General Author Guidelines

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.

Papers will be accepted in two parts where the content in each paper addresses a different aspect of the research undertaken. Each part must stand alone and should reference but not replicate the other in any way. 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.

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).

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted online at https://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).

Manuscript style

For detailed instructions about the style and content of papers, please see our author guidelines at www.journalofadvancednursing.com.


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 study in several separate papers, simply with the objective of collecting publications rather than with 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.

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 Interscience. Visit www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/jan 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

Online Open is a pay-to-publish service from Wiley-Blackwell that offers authors whose papers are accepted for publication the opportunity to pay up-front for their manuscript to become open access (i.e. free for all to view and download) via the Wiley Interscience website. Each Online Open article will be subject to a one-off fee of $3,000 to be met by or on behalf of the Author in advance of publication. Upon online publication, the article (both full-text and PDF versions) will be available to all for viewing and download free of charge. The print version of the article will also be branded 'Online Open' and will draw attention to the fact that the paper can be downloaded for free via the Wiley Interscience service.

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://www.blackwellpublishing.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

Upon publication, authors will be provided with electronic offprints in the form of a PDF file. Electronic offprints are sent to the corresponding author at his/her e-mail address on the title page of the paper, unless advised otherwise. 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/bw/main.jsp?SITE_ID=bw&FID=USER_HOME_PG

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