instructions and guidelines
Writing for the American Journal of Nursing: Author Guidelines and Submission Checklist
Authors should carefully review these author guidelines.
AJN is a peer-reviewed journal that follows publishing standards set by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE; www.icmje.org). AJN’s mission is to promote excellence in nursing and health care through the dissemination of evidence-based, peer-reviewed clinical information and original research, discussion of relevant and controversial professional issues, adherence to the standards of journalistic integrity and excellence, and promotion of nursing perspectives to the health care community and the public.
AJN’s readers are experienced clinicians. Just over half are hospital based; we also have a large readership among faculty and nurses in community health. Most (3/4) have a BSN or higher degree; over 1/3 have a master’s or higher degree; and over 40% are certified in their specialty.
AJN welcomes submissions of evidence-based clinical application and review papers, descriptions of best clinical practices, original research reports, case studies, quality improvement (QI) reports, narratives, commentaries, and other manuscripts on a variety of topics. AJN also welcomes submissions to its various departments and columns, including artwork and poetry that is relevant to nursing or health care. Guidelines on writing for specific types of articles are available below. Authors who wish to submit photo-essays should send a query letter to the editor-in-chief before submission.
All accepted papers undergo editing that includes fact-checking; reference checking; determinations of balance, bias, and accuracy; and editing to enhance the readability and accessibility of the paper. Submission of a manuscript implies the authors’ agreement to work on the manuscript with the editorial staff—on a continuing basis—during production. Poems and artwork are not edited.
QUERY LETTERS
We strongly encourage authors to familiarize themselves with the journal in print or online at www.AJNonline.com. Query letters should include a paragraph describing the proposed manuscript, its projected length, an abstract and/or outline, and a short biographical sketch that includes the author’s qualifications for writing on the topic. Do NOT send the manuscript with the query letter. Query letters should be sent to diane.szulecki@wolterskluwer.com. We do consider completed manuscripts without a prior query when submitted to www.editorialmanager.com/ajn.
Although authors may send query letters to an unlimited number of journals simultaneously, it is not appropriate to submit a manuscript to more than one journal at a time. AJN does not consider manuscripts under review by other publications or previously published manuscripts. Authors who violate this standard of biomedical publishing will not be welcome to submit other manuscripts to the journal.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
We do not accept submissions via e-mail. Authors must submit all manuscripts online at www.editorialmanager.com/ajn. Log on to register and submit a manuscript. This is a secure site; AJN editors control access to all submissions. For questions about submitting a manuscript, contact Diane Szulecki, editor: diane.szulecki@wolterskluwer.com.
Authors enter their names and the names of their institutions directly onto the website, as instructed; however, although that information will be linked to their manuscripts, in order to accommodate blinded peer review, it will not be visible to peer reviewers. Do not include names and affiliations anywhere on the manuscript itself (except for the cover letter).
The cover letter. Authors should submit a cover letter with each manuscript. The cover letter should include the following:
• a description of any other submission or previous publication that might be considered redundant or that duplicate any part of the submitted manuscript. In this case, please include a link to an online version of that article.
• a statement about whether permission has been obtained for reprinting or adapting any tables, charts, illustrations, or other parts of the manuscript that have been previously published.
• disclosure of any funding sources or other support for preparation of the paper.
Conflicts of interest and authorship. AJN adheres to journalistic standards that require transparency and disclosure of real and potential conflicts of interests, financial and otherwise, that authors, peer reviewers, and editors may have. All individuals listed as authors (see www.ICMJE.org for standards for authorship) will be required to fill out the AJN Author Agreement: the corresponding author completes it in the “Additional Information” step of the Editorial Manager submission process; co-authors complete it via an e-mail link that will be sent to them upon submission of the manuscript.
Preprints. Posting of un-refereed manuscripts to a community pre-print server by the author will not be considered prior publication, provided that the following conditions are met: 1) During submission, authors must acknowledge pre-print server deposition and provide any associated accession numbers or DOIs; 2) Versions of a manuscript that have been altered as a result of the peer review process may not be deposited; 3) The pre-print version cannot itself have been indexed in MEDLINE or PubMed; 4) Upon publication, authors are responsible for updating the archived pre-print with a DOI and link to the published version of the article.
Photographs and art. Authors who submit original artwork or photographs should post clear images with the manuscript. If the paper is accepted for publication, high-resolution images will be required (see Tables, Figures, Illustrations, and Photos below for the required specifications). Authors must make sure that their artwork and photos will meet these requirements before submitting low-resolution images with the manuscript. Authors should obtain permission for images published elsewhere or not author created. Authors should contact Diane Szulecki if they have questions about such materials.
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