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MCH professionals play an invaluable role by serving as peer-reviewers for their professional journal. The peer-review process is a fundamental part of maintaining the scientific rigor and professional relevance of our field's literature. The purpose of this article is to provide guidance for the review of manuscripts submitted for publication to professional and scientific journals. In additio...

Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, by LOREN MACKINNEY, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965, pp. xvii, 263, 104 plates, 105s. It is a pity that Loren MacKinney did not live to see the publication of this beautifully produced book, which represents to some extent the culminating point of his thirty years' search for medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts. He had i...

Authors face the tedious bookkeeping problem of maintaining the consistency of references to figures, citations, and other numbered entities in successive drafts of a manuscript. If a figure is added to or deleted from the manuscript, the numbers of all subsequent figures must be adjusted, along with the references to these figures. In this note, we show how the UNIX commands grep, awk, and sed...

Publication in biomedical research is essential for dissemination of relevant information and advances in science and medicine. The main currency for biomedical publications is the manuscript, which can be of various types, including but not limited to original studies, reviews, and case series. Biomedical writing for purposes of a manuscript is an art which builds on early linguistic and schol...

We present the BIBLIMOS project, which aims to address the Western Saharan culture and history, by considering both local ancient Arabic manuscripts and European colonial archives. We describe the project’s context and objectives before focusing on ancient Mauritanian manuscripts, the content of which covers many scientific fields. We assess the current state of such ancient manuscripts’ digita...

Determining what fraction of texts and manuscripts have survived from Antiquity and the Middle Ages has been highly problematic. Analyzing the transmission of texts as the "paleodemography" of their manuscripts yields definite and surprisingly high estimates. Parchment copies of the foremost medieval textbooks on arithmetical and calendrical calculation closely fit age distributions expected fo...

Around 2004, we officially began to accept manuscripts electronically. Now, probably half the manuscripts I receive come as electronic attachments. What I propose is that, starting with Volume 28, we will only accept electronic submissions, but even before this date, I would encourage everyone to send us their manuscripts electronically. Watch for new submission instructions on the inside cover...

We discuss the use of multivariate kernel smoothing methods to date manuscripts dating from the 11th to the 15th centuries, in the English county of Essex. The dataset consists of some 3300 dated and 5000 undated manuscripts, and the former are used as a training sample for imputing dates for the latter. It is assumed that two manuscripts that are “close”, in a sense that may be defined by a ve...

This editorial discusses principles that may be useful in guiding authors in preparation of manuscripts to be submitted for consideration for publication in Animal Feed Science and Technology (AFST). The editorial highlights some of the difficulties with manuscripts that can lead to problems with reviewers and editors, and outlines approaches to manuscript preparation that the CoEditors in Chie...