WRITING TO PERIODICALS: WHAT SHOULD YOU KNOW?

Authors

  • Richardson Miranda Machado
  • Carla Maria Fonseca Simão
  • Eliane Silva Britto
  • Maria Helena Larcher Caliri

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v15i1.17185

Keywords:

Revisão por pares, Publicações de divulgação científica, Publicações periódicas como assunto, Peer review, Publications for science diffusion, Periodicals as topic, Revisión por expertos, Publicaciones de divulgación científica, Publicaciones periódicas c

Abstract

It is a literature review, which had the purpose of summarizing the available evidences in researches on ‘theerrors and difficulties found in the process of scientific publication’ subject, as well as offering subsidies for theimplementation of changes that promote the quality and the publication of information produced by the fields of sciences,such as nursing. The bibliographic survey was gathered from the LILACS and BDENF databases in the health virtuallibrary website. The main errors and rejection factors of the submitted articles were: poor writing; out of date informationand/or data; methodology failures, mistakes on the literature review; misspelling; insufficient and inadequate information;statistics problems and use of incorrect statistics. As main suggestions for authors to make the process of publicationeasier: the review of literature must be up to date; the fully understanding of the chosen methodology; the data analysismust be concise.

Published

2010-03-30

How to Cite

Machado, R. M., Simão, C. M. F., Britto, E. S., & Caliri, M. H. L. (2010). WRITING TO PERIODICALS: WHAT SHOULD YOU KNOW?. Cogitare Enfermagem, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v15i1.17185

Issue

Section

REVIEW