Author Guidelines
General Information
Mission and Aim
The Mission of the Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing (AJAN) is to provide a forum to showcase and promote a wide variety of original research and scholarly work to inform and empower nurses, midwives, and other healthcare professionals to improve the health and wellbeing of all communities and to be prepared for the future.
To realise this mission, AJAN’s aims are to:
Equip the nursing, midwifery, and wider health professions to deliver safe, quality, evidence-based care in all settings.
Promote the professional and personal safety and wellbeing of nurses, midwives, and other healthcare staff in all environments.
Support nurses and midwives to be leaders in clinical and maternity care, research, and policy across health and social issues.
Publish and disseminate a wide variety of high-quality, evidence-based original research and other scholarly work to inform and influence health, maternity, aged care, and public health policy, research, and practice.
Maintain and promote values that underpin an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable future for all communities.
Journal Scope
The AJAN publishes a wide variety of original research, review articles, practice guidelines, and commentary relevant to nursing and midwifery practice, health- maternity- and aged- care delivery, public health, healthcare policy and funding, nursing and midwifery education, regulation, management, economics, ethics, and research methodology. Further, the journal publishes personal narratives that convey the art and spirit of nursing and midwifery.
As the official peer-reviewed journal of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), AJAN is dedicated to publishing and showcasing scholarly material of principal relevance to national nursing and midwifery professional, clinical, research, education, management, and policy audiences. Beyond AJAN’s primarily national focus, manuscripts with regional and international scope are also welcome where their contribution to knowledge and debate on key issues for nursing, midwifery, and healthcare more broadly are significant.
Please note there is no professional requirement to submission and that it is not a requirement that authors are currently, or have previously, practiced as a nurse and/or midwife.
Indexation
The AJAN is currently indexed in the following databases:
Science Citation Index expanded (SCI-Expanded)
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
EMCARE
Current Contents - Social & Behavioural Sciences
CINAHL
Scopus
ProQuest
Ethical and legal Considerations
The AJAN adheres to the principles of transparency, ethical editorial practice, and publishing standards set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Manuscripts that report research studies submitted without prior human research ethics committee approval will not normally be considered for publication. In some instances, studies that have not received ethics approval may be published at the discretion of the journal providing that ethics approval would not normally be required (e.g. some quality improvement projects). Authors are requested to notify the editorial office upon submission of their manuscript and explain why ethics approval has not been secured. A letter from the relevant institution’s human research ethics committee may be requested indicating that the committee does not typically provide ethical approval for studies such as the one being considered for publication in the AJAN.
The AJAN does not accept research papers that report on studies undertaken on animals.
Declaration and Verification of Originality
All submitted manuscripts must be original and not previously published elsewhere (excepting abstracts, preliminary reports, and theses). Submissions cannot be under consideration for publication elsewhere, and if accepted, must not be published elsewhere in similar form, or in any other language. This may be appealed where permission is sought from and granted by AJAN and the publisher of the original work. The Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing will not accept manuscripts that reproduce significant sections of a previously published theses.
Although AJAN editors make every effort to ensure the validity of published manuscripts the ultimate responsibility to ensure academic integrity lies with the author, not with AJAN, its editors or the publisher. Manuscripts may be checked with originality detection software. The author(s) of manuscripts that are suspected to contain plagiarised content, before or following publication, will be contacted by AJAN’s editors prior to any further action being taken (eg. manuscript rejection or retraction).
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