Literature and Medicine

Author Guidelines

Literature and Medicine is published semiannually. The first issue of each year is a thematic one; the second issue is a general one, with no special theme. Submissions on any aspect of literature and medicine will be considered, but the journal rarely publishes short notes, personal essays, fiction, or poetry in the general issue. Authors are advised to look at past issues of the journal before submitting their work. Manuscripts should be between 4,000 and 7,000 words of text in length, or twenty-five to thirty-five pages inclusive of double-spaced notes. Completed essays, should be sent to:

Rita Charon and Maura Spiegel, Editors-in-Chief
Literature and Medicine
Program in Narrative Medicine
Columbia University
630 West 168th Street
PH 9-East, Room 105
New York, NY 10032

All manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate, with text and notes typewritten and double-spaced, and prepared according to guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition. Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal. Authors' names should appear only on a cover sheet and any identifiers in the text should be masked so that manuscripts can be reviewed anonymously. Literature and Medicine reviews only unpublished manuscripts that are not simultaneously under review for publication elsewhere. Please supply an abstract of 100 or fewer words with your paper.