Journal of Nursing Management

Author Guidelines

Aims and Scope

The Journal of Nursing Management is an international forum which informs and advances the discipline of nursing management and leadership. The Journal encourages scholarly debate and critical analysis resulting in a rich source of evidence which underpins and illuminates the practice of management, innovation and leadership in nursing and health care. It publishes current issues and developments in practice in the form of research papers, in-depth commentaries and analyses.

The complex and rapidly changing nature of global health care is constantly generating new challenges and questions. The Journal of Nursing Management welcomes papers from researches, academics, practitioners, managers, and policy makers from a range of countries and backgrounds which examine these issues and contribute to the body of knowledge in international nursing management and leadership worldwide.

The Journal of Nursing Management aims to:

• Inform practitioners and researchers in nursing management and leadership
• Explore and debate current issues in nursing management and leadership
• Assess the evidence for current practice
• Develop best practice in nursing management and leadership
• Examine the impact of policy developments
• Address issues in governance, quality and safety.

Journal of Nursing Management employs a plagiarism detection system. By submitting your manuscript to the Journal you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagiarism.

Essential requirements for papers

Before peer review, all manuscripts are screened by the editors for their suitability for publication in the journal on the basis that they fall within the Journal's Aims and Scope, and meet the following essential criteria:

• The issue is considered in an international context
• The implications of nursing management and patient outcomes are clear
• The paper adds to the knowledge base in the field
• The paper is written in clear, fluent and simple English
• Secondary Analyses are accepted. If more than one manuscript is produced from the same study, each must address different aspects of the study without duplication or ‘salami slicing’. There must always be direct referencing to any other manuscript/s from the same study (published or in press).

Please read the instructions below carefully for details on the submission of manuscripts, the journal's requirements and standards as well as information concerning the procedure after a manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Nursing Management. Authors are encouraged to visit Author Services for further information on the preparation and submission of articles and figures.

Ethical Guidelines

The Journal of Nursing Management adheres to the below ethical guidelines for publication and research.

Authorship and Acknowledgements

Authorship: Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the manuscript has been read and approved by all authors and that all authors agree to the submission of the manuscript to the Journal. ALL named authors must have made an active contribution to the conception and design and/or analysis and interpretation of the data and/or the drafting of the paper and ALL must have critically reviewed its content and have approved the final version submitted for publication. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship.

Journal of Nursing Management adheres to the definition of authorship set up by The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). According to the ICMJE authorship criteria should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design of, or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data, 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2 and 3.

It is a requirement that all authors have been accredited as appropriate upon submission of the manuscript. Contributors who do not qualify as authors should be mentioned under Acknowledgements.

Acknowledgements: Under Acknowledgements please specify contributors to the article other than the authors accredited. Please also include specifications of the source of funding for the study and any potential conflict of interests if appropriate. Suppliers of materials should be named and their location (town, state/county, country) included.

Ethical Approvals

Where a submission reports on the collection of research data involving human subjects, it must be accompanied by an explicit statement in the Materials and Methods section identifying how informed consent was obtained and a declaration that, where appropriate, the study has been approved by the appropriate Research Ethics Committee (UK) or Human Subjects Review board (US and elsewhere). Editors reserve the right to reject papers if there is doubt as to whether appropriate procedures have been used.

Conflict of Interest and Source of Funding

Conflict of Interest: Authors are required to disclose any possible conflict of interest. These include financial conflicts (for example patent ownership, stock ownership, consultancies, speaker’s fee). Authors should note that referees are asked to advise the Editor of any conflict of interest capable of influencing the author's judgment.

The Journal of Nursing Management requires that sources of institutional, private and corporate financial support for the work within the manuscript must be fully acknowledged, and any potential conflicts of interest noted. As of 1st March 2007, this information will be a requirement for all manuscripts submitted to the Journal and will be published in a highlighted box on the title page of the article. Please include this information under the separate headings of 'Source of Funding' and 'Conflict of Interest' at the end of your manuscript.

Source of Funding: Authors are required to specify the source of funding for their research when submitting a paper.

Suppliers of materials should be named and their location (town, state/county, country) included. The information will be disclosed in the Acknowledgements section of the published article.

Appeal of Decision

Authors who wish to appeal the decision on their manuscript may do so by emailing the Editor within 28 days of notification of the decision. In such cases, a letter detailing the reasons for appeal as well as a full response to any reviewers' comments, if relevant, should be provided to the Editor. If appropriate, the manuscript will be sent to another reviewer who has not previously evaluated the manuscript. The reviewers' comments, along with any subsequent editorial communications, will be assessed by the Editor. The Editor's decision will be final.

Permissions

If all or parts of previously published illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned. It is the author's responsibility to obtain these permissions in writing.

Copyright Assignment

If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.

For authors signing the Copyright Transfer Agreement
If the OnlineOpen option is not selected, the corresponding author will be presented with the Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) to sign. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs below:
CTA Terms and Conditions http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp

For authors choosing OnlineOpen
If the OnlineOpen option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):
Creative Commons Attribution License OAA
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA

To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.
If you select the OnlineOpen option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy please visit: http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement.

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 Online Library, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive.

For the full list of terms and conditions, and the order form, see
http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-406241.html.

Any authors wishing to send their paper OnlineOpen will be required to complete the payment form available from our website at:
https://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/onlineopen_order.asp.

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.

For questions concerning copyright, please visit our copyright FAQs

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically via the online submission site:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jnm. The use of an online submission and peer review site enables immediate distribution of manuscripts and consequentially speeds up the review process. It also allows authors to track the status of their own manuscripts. Complete instructions for submitting a paper are available online and below. Further assistance can be obtained from Robert Huston at the Editorial Office. Please email: jnmedoffice@wiley.com.

Getting Started

Launch your web browser (supported browsers include Internet Explorer 6 or higher, Netscape 7.0, 7.1, or 7.2, Safari 1.2.4, or Firefox 1.0.4) and go to the journal's online submission site:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jnm.

· Log-in or click the ‘Create Account’ option if you are a first-time user.

- If you are creating a new account.
- After clicking on ‘Create Account’, enter your name and e-mail information and click ‘Next’. (Your e-mail information is very important).
- Enter your institution and address information as appropriate, and then click ‘Next’.
- Enter a user ID and password of your choice (we recommend using your e-mail address as your user ID), then select your area of expertise. Click ‘Finish’.

- If you have an account, but have forgotten your log in details, go to ‘Password Help’ and enter your e-mail address. The system will send you an automatic user ID and a new temporary password.

- Log-in and select ‘Author Centre’.

Submitting Your Manuscript

- After you have logged in, click the ‘Submit a new Manuscript’ link in the menu bar.
- Enter data and answer questions as appropriate. You may copy and paste directly from your manuscript and you may upload your pre-prepared covering letter.
- Click the ‘Next’ button on each screen to save your work and advance to the next screen.
- You are required to upload your files.
- Click on the ‘Browse’ button and locate the file on your computer.
- Select the designation of each file in the drop-down menu next to the Browse button.
- When you have selected all files you wish to upload, click the ‘Upload Files’ button.
- Review your submission (in HTML and PDF format) before sending to the Journal. Click the 'Submit' button when you are finished reviewing.

Manuscript Files Accepted

Manuscripts should be uploaded as Word documents or Rich Text Format (.rft) files (not write-protected) plus separate figure files. GIF, JPEG, PICT or Bitmap files are acceptable for submission, but only high-resolution TIF or EPS files are suitable for printing. The files will be automatically converted to HTML and PDF on upload and will be used for the review process. Figure tags should be included in the file. Manuscripts should be formatted as described in the Author Guidelines below.

Blinded Review

The Journal of Nursing Management uses double-blinded review. The names of the reviewers will thus not be disclosed to the author submitting a paper and the name(s) of the author(s) will not be disclosed to the reviewers.

To allow double-blinded review, please submit (upload) your main manuscript and title page as separate files.

Please upload:

- Your manuscript without title page under the file designation 'Main document'.
- Figure files under the file designation 'Figures'.
- The title page, Acknowledgements and Conflict of Interest Statement where applicable, should be uploaded under the file designation 'Title page'.

All documents uploaded under the file designation 'Title page' will not be viewable in the HTML and PDF format you are asked to review at the end of the submission process. The files viewable in the HTML and PDF format are the files available to the reviewer in the review process.

Suspension of Submission

Mid-way in the Submission Process You may suspend a submission at any phase before clicking the 'Submit' button and save it to submit later. The manuscript can then be located under 'Unsubmitted Manuscripts' and you can click on 'Continue Submission' to continue your submission when you choose to.

E-mail Confirmation of Submission

After submission you will receive an e-mail to confirm receipt of your manuscript. If you do not receive the confirmation e-mail after 24 hours, please check your e-mail address carefully in the system. If the e-mail address is correct please contact your IT department. The error may be caused by spam filtering software on your e-mail server. Also, the e-mails should be received if the IT department adds our e-mail server (uranus.scholarone.com) to their whitelist.

Manuscript Status

You can access Manuscript Central any time to check your ‘Author Centre’ for the status of your manuscript. The Journal will inform you by e-mail once a decision has been made.

Submission of Revised Manuscripts

When resubmitting an article following initial review,please list the points raised by the reviewers and identify how you have addressed each of these (with reference, where appropriate, to the page number(s) in the text). If you disagree with a point raised by a referee, please provide a detailed explanation for this. The Editor will reconsider your manuscript in the light of your comments and modifications and refer the work back to the original referees, or to additional referees, as appropriate. Please resubmit your paper on ScholarOne Manuscripts.

Revised manuscripts must be uploaded within 2 months of authors being notified of conditional acceptance pending satisfactory revision. Locate your manuscript under 'Manuscripts with Decisions' and click on 'Submit a Revision' to submit your revised manuscript. Please remember to delete any old files uploaded when you upload your revised manuscript. Please also remember to upload your manuscript document separate from your title page.

TYPES OF MANUSCRIPTS ACCEPTED

Original Research Studies: These report on the progress and/or outcomes of original research into current management practice (maximum 5,000 words, including the abstract and references). Figures and Tables should be limited to a combined total of six. Any additional material will be published online only.

Review Articles: These summarize, analyse and evaluate published material on an important topic whilst offering new theories, syntheses or ideas (maximum 5,000 words, including the abstract and references). Figures and Tables should be limited to a combined total of six. Any additional material will be published online only.

Commentaries: These offer well argued, thought provoking personal comments on current nursing management issues (maximum 3,000 words, including the abstract and references).

Editorials: These provide expert opinion or critical review of a topical issue (1-2,000 words), including references.

Letters: These offer a well argued response to issues raised by recently published papers in the Journal of Nursing Management (2-500 words).

MANUSCRIPT FORMAT AND STRUCTURE 

Format

Language: The language of publication is English. Authors for whom English is a second language must have their manuscript professionally edited by an English speaking person before submission to ensure the English is of high quality. It is preferred that manuscripts are professionally edited. Visit our site to learn about the options. Please note that using the Wiley English Language Editing Service does not guarantee that your paper will be accepted by this journal.

Use of the first person: The use of 'I' or 'my' is quite acceptable when drawing on personal experience or describing personal action (Webb 1992). Alternatively, objective terms should be used (e.g., The interviews were conducted …). The use of 'the author' or 'the writer' in place of the first person is strongly discouraged.

Abbreviations: higher education institutions (HEIs), but Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT).

Scientific Names:

·          Complete scientific names (genus and species) should be cited in full when mentioned first. Standard abbreviation style followed for subsequent citations.

·          Full generic names should be used in titles, beginning of paragraph and sentence (there should be no abbreviations in such instances).

·          Latin names should be in italic.

Illustrations

On final submission of an accepted manuscript. Computer-generated artwork should be saved in EPS or TIFF format, ensuring that the appropriate resolution is used. Our electronic artwork information pages are available at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp . These contain full details and should be read carefully to ensure that your figures comply with our requirements.

Structure

All manuscripts submitted to Journal of Nursing Management should include:

Title Page: A Title Page must be submitted as part of the submission process and should contain the following:

• Manuscript title
• Word count (including abstract and references)
• Authors' names, professional and academic qualifications, positions and places of work.
• Corresponding author address, and telephone and fax numbers and email address
• Acknowledgements: Under Acknowledgements, please specify contributors to the article other than the authors accredited. Please also include specification of the source of funding for the study and any potential conflict of interests if appropriate. Please limit this to 50 words.

Abstract: All research, review and commentary articles must include a structured abstract of 200 words. This provides a simple way of ensuring adequate detail is provided about the contents of the study or article (what, when, why, how and so-what?).

For research articles please use the following headings in your structured abstract:

Aim(s) - what was the purpose of the study?
Background - why was this study important?
Method(s) - a brief description of the method(s) used, including size and nature of sample
Results - what were the main findings?
Conclusion(s) - what are the main conclusions and implications for practice?
Implications for Nursing Management - What are the implications for nurse managers and/or nursing management? And what does this add to current knowledge?

For review and commentary articles please use the following headings in your structured abstract:

Aim(s) - what is the purpose of the article?
Background - why is the article important at this time?
Evaluation - what types of information were used and/or how were these analysed or evaluated?
Key issue(s) - what were the most important issues to emerge from the analysis?
Conclusion(s) - what are the main conclusions and implications for practice?
Implications for Nursing Management - What are the implications of the article for nurse managers and/or nursing management? And what does this article add to current knowledge?

Main text: The main body of the article should follow the structure of the abstract, and include all the same headings, including the Implication for Nursing Management, which is particularly important and should cover the unique contribution of the article to the existing knowledge base and how this could impact on nursing management and patient outcomes.

Please use published articles in the Journal of Nursing Management as exemplars (e.g., Bishop M. 2013).

Please add up to 5 keywords after the abstract. 

References: Authors should prefer using references that are scholarly articles, of high quality and less than 5 years old. References that are older than 10 years are acceptable only if these are pioneering, or supporting classic works, for example, development of a theory, method or an instrument.

References should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). This means in text citations should follow the author-date method whereby the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998). The complete reference list should appear alphabetically by name at the end of the paper. A sample of the most common entries in reference lists appears below. Please note that a DOI should be provided for all references where available. For more information about APA referencing style, please refer to the APA FAQ. Please note that for journal articles, issue numbers are not included unless each issue in the volume begins with page one.

Journal article

Beers, S. R. , & De Bellis, M. D. (2002). Neuropsychological function in children with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 483–486. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.159.3.483

Book edition

Bradley -Johnson, S. (1994). Psychoeducational assessment of students who are visually impaired or blind: Infancy through high school (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-ed.

The editor and publisher recommend that citation of online published papers and other material should be done via a DOI (digital object identifier), which all reputable online published material should have - see www.doi.org/ for more information. If an author cites anything which does not have a DOI they run the risk of the cited material not being traceable.

Tables, Figures and Figure Legends

Figures, tables, legends, acknowledgements and references should be placed at the end of the submission. All figures and tables should be referred to in the text and their approximate positions indicated in bold (e.g., insert Figure 1 about here).

It is essential that approval for the reproduction or modification of figures published elsewhere is sought and obtained from the publishers and authors prior to submission.

Supporting Information
Supporting Information can be a useful way for an author to include important but ancillary information with the online version of an article. Examples of Supporting Information include additional tables, data sets, figures, movie files, audio clips, 3D structures, and other related nonessential multimedia files. Supporting Information should be cited within the article text, and a descriptive legend should be included. It is published as supplied by the author, and a proof is not made available prior to publication; for these reasons, authors should provide any Supporting Information in the desired final format.
For further information on recommended file types and requriements for submission, please visit: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/Prepare/manuscript-preparation-guidelines.html/supporting-information.html

Appendices
Appendices will be published as online only supplementary material and linked to the online version of the article.

Preparation of Electronic Figures for Publication
Although low quality images are adequate for review purposes, print publication requires high quality images to prevent the final product being blurred or fuzzy. Submit EPS (line art) or TIFF (halftone/photographs) files only. MS PowerPoint and Word Graphics are unsuitable for printed pictures. Do not use pixel-oriented programmes. Scans (TIFF only) should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi (halftone) or 600 to 1200 dpi (line drawings) in relation to the reproduction size (see below). Please submit the data for figures in black and white or submit a Colour Work Agreement Form (see Colour Charges below). EPS files should be saved with fonts embedded (and with a TIFF preview if possible).

For scanned images, the scanning resolution (at final image size) should be as follows to ensure good reproduction: line art:  >600 dpi; halftones (including gel photographs): >300 dpi; figures containing both halftone and line images: >600 dpi.

Further information can be obtained at Wiley-Blackwell’s guidelines for figures: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp .

Permissions: If all or parts of previously published illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned. It is the author's responsibility to obtain these in writing and provide copies to the Publisher.

Colour Charges:  It is the policy of Journal of Nursing Management for authors to pay the full cost for the reproduction of their colour artwork. Therefore, please note that if there is colour artwork in your manuscript when it is accepted for publication, Wiley-Blackwell require you to complete and return a Colour Work Agreement Form to the address below before your paper can be published. Any article received by Wiley-Blackwell with colour work will not be published until the form has been returned to:

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Optimizing Your Abstract for Search Engines

Many students and researchers looking for information online will use search engines such as Google, Yahoo or similar. By optimizing your article for search engines, you will increase the chance of someone finding it. This in turn will make it more likely to be viewed and/or cited in another work. We have compiled these guidelines to enable you to maximize the web-friendliness of the most public part of your article.

AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Upon acceptance of a paper for publication, the manuscript will be forwarded to the Production Editor who is responsible for the production of the journal.

Proof Corrections

The corresponding author will receive an e-mail alert containing a link to a website.  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 website: 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; in your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access your e-mail to retrieve the proofs.

Proofs must be returned to the Production Editor within three days of receipt.

As changes to proofs are costly, we ask that you only correct typesetting errors. Excessive changes made by the author in the proofs, excluding typesetting errors, will be charged separately. Other than in exceptional circumstances, all illustrations are retained by the publisher. Please note that the author is responsible for all statements made in their work, including changes made by the copy editor.

Early View (Publication Prior to Print)

The Journal of Nursing Management 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. The nature of Early View articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so Early View articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.

Author Services

Online production tracking is available for your article once it is accepted by registering with Wiley-Blackwell's Author Services.