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1、投稿方式：在线投稿。
2、期刊网址：
https://journals.lww.com/rehabnursingjournal/pages/default.aspx
3、投稿网址：http://www.editorialmanager.com/rnj
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5、期刊刊期：双月刊，一年出版六期。
2020年12月16日星期三
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Information for Authors
Rehabilitation Nursing Journal accepts manuscript submissions through a submission service on another website.
Rehabilitation Nursing Journal has specific instructions and guidelines for submitting articles. Those instructions and guidelines are readily available on the submission service site. Please read and review them carefully. Articles that are not submitted in accordance with our instructions and guidelines are more likely to be rejected.
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Rehabilitation Nursing Journal
Online Submission and Review System
Overview
Rehabilitation Nursing (RNJ) is a refereed, premier publication and is the official journal of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN). The purpose of the journal is to provide rehabilitation professionals, particularly nurses, with quality articles whose primary focus is rehabilitation nursing. RNJ publishes articles about clinical practice, education, administration, healthcare policy, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and research. Continuing education articles are available in each issue.
Scholarly manuscripts are invited that are relevant to rehabilitation nursing and interprofessional collaboration and/or expansion of the science underpinning practice. Integrative reviews, systematic reviews and scoping reviews of the literature are also accepted if knowledge gaps are identified and specific directions for future research are provided.
It is recommended that all authors seek colleague peer review prior to the submission of a manuscript. If English is not the native language of the author(s), review by an individual whose native language is English is highly recommended. If a manuscript is received with multiple grammatical errors, it will be returned to the author for revision before being considered for peer review. Editorial assistance is available through editage (https://wkauthorservices.editage.com/)
Please note:
Accepted manuscripts may be accepted for a print or online issue of the journal at the Editor-in-Chief’s discretion.
All accepted print manuscripts are available online prior to appearing in print (Publish ahead of Print – PAP)
Current backlog for articles in print is generally 12-18 months.
RNJ does not publish Letters to the Editor; however, all letters received will be acknowledged with a written response from the Editor.
RNJ does not publish commentaries, unless solicited by the Editor-in-Chief.
Copyright
Each author must complete and submit the journal's copyright transfer agreement, which includes a section on the disclosure of potential conflicts of interest based on the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" (www.icmje.org/update.html).
Conflicts of Interest and Sources of Funding
Authors must state all possible conflicts of interest including financial, consultant, institutional and other relationships that might lead to bias or a conflict of interest. If there is no conflict of interest, this should also be explicitly stated as none declared. All sources of funding should be acknowledged. All relevant conflicts of interest and sources of funding should be included on the title page of the manuscript with the heading "Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding".
ONLINE MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION AND REVIEW SYSTEM
All manuscripts must be submitted online via Editorial Manager at www.editorialmanager.com/rnj.
First-time users: Please click the Register button on the Editorial Manager home page (www.editorialmanager.com/rnj). Enter the requested information to complete your registration. Upon successful registration, an email containing your user name and password will be sent to you. Please be sure to enter your email address correctly; if an error has been made or an incorrect email address has been provided, you will not receive this notification.
If you have already received an e-mail containing your User ID and password, or if you are already registered, do not register again. You may log in to the site using the information previously provided to you. You may access your Author, Reviewer, or Editor accounts with the same log-in information.
Authors: Click the log-in button on the Editorial Manager home page, enter your username and password, and click on Author Login. Click on the Submit Manuscript link to begin the submission process. Be sure to prepare your manuscript according to the requirements in the author instructions. Following submission to the journal office, you will be able to track the progress of your manuscript through the system.
For queries about submitting manuscripts, please contact the RNJ office at info@rehabnurse.org.
Manuscript Format
Manuscripts are categorized as a Clinical Feature, Research Feature, Clinical Consultation, or Current Issue.
Material submitted to Rehabilitation Nursing must be original and not published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Copies of any related ‘in press’ publications should accompany manuscripts submitted to Rehabilitation Nursing.
Rehabilitation Nursing uses authentication software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. iThenicate is a multi-publisher initiative to screen published and submitted content for originality. To find out more about iThenicate visit http://www.ithenticate.com/
Manuscripts should be in 12-point font, double-spaced, in either Times New Roman or Courier and as a Word document or as Rich Text (this includes all tables and figures) with standard margins (about 1 inch). Manuscripts should be submitted with numbered lines (formatted in the Word document) and the lines should be continuous throughout the document – that is, each page should not restart at “1”.
RNJ uses the 7th edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) manual for format and style. RNJ guidelines differ slightly from APA guidelines; for example, the RNJ requirements of the structured abstract and additional information about authors differ. The website for the 7th edition is https://apastyle.apa.org/products/publication-manual-7th-edition/
Manuscripts must not exceed 5500 words (about 22 pages) including abstract, text, references, tables, and figures. The author is responsible for compliance with APA format and for the accuracy of all information, including citations and verification of all references with citations in the text. Spelling should be in American English.
Use of Inclusive Language: Inclusive language acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences and promotes equal opportunities. Articles should make no assumptions about the beliefs or attitudes of any reader, and should contain nothing which might imply that one individual is superior to another on the grounds of race, gender, ethnicity, culture or sexual orientation.
Person First Language: Person first language focuses on the person first and the disability/condition/disease last. Thus, it is the child with autism, not the autistic child; persons with chronic illness, not chronically ill persons; the patient with diabetes, not the diabetic patient.
The typical manuscript format:
Title Page
Structured Abstract (for feature articles) – length is 150 words or less
Keywords
Key Practice Points
Text – use of headings as according to APA format
References
Tables and Figures
Title Page: Upload separately from the body of the manuscript. Title page should include the following:
Title: The title should indicate the focus of the article in as few words as possible. Titles should not exceed 10 - 12 words.
Running head: The running head is an abbreviated wording of the title. Typically it is no more than four or five words in length and is printed in all caps, flush at the left-hand top of the page. Prepare according to APA guidelines.
Author information: Indicate for each author: (a) name; (b) degrees and certifications (c) title or position, institution, and location; and (d) to whom correspondence should be sent, with full address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address; provide e-mail addresses for all coauthors. Please note the percentage of contribution of each author and their specific role in the manuscript.
Credentials: Authors should list their credentials in the following order:
Highest degree held, professional licensure, certifications in the order they were received, fellowships in order received (with FAAN listed last, if this is one of the credentials). For nurses, if the highest degree held is not in nursing, the highest nursing degree should also be listed.
Examples:
Susan Smith, PhD, RN, CRRN, FAHA, FAAN
Ellie Cortez, EdD, MSN, RN
Joe Jacobs, PhD, MD, MBA
Acknowledgements: e.g., persons for their specific contributions to the manuscript, other than the authors
Sources of Funding: All funding sources, including the grant number, should be noted on the title page. If there is no funding, this should be noted as ‘The author(s) declare that there is no funding associated with this project’
Conflicts of Interest: Conflicts of interest should be noted on the title page. If there is no conflict of interest, this should be noted as ‘The author(s) declare there are no conflicts of interest’.
Abstract: A structured abstract with no more than 150 words that summarizes the content is required. For a research study include the following headings:
Purpose
Design
Methods
Results
Conclusions
Clinical Relevance to Rehabilitation Nursing
If the manuscript is a literature review, e.g., systematic reviews, evidence-based practice or a QI project instead of an empirical (first-hand research) study, a structured abstract is still required.
Keywords: Three to five key words are recommended for use in indexing and should be listed at the end of the abstract. Please use words listed in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). The searchable MeSH database can be found at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh. Be sure to include your keywords in the title of your manuscript, in the abstract, and throughout your manuscript.
Key Practice Points: 3-4 complete sentences (in bullet point format) describing how the results of the study can be implemented into the practice of the rehabilitation nurse.
References: All citations in the text must be listed in the references, and all references should be cited in the text. References should be no older than 10-15 years (excluding classic references). Please use the most current references where possible – preferably within the last 5 years. Please follow the APA reference format adhering to rules for italics and plain font and uses of spaces, commas, and periods. Include doi numbers for all sources for which they are available. If the reference is in a language other than English, please translate the reference.
Permission to Quote: The author is responsible for securing written permission of first author and publisher for quotation or reproduction of any materials that require such permission. This documentation of permission should be included with the manuscript at the time of submission as a separate upload.
Graphics: RNJ welcomes the inclusion of tables and figures for feature articles only (generally no more than three per article). Upload each table or figure to Editorial Manager in conjunction with your manuscript text. Be sure that the graphics are relevant to and clarify the article's major points. If you are using a form from an organization or agency, be sure that the organization is identified, that permission for use has been obtained from the organization, and that the form is introduced and explained in the text.
If a graphic is not original and presents information from another source, give full credit to the original source (i.e., list the name of the source and the publication, the publication's volume and date, and the source's page number). Authors are responsible for obtaining reprint permission for using copyrighted material from another source. When submitting the manuscript, be sure to provide written permission from the source to reprint the graphics.
Here are the basics to have in place before submitting your digital art to the Editorial Management System:
Artwork should be saved as TIFF, PDF, Word Doc, PPT, or EPS files.
Artwork is created as the actual size (or slightly larger) it will appear in the journal. (To get an idea of the size images should be when they print, study a copy of the journal. Measure the artwork typically shown and scale your image to match.)
Crop out any white or black space surrounding the image.
Diagrams, drawings, graphs, and other line art must be vector or saved at a resolution of at least 1200 dpi. If the art is created in an MS Office program, convert to a hi-res PDF. If the PDF creation process is unfamiliar then submit the MS Office doc.
Photographs, radiographs and other halftone images must be saved at a resolution of at least 300 dpi.
Photographs and radiographs with text must be saved as postscript or at a resolution of at least 600 dpi.
Each figure must be saved and submitted as a separate file. Figures should not be embedded in the manuscript text file.
Artwork is published in black and white. There will be a charge for any artwork published in color.
Remember:
Cite tables and figures consecutively in your manuscript.
Number tables and figures in the table and figure legend in the order in which they are discussed.
Upload tables and figures consecutively to the Editorial Manager web site and number them consecutively in the Description box during upload.
For more information on graphics, please visit https://links.lww.com/ES/A42.
Permissions
For permission and/or rights to use content for which the copyright holder is Wolters Kluwer/LWW or the association, please go to the journal's website and after clicking on the relevant article, click on the ''Request Permissions'' link under the ''Article Tools'' box that appears on the right side of the page. Alternatively, send an e-mail to customercare@copyright.com
Feature Articles: Feature articles provide an opportunity to address important topics affecting rehabilitation nursing practice. These articles are typically 3000 to 5500 words. Topics vary greatly and may include quality improvement projects, administrative or leadership challenges, reports of research results/findings and their specific practice implications, special care considerations for selected patient/family populations (e.g., brain injured, stroke, diabetic, obese, orthopedic, pediatric, older adult etc.), evidence-based practice projects, and/or assessment tools used in rehabilitation practice.
Within the Feature Article category, Rehabilitation Nursing also welcomes systematic reviews. A review submitted to the journal must have been conducted with the same rigor as a research project using systematic, thorough, objective and well-documented steps. These reviews may fall into two categories: synthesis of results (e.g., meta-analsysis, meta-synthesis, mixed research synthesis) and state of the science integrative reviews. Systematic reviews contain clearly formulated research questions and use organized and explicit methods to identify, select, and critically appraise relevant research and to collect and analyze data from the studies that are included in the reviews. Meta-analysis (statistical techniques to integrate the results of included studies) may or may not be used to analyze and summarize the results.
It is strongly recommended that authors follow the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and MetaAnalyses (PRISMA) guidelines, available at: http://www.prisma-statement.org/ in the development of their reviews.
Manuscripts reporting randomized controlled trials should refer to the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT). These guidelines are available at http://www.consort-statement.org/
For reporting qualitative research, RNJ uses the SRQR (Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research: A Synthesis of Recommendations) from Academic Medicine. Standards are found at https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2014&issue=09000&article=00021&type=Fulltext
For scoping reviews, please follow the framework of Arksey and O’Malley.
Reference: Arksey, H., & O’Malley, L. (2005). Scoping studies: Towards a methodological framework. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8, 19-31
For quality improvement articles, use the SQUIRE guidelines at http://www.squire-statement.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&PageID=471.
Manuscripts that integrate a case report should follow the CARE guidelines available at: http://www.care-statement.org/.
Observational study reports should use the STROBE Guidelines at http://www.strobe-statement.org/index.php?id=strobe-home.
For diagnostic accuracy studies, authors are referred to the checklist for STARD, available at http://www.equator-network.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/STARD-2015-checklist.pdf.
Clinical Consultation: This article is designed to address recurring clinical questions that many rehabilitation professionals find problematic and that can be answered with published research. Readers should be able to take the practical, evidence-based information contained in the Clinical Consultation and use it to more effectively manage a persistent clinical practice dilemma. Manuscripts should be approximately 1500-2000 words. The manuscript should include the following:
clinical situation (presented as a question and description of an exemplary case study)
description of major current evidence-based interventions
concluding paragraph stating what evidence still needs to developed and rationale
references to support your rationale for action
tables and figures may be used, but are not necessary unless they illuminate the content
Current Issues: Important rehabilitation topics that are timely and present new information may be submitted as a Current Issue. The primary purpose is to stimulate discussion and advance rehabilitation nursing and interprofessional practice. Examples of prior Current Issues include but are not limited to: providing culturally competent care, implications of human genetics on rehabilitation practice, keys to coding the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF PAI), the ethics of crossing professional boundaries, caring for patients who are morbidly obese, and major concerns/challenges associated with patients’ shortened length of stays. Manuscripts that are 1500 to 3000 words (6 to 12 double spaced typed) will be considered for publication.
Continuing Education Articles: Within each issue of Rehabilitation Nursing, articles are offered with continuing education (CE) units. These CE articles may be a feature, clinical consultation or a current issue. If your article is selected for publication in Rehabilitation Nursing, it may be chosen as a CE article. LWW and CE Connection create the CE test questions for articles, not the authors.
Review Process
Manuscripts that adhere to submission guidelines are reviewed by at least two reviewers. The corresponding author receives all editorial communications regarding the status of the manuscript, revisions, and reviews. All revisions and the dissemination of the reviewers’ comments and other manuscript information to co-authors are the corresponding author’s responsibility.
Time for Review and Decision
The average time from manuscript submission to the author's receipt of the editor's decision about publication is 8 weeks. Each manuscript undergoes a rigorous double-blind peer review. Manuscripts are either accepted, accepted with minor revisions, revise and resubmit or revise with no guarantee of acceptance. Many manuscripts receive a 'revise and resubmit' decision and authors should follow the suggestions made by reviewers, and then resubmit with a detailed letter to the editor outlining the changes made (or not made and why) following the reviewers’ suggestions. The changes in the revised manuscript must appear in bold print.
If these two aspects are not completed, the manuscript will be returned.
Editorial Policies
Rehabilitation Nursing follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ (ICMJE) Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. The journal is also a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and adheres to its principles. In addition, Rehabilitation Nursing uses recommendations from the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Council of Science Editors (CSE), and the APA Manual of Style in developing editorial policies.
Definition of Authorship: Authors are those who have contributed to the conception and design of the article, the acquisition of data, or the analysis and interpretation of data, as well as the writing of the article or the revision of its content; and have read and approved the final version of the article before submission.
Disclosures: Authors are required to disclose all relevant financial support and potential conflicts of interest in their cover letter, within the manuscript, and on the copyright transfer agreement form. This form is completed electronically within Editorial Manager by the corresponding author. All coauthors indicated will receive an email to confirm authorship and complete a copyright transfer agreement. If there are no financial disclosures from any authors, this should be stated as well. In addition, authors have an ethical responsibility to ensure all research discussed in their work is credible and data are accurate prior to publication. Authors must also clearly identify, within the manuscript, any discussion of investigational or "off-label" use of drugs or medical devices. The authors will be required to submit such disclosures when submitting their manuscripts.
Author Services: Language Editing and Manuscript Prep
Inexperienced authors or authors for whom English is a second language may choose to use the Wolters Kluwer Author Services for assistance with manuscript preparation (https://wkauthorservices.editage.com/). All services are paid for and arranged by the author; however, use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication. The editors may request that authors use this or a similar service if language mechanics are viewed as a barrier for publication in RNJ.
Published Ahead of Print
Once your manuscript is accepted for publication, it will be published online before it is assigned to a print issue. Having Published Ahead of Print (PAP) capability assures that your important work is disseminated as widely and as quickly as possible. You will receive proofs of your article prior to publishing as PAP and that is your opportunity to make any needed corrections. IMPORTANT: Please review proofs carefully as only critical changes can be made after the manuscript is published as PAP. Changes would then be included in the print version.
Open Access
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