Guidance for Scholarly Writing: Assuring Ethical Publishing Standards for Nursing Professionals and Doctoral Students.

Nursing professionals and doctoral nursing students engage in scholarly work throughout the academic experience and their careers. However, they often find the writing and publishing processes challenging. Studies have shown that 41.3% of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) graduates who completed the traditional Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) dissertation never published the findings. To date, studies that have examined or validated the total number of Doctor of Nursing Practice graduates who have published their scholarly quality improvement or evidence-based practice improvement projects are limited. This article presents successful ways to organize and prepare a manuscript for submission to a nursing scientific journal. A discussion on editor decisions and ways to respond to reviewer comments and editor decisions is presented. Also discussed are unethical behaviors in scholarly writing including the problems and outcomes for authors who submit plagiarized work, duplicate submissions, using generative artificial intelligence to create a manuscript, and retractions of published work.