostly those who work for news organizations), dedicated to improving the quality of journalism and the working lives of journalists. Its stated purpose is “to educate our members–and others in the news business–in ways of improving the standards of copy editing and increasing the value the news industry places on our craft.”
The Bay Area Editors’ Forum is an association of in-house and freelance editors from a variety of publishing and publications settings, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It acts as a job clearinghouse, and provides useful documents that describe what editors do.
A nationwide association for editors working in Canada. From its Web site: “We can put you in touch with 1,800 other editors across the country, offer you discounts on training opportunities and resources, help you connect with clients and employers, and give you opportunities to develop your skills.” It offers a full certification in copyediting and proofreading.
The Web site of this New York-based organization, which merged in 2000 with the Freelance Editorial Association, includes job listings and fee guidelines for freelancers.
San Diego/PEN hosts meetings for members on editorial topics and connects those offering editing and writing services with potential clients.
Groups, Forums, and E-mail lists
Ways for copyeditors to talk with each other by e-mail or on the Web
Frequently asked questions (and answers) from the newsgroup alt.usage.english.
The archives of the busy mailing list copyediting-L, dedicated to discussions of copyediting issues.
A discussion group on the social-networking site Linked In.
A forum moderated by Phillip Blanchard, oriented to newspaper copyeditors. In addition to issues of style and usage, workplace issued are discussed.
Online Dictionaries and Other Reference Works
A selection of general and special-subject dictionaries available online
Free online dictionary and thesaurus. The site licenses Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary and The American Heritage Dictionary, 4th edition.
The Double-Tongued Dictionary site is maintained by the lexicographer Grant Barrett, who focuses on slang, jargon, and new words.
Short articles in this revered encyclopedia can be accessed free; longer articles are available by subscription only.
A free site that combines Columbia and Oxford titles with lesser-known ones.
A searchable database of entries in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition. For the current (11th) edition, you must pay for a subscription. Search a thesaurus, a Spanish-English dictionary, and a medical dictionary here, too.
A newsletter about The Oxford English Dictionary. Access to the online edition of the dictionary itself, which includes updates from the 3rd edition as it is being compiled, is by subscription only. Check your local library to see whether it has access.
A new site currently in development, offering a mix of traditional definitions (from The American Heritage Dictionary, 4th edition), examples culled from the Web, and a wiki.
Links to more than 500 dictionaries in more than 140 languages. The site licenses Webster’s New World dictionary, and is a good source of special-subject lexicons.
Online Manuals and Guides to Style and Grammar
Official sites of well-known resources, plus some less famous favorites
The 10th edition of the chief resource for medical editors, The AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors, is available online by subscription.
The Associated Press Stylebook is available online by subscription. Subscribers receive e-mails when the style is updated, and can customize the Stylebook to create their own online style manual.
Questions and answers about the most widely used style manual in North America. The Q & A archive is also integrated into The Chicago Manual of Style Online, available only to subscribers.
Advice on grammar and style from Jack Lynch, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. The advice leans toward the cautious (see the entry on split infinitives), but the explanations are straightforward and easy to understand.
The Gregg Reference Manual contains advice for business writers and a helpful glossary of grammatical terms. The 10th edition is available online by subscription.
Author Diana Hacker gives four styles of documentation—humanities, social sciences, history, and science—on one site.
The U.S. Government Printing Office Manual of Style is available free as unformatted text or in PDFs.
Favorite Resources
A selection of reliable resources to bookmark for fact checking
Overviews of most of the pertinent facts about countries of the world, updated frequently.
Great advice for freelancers from Katharine O’Moore-Klopf.
This page on the site maintained by the Council of Science Editors has links to favorite resources.
An alphabetical list of about 3,000 trademarks, provided by the International Trademark Association.
The New York Times “Newsroom Navigator” is an extensive list of resources for reporters and editors, including many that are useful for fact checking.
Submit your questions to Barbara Wallraff, syndicated columnist, author, and editor emeritus of Copyediting newsletter.
Blogs
Favorite blogs by copyeditors, language mavens, and linguists
Now a blog written by Merrill Perlman, former chief of copy desks for The New York Times. Archives of past Language Corner articles are here, too.
Keep up with what the linguists are arguing about on this blog that’s nothing if not opinionated.
The blog begun by Bill Walsh, national desk copy chief at The Washington Post, back before the rest of us knew what a blog was. Walsh is the author of The Elephants of Style and Lapsing into a Comma.
The blog begun by John McIntyre when he was copy desk chief at The Baltimore Sun, now at Blogspot (and now featuring the serial comma).
Training for Copyeditors
Courses and programs for professional development
University of California, San Diego – Extension offers a copyediting certificate program that can be completed online in 12 to 15 months of part-time study.
Societies
Societies dedicated to subjects of interest to language lovers
Founded in 1889, the American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it.
The Dictionary Society of North America was formed in 1975 to bring together people interested in dictionary making, study, collection, and use. Its more than 400 members who live in 40 countries around the world include people working on dictionaries, academics who engage in research and writing about dictionaries, dictionary collectors, librarians, booksellers, translators, linguists, publishers, writers, collectors, journalists, and people with an avocational interest in dictionaries.
SPELL is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the preservation of the English language. SPELL members receive the bimonthly newsletter SPELL/Binder.
