January 2024
Dear Colleagues,
American Family Physician (AFP) is sharing this Call for Papers to recruit experienced authors for several topics listed below. We continue to encourage experienced authors to mentor a less experienced coauthor from a racial, ethnic, or other group underrepresented in medicine. Authors who can engage in this invaluable mentoring process will still be expected to serve as first and corresponding author. Please note our policy/preference for 3 authors or less per article at https://www.aafp.org/journals/afp/authors.html.
If interested, and to expedite correspondence, lead authors should email their top 3 ranked preferences to afpjournal@aafp.org within the next 2 weeks (by January 15, 2024).
PLEASE NOTE: When expressing interest in a topic, lead authors should provide a list of a few representative publications in the peer-reviewed literature using our Author Credentialing form (available on our website at https://www.aafp.org/journals/afp/authors.html).
We will try to match authors with topics within the next few weeks, and then send formal solicit letters out at intervals over the next few months (January through April), with due dates roughly 3 months from receipt of the solicit letter. If an interested author does not see a suitable topic listed, but would like to write for AFP, please have them email afpjournal@aafp.org and let us know which topics they’d like to write about. We may invite them to write on other topics as they become available.
Preference will be given to authors who have previously published in a peer-reviewed journal, provided high-quality reviews for AFP, who have experience with an evidence-based approach to writing, and who have clinical experience on the topic being discussed. Less experienced authors must have an experienced coauthor who will serve both as lead (first and corresponding) and mentor author.
Manuscripts typically run 1,500–1,800 words with no more than 3 authors. More information for authors is available at https://www.aafp.org/journals/afp/authors.html.
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American Family Physician
Topics for the Call for Papers – January 2024
1. Acute Low Back Pain
2. Cognitive Behavior Therapy—consider video demonstration
3. Colorectal Cancer, screening and prevention
4. Difficult-To-Control or Resistant Hypertension in Adults
5. Disorders of Puberty [Q&A type article]
6. Endometrial Cancer [Rapid Evidence Review]
7. Fingertip Injuries—original photos requested
8. Health Maintenance in Postmenopausal Women
9. Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction, diagnosis and treatment
10. Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction, medical management
11. Heel Pain—original photos requested and consider video of aspect of examination/treatment
12. Intimate Partner Violence
13. Nail Abnormalities, evaluation—original photos requested
14. Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy
15. Late Pregnancy Bleeding (2nd & 3rd trimester)
16. Meningitis
17. Occupational Illness and Injuries
18. Pretravel Consultation
19. Seborrheic Dermatitis—original photos/images requested, including diverse skin tones
20. Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis—original images and consider video of exam [Rapid Evidence Review]
VIDEOS (videos can be created by authors of an article or other authors just interested in creating videos; residents and students can be included in the process)
Thanks for your help with this Call for Papers and all your previous contributions in making AFP the best-read journal in primary care.
Regards and Happy New Year,
Sumi Sexton, MD
Editor in Chief, American Family Physician
Professor
Department of Family Medicine
Georgetown University School of Medicine
AFP email: afpjournal@aafp.org