• The manuscripts should not have been previously published anywhere.
• Scientifically valid, adhering to accepted community standards of research.
• Technically accurate in its methods and results.
• Representative of a specific advancement, replication, or negative result worthy of publication.
• As reproducible as possible, sharing underlying data, code, and supporting materials where possible.
• Ethically sound and transparent, adhering to best practices regarding animal and human studies, consent to publish, and clear declaration of potential conflicts of interest, both real and perceived.
• The manuscript should be clearly written, with a logical flow of ideas and appropriate scientific terminology.
• The manuscript should include relevant and up-to-date references to support its claims and findings.
• Figures, tables, and other visual materials should be clear, accurately labeled, and relevant to the content of the manuscript.

Submission and Publication Process

1. Accepted Manuscript Types
2. Submission Guidelines
3. Peer Review Process
4. Publication Procedures

1. Accepted Manuscript Types

The journal of Nursing Insights accepts case report, commentary, editorial, letter to the editör, research protocol paper, original research article, review articles (systematic review, meta-analysis, qualitative evidence synthesis, mixed-methods review, integrative review, scoping review etc.). 

Type	Description	Word Limit	Abstract/ Structure	Other Requirements
Case Reports	The relevant information about the patient in the case being reported, as well as a full description of the patient's symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and outcome.	Up to 2,000 excluding references	No	Up to five references. Up to five figures/tables.
Commentary	Evidence-based opinion pieces involving areas of broad interest and invited commentaries.	Up to 2,000 excluding references	No	Up to ten references. Up to five figures/tables.
Editorial	Opinion on timely or general interest topics, or to provide an overview of an issue. Usually by the Editors or someone invited by the Editors.	Up to 1,500	No	By invitation only. Submit to the editorial office for consideration 5 or less references
Letter to the Editor*	To raise a point of interest, discuss a difference of opinion or encourage participation	Up to 1,500	No	Five or less references (more details below)
Research Protocol Paper	A detailed description of the research plan, including the study design, objectives, methodology, data collection process, and analysis plan. This should also outline the expected outcomes and significance of the research.	Up to 2,500 words excluding references	No	Up to fifteen references. Up to five figures/tables.
Original Research OR Review Articles	Reports of new research findings that make a significant contribution to knowledge. OR Critical reviews of the literature, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses, qualitative evidence synthesis, mixed-methods review, integrative review, scoping review, etc.	Up to 7000 excluding abstract and reference	Yes, structured	IRB Statement Up to 40 references. Up to five figures/tables.

* Letters to the Editor are used for:

• Discussion of published articles
• The Editorial Board has the right to accept, reject, edit, or condense letters and may publish a response from the author or editor.
• If a Letter to the Editor is accepted, the authors of the article discussed will have the opportunity to respond. However, you will not be able to reply to the author's response.
• Letters to the Editor are reviewed but do not require full peer review. The Editor-in-Chief may choose to accept or reject the letter or send it for full review.
• Authors' letters in response to Letters to the Editor are usually accepted for publication after the same review process.
• The Editor-in-Chief decides when and how the letter will be published.

New submissions should be made via portal https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/journal/384/submission/step/manuscript/new You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission system and clicking the “My Submissions” button.
For help with submissions, please contact:
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/hunhemsire/contacts The Editorial Board has the right to accept, reject, edit, or condense letters and may publish a response from the author or editor.

2. Submission Guidelines

Formatting 

The manuscript should be an editable doc./.docx file including text and tables. Please provide figures in the highest resolution possible, whether this means they are embedded or provided separately. Authors should write the manuscript in either American or British English but not a combination of both. Please note that your manuscript's language proficiency will be evaluated immediately after submission. To ensure compliance, the Editorial Board requires your manuscript to be edited for grammar, clarity, and fluency before uploading it to the system.
Note: If the manuscript, figures, or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers, and the editorial office will send them back for revision.

Language

It is recommended to check the English language quality using AI-supported tools such as Grammarly Business, ChatGPT Pro, or DeepL Pro. A screenshot (see examples) showing this process has been completed should be submitted along with the manuscript.
Alternatively, you may obtain a certificate by using professional editing services (American Journal Experts, Cambridge Proofreading & Editing, Editage, Elsevier Author Services, SCIEdit, Springer Nature Author Services, Wiley Editing Services, etc.)

Artificial Intelligence Usage

Authors who use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in research design, data analysis, image/graphic element production, reference evaluation, or drafting article should clearly explain their strategy in the method section. This approach ensures transparency, demonstrates ethical responsibility, and ensures that authors take full responsibility for their work. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their articles, including sections generated by AI tools, and are accountable for any violations of publication ethics. Scientific journals do not permit AI-generated materials to be cited as primary references. Authors must rely on and cite human-generated content as primary references, ensuring the reliability and integrity of the research presented.

Authorship

All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Review the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) (www.icmje.org). Journal Ethical Standards and scroll down for a description of authorship criteria. Only one author can be designated as the corresponding author.

ORCID ID

At submission, an ORCID iD must be provided for the submitting author(s). If you already have an ORCID iD, you will be asked to provide it. If you haven't registered with ORCID yet, please create an iD at the point of submission (https://orcid.org/register)

Funding

Authors must state how the research and publication of their article was funded, by naming financially supporting body(s) (written out in full) followed by associated grant number(s) in brackets (if applicable), for example: "This work was supported by the …. (grant numbers xxxx, yyyy); ….the National Science Foundation (grant number zzzz).
If the research did not receive specific funding, but was performed as part of the employment of the authors, please name this employer. If the funder was involved in the manuscript writing, editing, approval, or decision to publish, please declare this.

Acknowledgments

All acknowledgments (if any) should be included at the very end of the manuscript before the references. Anyone who made a contribution to the research or manuscript, but who is not a listed author, should be acknowledged (with their permission).

Conflicts of Interest

Authors should declare all kinds of assistance and other support received for the research from person(s) or organization(s) to the editorial board and ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest must be completed and uploaded to the system to explain the conflict of interest http://icmje.org/conflicts-of-interest/

Reproduction of Copyright Material

The authors assign all kinds of copyrights within the framework of national and international laws to the journal starting from the evaluation of the manuscripts. For this purpose, Copyright Transfer Form signed by all authors should be uploaded to the system during the submission. Click for Copyright Transfer Form (Link).
If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is your responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners.
The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce the material "in print and other media" from the publisher of the original source, and for supplying Wiley with that permission upon submission.

Reporting Guidelines

Authors are strongly encouraged to use appropriate reporting guidelines when preparing and submitting manuscripts, to maximize transparency and reproducibility. Our editors and reviewers are also encouraged to use them in the review process. Completed checklists should be provided in the supplementary files on submission. We particularly encourage the use of:
for more guidelines (https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/)

CONSORT for randomized controlled trials
TREND for non-randomized trials
PRISMA for systematic review and meta-analyses
CARE for case reports
STROBE for observational studies
SRQR for qualitative studies
ARRIVE for animal experiments

Manuscript Preparation

Abstract

The manuscript should contain an abstract. The abstract should be self-contained, citation-free, and should not exceed 300 words.

Title Page (link) 

The title page should contain:

• A brief informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations
• A short running title of less than 40 characters
• The full names of the authors
• The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
• Corresponding author and contact information
• Author contributions
• Ethics committee approval
• Conflict of Interest Statement for all authors (if there are none to declare, please state so);
• Acknowledgments
• Disclosure of funding sources

(Important: The journal operates a double-blind peer review policy. Please anonymize your manuscript and prepare a separate title page containing author details.)

Main Text File

For journals operating a double-blind peer review process, please ensure that all identifying information such as author names and affiliations, acknowledgements or explicit mentions of author institution in the text are on a separate page.
Manuscripts can be uploaded as a single document (containing the main text, tables and figures) according to article type templates (link). The main manuscript file can be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format. 
Your main document file should include:

• A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations
• The full names of the authors with institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
• Acknowledgments;
• Structured abstract structured (aim/materials and methods/results/conclusion/implication for nursing practice/management or policy);
  Up to six keywords;
• Main body: formatted as introduction, materials & methods, results, discussion, conclusion, implication for nursing practice/management or policy
  References;
• Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
• Figure legends: Legends should be supplied as a complete list in the text. Figures should be uploaded as separate files (see below).

Reference Style

This journal uses APA 7th reference style. Review your reference style guidelines prior to submission. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the information in each reference is complete and accurate. All data, program code, and other methods should be appropriately cited. Such materials should be recognized as original intellectual contributions and afforded recognition through citation. 

Supplementary Materials

Supplementary materials are the additional parts to a manuscript, such as audio files, video clips, or datasets that might be of interest to readers. A section titled supplementary material should be included before the references list with a concise description for each supplementary material file. Figures, supporting information, and appendices should be supplied as separate files, and these materials are not modified by our production team. Authors are responsible for providing the final supplementary material files that will be published along with the article.

Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles

The journal requires that you include in the manuscript details Institutional Review Board approvals, ethical treatment of human and animal research participants, and gathering of informed consent, as appropriate. You will be expected to declare all conflicts of interest, or none, on submission. Please review policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines.
This journal follows the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices).
This journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.  

3. Peer Review

Pre-Review and Plagiarism Checking

This journal operates under a double-blind peer-review model. In-house submissions, i.e., papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members of the title, will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure no peer review bias.
After the Editor-in-Chief review, the journal's compliance with the writing rules is examined, and a similarity check is made to prevent plagiarism. Similarity software is used in the checking process. In this journal, the ithenticate program is used to get plagiarism analysis. The overall similarity rate should be less than 20%. If it is more than 20%, the study is either rejected or sent back to the author to reduce the similarity rate.
Manuscripts are reviewed by the Language Editors, and if necessary, corrections are requested from the author.

Associate Editor(s) Review

After the manuscript passes the stages of pre-review, plagiarism, and language checking, the editor-in-chief sends it to the associate editor(s).
Manuscripts that pass the pre-review and editorial review undergo a confidential double-blind peer review process. Within the double-blind strategy, the identity of the peer reviewer is concealed from the author submitting publications to the journal. Similarly, the peer reviewers do not know who wrote the article they are reviewing. Articles are sent to at least two referees for evaluation. The reports are also stored in the Submission System.
The associate editor checks whether the author has made the requested corrections in the text. The Editor-in-chief makes the final decision.

Author's Revision

Authors take into account the feedback, criticisms, and recommendations of the reviewer and the Editorial Board. In case of any disagreement, they have the right to appeal with their justifications. Authors edit the article as per the reports and upload the final version of the manuscript to the system.

4. Publication Procedures

Typesetting and Layout Process

After the manuscript is accepted, relevant files will be assessed by the editorial office to ensure they are ready for production. The journal undertakes the typesetting and layout processes of the studies decided to be published by the Editorial Board. You may be contacted if any updates or final files are required.

Proof Reading

Authors will receive an e-mail notification for proof reading. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures.

Author Name Change Policy

In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, our jounal will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.

Appendix
Additional Guidelines for Pictures

Concepts illustrated in graphical material must clearly fit with the research discussed in the accompanying text.
Generally, authors should consider any sensitivities when using images of objects that might have cultural significance or may be inappropriate in the context (for example, religious texts, historical events, and depictions of people).
Legal requirements:
All necessary copyright permission for the reproduction of the graphical elements used in visuals must be obtained prior to publication.
Clearance must be obtained from identifiable people before using their image on the cover or the like and such clearance must specify that it will be used on the cover. In all situations involving disclosure of such personal info, specific permission must be obtained. And images of individuals should not be used in a false manner.
Pictures that do not adhere to these guidelines will be recommended for revision or will not be accepted for publication.

Participant Consent

It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to seek informed consent from any identifiable participant in pictures. Masking a participant’s eyes, or excluded head and shoulders is not sufficient. Please ensure that a consent form (https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/licensing/licensing-info-faqs.html) is provided for each participant.