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Author Guidelines

Contemporary Nurse welcomes electronic submission of articles in the following areas:

  • Original Research articles across all specialised areas of nursing education, teaching and practice including: aged care, clinical practice, community nursing, cross-cultural nursing, family health, health advocacy, health equity, mental health, methodology, palliative care, remote and rural nursing, traditional and complementary nursing, workplace issues, etc.
  • Literature Reviews from graduate theses that bring new or neglected areas into focus.
  • Research Methods and Practice Protocols of value to researchers and practitioners.
  • Opinion section - short articles presenting viewpoints on current issues in nursing knowledge.
  • Students' Corner section - undergraduate students' well-graded papers that contribute to nursing knowledge (submitted with recommendation from supervisor).
  • Exemplar section - brief descriptions of nursing practice that have made a critical difference.
  • Reviews section - reviews of books, journals, educational software and portals (submitted to Book Reviews Editor).
  • Noticeboard section - notices of upcoming events such as conferences.

There are no page charges and no monetary payments to contributors. Upon publication the Publisher will provide Authors with an electronic copy of the published articles in PDF format and discounts for requested print copies.

Feature Articles

Feature articles include Research Papers, Clinical Practice, Community Nursing, Nursing Management, Literature Reviews, Research Methods, Practice Protocols and Student Papers.

In general, the length of Feature Articles should be between 4000-6000 words plus Figures, Tables and References. Authors should use concise headings and sub-headings to identify sections of their article. There should be no information in the manuscript that could identify authors or institutions, such as coding with initials etc. Ethical clearance must be shown for research papers, and the ethical processes followed must be included in the body of the manuscript.

Diagrams should be supplied as computer-generated or bromide of the same, or as high quality line illustrations drawn in black and white with excellent definition. Papers presented at conferences need to be accompanied by full details (conference title, date and venue).

Opinions, Exemplars, Responses and Rejoinders

The general presentation should follow the submission guidelines established for Feature Articles, except that abstracts and photographs are not required.

Opinions should be approximately 250-500 words, written by an author who feels strongly about a current issue in nursing.

Exemplars are to be approximately 500-1000 words, describing a nursing incident where the author made a difference to a client and/or their family. It is to be written in narrative style, and may have no references. It is important that authors are careful about confidentiality and patient anonymity; this may be achieved by changing some details in the Exemplar.

Responses are to be approximately 500 words, written in response to an article in any issue of Contemporary Nurse. A 500-word Rejoinder will be offered to the original author.

Initial submission

The publisher, eContent Management Pty Ltd, uses a semi-automated manuscript tracking system to receive and accept reviews of research articles, case studies and literature reviews. Manuscripts submitted for publication are subject to a peer review process. To ensure prompt review of your manuscript, and to preserve anonymity in the review process, please observe the instructions on-screen and take note that:

  1. Manuscripts should be saved as a Microsoft or Open Office Word files. These should contain: title of the manuscript, key words, article text, references, figures, and tables in that order, as one document.
  2. A 100-150-word abstract is loaded into a form on a following page. You should copy/paste it from a existing document.
  3. Do not include any author information or acknowledgements in the manuscript or abstract. In Microsoft Word, please check the box 'Remove personal information from file properties on save' under Tools/Options/Security. Open Office users should consult this online help wiki for removing personal user data.
  4. Your manuscript will be forwarded directly to reviewers and should not contain any identifying information.
  5. Other information such as manuscript title, author postal and email contact details are added on the next page. All correspondence will be sent to the the first listed author.
  6. Please list all authors in the order they are to appear on the title page.
  7. Acknowledgements are added to the manuscript by the author following peer review and acceptance to publish.

Resubmitting manuscripts

The above requirements also apply to authors resubmitting revised manuscripts. Peer review recommendations are to be addressed and incorporated by authors before submitting.

It is important that authors re-submitting revised manuscripts indicate how they have addressed the referees' comments, in summary form, at the head of their revised manuscript document to assist further assessment by the original reviewers before the manuscript can proceed to publication.

These requirements also apply to authors returning revised versions of manuscripts which have been accepted with minor revision.

Please refer to the 'Style guide' below for references, citation and spelling conventions and to 'Artwork Presentation' below for acceptable file and photo types for print publishing.

Style Guide

Contemporary Nurse uses the APA Formatting and Style Guide 6th edition for the formatting of submissions. This is a link to an easy to use guide to the APA requirements. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/1/  For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, second printing.

 'American' or 'English' spellings are acceptable, providing they are used consistently. Translation of articles from other languages into English is encouraged and should be provided by professional translators. The Editors reserve the right to make editorial and literary corrections.

Artwork Presentation
Photographs

If author photographs are to be supplied, they should be clear, with good contrast, be of the head and shoulders, and be cropped to approximately 40mm x 50mm in dimension.

Electronic black and white (greyscale) TIFFs of high resolution (300 dpi minimum) are preferred, around 300KB in size.

Low resolution (ie under 150 dpi) JPEGs or GIFFs are NOT suitable for printing. Do not repeat-save JPEGs, because the JPEG automatically compresses with each save, thereby losing detail each time.

JPEG files are 'lossy' files; that is, each and every time a JPEG is saved, it is compressed, which means it loses information or detail each time. As well, JPEGs prepared for the web are usually reduced to 72 dpi for fast downloads. The resolution needed for print production is 300 dpi minimum.

In contrast, TIFFs don't compress with each save, which is a strong reason to receive TIFFs in the first instance. GIFFs are the same as JPEGs and are also usually low-resolution for web publishing. High resolution GIFFs will reproduce.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. Author Warranties:

    The author appointed to correspond with eContent Management Pty Ltd is authorized by all authors to enter into these warranties on their behalf.   If the corresponding author is not available, for any reason whatsoever, the other authors will become the corresponding author for the purporses of all correspondence with eContent Management Pty Ltd.

    The authors warrant that the material has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

    By submission of material to Contemporary Nurse, all authors warrant that the material is their own, original material or that copyright clearance has been acquired to reproduce other material from employers, third parties or attributed to third parties. It is the responsibility of the authors to secure the release of any copyright material and to provide written evidence to this effect to eContent Management Pty Ltd. It is also the authors' responsibility to obtain clearance for reproduction from the organisation which commissioned the work if applicable.

  2. Submission of material to Contemporary Nurse journal implies all authors' consent to assignment of the material's copyright to eContent Management Pty Ltd when that material is accepted for publication in the journal, for the full legal term of copyright and any renewals thereof throughout the world in all formats and in any medium of communication (see Copyright section).

  3. By submitting material to Contemporary Nurse, all authors of the material agree to indemnify eContent Management Pty Ltd, and its heirs and assigns in business, against any litigation or claims that may arise from the content of or opinions in the material provided. On acceptance for publication, an agreement specifying these terms will be sent to the corresponding author for signature by all authors of that manuscript.

    If the corresponding author is no longer active any of the other authors may become the corresponding author and they will accordingly be bound by these terms and conditions

    (Note: On acceptance for publication, an agreement specifying the terms noted here and above will be sent to the corresponding author for signature by the corresponding author who is duly authorized to sign this agreement on behalf of all authors and contributors. No printers proof will be sent to the author. The copy provided by the author on acceptance is the version used for typesetting. The publisher reserves the right to make editing corrections.)

  4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  6. You have created a title-page file from your original manuscript and removed all identifying information from the text and document properties.  Note: the submission process requires the abstract and keywords to be copied into the submission form.
  7. All citations refer to a publication listed in the References section of the manuscript and all references have been cited in the text.
 

Copyright Notice

Copyright of published articles is held by eContent Management Pty Ltd. No limitation will be placed on the personal freedom of authors to copy or to use in subsequent work, material contained in their papers. Please contact the Publisher for clarification if you are unsure of the use of copyright material. Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of research and private study, or criticism and or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 of Australia, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the Publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of the licences issued by the Copyright Agency Limited:

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