Editorial Equity

Inclusive Language in Scientific Writing

“…Authors may also want to address potential power differentials between them and research participants that occurred while conducting the research. As noted in an earlier editorial (Pickler, 2023), some publishers, in collaboration with electronic manuscript systems, now include questions about gender, ethnicity, and race for authors to answer if they chose. Although Nursing Research does not require positionality statements, authors are welcome to add statements that reflect their positionality in relationship to the work, either in an acknowledgment statement or within the body of their paper.…”