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Submission Guidelines“Medicina & Storia” is a peer-reviewed journal with an international board. It is

published twice a year in English, French and Italian. Submitted articles, which must not have been previously published, should be sent in .doc format to the editor-in-chief: patrizia.guarnieri@unifi.it, along with a summary (150 words) and a biography (max 900 characters) . The publisher reserves the copyright.

Editorial Guidelines for Authors

Title and format of the textThe title and author’s complete name are to be written in lower case. To ensure that

the peer-review process is double- blind, no indication of the author’s identity should appear in the submission. All articles, except for book reviews and notices, must be preceded by a title and a 150-word Summary, both written in English. The text is to be subdivided with unnumbered section titles in italics. At the end of the main body of the text, please provide 3 or 4 keywords in English as well as a brief running head. Book reviews and notices are to adhere to the following forma t: name and surname of the author of the book under review in capital letters, the book’s title, place of publica-tion, publisher, year of publication, total pages (eg: 336 pp.). At the end of the review, the reviewer’s name and surname appear in lower case.

Biographical NotesEvery author must provide a biographical note (maximum 175 words) for the sec-

tion on contributors. Please provide the following: surname followed by name, spe-cialization, areas of research and major publications, place of work and e-mail address along with an authorization to publish it. The editorial office reserves the right to make necessary changes.

LengthThe length of articles, including notes, should not, as a general rule, exceed 10.000

words; book reviews are approximately 1.000 words in length and should convey a criti-cal evaluation of the book, whereas the notices are briefer and merely descriptive. Texts for the section “Note e documenti” should not exceed 5.500 words and may be written with or without notes. The editor reserves the right to establish further specifications with the agreement of the authors.

Indentation of paragraphsIndent each new paragraph.

CapitalsAbide by the following examples for the use of capitalization, seeking to limit their

use as much as possible: state, region, province, parliament, Health board, minister of Health, professor, director etc.

* These guidelines were enacted beginning with the 2011 issue.

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Quotations and quotation marksQuotations are to be indicated by double quotation marks; long quotations, howe-

ver, should be inset without using quotation marks. To indicate omissions within quoted passages, use three dots within square brackets […]. Figurative usage is to be indicated by placing the words in single quotes ‘ ’.

ItalicsItalics are to be used in the designation of words in foreign languages and words

that the author wishes to emphasize. Bold script is never to be used.

Spelling and accent marksFor submissions in English, use British spellings, eg, labour, travelled, appendices,

towards. However, use ‘z’ spellings instead of ‘s’ in verbs created from nouns, eg, ‘stan-dardize’ not ‘standardise’, except for ‘analyse’. In using foreign words, please observe the correct application of accent marks.

AbbreviationsPlease observe the following conventions: [a.n.] author’s note; [ed.] editor’s note;

[t.n.] translator’s note; art., arts. (article, articles); ch., chs. (chapter, chapters); cf. (compare, see); cit. (cited); eg (for example); et al. (and others); fig., figs. (figure, figu-res); Ibidem (in italics, same place or page, used in bibliographic references); Id. or Ead. (no italics); Ivi (no italics, same place but different page); misc. (miscellanea); no., nos. (number, numbers); unnum. (unnumbered); n., nn. (note, notes); p., pp. (page, pages); par., pars. (paragraph, paragraphs); n.d. (no date, generally used with regard to editions); n.p. (no place, no publisher); cent. (century); ff. (and following); It. trns. (Italian translation etc.); vol., vols. (volume, volumes).

Dashes and hyphenationDashes used to set off a word or words should be preceded and followed by a space

– as done here – and without confusing the dash for the shorter hyphen. Words with the following prefixes will generally be spelled solid: anti, co, counter, extra, inter, intra, macro, micro, multi, non, over, post, pre, pro, pseudo, psycho, re, semi, socio, sub, trans. Compound adjectives will generally be hyphenated if they precede the noun: eg, short-term fix, nineteenth-century composer, decision-making authority.

Tables, captions for illustrations, charts, graphs, and photographs

Images must be in PDF, EPS, TIFF, or PNG formats, in high resolution (300 dpi), but not larger than 12x18 cm. Color images will be printed in black and white. Number them consecutively with Arabic numerals and send each one as a separate file, indica-ting where they are to be inserted. The author is responsible for obtaining permission to publish photographs or reproductions of manuscripts.

Web addressesReferences to websites, email addresses, or web portals should be neither under-

lined nor written in italics: redazione@medstoria.it (not redazione@medstoria.it); www.medstoria.it (not www.medstoria.it).

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FootnotesIn the text, indicate explanatory and bibliographic notes with consecutive Arabic

numerals in superscript, placed before the punctuation. The notes should appear as footnotes at the bottom of each page.

Format for bibliographic citationsBibliographic references must adhere precisely to the following format and orde-

ring of the elements: Author’s first name (the first time a reference is made, give the author’s complete first name; thereafter abbreviate with an initial) then surname, title of the work in italics, place of publication, name of the publisher, and year of publica-tion. Separate each element of the citation with a comma and place a period at the end. No form of bibliographic reference within the main body of the text is permitted; all references must be provided within the footnotes.

Spacing: after the abbreviations insert one space (p. 20, not p.20, and F. Basaglia, not F.Basaglia); in the case of double names, do not insert a space between the initials (C.M. Martini, not C. M. Martini).

Examples of how works should be cited the first time:

A book: Furio Jesi, Cultura di destra, Milano, Garzanti, 1993, p. 7. (or pp. 7-9; or pp. 7 ff. )

A collection of essays: Simone Botti, Il trattamento della follia nel morocomio veneziano di San Servolo

(1840-1860): cura fisica e cura morale, in Riccardo Panattoni (ed.), Lo sguardo psichiatrico. Studi e materiali dalle cartelle cliniche tra Otto e Novecento, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2009, pp. 258-268.

An edited book: Giovanni Jervis (a cura di), Il secolo della psicoanalisi, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri,

1999.

Always indicate the editor according to the original language of pubblicazione: (a cura di), (sous la direction de), (ed. or eds.), (herausgegeben von).

An article in a journal or magazine: Anne Hardy, Rickets and the rest: child-care, diet and the infectious children’s disea-

ses, 1850-1915, “Social History of Medicine”, V, 3, 1992, pp. 389-412.

The titles of periodicals (journals, newspapers etc.) are placed within double quo-tation marks “”, followed by the volume number in Roman numerals, the issue num-ber in Arabic numerals, and then the year of publication.

Example of a citation of a previously cited work: Previously cited works: repeat the initial of the author’s first name, surname, a

recognizably abbreviated form of the title, a comma followed by the abbreviation “cit.”, and when appropriate an indication of the pages consulted.

F. Jesi, Cultura di destra, cit., p. 12.

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Authors may use ‘ivi’ to indicate the same work as cited in the immediately prece-ding note, and when appropriate give the page consulted (ivi, p.12). This should only be done in the case of a single work and only its use will not create confusion. The abbreviation cit., following the title of a work, should not be in italics. nor should the adverb ivi; however italics should be used for: et al., ibidem, passim, supra and infra. The use of ibidem is restricted to cases in which the same page of the same work as in the immediately preceding note is being indicated. When citing the same author as in the previous note, do not repeat the name; instead, use Id. for a man’s name, and Ead. for a woman’s.

Format for archival citationsAt the first appearance, write out in full the entire name of the archive followed by

parentheses containing the abbreviation to be used in all successive citations:Archivio centrale dello stato (Acs), Mi Gab, 1964-66, b. 130, f. 13299/8 South Carolina Historical society (Schs), Cheves-Middleton Papers, Alicia Hopton

to Eweretta Barnewall Middleton, Paris, 25 July 1836, unnum. fol. 2r.

Referees

All submissions will be double blind reviewed by at least two referees, who are always external in the case of essays. These evaluations will be furnished to the authors along with the editor’s decision (accepted, rejected, or revise and resubmit) within three months of receipt of the submission.

Correction of the proofs

Proofs for making typographic corrections will be sent to the author in an electro-nic format .pdf, along with instructions for making corrections. The corrected proofs must be returned within the period indicated (usually 7 days).

Corrections should be limited to the amendment of mistakes and modifications to the text must be kept to a minimum; if instead the author makes substantial changes at the proof stage, he or she will be charged a fine.

The editorial office reserves the right to impose corrections on the text when necessary. Authors will receive the exrtract of their article in .pdf format upon its publication.

Authors wishing to submit a text to Medicina & Storia should send the text to the editor in chief: patrizia.guarnieri@unifi.itCommunications with the editorial office may addressed to Matteo Fiorani: matteofiorani@tiscali.it