BJOT: Types of Article

Abstract

This article forms part of a symposium entitled ‘An introduction to Writing for Publication in Professional Journals’, prepared by the Editorial Board of BJOT. It divides published material into the broad categories of short and long articles and identifies classifications under each heading. Further papers in the symposium will discuss the structure of a Journal article, writing an editorial and writing a research article.

Writing for Publication: The Professional Imperative

“…Strategies that promote writing for publication are listed in Table 1. There are several articles published in the nursing and allied health literature that outline the process of writing for publication, including those by Blancett (1988), Caster (1988), Cusick (1988), Mattsson (1988), Davidhizar (1989), Weiss-Lambrou (1991), Howard (1993), Drummond (1994Drummond ( ,1996, Kelly (1994), Henderson (1995), Ballinger et al (1996), Hayes (1996), Finlay (1997). General guidelines for writing for publication are listed in Table 2.…”