The Journal of Interprofessional Care
1. Aims and Scope
The Journal of Interprofessional Care is the vehicle for worldwide dissemination of experience, evidence, policy, theory and values informing collaboration in education, practice and research. The Editor welcomes contributions targeting an inclusive list of relevant professions e.g. education, medicine, health and social care, as well as those who design care environments and institutions - and their contributory academic disciplines - who work together to improve health status, safety, quality of care delivery, quality of life, and living and working environments for individuals, families, communities and professional caregivers.
The Journal's scope continues to widen in response to calls for greater interprofessional collaboration by the WHO and a growing number of national governments in order to improve access, safety and quality and comprehensiveness of care for children and families, and for disabled, disadvantaged and vulnerable people of all ages, including dependent older people and other groups. Fields of practice covered include primary, community and hospital care, as well as health education and public health. The Editors are keen to encourage more contributions from developing countries, cross-national comparisons and global perspectives. Papers and reports are especially welcome from authors introducing additional perspectives on collaborative learning and practice from, for example, community development, environmental design and development, and extending beyond health and social care into fields such as criminal and juvenile justice, and into primary, secondary and special education.
Current papers also reflect interprofessional developments throughout Europe, and taking off in countries such as Australia and Japan, complementing coverage from Canada, the US, the UK and elsewhere, and interprofessional responses to the global workforce crisis in health care.
In addition to original, peer-reviewed papers and reports, each issue also carries abstracts and book reviews.
Further information about the Journal, including links to the online sample copy and contents pages, can be found on the journal homepage
2. Editor-in-Chief
Scott Reeves - St. Michael's Hospital, Wilson Centre & University of Toronto, Canada
3. Submission of Manuscripts Manuscripts for consideration should be submitted electronically, as a single Microsoft Word document to the Journal's electronic peer-review website:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cJIC Submission of a paper to the
Journal of Interprofessional Care is limited to original work not previously published, nor being considered elsewhere for publication and that if accepted for publication it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language, without the consent of the Editors and Publisher.
Suggestions for interprofessional articles, especially in journals in languages other than English, to be considered as abstracts should be sent to either
Bryony Lamb in the UK, or
Anne Thompson in the USA. Ideas for reports should be discussed with either Brenda Sawatzky-Girling in Canada or
Philippa Sully in the UK. Readers can also help by drawing attention to interprofessional books and reports to be considered for review by contacting
Michelle Cornes.
4. Preparation of Manuscripts Manuscripts must be written in English and should not exceed 5000 words, including tables and references.
Text should be supplied in a format compatible with Microsoft Word for Windows (PC). Charts and tables are considered textual and should also be supplied in a format compatible with Word. All figures (illustrations, diagrams, photographs) should be supplied in JPG or TIFF format.
All manuscripts must be typed in 12 pt font and in double space with margins of at least 2.5 cm. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with American Psychological Association's guidelines, from the APA Publication Manual (fifth edition).
Manuscripts must include:
• Title Page. This should contain the article title, a running head not exceeding 50 characters (including spaces), 3-5 keywords and full contact details of the authors. One corresponding author should be identified, whose email address is provided during manuscript upload.
• Abstract. This should not exceed 200 words and should include key words and a word count
• Text. This should in general, but not necessarily, be divided into sections with the headings: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion. Main headings should be in bold; subheadings in italics.
• Tables and Figures. Tables and figures should be referred to in text as follows: Figure 1, Figure 2; Table 2, Table 2. The place at which a table or figure is to be inserted in the printed text should be indicated clearly on the manuscript. Each table and/or figure must have a legend that explains its purpose without reference to the text. Each table and/or figure must be uploaded separately from the main document.
• References. References should be in alphabetic order at the end of the manuscript text, in the following formats:
Journal Papers
Perkins, K. A., Donny, E., & Caggiula, A. R. (1999). Sex differences in nicotine effects and self-administration: Review of human and animal evidence. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 1, 301-315.
Books
Kozlowski, L. T., Henningfield, J. E., & Brigham, J. (2001). Cigarettes, nicotine, and health. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Book Chapters
Weinstein, N. (2001). Smokers' recognition of their vulnerability to harm. In P. Slovic (Ed.), Smoking: Risk, perception, & policy (pp. 81-96). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Websites Health Canada (2009). Interprofessional education for collaborative patient-centred practice. Available at:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/hhr-rhs/strateg/interprof/index_e.html. Accessed 20 March 2009
Web Reports
Chou, L., McClintock, R., Moretti, F., & Nix, D. H. (1993). Technology and education: New wine in new bottles: Choosing pasts and imagining educational futures. Available at: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/papers/newwine1.html. Accessed 24 August 2003
Text Citations
Text Citations should give the author's name, with the year of publication in brackets e.g. Gregson (2008). If there are more than two authors then, Gregson et al. (2008).
Where several references from the same author(s) in the same order and from the same year are used then (a), (b), (c) should be put after the year of publication; otherwise as many authors as are needed to distinguish between the two publications should be listed.
• Reports
The Reports section of the journal is for articles between 500 and 1000 words (and up to 6 references). The focus is on describing initiatives in collaboration in practice and interprofessional education. Initiatives may be: research projects being launched or in progress; preliminary or final dissemination of research findings; innovations in practice or education. The Report may include one table or figure.
5. Plagiarism
Informa Healthcare has a strict policy against plagiarism. We define plagiarism as the use of extracts from another person's work that are not placed in quotation marks, without the permission of that person, and without acknowledgement to that person (using the appropriate reference style), with the result that your article presents these extracts as original to you. By submitting your work to an Informa Healthcare journal, you warrant that it is your original work, and that you have secured the necessary written permission from the appropriate copyright owner or authority for the reproduction of any text, illustration, or other material.
If any article submitted to an Informa Healthcare journal is found to have breached any of these conditions, Informa Healthcare reserves the right to reject that article and any others submitted by the same authors. Informa Healthcare may also contact the authors' affiliated institutions to inform them of its findings.
6. Ethics and Consent
When reporting experiments on human and animal subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 1983. Do not use patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in illustrative material. Papers including animal experiments or clinical trials must be conducted with approval by the local animal care or human subject committees, respectively. Please state when submitting your paper the name of the local body from which approval was received.
Identifying information should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees; unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that the patient be shown the manuscript to be published.
7. Authorship Contributions
Contributions must be substantial in order to warrant authorship. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. All other contributors should be listed in the acknowledgements.
8. Disclosures of Potential Conflict of Interest
Declaration of interest It is the policy of all Informa Healthcare to adhere in principle to the Conflict of Interest policy recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE, http://www.icmje.org/index.html#conflict).
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organisations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. It is the sole responsibility of authors to disclose any affiliation with any organisation with a financial interest, direct or indirect, in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript (such as consultancies, employment, paid expert testimony, honoraria, speakers' bureaus, retainers, stock options or ownership, patents or patent applications or travel grants) that may affect the conduct or reporting of the work submitted. All sources of funding for research are to be explicitly stated. If uncertain as to what might be considered a potential conflict of interest, authors should err on the side of full disclosure.
All submissions to the journal must include full disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest. If there are no conflicts of interest, authors should state that there are none. This must be stated at the point of submission (within the manuscript after the main text under a subheading "Declaration of interest" and, where available, within the appropriate field on the journal's Manuscript Central site). This may be made available to reviewers and will appear in the published article at the discretion of the Editors or Publisher.
If no conflict is declared, the following statement should be attached to all articles:
Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
The intent of this policy is not to prevent authors with these relationships from publishing work, but rather to adopt transparency such that readers can make objective judgements on conclusions drawn.
9. Electronic Proofs
When proofs are ready, corresponding authors will receive email notification with a password and web address from which to download a PDF. Hard copies of proofs will not be mailed. To avoid delays in publication, corrections to proofs must be returned within 48 hours, by electronic transmittal, fax or mail.
10. Offprints and Reprints
Offprints and reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased once the article has been published online. Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (
www.informaworld.com). Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through the Publisher when proofs are received. Copies of the Journal can be purchased at the authors' preferential rate of
15.00/$25.00 per copy.
11. Copyright
It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or licence the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Informa UK Ltd. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may, of course, use the article elsewhere after publication without prior permission from Informa UK Ltd, provided that acknowledgement is given to the Journal as the original source of publication, and that Informa UK Ltd is notified so that our records show that its use is properly authorised. Authors retain a number of other rights under the Informa UK Ltd rights policies documents. These policies can be found
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A copyright agreement will be sent to the corresponding author of accepted manuscripts with proofs. This should be signed and returned to Informa UK Ltd. Please note that Informa UK Ltd are signatories of, and respect the spirit of, the STM Agreement regarding the free sharing and dissemination of scholarly information.
12. NIH Public Access Policy
In consideration of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy, Informa Healthcare acknowledges that the broad and open dissemination of NIH-funded-research results may benefit future scientific and medical research. Because we value the current and future contributions our journals make to the scientific body of knowledge, we have made certain that our policies accommodate those authors who wish to submit to PubMed Central.
Informa Healthcare's position with respect to public access to NIH-funded work published in Informa Healthcare journals is as follows:
- Informa Healthcare authors may voluntarily submit their funded work to PubMed Central after a 12-month embargo period;
- “funded work” shall be defined as the final, peer-reviewed manuscript that is accepted by the Editor in Chief of the journal. This manuscript must not be altered by Publisher's copyediting and typesetting services; and
- this embargo period begins the day the work is published online at www.informaworld.com.
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