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MISSION
Illness, Crisis & Loss (ICL) is a quarterly journal, sponsored by the Center for Death Education & Bioethics, publishing peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, and essays on psychosocial and ethical issues associated with life-threatening illnesses, traumatic crises, and grief and loss. ICL features editorials, research notes, Letters-to-the-Editor, commentaries, essays, clinical cases, news, and announcements. Occasional theme issues and guest editorials address current issues and policies of interest to readers who are critical thinkers and practitioners involved in psychosocial and ethical issues. ICL is a reflective forum for practitioners, researchers, leaders, and students from a variety of fields whose interdisciplinary insights and perspectives link theory, research, practice. ICL is published by Baywood Publishing, Inc.in January, April,
July, and October.
MANUSCRIPTS
Procedure and Format
Submissions, including articles, essays, and news notes, should be sent to the ICL Co-Editors. Requests to write a book review should be submitted to the ICL Book Review Editor prior to submitting a review. All submissions are reviewed by at least two referees. Every effort will be made to return reviewers' comments within two months of submission. After publication, 10 tearsheets will be furnished free by the publisher. Additional reprints will be available for purchase.
ICL article, essay and review submissions should be double-spaced, 12-point type with one-inch margins, including tables, figures, and references. All articles and essays should include an abstract of not more than 150 words. Endnotes and references should follow the text, with tables and figures following on separate pages. To facilitate anonymous review, the name, affiliation, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail information of each author should be listed on a separate page. Authors are invited to consult articles in current issues of ICL regarding any questions about format.
Style and Permissions
Prepare manuscripts according to APA Style. Double-space all material, including the abstract, endnotes, references, quotations, appendices, and tables. Do not use bold or italic type; indicate italics by underlining. Tables and figures should each be on a separate page, grouped together after the reference section. Except for size, all figures will appear as submitted; they must be camera-ready. Please do not submit glossies. Pages must be numbered (upper right corner preferred).
Written permission must be obtained from the copyright holder for all quotations over 500 words from any one academic source, for any tables and/or figures taken from a source in which you do not hold the copyright, and for all quotations of any length from newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, magazines, movies, songs, or poems.
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