Suggestions to medical writers / by George M. Gould.

  • George M. Gould
Date:
1900
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Credit: Suggestions to medical writers / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VII. RULES FOR EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS OF MEDICAL JOURNALS.1 By H. O. HALL, Library, Surgeon-General's Office, U. S. A. It is well known to all writers for periodicals that cer¬ tain rules are laid down by editors and publishers, which must be observed by authors if they expect to have their contributions accepted and published. These rules are very just and proper, and no one questions the right of the editor to reject manuscripts which do not conform to the rules laid down. I am not aware, however, that any one has ever had the temerity to suggest the importance of laying down certain rules for the government of the editors and publishers themselves. They have a happy-go-lucky way of editing and publishing their journals according to the dictates of their own consciences, and no one dares to. say them nay. That there is very great need for the es¬ tablishment of some good, wholesome and uniform rules for the government of this independent and aristocratic class of public benefactors, I think I can clearly demonstrate. The sins which they commit are numerous, and yet I am sure they are more the result of thoughtlessness and care¬ lessness than of pure viciousness. They have a great deal to answer for, however, and if they do not repent and turn from their evil ways I am afraid that in the world to come they will have ample cause to regret their misdeeds in the society of librarians whose hopes of future happiness they were the means of wrecking, unconsciously no doubt, but none the less surely. 1 Republished by the courtesy of the Author from the Philadelphia Medical Journal of December 30, 1899.
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