University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing

University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing (UHSJN) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal aims to promote the development and change of knowledge that is directly related to all areas of nursing; to publish qualified and original clinical, experimental, social and health policies related researches on health sciences and the health problems of the society,

The journal also aims to promote the exchange of international ideas and experiences from different cultures.

University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing is an independent, unbiased double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal published three times a year in April, August and December.

The journal covers clinical and experimental (original) researches, case reports, review articles, letters to the editor, editor comments, articles about innovations in education and practice, publication ethics articles and reviews which have a scientific, evidence-based, theoretical or philosophical basis in all areas of nursing and health sciences.

The publication languages of the journal are Turkish and English.

University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing is an important resource for everyone involved in nursing practice like clinicians, researchers, educators, managers, policy makers or students.

The Journal’s content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Writing Rules

Author Guidelines

Review and Editorial Decision Process

University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. All manuscripts sent 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

Copyright Transfer Form must be filled in and notified to the Editorial Board at the time of submission in the manuscript submission phase. The author(s) are deemed to have approved that the copyright transfer form and all kinds of publication rights of the article belong to the University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing. The corresponding author should 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.

The similarity rate of the works applied for publication is evaluated with the iThenticate program. Articles that are determined to have used fake data and that were previously published in another journal are not taken into consideration. The similarity rate of the articles sent to our journal for publication is determined as 20% at most. The articles sent 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: "Article Copyright Transfer Form", "Ethics Committee Approval Form" (for research articles only), "Letter to the Editor", "Title and Author(s) Information Page", and "Main Text".

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. The symbol “*” should be used for footnotes and p values. 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 author information page should be prepared separately from the main text on a single page. The following information should be included in this section:
*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 type of research (design), location, universe and sample of the research, data collection tools, the ethical aspects of research (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 the evaluation of the data.
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 research 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 ve arkadaşları (2020) or (Lam ve ark., 2020)

Six or more authors:
First use: Lee ve et al. (2019) or (Lee ve et al., 2019)
Subsequent uses: Lee ve et al. (2019) or (Lee et 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/

Update Date 27.05.2022

https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Publication Policy

The University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing (UHSJN) publishes clinical and experimental (original) research, systematic reviews, case reports and review articles, editorial comments, and letters to the editor in all fields of nursing and health sciences.

Open Access Policy

Due to the role of sharing information in the advancement of science, UHSJN provides open access to the full text of all articles published within the journal which can be read and downloaded free of charge via the DergiPark Directory. Authors(s) are not charged for any process, including article evaluation and publication process.
Access link: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/sbuhemsirelik

Article Withdrawal Process

In accordance with the publishing policy of UHSJN, the author(s) may withdraw their manuscript in the preliminary evaluation process; the author(s) who want to withdraw their manuscript during the evaluation process or the publishing process, should fill out the "Manuscript Withdrawal Form" containing the withdrawal justification and the wet-ink signed approval of the responsible author. It is obliged to convey the form to the Editorial Board via e-mail to sbu.hemsirelikdergisi@sbu.edu.tr. The Editorial Board will return to the author within 15 days latest by examining this request. The Editorial Board will review this request and return it to the author in fifteen days or less. During the manuscript submission phase, the manuscript cannot be sent to another journal for evaluation unless the withdrawal request is approved since the publishing rights have been transferred to UHSJN by the author(s). Author(s)’ withdrawal requests for a published article will not be considered.
All of the articles submitted to the University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing (UHSJN) are checked by using the iThenticate plagiarism program. In line with the similarity report, the Editorial Board decides whether the article will be accepted for peer review or directly rejected. In case copyright problems and plagiarism are detected, the follow-up of the process is carried out in accordance with the COPE (Code of Conduct for Journal Editors) guidelines.
The UHSJN Editorial Board is obliged to initiate an investigation regarding the manuscript, in case of suspicion of copyright violation and/or plagiarism regarding a manuscript under evaluation or a published article. As a result of the investigation, if the Editorial Board detects copyright violation and/or plagiarism in the manuscript, the manuscript will be withdrawn from evaluation and returned to the authors. If the article has been published, the "Withdrawn" phrase will be appended to the title of the article in an electronic display.
In case of detecting an error in a published article, the request for correction by the author (s) will be evaluated by the Editorial Board and if deemed appropriate, the content of the correction will be published in the next issue by appending the phrase "Correction" to the article title.

Article Evaluation and Acceptance Process

Articles submitted to the University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing (UHSJN) are examined by double-blind peer review. The peer-review process aims to improve the quality of the articles to be published. All articles submitted to the UHSJN are evaluated by the Editorial Board and the reviewers using the evaluation procedure are listed below.
1. All articles are evaluated by the Editorial Board in terms of the topicality of the topic, suitability of the content, and the contribution of the article to nursing practice.
2. In accordance with the opinion of the Editorial Board, it is decided whether the reviewer evaluation process will start or not.
3. Articles that do not comply with the journal’s writing rules but are determined to be suitable for evaluation are sent back to the author by the journal secretariat for corrections (in terms of writing rules) without the need for further review.
4. The file edited by the author(s) is sent to at least two independent reviewers who are experts in their field, working in two different institutions by extracting identifying information about the author(s).
5. Approximately 15 days are given to the reviewers for evaluation.
6. Reviewers are required to fill out the Reviewer Evaluation Form during the article evaluation process and to upload the file containing correction suggestions on the text to the system.
7. Reviewers are required to make one of the decisions: “minor revision”, “major revision”, and “acceptance” or “rejection”.
8. If one of the reviewers decides to "reject" and the other to, "accept" the article is assigned to the third reviewer.
9. In order for an article acceptance decision to be made, at least two reviewers must make an "acceptance" decision.
10. Reviewer evaluations are sent to the authors by the Editorial Board via the DergiPark system in accordance with the double-blind reviewer evaluation.
11. In accordance with the recommendations of the reviewer, the author(s), after making changes to the documents, upload the final version of the documents to the DergiPark system along with the file named “Author's Response to Editor and Reviewer Corrections”.
12. The author(s) are expected to indicate the corrections separately done by each reviewer by highlighting (emphasizing) them.
13. Corrections from the author(s) are evaluated by the corresponding assistant editor.
14. The edits made by the author(s) are sent back to the reviewers to make the evaluation.
15. The final decision on the acceptance status of the article (“acceptance” or “rejection”) is made by the Editorial Board.
16. The evaluation process takes about 4-8 months.

Ethical Principles

UHSJN publishes qualified articles produced with scientific methods to contribute to the development of nursing science in accordance with ethical principles and rules. It is important that the Editorial Board, reviewers, authors, and readers, which constitute the components of the publication process, comply with the principles and responsibilities of publication ethics throughout this process. These responsibilities include the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) http://www.icmje.org/recommendations) and the international standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines) and presented below:

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

• The author(s) should not send a manuscript for publication to UHSJN which are previously, completely, or partially published or under consideration for publication elsewhere with similar content, in Turkish or in a foreign language.
• The names of persons who did not contribute to the manuscript should not be written as the authors. After the manuscript is submitted to the journal for evaluation, at any stage, it is not recommended to add, delete, or change the order of the authors different from the author names and order indicated on the title page.
• The author(s) are responsible for the accuracy of the references used in the manuscript. The author (s) should cite the references used in the manuscript and at the end in accordance with ethical principles.
• The author(s) should notify the editors if they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or common interests with anyone about the manuscript they send for publication to UHSJN.
• If information or raw data is requested from the author(s) regarding their manuscripts in the evaluation process, they should submit the requested information to the Editorial Board.
• The author(s) should document that the necessary permissions have been obtained for the data they use in their manuscripts and that they have obtained informed consent from the research participants.
• The author(s) should state that they have received ethics committee approval for their research manuscripts, in a separate title in the method section of the manuscript with the board name, date, and number, and upload the document showing the ethics committee decision to the system at the first submission of the manuscript. The case studies should be stated in the method section that the “informed consent form” was taken from the volunteers.
• The author(s) should state that the manuscript complies with research and publication ethics and copyright regulations for intellectual and artistic works. If the research was carried out on human and animal subjects, it should be reported that the research was carried out in accordance with international notifications and guidelines (Helsinki declaration, etc.).

Obtaining Legal / Special Permit Certificate

• The author (s) must specify the approval of the Ethics Committee, the permission of the institution, and the information about informed consent under the heading of the ethical aspect of research in the method section.
• It is the responsibility of the authors to protect the confidentiality of patients.
• The permission documents of the patient or their legal representative must be attached for photographs that can reveal the identity of the patients and reported under the title of the ethical aspect of the study in the method section.

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers

• Reviewers should only agree to evaluate manuscripts related to their field of expertise.
• Reviewers should refuse to evaluate manuscripts they consider to be a conflict of interest and should inform the Editorial Board.
• Reviewers should make the assessment objectively in order to contribute to the editor's decision-making process. Reviewers should provide guidance that will help to increase the quality of the manuscript to be published and should carry out this process confidentially.
They should make their evaluations away from personal comments, in accordance with academic rules and with constructive language.
• Reviewers should indicate their suggestions on the evaluation form and/or text and submit it to the Editorial Board through the journal management system to be forwarded to the author(s).
• Reviewers should evaluate the manuscript within the given time.

Ethical Responsibilities of Editors/Editorial Board

• Editors/Editorial Board aims to meet the information needs of reviewers, author(s), readers, and practitioners according to the transparency principle and be ineffective communication.
• Editors/Editorial Board refuses the manuscript if it does not comply with the journal's policy and publication priorities.
• Editors/Editorial Board decides on the publication of articles according to their content and pays attention to the authenticity and scientific contribution of the articles, and does not show any privileges to any author.
• Editors/Editorial Board takes the necessary precautions to prevent infringement of intellectual property rights and check the similarity of each article.
• During the evaluation process of the articles submitted to the journal, the Editors/Editorial Board applies double-blind policies between the reviewers and the author(s), and considers whether there is a conflict of interest or a common interest.
• Editors/Editorial Board sends the articles taking into account the expertise of the reviewers. They ensure that every article is evaluated impartially and on time.
• Editors/Editorial Board ensures the protection of personal data in reviewing articles.
• Editors/Editorial Board evaluates whether the reviewer evaluations are scientific and in accordance with academic etiquette.
• Editors/Editorial Board takes into account the consistent criticism of the articles by the reviewers, they ask the author(s) for responding to the comments of reviewers for the article.
• Editors/Editorial Board ensures that the advisory board is up to date and very comprehensive.
• Editors/Editorial Board follows developments in publishing policies and ensures that journal publishing processes are operated in accordance with current policies and guidelines.
• Editors/Editorial Board ensures that errors, inconsistencies, or misinformation in the articles are corrected.
• Editors / Editorial Board reviews requests and complaints submitted to the journal and makes the necessary explanations.

Notification to the Editor of the Situation Not Complying with Scientific Research and Publication Ethics

When faced with a situation that is considered to be against the scientific research and publication ethics of reviewers and authors (such as non-compliance with ethical rules in research on humans and animals, plagiarism, forgery, distortion, republishing, slicing, unfair authorship), the person who encountered this situation needs to inform the editorial board about this alleged contradiction via electronic mail to sbu.hemsirelikdergisi@sbu.edu.tr.

Update Date 27.05.2022

Price Policy

Access to all articles published in University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing is open and can be accessed online and free of charge. Authors who submitted articles to the journal for publication are not charged any article processing fee or publication fee.

University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Authors and readers can freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full texts of all articles published in University of Health Sciences Journal of Nursing, or use them for any other lawful purpose.