The Lancet Respiratory Medicine considers any original research contribution that advocates change in or illuminates clinical practice and informative reviews on any topic connected with respiratory medicine and critical care. Because the journal has an international readership from a wide range of specialties, it is vital that articles should be written clearly and should not assume a level of knowledge above that of, say, a reasonably well-read, recently qualified, doctor in training. One way to find out if your article is understandable to those reading outside their immediate field of interest is to show the manuscript to colleagues in other specialties. If they find it difficult to follow, so will a good proportion of the readership. Wherever possible, figures and good quality photographs (colour or black and white) should be used to supplement and to enhance the text. Further details on the different sections of The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, and how to submit to the journal, are provided below. If you require further clarification, the journal’s editorial staff will be pleased to help (email ).
Manuscripts must be solely the work of the author(s) stated, must not have been previously published elsewhere, and must not be under consideration by another journal. The Lancet journals are signatories of the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, issued by the International Committee for Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) code of conduct for editors. We follow COPE's guidelines.
- How to submit your paper
- Statements, permissions, and signatures
- Authors and contributors
- Conflicts of interest
- Role of the funding source
- Role of medical writer or editor
- Patients' consent and permission to publish
- Signatures
- Types of article and manuscript requirements
- Formatting guidelines
- Guidelines for supplementary material
- Disclosure of results before publication
- Fast-track publication
- Online First publication
- How The Lancet Respiratory Medicine handles your paper
- What happens after publication?
Download a PDF version of the full guidelines for authors of The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
LAST UPDATE: April, 2013
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