Society for Medical Anthropology

Medical Anthropology Quarterly (MAQ)

International Journal for the Analysis of Health

 

Medical Anthropology Quarterly: Information for Contributors

• The Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for the Analysis of Health publishes research and theory in the field of medical anthropology. This field is broadly taken to include all inquiries into health, disease, illness, and sickness in human individuals and populations that are undertaken from the holistic and cross-cultural perspective distinctive of anthropology as a discipline, that is, with an awareness of species' biological, cultural, linguistic, and historical uniformity and variation. It encompasses, but is not limited to, studies of ethnomedicine, epidemiology, maternal and child health, population, nutrition, human development in relation to health and disease, health-care providers and services, public health, health policy, and the language and speech of health and health care.
• The journal's purpose is to stimulate debate on and development of ideas and methods in medical anthropology and to explore the relationships of medical anthropology to health practice, the parent discipline of anthropology, and other disciplines concerned with human illness and wellness. To accomplish these ends, the editors particularly welcome theoretical and conceptual articles, as well as those that present the results of theory-based research. Research reviews, reports of applied research, and articles that use the special subject matter of medical anthropology to contribute to central problems in anthropology are also encouraged. Manuscripts that approach health, disease, and illness from a biological, cultural, linguistic, or holistic perspective are considered.
• Medical Anthropology Quarterly publishes articles, review articles, book reviews, and occasional film reviews. Review articles and book and film reviews are solicited by the relevant editor. All manuscript submissions are anonymously refereed by at least three reviewers.

Submitting Your Manuscript

• As of January 2008, all manuscripts must be submitted online through Manuscript Central, a web-based review process and publishing tool used by Wiley-Blackwell, the publisher of Medical Anthropology Quarterly. It can be reached at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/maq. If you do not already have a Manuscript Central account, you will be instructed to create one. Once you have logged in, you will be taken through the submission process.
• If you have difficulty using this system, please contact us at maqsma@wayne.edu.

Abstract and Keywords

• You must submit an abstract (no more than 150 words) and three to five keywords for your manuscript. Because abstracts will be used to attract potential reviewers and readers, they should be carefully thought out and precise. Keywords have a significant impact on how widely read your article will be when electronic searches are done. A structured abstract is encouraged: one sentence each on Objectives, Methods, Results, and Discussion.
• Manuscript Central will prompt you to enter the abstract and keywords as part of the submission process.

Formatting

• Medical Anthropology Quarterly follows the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.) for most matters of style, including hyphenation, capitalization, punctuation, abbreviations, and grammar, and Webster's Eleventh New Collegiate Dictionary (2005) for spelling. Manuscripts must comply with Chicago style guidelines in order to pass through our initial internal review process. For a AAA guide to Chicago style, we recommend going to the AAA Style Guide at http://www.aaanet.org/publications/guidelines.cfm.
• Please be kind to all who will be reading your manuscript by double-spacing ALL ELEMENTS (including abstract, body of text, extracts, notes, references, and figure and table captions) and using a 12-point font, preferably Times Roman. Please allow standard one-inch margins throughout the manuscript (top, bottom, and both sides). Do not justify the right margin.

Length

• Unless approved otherwise by the journal editors, articles submitted to Medical Anthropology Quarterly should not exceed 8,500 words, including title page, abstract, keywords, body of text, notes, references, figures, and tables—in short, everything! To count words, start with a document that contains all elements of the manuscript, select “word count” from the tools menu in MS Word (or the equivalent for other software), and click the box that says “Include footnotes and endnotes.”
• If you feel you absolutely must exceed the 8,500 word limit, email maqsma@wayne.edu and petition the editors to make an exception to this rule. If the editors are not persuaded by your rationale, the manuscript will not be considered until it meets the 8,500 word limit.

References

• References appearing in the bibliography must be cited in text, and vice versa. In text, references are cited in parentheses, with last name(s), year of publication, and, where necessary, page numbers. The reference list should be in AAA style: ordered alphabetically by author’s last name; author on one line, primary author last name first; date of publication indented on the next line, followed by title and then publisher’s city and name. All subsequent lines should be indented beyond the date. No underlining or boldface should be used in the reference list. For more information and examples please refer to the AAA Style Guide at http://www.aaanet.org/publications/guidelines.cfm.

Tables

• Tables should be embedded in your text. Number tables consecutively in the order in which they appear in text. Each table must have a caption. The caption and body of the table should be double spaced.

Figures

• Figures should be embedded in your text. Number figures consecutively in the order in which they appear in text. Artwork or figures must be camera ready—that is, a photographic print of line art, such as a map, graph, or drawing, or a photograph. When possible these supporting documents should be uploaded into the EWS system. Each figure must have a caption (double spaced) that articulates the relevance of the figure to the manuscript argument or narrative.

The Review Process

• Manuscripts are reviewed anonymously. Please prepare your manuscript to facilitate the double-blind review. Avoid references to your own work or cite it judiciously and formally without self-reference.
• Manuscripts submitted to Medical Anthropology Quarterly must not be under simultaneous consideration by any other journal or book publisher, or have been published elsewhere.

The Polgar Prize

• As determined by the Awards Committee of the Society for Medical Anthropology, the best article published in each volume of MAQ receives the Polgar Prize.

Editors:

• Mark Luborsky
  

• Andrea Sankar

Queries regarding style and format should be directed to the Managing Editor,
Ellen McCarthy, maqsma@wayne.edu

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