Author Guidelines
Review and Editorial Decision Process
University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing is a double anonymous peer-reviewed scientific journal. All manuscripts submitted to the journal for publication are reviewed by the Editorial Board and at least two independent reviewers. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are first reviewed by the Editorial Board. At this stage, the article is evaluated in terms of the actuality and eligibility for the scope of the journal, its contribution to nursing practice, and its compliance with the journal’s writing rules. Manuscripts that do not comply with these rules will be returned outright to the writers without further review process. Manuscripts that are candidates for publication are assigned to the reviewers. Then the reviews proposed by the reviewers and the Editorial Board will be forwarded to the author(s) and necessary corrections are made by the author(s). Finally, once the manuscript is accepted for publication after corrections, the approval of the author(s) will be obtained in order to print the article.
Author's Responsibilities
The corresponding author should complete the copyright agreement form and sign the form on behalf of herself/himself and other authors and upload it to the submission system. In addition, the corresponding author and other authors should confirm their ORCID ID in the system.
All articles submitted by the authors to our journal are checked for similarity or plagiarism with the similarity program iThenticate (
https://www.ithenticate.com/). Articles determined to have used fake data and previously published in another journal are not taken into consideration. The similarity rate of the articles submitted to our journal for publication is determined as 20% at most. The articles submitted to our journal for publication should not contain any similarity with any previously published articles, including the personal publications of the authors.
Research and Publication Ethics
The University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing considers the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)'s International Standards for Editors and Authors to evaluate the compliance of submitted scientific articles with research and publication ethics. Ethics committee approval (committee name, date, and issue number) for research articles should be stated in the method section of the text and uploaded to the DergiPark system.
Article Preparation
Articles should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) (6th edition). Review articles should not exceed 15 pages; research articles should not exceed 20 pages (excluding abstract, references, table, and figure/graphic). There should not be a total of more than 5 tables, graphics, and figures in the submitted manuscript. The article must be uploaded to the system as five separate documents: "Copyright Agreement Form", "Ethics Committee Approval Form" (for research articles only), "Letter to the Editor", "Title and Author(s) Information Page", and "Main Text". The language edit certificate must be uploaded to the system during the submission of the articles written in English.
General Rules for Writing a Manuscript (Format)
• The article should be typed in Times New Roman font, 12-point, and double-spaced. The entire article should be formatted in justified text, and the heading and paragraph entries should be aligned left.
• Main headings (first level) should be typed in 14-point font, with the first letters in uppercase. Subheadings (second level) under headings should be typed in 12-point and bold with the first letters in uppercase. Other headings below the subtitles (third level) should be in the form of sentences, typed in 12-point, bold and lowercase.
• At the end of a sentence, no space should be left before the period (.) but space should be typed after the period.
• No space should be left before a comma (,) and space should be typed between all words in the sentence.
• While decimal numbers should be separated from integers with commas “,” in Turkish articles and points “.” in English articles.
• The percent (%) sign should be placed without a space between the digits and should be typed before the percentage in Turkish articles, and after the percentage in English articles. Where signs such as ( ), “ ” and / are used, space should not be typed before or after the sentence/word.
• System International (SI) unit symbols should be used within the text. Only generic names of drugs should be used.
• Abbreviations should not be used in the title and abstract. Few abbreviations should be used and abbreviations should be indicated where the word or phrase is first used.
• References should not be used in the abstract.
• Table headings should be placed above the table/figures/graphics and all tables and figures/graphics should be numbered according to their title and use in the text. Shapes should be digitally formatted, jpegs should be registered and be at 300 dpi resolution. The tables and figures/graphics should be placed after the reference section and each on a separate page. All abbreviations should be defined in footnotes. Footnotes should be marked with the symbols †, ‡, §, ||, †† in that order, for p values, the symbols “*, **” should be used and written in bold. Footnotes should be written with capitalized first letters and separated by semicolons. Table headings should be bold, placed above the table and the first letter of the words should be uppercase (e.g. Table 1: Factors Affecting Patient Safety).
• The figure/graphic headings should be placed below the figure/graphics and the headings should be written in the form of sentences except for proper names (E.g. Figure 1: Lewin's process of change).
Letter to the Editor
A letter to the editor should consist of an article on behalf of all authors, which states that the article submitted to the University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing has not been published or sent to another journal for review. The letter should clearly state the importance of the article for the readers of the University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing.
Title and Author Information Page
*The title and short title of the article should be given in Turkish and English. The short title should not exceed six words.
*According to the order of the names of authors in the article, the names, surnames, titles, positions, institutions (names and addresses), ORCID number, contact information (Business and mobile numbers and e-mails that is currently in use) of all authors should be included.
*Presentation status at Congress or Symposium:
*State of Production from Dissertation Work:
*Acknowledgments (If any)
*Ethics Committee Approval: Ethics committee approval was received for this study from the ............ Ethics Committee (Date: ...... and Number: .....)
*Conflict of Interest Notifications:
*Sources of Support or Funding:
*Contribution Levels of Authors: Vancouver Criteria adopted by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors .html) should be arranged in consideration. This section should include subheadings of "Study Idea (Concept) and Design", "Data Collection / Literature Review", "Data Analysis and Interpretation”, "Preparation of the Article" and "Approval for the Final Version to be published". For each subtitle, the contributed author (s) should only be indicated with the initials (capital) of their names and surnames.
Main Text
The main text should not contain any information that could identify the authors. Documents related to the main text content (Turkish-English Title, Turkish-English Abstract, Text, References, Tables, and/or Figures) must be uploaded to the system in "Word" format and as a single file.
Title
The title of the article should be given in Turkish and English. The full title of the article should not contain abbreviations.
Abstract
Turkish and English abstracts should be on separate pages. The Turkish and English abstracts should be a maximum of 250 words. Both the Turkish and English abstracts should include Introduction, Aim, Method, Results, and Conclusion sections. At the end of the abstract, 3-5 keywords should be given in Turkish and English. Turkish keywords should be in accordance with
Turkish Science Terms. Keywords in English should comply with
Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) standards. The first letter of the first keyword should be in uppercase, the first letter of the other words should be in lowercase, the words should be separated by a semicolon (;), words should be arranged in alphabetical order and a period (.) should be placed at the end of the last word.
Research Article
A research article should consist of Introduction, Aims, Method, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion sections.
Introduction: In this section, the aim and the scientific ideas on which the article is based should be clearly stated, the problem should be associated with nursing, current sources should be used, and information that exists in the literature about the problem raised should be given as a summary.
Aim: The aim(s) and, according to the manuscript type, the hypothesis or research question(s) should be included.
Method: It includes headings such as the study design, study setting, study population and sample, data collection tools, ethical consideration (with the consent of the institutional ethics committee approval, informed consent), data collection (pre-application (if any) and how and when the application is made) and data analysis.
Results: The findings should be presented in a systematic way that responds to the research question(s). In the findings, tables should be cited and the table number and title should be added to a suitable place on the table.
Discussion: Discussion should be presented in a way that answers research questions and is systematically associated with current literature. At the end of this chapter, the limitations of the study should be included.
Conclusion: In this section, the importance of the subject should be emphasized; the results of the research should be given together with the contributions to nursing practices.
Review Article
Subheadings in the review articles, except for the Introduction and Conclusion, are left to the discretion of the author(s). On the other hand, the aim of the article and the scientific ideas on which it is based should be clearly stated in the introduction. The relationship between the subject and the nursing profession should be included. Subheadings in the text should be arranged to meet the purpose and scope of the article. In the conclusion, a summary of the given information should be presented.
Case Study
Case reports consist of Introduction, Case Report, Discussion, and Conclusion sections. The place and importance of the subject in nursing services should be stated in the introduction. Information about signing the informed consent/consent form should be included in the article.
References
References should be given in accordance with the rules of the journal. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the sources. When more than one source is displayed in the text consecutively, it should be “; ” between them and sorted by year (Waterman, Roman, & Rock, 1993; McCarthy, 2003). If two different works of the same author published in the same year were used, the relevant source should be given in the form of the text (Göktepe, 2005a; 2005b). All sources used must be sorted in a separate section at the end of the text, alphabetically according to the author's last names, with double lines spaced.
References cited in the text
One author:
Elliott (2017) or (Elliott, 2017)
Two authors:
Roman & Rock (1993) or (Roman & Rock, 1993)
Three, four, and five authors:
First use: Lam, Kim, Petro & Khaitan (2020) or (Lam, Kim, Petro & Khaitan, 2020)
Subsequent uses: Lam et al. (2020) or (Lam et al., 2020)
Six or more authors:
First use: Lee et al. (2019) or (Lee et al., 2019)
Subsequent uses: Lee et al. (2019) or (Lee al., 2019)
Group study:
First use: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2014) or (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD], 2014)
Subsequent uses: OECD (2014) or (OECD, 2014)
The Reference List
Articles Published in a Journal
If there is a DOI number matched to the content, it should be given in the reference list. Author, A.A., Author, B.B., & Author, C.C. (Year). Title of the article. Name of the Journal, Volume(issue), p-p. doi: xxxxxxxxxxxx
Articles with seven or fewer authors
Chan, H.F., Guillot, M., Page, L., & Torgler, B. (2015). The inner quality of an article: Will time tell? Scientometrics, 104,19-41. doi: 10.1007/s11192-015-1581-y
Articles with more than seven authors
Lal, H., Cunningham, A. L., Godeaux, O., Chlibek, R., Diez-Domingo, J., Hwang, S.J.,… Heineman, T. C. (2015). Efficacy of an adjuvanted herpes zoster subunit vaccine in older adults. New England Journal of Medicine, 372, 2087-2096. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1501184
Book
Epstein, R., & Street, R. (2008). Patient-centered care for the 21st century: physicians’ roles and patients’ preferences. Philadelphia, PA: ABIM Foundation.
Potter, P.A., & Perry, A.G. (2009). Caring in nursing practice. In Fundamentals of nursing (7th ed.). (pp. 95-105). St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
Chapter in a book
Bassett, C. (2006). Cultural studies and new media. In G. Hall, & C. Birchall (Eds.), New cultural studies: Adventures in theory (pp. 220–237). Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.
Electronic Source
World Health Organization (WHO). (2005). WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women: initial results on prevalence, health outcomes, and women's responses. Retrieved from (02.05.2019): https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/violence/24159358X/en/
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