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STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE PART C: STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
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Guide for Authors
The Editors of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science welcome historical, philosophical, and sociological studies of the
sciences. The orientation of the journal is international, with contributions from a wide range of cultural standpoints.
Submission
of manuscripts
Contributions should not exceed 10,000 words, except by prior agreement with the Editors.
Manuscripts for consideration
may be submitted, by post or e-mail (Word or RTF attachments
preferred), to
The Editors
Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Cambridge, Free School Lane,
Cambridge CB2 3RH, UK
mfs10@cam.ac.uk
Studies uses the peer review system; articles submitted prepared for blind review will be blind reviewed.
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part
of an academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all Authors
and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out.
Role of corresponding author
The corresponding Author of a manuscript for Studies in History and Philosophy of Science has the duty to ensure that all
the named Authors have seen and approved the original and any revised version of the paper and are in agreement with its content before
it is submitted. The corresponding Author should also ensure that all those who have contributed to the research are acknowledged appropriately
either as a co-Author or in the Acknowledgements. In addition, the corresponding Author has the prime responsibility for ensuring the
paper is correctly prepared in the style of the journal.
Once the final version of an article is sent by the Editors to the publishers,
Authors will be asked to transfer copyright (for more information on copyright see http://authors.elsevier.com).
This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be provided.
If excerpts of illustrations from other copyrighted works are included, the Author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright
owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted form for use by authors in these cases: download it from http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/supportfaq.cws_home/permissionfrompublisher, or contact ELSEVIER,
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When submitting by post, please include a hard copy and a floppy disk, CD or Zip disk. Please follow the style for headings, keywords
and other matters as seen in a recent (post-2002) issue of the journal. Please supply fax and e-mail addresses if available.
Electronic format requirement
We accept most word-processing formats, but Word and RTF are strongly preferred.
Always
keep a backup copy of the electronic file for reference and safety.
The text should be in single-column format. Please keep the layout
of the text as simple as possible.
In particular, do not use the word-processor's options to justify text or to hypenate words. However,
do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts, etc. Do not embed 'graphically designed' equations or tables, but prepare these
using the word-processor's facility. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table
and not a grid for each row; if no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. Do not import the figures into the text file
but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text and on the manuscript.
(See also the section on preparation
of electronic illustrations.)
Preparation of manuscripts
1. Manuscripts should be in English. Authors whose native
language is not English are strongly
advised to have their manuscripts checked by an English speaker prior to submission.
2.
Submissions should be accompanied by a covering letter or message detailing what you are
submitting (title, Author's names and affiliations,
etc.). In case of multi-authored papers, please also
indicate the Author to whom we should address our correspondence and include a contact
address,
telephone/fax number and e-mail address.
3. Final submissions should be organized in the following sequence:
Title
of the paper, Author, Author's affiliation and address
Abstract (up to 200 words)
Keywords (up to 6)
Main body of text
Acknowledgements and any additional information concerning research grants, etc.
References
Endnotes
Tables and figures
Figure captions
4. In typing the manuscript, titles and subtitles should not be run within the text. They should be typed on
a separate line, without indentation. Use lower-case letter type. First- and second-order
headings should be numbered.
Illustrations
1. All illustrations should be submitted separately, unmounted and not folded.
2. Illustrations should be numbered according
to their sequence in the text. References should be
made in the text to each illustration.
3. Each illustration should be identified
on the reverse side by its number and the name of the
author.
4. Each illustration should have a caption. The captions to all illustrations
should be typed in
sequence on a separate sheet of the manuscript. Where necessary they should include an
acknowledgement of the source,
and of the copyright owner.
5. If you submit your illustrations in electronic format, remember to number them according to their
sequence in the text and to submit their captions separately; use a logical naming convention for
your files, and supply a separate listing
of the files with an indication of the software used. Each
illustration should be a separate file.
A detailed guide on electronic
artwork is available on our website:
http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork.
Colour reproduction
If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures then Elsevier will ensure,
at no
additional charge, that these figures will appear in colour on the web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other
sites)regardless of whether
these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version of the
journal. For colour reproduction in print, you will receive
information regarding the costs from
Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article.
Please note: Because of technical complications
which can arise by converting colour figures to 'grey scale', for the printed version please submit in addition usable black and white
prints corresponding to the colour illustrations.
References
1. All publications cited in the text should be presented
in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling
of Authors' names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list.
When citing a paper from this journal, please
use the full journal title Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
2. In the text
or in the footnotes refer to the Author's name (without initial) and year of publication followed, if necessary, by the page number:
for example, 'Since Smith (1988) has shown that. . . '; 'the manuscripts are to be found in the British Library (Smith, 1988, pp. 12-16)'.
3. If reference is made in the text or in a footnote to a publication written by more than two Authors, the name of the first Author
should be used followed by 'et al.'. This indication, however, should never be used in the list of references, where all Authors' names
should be given.
4. References cited together in the text should be arranged chronologically. The list of references
should be
arranged alphabetically on Authors' names, and chronologically per Author. If an
Author's name in the list is also mentioned with co-Authors,
the following order should be used:
publications of the single Author, arranged according to publication dates, publications of the same
Author with one co-Author, publications of the Author with more than one co-Author. Publications
by the same Author(s) in the same year
should be listed as 1974a, 1974b, etc.
5. The reference list at the end should be in the following style:
Cunningham, A.
R. (1992). Transforming plague: The laboratory and the identity of infectious
diseases. In A. R. Cunningham, & P. Williams (Eds.),
The laboratory revolution in medicine
(pp. 209-244). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dreger, A. D. (1998). The limits of individuality:
Ritual and sacrifice in the lives and medical
treatment of conjoined twins. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical
Sciences, 29C, 1-30.
Harris, J., & Holm, S. (Eds.). (1998). The future of human reproduction: Ethics,choice,and
regulation.
Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (1979). The elements of style (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan.
6. In the case of publications in any language other than English, the original title is to be retained.
However, the titles of publications
in non-Roman alphabets should be transliterated, and a notation
such as '(in Russian)' or '(in Greek, with English abstract)' should
be added.
7. If you have used a reprint or translation the citation should refer to this work, NOT the original publication.
E.g.:
Bachelard, G. (1973). Le pluralisme cohérent de la chimie moderne (2nd ed.). Paris: Vrin. (First published 1932)
Meyerson,
E. (1985). The relativistic deduction. Dordrecht & Boston: Reidel. (Translation of La deduction relativiste. Paris: Payot, 1925)
For citations in text, if the date of the original publication is important for your argument it can be given in square brackets after
the date of the reprint, e.g. Bachelard (1973 [1932]).
Electronic References
Authors using and citing Internet sources
should observe the following guidelines:
•Direct readers as closely as possible to the information being cited; whenever
possible, reference specific documents rather than home or menu pages.
•Provide addresses that work.
•Give the date
the source was accessed.
Test the URLs in your references regularly when you first draft a paper, when you submit it for peer
review, when you're preparing the final version for publication, and when you're reviewing the proofs. If the document you are citing
has moved, update the URL so that it points to the correct location. If the document is no longer available, you may want to substitute
another source (e.g., if you originally cited a draft and a formally published version now exists) or drop it from the paper altogether.
Many websites now give their articles digital object identifiers ('doi's, e.g. doi:10.1093/shm/hkl004) as well as URLs. If a doi
is available, please use this in preference to the URL.
Reference examples
Article in an Internet-only source, or
the Internet version of a print source:
Milton, R. (2004). Locke, John (1632-1704). In Oxford dictionary of national biography.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16885. (Accessed 3 March 2007)
Malpas, J. (2003). Donald
Davidson. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Winter 2003 ed.). http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2003/entries/davidson/.
(Accessed 3 March 2007)
Article in an internet-only journal:
Rossiter, W. T. (2005). The marginalization of John Lydgate.
Marginalia, 1. http://www.marginalia.co.uk/journal/05margins/rossiter.php. (Accessed 3 March 2007)
Article in a printed journal,
for which an electronic version is also available (note: it is not compulsory to supply the URL/doi, but this is the format to follow
if you wish to give it):
Denham, M. (2006). The surveys of the Birmingham chronic sick hospitals, 1948-1960s. Social History
of Medicine, 19, 279-293. (Available at http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/19/2/279)
Denham, M. (2006). The surveys of
the Birmingham chronic sick hospitals, 1948-1960s. Social History of Medicine, 19, 279-293. (Available at doi:10.1093/shm/hkl004)
Stand-alone document, no author identified, no date:
GVU's 8th WWW user survey. (n.d.). http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/usersurveys/survey1997-10/.
(Accessed 8 August 2000)
Document available on university program or department Web site:
Chou, L., McClintock, R., Moretti,
F., & Nix, D. H. (1993). Technology and education: New wine in new bottles: Choosing pasts and imagining educational futures. Institute
for Learning Technologies, Columbia University. http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/papers/newwine1.html. (Accessed 24 August 2000)
If a document is contained within a large and complex Web site (such as that for a university or a government agency), identify the
host organization and the relevant program or department before giving the URL for the document itself.
Citations in text
of electronic material
For electronic sources that do not provide page numbers, use the paragraph number, if available, preceded
by the paragraph symbol or the abbreviation para. If neither paragraph nor page numbers are visible, cite the heading and the number
of the paragraph following it to direct the reader to the location of the material.
(Myers, 2000, 5)
(Beutler, 2000, Conclusion
section, para. 1)
Proofs
When your copyedited manuscript is sent by the Editors to the Publishers it is considered
to be in its
final form.
One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding Author to be
checked. A form
with queries from the copyeditor may accompany your proofs. If so, please answer
these queries in full. Further corrections should be
restricted to typesetting errors; any other
amendments made may be charged to the Author(s). Please return corrections, if possible by
email,
within two working days of receipt of the proofs. Should there be no corrections, please confirm this.
Please note that when you
receive the PDF proof of your article for correction, it is important to
ensure that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one
communication. So please ensure that
your first sending is complete. Note that this does not mean you have any less time to make your
corrections, just that only one set of corrections will be accepted.
Offprints
Twenty-five offprints for regular papers
will be supplied free of charge. Additional offprints can be
ordered on an order form which is included with the proofs. UNESCO coupons
are acceptable in
payment of extra offprints.
Authors who are interested in having a copy of the whole issue in which their article appears
may
order one at the Elsevier webpage at www.elsevier.com/locate/shpsc.
Author enquiries
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Contact details
for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided after registration of an article
for publication.
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