Music and Medicine is a new international journal that offers an integrative forum for clinical practice and research of applied music in medical settings and allied institutions.
The Editors seek empirical research studies, clinical case reports, and applied models explicating theory, development, and practice across the health, behavioral, and neurosciences.
Music and Medicine will emphasize research practices that integrate music, music psychology, music cognition, music neurology, music therapy, and infant and early child development into medical practice and knowledge. The journal will address research and clinical practices related to music psychotherapy and wellness practices inclusive of the health of musicians. Methodology will favor both quantitative and qualitative research outcomes.
Articles from a wide variety of perspectives including academic and practice forums will be featured. Medical music perspectives from the neurosciences, clinical and integrative medicine, oncology, music therapy, psychology, infant stimulation, pain and palliative medicine, spiritual care, early intervention, nursing research, health research, and social work will be prominent.
Topics appropriate for the journal include, but are not limited to: Analgesia and Music Sedation; Brain Music Approaches; Cancer Care: Active and Receptive Music Approaches; Cardiology and Rhythm; Clinical Improvisation in Health and Disease; Dementia, Stroke and Music Memory; Environmental ICU Music; Infant Stimulation; Integrative Music Medicine; Medical Conditions and Treatment of Musicians; Medical Music Psychotherapy; Mood Disorders and Music Psychology; Music and Culture in Medicine; Music Health and Well Being; Music in Transition: NICU, Hospice to End of Life; Music in Surgery: Pre-op to post-op; Music in Traumatic Response and Injury; Neurologic Music Approaches; Pain and Palliative Medical Music Strategies; Psychosocial Music Interventions; Respiratory Music Advances: Asthma, CF, COPD; Song, Sound, and Resonance in Mind-Body Medicine; Stress Response and Music Relaxation; Vibration and Toning in Medicine.
Manuscripts: Guidelines specified in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition; 2001) should be followed, and submissions should be made electronically in Microsoft Word format. Each submission should consist of a title page and a main document file.
The title page should include the following information:
- manuscript title and all author names, affiliations, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses
- a one-sentence biographical statement for each author, listing credentials and one place of affiliation
- grant or financial support information and/or a conflict of interest statement
- any acknowledgments
Every effort should be made by the author to see that the main document file contains no clues as to the author's identity. On the first page should be the title, a 150-word abstract and 4-5 keywords. Footnotes containing information pertaining to the identity of the author or institutional affiliation should be on separate pages. All diagrams, images, photographs, and tables should be placed at the end of the file and numbered in the order they appear in text. Table and figure locations should be indicated in text by callouts (e.g., "[insert Table 1 here]") inserted after the respective paragraphs.
The main document file should be about 8 to 15 double-spaced pages in length including tables, figures, notes, and references.
Artwork and Tables:
Artwork includes charts and graphs, maps, photographs, figures, and line art. Images should be clear and neat, and they should be submitted in the original format in which they were created (JPG, TIFF, or EPS; Microsoft Application Files are acceptable for line art). Any scanned images should be set at 1200 dpi for line art and 300 dpi for color or grayscale. The fee to include color images in printed articles is $800 for the first, and $200 for each additional color image.
Tables should present supporting data in a clear and unambiguous manner. All tables should be submitted in the program they were originally created (Microsoft Word table application files or Excel spreadsheets preferred).
See the Manuscripts section above for artwork and table placement.
Audio and Video Files: Authors are encouraged to submit audio/video clips to further illustrate their work. These files will be posted online and permanently linked to articles. Acceptable video file types are QuickTime (.mov), MPEG Movie (.mpg), and Microsoft AVI Video (.avi); acceptable audio files include Windows Media Player (.wma) and MP3 (.mp3). Signed release from all participants in audio and video clips is required. See the Permissions and Releases section below.
Permissions and Releases: Material taken directly from a copyrighted source should be clearly identified, and the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce it must be submitted in a separate file. Note: Obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted material is the author's responsibility, as is payment of any fees the copyright holder may request. Further information and a template Permission Request Letter is available on the Journal Author Gateway (see Obtaining Permissions).
Identifiable audio and visual recordings and images of people should be accompanied by a signed release granting permission for their likeness to be reproduced in an article. (In children's cases, the release form must be signed by a parent or guardian.) Download an Audio-Visual Likeness Release Form.
Conflict of Interest: It is the author’s responsibility to disclose any potential conflict of interest regarding the manuscript, as specified on the Contributor Publishing Agreement. Additionally, any identifying information regarding a patient should be removed from the manuscript, or informed consent from the patient will be required.
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All submissions will be peer reviewed by anonymous reviewers, including members of the distinguished, multidisciplinary editorial board. Music and Medicine aims for submissions to receive initial review within 2 months of receipt. Authors may be asked to submit subsequent revision rounds prior to final acceptance. Once a submission is accepted, authors will be asked to complete a Contributor Publishing Agreement.
For publication consideration, submit each manuscript through the online submission and review system, located at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mmd.
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Authors who want to refine the use of English in their manuscripts might consider utilizing the services of SPi, a nonaffiliated company that specializes in editing and correcting English-language manuscripts written by authors with a primary language other than English. Visit http://www.prof-editing.com for more information. (Please be aware that SAGE has no affiliation with SPi and makes no endorsement of the company. An author’s use of SPi’s services in no way guarantees that his or her submission will ultimately be accepted. Any arrangement an author enters into will be exclusively between the author and SPi, and any costs incurred are the sole responsibility of the author.)
