Research Articles
Aim & Scope
To contribute to the field of Public Health Nursing literature and practice by publishing clinical and experimental studies, reviews, case reports or letters to the editor prepared in accordance with ethical rules.
Journal of Public Health Nursing is an open-access scientific journal that is published in line with the principles of double-blind review process. It is a publication of Public Health Nursing Association. The journal is published three times a year; in April, August and December. It is published in Turkish and English and it includes scientific research, reviews, case reports and letters to the editor that are related to the fields of Public Health Nursing.
Writing Rules
Open Access
As of 2022, the content published in the journal is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 International License, which allows third parties to use the content for non-commercial purposes as long as the original work is cited. Published content can be copied, adapted, distributed, and reused for non-commercial purposes, and only so long as attribution is given to the content published.
The content published before April 2022 are licensed under traditional copyright, but the entire archive is freely accessible online.
Audience
Peer-Review Process
Copyright Agreement
Journal of Public Health Nursing requires authors to submit a signed version of the Copyright Agreement and Acknowledgement of Authorship Form during the initial submission process.
By signing this form, authors agree that the article, if accepted for publication by the Journal of Public Health Nursing will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) which permission to copy, adapt, distribute and reuse by third parties for non-commercial purposes, as long as only the published content is cited.
The authors retain all patent and other proprietary rights to the article, including copyright, and grant the Journal of Public Health Nursing the non-exclusive right to publish the work.
Authors must obtain permission from the copyright holder when using previously published content, including figures, tables, or any other material in both print and electronic formats. Legal, financial and criminal liabilities belong to the author(s).
Plagiarism
Artificial Intelligence (AI)–Assisted Technology in Manuscript Preparation
Ethical Principles
Authorship
Sources of Funding
Conflict of Interest
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 3. Chapter in an edited book 4. Report by a Government Agency References 5. Unpublished Dissertation or Thesis References 6. Conference proceedings published in a journal. 7. Webpage on a website with a government agency group author 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
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.
Price Policy
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.
