Pharmacy in History publishes essays on the history of pharmaceutical practice, science, and industry, including the history of drugs and therapeutics and facets of the related medical sciences. The journal solicits manuscripts not exceeding 10,000 words, and also invites submission of scholarly notes, generally no longer than 1000 words (exclusive of footnotes). All scholarly manuscripts submitted undergo a peer-review process. Book reviews are assigned to specialist scholars, and authors desiring Pharmacy in History to carry reviews should arrange for their publishers to send copies of books to Dr. Elaine C. Stroud, Assistant Editor, Pharmacy in History, 777 Highland Ave., Madison, WI 53705 Manuscript Composition. Send a copy of the manuscript via email (PH@aihp.org) or on disk to Gregory Higby, Editor, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 777 Highland Ave., Madison, WI 53705. The manuscript file should be in as simple a format as possible (Microsoft Word preferred), with the notes appearing at the end of the document. (Complex tables or graphs should be submitted as scans.) In composition, follow the suggestions in A Manual of Style (University of Chicago Press), with the exception of the following guidelines, which apply to endnotes: in the first citation of a book or article, the full name of the author, full title, and place and date of publication must appear, e.g.,

1. Leslie G. Matthews, History of Pharmacy in Britain (Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd., 1962), 57.
2. Charles E. Rosenberg, “The Therapeutic Revolution,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 24(1980): 241.

Subsequent citations will use a short-title system as follows:

1. Matthews, Pharmacy in Britain (n. 1), 63.
2. Rosenberg, “Therapeutic Revolution” (n. 4), 243

For notes citing a reference that is the same as the immediately preceding note, the form is Ibid.

1. Ibid., 244.

All Greek, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc., is to be transliterated into Roman characters, according to a standard system recognized by scholarly convention. Archival materials are to be cited following the system appropriate to the collections employed:

1. C. M. Jackson to G. S. Ford, 8 November 1917, folder 32, Guy Stanton Ford Correspondence, University of Minnesota Archives, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Website references should include the url and date accessed:

1. “Pharmacy Museum Opens,” American Institute of the History of Pharmacy,  (accessed 21 April 2009).

Authors are encouraged to submit illustrations, with captions, to be printed with the manuscript. Scans should be high resolution (300 dpi) and in black & white. If illustrations are copyrighted, authors should obtain clearance as necessary.