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The aim of the journal is to contribute to the advancement of evidence-based nursing and health care services by publishing current and high-quality research. The journal has the mission of being a guide for practice, education, management, and policy development in the field of nursing. In accordance with its purpose, the journal publishes original studies in the field of nursing and other health disciplines that have not been previously published or submitted for publication. Systematic review/meta-analysis, qualitative and quantitative research, scale development, pilot research, case report and protocols developed for experimental research/systematic review are published in the journal.

The Journal of Current Nursing Research is an open access and online journal that publishes with double blind refereeing principles. Articles submitted to the journal in accordance with the scope and submission rules of the journal are sent to at least two referees who are experts in their field for evaluation. The editorial board members of the Journal of Current Nursing Research take the comments of the referees into consideration. The final decision on all articles submitted to the journal belongs to the editor-in-chief. The members of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Current Nursing Research adopt and undertake to comply with the ethical principles prepared by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) (http://www.icmje.org/).

JOURNAL OF CURRENT NURSING STUDIES AUTHORS' GUIDE GENERAL INFORMATION

• Articles submitted to the journal must not have been previously published elsewhere or sent for publication.
• Uploading articles to the journal is done only through Dergipark.
• Categories of articles accepted for publication in the journal (1) Systematic review and Meta-analysis, (2) Original research (Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed methods) (3) Clinical study; (4) Pilot study, (5) Protocols developed for experimental research study or systematic review, (6) Scale development studies, (7) Case reports/reports. Review articles will not be accepted for publication, reviews invited by the editors will be published. Only systematic review and meta-analysis articles prepared under the guidance of PRISMA and conducted properly will be considered for providing Synthesis of Evidence.
•Similarity (plagiarism) reports of the articles sent to our journal for publication should be uploaded to the system. Studies with a plagiarism rate of more than 20% are not considered.
• In the articles sent to the journal, we kindly ask you to use the reporting guidelines below, which are suitable for the methodology of your study, and to specify them in the articles.

GENERAL WRITING RULES

Page layout
• Manuscripts should be placed in A4 standard, with a margin of 2.5 cm from all sides.
• The text of the article should be written justified.
• Footnotes should not be used in the studies, explanations should be given in the text.
• Page numbers should be placed at the end and middle of the page, starting from the summary page.
• A full line spacing should be used in the abstract and reference writing.
• Line spacing in the main text should be 1.15 lines.
• There should be 6 pt space between the chapter titles and the text before the title.
• Paragraphs should not be indented, all paragraphs should be left justified and text should be justified.
• Articles sent to the journal (excluding case reports) should not exceed 5000 words for the main text, excluding the abstract, tables and references, including citations.
• Case reports submitted to the journal should not exceed 2000 words.
• The abstract should be between 200-250 words, in Turkish and English.
Spelling and characters
• The text of the article should be prepared in doc, docx format and “Times New Roman” typeface should be used in the whole text.
• The Turkish and English title of the article should be written in 14 pt, with the first letter of each word capitalized, bold and aligned in the middle.
• Abstract/ Abstract title should be written in 11 pt, large, bold and left-justified.
• Abstract/ Abstract text should be written in 9 pt with subtitles and keywords, the first letter of each word should be capitalized and bold.
• In-text headings should not be numbered and should be written in 11 pt, capitalized, bold and left justified. For example: INTRODUCTION
• Sub-headings in the text should be 11 pt, the first letter of the word should be capitalized, bold and left justified. For example: Type of research
• The main text should be written using “Times New Roman” type in 11 pt.
• Commas should be used when separating decimal numbers. It should be written without leaving any spaces between the % sign and the numbers. The percent sign should be written before the number in Turkish articles and after the number in English articles. For example, for Turkish; 38.5% for English; 38.5%
• Where ( ), “ ” and / signs are used, before and after the sentence/word should be written without any spaces.
Spelling of Keywords
• At least three keywords should be written.

• Authors should make it a principle to use Turkish Science Terms and MeSH in keyword selection. English keywords should be given in accordance with "Medical Subject Headings (MESH)" ( www.nlm.nih.gov ). Turkish keywords should be given in accordance with the Turkish Science Terms (TBT) ( www.bilimterimleri.com ).

References writing
References should be prepared in 10 pt according to the American Psychological Association Publication Manual (APA) (6th edition). The full list of references should appear at the end of the article in alphabetical order by name. It is recommended to use MENDELEY or similar reference management programs in the source software. For more information on the APA reference style, please refer to the original APA manuals. https://apastyle.apa.org/6th-edition-resources/
APA (6th Edition) Bibliography Examples
In-text citations
Notation for a single author (Tanyer, 2020)
Screening for two authors (Joo & Liu, 2021)
It should be in the form of notation for more than two authors (Ramus et al., 2003).
For more than one reference, alphabetical order should be taken as basis. (Deliktas Demirci et al., 2021; Fernández-Castillo et al., 2021; Goh et al., 2021; González-Gil et al., 2018; Tan et al., 2006)
Journal article with 2-7 authors
Joo, J. Y., & Liu, M. F. (2021). Nurses' barriers to caring for patients with COVID-19: A qualitative systematic review. International Nursing Review, 68(2), 202– 213.
In-text citation: (Joo & Liu, 2021)
Citation within a sentence: Joo and Liu (2021)
Ramus, F., Rosen, S., Dakin, S. C., Day, B. L., Castellote, J. M., White, S., & Frith, U. (2003). Theories of developmental dyslexia: Insights from a multiple case study of dyslexic adults. Brain, 126(4), 841-865.
In-text citation: (Ramus et al., 2003)
Intra-sentence citation: Ramus et al. (2003)
Journal article with 7 or more authors
Rutter, M., Caspi, A., Fergusson, D., Horwood, L. J., Goodman, R., Maughan, B., … Carroll, J. (2004). Sex differences in developmental reading disability: New findings from 4 epidemiological studies. Journal of the American Medical Association, 291(16), 2007-2012.

1. Title Page
• The title should be short informative with keywords, maximum 20 words should be used.
• The title should not contain abbreviations.
• There should also be a short title, shorter than 40 characters.
• All authors' full names and surnames should be written in CAPITAL letters.
• Institutional information, titles, e-mail addresses and ORCID numbers of all authors should be written.
• The corresponding author should be specified and detailed contact information should be included.
• The authorship level of all authors should be stated as follows.

Example:
The authors confirm the contribution to the article as follows:
Working idea or design: ÜS, BC
Data collection: BC
Analysis and interpretation of results: US, BC, ED
Preparing the draft: BC, ED
Critical review: ED
All authors (US, BC, ED) reviewed the results and approved the final article.
• Acknowledgments (if necessary) can be included on the title page if desired.
• A Conflict of Interest statement must be included.
• A Financial Statement must be included.
• If available, the Clinical Trial Registration Number can be written.
• If the article has been presented as a paper before, the name of the paper, the name, date and time of the congress should be written.

2. Main Text File
• The main text file should not contain any information that can identify the authors, as it will be evaluated by double-blind peer-review.
• The main text file should contain the title of the study, Turkish and English summary, keywords, main text of the study and bibliography.
• The main text file should be prepared according to the type of research.
• Authors who want to submit an article to the journal should state that they have obtained permission from the ethics committee for their studies in humans or animals by including the ethics committee number in the text. Ethics committee number is not required in case reports and systematic reviews.

Research Papers:

• In the research article, the abstract should include the subtitles of Purpose, Method, Results and Use in Practice.
• The titles of the research article should be as given in the table.
Book
Alpar, R. (2014). Applied statistics and reliability-validity, (3rd ed.) Ankara: Detay Publishing
Book Section
Phillips S. J. & Whisnant J. P. (1995). Hypertension and stroke. In: J. H. Laragh & B. M. Brenner (Eds), Hypertension: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management (2nd ed., pp. 465–478). New York: RavenPress
Internet
RCN. (2020). Access: https://www.rcni.com/nursing-standard/ newsroom/news/covid-19-redeloyment-training-non-existent-or-inadequate-nurses-reveal-160301.

Authors who want to add a doi number to the bibliography should specify the doi number as in the example below.

Joo, J. Y., & Liu, M. F. (2021). Nurses' barriers to caring for patients with COVID-19: A qualitative systematic review. International Nursing Review, 68(2), 202– 213. https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12648

Tables and figures

• The title of the table should be placed above the table (Table 1. Xxxxxx), the title of the figure should be placed under the figure in 10 points, only the first letter of the title should be capitalized, bold and left-justified.
• Tables should be numbered in accordance with the order of passage in the main text and the places to be placed should be specified.
• Tables should be independent and not the same as the information in the text and should be complementary. They should not be pasted as images, but should be provided as editable files. Indicators should be brief but comprehensive. Tables, explanations and footnotes should be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations should be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶ should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for p values. Table titles should be written in accordance with the example of "Table 1. Main characteristics of the included studies". A maximum of 5 tables and figures should be added.
• The figure and its description should be understandable without reference to the text. The definitions of the symbols used must be absolute and all abbreviations and units of measurement must be defined.

PREPARATION OF THE ARTICLE
Article (1) title page; (2) main text file; (3) tables and figures; (4) similarity report, (5) copyright notice text and authorship confirmation form, in separate files, in accordance with the following criteria:

Case Report:
• Summary in the case report; introduction, case report and conclusion should include sub-titles.
• Case reports should be structured as follows.
INTRODUCTION
-Aim
CASE REPORT: The case report should start with the first indication that the "Informed Consent Form" was received and, if used, permission to use the scale and photographs.
DISCUSSION
RESOURCES
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis:
• Summary in Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses; It should include the subtitles of Purpose, Method, Results and Use in Practice.
• The main texts of the Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses should be structured as follows.

3. Tables and Figures
Tables and figures should be prepared as specified in the General Authoring Rules of the journal and presented in a separate file, not in the main text file.

4. Similarity Report
The plagiarism report should be uploaded to the system via a separate file. The report should be saved as ".pfd" extension.

Publication Ethics Principles
Publication Ethics can be characterized as a self-regulation mechanism for the honesty of reviewers, authors and publishers to improve the editorial process. Standards for publication ethics have been developed in order to increase the quality of scientific studies and to ensure the trust and reputation of the society in scientific results.
•Be honest and do not plagiarize.
• Be careful not to misrepresent sources.
• Do not hide irrefutable objections.
• Do not distort opposing views.
• Do not destroy or hide data.

Peer-reviewed studies are studies that support and apply the scientific method. In this process, it is extremely important that all parties such as authors, readers, researchers, publishers, referees and editors comply with ethical principles. Journal of Current Nursing Research is committed to national and international principles in terms of publication ethics. It complies with Press Law, Intellectual and Artistic Works Law and Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive . Journal of Current Nursing Research Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and World Association of Medical It undertakes to comply with the International Principles of Ethical Publishing published by Editors (WAME). At the same time, Türkiye has adopted the Editors' Workshop Decisions.
• Press Law (National Legislation)
• Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works (National Legislation)
• Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive (National Legislation)
• Transparency and Best Practice in Academic Publishing (International Criteria)
• Türkiye Editors' Workshop Decisions (National Criteria)

Rebroadcast
Republishing means the publication of an article or articles that are substantially similar in more than one journal. In such articles, the editor returns the article without review. The editor may disclose this situation to the public in the journal in which the article was previously published , and furthermore, the author who tries to publish again may impose an embargo for a certain period of time . The editor can perform all these applications together.

Simultaneous submission of the same work to more than one journal
Authors can submit the same article to only one journal at a time. If the editor determines that the article has been sent to more than one journal at the same time, he has the right to share the article with the other editor or editors. In this case, the editor can return the article without review or reject it without considering the review. This decision can be made by discussing with the editors and the author who sent the article has the right not to accept the article application for a period of time. In addition, the author's employer/supervisor can be contacted or apply these measures simultaneously.

Plagiarism Prevention Control
Plagiarism is when authors present ideas, methods, findings, practices or works of others as their own, in whole or in part, without attribution to their owners. The Journal of Current Nursing Research scans all articles for plagiarism. Evaluation of studies in terms of plagiarism is carried out with Turnitin & Ithenticate software. The similarity rate of the studies is expected to be below 20% . The main criterion in the similarity rate is the author's compliance with the citation and citation rules. A similarity rate of 1% may indicate that citation and citation are not duly made. For this reason, authors should carry out their studies in accordance with citation and citation rules. Plagiarism, false authorship, research or data fabrication, duplication, article slicing, concealment of conflict of interest, copyright infringement and slicing are considered unethical behaviors. All articles with unethical behavior will be removed from the publication. This also applies to articles that are found to be unethical after publication.

Forgery
The fact that the data is not based on a research, the presented or published work is prepared in line with data that does not actually exist, and presenting a research that has not been done as if it has been done is defined as forgery. Fraud is to deliberately distort research data, to present methods, devices or materials as if they were used in the research, not to evaluate data that do not comply with the research hypothesis, and to present the support organizations or people by manipulating them in line with the interests of the study team.

Protection of Participants' Personal Data
The Journal of Current Nursing Research requires that studies involving personal or sensitive data involving people not legally available to the public are subject to formal ethical review.
Handling Allegations of Research Abuse
The Journal of Current Nursing Research adopts COPE's Ethics Toolkit for a Successful Editorial. Editors of the Journal of Current Nursing Research; reserves the right to take measures to prevent the publication of articles with citation manipulation, plagiarism, data fabrication, data tampering and other research abuse. In no event will the editors of the Journal of Current Nursing Research knowingly allow such abuse to occur. Editors of the Current Journal of Nursing Research will follow COPE's guidelines if they become aware of an allegation of misconduct against an article published in their journal .

Ethical Violation Notices
MAIL if readers notice a major error in an article published in the Journal of Current Nursing Research or detect an error in editorial content such as plagiarism, duplicate articles MUST BE ADDED can be notified via e-mail.

Correction, Withdrawal, Expression of Concern
If editors detect errors in the published article that do not lead to changes in findings, comments, or conclusions, they may issue corrections. However, if violations are detected that invalidate the findings and results of the published article, the article may be withdrawn. If there is doubt about the reliability of study findings, editors may issue a statement of concern if there is an attempt by the authors to misuse the publication. The editors follow the COPE and ICJME guidelines if they decide to issue a correction, retraction, or expression of concern.

Publication of Studies Based on Survey and Interview
The Journal of Current Nursing Research adopts the principles of the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE) “Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors” and “Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers” in order to establish ethical assurance in scientific periodicals. In this respect, studies submitted to the journal are expected to comply with the following:
1) Studies that require ethics committee approval must be approved by the ethics committee, the ethics committee approval must be documented, and the ethics committee approval must be stated in the article.
2) In studies that require ethics committee approval, information regarding ethics committee approval should be reported in the method section (name of the committee, date and number ) and on the last page of the article . In case reports, information about signing the informed consent form should be included in the article.

Special Issue Publishing Policy
According to the decision of the Editorial Board, our journal may publish a special issue once a year. The articles to be included in the special issue are examined in terms of spelling rules after the editorial preliminary review and a scan is made to determine the similarity rate. As a result of all these stages, it is included in the peer review process in which double-blind is used.

Editorial Confidentiality Obligation
The editors of the Journal of Current Nursing Research consider all papers submitted to the journal as confidential documents. This means that information about the study will not be shared with anyone without the consent of the authors. Editors, Reviewers and Editorial Board Members can access article information during the evaluation process of the article. Only if the editor seriously suspects research misconduct may work information be passed on to a third party without the author's consent.

Allegations-Suspects of Scientific Misconduct
The Journal of Current Nursing Research follows guidelines created by publication ethics institutions to identify scientific misconduct. If the editor suspects an ethical violation, he is obliged to take action. This includes published and unpublished studies. The editor is responsible for following ethical violation cases. The editor should follow the COPE flowchart when necessary. The editor should first seek a response from the person suspected of committing the abuse. If the answer is not explanatory and the editor is not satisfied, the employer or institutions should be contacted and the necessary research should be done. In this process, the editor should make all the effort. This is an arduous but important task.

The Current Nursing Research Journal conforms to COPE's Ethics Toolkit for a Successful Editorial. Editors of the Journal of Current Nursing Research; will take every precaution to prevent publication of articles with citation manipulation, plagiarism, data fabrication, data tampering and other research abuse . Under no circumstances will the Current Journal of Nursing Research or its editors knowingly allow any misconduct to occur. Editors of the Current Journal of Nursing Research will follow COPE's guidelines and steps in case of alleged misconduct .
Reviewers should notify the editor if they suspect an ethical violation of the study. The editor is responsible for implementing the necessary measures by following the COPE recommendations.
The Journal of Current Nursing Research undertakes to apply it to COPE flowcharts when faced with allegations of abuse on the following or similar topics.
• Suspicion of rebroadcast
• Suspected plagiarism
• Suspicion of fabricated data
• Suspicious situation in requests for change of authorship
• Unexplained ̧ exit suspicion of conflict
• Suspicion of unfair or gift authorship
• Suspicion of an ethical problem in an article
• E-mail etc. of suspected ethical violation . direct notification with
• Announcement of suspected ethical violation via social media

Complaint Procedure
Complaint procedure covers complaints about content, procedures, or policies that are the responsibility of the Journal of Current Nursing Research or its editorial staff. Complaints can be an opportunity for our journal to develop and improve, so we aim to respond to complaints in a courteous, constructive and prompt manner.
The complaint must relate to the content, procedures, or policies that cover the responsibility of the Journal of Current Nursing Research or its editorial staff. Complaints SHOULD BE ADDED DIRECTLY TO THE MAIL should be sent to the address by e-mail. All complaints are treated confidentially and the editors respond to the complaint . Editor follows COPE recommendations in case of complaints . If the complaints are not resolved, these steps are followed;
• If the complainant finds the response insufficient, he/she can forward his/her complaint to a more senior member of the journal.
• Complaints can be forwarded to the editor-in-chief if the complainant is not satisfied.
• A full response is attempted within two weeks .
the journal's grievance procedure is not satisfactory, COPE can be approached to resolve disputes.

Appeal Process
If the author whose article is rejected thinks that the Journal of Current Nursing Research has misunderstood the scientific content of the study, he can send an objection e-mail to the editorial team at MAIL ADDED . If the journal team decides that the objection is justified, they may request a revised version of the article, so it is not necessary to upload a revised version in the first place. At this point, if deemed necessary, the work is sent back to the external referee process. In this process, only one objection is considered for each article. The objection should therefore be as clear and detailed as possible.

Conflicts of Interest
A conflict of interest arises when professional judgment regarding a primary interest may be affected by a secondary interest (such as financial gain or personal competition). Conflicts of interest are situations that may impair the objectivity of the person, cause a conflict in his work, and provide an unfair advantage in favor of any organization or person. The competing interests of the authors should be known in the evaluation of an article and this should be presented to the readers if the article is published. Therefore, the authors should disclose financial support or sponsorship support in conducting the research and creating the article. Additionally, consulting, salary or grants are among potential conflicts of interest that should be disclosed. In order for the Journal of Current Nursing Research to provide unbiased review, editors consider submissions from editorial board members within a certain process. These submissions are reviewed with a double-blind application. Studies with a conflict of interest are primarily directed to other journals. If this attempt cannot be made, the post owner's duty in the journal is suspended. If the editor himself or his family member is included in the working team, he should not be a decision maker. If a conflict of interest is detected, the steps of the ICMJE directive are followed.

Principles of Research Ethics
The Journal of Current Nursing Research observes the highest standards in research ethics and adopts the international research ethics principles defined below. Compliance of the articles with ethical principles is the responsibility of the authors.
• The principles of quality, integrity and transparency must be followed at all stages of the research (such as in the design of the research, in the conduct of the research).
• The research team and study participants, the purpose of the research, its methods and potential uses; should be fully informed about the necessities and risks, if any, of participating in the research.
• Confidentiality should be ensured for the information and answers of the research participants. The dignity and autonomy of the participants should be protected during the research process.
• The participation of research participants in the research should be provided voluntarily without any coercion.
• Damage to the participants should be avoided. The study should be planned in such a way that it does not put the participants at risk.
• If there is a conflict of interest in the research , it should be reported and the independence of the research should be explained.
• In experimental studies with human subjects, written informed consent must be obtained from participants who decide to participate in the research. The consent of the legal guardian of children and custodians or those with a confirmed mental illness must be obtained.
• If the study will be carried out in any institution or organization, approval must be obtained from that institution or organization.
• In studies with a human element, it should be stated in the “methods” section that “informed consent” was obtained from the participants and ethics committee approval was obtained from the institution where the study was conducted.

All expenses of the Journal of Current Nursing Researches are covered by Selçuk University. The publication of articles and the execution of article processes in the journal are free of charge. No processing fee or submission fee is charged for articles submitted to the journal or accepted for publication. The Journal of Current Nursing Research does not accept sponsorship or advertising due to its publication policies.