History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals publishes original scholarly articles about the history of pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, broadly defined, including (but not limited to) the history of: pharmacy practice, pharmacy science, pharmacy education, drug use and regulation, social and cultural aspects of drugs and medicines, the pharmaceutical industry—including the history of pharmaceuticals, drugs, and therapeutics—and facets of the related medical sciences. History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals publishes articles investigating all chronological time periods and all geographical locations.
The journal solicits original unpublished scholarly manuscripts (which are not under consideration for publication elsewhere) of no more than 10,000 words (exclusive of footnotes). Manuscripts should include an abstract of no more than 200 words. All submitted manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process. The review process may take several months to complete depending upon the availability and schedules of peer reviewers.
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Conflicts of Interest
It is the responsibility of the authors (via the corresponding author) to inform the editors of any institutional or organizational funding they have received for research related to the subject of the manuscript. Authors must also declare any additional financial or personal connections that represent potential conflicts of interest.
Manuscript Composition
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals has a web-based manuscript submission system. Our system will ask you to register, and then you may submit your manuscript electronically. Once you are registered, future submissions will be simple and routine. Our submission web site is: https://hopp.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex.
Notes should appear at the bottom of the page. Authors are encouraged to submit illustrations, with captions, to be printed with the manuscript. Scans and digital images should be high resolution (at least 300 dpi). If illustrations are copyrighted, authors must obtain written use permission before publication. For more on submitting artwork, please see these instructions from the University of Wisconsin Press.
For composition and styles, follow the Chicago Manual of Style.
The first citation of a book or article must include the full name of the author, full title, place and date of publication, relevant pages numbers (if applicable), and digital object identifier (DOI) information (if available):
- David Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001), 57, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvjsf4p9.
- Charles E. Rosenberg, “The Therapeutic Revolution,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 20, no. 4 (Summer 1977): 485–506, https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512819151-002.
Subsequent citations will use the short-title system, e.g.:
- Courtwright, Forces of Habit, 113.
- Rosenberg, “Therapeutic Revolution,” 490.
Website references should include the url and the date originally published or the date accessed:
- Vishal Khetpal, “Could Pharmacists Help Fix Health Care?,” Slate, Dec. 7, 2017, https://slate.com/technology/2017/12/how-pharmacists-could-help-save-health-care.html.
- “Clinical Pharmacy Defined,” American College of Clinical Pharmacy, accessed May 1, 2020, https://www.accp.com/about/clinicalPharmacyDefined.aspx.
Book Review Submission Guidelines
Thank you for agreeing to review for History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals. We appreciate the time commitment that reviewing demands. To help with planning of future issues, we ask that you complete your review within eight weeks after receiving the book. The standard length is 600–800 words for a monograph, movie, or documentary, and 800–1,000 words for an edited collection or scholarly database. The length for comparative reviews will be determined by the review editors.
Reviews not only support the production of books in our field, but they also support and stimulate debate. We therefore ask that you seek to engage with the ambitions of a work and to summarize the type of evidence presented and the scope of material covered. It may help to outline how these are reflected in the book’s structure, but it is not always necessary to provide summaries of each chapter. We welcome your considered criticism of the book, especially with reference to other works in the field or to the larger historiography. It is also important to communicate to readers the target audience for the book and whether or not you recommend it.
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Please complete your review in Microsoft Word, and follow the formatting and stylistic guidelines and conventions from the Chicago Manual of Style. Please also follow the bibliographic format provided below. History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals style omits titles for reviewers.
Mike Jay, Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019; 304 pp; 16 color & 12 b/w illus.; ISBN: 9780300231076; cloth; $26.00; https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgc61q9.
If you directly quote from the book in your review, please provide page numbers in parentheses, e.g.: (p. 9), to help the reader. Reviewers may use footnotes to cite included substantive material or quotations from sources other than the book being reviewed.
Please return your review to the commissioning editor, who will manage the review through the History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals publishing system.
After your review is published, you will receive a high-quality .pdf of the review, and you will have the opportunity to purchase author’s copies of the issue of the journal at a reduced price.
Thank you again for contributing to the publication of History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals.
Guidance For Special Issues
In addition to individual submissions, the editors at HoPP also welcome proposals for relevant Special Issues. Special Issues in HoPP are collections of papers centered around a subject of special interest and are led by subject experts, who take on the role of the Guest Editor/s of the Special Issue. Aside from disseminating findings from ongoing research, Special Issues can also be used to commemorate a special event, showcasing papers from an academic conference, workshop, or symposium. In both cases, Special Issues serve as an effective means of bringing authors together and giving readers easier access to articles in one place. For reference, we encourage potential guest editors to consult past special issues in HoPP. Some examples include Special Issues on colonialism and plant-based pharmaceuticals, psychedelic medicines, and reproductive health and pharmaceuticals.
To propose a Special Issue, please forward a written proposal to HoPP’s Managing Editor, Dr. Jamie Banks ([email protected]). Your proposal should include: 1) a title, 2) a provisional timescale, 3) a 400 word summary (max), and 4) a list of potential authors (making explicit note of the intended Guest Editor/s). It is also desirable that proposals include a short (200 word) abstract for each of the article-length contributions. Our editors will respond within 14 business days. In special cases, the HoPP editorial team will support expenses that assist ECRs and graduate students in publishing manuscripts in the proposed issue. Please identify if you require modest financial support, the rationale, and the amount requested.
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals publishes original scholarly articles about the history of pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, broadly defined, including (but not limited to) the history of: pharmacy practice, pharmacy science, pharmacy education, drug regulation, social and cultural aspects of drugs and medicines, the pharmaceutical industry—including the history of pharmaceuticals, drugs, and therapeutics—and facets of the related medical sciences. HoPP publishes major research articles, interviews, shorter pieces based on images (the section is called “Visual Pharmacy”), and book reviews.
Who can serve as a Guest Editor?
- Expert(s) on a particular theme in the history of pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, with a wide network of potential authors and reviewers.
- An individual/s with an established history of research and publication within the research area of the proposed Special Issue, and an ability to work collaboratively with the HoPP editorial team
- Those with a willingness to contribute their time and efforts to ensure the quality of every article in the proposed Special Issue