Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Published in association with Sigma Theta Tau International, The Honor Society of Nursing

Edited by:
Jo Rycroft-Malone,Tracey Bucknall, Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk

Print ISSN: 1545-102X
Online ISSN: 1741-6787
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 7 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 13/60 Nursing (Science); 11/58 Nursing (Social Science)
Impact Factor: 1.294

TopAuthor Guidelines

Scope

The editors welcome scholarly work advancing the understanding and development of evidence-based practice in nursing internationally. Evidence-based nursing should be able to demonstrate a positive impact on patient outcomes through the integration of different levels and types of evidence. Evidence includes research; clinical expertise; the experience, values and preferences of patients, careers and communities; and information from the local context. Manuscripts of up to 5,000 words that focus on knowledge generation, translation, utilization and impact related to current health conditions and important global issues are encouraged, as are those that address the needs of clinicians, educators, researchers, managers, administrators and policy makers. All manuscripts are double-blind reviewed.

Original articles including the following will be considered:

• primary and secondary research;
• those that report theoretical or methodological developments and innovations;
• evaluations, methods and approaches to evidence-based practice;
• guideline development practices, developments and advances; and
• systematic review practices, developments and advances

Literature reviews and systematic reviews that meet the criteria outlined below are encouraged. Letters and commentaries up to 1,000 words in response to papers published in the journal and reacting to current evidence-based practice issues and topics are welcomed.

Authors will be required to assign copyright in their papers. Copyright assignment is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has been assigned. An appropriate copyright assignment form can be found by clicking here.

Papers should be submitted exclusively to Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. If accepted, copyright for papers will be transferred to Sigma Theta Tau International for publication in the journal.

The editors retain the right to modify the style of a contribution; major changes will be verified with author(s). The editors will decide on the time of publication of accepted manuscripts.

Submissions

Worldviews uses an electronic submission and review system, which is where your article should be uploaded when ready: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wvebn

Questions regarding submissions may be addressed to melody@stti.org
Questions specific to the Editor may be addressed to: j.rycroft-malone@bangor.ac.uk

Manuscript style

The following information should be used as a checklist before your manuscript is submitted:
- Manuscripts should be double-spaced using 12-point font size.
- Pages should be numbered.
- The title page should provide details of the authors and their institutions, including full address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and job title. Please indicate to whom correspondence should be sent. A descriptive title and short title should be provided. The title should be concise and should give a brief indication of what is in the paper.
- Manuscripts should include a structured abstract of up to 300 words, which accurately summarizes the paper content. The following headings could be used when appropriate: background and/or rationale; aims; methods; results/findings; discussion; implication(s) for practice, research, policy, management and/or education (depending on the focus of the manuscript); and conclusions. Where manuscripts are theoretical or debate pieces, a structured abstract should still be used but headings adapted accordingly.
- The abstract should be followed by up to 10 key words that reflect the paper's focus and content. Key words are important for those looking for work in electronic databases; as much as possible your keywords should duplicate words that are in your title and in the abstract.
- Manuscripts reporting empirical research should include the study's background; significance; purpose and aims; methodological approach and justification; data collection methods, rigor, ethical issues and approval; results/findings; study limitations; discussion; implication(s) for practice, research, policy, management and/or education (depending on the focus of the manuscript); and conclusions.
- The year of data collection should be included.
- In the case of systematic reviews, the manuscript should include: the question(s)/clinical problem addressed; the databases searched and other information sources; the selection criteria (i.e., population, intervention, principle outcomes and study design); methods for quality assessment, data abstraction and process used (e.g., independent/duplicate); description of potential biases in the review process (e.g., publication bias); study characteristics; characteristics of the studies included and excluded; qualitative and quantitative findings; summary of key findings in relation to their application to practice; and suggestion of future research agenda. Where reviews are lengthy, authors can refer readers to fuller published versions, and there is space on the journal's website to place related material.
- Worldviews is an international journal. It is therefore important that manuscripts describe the particular context from which the work originated and also acknowledge and refer to international literature and consider the relevance of findings and implications to this wider context.
- Footnotes and appendices should not be used.
- The hierarchy of headings within the text should be clear. For example, upper case bold for heading 1, lower case bold for heading 2, italics for heading 3, etc.
- Spelling may be in American or British English. Each article will be edited to conform to Worldviews house-style.
- Abbreviations should be used sparingly. When used, the abbreviated name or expression should be cited in full at first usage, followed by accepted abbreviation in parenthesis.
- Statistical methods used should be defined and, where appropriate, supported by references.

Copyright, author contribution, acknowledgements and ethical approval
- All manuscripts are considered on the understanding that they have not been published previously nor are they under consideration by any other publication or medium.
- Once accepted for publication, copyright will be assigned to the publisher.
- Approval for reproduction/modification of any material (including figures and tables) published elsewhere should be obtained from authors/copyright holders before submission of the manuscript. Contributors are responsible for any copyright fee involved.
- The names of all authors and the details of their contribution to the work should be described in the paper.
- Papers should include details of any funding.
- Papers can (but do not have to) include acknowledgements.

References
- Citations are listed chronologically in text (i.e., Smith 2004; Adams 2008) and references are listed alphabetically.
- Page numbers should be given in the text for all quotations in citations.
- When a paper is cited, the reference list should include authors' surnames and initials, date of publication, title of paper, name of journal in full, volume number, issue number, and first and last page numbers. Examples appear below.
- When a book is cited, the reference list should include authors' surnames and initials, date of publication, the title should be stated, followed by the town and county or state (and country if necessary) of publication, then publisher.
-Where a chapter in an edited book is cited, the reference list should include details of author, date published, chapter title, editors' names as initials and surname followed by (Ed.), the first and last page numbers in parentheses, the town and county or state (and country if necessary) of publication, then publisher. The edition (where appropriate) of all books should be identified.
-References within the text should cite the author's surname followed by the date of publication, in chronological order (e.g., Hart 1985; Mantle 1992; Smith 2000).
-Use et al. for more than two authors in text citation. All authors cited in the text must be listed in the reference list.
-Use "&" between author names not "and," e.g.: (Hart & Mantle 1993), except if used outside of parenthesis, e.g.: Hart and Mantle (1993) said...

Examples of reference styling:
- Do not abbreviate journal titles.
- List chronologically for same author(s).
- Use letter by letter alphabetization, except for "Mc" names, which are alphabetized as "Mac" "de" comes under "D"
- Make sure that the authors' names are spelt the same in citation and reference.
- Make sure the date in citation is the same as the date in reference list.
- Use "&" between last two authors in references. No serial comma.
- No comma between surname and initials.

Reference examples:
Journals: Bawa V., Rao M.R. & Suri H.P. (1985). Overconfidence among physicians and nurses: A social phenomenon.
Social Science & Medicine, 40(3), 417-431.

Book: Mangasarian O.L. (1969). Sentence case italic book title (4th Ed.), (pp. 345-567). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Book with editor: Grossman S.J. & Oliver D.H. (1999). The impact of social factors. In M.R. Rao & H.P. Suri (Eds.),
Social evidence: A study (5th Ed.), (pp. 54-63). New York: Blackwell Science.

Web site: American Heart Association. (2004). Heart disease and stroke statistics: 2004 update. Retrieved May 10, 2004 from
http://www.americanheart.org/statistics/coronary.html.

Figures and tables
- Figures should only be used when data cannot be expressed clearly in any other form and should not duplicate information already in the text.
- Tables should be self-explanatory, and the data they contain must not be duplicated in the text or figures.
- Tables and figures should be embedded in the text of the manuscript.
- If tables are lengthy, if your paper is accepted, they may be posted separately on the journal's website.

NEW: Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/Bauthor/English_Language.Asp. All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.

Offprints
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Note to NIH Grantees

Pursuant to NIH mandate, Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted version of contributions authored by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance. This accepted version will be made publicly available 12 months after publication. For further information, see www.wiley.com/go/nihmandate.