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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

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Copyright Notice

The Nurse Educators and Practitioners Journal (NEPJ) is an open-access journal. All articles published in NEPJ are made freely available online immediately upon publication in accordance with NEPJ's commitment to the wide dissemination of scholarly work in nursing education and practice.

Copyright Ownership

Copyright of published articles remains with the Author(s). By submitting and publishing with NEPJ, the Author(s) grant NEPJ, a non-exclusive license to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, archive, index, and make the work publicly available in printed and electronic form.

Open Access Use and Reuse

All articles published in NEPJ are under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0)

Users are permitted to read, download, copy, print, share, link to, and distribute NEPJ articles for non-commercial, scholarly, educational and research purposes, provided that:

  • Proper attribution is given to the Author(s) and the journal;
  • The original work is cited accurately and in full; and 
  • The content is not altered, misrepresented, or used in a misleading manner.

The Content may not be used for commercial purposes, resale, republication, or inclusion in another work or database without prior written permission from the Author(s) and/or NEPJ, except where otherwise allowed by law.

Attribution Requirement

All reuse of NEPJ content must include full citation of the original publication, including author name(s), article title, journal title, volume, issue, year, and persistent link (DOI or URL), consistent with APA referencing standards.

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Content Integrity and Withdrawal

NEPJ, in coordination with the Author(s), reserves the right to correct, retract, or remove content when there is reasonable evidence of legal infringement, ethical concerns, or violation of third-party rights, in accordance with accepted scholarly publishing standards.

Disclaimer

The views and conclusions expressed in published articles are solely those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors, NEPJ or the NEPraGuild, Inc. NEPJ and NEPraGuild, Inc. make no warranties regarding the completeness, accuracy, or applicability of the published content and disclaim liability for any use thereof.

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