The journal welcomes contributions for publication from the following categories: Letters to the Editor, Reviews and Original Articles and Commentaries.

All articles should be submitted to Ms Dee Beresford, E-mail: deeberesford@btinternet.com. Submission of manuscripts by e-mail is preferred, in which case a typescript and disk are not required. Alternatively, paper submissions will be accepted; please include the original and two additional copies of the manuscript and send to Ms Dee Beresford, Executive Officer, Neonatal Nurses Association, P.O.Box 8708, Nottingham NG2 9BJ, UK.

Disk Submission

If submitting the manuscript by post, please also enclose a disk (note that the disk version must be identical to the hard copy). Please indicate on the label attached to your disk, your name, address, typescript title and the name of the word processing package used.

Presentation of Typescripts

Your article should be typed on one side of the paper, double spaced with a margin of at least 3cm. One copy of your typescript and illustrations and a disk should be submitted and authors should retain a file copy. Rejected articles will not be returned to the author except on request.

Authors are encouraged to submit electronic artwork files with the original printed illustrations. Please refer to http://www.elsevier.com/authors for guidelines for the preparation of electronic artwork files. Photographs scanned at lower resolution may be submitted for use in the peer-review process, provided that the original photographs are mailed to the Journal Editorial Office for use in the production process.

To facilitate anonymity, the author's names and any reference to their addresses should only appear on the title page.

Please check your typescript carefully before you send it off, both for correct content and typographic errors. It is not possible to change the content of accepted typescripts during production.

Papers should be set out as follows, with each section beginning on a separate sheet:

Title page
To facilitate the peer-review process, two title pages are required. The first should carry just the title of the paper and no information that might identify the author or institution. The second should contain the following information: title of paper; full name(s) and address(es) of author(s) clearly indicating who is the corresponding author; you should give a maximum of four degrees/qualifications for each author and the current relevant appointment only; institutional affiliation; name, address, telephone, fax and e-mail of the corresponding author; source(s) of support in the form of funding and/or equipment.

Keywords
Include three to ten keywords. These should be indexing terms that may be published with the abstract with the aim of increasing the likely accessibility of your paper to potential readers searching the literature. Therefore, ensure keywords are descriptive of the study.

Abstract
This should consist of 100-150 words summarising the content of the article. References should therefore be avoided, but if essential, they must be cited in full, without reference to the reference list.

Text

Headings should be appropriate to the nature of the paper. The use of headings enhances readability. Three categories of headings should be used:

•major ones should be typed in capital letter in the centre of the page and underlined
•secondary ones should be typed in lower case (with an initial capital letter) in the left hand margin and underlined
•minor ones typed in lower case and italicised


Do not use 'he', 'his' etc. where the sex of the person is unknown; say 'the patient' etc. Avoid inelegant alternatives such as 'he/she'. Avoid sexist language.

References
Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic citations lies entirely with the authors. Citations in the text: Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either "Unpublished results" or "Personal communication" Citation of a reference as "in press" implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

Citing and listing of Web references. As a minimum, the full URL should be given. Any further information, if known (Author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.

Citations in the text: Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Avoid using references in the abstract. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either "Unpublished results" or "Personal communication" Citation of a reference as "in press" implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

Text: All citations in the text should refer to:

1. Single Author: the Author's name (without initials; unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
2. Two Authors: both Author's names and the year of publication;
3. Three or more Authors: first Author's name followed by "et al." and the year of publication.


Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.

Examples: "as demonstrated (Allan, 1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1995). Kramer et al. (2000) have recently shown..."

List: References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same Author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc., placed after the year of publication.

Examples:

Reference to a journal publication:

Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2000. The art of writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51-59.

Reference to a book:

Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 1979. The Elements of Style, third ed. Macmillan, New York.

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., 1999. How to prepare an electronic version of your article. in: Jones, B.S., Smith, R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281-304.

Tables
Tables should be double spaced on separate sheets and contain only horizontal lines. Do not submit tables as photographs. A short descriptive title should appear above each table and any footnotes suitable identified below. Take care to include all the units of measurement. Ensure that each table is cited in the text.

Illustrations/Figures
All illustrations should be provided in camera-ready form suitable for reproduction (which may include reduction) without retouching. Photographs, charts and diagrams must all be referred to as "Figure(s). They should accompany the manuscript, but should not be included within the text. They should be identified with Arabic numerals in parentheses (eg. Figure 1). Any symbols used in the figure must be identified and explained in the legend. Captions should be typed double spaced on separate sheets. All illustrations should be clearly marked on the back with the figure number, an indication of the top edge and the author's name. Do not use paper clips as these may scratch or mark an illustration.

Photographs
Please submit high-quality black and white prints, clearly labelled, on the back with a soft crayon. Do not use ink.

Line drawings and figures
Supply high-quality printouts on white paper produced with black ink. The lettering and symbols, as well as other details, should have proportionate dimensions, so as not to become illegible or unclear after possible reduction; in general, the figures should be designed for a reduction factor of two to three. The degree of reduction will be determined by the Publisher. Illustrations will not be enlarged. Consider the page format of the journal when designing the illustrations. Photocopies are not suitable for reproduction. Do not use any type of shading on computer-generated illustrations.

Computer-generated illustrations can be difficult to reproduce clearly unless there is good definition and clarity of outline.

Reproduction of borrowed illustrations or table or identifiable clinical photographs Permission to produce material (illustrations and tables) must be obtained from the original publishers and authors, and submitted with the typescript. Borrowed material should be acknowledged in the captions in this style - 'Reproduced by kind permission of ?(publishers) from ?(reference)'.

Preparation of supplementary data. Elsevier now accepts electronic supplementary material (e-components) to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the Author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at: http://www.elsevier.com/authors.

Files can be stored on diskette, ZIP-disk or CD (either PC or Macintosh).

Copyright
A "Transfer of Copyright" agreement will be sent to authors following acceptance of a paper for publication. A paper is accepted for publication on the understanding that it has not been submitted simultaneously to another journal in the English language. All authors must sign the "Transfer of Copyright" agreement before the article can be published. This transfer agreement enables Neonatal Nursing Association to protect the copyrighted material for the authors, without the author relinquishing his/her proprietary rights. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprints, photographic reproductions, microfilm or any other reproductions of a similar nature, and translations. It also includes the right to adapt the article for use in conjunction with computer systems and programs, including reproduction or publication in machine-readable form and incorporation in retrieval systems. Authors are responsible for obtaining from the copyright holder permission to reproduce any material for which copyright already exists.

Author's Rights
As an author (or your employer or institution) may do the following:
• make copies (print or electronic) of the article for your own personal use, including fir your own classroom teaching use.
• make copies and distribute such copies (including through e-mail) of the article to research colleagues, for the personal use by such colleagues (but not commercially or systematically, eg, via an e-mail list or list server)
• post a pre-print version of the article on Internet websites including electronic pre-print servers, and to retain indefinitely such version on such servers or sites
• post a revised personal version of the final text of the article (to reflect changes made in the peer review and editing process) on your personal or institutional website or server, with a link to the journal homepage
• present the article at a meeting or conference and to distribute copies of the article to the delegates attending such a meeting.
• for your employer, if the article is a 'work for hire', made within the scope of your employment, your employer may use all or part of the information in the article for other intra-company use (eg: training)
• retain patent and trademark rights and rights to any processes or procedure described in the article.
• include the article in fill or in part in a thesis or dissertation (provided that this is not to be published commercially)
• use the article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of your works, such as collected writings or lecture notes (subsequent to publication of your article in the journal)
• prepare other derivative works, to extend the article into book-length form, ir to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full ac-knowledge of its original publication in the journal.

Funding body agreements and policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors whose articles appear in journals published by Elsevier, to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions of their grant awards. To learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies

Sponsored Articles
JNN now offers authors the option to sponsor non-subscriber access to individual articles. The access sponsorship contribution fee per article is $3,000. This contribution is necessary to offset publishing costs - from managing article submission and peer review, to typesetting, tagging and indexing of articles, hosting articles on dedicated servers, supporting sales and marketing costs to ensure global dissemination via ScienceDirect, and permanently preserving the published journal article. The sponsorship fee excludes taxes and other potential author fees such as colour charges which are additional.

Authors can specify that they would like to select this option after receiving notification that their article has been accepted for publication, but not before. This eliminates a potential conflict of interest by ensuring that the journal does not have a financial incentive to accept an article for publication.

Changes to authorship
This policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:

Before the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such requests and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.

After the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.

Page Proofs
One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding Author (If we do not have an e-mail address then paper proofs will be sent by post). Elsevier now sends PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 available free from Adobe. Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs.

If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return to Elsevier in an email. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail, or by post. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article if no response is received.

Author Enquiries
For enquiries relating to the submission of articles (including electronic text and artwork) please visit: http://www.elsevier.com/authors. There is also the facility to track accepted articles and set up e-mail alerts to inform you of when an article's status has changed, as well as detailed artwork guidelines, copyright information, frequently asked questions and more. Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided when an article is accepted for publication at: http://authors.elsevier.com/TrackPaper.html.

Offprints
The corresponding author, at no cost will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use. Additional paper offprints can be ordered by the authors. An order form with prices will be sent to the corresponding author.

Checklist
Please check your typescript carefully before you send it off to the Editorial Office, both for correct content and typographical errors, as it is not possible to change the content of accepted typescripts during the production process.

•Full details of corresponding author, including email address
•If submitting by post, original text plus two good copies (and a labelled disk)
•Figures of reproducible quality
•Referenced list in correct style
•Written permission from original publishers and authors to reproduce any borrowed material