期刊名称：NURSING INQUIRY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims and Scope
Nursing Inquiry is an international peer-reviewed Journal which publishes articles for nurses and healthcare professionals on issues relating to the practice of nursing and healthcare. The Journal aims to;
* Explore emerging ideas, frameworks and approaches to healthcare
* Promote international perspectives in nursing and healthcare
* Inform debate on current issues in policy and practice
* Examine current trends in nursing and healthcare practice
The Editor welcomes original research and review articles on the following:
* Substantive research to investigate and analyse practices, technologies and trends in nursing and healthcare that draws upon methods and ideas from the humanities and social sciences, as well as from science and medicine.
* International and comparative perspectives on care giving, health care and health promotion in the context of globalisation and migration of care providers
* Policy analyses that critically examine the position of the healthcare professions in light of global issues, such as the casualisation of labour, the emergence of generic health workers, multi-disciplinary teams, independent practice models, technological changes, privatisation of health care and increased financial pressure on health spending.
* Methodological analyses that develop and review approaches and frameworks to inquiry in a way that extends and enriches nursing and healthcare research.
* Ethical inquiry regarding everyday healthcare practices and assumptions. We welcome papers that re-examine these assumptions and explore the connections between practice and ethics
* Philosophical inquiries that investigate the assumptions underpinning clinical practice and raise questions such as 'Why do we engage in particular practices?' We encourage papers that employ a comprehensive exploration of opposing ideologies and reject conformity in the study of the healthcare professions.
TopIndexed / Abstracted in
- Science Citation Index
- APAIS (Australian Public Affairs and Information Service)
- ASSIA
- British Nursing Index
- CancerLIT
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) Database
- Family Index
- Health Services Abstracts
- International Nursing Index
- MEDLINE
- PsychINFO
- SCOPUS
- Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts
- Sociological Abstracts
- UnCover
- University Microfilms
Instructions to Authors
Author Guidelines
Nursing Inquiry is a fully refereed journal that provides an interdisciplinary forum for the lively exchange of ideas about philosophical, methodological and substantive issues relating to ever day nursing practices. We invite submissions of Feature Articles, Reviews, and Commentaries. Conversations (written transcripts of conversations with international nursing scholars), Conference and Book Reviews will also be published.
Manuscripts are accepted for publication in Nursing Inquiry on the understanding that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Except for Conversations and Conference and Book Reviews, manuscripts are peer-reviewed by two anonymous reviewers. The editorial board reserves the right to refuse any material for publication and advises that authors retain copies of submitted manuscripts and correspondence as material cannot be returned.
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guidelines below and submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nin. Full instructions and support are available on the site and a user ID and password can be obtained on the first visit. Support can be contacted by phone (+1 434 817 2040 ext. 167) or at http://mcv3support.custhelp.com. If you cannot submit online or have a general query, please contact the Editorial Office via e-mail at nijournal.nursing@utoronto.ca.
It is a condition of publication that authors grant Nursing Inquiry the exclusive licence to publish all articles. Papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless the exclusive licence to publish has been granted. To assist authors an exclusive licence form is available from the editorial office or by clicking here http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/nin_exclusive_licence.pdf
Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
Preparation of Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be consistent in presentation and style. Descriptive subheads (maximum of two levels) may be used. Spelling should follow either British, USA or Australian conventions, but must be consistent throughout the manuscript. Citations should follow the author-date system, commonly called the Harvard system (see below). Footnotes are to be used sparingly.
Layout should be double-spaced. The manuscript should be presented in the following order: title page, abstract and keywords, text, acknowledgments, references, figure legends, figures and tables. All pages should be numbered. A cover sheet setting out the manuscript title and correspondence details of the author(s) should be included with the manuscript, but the author(s) name(s) should not appear on the manuscript itself.
Word Limits
Feature Articles and Reviews should be between 5000 and 8000 words, inclusive of tables, figures and references. Commentaries are shorter pieces, often of a more polemic nature, ranging from 2000 to 4000 words.
Title Page
The title page should contain the category of the article, the title and word length of the paper. The title should be short and informative and contain the major keywords. A short title (up to 40 characters including spaces) should also be provided.
Abstract and Keywords
All papers must include an abstract of 150-200 words, which describes the method of research and the principal conclusions of the study. The abstract should not contain abbreviations or references. Up to five keywords (chosen from the CINAHL thesaurus, if possible) should also be provided.
Acknowledgments
The source of financial grants and the contribution of colleagues or institutions should be acknowledged. The written permission of each person acknowledged should be obtained.
References
We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.
EndNote reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp
Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp
Text citations identify the author and the date of publication, with full details of the source in the list of references. The text citation, including a page reference, might be (Foucault 1980, 127), and the full reference:
- to a book: Foucault M. 1980. The will to truth. London: Tavistock Publications.
- to a chapter from an edited work: Reed F. 1994. Mobility and safer client handling. In Knowledge to care: A handbook, eds K Mahon and J Harding, 47-51. Oxford: Blackwell Science.
- to a journal article: Aranda Sanchia K, and Annette F Street. 1999. Being authentic and being a chameleon: Nurse-patient interaction revisted. Nursing Inquiry 6: 75-82.
See The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition, for further details and examples.
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information in the text. Tables should be numbered consecutively and have self-explanatory titles.
Figures
Figures must be of high-quality reproductive art or in electronic form ready for reproduction. Figures should each be on a separate page, be numbered consecutively and have self-explanatory titles. They should be sized to fit within the column (80 mm) or full text (170 mm) width. Written permission to publish must be obtained from any subjects recognisable in photographs and for any copyright material. Please see http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/illustration.asp.
Colour Figures
It is the policy of the Nursing Inquiry 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, Blackwell Publishing require you to complete and return a colour work agreement form before your paper can be published. This form can be downloaded as a PDF* from the internet. The web address for the form is: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/Sub3000_X_CoW.pdf
Once completed, please return the form to the Production Editor at the address below. If you are unable to access the internet, or are unable to download the form, please contact the Production Editor:
Jacqui Brown
Blackwell Publishing
101 George Street
Edinburgh
EH2 3ES
Fax: +44 (0) 131 226 3803
Tel: +44 (0) 131 718 4881
E-mail: Jacqui.Brown@edn.blackwellpublishing.com
Any article received by Blackwell Publishing with colour work will not be published until the form has been returned.
* To read PDF files, you must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have this program, this is available as a free download from the following web address:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Figure Legends
In the full-text online edition of the journal, figure legends must be truncated in abbreviated links to the full screen version. Therefore, the first 100 characters of any legend should inform the reader of key aspects of the figure.
Abbreviations and Numbers
Abbreviations should be used sparingly. The term should first be given in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Numbers that refer to units of measurement or are greater than ten are written as figures. Spans of numbers should use the minimum number of figures (123-7; but 15-19), except for years, when two figures are used for the closing year (1997-99; 1890-1918).
Authors' Original Materials
Unless specifically requested by a society or individual author, hardcopy and electronic materials will be retained for no longer than two months following publication of each issue. Any hardcopy and electronic material should then be disposed of or recycled. This includes original artwork, hardcopy text and any accompanying disks/cd roms.
Any author wishing for any of their materials to be returned should alert the Production Editor via the Editorial Office at the submission stage, or at the latest to the Production Editor directly on receipt of proofs. No responsibility will be taken for author material being destroyed if there has been no indication given that it should be returned.
Proofs and Offprints
Proofs will be sent to the author submitting the paper and must be returned promptly.This will allow correction of printers' and similar errors. Major changes will not be entertained and authors may be charged for excessive amendments at this stage.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 web site: http://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. Excessive changes made by the author in the proofs, excluding typesetting errors, will be charged separately. Electronic offprints will be supplied free to the corresponding author of each paper published. Additional paper offprints may be ordered online. Please click on the following link and fill in the necessary details and ensure that you type information in all of the required fields: http://offprint.cosprinters.com/cos/bw/main.jsp?SITE_ID=bw&FID=USER_HOME_PG
If you have queries about offprints please email offprint@cosprinters.com
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Editorial Board
Editorial Information
Editor
Sioban Nelson, University of Toronto, Canada
Founding Editor
Judith Parker, University of Melbourne, Australia
European Editor
Michael Traynor, Middlesex University, UK
Asia Pacific Editor
Judith Parker, University of Melbourne, Australia
Editorial Office
Faculty of Nursing
University of Toronto
155 College Street, Suite 215
Toronto ON
M5T 1P8
Tel: (416) 978-2862
Fax: (416) 946-5798
e-mail: nijournal.nursing@utoronto.ca
Web: www.nursing.utoronto.ca
Editorial Board
David Allen, University of Washington, USA
Joan M. Anderson, University of British Columbia, Canada
Sanchia Aranda, University of Melbourne, Australia
Patricia Benner, University of California, San Fancisco, USA
Kristín Björnsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland
Andreu Bover, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
Sophia Chan, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Pat D'Antonio, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Sally Gadow, University of Colorado, USA
Denise Gastaldo, University of Toronto, Canada
Suzanne Gordon, USA
Beverly Henry, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Brian Hodges, University of Toronto, Canada
Colin Holmes, James Cook University, Australia
David Holmes, University of Ottowa, Canada
Veronica James, University of Nottingham, UK
Shake Ketefian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Jocalyn Lawler, University of Sydney, Australia
Irena Madjar, New Zealand
Susanne Malchau, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Joel Rolim Mancia, Brazilian Nursing Association, Brazil
Afaf Meleis, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Francisco Mercado, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
Elizabeth Peter, University of Toronto, Canada
Anthony Pryce, City University, UK
Mary-Ellin Purkis, University of Victoria, Canada
Anne Marie Rafferty, Kings College London, UK
Jane Robinson, UK
Trudy Rudge, University of Sydney, Australia
Margaret Sandelowski, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Naomi Seboni, University of Botswana, Botswana
Annette Street, La Trobe University, Australia
Thomas Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
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