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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Professor IAN NORMAN Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery King’s College London, James Clerk Maxwell Building 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA, U.K. DEPUTY EDITOR Dr PETER GRIFFITHS Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery King’s College London, James Clerk Maxwell Building 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA, U.K. Editorial Assistant STEPHANIE WALLER (Tel: 020 7848 3563; Fax: 020 7848 3506; E-mail: [email protected]) HONORARY EDITOR Prof. ROSEMARY CROW, Guildford, U.K. HONORARY INTERNATIONAL EDITOR Prof. Dame JENIFER WILSON-BARNETT, London, U.K. STATISTICAL ADVISOR Mr TREVOR MURRELLS, London, U.K.
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ASSOCIATE EDITORS Prof. JO ALEXANDER Institute for Health and Community Studies University of Bournemouth 17--19 Christchurch Road Bournemouth Dorset BH1 3LG, U.K. Prof. MARY FITZGERALD James Cook University Townsville QLD 4811 Australia
Prof. S. HOLMES Faculty of Health and Social Care Canterbury Christ Church University Canterbury, Kent CTI IQU, U.K. Prof. HUGH MCKENNA Dean, Faculty of Life & Health Sciences University of Ulster Cromore Road Coleraine, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT32 1SA
Prof. NANCY FUGATE WOODS School of Nursing University of Washington Box 357260 Seattle, WA 98195 U.S.A
Prof. M. NOLAN School of Nursing and Midwifery University of Sheffield Samuel Fox House Northern General Hospital Herries Road Sheffield, S5 7AU, U.K.
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ASSISTANT EDITORS Dr Chizu Mimura Himorogi Psychiatric Institute 4B Housei Daiichi Building 1-20-10 Sugamo Toshima-ku Tokyo 170-0002 Japan
Prof. Linda McGillis Hall Faculty of Nursing University of Toronto 155 College Street, Suite 215 Toronto, Ontario M5T 1P8 Canada
Dr Jane Yelland School of Public Health La Trobe Univeristy Melbourne Australia
Dr Ruth Harris Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences Kingston University and St. George’s University of London 2nd Floor Grosvenor Wing Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE UK
Provides online submission for authors, which in turn provides a faster, more efficient seamless link from submission through the editorial and peer-review process, right through to publication.
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Prof. John Cutcliffe University of Texas 3900 University Blvd. Tyler Texas 75799 USA
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Prof. A. WHILE Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery King’s College London James Clerk Maxwell Building 57 Waterloo Road London SE1 8WA, U.K.
You can login to submit your paper or revisions wherever you have access to the internet.
All authors have their own homepage on the online submission and editorial system where they can view the status of their paper during the review process. Once your paper is accepted for publication you can track it through the production process via the Author Gateway. We will send you a unique reference number to activate the tracking facility. Registered users of the Author Gateway can view tracking information through their personalised homepage.
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Data is held on our secure, central servers that are regularly backed up, so there is no need to worry about loss of data.
For further information and to submit your paper online, visit the journal page in the Author Gateway and follow the link for Online Submission. If you have not submitted online to this journal before you will be required to register. If you are a returning user simply login and begin your submission.
http://ees.elsevier.com/ijns/ Need Some Help? Elsevier’s online submission and editorial system provides authors and reviewers with step-by-step instructions, a help menu, invaluable tutorials and an excellent helpdesk to deal with any queries that arise when using the system. Just contact: [email protected]
International Journal of Nursing Studies http://ees.elsevier.com/ijns/ You can now submit your paper online to International Journal of Nursing Studies via the online submission and editorial system from Elsevier. It is fast, efficient and provides step-by-step instructions on how to submit your paper.
The online submission and editorial system provides the following benefits: Easily accessible anywhere in the world I
ASSOCIATE EDITORS Prof. JO ALEXANDER Institute for Health and Community Studies University of Bournemouth 17--19 Christchurch Road Bournemouth Dorset BH1 3LG, U.K. Prof. MARY FITZGERALD James Cook University Townsville QLD 4811 Australia
Prof. S. HOLMES Faculty of Health and Social Care Canterbury Christ Church University Canterbury, Kent CTI IQU, U.K. Prof. HUGH MCKENNA Dean, Faculty of Life & Health Sciences University of Ulster Cromore Road Coleraine, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT32 1SA
Prof. NANCY FUGATE WOODS School of Nursing University of Washington Box 357260 Seattle, WA 98195 U.S.A
Prof. M. NOLAN School of Nursing and Midwifery University of Sheffield Samuel Fox House Northern General Hospital Herries Road Sheffield, S5 7AU, U.K.
Disks and hard copies are no longer required I
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ASSISTANT EDITORS Dr Chizu Mimura Himorogi Psychiatric Institute 4B Housei Daiichi Building 1-20-10 Sugamo Toshima-ku Tokyo 170-0002 Japan
Prof. Linda McGillis Hall Faculty of Nursing University of Toronto 155 College Street, Suite 215 Toronto, Ontario M5T 1P8 Canada
Dr Jane Yelland School of Public Health La Trobe Univeristy Melbourne Australia
Dr Ruth Harris Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences Kingston University and St. George’s University of London 2nd Floor Grosvenor Wing Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE UK
Provides online submission for authors, which in turn provides a faster, more efficient seamless link from submission through the editorial and peer-review process, right through to publication.
Track your paper
I
Prof. John Cutcliffe University of Texas 3900 University Blvd. Tyler Texas 75799 USA
Online submission provides automatic conversion of source files to one PDF file - a stable document that is guaranteed to look the same on any computer worldwide.
Speeds up the peer-review and publication process I
Prof. A. WHILE Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery King’s College London James Clerk Maxwell Building 57 Waterloo Road London SE1 8WA, U.K.
You can login to submit your paper or revisions wherever you have access to the internet.
All authors have their own homepage on the online submission and editorial system where they can view the status of their paper during the review process. Once your paper is accepted for publication you can track it through the production process via the Author Gateway. We will send you a unique reference number to activate the tracking facility. Registered users of the Author Gateway can view tracking information through their personalised homepage.
Your data is secure I
Data is held on our secure, central servers that are regularly backed up, so there is no need to worry about loss of data.
For further information and to submit your paper online, visit the journal page in the Author Gateway and follow the link for Online Submission. If you have not submitted online to this journal before you will be required to register. If you are a returning user simply login and begin your submission.
http://ees.elsevier.com/ijns/ Need Some Help? Elsevier’s online submission and editorial system provides authors and reviewers with step-by-step instructions, a help menu, invaluable tutorials and an excellent helpdesk to deal with any queries that arise when using the system. Just contact: [email protected]