Authors are requested to suggest the names, affiliations and contact information of individuals who may be suitable to serve as referees, but the Editors are under no obligation to use any of these individuals as reviewers.
The editor of the Journal of Research in Nursing welcomes manuscripts from readers. Original research papers and reviews on nursing, whether clinical, research, education or management topics, will be considered. These guidelines are intended to help authors with the presentation of the material they wish to be considered for publication.
Papers should be presented in an academic format and should contribute to the body of knowledge of the nursing professions. All papers undergo an internal and external peer review process. On receipt, papers are acknowledged and, after review, authors are informed whether their paper has been accepted for publication or not. In some cases, revisions of the manuscript may be requested in the light of the referees' comments before the paper can be reconsidered for publication.
Presentation
Manuscripts should be submitted via email to Victorial Nicholl, Editorial Assistant (jrn@city.ac.uk) in the format of a Word document.
Authors should include their qualifications, current email address, current job title, and a short (100-150 words) biography as well as a daytime telephone number with their submission. They should also confirm that they have not submitted their paper simultaneously elsewhere for publication. Papers should have a maximum of 5,000 words.
Original Research
Papers should be presented under the following section headings:
- Overall title
- All authors, qualifications, designations and place of work
- Abstract - including a short résumé of the research aims, major findings and conclusions of no more than 200 words
- Key words - up to six essential words
- Introduction - this should set the scene for the research study and state the research question/ hypothesis. This should be followed by a literature review, which should quote key articles directly relevant to the study
- Methodology - this should be sufficiently detailed for subsequent researchers to follow; it should reiterate the aims and hypotheses of the study and why the methodology was chosen. Copies of research tools, such as questionnaires, should be included with the manuscript
- Results - full results should be submitted, including relevant tables, figures and diagrams and details of statistical analysis
- Discussion - this should be as full as possible and attempt to explain the results achieved and their clinical significance. Limitations to the study should be highlighted in this section
- Key points - a list of four or five key points drawing out the main findings and their practical implications should be supplied
- Conclusion - this section should draw together the findings of the study, how they relate to the original aims and make recommendations as to how the work can be carried forward.
References
JRN uses the Harvard style of referencing and authors should follow this system. This means that after a quote or reference to research in the text, you should give, in brackets: 1. Author surname,
2. Year of publication
If you quote more than one source by the same author in the same year, use the letters a, b or c to distinguish.
At the end of the paper you should list all references in alphabetical order, according to their source, in the following style:
- For a book:
Clark, JM, Hockey, L (1979) Research for Nursing. Leeds: Dobson Publishers.
- For a chapter in a book:
Gumley, V (1988) Skin cancers. In: Tschudin, V, Brown, EB (eds.) Nursing the Patient with Cancer. London: Hall House.
- For a paper:
Huth, EJ, King, K, Lock, S (1988) Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. British Medical Journal 296: 6619, 401-405.
Figures and Tables
Rough diagrams can be redrawn. If printed charts are to be included, originals should be sent with the manuscript and copies should be retained by the authors. Captions should be supplied for all illustrations, which must be referred to in the text. If the material has been borrowed from other sources due acknowledgement must be given. Data for tables and diagrams should be provided in as simple a format as possible. Do not use specialised packages.
Multiple Authors
For reasons of space, details of multiple authors may have to be included at the end of the paper, with only name and place at the front. Team members and details of their contribution may be acknowledged at the end of the paper only.
Proofs
Proofs are sent by email for essential factual corrections only. References and quotations should be checked carefully by the author.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements are made to funding bodies only, not to individuals.
Offprints
Order forms and a price list are sent with the page proofs. Two bound copies and access to the final pdf file of the article will be provided to the corresponding author. Orders submitted after the issue is printed are subject to considerably higher prices.
Send manuscripts to:
Victoria Nicholl at jrn@city.ac.uk
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If you wish your article to be freely available online immediately upon publication (as some funding bodies now require), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Open subject to payment of a publication fee. Manuscript submission and refereeing procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Open. For further information, please
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