AUDIENCE
Healthcare Staffing & Management Solutions readership consists primarily of nurse executives and recruiters, human resources personnel, and other acute care administrators in charge of staffing decisions.

PUBLICATION DATES
Healthcare Staffing & Management Solutions is published bimonthly - January/February through November/December.

EDITORIAL OBJECTIVES
Content provides a framework for professional and personal development with special emphasis on managerial concerns pertinent to nursing executives.

EDITORIAL STYLE
Healthcare Staffing & Management Solutions professional style is meant to engage acute care executives in the issues presented while delivering essential information in a format to which they are accustomed as readers of other administrative journals and periodicals.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
The editorial staff encourages submission of manuscripts for consideration, reserving the right to accept or reject any or all articles. Accepted manuscripts are subject to editing to enhance clarity and conform to the editorial style of Healthcare Staffing & Management Solutions.

Authors can submit manuscripts via e-mail to the Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Staffing & Management Solutions at plederman@advanstar.com. Written submissions should include an original and two copies of the manuscript. A third copy should be retained by the author. A diskette should be enclosed along with the required number of copies. Word processing software compatible with Microsoft Word 6.0 or higher is preferred. Short articles may be faxed to the editorial offices (410-742-3235). Authors must note if they wish diskettes to be returned.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
Title Page - This should contain the name(s), professional and/or academic degrees, positions, and institutional or agency affiliations of all authors and the complete mailing address and telephone/fax numbers and e-mail address of the principal author.

Text - The manuscript should be typed and double-spaced on 8 1/2" x 11" white paper with margins of at least 1 1/2" on all edges. Number the pages in the center along the bottom starting with the first page and all subsequent pages, continuing thorough the references list. Subdivide text by inserting succinct, meaningful subheads, similar to the text in sense and tone.

Abbreviations - Abbreviate only after the full term has been used with abbreviation in parenthesis.

Tables - These should be located on a separate page, numbered, titled, and cited in the text. They should supplement not duplicate the text.

References - These should be listed on a separate page placed at the end of the manuscript. References should refer only to material cited in the text and should be noted in accordance with the APA Manual.

Permissions - It is the author's responsibility to request any permission required for the use of material owned by others including copyrighted materials. All appropriate releases should be submitted with the manuscript.

EXCLUSIVITY AND COPYRIGHT
Articles must be original work that has not been published elsewhere. They may, however, be based on material developed originally for other purposes, such as speeches, internal reports, or presentations of papers at professional conferences. Articles are considered for publication with the understanding that they are not simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere. Permission to reprint articles in another publication must be obtained in writing from Healthcare Staffing & Management Solutions.

PHOTOGRAPHS/ILLUSTRATIONS
High-quality, high-impact photographs, charts, graphs, and other figures increase reader involvement and greatly enhance an article's message. Art should be in color, and can come as a print, slide, or on disks or e-mail if they are JPEG files. Most artwork can be returned, but avoid sending originals when possible. Identify all illustrative material with figure number and legend, including the author’s name and photographer's name, on a separate piece of paper attached to each figure or photograph.

EDITORIAL PROCEDURES
Query letters are not required but they do allow the editor to give advice on proposed topics and format. Address all correspondence to:

Editor-in-Chief
Healthcare Staffing & Management Solutions
Advanstar Communications
224 Phillip Morris Drive, Suite 402
Salisbury, MD 21804
FAX: 410-742-3235
Phone: 410-749-3200 or 800-9HT-TRAV

Freelancers must complete a license agreement, forwarding the signed original to the editorial offices prior to start of assignment. Editorial staff schedule, author review, and final approval deadlines are noted at time of contract. Receipt of solicited manuscripts will be acknowledged immediately, while unsolicited manuscripts will be acknowledged within two weeks of receipt. The full review process for these pieces takes four to six weeks. Publication decisions and author notifications will be made after the review process has been completed. Authors may be requested to rewrite submitted manuscripts according to the editors' remarks.

If manuscripts are accepted for publication, authors must review and approve the final edited draft prior to printing. At this time, a form indicating approval for inclusion in the journal, Healthcare Staffing & Management Solutions, and permission for text and/or photos to appear on the website, www.hsmsweb.com, must be completed and forwarded to the publishers via fax or mail. It is not the policy of Healthcare Staffing & Management Solutions to publish articles in any form of media without this written authorization from authors.