Contracting with the CON Editor

Eligibility.  CON Faculty and Postdocs may request editorial support from the CON Editor. The Editor is available  to work on manuscripts, book chapters, and grant proposals that are in reviewable condition.  It is expected that work that is being submitted jointly with other authors will have been reviewed by all of the other authors on the research team before it is sent to the CON Editor. Please note that graduate students are not eligible to use the editor’s services unless they make separate arrangements and pay for the services on their own.

Scope of work.  The CON Editor is a valuable, shared resource. To be maximally effective, her role will be limited to performing substantive, content editing (e.g., improving logic, organization, flow, and persuasiveness) but not proofreading.

Procedure.  Faculty or postdocs who wish to submit work to the Editor should contact the Secretary in the Office for Nursing Research and forward the work that is to be reviewed. The ONR Secretary will contact the Editor with the request and handle all workflow and billing issues.

Limits of use.  Each piece of work (i.e., manuscript, proposal, or chapter) can be sent to the Editor no more than one time. Therefore, authors should work to ensure that their work is in good shape before it is sent to the Editor.  Exceptions:  Resubmissions of a grant proposals and manuscripts are considered to be a separate piece of work from the original submission and are eligible for a second review by the Editor.

Acknowledgement of work.  The ICMJE is now encouraging journals to create a policy defining contributorship as well as authorship. Specifically, the policy states:

When using "ghost writers" or outside assistance for writing, those contributors should be listed in the acknowledgments section of the manuscript.

As such, the ONR policy is that faculty who enlist the editorial services of the CON Editor must include an acknowledgement to the Editor by name.