Abstract
The number of printed and electronic (Internet) academic nursing publications in Brazil and around the world highlight the importance attached to publishing in the field of nursing. Internationally, journals are ranked according to their professional merits and peer review orientations. Financial institutions increasingly value publications in renowned journals as one criterion for granting funds for research. One important reason why many scientific articles do not meet the requirements from international journal reviewers, especially those submitted English, is the result of poor and literal translation of the text. The challenge we are facing in Latin America is to encourage the development of articles for publication in internationally reviewed journals. Co-authorship is a potentially stimulating model for researchers and postgraduate students to publish. This task can be undertaken through the help of international supervisors and researchers, supervisors or postgraduate students with good command of the English language. This article aims to demystify the publication process and present some guidelines on how to publish in international journals.
Highlights
By the time you have covered most of the writing, the Introduction section should be fairly uncomplicated
With the globalization of communications and journal publications, the big conglomerates have the means and technologies to improve the accessibility of the journals to a wide international readership. This should be seen in the occasional translation of abstracts in different languages if the information reported is of high quality and relevant to an international nursing audience
Guidelines for authors on how to submit a manuscript in different languages should be provided by electronic means to potential readers of the journals and authors
Summary
By the time you have covered most of the writing, the Introduction section should be fairly uncomplicated. You are setting an agenda and will develop the themes later. This is where you want to set the context of the paper and introduce the reader to the general issue: a general introduction of the theme you are writing about, the issue(s) or statement(s) of the problem(s) and a theoretical framework if appropriate. Whatever type of journal you are writing for, always define or operationalise the terms or concepts used in the paper. Give an explanation to all abbreviations at first mention in the text
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