期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OLDER PEOPLE 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
Overview
International Journal of Older People Nursing is an online peer-reviewed quarterly journal providing an international forum for advancing knowledge and practice in gerontological nursing. IJOPN aims to challenge assumptions and promote critical analysis in order to advance nursing practice and inform debates about health and social care for older people worldwide.
Aims and Scope
International Journal of Older People Nursing welcomes scholarly papers on all aspects of older people nursing including research, practice, education, management, and policy. We publish manuscripts that further scholarly inquiry and improve practice through innovation and creativity in all aspects of gerontological nursing. We encourage submission of integrative and systematic reviews; original quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research; secondary analyses of existing data; historical works; theoretical and conceptual analyses; evidence based practice projects and other practice improvement reports; and policy analyses. All submissions must reflect consideration of IJOPN's international readership and include explicit perspective on gerontological nursing. We particularly welcome submissions from regions of the world underrepresented in the gerontological nursing literature and from settings and situations not typically addressed in that literature. Editorial perspectives are published in each issue. Editorial perspectives are submitted by invitation only.
Keywords
Keywords used to identify manuscripts published in IJOPN include but are not limited to:
acute care, ageing, aging, Alzheimer’s, Alzheimers disease, ambulatory care, cancer, cardiac disease, care, caregiving, carers, cognitive function, community nursing, community, comorbidity, compassion, continence, critical care, dementia, diagnosis,dignity, education, elder care programs, elder care systems, elder care, elderly care journal, empathy, ethics, evidence base, evidence-base, evidence-based, falls, family care, fear of falling, frailty, functional status, geriatric care, geriatric nursing, geriatric syndromes, geriatric, gerontological, gerontology, health, heart failure, historyhome nursing, hospital, incontinence, intensive care, International Journal of Older People Nursing, Journal of Older People, mental health, multi-morbidity, nurses, nursing older people, nutrition, older people, older person, oncology, ostomy, patient centered, patient centred, patient-centered, patient-centred, person centered, person centred, person-centered, person-centred, policy, practice development, practice, rehabilitation, research, senior care, social care, social science, social welfare, stoma, welfare, wellness
Abstracting and Indexing Information
- CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (EBSCO Publishing)
- Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
- Health Research Premium Collection (ProQuest)
- Hospital Premium Collection (ProQuest)
- MEDLINE/PubMed (NLM)
- Nursing & Allied Health Database (ProQuest)
- ProQuest Central (ProQuest)
- PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA)
- Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics)
- SCOPUS (Elsevier)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
- Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
Instructions to Authors
Author Guidelines
Contents
1. Submission
2. Aims and Scope
3. Manuscript Categories and Requirements
4. Preparing Your Submission
5. Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations
6. Author Licensing
7. Publication Process After Acceptance
8. Post Publication
9. Editorial Office Contact Details
1. SUBMISSION
Thank you for your interest in International Journal of Older People Nursing (IJOPN). Note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.
Once you have prepared your submission in accordance with the Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/opn
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For help with submissions, please contact: OPNedoffice@wiley.com
We look forward to your submission.
2. AIMS AND SCOPE
International Journal of Older People Nursing (IJOPN) welcomes scholarly papers on all aspects of older people nursing including research, practice, education, management, and policy. We publish manuscripts that further scholarly inquiry and improve practice through innovation and creativity in all aspects of gerontological nursing. We encourage submission of integrative and systematic reviews; original quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research; secondary analyses of existing data; historical works; theoretical and conceptual analyses; evidence based practice projects and other practice improvement reports; and policy analyses. All submissions must reflect consideration of IJOPN's international readership and include explicit perspective on gerontological nursing. We particularly welcome submissions from regions of the world underrepresented in the gerontological nursing literature and from settings and situations not typically addressed in that literature. Editorial perspectives are published in each issue. Editorial perspectives are submitted by invitation only.
3. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS
• Original Papers - reports of new research findings or conceptual analyses that make a significant contribution to knowledge (5000 word limit).
• Comprehensive Reviews - critical reviews of the literature, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses (5000 word limit).
• Brief Reports - preliminary findings of research in progress or a pilot study (1500 word limit).
• Letters to the Editor - are welcomed (please approach the Editorial Team before submitting a letter, 1000 word limit).
• Critiques and Reviews - reviews of books or grey literature (please approach the Editorial Team before submitting a review, 1000 word limit).
4. PREPARING YOUR SUBMISSION
Cover Letters
Cover letters are not mandatory; however, they may be supplied at the author’s discretion.
Parts of the Manuscript
The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: title page; main text file; figures.
Title Page:
The title page should contain:
i. A short informative title that contains the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips).
ii. A short running title of less than 40 characters
iii. The full names of the authors and email address and telephone number of corresponding author;
iv. The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted;
v. Acknowledgements.
The present address of any author, if different from where the work was carried out, should be supplied in a footnote.
Authorship
For details on eligibility for author listing, please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy outlined in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section.
Acknowledgments
Contributions from individuals who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.
Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. See ‘Conflict of Interest’ section in Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations for details on what to include in this section. Authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Main Text File and Figures
As papers are double-blind peer reviewed, the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors.
The main text file should be presented in the following order:
i. Title, abstract and key words;
ii. Implications for practice; iii. Main text;
iv. References;
v. Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
vi. Figure legends;
vii. Appendices (if relevant).
Figures and supporting information should be supplied as separate files.
Title
The title should be short and informative, containing major keywords related to the content. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips).
Keywords
Please provide five to seven keywords When selecting keywords, Authors should consider how readers will search for their articles. Keywords should be taken from those recommended by the US National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) browser list at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/.
Implications for Practice
This section should be headed as SUMMARY STATEMENT OF IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE and put on a separate, but numbered, page after your abstract. The three headings should be in bold:
What does this research add to existing knowledge in gerontology?
What are the implications of this new knowledge for nursing care with older people?
How could the findings be used to influence policy or practice or research or education?
Under each heading, 2-3 bullet points must highlight implications drawn from the reported work and explored in the discussion section.
• Each bullet point should be concise, with between 20 and 30 words in each and ending with a full stop.
• Each bullet point should stand alone as a meaningful statement (i.e. not needing to rely on preceding statements) and be written in proper sentences.
• The summary statement should not contain abbreviations other than those already presented in full in the main text.
• No references should be included.
• Colloquial terms and local details should not be included, and nor should the paper's country of origin (unless that is essential, pertinent information). Rather, statements should be framed in global terms.
• Statements regarding what the findings add to existing knowledge) must not recant findings alone and must speak to unique contributions.
Main Text
• As papers are double-blind peer reviewed, the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors.
• The journal uses British/US spelling; however, authors may submit using either option, as spelling of accepted papers is converted during the production process.
References
References should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). This means in text citations should follow the author-date method whereby the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998). The complete reference list should appear alphabetically by name at the end of the paper.
A sample of the most common entries in reference lists appears below. Please note that a DOI should be provided for all references where available. For more information about APA referencing style, please refer to the APA FAQ. Please note that for journal articles, issue numbers are not included unless each issue in the volume begins with page one.
Journal article
Beers, S. R., & De Bellis, M. D. (2002). Neuropsychological function in children with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 483–486. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.159.3.483
Book
Bradley-Johnson, S. (1994). Psychoeducational assessment of students who are visually impaired or blind: Infancy through high school (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-ed.
Internet Document
Norton, R. (2006, November 4). How to train a cat to operate a light switch [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vja83KLQXZs
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, not duplicate, information contained in the text. They should be supplied as editable files, not pasted as images. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend, and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.
Figure Legends
Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
Figures
Although we encourage authors to send us the highest-quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes we are happy to accept a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions.
Click here for the basic figure requirements for figures submitted with manuscripts for initial peer review, as well as the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements.
Figures submitted in colour will be reproduced in colour online free of charge. Please note, however, that it is preferable that line figures (e.g. graphs and charts) are supplied in black and white so that they are legible if printed by a reader in black and white. If an author would prefer to have figures printed in colour in hard copies of the journal, a fee will be charged by the Publisher.
Video Abstracts
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Additional Files
Appendices
Appendices will be published after the references. For submission they should be supplied as separate files but referred to in the text.
Supporting Information
Supporting information is information that is not essential to the article but that provides greater depth and background. It is hosted online, and appears without editing or typesetting. It may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, and checklists among other materials Click here for Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information. Note, if data, scripts or other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper are available via a publicly available data repository, authors should include a reference to the location of the material within their paper.
General Style Points
Please refer to the journal's style brief.
Wiley Author Resources
Manuscript Preparation Tips
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Editing, Translation and Formatting Support
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5. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Editorial Review and Acceptance
The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are double-blind peer reviewed. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.Wiley's policy on confidentiality of the review process is available here.
Data storage and documentation
International Journal of Older People Nursing encourages authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.
Authors can consult the global registry of research data repositories to help them identify registered and certified repositories relevant to their subject areas.
Data Citation
In recognition of the significance of data as an output of research effort, Wiley has endorsed theFORCE11 Data Citation Principles and is implementing a mandatory data citation policy. Journal policies should require data to be cited in the same way as article, book, and web citations and authors are required to include data citations as part of their reference list. Data citation is appropriate for data held within institutional, subject focused, or more general data repositories. It is not intended to take the place of community standards such as in-line citation of GenBank accession codes.
When citing or making claims based on data, authors must refer to the data at the relevant place in the manuscript text and in addition provide a formal citation in the reference list. We recommend the format proposed by the of Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles:
Authors; Year; Dataset title; Data repository or archive; Version (if any); Persistent identifier (e.g. DOI)
Human Studies and Subjects
For manuscripts reporting medical studies involving human participants, we require a statement identifying the ethics committee that approved the study, and that the study conforms to recognized standards, for example: Declaration of Helsinki; US Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects; or European Medicines Agency Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice.
Images and information from individual participants will only be published where the authors have obtained the individual's free prior informed consent. Authors do not need to provide a copy of the consent form to the publisher, however in signing the author license to publish authors are required to confirm that consent has been obtained. Wiley has a standard patient consent form available for use.
Clinical Trial Registration
We require that clinical trials are prospectively registered in a publicly accessible database and clinical trial registration numbers should be included in all papers that report their results. Please include the name of the trial register and your clinical trial registration number at the end of your abstract. If your trial is not registered, or was registered retrospectively, please explain the reasons for this.
Research Reporting Guidelines
Accurate and complete reporting enables readers to fully appraise research, replicate it, and use it. We expect authors to adhere to the following guidelines:
•CONSORT checklist for reports of randomised trials and cluster randomised trials
•TREND checklist for non-randomised controlled trials
•PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
•STROBE checklist for observational research
•COREQ checklist for qualitative studies
•SQUIRE checklist for quality improvement
See the EQUATOR Networkfor other study types.
Conflict of Interest
The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to, patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.
Funding
Authors should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature: http://www.crossref.org/fundingdata/registry.html
Authorship
The list of authors should accurately illustrate who contributed to the work and how. All those listed as authors should qualify for authorship according to the following criteria:
1. Have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
2. Been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
3. Given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content; and
4. Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section (for example, to recognize contributions from people who provided technical help, collation of data, writing assistance, acquisition of funding, or a department chairperson who provided general support).
When submitting a manuscript authored by a group, the corresponding author should clearly indicate the preferred citation and identify all individual authors as well as the group name. Prior to submitting the article all authors should agree on the order in which their names will be listed in the manuscript.
Additional Authorship Options
Joint first or senior authorship: In the case of joint first authorship, a footnote should be added to the author listing, e.g. ‘X and Y should be considered joint first author’ or ‘X and Y should be considered joint senior author.’
ORCID
As part of our commitment to supporting authors at every step of the publishing process, International Journal of Older People Nursing (IJOPN) requires the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This takes around 2 minutes to complete. Find more information here.
Publication Ethics
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read our Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found at https://authorservices.wiley.com/ethics-guidelines/index.html
6. AUTHOR LICENSING
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7. PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE
Accepted article received in production
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Proofs
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Early View
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8. POST PUBLICATION
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9. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS
For queries about submissions, please contact OPNedoffice@wiley.com
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Sarah H. Kagan, Lucy Walker Honorary Term Professor of Gerontological Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Editor Emeritus
Brendan McCormack, Head of the Division of Nursing, Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, UK
Associate Editor
G.J. Melendez-Torres, Assistant Professor, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
Editorial Advisor
Paul Slater, University of Ulster, UK
Social Media Editors
Emma Pascale Blakey, Oxford University Hospital's NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford Brookes University, UK
Siobhán O'Connor, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Editorial Office
Dannica Lara, Editorial Assistant, International Journal of Older People Nursing, Wiley-Blackwell, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ
Email: opnedoffice@wiley.com
Editorial Board
Elizabeth Beattie, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Barbara Bowers, University of Winsconsin-Madison, USA
Christine Bradway, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jackie Bridges, University of Southampton, UK
Liz Capezuti, Hunter College of the City University of New York, USA
Lynn Chenoweth, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Alice Coffey, University College Cork, Ireland
Belinda Dewar, Napier University Edinburgh, UK
Jan Dewing, Canterbury Christchurch University, UK
David Edvardsson, Umea University, Sweden
Charlotte Eliopoulos, The American Association for Long Term Care Nursing, USA
Ingrid Eyers, University of Surrey, UK
Joanne Fitzpatrick, King’s College London, UK
Kimberly Fraser, University of Alberta, Canada
Elizabeth Galik, University of Maryland, USA
Jan Jukema, University of Applied Sciences, Deventer, the Netherlands
Diana Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Ruth Ludwick, Kent State University, USA
Leah Macaden, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
Tanya McCance, University of Ulster/Belfast HSC Trust, UK
Brendan McCormack, Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, UK
Kathy McGilton, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute/University of Toronto, Canada
Amanda Phelan, UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, Ireland
Assumpta Ryan, University of Ulster, UK
Sheila Shaibu, University of Botswana, Botswana
Paul Slater, University of Ulster, UK
Josie Tetley, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Victoria Traynor, University of Wollongong, Australia
Anthony G Tuckett, The University of Queensland, Australia
Joyce Varner, University of South Alabama, USA
Donna Wilson, University of Alberta, Canada
Doris Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, SAR
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