| | The Editor of Nurse Education in Practice, Karen Holland, welcomes the submission of papers for publication. Submission to this
journal proceeds totally online. Use the following guidelines to prepare your article via  http://ees.elsevier.com/nep you
will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. The system automatically converts source files to a
single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source
files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance.
All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the Author's
homepage, removing the need for a hard-copy paper trail. The above represents a very brief outline of this form of submission. It can
be advantageous to print this "Guide for Authors" section from the site for reference in the subsequent stages of article preparation.
If you do not have internet access, please contact the editorial office for alternative submission instructions (see Editorial Board
page for contact details).
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in
the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere,
that its publication is approved by all Authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out,
and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written
consent of the Publisher.
Copyright
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to sign a "Journal Publishing
Agreement" (for more information on this and copyright see http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement
will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail (or letter) will be sent to the corresponding author confirming
receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of content or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions.
Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including
compilations and translations (please consult http://www.elsevier.com/permissions).
If excerpts from other copyrighted
works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier
has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: please consult www.elsevier.com/permissions.
Authorship
All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study, or acquisition
of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content,
(3) final approval of the version to be submitted.
Acknowledgements
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for
authorship as defined above should be listed in an acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person
who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Authors should disclose
whether they had any writing assistance and identify the entity that paid for this assistance.
Presentation of Papers
Articles should be up to 4000 words including references, not including abstract (authors should include a full word count, preferably
with and without references, with their article submissions).
Issues for Debate: The Editor welcomes papers which will stimulate
debate and have a direct impact on nursing education and scholarship. Issues for Debate papers should not exceed 2,500 words, including
references.
Guest Editorials: The Editor encourages Guest Editorials to be submitted on a variety of current issues impacting
and influencing nursing and healthcare education. Guest Editorials can have a national or international focus.
Please check your
text carefully before you send it off, both for correct content and typographic errors. It is not possible to change the content of accepted
papers during production. Do not use 'he', 'his' etc where the sex of the person is unknown; say 'the nurse' etc. Avoid inelegant alternatives
such as 'he/she'. Nurses should not be automatically designated as 'she', and doctors as 'he'.
Title Page:
•The title page should be provided as a separate file.
•Your title page should give the title in capital letters,
below which should be the authors' names (as they are to appear) in lower-case letters.
•For each author you should give one
first name as well as the surname and any initials.
•Authors should provide email address, a daytime contact telephone number
and fax number, if available.
Keywords
Include three or four keywords. The purpose of these is to increase the likely
accessibility of your paper to potential readers searching the literature. Therefore, ensure keywords are descriptive of the study. Refer
to a recognised thesaurus of keywords (e.g. MEDLINE, CINAHL) wherever possible.
Abstracts
An abstract of your
paper, a maximum of 200 words summarising the content, should follow the title page.
Headings
The content of
your paper should determine the headings you use. If yours is a research paper the headings should follow the usual layout; such
as: Introduction, Background/Literature, Methods, Data/Results, Discussion, Conclusions. If your paper takes another form you
should use the appropriate headings, but do bear in mind that headings should facilitate reading and understanding. You should use only
two kinds of headings; major headings should be indicated by underlined capital letters in the centre of the page whereas minor headings
should be underlined, have lower-case letters (beginning with a capital) and begin at the left hand margin.
Tables, Illustrations
and Figures
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website: http://www.elsevier.com/authors.
Preparation of supplementary data. Elsevier now accepts electronic supplementary material (e-components) to support and enhance
your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the Author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation
sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside
the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com.
In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended file
formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption
for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at: http://www.elsevier.com/authors.
Permission to reproduce borrowed material
Written permission to reproduce borrowed material (illustrations and tables)
must be obtained from the original publishers and authors, and submitted with the typescript. Borrowed material should be acknowledged
in the captions in this style: Reproduced by kind permission of ... (publishers) ... from ... (reference).
Reference
Style
The accuracy of the references you provide is your responsibility.
•In the text references should state the
author's surname and the year of publication (Smith 1989). If there are two authors you should give both surnames (Smith & Black
1989). When a source has more than two authors, give the name of the first author followed by 'et al'.
•Where a quotation is
used within your paper the author, date and page number should be given, e.g. 'Pain probably disables more people than any single disease
entity.' (McCaffery 1979, p.1)
•A list of all references in your manuscript should be typed in alphabetical order. Each reference
to a paper needs to include the authors' surnames and initials, year of publication, full title of the paper, full name of the journal,
volume number, issue number and first and last page numbers. Do not add unnecessary punctuation.
For example: Aggleton, P., Allen,
M., Montgomery, S., 1987. Developing a system for the continuous assessment of practical nursing skills. Nurse Education Today 7 (4),
158-164
References to Books should be given in a slightly different form, as in these examples: Houle, Co., 1972. The Design
of Education. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco. Quinn, S., 1982. Nursing education in the countries of the Common Market. In: Henderson, M.S.
(Ed.), Nursing Education. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, pp. 125-140
The digital object identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and
link to electronic documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher
upon the initial electronic publication. The correct format for citing as DOI is shown as follows (example taken from a document in the
journal Physics Letters B):
doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.071
When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents
on the web, they are guaranteed never to change.
Citing and listing of Web references: As a minimum, the full URL should
be given. Any further information, if known (Author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web
references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the
reference list.
Conflict of interest
At the end of the text, under a subheading "Conflict of interest statement" all
authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organisations that could inappropriately influence
(bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert
testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding.
Funding body agreements and policies
Elsevier
has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors who publish in Elsevier journals, to comply with potential manuscript
archiving requirements as specified as conditions of their grant awards. To learn more about existing agreements and policies please
visit http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies
PROOFS
One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by
e-mail to the corresponding author (if we do not have an e-mail address then paper proofs will be sent by post). Elsevier now sends PDF
proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 available free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs. The exact system requirements are given at the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrsystemreqs.html#70win. If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return
to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections
and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail,
or by post. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures.
Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor.
We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of
your corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections
cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article
if no response is received.
OFFPRINTS
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the
article via e-mail. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover
image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use. Additional paper offprints can be ordered by the authors. An order
form with prices will be sent to the corresponding author.
CHECKLIST: Before submitting your paper, please ensure that:
•All files are uploaded
•The reference list is complete and in correct style
•Written permission from original
publishers and authors to reproduce any borrowed material has been obtained.
For further information please consult http://www.elsevier.com/authors.
Nurse Education in Practice does not have page charges.
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