Guidelines for Reviewers

Our mission is to draw attention to new books and videos that focus mainly (not tangentially) on psychological or health issues of the prenatal or perinatal periods of human development, from conception through the first year of life. Specifically, we want to present new material that addresses the psychology (and the way psychology interacts with physicality) of very-early parenting, prenatal bonding and communication, pregnancy, childbirth, birth complications, birth losses and grief, adoption, the primal origins of health or of violence, the healing of birth trauma, and contrasting psychological experiences of birth in other cultures.

Your review should focus on how the work contributes to an understanding of: psychology and health in the pre- and perinatal period, (and/or) the influence of parents and caregivers on babies, (and/or) healing at later ages of injuries acquired during the pre- and perinatal period.

Occasionally, we also review books that we think provide important new perspectives on human development that have major implications for pre- and perinatal psychology and health.

As a reviewer you play an indispensable part in drawing attention to recently published works and helping to circulate them in the world. Your review may touch:

• About 500 readers of the Journal;
• Students and scholars in libraries around the world subscribing to the Journal and using psychology search engines and databases like PsycINFO;
• As many as 2,000 interested persons reached by the printed and online Newsletter; and currently
• Over 1,300 computer sessions per day to www.birthpsychology.com from over 100 countries.
• Reviews are generally 600 to 1,000 words (between one and two pages of single-spaced text). Under "Tools," your word processing program can probably provide you with a word count.

For books, please provide: Title, Author's Name, Date of Publication, City and Publisher, Number of pages, and ISBN number (accuracy essential) from the copyright page.

For videos, please provide: Title, Producer or Author, Date of Copyright, Length of Program in Minutes, Distributor or Contact Info (phone, email or website).

We pattern our style on rules in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.) If any bibliographic notations are necessary in the review, APA rules call for a brief citation in parentheses in the text itself ("Smith, 1998" - or, if three or more authors, "Smith et al, 1998") and a full note at the end under References. Please run your spell-checker before sending, and provide your name, highest degree, and your city and state. We print the name, highest degree, and location of the reviewer. Arrangement for reviews may be made by contacting the Review Editor listed above.