FAQs, helpful hints and tips
FAQs
Helpful hints and tips
Two-part Papers
Where two papers are produced from the same study, they should be submitted to JAN as freestanding papers and not as a two-part paper. There should be minimal duplication and no 'cut and paste' of material between the two papers. However, it might be appropriate to describe the research methods fully in the first paper and give a summary of these in the second paper, with reference to the fuller description in the first paper. However this is done, there must always be direct referencing to any previous paper/s that has/have been published (or is 'in press') from the same study and the rules that apply to plagiarism are equally applicable to one's own work.
Authors should also be aware of the danger of trying to publish small sections of a study in several separate papers, with the objective of collecting publications rather than addressing in-depth different aspects of the same study, or reporting that study in different ways for very different readerships. This 'salami slicing' can lead to misrepresentation, for example by decontextualising the findings or losing the benefits of using triangulation in the research being reported.
Funding
The Journal of Advanced Nursing requires authors to specify any sources of funding (institutional, private and corporate financial support) for the work reported in their paper. This information, in the form of the name of the funding organisation/s and the grant number -or should be included at the end of the article under the heading ‘Funding’, and provided at the time of submitting the paper. If there was no funding, the following wording should be used: “This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.” Any suppliers of materials should be named and their location (town, state/county, country) included if appropriate. This information will be included in the published article.
Conflict of interest
Authors are required to disclose any possible conflict of interest when submitting a paper. These can include financial conflicts of interest e.g. patent ownership, stock ownership, consultancies, speaker's fee. All conflict of interest (or information specifying the absence of conflict of interest) should be included at the end of the article under ‘Conflicts of Interest’. This information will be included in the published article.
If the author does not have any conflict of interest the following statement should be included: “No conflict of interest has been declared by the author(s).”
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