The Milbank Quarterly is devoted to scholarly analysis of significant issues in health and health care policy. It presents original research, synthesis, policy analysis, and commentary from academicians, clinicians, and policymakers. The in-depth, multidisciplinary approach of the journal permits contributors to explore fully the social origins of health in our society and to examine in detail the implications of different health policies. Contributions are published from many disciplines, including history, law, medicine, epidemiology, bioethics, and the full array of social science and health services research disciplines. Topics addressed in The Milbank Quarterly include but are not limited to the impact of social factors on health, disease prevention, allocation of health resources, legal and ethical issues in health policy, health care management, historical analysis of health policies, and the organization and financing of health care.
Manuscript Submissions
Submissions should be sent electronically to the Quarterly. Please email Word files of the manuscript to quarterly@milbank.org.
The editor, Bradford H. Gray, PhD, will make an initial determination about the suitability of the manuscript for the Quarterly. Manuscripts that are potentially suitable will be subject to blind peer review regarding scholarly soundness and substantive significance. When the manuscript is submitted and in order for external review to occur, the corresponding author must submit forms signed by each author indicating that he or she has read and complied with The Milbank Quarterly's publication policies. (The "corresponding author" is the author responsible for negotiations and the person to whom correspondence will be sent.)
For the convenience of reviewers, manuscripts that are systematic reviews should be accompanied by the protocol used by the authors to conduct the review unless that information is provided in the body of the manuscript.
The length of submitted material ordinarily should not exceed thirty pages, including the abstract and references. Longer papers will be considered on occasion, but additional length must be justified by the corresponding author.
Questions about the submission process may be directed to Tara Lantz, publications assistant, at tlantz@milbank.org.
Specifications for Manuscripts
Before submitting your manuscript, please be sure you have prepared it according to the following instructions.
Formatting
All text must be typed double-spaced in the same typeface throughout, using tabs to indicate new paragraphs. All pages must be numbered consecutively.
Title Pages
On the title page include the names, academic degrees, and affiliations of all authors, as well as any acknowledgments, including sponsorship. List the authors in the order their names are to appear on the title page. Also provide the complete address, telephone number, and email address of the corresponding author.
To facilitate blind review, include a second title page with only the manuscript title. In addition, please eliminate any internal information (including acknowledgment of funding sources and self-identifications in citations) that reveals authorship.
Structured Abstract
Manuscripts must normally include a structured abstract of up to 250 to 300 words using the following headings:
Context: The abstract should begin by explaining the article's background, objectives, and salience for policy and research.
Methods: Describe the procedures used to obtain and analyze data and/or research materials.
Findings: Summarize the results of your analyses.
Conclusions: Summarize the implications of the findings for policy, practice, and further research.
Keywords
The structured abstract should be accompanied by up to four keywords for indexing. Keywords used by MEDLINE/PubMed's MeSH system are preferred because they facilitate searches (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=mesh), but terms not in MeSH may be used when MeSH terminology is not adequate.
Artwork
Tables and figures should be explicitly mentioned in text and be numbered consecutively in arabic numerals (e.g., table 1, table 2, figure 1, figure 2). Tables and figures should be self-explanatory and include a title; each figure should have a separate legend. Be sure to obtain permission from the publisher to reprint any art from other sources.
References
All sources used in preparing your manuscript should be properly acknowledged. In the text, cite the author's surname and year of publication within parentheses, e.g., (Tinker 2007). For two or three authors, write out the surnames, followed by the date, e.g., (Tinker and Evers 2006; Tinker, Evers, and Chancel 2006). (Note that a semicolon separates references.) When there are more than three surnames, write out the first one, followed by "et al." and the year. If there are two or more references with the same initial name and date, add letters to follow the year, e.g., (Johnson et al. 2007a; Johnson et al. 2007b). The dates for multiple citations by the same author(s) should be separated by commas, e.g., (Johnson and Brown 2003, 2005, 2007a, 2007b). The Quarterly discourages the use of footnotes except when citing legal sources.
References should be listed at the end of the article, alphabetically (chronologically, with the earliest year first for multiple entries by a particular author), and unnumbered. List all authors; do not use "et al." The citations must be complete, and titles of books and articles should not be abbreviated, as in the following examples:
Andersen, R.M., T.H. Rice, and G.F. Kominski. 2007. Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management. 3rd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Brown, L.D. 2006. The More Things Stay the Same the More They Change: The Odd Interplay between Government and Ideology in the Recent Political History of the U.S. Health-Care System. In History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In, edited by R.A. Stevens, C.E. Rosenberg, and L.R. Burns, 32. Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Greenhalgh, T., G. Robert, F. Macfarlane, P. Bate, and O. Kyriakidou. 2004. Diffusion of Innovations in Service Organizations: Systematic Review and Recommendations. The Milbank Quarterly 82(4):581–629.
Lewis, G. 2007. Interview by Sam Gunderson. May 17. Chicago.
U.S. Census Bureau. 2007. Statistical Abstract of the United States 2007: sec. 3, Health and Nutrition. Available at http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/ (accessed October 3, 2007).
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