Guidelines for Contributors
Literature and Medicine is published semiannually. Most issues are general with no specific theme. Occasional thematic issues are announced in calls for papers in the back of the journal and on the journal website (http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/literature_and_medicine/). In addition to thematic issues, Literature and Medicine will consider “clusters” of essays devoted to a particular topic or written on a specific occasion. Submissions on any aspect of literature and medicine will be considered, but the journal rarely publishes short notes, personal essays, or creative writing in general issues. Authors are strongly advised to look carefully at past issues of the journal (available on the journal website) before submitting their work. Manuscripts should be between 4,000 and 7,000 words in length, approximately twenty-five to thirty-five pages inclusive of double-spaced notes.
Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal. Authors' names should appear only on a cover sheet, and any identifiers in the text should be marked so manuscripts can be reviewed anonymously. Literature and Medicine reviews only unpublished manuscripts that are not simultaneously under review for publication elsewhere. Please supply an abstract of 100 or fewer words. Manuscripts may be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word or PDF attachments to an email addressed to cmanderson@ualr.edu with the subject line “A Literature and Medicine Submission.” Hard copy manuscripts are also acceptable and should be submitted in triplicate. All submissions should have text and notes double-spaced and prepared according to guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style, current edition.
Complete essays and correspondence should be sent to:
Charles M. Anderson, Executive Editor
Literature and Medicine
Division of Medical Humanities
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
4301 W. Markham, Slot 646
Little Rock, AR 72205
Email: cmanderson@ualr.edu
Review copies of books should be addressed to:
Ann Jurecic
Department of English
Rutgers University
Murray Hall
College Avenue Campus
510 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1167
