期刊名称：MCN-THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MATERNAL-CHILD NURSING
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
MCN, The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, the only journal for both pediatric and perinatal nurses, has been a leader in the field for over 30 years.
MCN's mission is to provide the timeliest information to nurses practicing in perinatal, neonatal, midwifery, and pediatric specialties. MCN focuses on today's major issues and high priority problems in maternal/child nursing, women's health, and family nursing with extensive coverage of advanced practice healthcare issues relating to infants and young children. Each issue features peer-reviewed, clinically relevant articles. Coverage includes updates on disease and related care; ideas on health promotion; insights into patient and family behavior; discoveries in physiology and pathophysiology; clinical investigations; and research manuscripts that assist nurses toward evidence-based practices. Continuing education contact hours are available in each issue.
Instructions to Authors
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MCN, The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing
Online Submission and Review System
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MCN’s mission is to provide the most timely, relevant information to nurses practicing in perinatal, neonatal, midwifery and pediatric specialties. MCN is a peer reviewed journal which meets its mission by publishing clinically relevant practice and research manuscripts aimed at assisting nurses toward evidence-based practice. |
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General Manuscript Preparation:
- Double spaced, Times Roman 12 point type, 1?inch margins all around
- APA format (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed, 2001)
- Number each line of text in the left margin, and each page at the top center
- Twenty pages are the maximum, including references, tables, figures and boxes (each table, figure or box must be on a separate page)
- Provide a running head at the top right of each page which describes the title in 4 words or less.
- If you use “track changes during the writing of your manuscript, you must remove the hidden data before submitting
- There should be no identifying information about any of the authors anywhere in the manuscript.
- Provide a 250 word (or less) abstract (research submissions require a structured abstract)
- Notify the editor if data from the submitted research has been used in other publications (see number 1 below)
- Send through Editorial Manager using this URL: http://mcn.edmgr.com
Specific Instructions:
1. Title Page: The title of the article should be 60 characters in length or less. No identifying information about the authors should be included. Identify research funding sources. Conflict of interest must be disclosed, including any financial interest or affiliation with any organization or company related to the material in this manuscript. If data in this manuscript have been used in other publications, or if this is a secondary analysis, please send the editor a copy of all publications which have come from this research. Call or email the editor with any questions about this.
2. Next page: 5 callouts and 4 key words. Callouts are single sentences which highlight the important themes of the manuscript, and make the article interesting for the reader (see past issues of MCN for examples of callouts in each article). Key words are single words which classify the manuscript. Use MeSH (Index Medicus) key words only.
3. Next page: Abstract of 250 words describing the purpose of the article and the clinical implications. Clinical research articles require a structured abstract with the headings: Purpose; Study Design and Methods (including data collection, sample, instruments, analysis); Results; Clinical Implications
4. Next page: Begin text. Twenty pages are the maximum, including references, tables and figures. Each table and figure must be on a separate page. Manuscripts detailing practice issues should have clearly labeled sections starting with Introduction and ending with Clinical Implications.
5. Clinical research submissions: Label sections as Introduction (which will include the literature review), Study Design and Methods, Results, Clinical Implications. If a survey instrument, questionnaire or psychometric instrument has been used, indicate where the reader can obtain the full instrument. Description of psychometric instruments should include reliability and validity statistics. Sample size must be described fully. Provide a power analysis whenever inferential statistics are used.
Include a separate box at the end of the manuscript containing a bulleted list of Suggested Clinical Implications. MCN only publishes research with strong Clinical Implications sections.
6. Pilot study submissions: Please read the following before submitting: Perry S.E. (2001). Appropriate use of pilot studies. Journal of Nursing Scholarship 33(2):107. Pilot studies will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and must include a power analysis if inferential statistics are being used.
7. References (check each carefully for completeness and accuracy before submitting): Unpublished data, personal communication, submitted manuscripts, and non-peer reviewed publications may not be listed as references. No more than 30 references should be included. References should not be more than 10 years old. If you used a reference manager program such as End Note to prepare the manuscript, be sure to remove all the “field codes?(which turn the references grey) before submitting the manuscript.
8. Tables, Figures, Boxes: Combined maximum is 5, each on a separate page.
9. Copyright Transfer Form: All authors must sign a copy of the Journal’s “Authorship Responsibility, Financial Disclosure, and Copyright Transfer form and submit it at the time of manuscript submission. This form can be downloaded and signed. You can submit this form one of two ways: 1) Scan the signed document and save as a PDF file; attach the file to your submission as a submission item. OR 2) FAX the signed form to the Journal Editor at 631-547-8943.
10. Submit manuscript to: http://mcn.edmgr.com
Your manuscript will be reviewed by the editor and sent for peer review if it meets MCN’s standards. If sent for peer review, you can expect to be notified about the disposition of the manuscript approximately 6-8 weeks after submission. It is rare that a manuscript is ever accepted without revision.
Editorial Board
Editorial Board & Publication Staff
Editor-in-Chief
Margaret Comerford Freda EdD, RN, CHES, FAAN
Professor and Director of Patient Education Programs
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, New York
margaretfreda@yahoo.com
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Assistant to the Editor
Melissa Illames
melissaillames@yahoo.com
Phone: (718)405-8161
Editorial Office
100 Bay Drive East
Huntington Bay, NY 11743
Phone: (631) 424-3747
Fax: (631) 547-8943
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Editorial Board
Judy Beal, DNSc, PNP, RN
Chairperson and Professor of Nursing
Associate Dean
Graduate School for Health Studies
Simmons College
Boston, MA
E-mail: judy.beal@simmons.edu
Lynn Clark Callister, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, College of Nursing
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah
E-mail: lynn_callister@byu.edu
Kathleen Leask Capitulo, DNSc, RN, FACCE
Chief Nursing Officer North Shore University Hospital
Manhasset, NY
E-mail: DrKatieRN@hotmail.com
Laura L. Hayman, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Division of Nursing
New York University
New York, New York
E-mail: llh2@is.nyu.edu
Maureen Heaman, PhD, RN
307 Lindenwood Drive West
Winnipeg, MB
Canada R3P 2A8
Heidi VonKoss Krowchuk, PhD, RN, PNP, FAAN
Associate Professor
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
E-mail: heidi_krowchuk@uncg.edu
Terri H. Lipman, PhD, CRNP, FAAN
Associate Professor
Nursing of Children Division
University of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Division of Endocrinology/Diabetes
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
E-mail: lipman@nursing.upenn.edu
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Patricia R. McCartney, PhD, RNC, FAAN
Clinical Professor
School of Nursing
State University of New York
University at Buffalo
Staff Nurse, Labor and Delivery
Sisters of Charity Hospital
Buffalo, New York
E-mail: mccartny@acsu.buffalo.edu
Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN
Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist
Women's and Children's Care Center
St. John's Mercy Medical Center
St. Louis, Missouri
E-mail: KRSimpson@prodigy.net
Linda Beth Tiedje, PhD, RN, FAAN
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology
School of Human Medicine
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
E-mail: Tiedje@pilot.msu.edu
Sylvia H. Wood, MSN, CNM, RN
Associate Professor
Pacific Lutheran University
School of Nursing
Tacoma, Washington
E-mail: woodsh@plu.edu
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| Publication Staff |
Executive Publisher
Jennifer E. Brogan
Publisher
Sandra Kasko
Senior Production Editor
Joanne Revak
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Rebecca Morelli
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Susan Hermansen
Senior Art Director
Larry Pezzato
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Jenny L. Burroughs
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