Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
In January 1978 a group of editors from some major biomedical journals published in English met in Vancouver, British Columbia, and decided on uniform technical requirements for manuscripts to be submitted to their journals. These requirements, including formats for bibliographic references developed for the Vancouver group by the National Library of Medicine, were published in 1979. The Vancouver group evolved into the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Over the years, the group has revised the requirements slightly; this is the fourth edition.
