Editors and reviewers provide an invaluable service to the nursing profession and are key to the promotion of nursing scholarship, open inquiry uncensored by opinion or bias, and further development of nursing's body of knowledge. By being accessible and promoting an effective, constructive review process, editors serve not only the nurses who write for them, but also their respective journals and readership. Authors deserve and expect professional and ethical behavior from peer reviewers and those in leadership who make final judgments about the publication status of their manuscripts.
You can avoid most but probably not all of the misunderstandings about "Who's idea is it?" The preventive strategies work. Fortunately, I was aware early in may career of the need to move rapidly from the idea to the proposal or written manuscript stages. In one instance, when I was attending a national meeting, I informally suggested a topic for a new nursing journal to the president of a publishing company. I heard his interest and automatically responded, "I will send you a written proposal next week." I sent a detailed, copyrighted proposal three days later, and it was accepted. As an author, reviewer, or editor, don't let your good ideas sit too long. By writing the details in a letter, outline, or proposal; including the copyright notice; and setting deadlines so the project moves to a finished manuscript, the idea will result in a successful publication.
Undergraduate nursing students have long been excluded from performing original theory-based nursing research due to severe time and work constraints. However, without actual research opportunities, students also lack research-writing experiences. This author describes successful strategies for teaching an undergraduate class how to write and submit a manuscript that describes an original research project.
Authors who write with others often encounter author-citation problems. Who should be and who should not be listed as an author? When is acknowledgment rather than authorship appropriate? Should the most well-known person always be listed first? How should faculty who help students publish be listed? This experienced author, coauthor, reviewer, and editor, provides answers to these questions.
Deciding on which verb tense to use when writing the literature review section of a manuscript is challenging. Editors find that verb tense problems are common in literature report sections of manuscripts. Authors, reviewers, and editors need to be able to spot incorrect verb tenses in literature reviews. Try editing verb tenses in the sample enclosed in this article and compare your work with that of a nursing journal editor.
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：