CALIFORNIA HOMEOPATH – AUTHOR’S GUIDELINES

The California Homeopath is a digital online journal of homeopathy that caters to a broad audience within the homeopathic and broader health fields. This includes professional homeopaths, integrative medicine practitioners, researchers, educators, and advanced students. It also includes policymakers, healthcare advocates, and cross-disciplinary practitioners interested in homeopathy’s role in modern healthcare. We also aim to involve thought leaders and clinicians seeking evidence-based discussion, global perspectives, and practical case insights.

The goals of the journal include the following:

●      Advance clinical excellence in homeopathic practice.

●      Support practice/business development in technology, tools, design and resources.

●      Provide a platform for informed, respectful debate on professional issues.

●      Highlight new research, global initiatives, and integrative practices.

●      Encourage advocacy and policy engagement to strengthen homeopathy’s position worldwide.

●      Support and inspire professionals in the practice of homeopathy and create a virtual community of collaboration.

The editors invite you to submit articles and letters on all topics relevant to the practice of homeopathy that would be of interest and relevance to:

●      Professional homeopaths, integrative medicine practitioners, researchers, educators, and advanced students.

●      Policymakers, healthcare advocates, and cross-disciplinary practitioners interested in homeopathy’s role in modern healthcare.

●      Thought leaders and clinicians seeking evidence-based discussion, global perspectives, and practical case insights.

We are always happy to consider any article for publication – formal or informal, journalistic or academic – but if you are in doubt about the suitability of our journal for your article, or simply want to discuss ideas for publication, please feel free to contact the editor for advice (see “Contact” below). We are happy to consider articles that have previously been published, either online or in other publications, if it is relevant to the goals of any issue of the journal. If the article has been previously published, please inform us, and please note where it was published and when.

Each issue of the journal shall have a themed-based feature article, termed “The Big Picture.” Open-sourced articles may be aligned with a similar theme or may be focused on other topics. We aim for each issue of the journal to cover some of the following topics:

Section Descriptions

Although the journal is called the California Homeopath, we aim to have a global view and to embrace stories relevant to the practice of homeopathy worldwide. 

Proving Grounds

New or re-provings of remedies with methodology, prover notes, and analysis.

Materia Medica Deep Dive

Comprehensive materia medica review with clinical applications.

Principles in Practice

Articles on philosophy, methodology, and theoretical approaches applied in practice.

From the Heart

First-person narratives from practitioners or patients.

Across the Globe

Reports from international homeopathy communities.

The Big Picture

Feature article tied to quarterly theme (3,000–5,000 words).

Case Files

Clinical cases with follow-up and commentary.

Best Practice

Technology, resources, or equipment reviews.

Research Advances

Research summaries, meta-analyses, or original studies.

Advocacy & Policy

Legislative, regulatory, and advocacy updates.

Integrative Care

Integrative care models combining homeopathy with other modalities.

Book Bench

Reviews of relevant books in homeopathy, integrative medicine, and health sciences.

Deadlines - Publishing Dates

We plan to publish 3-4 editions per year.  The first issue of Volume 20 is set to publish in January, 2026. The relevant deadlines are as follows:

●      Intent to submit due by Oct 10, 2025

●      Initial Submission due by Nov 1, 2025

●      Acceptance Notice to Authors (note: acceptance is a rolling process starting in Sept.) Nov 2, 2025

●      Final Revised Submissions due by Dec 15, 2025

Guidelines

You must inform us on sources of funding (if any) and conflicts of interest. The editor reserves the right to submit articles for independent peer review where appropriate, and the decision of the editorial board concerning publication is final.

File format

Please send us your material submitted as e-mail attachments, saved in Word, or Pages. Articles accepted to be worked on will be put on google docs and edits/modifications will be made in this format. The first page of the file should contain the title, author(s) name, and professional affiliations. Please include a few sentences of information about yourself (90 words max), to accompany your article when published.

Homeopathic nomenclature

Names of homeopathic medicines appear in italics, as do book and journal titles mentioned in the text. Remedy names should appear in full at first mention and with minimal abbreviations thereafter. Only the first term is capitalised in binomial names: Arsenicum album, Ars-a; Kali phosphoricum, Kali-p. In charts and long lists the abbreviations used in Kent should be used. Otherwise remedy names, on repetition, can be abbreviated as they are in speech e.g. Aurum metallicum becomes Aurum and Pulsatilla nigricans becomes Pulsatilla.

Homeopathic potencies are indicated as 6x, 30c, 1M, 10M etc. (K or cH, where the method of centesimal dilution is specified), or LM1–30 (or higher).

Artwork

We don’t expect authors to provide artwork. However, sometimes authors supply it. In this case, artwork, including line art (graphics, tables etc.) and illustrations/photographs, must be sent as individual files, not embedded in Word. The California Homeopath is a digital publication; therefore, a lower resolution image will suffice (96 dpi). Powerpoint files (or similar) are not acceptable. All visual materials must include legends or captions, in a separate Word file.

General Structure

Journalistic and informal articles

If your article does not contain an introduction with background and reasons for writing, please provide a separate summary on p. 1 for the editor’s benefit.

Academic and technical articles

Please include an abstract of no more than 250 words with formal articles* on history, theory, therapeutics etc. This allows readers to orientate themselves, and helps to publicize your work in bibliographic extraction services such as APA citation.

Scientific reports (e.g. provings, clinical trials, epidemiological studies, and systematic literature reviews) should follow the publication guidelines in the medical literature, and include abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, in that order.

[Introduction (*why* you decided to do this particular piece of research), Methods (*how* you did it, and how you chose to analyze your results), Results (*what* you found), and Discussion (what you think the results *mean*).]

Case reports

Patients must give written consent before publication, and a statement that consent has been obtained should be included with the covering letter. HIPAA compliance is essential. Names of patients should be disguised and all identifiers omitted. Follow-up should be a minimum of 1 year in chronic diseases. Please include the following information:

●      Patient’s personal details including age, gender, relationships, occupation.

●      Dates of consultation and follow-ups.

●      A full description of the presenting complaint, including modalities, concomitants and etiology.

●      Medical and life history, where relevant.

●      The patient’s appearance and behavior.

●      The rubrics, repertories and Materia medica used.

●      Your reasoning behind any prescriptions.

●      Full details of each prescription, including name, potency, dosage and repetition. If you gave placebo, indicate when and in what form.

●      Your analysis of response to treatment, and final assessment.

Citations, References and Bibliographies

We strongly discourage authors from using footnotes when commentary and asides can be incorporated in the main body of the article. There is no need to give exhaustive lists of references either, but you should make your sources clear when mentioning or quoting other authors’ work. In-Text citations and alphabetical reference lists use APA format.

In-Text citations

Single author works: (Tyler, 1952)

Two authors: (Dantas & Fisher, 1998)

Three or more authors: (Reilly, Taylor et al, 1994)

Webpage: author (if known); if no author, use title. Date of publication.

Your sources should be listed alphabetically at the end of your article under the heading “References” and cited as follows:

Journal articles

Structure: Name of author(s) followed by initials (if 7 or more authors, give the first three and add et al; publication year; full title of the paper. Full title of the journal; volume number; issue number (where journals are not paginated consecutively throughout the year); first and last page numbers.

Reilly D, Taylor M, Beattie N et al (1994). Is evidence for homoeopathy reproducible? Lancet 344: 1601-1606.

Books

Structure: Name of author(s) followed by initials (if 7 or more authors, give the first three and add et al); year of publication in brackets, full title of the book; edition if later than 1st; publisher (for books after 1900).

Tyler M (1952). Homoeopathic Drug Pictures, 2nd ed. Homoeopathic Publishing Company.

Edited book sections

Structure: Name of author(s) followed by initials (if 7 or more authors, give the first three and add et al); year of publication; In: name of editor(s) followed by initials (if 7 or more editors, as for authors); full title of the book; edition if later than 1st; publisher (only for books after 1900); first and last page numbers.

Dantas F, Fisher P (1998). A systematic review of homoeopathic pathogenetic trials (‘provings’) published in the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1995. In: Ernst E, Hahn EG (eds) Homoeopathy: A Critical Appraisal. Butterworth Heinemann, 69–97.

Websites

Structure: Author Last Name, First initial. (Year, Month Date Published). Title of web page. Name of Website. URL

 Austerlitz, S. (2015, March 3). How long can a spinoff like ‘Better Call Saul’ last? FiveThirtyEight. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-long-can-a-spinoff-like-better-call-saul-last/

 Bibliographies and further reading

Works that you do not cite directly but provide background to your article can be included in a separate alphabetical list, headed “Further Reading”, following the same rules as References above.

Copyright

The California Homeopath does not require authors to assign copyright to the publisher: you retain copyright of your article. This allows you to reproduce your article 6 months after appearing in the California Homeopath and also allows the option of publishing your article on any website or forwarding as PDF to interested parties.

However please note our Creative Commons adherence as follows:

Contact

Please send all queries, interests and intent to submit etc. via the “Contact” form:

https://www.californiahomeopath.com/contact

Please send all Submissions to either:

Richard Pitt

Email: richardwpitt@gmail.com

Or

Kirsten McGregor

Email: kirsten@mettaintegrativehealth.com