General Comments
Pimatisiwin covers all Aboriginal health topics: sociological, psychological, medical, anthropological, experiential, methodological, qualitative and/or quantitative in nature.
Pimatisiwin: An International Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Health marks a new step in the reporting of academic and health professional research. Health research and policy often operate outside the knowledge and influence of communities, using language and accessibility as deterrents to community participation. The articles published in Pimatisiwin are intended for readers and contributors who work and live both inside and outside the university research and health professional communities. While each community is unique in its particulars, all communities share similar problems. Making the experiences of researchers, health professionals, and community members in other countries more generally available assists all. The following guidelines, therefore, are intended to ensure the greatest possible influence on practical Aboriginal health routines.
Open Call for Papers
Articles should be no more than 30-35 typewritten pages double-spaced (c. 10,000 words) and relate to health research in Indigenous communities. The articles may be sociological, psychological, medical, anthropological, experiential, methodological, qualitative or quantitative in nature. The intent is to include articles from community members, researchers, and health professionals which will be equally accessible to all readers. Papers by community members, graduate students and health professionals are welcome. For more information, please contact the editor.
Special Issues
From time to time, Pimatisiwin publishes issues that are focused on specific areas of Aboriginal Community Health Research. In the past, we have had special issues on Research Ethics (Volume 2 Issue 1) and the Effect on Resource Extraction on Aboriginal Communities (Volume 3 Issue 1). These issues are generally lead by special editors, who have an expertise in the area. If you are interested in becoming a special editor, please contact the editor.
Editorial Submissions
Article Format
Articles must be submitted in digital format, either by email or by sending a floppy disk or CD-ROM.
Articles can be accepted in:
- Microsoft Word
- Rich Text Format
- Adobe Indesign
- For other formats contact our support personnel listed on the About Us
Initial Reading & Consideration
Articles should be sent to the Managing Editor.
Peer Review
Your paper will be sent out to one academic reviewer and one community reviewer, who have been chosen for their knowledge in the research/health area. The form they use for evaluation is online at Pimatisiwin Peer Review Guide 2007.
Copy Editing
Papers are edited for clarity, grammar, punctuation and spelling. The editor may contact the author for clarification.
Author Verification
The edited paper is then sent back to the author to verify that meanings have not been changed in editing. This is also a chance for the author to verify the accuracy of references, name spelling, data in tables, picture captions are with the right picture.
Layout
Back to the editors, this time to be arranged on the page.
Schedule for Publication
Shortly after the author returns the verified paper, it will be scheduled for publication. At present, Pimatisiwin comes out twice a year, usually in December and April
Artwork & Photos
Artwork can be submitted as:
- Pen & Ink drawings
- Original Artwork
Drawings & Artwork should be 1.5 to 2 times the size used in the publication. If an illustration will be used as a quarter page in the journal, it should be at least a half page original.
To be returned, original artwork or photographs should be clearly labeled on the margin or on the back with your name and address.
- Adobe Illustrator Files
- Adobe Photoshop Files
- JPEG,GIF, or TIFF
- For other formats contact our Support personal listed on About Us
- Photographs should be sharp and properly exposed, and can be either black & white or colour. A snapshot sized photograph (3x5 to 4x6 inches) should be scanned at 300 dots per inch. 8x10 pictures can be scanned at 150 dots per inch.
- Digital photographs should be shot at the camera's highest quality.
- Please send in more photos than you think we will need for your article, with appropriate location references in the text. We will run as many as possible. The old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words is still true. Even if you are just writing a letter to the editor or a short article, a photo or two is always welcome. Ensure that your name and address are on the back of each photo, taking care that your pen does not bleed through to the picture side. (Test on a reject photo)
Editorial Policy
Pimatisiwin reserves the right to decide at any point in the process not to publish an article.
Correspondence accompanying submissions must state that the submitted work is original, has not been published elsewhere and will not be sent to another journal or magazine unless it has been declined by Pimatisiwin.
We will consider articles based on research previously published in a purely academic journal if the new treatment develops applied perspectives thoroughly. If an article is based on an author's recent book, the Pimatisiwin submission must differ significantly.
For questions about other policies, contact Managing editor
Editorial Tips
Avoid generalizations. Be specific.
Authors are responsible for all facts, including dates and correct spellings of people's and organizations' names.
Authors have one opportunity to give reactions to Pimatisiwin's editing and to make comments and changes. That opportunity comes after the content editing. Our process deadlines do not permit repeated rounds of revision.
References and Quotations
References and quotations in text
- All references in the text should refer to the last name of the author or authors (if more than two, use et al.); year of publication; and, in the case of citations, page numbers, enclosed in a single pair of parentheses, e.g. (Clark, 1974: 23).
- If the author?s name is used in the text, follow it with the year of publication (in the case of translations or new editions, the year of the original publication in square brackets is desirable) and page numbers if necessary, e.g. Kuhn (1962 [1920]: 12) observes.
- Where an author is cited for different articles published in the same year, each citation should be distinguished by a letter attached to the year of publication. e.g. (Fischer, 1973a: 113).
- A number of references in the text or in the footnotes may be enclosed within a single pair of parentheses, separated by semi-colons, e.g., (Kuhn, 1962: 12; Fischer, 1973a: 113).
- Quotations in the text should be enclosed in quotation marks. Extensive quotations should be indented in the text without quotation marks.
References
List all references with full publication information without any abbreviations, alphabetically. The names of journals or other periodical publications should be written out in full. Where more than one reference is given for an author, they should be arranged by year, from earliest to most recent.
Milner, Henry
1990 Sweden: Social Democracy in Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
House, J. Douglas
1975 Organizations without formalization: the case of a real estate agency. Canadian Journal of Sociology 1(1): 1-12.
The following are specific examples of reference styles to be followed:
Books
March, J. and H.J. Simon
1966 Organizations. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Hollenback, G. and W. Vestal, eds.
1999 Developing Leaders at all Levels. Houston: American Productivity and Quality Center.
Newspapers
Robbins, William
1980 "Big Wheels: The Rotary Club at 75." New York Times, February 17, p. 3.
Journals
Herzlinger, R.E. and D. Calkins
1986 "How Companies Tackle Health Care Costs." Harvard Business Review 64: 70-80.
Meyerovich, Eva
1959 The Gnostic manuscripts of Upper Egypt. Diogenes 26(25): 95-98.
Popular Magazines and Internet Magazines
Spencer, Scott
1979 "Childhood?s End." Harper?s. May: 16-19.
Neuborne, E.
2000 "E-Tailers, Deliver or Die," Business Week, Oct. 23: 16.
O'Reilly, T.
1998 "The Open-Source Revolution," Release 1.0, November, www.edventure.com/release1/1198.html
Article Cited in Anthology, Chapter Cited in Book
Shaw, M.
1964 "Communication Networks." In L. Berkowitz, ed., Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. New York: Academic Press, pp. 131-153.
Shapiro, C. and H.R. Varian
1998 Chapter 7 in Information Rules. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
Working Papers
Bullen, C.V.
1988 "Groupware: A Key to Managing Business Terms," working paper 169, MIT Sloan School of Management Center for Information Systems Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
McKinsey & Co. Inc.,
1991 "Succeeding at Cross-Border Alliances: Lessons from Winners," working paper, London.
Dissertations
Smith, M.
1983 "Important Topics." Ph.D. dissertation, MIT Sloan School of Management. Forthcoming Books
Tushman, M.
In press Managing Innovation and Change. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Forthcoming Article
Tushman, M.
In press "An Information Processing Approach." Academy of Management Review.
No Author
1990 "Federal Express Uses a Three-Level Recovery System." The Service Edge December: 5.Papers and Presentations at Meetings
Donehey, J. and G. Overholser,
1998 "Capital One." Presentation at the Ernst & Young Embracing Complexity Conference, Boston, Aug. 2-4.
Kluge, J.
1996 "Simply Superior Sourcing." Paper presented at the Fifth International Annual IPSERA Conference, Eindhoven, Netherlands, April 2.
Case Study
Kanter, R.M.
1993 "FCB and Publicis (A): Forming the Alliance," Harvard Business School case no. 9-393-099. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Corp.
Government Commissions
Securities and Exchange Commission
1983 "Annual Report for the Securities and Exchange Commission for the Fiscal Year." Washington, D.C.: GPO, p. 42.