Journals and diabetes care

Use the following to access and submit articles about diabetes care to leading journals. You can also register with journals to receive email alerts about their latest publications and content.

Journals are a great way to learn about how others are improving diabetes care in the UK and across the world. Publishing your improvement and learning through journals can also help others drive change, reduce variations in care and improve the lives of people with diabetes. 

UK diabetes journals

• Diabetic Medicine; Wiley Online Library - First Basic Science Special Issue (subscribe, login required)

• Diabetic Medicine, Wiley Online Library website (subscribe, login required)

• Journal of Diabetes Nursing website (free, login required)

• Diabetes and Primary Care website (free, login required)

• Practical Diabetes website (free, login required)

• The British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Disease website (free)

• Diabetes Digest website (free, login required)

• The BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care website (free)

• The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology website (subscribe, login required)

• The Diabetic Foot Journal website (free, login required)

• Diabetes Care for Children and Young People website (free, login required)

Other UK journals

• The BMJ Journals website (free)

• Future Hospital Journal, Royal College of Physicians website (free)

• Oxford University Press Journals website (subscribe, login required)

International diabetes journals

• Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice website (subscribe, login required)

• American Diabetes Association Journals website (subscribe/limited free article access, login required)

• The Diabetes Educator, American Association of Diabetes Educators website (subscribe, log in required)

• Primary Care Diabetes website (subscribe/limited free access, login required)

• International Diabetes Nursing, Maney Online website (subscribe, login required)

• Journal of Diabetes and its Complications website (subscribe/limited free article access, login required)

• Diabetes Voice, International Diabetes Federation website

• Journal of Diabetes Research, Hindawi website (free)

• International Journal of Endocrinology, Hindawi website (free)

Search engines and databases

• Diabetes on the Net website

• Wiley Online Library website

• Zetoc website

• Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) website

• Connecting Repositories (CORE) website

• The Knowledge Network, Open Athens, NHS Education for Scotland website

Information and guidance for publishing

• Standards for quality improvement reporting excellence (SQUIRE 2.0 guidelines), SQUIRE website

• Writing for an academic journal: 10 tips, The Guardian website

• How to get published in an academic journal: top tips from editors, The Guardian website

• Overcoming writer's block: three tips, The Guardian website

• Guidance for newly qualified doctors to get published, The BMJ website