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ONLINE SUBMISSION
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online. Use the following guidelines to prepare your article
via http://ees.elsevier.com/iccn/ you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files.
The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review
process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source
files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests
for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the Author's homepage, removing the need for a hard-copy paper trail.
Note: electronic
articles submitted for the review process may need to be edited after acceptance to follow journal standards. For this an "editable"
file format is necessary. We accept most wordprocessing formats, but Word, WordPerfect or LaTeX is preferred. Although Elsevier can
process most wordprocessor file formats, should your electronic file prove to be unusable, the article will be typeset from the hardcopy
printout.
The above represents a very brief outline of this form of submission. It can be advantageous to print this "Guide
for Authors" section from the site for reference in the subsequent stages of article preparation.
Submission of an article implies
that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic
thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or
explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in
the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.
Authorship
All authors
should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data,
or analysis and interpretation of data, (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, (3) final
approval of the version to be submitted.
Acknowledgements
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship
as defined above should be listed in an acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided
purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Authors should disclose whether they
had any writing assistance and identify the entity that paid for this assistance.
Conflict of interest
At the end of the
text, under a subheading "Conflict of interest statement" all authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships
with other people or organisations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest
include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or
other funding.
Role of the funding source
All sources of funding should be declared at the end of the text. Authors should
declare the role of study sponsors, if any, in the study design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in writing of
the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. If the study sponsors had no such involvement, the authors
should so state.
PRESENTATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Focus of the Journal
The aim of the journal is to promote excellence
in the care of critically ill patients by specialist nurses. It provides an international forum for the dissemination and exchange of
research findings, experience and ideas. We also welcome manuscripts from other members of the multidisciplinary team providing the
content is relevant to critical care.
Intensive and Critical Care Nursing: the international journal of practice and research has,
as the sub-title indicates, an international audience. Therefore the manuscript should be placed in a global context e.g. if local demographic
statistics are used these should be compared with international trends/statistics. In the literature review and discussion similarities
and differences in approach and evidence should be described at an international level. In the same vein it is also important that the
context in which a research study took place is described fully so that readers may compare and judge the relevance of the findings to
their own environment. The use of parochial English should be avoided.
Format
Authors are required to submit
manuscripts according to the requirements set out below. Please note that papers not formatted in this manner will be returned to the
author for amendment before entering into the editorial and peer review process. In particular please take care to follow the instructions
for the formatting of references.
Your article should be typed on A4 paper, double-spaced with margins of at least 3cm. Number all
pages consecutively beginning with the title page. Papers should be set out as follows, with each section beginning on a separate sheet:
Length
The word limit is 3000 words for quantitative research studies and 5000 words for manuscripts which present
qualitative data (excluding tables and references).
Title page
• The title page should give the title in
capital letters.
• If the manuscript reports research findings then the research design used should be identified in the title
e.g. Critical Care: a grounded theory study or Patients' dreams in ICU: a multi-centre cohort study.
• The authors' names should
then be stated (as they are to appear).
• For each author you should give one first name as well as the surname and any initials.
• You should give a maximum of four degrees/ qualifications for each author and the current relevant appointment only.
•
Authors' addresses should be limited to the minimum information needed to ensure accurate postal delivery; these details should be on
the title page below the authors' names and appointments.
• Authors should also provide a daytime contact telephone number and
fax number, and an e-mail address. Communication will be principally by email so authors should ensure that this can occur and that
no system is in place that will preclude access from any unknown contact.
Keywords
Include three or four keywords.
The purpose of these is to increase the likely accessibility of your paper to potential readers searching the literature. Therefore,
ensure keywords are descriptive of the study. Refer to a recognised thesaurus of keywords (e.g. CINAHL, Medline) wherever possible.
Summary
A Summary of your typescript, a maximum of 200 words, summarising the content, should be
provided on a separate sheet following the title page. If a research study is the subject of the manuscript then it should follow the
following format: Obejctives, Research Methodology/Design, Setting, Main Outcome Measures, Results, Conclusion.
Headings
The content of your paper should determine the headings which you use. Research and Clinical papers should follow the usual
layout, for example
Introduction, Methods (Research Questions and /or Objectives; Setting; Ethical Approval; Participants;
Data Collection; Data Analysis), Results, Discussion, Conclusion. If your paper takes another form you
should use the appropriate headings, but do bear in mind that headings should facilitate reading and understanding. Normally only two
kinds of headings; major headings should be indicated by underlined capital letters in the centre of the page. Minor headings should
be underlined, have lower-case letters (beginning with a capital) and begin at the left hand margin.
Tables, Illustrations
and Figures
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website http://www.elsevier.com/authors
Preparation of supplementary data. Elsevier now accepts electronic supplementary material (e-components) to support and
enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the Author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies,
animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published
online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com.
In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended file
formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption
for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at: http://www.elsevier.com/authors
Illustrations and tables that have appeared elsewhere must be accompanied by written permission to reproduce them from the
original publishers. This is necessary even if you are an author of the borrowed material. Borrowed material should be acknowledged in
the captions in the exact wording required by the copyright holder. If not specified, use this style: `Reproduced by kind permission
of . . . (publishers) from . . . (reference).' Identifiable clinical photographs must be accompanied by written permission from the
patient.
REFERENCE STYLE
The accuracy of the references is the responsibility of the author.
Text: All
citations in the text should refer to:
•Single author: the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity)
and the year of publication;
•Two authors: both authors' names and the year of publication;
•Three or
more authors; first author's name followed by 'et al.' and the year of publication.
Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically).
Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.
Examples: "as demonstrated in wheat (Alland,
1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones 1995). Kramer et al. (2000) have recently shown..."
List: References should be
arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s)
in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc., placed after the year of publication.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
Van der Geer J, Hanraads JAJ, Lupton RA. The art of writing a scientific article.
J Sci Commun 2000; 163:51-9.
Reference to a book:
Strunk Jr W, White EB. The elements of style. 3rd ed. New York: Macmillan,
1979.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam GR, Adams LB. How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In:
Jones BS, Smith RZ, editors. Introduction to the electronic age. New York: E-Publishing Inc.; 1994. p. 281-304.
Note shortened
form for last page number. e.g., 51-9, and that for more than 6 authors the first 6 should be listed followed by 'et al'. For further
details you are referred to "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals" (J Am Med Assoc 1997;277:927-34),
see also http://www.nejm.org/general/text/requirement/1.htm
Citing and listing of Web references
As a minimum, the full URL should be given. Any further information, if known (author names, dates, reference to a source publication,
etc.), should also be given, including the date the website was last accessed. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after
the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list; in square brackets in line with the
text.
PERMISSIONS TO REPRODUCE BORROWED MATERIAL
Written permission to reproduce borrowed material (illustrations, tables
and identifiable clinical photographs) must be obtained from the original publishers and authors, and submitted with the typescript.
Borrowed material should be acknowledged in the captions in this style: Reproduced by kind permission of ... (publishers) ... from
...(reference).
COPYRIGHT
Upon acceptance of a manuscript, authors will be asked to sign a "Journal Publishing
Agreement" (for more information on this and copyright see http://www.elsevier.com/copyright ). Acceptance of the
agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail (or letter) will be sent to the corresponding author
confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit
the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: contact Elsevier's Rights Department,
Philadelphia, PA, USA: phone (+1) 215 239 3804, fax (+1) 215 239 3805, e-mail healthpermissions@elsevier.com. Requests
may also be completed online via the Elsevier homepage http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions.
FUNDING BODY AGREEMENTS
AND POLICIES
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors whose articles appear in journals published
by Elsevier, to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions of their grant awards. To learn more
about existing agreements and policies please visit http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies
PROOFS
One set
of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author (if we do not have an e-mail address then paper proofs
will be sent by post). Elsevier now sends PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version
7 available free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will
accompany the proofs. The exact system requirements are given at the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrsystemregs.html#70win
If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return
to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections
and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail,
or by post.
Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures.
Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor.
We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of
your corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections
cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article
if no response is received.
OFFPRINTS
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article
via e-mail. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and
a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use. Additional paper offprints can be ordered by the authors. An order form with
prices will be sent to the corresponding author. For further information please consult http://www.elsevier.com/authors.
SUBMISSION CHECKLIST
It is hoped that this list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending
it to the journal's Editor for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
Ensure that the
following items are present:
• One Author designated as corresponding Author:
• E-mail address
• Full
postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
• All necessary fields have been uploaded
• Keywords
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All tables (including title, description, footnotes)
Further considerations
• Manuscript has been "spellechecked"
• References are in the correct format for this journal
• All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the
text, and vice versa.
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