Getting Published Guide

Table of Contents: Authorship: 0:25; Structure of a case report: 3:10; Patient consent and anonymity: 4:21; Citing references: 6:06; Writing tips: 7:30; Finding journals: 7:56; Keeping track of your work: 11:11; Resources 11:37.

Additional Resources

EndNote: https://guides.med.ucf.edu/endnote

Grammerly: https://www.grammarly.com/

Searching PubMed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cef0urBGdRA&t=39s

Think.Check.Submit: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/

CARE Guidelines: https://www.care-statement.org/checklist

List of potential patient identifiers: https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1745-6215-11-9/tables/1

Scroll down for a list of journals that accept case reports.

Journals that Accept Case Reports

BMJ Case Reports accepts clinical case reports in a wide range of specialties is discoverable in PubMed, and peer reviewed. To publish for free in BMJ Case Reports, please contact the library for the fellowship code. Please do not post or share the code.

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine is an open access journal that does not charge fees. Though it is not indexed in MEDLINE, articles are discoverable in PubMed.
 

Journals that Accept Case Reports Table

There are over 700 journals listed below that accept case reports, are indexed in MEDLINE and discoverable in PubMed, as of January 1, 2023. The journals should be free for authors, though some journals charge for color images. If a journal charges author fees, other than color charges, please report the journal to Terri.Gotschall@ucf.edu. The table is searchable, by clicking on the magnifying glass.