Resources for Authors
Blogs
NursingWriting
A blog site supported by the Center for Nursing Scholarship at the University of Connecticut, NursingWriting provides editors with a clearinghouse where they can announce calls for submissions for regular and special issues. Updated weekly, NursingWriting also features news about journal publishing, grants, conferences, and issues of interest to nurse authors, as well as writing and publishing tips for nurse writers.
Copyright
A page, put out by Stanford University, that lists resources pertaining to fair use and copyright. Contains many excellent resources. Don't neglect the President's statement.
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Everything you wanted to know about U.S. copyright, but did not know how to ask.
http://www.copyright.gov/
The full copyright law.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/
SHERPA RoMEO - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving. This site shows what type of permission you have to have to post your article on the Web before and after publication.
If you permissions to use copyrighted material, or need answers to specific questions, or want to find out the latest developments in copyright issues, you can probably find what need here: the Copyright Clearance Center.
Formatting Styles
AMA
Excellent resource from Simmons College describing the AMA style as well as providing examples.
APA
Learing APA Style. This page from the American Psychological Association has links to tutorials for the APA 6th edition including samples.
Plagiarism
This site, free to use, allows you to check your paper for possible plagiarism.
Wikipedia about plagiarism. Discusses plagiarism in academia, journals, online plagiarism and self-plagiarism.