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Now hang on a minute: five rules for writing an editorial
Author(s) -
Gray R.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1111/jpm.12260
Subject(s) - editorial board , reading (process) , set (abstract data type) , reputation , quality (philosophy) , medical education , psychology , public relations , medicine , library science , computer science , political science , law , epistemology , philosophy , programming language
The J ournal of P sychiatric and M ental H ealth N ursing (re)introduced editorials – after an absence of several years – in the N ovember 2014 edition. The first editorial by the new E ditor in C hief – L awrie E lliott – set out an ambitious programme of work that aims to enhance the reputation, quality and impact of the Journal . Editorials can serve to distil emergent themes, or highlight papers from a particular issue and/or set out an opinion on a topical issue. Generally, the editor or the editorial team will write the majority of editorials. There is also an expectation that members of the editorial board will also occasionally draft the lead piece. We also hope that readers of the journal will – from time to time – be stirred about a particular issue, put pen to paper and submit an editorial. As an editorial team, we thought it might be helpful to consider some guidance for writing editorials. These are therefore my five rules based on my experience writing, reading and reviewing editorials both for this and other journals over the past couple of decades.