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Editorials |2 July 2002

Some Changes in Annals

Harold C. Sox, MD, Editor

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The beginning of a new volume of Annals is the occasion to tell readers about the changes that we made during the past 6 months. All of these changes ultimately benefit our readers, if only by making Annals a more attractive place for authors to publish their best work.
Most of these changes will enable us to publish more material without increasing the number of pages in the print version of Annals. We are limited in the number of pages we publish because each page costs about $25 000 per year, a charge that members of the American College of Physicians–American Society of Internal Medicine and our subscribers would support through higher membership dues and subscription fees.
The most important change is one we hope you don't even notice. We have slightly reduced the font size and the space between adjacent lines in order to increase the amount of information on each page. We estimate that this change will enable us to publish the equivalent of about 15 more pages in each issue without increasing our production costs. More pages mean more articles for readers and a shorter wait for authors to see their work in print.
The second change will lead to shorter, more readable articles. We have set page limits that will reduce the length of articles. Few will be longer than 10 Annals pages. Because authors must deal with page limits rather than limits on the number of words in the body of the article, they...
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Sox HC. Some Changes in Annals. Ann Intern Med. 2002;137:55. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-137-1-200207020-00015

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