Volume 108 Number21
84 AJHM Summer 2015
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 (http://
). 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 article or
revising it critically for important intellectual content; 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 be-
ing distributed to at least two peer reviewers for criticism,
comments, and approval. Final decisions are the province
of the editor. In general, the peer review process can be
expected to require two to three months for completion.
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 com-
pany, 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 obligation 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 state-
ment 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 pub-
lished 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 re-
vised in 2008 (5). If doubt exists whether the research was
conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, 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 followed.
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 submis-
sions to other journals.
Policy Statement for Authors
The American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine
is the of-
ficial medical scientific publication of the American Institute
of Homeopathy (AIH), representing medical and osteopathic
physicians and dentists who use homeopathy in their prac-
tice, 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
ALL CAPITALS or with the “Caps Lock” on. Do not
underline headings. Headings should be justified to the
left-hand margin, not centered.
