Skip Navigation

Information for Authors

The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences publishes work relating to all aspects of the history of medicine and of the various sciences impinging on it. Manuscripts not exceeding 15,000 words (45 pages) are invited.

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts should be submitted online. Once you have prepared your manuscript according to the instructions, please visit the online submission web site. Instructions on submitting your manuscript online can be viewed here.

At the time of manuscript submission, the author(s) will disclose any financial arrangements pertinent to the research that might create the appearance of bias. All sources of research support and/or involvement in litigation as an expert witness should be listed in a letter to the editor. If no conflict of interest exists, this should be stated also.

Place an abstract (up to 200 words) after the title. Provide 6-10 key words for indexing.

Do not justify right margins. Type quoted material of sixty words or more double-spaced, each line indented left five characters, and without quotation marks. Run shorter quotations into the text using double quotes. Commas and periods always appear within end quotes. Write dates as 2 January 1997 without punctuation; years are written 1861-1865. Use 1860s, not 1860's.

Type footnotes double-spaced on pages following the end of the text. Use consecutive superior numbers placed after the end-mark of punctuation for footnote references; in the notes themselves type the numbers on the line in indented paragraph form. Include any acknowledgments and disclaimers in an initial unnumbered footnote. Abbreviate journal names in the style used by the National Library of Medicine in the Index Medicus. A second citation of the same source, if immediately following, is Ibid.; if other footnotes intervene, use the author's last name, short title, and (for quotations) page number. Use inclusive page numbers for journal articles and book chapters: 3-17, 23-26, 100-103, 104-7, 124-28, 1115-20. For classical citations, give all bibliographic data at first citation; for all subsequent citations, give author and short title. Authors are solely responsible for the accuracy of citations. Follow the examples below for citations:

  1. J. S. Haldane, Organism and Environment as Illustrated by the Physiology of Breathing (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1917), 99.
  2. Ibid., 105.
  3. Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1925), II, 865.
  4. E. H. DuBois-Reymond and Carl Ludwig, Two Great Scientists of the Nineteenth Century: Correspondence of Emil Dubois-Reymond and Carl Ludwig, comp. Estelle DuBois-Reymond, ed. Paul Diepgen, trans. Sabin Lichtner-Ayed, ed. Paul Cranefield (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982), 60-61.
  5. Haldane, Organism and Environment, 99-102.
  6. Cushing, Osler, II, 542-49.
  7. Leila Jackson and J. J. Moore, "Studies on Experimental Scurvy in Guinea Pigs," J. Infect. Dis., 1916, 19, 478-510, 485.
  8. C. M. Jackson to G. S. Ford, 8 November 1917, folder 32, Guy Stanton Ford Correspondence, University of Minnesota Archives, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  9. Jackson and Moore, "Experimental Scurvy."

The most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style published by the University of Chicago Press should be consulted for materials not covered here.

Please note: This journal does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents at this time. Please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document as an older (.doc) file type. Manuscripts should be prepared accurately, consistently, and simply, avoiding the use of special fonts or elaborate formatting for aesthetics. Paragraphs should be formatted the same way throughout.

FUNDING

Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section.

The following rules should be followed:

  • The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
  • The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health’ or simply 'National Institutes of Health', not 'NCI' (one of the 27 subinstitutions) or ‘NCI at NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) .
  • Grant numbers should be complete and accurate and provided in parentheses as follows: ‘(grant number xxxx)’
  • Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘(grant numbers xxxx, yyyy)’
  • Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
  • Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'

An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (P50 CA098252 and CA118790 to R.B.S.R.) and the Alcohol & Education Research Council (HFY GR667789).’

Oxford Journals will deposit all NIH-funded articles in PubMed Central. See http://www.oxfordjournals.org/for_authors/repositories.html for details. Authors must ensure that manuscripts are clearly indicated as NIH-funded using the guidelines above.

COPYRIGHT

Authors are reminded that unpublished materials are protected by common-law copyright without duration and are not covered by the fair use doctrine. Permission to publish such material and to quote beyond fair use from copyrighted material, regardless of authorship, is the responsibility of the author. Submit written permission with the manuscript. It will be returned if the manuscript is not accepted. It is a condition of publication in the journal that authors grant an exclusive license to Oxford university Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. As part of the license agreement, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication and Oxford University Press as the publisher.

Download the Copyright Form(PDF).

OFFPRINTS

Authors are urged to order offprints prior to publication to cover anticipated needs; reordering after the issue has been published is considerably more expensive. Offprints are ordered in increments of 50 by filling out the offprint order form, which should be returned to the Journal office with the page-galley proofs.

Download the Offprint Form(PDF).

FIGURES

Black and white illustrations are allowed without charge. The page size is 4 x 7 inches, but space must be left for legends. High resolution electronic files and any necessary permissions are requested upon submission.

PERMISSIONS FOR ILLUSTRATIONS AND FIGURES

Permission to reproduce copyright material, for print and online publication in perpetuity, must be cleared and if necessary paid for by the author; this includes applications and payments to DACS, ARS, and similar licensing agencies where appropriate. Evidence in writing that such permissions have been secured from the rights-holder must be made available to the editors. It is also the author's responsibility to include acknowledgements as stipulated by the particular institutions. Oxford Journals can offer information and documentation to assist authors in securing print and online permissions: please see the Guidelines for Authors section. Information on permissions contacts for a number of main galleries and museums can also be provided. Should you require copies of this, please contact the editorial office of the journal in question or the Oxford Journals Rights department.

AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING/PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY FROM MAY 2005

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.