Journal of Public Health Nursing is an open access double-blinded international scientific journal. Journal of Public Health Nursing is the official journal of the Public Health Nursing Association. The journal is published three issues a year, in April, August, and December. The journal publishes  Turkish and English articles. The journal includes scientific research, review, case report, and letter to the editor related to the fields of Public Health Nursing.
The aim of the journal is to contribute to the Public Health Nursing Literature and the field of practice by publishing original articles, reviews, case reports, and letters to the editor prepared in accordance with ethical rules.
The evaluation of the articles is completed in 3 months on average. Accepted articles are published in an average of 6 months. For review articles, this period can be extended up to 1 year.
Journal of Public Health Nursing is indexed in Index Copernicus International (ICI) index (ICI Journals Master List) (https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/details?id=67928) and Turkey Citation Index (www.atifdizini.com)

Open Access

Journal of Public Health Nursing is an open-access journal. All content of the Journal is offered free of charge to the reader. Article submission and article processing are carried out free of charge in the Journal of Public Health Nursing. No fee is charged from the authors.

Audience

The target audience of the Journal of Public Health Nursing is national and international healthcare professionals, academics, and students working in all disciplines in the field of Public Health/Public Health Nursing and Nursing.

Peer-Review Process

Manuscripts submitted to the journal are first evaluated technically in terms of compliance with the journal’s guidelines of the manuscript by the editorial office. Submissions not complying with the journal guidelines are returned to the submitting author with technical correction requests.
Manuscripts that pass the technical evaluation process are subject to a double-blind peer-review process. At least two external independent referees who are experts in the field review manuscripts. The editor-in-chief determines the final decision on the Manuscripts. Anonymity must be maintained throughout the article (except for the title page and cover letter). No part of the manuscript should include the names of the authors and information about the institution of their work.

Copyright Agreement

Articles are freely available to read, download and share from the time of publication under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 International License.
Journal of Public Health Nursing requires corresponding authors to submit a signed and scanned version of the Copyright Agreement and Acknowledgement of Authorship Form during the initial submission process.

Plagiarism

The submitted manuscript must not have been previously published in another electronic or printed journal, book, or other anywhere.
Authors must check for the percentage of non-original material using anti-plagiarism software (eg. iThenticate, intihal.net ). Only submissions with <20% similarity can proceed to the technical control and peer review stages.

Ethical Principles

Journal of Public Health Nursing is a journal in which original studies are evaluated and published in line with scientific methods and ethical principles. Scientific ethical principles have an important place in the publication policy of our journal, and all parties participating (author, editor, reviewer, publisher, and reader) must comply with ethical principles as per our publication policy. The ethical principles applied by our journal for editors, reviewers, and authors have been established by taking into account the guidelines prepared by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Please follow this link for details: Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Authorship

Journal of Public health nursing approves ICMJE criteria for Authorship. The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following four criteria:
1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
3. Final approval of the version to be published; AND
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, and all who meet the four criteria should be identified as authors. Contributors who meet fewer than all 4 of the above criteria for authorship should not be listed as authors, but they should be acknowledged.

Sources of Funding

The name of the funding organization and the grant number should be given on the Title Page under the heading ‘Source of Funding’. If there was no funding, the following wording should be used: “This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.”

Conflict of Interest

Authors must make, disclosing any possible conflict of interest on the title page, under a sub-heading, Conflict of Interest. If the authors do not have any conflict of interest, include the following statement: “No conflict of interest has been declared by the author(s).”  

Table 1. Limitations for manuscript types

Type of Manuscript	Word Limit	Reference Limit	Table Limit	Figure Limit
Original Article	Main text 5000, abstract 250 words	40	4	2
Review Article	Main text 6000, abstract 250 words	55	4	2
Case Report	Main text 1500, abstract 200 words	15	2	3
Letter to the Editor	Main text 1000 words	5	None	None

Manuscript Preparation

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals Updated May 2022. For details Click this https://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf

Manuscript Formatting Requirements

Program	Manuscripts must be in a Microsoft Word document.
Page size	A4 size
Page margins	Normal Margin (top, bottom, right, and left margins: 2.5 cm)
Line spacing	1.5
Font	Times New Roman and 12-point
Alignment	left-aligned; without left indent
Statistical analyses	If p values are less than .001 it should be reported as p < .001; less than .01 it should be reported as p < .01; less than .05 it should be reported as p < .05 in the text the actual p values should be expressed (p = .04) in the tables
Decimal separator	It should be using a point (.) not a comma (,) as a decimal separator.
Acronyms and abbreviations	All acronyms and abbreviations used in the manuscript should be defined at first use in the main text. The abbreviation should be provided in parentheses following the first-time use of the definition.
Abstract	The abstract of Research Articles should be structured with subheadings (Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusion). The abstract of case reports and review articles should not be structured. No abstract is needed for a letter to the editor. Please check Table 1 for word count specifications.

Keywords	Each submission must be accompanied by a minimum of three to a maximum of five keywords for subject indexing at the end of the abstract. The keywords should be listed in full without abbreviations. The keywords should be selected from the National Library of Medicine, Medical Subject Headings database (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html).
Heading style	First-level Headings (Section headings) (eg. ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION, REFERENCES) should be written in bold, capital letters. Second-level Headings: The second headings should be written in bold letters; the first letter of each word of the subheading should be capitalized. Third-level Headings: The third headings should be written in bold and italics; the first letter of each word of the heading should be capitalized.
Language	Ensure that your work is written in correct Turkish or English before submission.
Reporting guidelines	Manuscripts should be prepared according to the following guidelines. * STROBE for observational study (http://strobe-statement.org) * CONSORT for randomized trials (https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/consort/) * PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (http://prisma-statement.org/) * TREND for nonrandomized controlled trials (https://www.cdc.gov/trendstatement/index.html) * COREQ for Qualitative study (https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/coreq/) * SPIRIT for Study Protocols (http://www.spirit-statement.org/publications-downloads/)  Consult the Equator Network for reporting guidelines (https://www.equator-network.org/) for a wide variety of study types.
References	References should be written in APA 7 style (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples) Reference Examples 1. Journal Article In the references list: Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185 In text: Parenthetical citation: ……………(Grady et al., 2019) Narrative citation: Grady et al. (2019)…… 2. Whole authored book In the references list: Jackson, L. M. (2019). The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000168-000 Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books. Svendsen, S., & Løber, L. (2020). The big picture/Academic writing: The one-hour guide (3rd digital ed.). Hans Reitzel Forlag. https://thebigpicture-academicwriting.digi.hansreitzel.dk/ In text: Parenthetical citations: (Jackson, 2019; Sapolsky, 2017; Svendsen & Løber, 2020) Narrative citations: Jackson (2019), Sapolsky (2017), and Svendsen and Løber (2020) 3. Chapter in an edited book In the references list: Aron, L., Botella, M., & Lubart, T. (2019). Culinary arts: Talent and their development. In R. F. Subotnik, P. Olszewski-Kubilius, & F. C. Worrell (Eds.), The psychology of high performance: Developing human potential into domain-specific talent (pp. 345–359). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000120-016 Dillard, J. P. (2020). Currents in the study of persuasion. In M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (4th ed., pp. 115–129). Routledge. Thestrup, K. (2010). To transform, to communicate, to play—The experimenting community in action. In E. Hygum & P. M. Pedersen (Eds.), Early childhood education: Values and practices in Denmark. Hans Reitzels Forlag. https://earlychildhoodeducation.digi.hansreitzel.dk/?id=192 In text: Parenthetical citations: (Aron et al., 2019; Dillard, 2020; Thestrup, 2010) Narrative citations: Aron et al. (2019), Dillard (2020), and Thestrup (2010) 4. Report by a Government Agency References In the references list: National Cancer Institute. (2019). Taking time: Support for people with cancer (NIH Publication No. 18-2059). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/takingtime.pdf In text: Parenthetical citation: (National Cancer Institute, 2019) Narrative citation: National Cancer Institute (2019) 5. Unpublished Dissertation or Thesis References In the references list: Harris, L. (2014). Instructional leadership perceptions and practices of elementary school leaders [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Virginia. In text: Parenthetical citation: (Harris, 2014) Narrative citation: Harris (2014) 6. Conference proceedings published in a journal. In the references list: Duckworth, A. L., Quirk, A., Gallop, R., Hoyle, R. H., Kelly, D. R., & Matthews, M. D. (2019). Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 116(47), 23499–23504. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910510116 In text: Parenthetical citation: (Duckworth et al., 2019) Narrative citation: Duckworth et al. (2019) 7. Webpage on a website with a government agency group author In the references list: National Institute of Mental Health. (2018, July). Anxiety disorders. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/anxiety-disorders/index.shtml In text: Parenthetical citation: (National Institute of Mental Health, 2018) Narrative citation: National Institute of Mental Health (2018) Visit this link for additional examples: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples
Tables	Tables should be on separate pages after the Reference list. Tables must be in editable Microsoft Word documents by using the “insert table” function. Tables should be numbered separately e.g., Table 1, Table 2, and a caption for each should be provided. Table titles should be written as capitalizing the first letter of the first word and leaving all other letters in lowercase. Tables should be referred to within the main text. Only horizontal lines should be used, one above and one below the column headings and one at the table foot. All abbreviations must be defined in a footnote.
Figures	Figures should be on separate pages after the Reference list. Figures should be numbered separately e.g., Figure 1, Figure 2, and a caption for each should be provided. The figure's title should be written as capitalizing the first letter of the first word and leaving all other letters in lowercase. Figures should be referred to within the main text.

Manuscript Components

File	Description
Cover Letter	A separate “Cover Letter” file should be submitted
Title Page	A separate “Title Page” file should be submitted. Please follow this link for a template
Copyright Agreement and Acknowledgement of Authorship Form	Journal of Public Health Nursing requires corresponding authors to submit a signed and scanned version of the Copyright Agreement and Acknowledgement of Authorship Form during the initial submission process.
Similarity Report	A similarity report should be uploaded to the system.
Ethics Committee Approval Document	An ethics committee approval document should be obtained for studies on humans and animals. The ethics committee approval document should be uploaded to the system.
Blinded Main Text	The blinded main text should not include any mention of the authors or their institutions throughout the text, as this could potentially compromise the double-blinded review process. Blinded main text includes the following: Original article: The main text of original articles should be structured in the sequence of title, abstract (Objective; Methods; Results; Conclusion; Keywords), introduction, methods (Study Design, Research Questions/Hypotheses, Variables, Settings, Population of the Study, Data Collection, Ethical Consideration, Data Analysis), results, discussion, conclusion, references, and tables/ figures. Review: The main text of Review articles should be structured as follows: Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, the aim of the review, body of the article structured by headings and subheadings, and conclusion. Case Report: The main text of the case report should be structured as follows: Abstract, introduction, case presentation, discussion, and conclusion. Letters to the Editor: The text should be unstructured.

Submission

All the manuscripts should be submitted through the https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jphn system. 

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Journal of Public Health Nursing is a journal in which original studies are evaluated and published in line with scientific methods and ethical principles. Scientific ethical principles have an important place in the publication policy of our journal, and all parties participating (author, editor, reviewer, publisher, and reader) must comply with ethical principles as per our publication policy. The ethical principles applied by our journal for editors, reviewers, and authors have been established by taking into account the guidelines prepared by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The ethical responsibilities of the parties are summarized below, based on the guidelines prepared by COPE.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Editor

The editor of the Public Health Nursing Journal ensures that every publication published in the journal is conducted according to ethical principles.
Ethical responsibilities of the editor, assistant editor, and field editors;
• Informing reviewers, authors, and researchers about the journal's publication and ethical principles,
• Making preliminary evaluations of the articles submitted for publication in terms of compliance with the journal's publication policy, originality, contribution to the field and competencies,
• Being transparent and clear in issues that require correction or explanation.
• Evaluating all works submitted to the journal according to their fields and contents, not showing any privileges to any author for any reason,
• To determine the field editors and reviewers to be assigned to the articles in accordance with the field of study of the relevant publication, to encourage the reviewers to evaluate them in a timely and impartial manner,
• Carefully conducting the double-blind evaluation process between the reviewers and the author,
• To intervene in cases where there is a conflict of interest between the reviewers and the author,
• Conducting the processes to improve the quality of the studies published in the journal.

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers

All articles in the Journal of Public Health Nursing are evaluated with a double-blinded system. The authors do not have information about the reviewers who evaluated the article, nor the reviewers about the authors of the article. Communication between the author and the reviewer is provided by the editors.

The ethical responsibilities of reviewers;

• Not evaluating the studies that are not within the field of expertise, not accepting the evaluation only to have an idea about the subject of the article, even though they are not specialized,
• Evaluating within the framework of impartiality and confidentiality,
• When faced with a situation such as a conflict of interest, refusing to make an assessment and reporting this situation to the editor,
• Evaluating the studies objectively within a certain time frame, taking into account the time required for the editor's decision-making process,
• Making the evaluation objectively only related to the content of the study,
• Guiding to increase the quality of the article to be published,
• To protect the confidentiality of the information provided by the editor and the author, to be sensitive about the fact that factors such as religion, belief, sect, race, gender, and political opinion do not affect the evaluation process.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors;

The authors who submit their studies to the Journal of Public Health Nursing are expected to comply with the following ethical responsibilities:
• Not having studies submitted to the Journal of Public Health Nursing in the application process of more than one journal at the same time,
• Not submitting a study published in another journal to the Journal of Public Health Nursing,
• Writing articles in accordance with scientific research method and report writing principles,
• The studies submitted by the authors should be original and when they benefit from other studies, they must refer to or cite them completely and accurately.
• Being ready to present raw data and information to the editorial and scientific board, in case such data is requested from the author(s) within the framework of the evaluation process,
• Author responsibilities given in a study (e.g.: adding an author, reordering of author names, excluding author(s)) whose review process has begun cannot be changed,
If the studies submitted to be published are subject to conflicting interests or relations, these must be explained.
• Not specifying the supporting persons, institutions, or organizations and their contributions in the publications made as a result of researches conducted with support.

*Ethics Committee Approval is required for research articles.

Article submission and article processing are carried out free of charge in the Journal of Public Health Nursing. No fee is charged from the authors.