AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND CONTINENCE JOURNAL
The Australian and New Zealand Continence Journal (ANZCJ)
The Australian and New Zealand Continence Journal (ANZCJ) was established in 1995 and is the official journal of Continence Health Australia and Continence New Zealand. In January 2025 we moved to CSIRO Publishing and have a new website with updated author instructions. To make sure you continue to receive the journal’s content and updates, sign up to ANZCJ emails from CSIRO Publishing. CSIRO Publishing is a trusted, not-for-profit publisher within Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, and is set to bring high publishing standards, international reach, and quality author care to ANZCJ. The ANZCJ is a Diamond Open Access journal. It is free for authors to publish and free for readers.
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- The official journal of Continence Health Australia and Continence NZ
- Diamond Open Access: free to publish, free to read
- Double-anonamised peer-reviewed
- Each article receives a DOI so it can be easily found and cited by other researchers
- Easy submission process via ScholarOne
- Quick response and decision times from editorial team
- Continuous publication model
- Circulated to our ANZ membership of health professionals including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and other allied health.
ANZCJ ISSN 2208-5750
ANZCJ publishing calendar
From January 2025, the ANZCJ will be published with CSIRO Publishing in a continuous publishing model. For authors this is great news because as soon as your paper is approved for publication it will begin the production process and be put online as soon as possible, not having to wait for the next issue.
Aims and Scope of the ANZCJ
The aims and scope of the Journal are to provide a forum for dissemination of information about current research and practice in the diagnosis, treatment and management of incontinence, and promotion of continence to the wider community. The Journal acts as a forum and exchange of information for all practitioner stakeholders.
The Journal aims to reduce the tyranny of distance and geographic isolation of clinicians. Its mission is to foster new authors and to meet the information needs of practitioners from novice to expert in all fields relating to incontinence.
All practitioners are encouraged to write about their work and experiences to promote the work and innovative practice of all clinicians working in continence across Australasia.
The Journal is unique as it is the only multi-disciplinary journal published, in Australasia specifically specialising in continence issues.
About the ANZCJ
The Australian and New Zealand Continence Journal (ANZCJ) is the only multidisciplinary journal dedicated to researching the diagnosis, treatment and management of incontinence, bringing together the medical, nursing and allied health specialties of:
- nursing
- gastroenterology
- gerontology
- paediatrics
- physiotherapy
- urogynaecology
- urology.
The journal is published quarterly and circulated to our members in Australia and New Zealand. It is also available in full online here.
For any authors that haven’t published with the ANZCJ before, or not for a while, you will be pleased to know we are now fully online and each article receives a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), meaning your research can be found and cited easily. We are also listed on the below indexing databases with pending applications in for additional indexes (details to come):
- Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) / EBSCO
- InfoRMIT (Australian Medical Index)
Journal management and policies
The ANZCJ follows the recommendations of the International Council of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). It is recommended that all authors review the ICMJE Recommendations (previously The Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals) and the ICMJE statement Defining the roles of authors and contributors before submitting a paper.
Information on publishing research and research publishing ethics, with links to the COPE ethics guidelines and international research reporting guidelines, can be found on the EQUATOR Network website.
All papers relating to human and animal studies must contain an ethics statement as per the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). All papers relating to clinical trials must include the trial registration number and adhere to the research ethics statement.
ANZCJ open access statement
The Australian and New Zealand Continence Journal is Diamond Open Access and is funded by Continence Health Australia (formerly Continence Foundation of Australia) (ABN: 84007325313). All articles published by the ANZCJ are free for authors to publish and free for readers to read.
SUBMIT A PAPER
The ANZCJ invites original research papers, and other scholarly manuscripts relating to the diagnosis, treatment and management of incontinence across the lifespan.
All papers submitted to the journal are subject to a double-blind peer-review by two reviewers with the expertise and academic qualifications that they may be deemed as peers by the Editor.
While the journal is primarily dedicated to Australian and New Zealand research, it also accepts international research studies on issues of bowel and bladder health and incontinence.
We accept many different types of article:
Discussion
Presentation of information from more than one viewpoint (for example, for and against) and usually ending with a recommendation or opinion based on the evidence presented.
Literature review
Narrative Review: describes and evaluates the current knowledge of a subject, identifies gaps or inconsistencies and includes critical evaluation with recommendations for future research.
Systematic Review: describes planned analysis and evaluation of all available research studies on a particular clinical issue, conducted in accordance with scientific principles and may include recommendations for future research.
Qualitative and quantitative research report
Presentation of study results in an ordered fashion, based on common practice. Research reports are expected to follow the Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals, as published by the International Council of Science Journal Editors.
Case study
Combination of recount (retelling of events as they occurred) and information report (classification and description of something). Can be presented in different ways to give a cohesive account. To publish a case study containing any personal information about a patient you must provide a statement where the patient has given consent for the information to be used (understandably with case studies it is not possible to get consent from the patient beforehand – as you would with a clinical trial).
Segments
We have launched three regular segments to encourage people who do not have the resources or time to publish a full paper to let the community know what they have been up to. The three segments will be double-blind peer reviewed, 800-1200 words long (not including references) and have 6-12 references.
Did you know…This segment covers interesting things related to continence that our readership of nurses, doctors, physios, OTs and other health professionals might not know. It could be something you have just discovered, or something you have known about for a long time that you are always surprised people don’t know about.
What I learned about…This segment can cover anything you have recently discovered, it could be from a book, a conference, a training course, or even a discussion you have had.
Have you heard…This segment is any news related to continence, including upcoming events, new research released, new services available, new products related to continence.
A variety of topics are possible and include, but are not limited to: outcome studies, aged care, paediatrics, pregnancy and childbirth, novel drug therapies, reviews of devices, surgical or non-surgical interventions and evaluation, assessment articles, literature reviews of incontinence-related topics, home and community care issues and successes, men’s health, nursing management, physiotherapy management, support by other allied health disciplines (including occupational therapy, psychology and social work), the psychological impact of living with incontinence, ethical issues, cultural issues and collaborative approaches to care.
First-time authors are encouraged to submit papers to the ANZCJ which is supported by the Editorial Committee and Managing Editor. Before submitting papers to the Managing Editor please read the Instructions for Authors Guide,
All enquiries should be made via email to p[email protected]
Instructions for authors
Please note in January 2025 we transferred to CSIRO Publishing and have a new website with updated author information https://www.publish.csiro.au/cj Visit our new site to sign up to the ANZCJ email alerts and be notified when new articles are published.
We use the Vancouver referencing style and the manuscript must fit into one of the categories listed in the Author Guidelines. and you can submit your manuscript via ScholarOne here: http://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/anzcj
Editorial process (peer review)
The Australian and New Zealand Continence Journal uses a double-anonamised peer review process using the ScholarOne platform by Clarivate. All manuscripts are reviewed by two academic peers that have knowledge of the manuscripts research area.
We use a wide pool of reviewers and often approach new reviewers we haven’t worked with before for each paper to avoid groupthink. Once reviewed by the peer-reviewers the papers are also reviewed by the Editor in Chief before being published.
The peer review process can take time if there are suggestions for changes by the reviewers, so the editorial team suggest getting your paper submitted as soon as it is ready. From January 2025 we will be operating a continuous publishing model, so your paper will go to production and be on the website as soon as it is accepted.
Licensing terms
Australian + New Zealand Continence Journal ANZCJ 1985 by Continence Health Australia (formerly Continence Foundation of Australia) is licensed under CC By 4.0. This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes.
Copyright terms
Upon submission authors will be required to sign an Author Copyright Statement confirming that the work they are submitting is original and has not been published anywhere (including electronically) before. For more details visit our publisher’s website https://www.publish.csiro.au/cj/forauthors/GeneralInformation
ANZCJ Editorial Committee
Editor In Chief/Chair
Assoc Prof Christian Moro
BSc, BEd, MBus, PhD, SFHEA
Centre for Urology Research
Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University,
Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Associate Editors
Assoc Prof Wendy Bower
BAppSc (Physio), PhD, PgD Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Physiotherapy Research Lead & Senior Continence Clinician, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Dr Anna Lawrence
MChB, FRACS (Uro)
Urologist, Genitourinary Reconstruction, Auckland Spinal and Rehabilitation Unit, Auckland
Hospital, New Zealand
Prof Jean Hay-Smith
MSc PhD
Academic Head of the Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit
Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington
Prof Russ Chess-Williams
BSc(Hons), PhD, FBPhS
Director, Centre for Urology Research
Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Assoc Prof Vivien Wong
MBChB, FRANZCOG, CU, PhD
Urogynaecologist, Robina Hospital, Gold Coast, Robina, QLD, Australia
Charlotte Phelps
BBiomedSci(Hons), PhD Candidate in Urology
Centre for Urology Research, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University,
Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Dr Margaret Sherburn PhD FACP
Senior Fellow
Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Advisory Board
Prof Kate Moore AO
MBBS, MD, FRCOG, FRANZCOG, CU
Urogynaecologist, St George Hospital, Kogarah, NSW, Australia
Dr Vincent Tse
MB, BS (Hons), MS (Syd), FRACS
Urologist, Concord Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Continence New Zealand Representative
Louise Judd, Acting CEO
Continence Health Australia Representative
Jim Cooper, interim CEO
Managing Editor
Sarah Tayler
Continence Health Australia (formerly Continence Foundation of Australia)
Suite 1, 407 Canterbury Road, Surrey Hills, VIC 3127
The ANZCJ Editorial Committee members provide a competing interest statement annually.
For more information about the ANZCJ, author instructions or editorial policy or email the Managing Editor at [email protected]