Quality of Author Guidelines in Nursing Journals

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 333-340

  Oermann, Marilyn H ^a   Nicoll, Leslie H ^b   Chinn, Peggy L ^c   Conklin, Jamie L ^d   McCarty, Midori ^a   Amarasekara, Sathya ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Maine Desk LLC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship; editorial standards; ethical issues; nursing journals; publishing; reporting guidelines

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; NURSING RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; NURSING RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85044085717     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12383     Document Type: Article

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