Upon Acceptance

• The editor will determine if a manuscript will be accepted. This will be based on its content.
• The editor will send an acceptance letter via email to the corresponding author.  The letter will include a request for signed publication documents..
• The corresponding author may receive a separate email requesting format changes if a formatting issue arises. 
• The publication documents are in downloadable PDF files (Acrobat Reader is available under the "Guideline to Contributors" heading).
• If it has not yet been done previously, one author must be designated as the Guarantor (see Authors, above).
• The Guarantor must sign the Guarantee of Veracity (see Authors, above)
• All authors (including the Guarantor) must sign the appropriate section of the Publication Agreement. Only one section (the more appropriate) should be signed by all authors.  If the material is federally controlled material or the authors are federal employees or working in accordance with the federal government, you must have received permission from the appropriate officials and must sign accordingly in Section “B”
• The Publication Agreement options are:

This article, which has been submitted to Military Medicine, fits the description in the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 of a "U.S. Government Work." The article was written as part of my (our) official duties as a government officer(s) or employee(s). Therefore, it cannot be copyrighted. The article is freely available to you for publication without a copyright notice, and there are no restrictions on its use, now or subsequently. I (we) retain no rights to the article. The author(s) warrants that he/she (they) has (have) no financial interest in the drugs, devices or procedures described in the foregoing article.

Or

In consideration of having reviewed, edited and accepted the above specified article for publication, Military Medicine requests that the author(s) sign a copy of this agreement before publication. Signature(s) will evidence the mutual understanding between Military Medicine and the author(s) in hereby transferring, assigning or otherwise conveying all copyright ownership, including any and all rights incidental thereto, exclusively to Military Medicine. The author(s) warrant(s) that he/she (they) is (are) the author(s) and sole owner(s) of the work submitted; that it is original and has never been published; and that the author(s) has (have) full power to grant such rights. In addition, the author(s) hereby grant(s) to Military Medicine the right to edit, revise, abridge, condense and translate this work. The author(s) warrant(s) that he/she (they) has (have) no financial interest in the drugs, devices or procedures described in the foregoing article.

• Signed documents can be scanned and emailed to Milmed@amsus.org, or mailed or faxed to

Military Medicine
9320 Old Georgetown Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
(Fax) (301) 530-5446

• The official manuscript number and article name is required on all publication documents.  The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining all author signatures and forwarding them to the journal office. 
• The signed publication documents and requested format changes are due within 15 days of the acceptance letter.  Please notify the journal office if there will be a delay in their submission.  Any accepted manuscripts without the necessary signed publication agreements will be withdrawn from the submission process after 60 days and will require submitting it anew.
• A publication date will be set once the requested changes and signed publication documents have been received.