Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (ATHM) focuses primarily on publishing manuscripts involving complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) or “complementary health approaches” for treating a variety of common diseases and health conditions. These include a group of diverse medical and health care practices and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine.
Submissions are usually acknowledged within 2 weeks of receipt. ATHM cannot accept responsibility for lost or mislaid manuscripts. Keep original copies in your possession. Upon receipt you will be notified of the acceptance for peer review. You will then be notified of all processing and publication fees. Two or more authorities will judge the validity, originality, and significance of the work presented. After the manuscript has been reviewed, the corresponding author will be informed whether it has been accepted for publication, rejected, or requires revision. Authors will be asked to transfer copyright to InnoVision Professional Media (the publisher of ATHM) when their manuscripts are accepted for publication. Accepted manuscripts become the property of InnoVision Professional Media and may not be published or be made available online without written permission. If possible, please use MS Word for PC or Mac. All accepted manuscripts are subject to editing to conform to the American Medical Association Manual of Style, 10th edition, as well as accepted journalistic standards. Authors will be asked to review galleys after copy-editing and before publication.
Checklist for Authors
- Title of manuscript
- Running title
- All author’s full names in publishing order, with degrees, ranks, credentials, and affiliations
- Name, address, telephone (home and work) and fax numbers, and e-mail address of corresponding author
- Current mailing and e-mail addresses for all authors
- If appropriate, institution(s) in which the work was presented
- Key words
- If appropriate, number or name of grant or information about other financial support used to write the article
- Abstract (double-spaced on a separate page)
- Text (double-spaced, starting on a new page)
- References (double-spaced, starting on a new page)
- Tables and figures (starting on a new page do not integrate into electronic text; they must be separate files)
- Illustrations, original prints only, properly labeled
- Copies of all signed permissions
- Acknowledgments
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