For Referees

This page contains information and resources for reviewers for the International Journal of Nursing Practice.

If you are not currently a reviewer for the journal but would be interested, please contact the editorial office at [email protected]. Please note that we generally require reviewers to have a good level of experience of publishing in peer-reviewed journals and whilst some people review principally for their subject expertise, our reviewers require a higher degree, preferably a PhD.

Wiley Reviewer Resources Centre
Detailed information about peer review, tips for reviewing, and ethical guidance can be found in Wiley's Reviewer Resource Centre at www.wileypeerreview.com, see also http://exchanges.wiley.com/authors/how-to-perform-a-peer-review_762.html

Ethical Guidelines
COPE has published its Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers, outlining "the basic principles and standards to which all peer reviewers should adhere during the peer-review process". These can be accessed here.

Guide to reviewing manuscripts
Useful guidance to reviewing journal manuscripts is available on Nurse Author & Editor.
Advice on writing peer reviews is available at: http://naepub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/NAE-2006-16-3-2-Westergren.pdf and http://naepub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/NAE-2006-16-2-2-Kralik.pdf

Wiley Exchanges Blog
The Wiley Exchanges Blog includes some interesting posts about peer review.

Reviewer Discount
The quality of the Journal is dependent on our expert reviewers. In recognition of their valued contribution, we offer a 30% discount on Wiley books to all reviewers. To take advantage of this, please follow this link (it says 'Author Discount', but there is an option for reviewers on the same page).

Exemplars
It is very hard to specify what a good review is and to give advice to new reviewers who ask for advice. Editors spend a great deal of time discussing the quality of reviews and who the best reviewers are. The review process is crucial to the enterprise of academic publishing and some examples of what we consider to be good reviews are available here. The reviews are all different but they have some features in common: they are all polite, they are all specific about what needs to be changed and where, and they are all meant to be helpful to the editor processing the manuscript and the authors who may be asked to revise their paper.