A survey of the awareness, knowledge, policies and views of veterinary journal Editors-in-Chief on reporting guidelines for publication of research

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Grindlay, Douglas J C ^a   Dean, Rachel S ^a   Christopher, Mary M ^b   Brennan, Marnie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers; Editorial policies; Editors; Reporting guidelines; Reporting quality; Veterinary journals; Veterinary research; Views

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH; STANDARD; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

DATA COLLECTION; EDITORIAL POLICIES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; KNOWLEDGE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 84892386403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-10-10     Document Type: Article

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