Who's idea is it?

You can avoid most but probably not all of the misunderstandings about "Who's idea is it?" The preventive strategies work. Fortunately, I was aware early in may career of the need to move rapidly from the idea to the proposal or written manuscript stages. In one instance, when I was attending a national meeting, I informally suggested a topic for a new nursing journal to the president of a publishing company.

Mastering verb tenses in literature reviews.

Deciding on which verb tense to use when writing the literature review section of a manuscript is challenging. Editors find that verb tense problems are common in literature report sections of manuscripts. Authors, reviewers, and editors need to be able to spot incorrect verb tenses in literature reviews.

Duplicate publication, Part 2: A case analysis.

Most authors, reviewers, editors, and scholars agree that it is the specific situation that has to be analyzed to determine if a particular manuscript duplicates a previously published one. Duplicate Publication, Part 1, which was published in the Summer 2002 issue of Nurse Author & Editor, described criteria to identify duplication. This article, Part 2, presents a case analysis on the degree of duplication of articles in a case situation.