What Is Acceptable

Papers written before an individual came to WFUSM are included if they are published after the author's hire date.  Papers published after the individual has left WFUSM are included if the research was carried on while the individual was at WFUSM.

The following items, published in the current fiscal year (July 1 through June 30), are acceptable. (If you aren't sure whether a particular item is acceptable, please submit it.)

• monographs
• medical or scientific articles and papers, such as those published in journals
• papers presented at meetings that have been published other than in the program for the meeting
• abstracts covering scientific or medical presentations prepared for scientific or medical societies that have been published, for example in a journal
• editorials with medical or scientific contributions
• letters to the editor or replies to letters to the editor
• book reviews
• questions and answers
• signed obituaries
• copyrighted audiovisuals and computer software
• patents

What Is Not Acceptable

• nonscientific materials, such as articles in the Atlantic Monthly or the Wall Street Journal
• general editorials
• letters to the editor not containing original contributions
• unsigned obituaries
• abstracts of papers presented at meetings, printed in the program
• exhibits, unless published in a journal
• references in programs
• introduction of a speaker
• translations of articles previously accepted
• condensations of published materials appearing in digest-type publications and not prepared by the author or authors
• unpublished bibliographies
• items "in press"
• errata