Submissions

 

Author Guidelines

The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History accepts manuscripts in English and in French.  All submitted articles undergo a rigorous peer review process by two experts in the field before being accepted for publication.  Submitted articles must not be under simultaneous review by another journal.

Authors are requested to ensure manuscripts conform to the following format. 

  • Do not exceed 9,000 words, including endnotes.
  • Use Times New Roman font in 12 point.  Double-space all text, endnotes, and quotations.
  • Include a separate cover sheet with contact information.  Ensure that your name does not appear in headers or footers in your actual paper.
  • Include an abstract of no more than 100 words plus four keywords.

Please submit manuscript, cover sheet, and abstract in electronic form by e-mail attachment to Kristin Burnett (submissions@cbmh-bchm.ca)    

STYLE GUIDE

To answer questions about style and usage in the CBMH, please refer to The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Editing. Spelling generally follows the Concise Oxford Dictionary. To ensure that the copy conforms to editorial practice, the editors retain final authority in matters of style.  

TEXT 

  • Use Times New Roman font in 12 point, including the endnotes. Integrate quotations of five lines or less into the text and enclose within double quotation marks. Type quotations of more than six lines in a double spaced block format in Times New Roman 10 point.  Quotation marks are not needed.
  • Use the italic font rather than underlining or bold for emphasis.  Use bold only in subheadings and never in the main text. Clearly distinguish different levels of subheadings, and be consistent in this usage. 
  • Indicate omissions in quoted material by three ellipsis points. Modifications of the original quotation or any words inserted by the author are enclosed in square brackets. The use or form of original words is demonstrated by [sic]. 
  • Do not translate quotations in English or French. Quotations from other languages must be translated into the language of the manuscript. 
  • Use appropriate titles or captions for tables, graphs, and figures and use Arabic numbers to number them. Indicate the source immediately below. 
  • Spell out numbers under 10. Use the percentage sign with numerals (46.5%). Dates are shown as follows: the 1960s; 14 September 1979; the 19th century. 

NOTES

 

  • Use the “insert reference” function in your word processing program to create endnotes (not footnotes).  Indicate notes by superscript Arabic numbers in the text (e.g., according to the author.3) Note that endnote indicators in the text usually appear outside the punctuation. 
  • Place acknowledgments at the end of the article under the heading “Acknowledgments” preceding the “Notes.” 
  • Identify the source of each separate quotation with its own note; please do not “bundle” citations into a single note at the end of the paragraph. 
  • Document every quotation in full, according to the style preferred by the CBMH (see below). 
  • Please provide:

- Full first names and middle initial(s) for authors and editors

- Subtitles of books and articles

- Full names of foreign journals cited

- The name of the publisher for books published after 1900

- For newspaper articles, the author, title of article, and page numbers if available

- Exact and inclusive page numbers for all quotations

  • For second citations of the same reference, use author’s last name, a shortened version of the title, and page number.  Do not use “Ibid.”

EXAMPLES

  1. Antonio Drolet, “Les ouvrages de médecine à la residence des Jésuites de Québec 1632-1798,” Laval Médical, 22 (1957): 688-99.
  2. Jacalyn Duffin, Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), p. 135.
  3. Drolet, “Les ouvrages de médecine,” p. 690.
  4. Duffin, Langstaff, p. 87-88.
  5. Jacques Bernier, “Le corps medical québécois à la fin du XVIIIe siècle,” in Charles G. Roland, ed., Health, Disease and Medicine: Essays in Canadian History (Toronto: Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, 1984), p. 36-64.
  6. Dianne Dodd and Deborah Gorham, eds., Caring and Curing: Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1994).
  7. Library and Archives Canada (LAC), Gordon Murray Papers, MG 30, B 110, Vol. 29, General Correspondence 1959-67, File 10.
  8. LAC, MG 30 B 110, Vol 29, File 10.
  9. “Dr. Locke Clinic Will Carry On,” Ottawa Journal, 10 February 1942, p. 7.
  10. “Medical Conservatism,” Globe (Toronto), 27 August 1875, p. 2.
  11. Robert L. Sullivan, “Controversy and Constraint, Consolidation and Conviction: Quebec’s Community Health Centre Network, 1970-1992,” paper presented at Canadian Society for the History of Medicine meeting, University of Calgary, June 1994.
  12. Kathryn McPherson, “Skilled Service and Women’s Work: Canadian Nursing, 1920-1939,” PhD thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1990. 

 

For more complex references, see The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Editing.  

 

ILLUSTRATIONS

  • Use the table formatting facilities of your word processor to set up tables. 
  • Supply charts or graphics for publication as separate Encapsulated PostScript files.
  • Supply images as either JPEG or TIFF files, minimum 4.5 inches wide, at a resolution of 300 dpi. 
  • Indicate the approximate placement of all illustrations in the text. Provide captions for all tables and photographs. Credit the original source.

PERMISSIONS 

  • Be prepared to send copies of letters granting permission to reprint illustrations.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

 

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