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KeePosted Article Submission Guidelines

Below are the submission guidelines for articles in ICHP's Newsjournal, KeePosted™.

Please follow these guidelines for submitting articles for publication in the KeePosted™ College Connection columns.

1. Articles should be about school events, chapter activities, student reflections, officer profiles, or other college-related news.  Articles should not be therapeutic reviews or clinical topics.
2. Articles should be no longer than 750 words in Times New Roman 12 pt font.  Exceptions will be made on a case by case basis by the editors.
3. Chapter advisors or designees shall review the contents of all articles for appropriateness before they are submitted to the editors.
4. Editors will review and edit for grammar, sentence structure, and overall flow of the article.  Content will be reviewed for appropriateness and adherence to these guidelines.  Feedback will be provided to the students in the form of tracked changes to the document.  If the author has questions, they may contact the responsible editor.
5. Pictures may be submitted and will be published based on space availability and appropriateness.  Captions should be sent with all pictures.
6. The following formats should be used at the top of all submissions.  Please be sure to provide all requested information.
   
   
   Article Title
   By: Name, PS-4 (or appropriate class designation), ICHP Office Title (or Member)
   Midwestern University Chicago College of Pharmacy
   
   Article Title
   By: Name, P4 (or appropriate class designation), SSHP Office Title (or Member)
   Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy
   
   Article Title
   By: Name, P-3 (or appropriate class designation), ICHP-ASHP Office Title (or Member)
   University of Illinois-Chicago College of Pharmacy (UIC-COP)
   
   
   
7. Articles should be submitted by each issue's deadline via email to Assistant Editor Jennifer Phillips (jennifer.a.phillips@gmail.com)  and Design Editor Stephanie Lammi (StephanieL@ichpnet.org).
   

Thank you for agreeing to share your successful program with the ICHP membership.  Our hope is to continually identify practices that are addressing important safety issues across the state and present these to the ICHP members through KeePosted™ articles, presentations at the annual/spring meetings and through other means to be identified.  Through this sharing, ICHP members will be exposed to significant practices that can help improve medication use at their institutions.

Guidelines for Article Submission

Below are some general guidelines for article submission.  Please try to address each bullet point within your article.  If there are areas not identified below that you feel need to be mentioned in your submission, please do so.

• Maximum word length – 1000 words—BUT, we are looking for a safety pearl, so it does not have to be lengthy.  If you can get your point across in fewer words, feel free to do so.
• The use of pictures, graphs, tables, protocol forms, etc. is encouraged.
• Describe demographics of institution(s). One sentence should do it.
• Describe the safety issue.  One or two sentences here should capture it.
• Briefly describe the practice that addresses the safety issue
• What lessons were learned? What would you do differently?
• Barriers to implementation?  One or two sentences here, too.

Thank you for agreeing to share your innovative practice with the ICHP membership.  Our hope is to continually identify innovative practices across the country and present these to the ICHP members through KeePosted™ articles, presentations at the annual/spring meetings and through other means to be identified.  Through this sharing, ICHP members will be exposed to new ideas that can help improve medication use at their institutions.

Guidelines for Article Submission

Below are some general guidelines for article submission.  Please try to address each bullet point within your article.  If there are areas not identified below that you feel need to be mentioned in your submission, please do so.

• Maximum word length – 1000 words
• The article should be at the appropriate reading level/sophistication of that found in the primary literature.
• The use of pictures, graphs, tables, protocol forms, etc. is highly encouraged.
• Describe demographics of institution(s)
• Summarize practice/project. Include the following in the summary:
• Goals of the practice/project
• Methods to implement practice/project
• Main parties involved in practice/project development and implementation
• Necessary resources
• capital
• human
• other, if applicable
• Steps to implementation
• Practice/project results
• Share evaluative data, if collected
• What lessons were learned? What would you do differently?

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