Aporia La revue en sciences infirmières The Nursing Journal
Managing editor(s): Amélie Perron (Rédactrice en chef) / Editor(s): Jean-Laurent Domingue (Éditeur), Pierre Pariseau-Legault (Éditeur), Pier-Luc Turcotte (Éditeur à la production), Jean Daniel Jacob (Éditeur à la production)
About
Aporia is peer reviewed bilingual (English, French) journal dedicated to research and scholarly debates in nursing and the health sciences. The journal is committed to a pluralistic view of science and to the blurring of boundaries between disciplines. In critical analyses of health-related matters, Aporia advocates and embraces a wide range of epistemologies, philosophies, methodologies, and theories including, but not limited to, feminist, intersectional, postmodern, poststructural, decolonial, postcolonial, and queer perspectives.
Contact
Please send requests to Aporia's editorial team by emailing aporia@uottawa.ca.
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Editorial policy and ethics
Aporia is a peer-reviewed bilingual (English, French) open access journal dedicated to scholarly debates in nursing and the health sciences. The journal is committed to a pluralistic view of science and to the blurring of boundaries between disciplines. Therefore, the editorial team welcomes critical manuscripts in the fields of nursing and health research, including critical analyses of dominant or emergent discourses and practices related to health and healthcare organization, administration and research as well as analyses of the ethics and politics of health and health work. Cutting-edge research results in nursing and health-related disciplines are also welcome. Aporia encourages the use of a wide range of epistemologies, philosophies, theoretical perspectives and research methodologies. In critical analyses of health-related matters, Aporia advocates and embraces a wide range of epistemologies, philosophies, methodologies, and theories including, but not limited to, feminist, intersectional, postmodern, poststructural, decolonial, postcolonial, and queer perspectives.
Health research is heavily supported through public funding already. As such, the editorial team rejects the idea that the public should be required to pay yet again to access research results. Subscription to scientific journals can amount to thousands of dollars paid directly through public funds. Aporia rejects this practice and contributes to a growing fracture from the current model that dominates scientific dissemination and publications practices. Aporia is, therefore, a free online journal. In keeping with Deleuze and Guattari’s thinking, the Aporia team firmly believes that freedom is only possible in the margin; an autonomous space that can be controversial, sometimes polemical, while upholding scientific and academic rigour. As such, the goal is to facilitate access to scientific knowledge and give the reader an opportunity to actively position themself regarding the written words in ways that foster a plurality of meanings.
Aporia adheres to the following principles:
- Freedom of speech
- Critical pedagogy
- The role of the specific intellectual
- Recognition of local knowledge(s)
- Critique of dominant discourses
- The author’s and the reader’s right to self-determination
- The role of the committed citizen.
Aporia operates under a double-blind peer review format. Papers are sent to review if the editorial team determines that the submission is a quality and relevant paper that fits within the aims and scope of the journal.
Aporia is an open access journal, for which there are no submission, publication, or processing fees. Authors retain copyright and can enter into separate contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of their published material. Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Information for contributors
Authors must register with the journal or log in to begin the five-step submission process.
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check their submission's compliance with the following items. Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will be returned to authors.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration. If that isn’t the case, an explanation has been provided in the “Comments to the Editor”.
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is double spaced, uses a common font (Times New Roman, Arial, Calibri) 12 points, uses italics rather than the underline tool (except for URLs) and uses places figures, diagrams and tables where appropriate in the text instead of at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Research manuscripts, theoretical and philosophical pieces must not exceed 7,000 words. Commentaries and responses related to published articles must not exceed 3,000 words. Manuscripts and the cover letter should be submitted through the online portal (OJS Platform). Any further questions should be submitted to aporia@uottawa.ca.
Cover Letter
Papers are accepted for publication in the Journal on the understanding that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. This must be stated in the cover letter, which should be sent with the manuscript. The cover letter must contain an acknowledgement that all authors have contributed significantly, and that all authors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript. When applicable, it should be stated that the protocol for the research project has been approved by a suitable and relevant Research Ethics Board. All investigations involving human subjects must include a statement that subjects provided informed consent and anonymity should be preserved. Authors should declare any financial support or relationships that may cause conflicts of interest.
Authorship Credit
Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work. Authorship credits should be based on substantial contributions to:
- conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of data;
- drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
- final approval of the version to be published.
Copyright
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
Peer Review
Aporia uses a double-blind peer review process.
Preparation of the Manuscript
Research manuscripts, theoretical and philosophical pieces must not exceed 7,000 words. Commentaries and responses related to published articles must not exceed 3,000 words. Submissions should be prepared in word-processing software using a common font (Times New Roman, Arial, Calibri) 12 points. The text file should be double-spaced and set with top, bottom and side margins of 2.5cm or 1 inch all around.
Style
- All manuscripts that do not follow these guidelines will be returned to the author prior to peer review.
- The journal privileges UK spelling for English articles and authors should therefore follow the latest edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary.
- All measurements must be given in metric units.
- Abbreviations should be used sparingly and only where they alleviate the text. Initially use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation.
- Drugs should be referred to by their generic names, rather than trade names.
- Manuscripts should follow Vancouver style.
Parts of the Manuscript
Manuscripts should be organised in the following order: (i) title page, (ii) abstract and key words (max of 5), (iii) text, (iv) acknowledgements, (v) references, (vi) appendices, (vii) figure legends, (viii) tables (each table complete with title and footnotes) and (ix) figures. Footnotes to the text are not allowed and any such material should be incorporated into the text in parentheses.
- Title page
The title page should contain (i) the title of the paper, (ii) the full names of the authors, (iii) the addresses of their respective institutions and (iv) the full postal and email address, facsimile and telephone numbers of the corresponding author.
- Abstract and key words
All articles must have a brief abstract that states in 150 words or less the problem, the theoretical framework, the purpose, the methodology, main findings and principal conclusions of the study. The abstract should not contain abbreviations or references. A maximum of five key words must be supplied in alphabetical order below the abstract.
- Text
Authors should use subheadings to divide the sections of their manuscript. e.g. Introduction, Theoretical Framework, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, References.
- Acknowledgements
The source of financial grants and other funding must be included, including a frank declaration of the authors' industry links and affiliations. The contribution of colleagues or institutions should also be acknowledged.
- References
The Vancouver system of referencing should be used. In the text, references should be cited using superscript Arabic numerals in the order in which they appear. In the reference list, the references should be numbered and listed in order of appearance in the text. Cite the names of all authors when there are six or fewer; when more than seven list the first three followed by et al. Reference to unpublished data and personal communications should not appear in the list but should be cited in the text only (e.g. Smith A, 2000, unpublished data).
References should be listed in the following form:
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- Journal articles
Lupton D. Discourse and analysis: a new methodology for understanding the ideologies of health and illness. Australian Journal of Public Health 1992; 16: 145-150.
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- Books
Dunning T. Care of People with Diabetes: A Manual of Nursing Practice. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1994.
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- Book Chapters
Reid F. Mobility and safer handling. In: McMahon CA, Harding J (eds). Knowledge to Care:A Handbook for Care Assistants. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1994; 53-69.
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- Electronic Material
Center of Disease Control, Taiwanese Ministry of Health. Reported Cases of HIV/AIDS. 2001. Available from URL: http://www.cdc.gov.tw. Accessed 23 January 2002.
- Appendices
These should be placed at the end of the paper, numbered in Roman numerals and referred to in the text.
- Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text.Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals. A comprehensive but concise legend should be included.
Copyright Notice
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
Amélie Perron, RN, PhD
Full Professor
School of Nursing
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Receiving Editors
Jean-Laurent Domingue, RN, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Pierre Pariseau-Legault, RN, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Nursing
Université du Québec en Outaouais
Gatineau, Québec
Canada
Production Editors
Pier-Luc Turcotte, OT, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Rehabilitation Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Jean Daniel Jacob, RN, PhD
Full Professor
School of Nursing
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Founding Editor-in-Chief
Dave Holmes, RN, PhD
Professor
School of Nursing
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
International Editorial Board
Laura Bisaillon, Canada
Franco Carnavale, Canada
John Drummond, United Kingdom
Cary Federman, USA
Christian Hervé, France
Annemarie Jutel, New Zealand
Sylvie Lauzon, Canada
Annette Leibing, Canada
Elizabeth Manias, Australia
Tom Mason, United Kingdom
Stuart J. Murray, Canada
Michael Orsini, Canada
John Paley, United Kingdom
Blake Poland, Canada
Pamela Reed, United States
Bernard Roy, Canada
Gary Rolfe, United Kingdom
Trudy Rudge, Australia
Meryn Stuart, Canada
Kim Walker, Australia