Documentation Mini Process.

In the preparation of any paper, there will be difficulty in formatting both
the document and indeed your thoughts. Think of the way the paper is laid out as
framework for both of these processes.

The main objective is that there is consistency in the way all papers are written
and this can be an aid to the author, but more often that not allows the reader 
to find information with the minimum of effort.

There are three elements to most academic papers, the 3 Rs; Research, wRiting and 
Referencing. Each is a distinct stage and not always in the above order. Research 
is the process of collecting, compiling and drawing conclusions. The science 
behind research can be quite daunting, but some basic introductions to statistics 
BMJ website and Edvidence Base Medicine may 
be a good grounding. 

Writing is very much down to the style of the author, but each publication will 
have a required format. At Remote Medics we will be looking for something like 
the following.

Title

This is self explanatory, what is the document called.

Authorship

Who researched and wrote the paper, your affiliations and contact details of at 
least one for comments and feedback.

Introduction

A brief outline of what you will be discussing

Methods

How the study was compiled, how you selected your research etc

Discussion/Main body

This is the majority of the work.

Conclusion

A brief summary of the research and whether it met it’s objectives

References

Throughout the text, any assumption, statistic, inclusion, chart or other 
externally derived object should be referenced to it’s original source. There are 
different styles used in the citation of references and we would prefer the use 
of Vancouver or Harvard   Citation styles 

A good starting point for medical papers is PubMed If you want full text copies of the 
paper, you will either need to be a subscriber to the source journal or pay for 
the individual article.

If you want to perform a research activity on a regular basis, a citation 
management package is an invaluable tool for the searching, collation and recall 
of references.

Peer review

We will perform a very basic process based on the following steps.

1 Initial contact

Drop an email to editor@remotemedics.co.uk advising of the subject of your paper, 
the file size and the size (zipped is preferable)

2 Submission

You will be sent back a reply as to whether this will be considered for inclusion 
along with either a weblink or an email address for sending the paper over to us.

3 Review

The paper will be reviewed by three parties and if a minimum of two are in agreement, 
this will then be queued for upload and indexing to the site.

We will not include material if it is subject to another parties copyright, is not 
correctly referenced or contains material errors. Any such gaps will be identified 
and then returned to the author for comment or correction.

Further to this, a slower process will include the reformatting and review of 
material submitted prior to this.