Policies for International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
Submitted articles:
Each submitted article is assigned to an editor. The editor oversees the editorial process and decides if the submission is:
- Accepted
- Tentatively accepted pending revision (minor revision)
- Returned for revision to be followed by a second review (major revision)
- Rejected
The editorial decision is based on up to 3 peer reviews of the submission. Only published authors will be asked to be reviewers. The editor may decline forwarding a manuscript for review if it does not meet the aims and scope of the journal or if it is unsatisfactory in content or form.
A decision is guaranteed within 10 weeks.
Author Responsibilities for Submission of Cover Letter and Article:
- For the manuscript to be reviewed, a cover letter to the editor is required, which should include the following statement: The manuscript entitled [insert title], or a substantially similar version of it, is not under consideration by another journal, nor has not it been accepted or published elsewhere.
- Indicate in your cover letter whether the manuscript is research-based or expository. For research articles, provide a statement specifying that the study was approved by the institutional ethics review board.
- Indicate in your cover letter how the manuscript contributes to knowledge development in nursing education.
Author Responsibilities for Acceptance of an Article:
- Send an electronic version of the article that conforms to the bepress format.
- Agree to the Publication Agreement. If the author agrees, the article will be published shortly after receipt of the final electronic version. If the author does not agree, the article will be withdrawn.
- Provide necessary permissions for the use of copyrighted materials
- For research articles, provide a statement specifying that the study was approved by the institutional ethics review board.
Author Responsibilities for Revision and Resubmission of Article:
The author decides if the article will be revised and resubmitted or withdrawn. The notice of intent to resubmit is required by the editor within 30 days of receiving the request. The article cannot be submitted to another journal (electronic or print) during this 30-day period. Articles must be resubmitted within 4 months of receiving the publication decision.
Editorial Responsibility:
The editors are committed to ensuring the high quality of published manuscripts. Accordingly, manuscripts will be edited for syntax, spelling, punctuation, clarity, and grammar when necessary. Substantive changes will be verified with the corresponding author.
Professional Obligation
Submission of an article for review implies agreement to review 2 submissions by other authors, if requested by the editors. Fulfilment of this professional obligation is a form of social contract that ensures continuation of IJNES standards.
Policy on Prompt Reviews
The International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship promises an editorial decision within 10 weeks of receipt of a submission. To ensure that this timeline is achieved, reviewers should:
- Submit the review within 21 days of agreement to review. The reviewer will be reminded via email of the review deadline.
- Submit a review of sufficient quality. The editor who requested the review will decide whether the review is of sufficient quality.
Caveats:
The 10-week timeframe begins only after the complete submission is ready for review in an acceptable format. There are situations when it may not be possible to satisfy the 10-week turnaround from initial submission to an editorial decision. Such situations could include:
- Submission not completed by the author.
- Submission not provided in a suitable electronic format or an Adobe PDF file of sufficient quality for reviewers to review
- Unexpected delay in the completion of reviews
Policy on Submissions by Editors
If manuscripts are submitted by the editors, either jointly or singly, the editors will withdraw from all editorial responsibilities for these submissions. A member of the editorial board will be asked to manage the review process off-line. The editorial board member who oversees the review process will make the decision about whether to publish the article.
Copyright and Open Access Permissions
As further described in our submission agreement, in consideration for publication of the article, the authors assign to The Berkeley Electronic Press all copyright in the article, subject to the expansive personal-use exceptions described below.
Attribution and Usage Policies
Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of The Berkeley Electronic Press, requires credit to The Berkeley Electronic Press as copyright holder (e.g., The Berkeley Electronic Press © 2008).
Personal-use Exceptions
The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission from The Berkeley Electronic Press provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:
- Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial;
- Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author(s)'s place of employment (e.g., a Phrenology professor at the University of Southern North Dakota can have her article appear in the University of Southern North Dakota's Department of Phrenology online publication series);
- Authors are allowed to deposit their articles to PubMedCentral and UKPubMedCentral twelve months after publication, which satisfies the open access mandates of all major government and foundation research grants. Bepress deposits the content of some journals automatically on behalf of authors; see http://www.bepress.com/ijnes/about.html to see if this applies in your case.
- Posting of the article on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author; and
- Storage and back-up of the article on the author's computer(s) and digital media (e.g., diskettes, back-up servers, Zip disks, etc.), provided that the article stored on these computers and media is not readily accessible by persons other than the author(s).
People seeking an exception, or who have questions about use, should contact The Berkeley Electronic Press at .
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The failure of bepress to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between bepress and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.