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Volume 106 Number 2
90 AJHM Summer 2013
Requirements for Submission of Manuscripts
Compliance with International Committee of
Medical Journal Editors UniformRequire-
ments forManuscripts
T
he
American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine
ad-
heres to the requirements for manuscripts as promul-
gated by the International Council of Medical Journal Edi-
tors. A complete description of these requirements can be
found on the American Institute of Homeopathy’s website
) or the ICMJE’s website
. Authors of experimental studies should
pay special reference to these requirements, which are too
exhaustive to list here. A brief summary of the bulk of the
requirements is here listed:
Authorship qualifications
(others in acknowledg-
ments)
Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial con-
tributions to conception and design, acquisition of data,
or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the arti-
cle or revising it critically for important intellectual con-
tent; and 3) final approval of the version to be published.
Authors should meet conditions 1, 2, and 3.
Peer Review
All articles are subject to peer review, with articles being
distributed to at least two peer reviewers for criticism,
comments, and approval. Final decisions are the prov-
ince of the editor. In general, the peer review process can
be expected to require two to three months for comple-
tion.
Conflict of Interest
Authors must disclose any potential/actual conflict of in-
terest – financial or personal; to be included on title page
under title. If a study is funded by an organization or
company, authors must disclose the level of involvement
and whether or not all data was made available to author.
Peer reviewers and editorial staff have a similar obliga-
tion to disclose conflict of interest.
Privacy/Informed Consent
Authors must be sure to secure the privacy of any patient
cases published – no names, numbers, identifiers are to
be mentioned; if identity is revealed, informed consent
must be secured by the journal or author (with a written
statement to that effect sent to journal).
Authors/Reviewers
: Unless otherwise stated, privacy of
authors will be maintained from peer reviewers, and vice
versa for reviewers. Reviewers’ comments will not be
published with the article without review and permission
of the author.
Protection of Human/Animal Subjects
When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors
should indicate whether the procedures followed were in
accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible
committee on human experimentation (institutional and
national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as
revised in 2008 (5). If doubt exists whether the research
was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Decla-
ration, the authors must explain the rationale for their
approach and demonstrate that the institutional review
body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the
study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors
should indicate whether the institutional and national
guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was fol-
lowed.
Overlapping/Redundant Publications
The journal will not publish papers that have been simul-
taneously submitted to other journals. If an article was
previously rejected by another journal, the
AJHM
must
be informed. The author should include a statement with
the submitted article as to where, when, and outcome of
submissions to other journals.
Policy Statement for Authors
The American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine
is the
official medical scientific publication of the American
Institute of Homeopathy (AIH), representing medical and
osteopathic physicians and dentists who use homeopathy
in their practice, advance practice nurses, physician’s
assistants, and doctors of homeopathy. It is the express
policy of the Board of Trustees of the AIH that authors
who submit papers for consideration for publication in the
AJHM
which contain clinical material dealing with the
treatment of the sick must be duly licensed or otherwise
legally engaged in the practice of homeopathic medicine
at the location of their practice.
Writing, Assembling, SendingManuscripts
• For main body text use Times New Roman, font size
10, justified both margins. Do not indent paragraphs.
• Italicize all remedy names, and write them out fully.
• Do not add extra styling to headings or captions. No
boxes around text. We will do this. Keep it simple.
• Use two spaces following a period (full stop) to sepa-
rate sentences.
• Accents and Special Characters. Many accents, sym-
bols, and special characters are available as ASCII char-
acters in a word processor and should be used.
• Headings. Use normal type for headings. Capitalize the
first letter of the first word only. Do not type headings in