Special issues

Special issue information

Virtual Special Issues

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Medical Anthropology in, of, for and with Africa

Special Issue Proposals

Medical Anthropology publishes four special issues every year, and invites editors to send proposals by email ( [email protected]) at any time. Proposals should be around 1,500 words in length (to a maximum 2000-word limit) and follow a standard model below. Proposals should meet the following criteria:

1. They should demonstrate that your volume makes a clear, compelling and timely contribution to the sub-discipline of medical anthropology, in line with the general aims of the journal.

2. They should not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

3. The planned length of the published volume should bein the regionof 65,000-70,000 words, usually incorporating six or seven 8-9,000 word articles and an introduction.

4. Assignment of copyright to Taylor and Francis is a condition of publication. Authors and editors will be responsible for ensuring that all secondary copyright permissions have been obtained.

Special Issue Proposal Form

Editors should include all of the following in their proposals:

·Name, position/affiliation(s), brief biographies and contact details of the guest editor(s)

·A working title for the proposed Special Issue

·A short description of the project, activity or event, with dates if applicable, on which the Special Issue is based, followed by a general description of the proposed content that makes clear the scholarly importance of the volume, its timeliness, and its fit for Medical Anthropology

·Names and affiliations of (provisional) the authors of each contribution, along with a 100-word abstract for each article to be included

·Short bibliography of key references

·Statement confirming that all necessary copyright agreements for reproduction of material been obtained.

·Details of any images/photographs to be included.

·Suggested names and contact details of potential peer reviewers can also be provided if editors wish to do so.

Process for Selecting Special Issues

The journal co-editors will make an initial evaluation of all proposals received, after which those which appear to offer a good fit with Medical Anthropology will be sent to our Associate Editors to consider in more detail. We might also wish to contact proposers for more information at this stage. The Associate Editors will then make a recommendation to the journal co-editors. If they feel that the proposal has sufficient merit to make a special issue, and the co-editors agree with their recommendation, we will agree in principle to working with you in producing a special issue. At this stage, one of the associate editors (or, if deemed appropriate, a member of the wider editorial board) will work with you to help bring the project to fruition. That will include passing on reviews of the proposal, along with any general recommendations, and helping to co-ordinate responses to the peer reviews of each article to be included in your special issue.

As with any article submitted for publication in Medical Anthropology, each contribution to a special issue will need to uploaded on our ScholarOne system, and will be peer reviewed by three anonymous reviewers. The associate editor responsible for over-seeing your volume will assess the reviews and make recommendations to the co-editors on the basis of those reviews. If any individual contribution falls short of the academic standards demanded of the journal the editors do reserve the right to reject them, so acceptance of a proposal in principle does not guarantee the acceptance of every article within the proposal. However, we do urge special issue editors to work with their authors before submission, as well as subsequently to help them address peer review feedback, so we hope this creates an environment conducive to authors producing their best work. If rejection of an article or articles renders a complete special issue untenable, editors will usually be given the option to seek alternative contributions, or to offer a smaller collection of papers as a special section of one of our regular journal issues. Timeframes for publication of special issues will be agreed once a proposal has been accepted to principle.

Responsibilities of Guest Editors

Guest editors are responsible for working with authors to ensure that they can meet the requirements of the peer review process in a timely fashion.

They should also familiarise themselves with, and adhere to, T&F’s editor code of conduct and publishing ethics:

· https://editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/welcome-to-tf/policies-guidelines/editor-code-of-conduct/

· https://editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/publishing-ethics-for-editors/publishing-ethics-faqs/#guesteditors