Manuscript Editing for The Milbank Quarterly Journal Articles
Published since 1923, The Milbank Quarterly is a multidisciplinary journal of population health and health policy. It publishes original research, synthesis, policy analysis, and commentary that bring new insight to important policy issues. Its readers include academic researchers and decision makers in the public and private sectors. Wiley publishes it quarterly on behalf of the Milbank Memorial Fund, and the journal is edited at the Fund in New York.
Original Scholarship covers research, synthesis, policy analysis, and systematic reviews, with text ordinarily up to 30 pages, excluding abstract, acknowledgments, figures, tables, and references. Perspectives run about 2,000 to 5,000 words and carry no abstract. Original Scholarship opens with a structured abstract of 250 to 300 words under Context, Methods, Findings, and Conclusions, with up to eight keywords, MeSH preferred. Both types include Policy Points, two or three bullets totaling under 100 words. References follow the AMA Manual of Style, 10th edition, numbered with superscripts in order of first citation. Footnotes are limited to tables and figures, and journal names follow PubMed abbreviations. Reference entries list up to six authors, and longer author lists give the first three, then et al. Manuscripts are double-spaced, paginated, and line-numbered, with a separate title page. Original Scholarship includes a data and methods availability statement, and Methods describes any AI tool that affected the findings. After an editorial screen, Original Scholarship receives double-masked peer review and Perspectives receive anonymous review. Submissions go through Wiley Research Exchange.
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Manuscript Editing and Proofreading for The Milbank Quarterly
We offer three levels of manuscript editing depending on what your manuscript needs. Each is described below so you can choose the service that fits where your draft is right now.
Grammar and usage, awkward phrasing, repetition, and passive voice corrected, then clarity, concision, sentence structure, transitions, and tone, with your style manual applied throughout and a final proofread. For authors whose argument and structure are settled.
Clarity, emphasis, and paragraph structure: topic sentences, transitions, and sentences reordered within a paragraph, with every fact and claim kept as you wrote it. Includes copy editing and a final proofread.
Spelling, punctuation, typos, capitalization, grammar, and usage corrected with minimal wording changes, for manuscripts that have been edited and need a last check before submission to The Milbank Quarterly.
The Quarterly's For Authors page covers article types, abstracts, Policy Points, and references. If you have reviewer comments from an earlier submission, send them with your manuscript and we will address each one. If you have questions about which service is right for your manuscript, contact us directly. We respond to every inquiry the same day during business hours.
Our scientific editing services include health services and health policy copy editing, line editing, and AMA, APA and Vancouver citation formatting. Academic proofreading covers the final read. If English is your second language, see English language editing for researchers. We also prepare articles for Medical Care Research and Review and Health Affairs.
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