Authorship and acknowledgements should reflect the substantial contributions to conception and design of, or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data; drafting the article or revising it is critically for important intellectual content and final approval of the revision to be published. Acknowledgements should specify contributors to the authors and include specific source of funding for the study, as well as name, location and country. All studies should include an explicit statement in the Methods section identifying the review and ethics committee approval for each study, if applicable. Clinical trials should be reported using the CONSORT guidelines (Schulz, Douglas, & Moher, 2010). CONSORT is the acronym for Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials. This group encompasses various initiatives developed to alleviate the problems arising from inadequate reporting of randomized controlled trials. Authors must disclose to the Editor-in-Chief a significant financial or personal interest they may have in products, technology or methodology mentioned in the manuscript. If the authors do have a vested interest, a statement regarding conflict of interest should follow the Contributions to the …show more content…
They are the original article, review articles and discursive papers. Original articles should be doubled spaced and less than eight thousand words with a 2cm margins on each side. The paper should be divided into introduction, background, methods, results, discussion, conclusion and relevance to clinical practice. Pilot studies are not acceptable. There should be no more than eighty references with all being in the English language. Review articles can either be on a qualitative or quantitative research relevant to clinical nursing. Eight thousand words are the limit for this type of article. Quotes are included in the overall word count. Methodology must be explained clearly. The main text should include introduction, Aims, methods, results, discussion, conclusion and relevance to clinical practice. References are limited to fifty. Discursive papers include position papers and critical reviews of particular bodies of work which do not contain empirical data or use systematic review