Guidelines for Contributors

Edited by Patricia O. D'Antonio, RN, PhD, FAAN
University of Pennsylvania

The Nursing History Review, the official publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a peer-reviewed journal, published annually for subscribers and members of the Association. Original research manuscripts are welcomed in broad areas related to the history of nursing, health care, health policy, and society. The Review prefers manuscripts not exceed 40 pages, inclusive of end-notes.

Submitted manuscripts must be prepared using the guidelines specified in the Chicago Manual of Style, 15^th Edition. Manuscripts must have a title page that contains the full title of the manuscript; the author(s) name(s) as they are meant to appear in print; institutional affiliations and preferred mailing addresses for all authors; and relevant contact information for the corresponding author. The title page also lists suggested key words for referencing and acknowledgements, if any.

Manuscripts must be double-spaced and of letter quality print. They must also use a type size of at least 12 characters per inch or 10 points. Please leave generous margins of at least one inch. All pages, including text, notes, and reference pages, must be numbered consecutively. All notes must be double-spaced and placed at the end of the manuscript as end-notes rather than foot-notes.

Authors are responsible for securing permissions for all materials submitted. If more than 500 words of text are quoted from a book, or more than 250 words from an article, or if a table or figure has been previously published, the manuscript be accompanied by written permission from the copyright owner.

Initial submissions of manuscripts may be sent by e-mail to nhr@nursing.upenn.edu. Contributors may also send 4 copies of their manuscripts via regular mail to the address below. Please send only clear copies of any photographs, tables, or figures at this point. All submissions will be acknowledged when received.

Final versions of manuscripts accepted for publication should be prepared in MS Word. The final packet submitted to the editorial offices of the Review must include: two hard copies of the final version and a version on disc; black and white, camera-ready glossy prints or TIF files with resolutions of at least 600 dpi of all photographs and figures; and all appropriate permissions and copyright releases.

All correspondence regarding manuscripts should be sent to:

Patricia D'Antonio, RN, PhD,FAAN Editor,
Nursing History Review
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
420 Guardian Drive, Room 307
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6096
Phone: 215-898-4502; Fax: 215-573-2168
E-mail Dr. D'Antonio or nhr@nursing.upenn.edu

Nursing History Review
Style Sheet

The information contained in this style sheet is based on The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition. Please refer to the Manual or feel free to call the Review should you have further style questions.

Text:

A)   The entire manuscript must be typed fully double-spaced throughout (including bibliography, quoted or set-off text, lists, and any notes). Do not insert additional spacing between sections.

B)   Heads, subheads, text, and endnotes should be printed in the same typeface and type size. Head should be bold and centered; subheads should be bold and left justified.

C)   Avoid excessive usage of quotation marks with single words or short phrases that do not come from sources cited in the endnotes.

D)   Throughout the text, as well as in the endnotes, dates should be written in the following format: 15 July 1992 (day month year with no punctuation following the year unless appropriate).

E)   Please follow the guidelines for use of ellipses on pages 292-96 of the Chicago Manual.

F)   When using a dash (-), do not insert a space before or after the dash.

G)   Whole numbers from one through ninety-nine are spelled out, as well as those followed by hundred, thousand, or million. Numbers such as percentages or physical quantities should be expressed as figures. Within a paragraph or a series of paragraphs, however, a number category that is spelled out should remain so throughout, as should figures. For example:

In the past ten years fifteen new buildings have been erected. In one block a 103-story office building rises between two old apartment houses only 3 and 4 stories high. (Chicago Manual, 8.8, p. 234)

H)   Please note the following format in the text and endnotes with inclusive numbers:

(Chicago Manual, 8.67, p. 244)

Endnotes

A)   Double space endnotes, with no additional spacing between endnotes.
B)   Do not abbreviate months, except in the publication section for books.
C)   Book Citation

John Q. Smith et al., Urban Turmoil: The Politics of Hope (Gaithersburg, MD: Polis Publishing Co., 1964), 109. Note: a little-known city should be followed by the state abbreviation.

Laura Beal, "Dearest Rev'd Mother," in Florence Nightingale and Her Era, ed. Vern Bullough, Bonnie Bullough, and Harry Merger (New York and London: Garland Press, 1990), 145-49.

David Stafford, Britain and European Resistance, 1940-1945 (1950; reprint, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980), 90. Note: Always include date of publication, and reprint date when applicable; if information is unattainable, please attach a note to the editor.

David Stafford, Britain and European Resistance, 1940-1945, 5th ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980), 90.

Arthur H. R. Fairchild, Shakespeare and the Arts of Design, University of Missouri Studies, vol.12 (Columbia, 1937), 104, 109.

David Stafford, Britain and European Resistance, 1940-1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980), 2:90. Note: There is no space between the volume, colon, or page number.

Alice Small, "Recollections of Nursing in the 1930s," History of Nursing Society Journal 3, no. 2 (January 1990): 34-35 (hereafter cited as HNSJ).

Mary Jones to Florence Nightingale, 31 May 1866, Nightingale Collection, British Library ADD MSS 47,744, ser. 90, box 1, folder 14, p. 34 (hereafter cited as BL).

United Kingdom, British Library, Saint John's House, Tracts 1855-76 London III (Year), page number.

EBW to Harold Ross, interoffice memo, 2 May 1946, Letters of E.B. White, ed. Dorothy Lobrano Guth (New York: Harper and Row, 1976), 273.

First citing: Mary Jones to Florence Nightingale, 31 May 1866, Nightingale Collection, British Library ADD MSS 47,744, ser. 90, box 1, folder 14, p. 34 (hereafter cited as NC, BL).
Subsequent citing: Sir John to Florence Nightingale, 25 April 1866, NC, BL ADD MSS 47,746, ser. 91, box 1, folder 25, p. 2.

N)   When citing from a previously cited source, list the sources' last name, shortened title, and the page number. For example, the shortened form of C) would be: Smith et al., Urban Turmoil, 5.

rev. 1998

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