Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte

ISSN 0939-351X (print)

ISSN 2748-2561 (online)

Founded: 1985

Publication frequency: annual

Size: 17 x 24 cm

Annual number of pages: ca. 240

Languages: English, German

Review section: No

Validation: peer review

• Dietrich’s Index Philosophicus
• Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ)
• Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur (IBR)
• America: History and Life
• Historical Abstracts (HA) / Historical Abstracts Full Text (HA full)
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Core
• Ulrichs web
• Google Scholar
• H-Soz-Kult

Please send manuscript submissions to the editorial office. Submissions must be original articles (no translations) which must not be previously published. During the review process, manuscripts may not be submitted elsewhere. A manuscript submitted to the journal must be ready for publication, the editor does not accept partial or draft versions. In initial submissions, the citation rules of the journal do not have to be strictly followed. Please pay attention to the anonymization of your text so that your identity as author cannot be ascertained directly or indirectly (e.g. by acknowledgments and self-references in footnotes).

All submissions are subjected to peer review. The review process can result in acceptance, the recommendation of revisions or rejection of the manuscript. The author is informed of the decision by email. The editor attempts to reach a decision within 3 months of the submission of the manuscript.

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Additional editorial information and citation guidelines

Contribution header

• General guidelines on the contribution header can be found under ‘Contribution guidelines’.
• In Jahrbuch für Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, the title in the original language is followed by the English translation of the title, unless the title is already in English.
• Abstract and keywords in English are mandatory. There are no abstracts and keywords in the original language.

Abbreviated references in the footnotes

• Footnotes should only include the short reference of a cited work. Detailed source citations and bibliographical references are listed in the bibliography.
• The short reference follows the author-year principle:
  Meier (2019), pp. 14–17.
  for multiple authors: Meier/Müller (2009), pp. 17–21.
• When there are several works by the same author in the same year, the first noun of the title is added:
  Vasold: Pest (1991), pp. 40–42.

Bibliography

• The bibliography appears at the end of the article and is limited to the works cited in the notes.
  
• Please give all names in full, including first name and surname.
• Where there are multiple places of publication, separate them with a slash:
  Weimar/Stuttgart
  Berlin / New York
  

Monograph

• Surname, First name: Title. Subtitle. (if applicable = series) [if applicable: first edition] if applicable: edition, place, year.
  Reil, Johann Christian: Rhapsodieen über die Anwendung der psychischen Curmethode auf Geisteszerrüttungen. [First edition Halle/Saale 1803] 2. ed. Halle/Saale 1818.
  Sander, Sabine: Handwerkschirurgen. Sozialgeschichte einer verdrängten Berufsgruppe. (= Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft 83) Göttingen 1989.
  

Journal contribution

• Surname, First name: Title. Subtitle. In: Journal title, Issue XX [or] Volume XX (Year), page numbers.
  Koch, Robert: Epidemiologie der Tuberkulose. In: Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten 67 (1910), pp. 1–18.
  

Cotributions in edited volumes

• Surname, First name: Title. Subtitle. In: Surname, First name (ed.): Title. Subtitle. Place, year, page number.
  Guthke, Karl S.: Alptraum und Utopie. Extraterrestrische Welten von Galilei bis zur Goethezeit. In: Schmutz, Hans (ed.): Phantome und Phantasmen in der neuzeitlichen Naturgeschichte. Marburg/Lahn 1997, pp. 13–32.
  Pimelli, Antonella; Mancini, Paola: Gender Mortality Differences from Birth to Puberty, 1887–1940. In: Corsini, Carlo A.; Viazzo, Pier Paolo (ed.): The Decline of Infant and Child Mortality. The European Experience: 1750–1990. Den Haag/Cambridge 1997, pp. 129–154.
  

Dissertations

• Surname, First name: Title. Subtitle. Med. Diss. Place, Year.
  Weiß, Claudia: Die Medizinalgesetzgebung in Württemberg im 19. Jahrhundert unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Chirurgen- und Baderhandwerks. Diss. med. Ulm 1983.
  

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ISSN 0941-5033 (print)

ISSN 2699-2248 (online)

Founded: 1992

Size: 17 x 24 cm

Languages: English, German

Validation: peer review

Please send manuscript submissions to our acquisition managers or to the editor of the series. Submissions must be original texts (no translations) which must not be previously published. During the review process, manuscripts may not be submitted elsewhere. Monographs must be complete and fully finished. For multi-authored volumes contact us as early as possible with details of the planned contributions. In initial submissions, our publication guidelines or citation rules do not have to be strictly followed.

All submissions are subjected to peer review. The review process can result in acceptance, the recommendation of revisions or rejection of the project. You will be informed of the decision by email. We attempt to reach a decision within 3 months of the submission of the manuscript.

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• Manuscript preparation

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