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Start SubmissionThe British Student Doctor Journal aims to be a high-quality, peer-reviewed, open access, medical student-led academic journal, with a UK focus. We aim to foster academic discussion, innovation, critical thought and reflection, and to have an impact on clinical practice. We are a novel journal, in that we are primarily written, edited and peer-reviewed by students, for students. All articles published in The British Student Doctor Journal must be original, rigorous, important and relevant to medical students and clinical practice. We encourage UK-based medical students to publish in The British Student Doctor Journal, however studying at a UK medical school is not a compulsory requirement as long as the article is of relevance to UK medical students. A description of the article types that we publish, as well as the specific requirements for each section are detailed below. Please note that there are no processing or authorship charges for publication in The British Student Doctor Journal.
These will normally be written by the editorial team, or invited guest writers. We do not accept unsolicited editorials.
The 'Life' section of The British Student Doctor Journal aims to publish academic essays which stimulate discussion, reflection, and promote the ethos of life-long learning. These articles should be situated in the existing academic literature, but will provide authors the freedom to develop and express their own ideas and opinions, in order to foster critical thought and discussion.
Discussion Starters
Education
Reflections
Correspondence
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx) format.
A cover page has been provided containing: the article’s full title, all author details, accurate word count, declaration of any conflicts of interest, authorship and originality statements, and an abstract of maximum 300 words (reflections and correspondence do not require an abstract).
Please see our author guidelines for more details.The article for submission must not be blinded, as per our open peer review process - please see our website for more details.
Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.
All authors qualify as authors, as per the authorship guidelines, and have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper.
Copyright for articles published in the journal is held by The British Student Doctor Journal.
Authors are required to complete a copyright assignment form, available here. The form specifies that authors must seek to obtain permission for publication of any content for which they do not already own the copyright, before submission of the manuscript.
The content of The British Student Doctor Journal is usually made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) licence from Creative Commons. The licence lets others distribute the work in its original form as long as they credit the author(s) of the work.
Authors of articles in The British Student Doctor Journal may request that their work is published under a CC-BY 4.0 (Attribution) licence instead. If this is the case, then please contact the Editor-in-Chief (editorinchief@thesdj.org.uk) at the time of acceptance.
For further information about the licences, please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.
For full details of our open access and copyright policies, then please visit our website.This journal is published by Cardiff University Press, a Diamond Open Access publisher. Unlike many Open Access publishers, Cardiff University Press does not charge any author fees.
Fee waivers do not apply at Cardiff University Press because our funding model does not rely on author charges.