General Author GuidelinesBefore submitting a paper to the Journal of Advanced
Nursing, please see our website at www.journalofadvancednursing.com
for detailed guidelines by paper type and general journal
information.
Aims and Scope
The Journal of Advanced Nursing
(JAN) is an international, peer reviewed, scientific
journal. JAN contributes to the advancement of
evidence-based nursing, midwifery and healthcare by disseminating
high quality research and scholarship of contemporary relevance and
with potential to advance knowledge for practice, education,
management or policy.
The Editors welcome scholarly papers that contribute to the
development and understanding of all aspects of advanced nursing
and midwifery care. Manuscripts of up to 5000 words (for the main
text, excluding the abstract, summary statement, tables and
references) on nursing and midwifery practice, education,
management, and research with a sound scientific, theoretical or
philosophical base, are encouraged.
The submission of shorter papers (maximum of 2500 words of text
and a maximum of 12 references) is actively encouraged. This option
should be used for reporting research that is small in scale or
exploratory and/or with findings that are inclusive or without
potential for replication or generalization.
All manuscripts are double-blind reviewed and, where
appropriate, medical statisticians review those with statistical
content. Letters and commentaries up to 1000 words in response to
papers published in the Journal are welcomed in the JANForum
section and should be sent to the Editor in Chief. These responses
should be submitted within 2 months of the original material's
publication.
Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jan.
Full instructions and support are available on the site and a user
ID and password can be obtained on the first visit. Support can be
contacted by phone (+1 434 817 2040 ext. 167) Monday-Friday, or at
http://mcv3support.custhelp.com.
If you cannot submit online, please contact the Editorial Office by
telephone (+44 (0)1865 476518) or by e-mail (jan@wiley.com).
Papers should be submitted exclusively to the Journal of
Advanced Nursing. If accepted, authors are required to
complete a Copyright Transfer Agreement form which grants
the Journal the exclusive right to publish their paper. For full
copyright details please see below.
The Editors will decide on the time of publication. The
Editors retain the right to modify the style of a contribution;
major changes will be agreed with the author(s).
Manuscript style
For detailed instructions about the style and content of
papers, please see our author guidelines at www.journalofadvancednursing.com
Copyright
Copyright Transfer Agreement
Authors will be required to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement
(CTA) for all papers, including abstracts, accepted for
publication. Signature of the CTA is a condition of publication and
papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a
signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the
Copyright Transfer Agreement does not affect ownership of copyright
in the material. (Government employees need to complete the
Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not
need to be assigned). After submission authors will retain
the right to publish their paper in various medium/circumstances
(please see the form for further details). To assist authors
an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office.
Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form
from: www.wiley.com/go/ctaaglobal.
All manuscripts are considered on the understanding that they have
not been published previously in print or electronic format nor are
they under consideration by another publication or medium. If the
paper is part of a larger study and you, or other authors, have
written additional papers that have been published/submitted for
publication in this or any other journal using the study as the
basis for the article, you must contact the Executive Editor with
details to ensure that there is no breach of copyright. Any breach
of copyright will be taken very seriously and appropriate action
taken.
Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to
reproduce copyright material from other sources.
Please complete and return this form to the JAN Editorial
Office:
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Wiley-Blackwell
9600 Garsington Road
Oxford OX4 2DQ
UK
This journal is available online at Wiley Online Library.
Visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2648
to search articles and register for table of contents e-mail
alerts.
Early View (Publication Prior to Print)
This journal is covered
by Wiley-Blackwell's Early View service. Early View
articles are complete full-text articles published online in
advance of their publication in a printed issue. Early View
articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed,
revised and edited for publication, and the authors' final
corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form,
no changes can be made after online publication. Early View
articles are given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows
the article to be cited and tracked before allocation to an issue.
After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to
be used to cite and access the article.
Online Open
OnlineOpen is available to authors of primary
research articles who wish to make their article available to
non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires
grantees to archive the final version of their article. With
OnlineOpen, the author, the author's funding agency, or the
author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made
available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley
InterScience, as well as deposited in the funding agency's
preferred archive. Please see Terms
and Conditions for full details on Online Open. Any
authors wishing to send their paper OnlineOpen will be required to
complete the payment form available from our website at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/onlineOpenOrder
Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial
Office that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen if you do
not wish to. All OnlineOpen articles are treated in the same way as
any other article. They go through the journal's standard
peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their
own merit.
References
• References within the text should cite the authors’ names
followed by the date of publication, in chronological date order,
e.g. (Lewis 1975, Barnett 1992, Chalmers 1994). Where there
are more than two authors, the first author’s name
followed by et al. will suffice, e.g. (Barder et al. 1994), but all
authors should be cited in the reference list. Page numbers should
be given in the text for all quotations, e.g. (Chalmers 1994, p.
7). All references should be cited from primary sources.
• References follow the Harvard style, i.e. they are listed in
alphabetical order of first authors’ names.
• When a paper is cited, the reference list should include
authors’ surnames and initials, date of publication, title of
paper, name of journal in full, volume number (and issue number
where volume pages do not run on), and first and last page
numbers.
• When a book is cited, the title should be stated, followed
by the publisher and town, county/state (and country if necessary)
of publication, and first and last page numbers.
• Where a chapter in an edited book is cited, details of
author and editors should be given as well as publisher, place of
publication, and first and last page numbers. The edition (where
appropriate) of all books should be identified.
• References stated as being ‘in press’ only acceptable if
accompanied by proof of acceptance.
• We encourage you to refer to existing literature published
in JAN.
Figures and tables
Always include a citation in the text for each figure and table.
Artwork should be submitted online in electronic form. Detailed
information on our digital illustration standards is available from
http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/journal.asp
Any abbreviations used in figures and tables should be defined in
an footnote.
Approval for reproduction/modification of any material (including
figures and tables) published elsewhere should be obtained by the
authors/copyright holders before submission of the manuscript.
Contributors are responsible for any copyright fee involved.
Page proofs
The corresponding author will receive an email alert containing
a link to a web site. A working e-mail address must therefore be
provided for the corresponding author. The proof can be downloaded
as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. Acrobat
Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software
can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following web site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen and
printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further
instructions will be sent with the proof. Hard copy proofs will be
posted if no e-mail address is available. Excessive changes made by
the author in the proofs, excluding typesetting errors, will be
charged separately.
Online production tracking is now available for your
article through Wiley-Blackwell’s Author Services
Author Services enables authors to track their article - once it
has been accepted - through the production process to publication
online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles
online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of
production so they do not need to contact the production editor to
check on progress. Visit Author Services for
more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of
resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation,
submission and more.
Offprints
Free access to the final PDF offprint
of your article will be available via Author Services only. Please
therefore sign up for Author Services if you would like to access
your article PDF offprint and enjoy the many other benefits the
service offers.
Additional paper offprints may be ordered online. Please click
on the following link and fill in the necessary details and ensure
that you type information in all of the required fields:
http://offprint.cosprinters.com/cos
If you have queries about offprints please e-mail: offprint@cosprinters.com.
Single issues of the journal can be purchased from our customer
services department .
Author material archive policy
Please note that unless specifically
requested, Wiley-Blackwell will dispose of all submitted
hardcopy or electronic material 1 month after publication. If you
require the return of any material submitted, please inform the
Editorial Office
Note to NIH Grantees
Pursuant to NIH mandate,
Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted version of contributions
authored by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon
acceptance. This accepted version will be made publicly
available 12 months after publication. For further
information, see www.wiley.com/go/nihmandate
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