Objective To describe content arrangement and format of scientific manuscripts published in Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine (JEOM) in 1984-2014.
Methods Thirty-one scientific manuscripts published in JEOM in 1984-2014 were selected, one for each year. Page header and footnote, abstract, main body, table and figure, and reference were analyzed.
Results In the publications included, no page header was printed in 1987. The page header texts were printed in the footnote position in 1988 and 1989 and was only available in the first page of the manuscript in 1984-1986 and 1990-1997. The page headers were different between odd page and even page in 1998-2001. New standard layout was applied in 2002-2014, which required same page header in odd or even pages. New standard layout of footnote was applied in 2010-2014. Abstracts were first printed in 1993. Chinese and English abstracts and keywords have been required since 1995. The structure of abstracts has covered objective, methods, results, and conclusion since 1998. The layouts of title, abstract, and keywords were unified in 2001-2014, but were different in other published years. References were cited in the introduction of the manuscripts in 2000-2014. The structure of the literatures was unified in 1995-2014. Except for 2000 and 2004, statistical description was included in 1997-2014. The titles and contents of tables or figures were published in bilingual format (Chinese and English) in 2007-2014. The format of reference was unified in 1991-2014.
Conclusion The layout and format design of scientific manuscripts published in JEOM is meeting relevant standards from the first day of publication, which facilitates the standardization and normalization of presentation of medical journals.
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