Guidelines for Submissions
Guidelines for Submissions
PEER REVIEW
Research articles have always been peer reviewed. As of our May, 2005 issue, all articles are peer reviewed by the editor plus editorial panel members and/ or outside reviewers. If your research topic is an unusual one, we might ask you to suggest several potential outside reviewers.
The editor has an encyclopedic knowledge of spritiual awareness, healing and CAM therapies, supplemented as necessary by editorial panel and outside reviewers for unusual articles.
Our review and editing processes are user-friendly. If we feel your article will contribute to the healing literature, we will de everything we can to help you shape it to our mutual satisfaction. See appreciations regarding IJHC editing.
GUIDELINES FOR ARTICLE CONTENT
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All submitted papers are to be original, not published previously in print or online, or currently being submitted elsewhere.
PLEASE INCLUDE IN YOUR MANUSCRIPT
Format: Double-spaced, single-sided if submitted in hard copy rather than by attached file or on disk.
Title Page - Title; authors' full names in publishing order, with degrees, credentials, and affiliations; institution(s) in which work was performed; grant or other financial support for this study.
Abstract - On a separate page, including title of paper, name(s) of author(s), brief summary of conceptualization of the study, methods, results (including mention of statistical analyses), and conclusions. The abstract should be up to a page long, double-spaced.
Key words - Six words or 2-3 word phrases, separated by commas, that will lead people to identify your article as relevant to their interests, when they search for these words on Google or other search engines.
Text - double-spaced, beginning on a new page.
Length of most clinical articles should be up to about 3,000 words (6 single spaced pages).
Page numbers - upper right hand corner
References - double-spaced beginning on a new page. (See guidelines below)
Tables, Figures - Tables, graphs and illustrations in separate, attached pdf file or on a separate page, title in bold at top (e.g. Table 1. STAI scores), numbered and referenced in text, with approximate location for table or figure indicated in text.
Permissions - e.g. for personal communications, quotes of more than 200 words from a full paper or book.
Acknowledgments - including any written permissions
Clinical articles
Client participation - If you are sharing clinical observations, please do your best to obtain a companion piece from a client who can provide her or his perspective about your clinical observations.
Research articles
Informed Consent - It must be stated in the manuscript that all research subjects, prior to the start of the study, have been given an Informed Consent Form and signed it after having had an opportunity to have all of their questions answers.
Institutional Review Board - Prior to the start of the study, there must be approval by an Institutional Review Board.
Signed copyright release statement - Authors are requested to sign a copyright release agreement. You can download a .PDF copy of the agreement from this link: or phone our editorial office for a copy (609) 714-1885.
TYPING FORMAT:
I work in Microsoft Word, but text file is okay.
The easiest is if you can forward a file copy as an attached email file or mail a disk copy.
References in text of article:
Because various internet servers may differ and have compatibility gremlins, people have to be able to lift the article from the screen. Many servers will not accommodate superscript numbers.
In parentheses: Reference the first author and date in text for citation or reference. If two authors, reference both and date. If more than two, reference the first, followed by "et al," date.
If the author's name is given as a part of the text, the year of publication in parentheses should follow author's name. e.g. Daniel Benor (2001) states that…
Reference list, arranged alphabetically, at end of article If two authors, reference both. If more than two, reference the first three, followed by "et al,". Note that if more than one author, first name of each is followed by a semi-colon. Here are specific guidelines.
Journal
Last Name, First Name (semicolon); Last Name, First Name (semicolon); Last Name, First Name; et al, Title of article (capital letter for first word only), Journal ( Italics) year, volume no., page from-page to.
Book
Last Name, First Name (semicolon); Last Name, First Name (semicolon); Last Name, First Name et al, Title ( Italics, with Capital Letter for First Letters of Words Other Than Connectors), City: Publisher year.
Chapter in Book:
Last Name, First Name (semicolon); Last Name, First Name (semicolon); Last Name, First Name et al, Chapter title (Capital letter for first word only), In: Last Name, First Name (etc as in book title), Title ( Italics, with Capital Letter for Words Other Than Connectors), City: Publisher year, page from-page to.
Manuscripts
Email or disk copy is strongly preferred.
I can scan typewritten pages, but this is very tedious and time-consuming.
Contact the editorial office for clarifications or questions.
Daniel J. Benor, MD, ABHM, Editor
P.O. Box 76
Bellmawr, NJ 08099
Tel. (609) 714-1885 (866) 823-4214
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