Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Submission Preparation Checklist

Authors are required to check their submission's compliance with all of the guidelines, and submissions may be returned to authors (or rejected) who do not follow the guidelines. This journal is only accepted for original research and systematic review. Case reports or case studies are no longer accepted.

 

Submission file

The manuscript should be submitted in separate files: 1) the title page and author(s) statement, and 2) the main text file.

Please use the article template that has been provided and can be downloaded:

1) title page and author(s) statement template

2) main text article template

 

Main Text File

To maintain article quality, authors should use reporting guidelines endorsed by the journal are listed below:

  1. ­Observational cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies – STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology)
  2. ­Qualitative studies – COREQ (Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research) 
  3. ­Quasi-experimental/non-randomized evaluations – TREND (Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Non-randomized Designs)
  4. ­Randomized (and quasi-randomized) controlled trials – CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials)
  5. ­Systematic review of controlled trials – PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses)
  6. Systematic review of observational studies – MOOSE (Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology)

Title

Arial 14, sentence case, center position, short sentence (no more than 16 words)

Author's Name and institution

The author's name is written by default and complete without a title. The address of the institution is written complete, and the appointment of correspondence address is provided by e-mail.

Abstract

The abstract is the summary of all article content, including introduction, aim, method, result, analysis, conclusion, and recommendation, 200-250 words. Use Arial 10 regular, single line spacing, paragraph: justified alignment. Keywords should included and please use the MeSH.

Introduction

All articles must be written with single line spacing, first line indentation: 1 cm, and fonts: Arial 11 regular. The introduction provides the state of the art of the study. It consists of an adequate background, the previous research, and the study's significance to show the paper's scientific merit or novelties. Please write the title of the sub-sections correctly. Please write the citation correctly, as in this example (Citation, 0000). Aim(s) should be written here.

Method

The method should describe the type of research, design, population and sample, sampling technique, intervention (if needed), place and time, instrument and data collection, data analysis, interpretation, and ethical declaration.

Result

Results describe the major findings of the study. It should be clear and concise and can be reported on texts or graphics. Please provide an introduction to the information presented in tables or images. If results are separated into some sub-sections, please follow the example in the template. If you choose the table as the data presentation tool, please choose the open table (only use the horizontal lines), table position: center, sentences position: center, and title position: top.

Discussion

In this section, please do not repeat what you wrote in the introduction, but you should explain your findings, support, compare, and contrast with the previous study. The discussion must be clear, and the answer to the research question must be explained. Explain your novelty in the discussion section. In addition, you can explain the findings that can contribute to nursing or health sciences. Explore the significance of the results of the study. You can add study limitations here.

Conclusion

Don’t write a conclusion with numbering or bulleting. In the last section, write the key point of your finding and the answer to the research question. You don’t need citations in this section. A suggestion or recommendation can be added after the conclusion (included in this section) if needed.

Acknowledgement

If needed, you can state thanks to the research funders and any research participants in this section.

Conflict of Interest

Please state the conflict of interest that may happen. If there is no conflict, please make a statement.

References

All references from the manuscript body should be written. The author used more than 20 references, priority from international reputable journal databases, no more than 10 years, and less than 10% from books.

References should be correctly written in APA 7th edition style (article DOI must be included). All references must be written with single line spacing, 0 spacing before, 3 spacing after, with fonts: Arial regular 10.

Please use the reference application manager to provide correcting styles, such as Mendeley, EndNote, and others.

The author should cite articles from the NHSJ and can cite no more than two articles from the same author.

Article Withdrawal Policy

The author is not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts because the withdrawal is a waste of valuable resources, and editors and reviewers spend a great deal of time processing submitted manuscripts and works invested by the publisher. For attention, before the author submits the manuscript through our OJS, the author is obliged to approve the checklist that we provide.

  1. If the author requests the withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, the author will be punished by paying $100 USD per manuscript.
  2. If the author requests the withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is accepted for publication; the author will be punished by paying $150 USD per manuscript.
  3. If the author requests the withdrawal of his/her article when the article has been published; the author will be punished by paying $250 USD per manuscript. Withdrawing after publication means that the article content (HTML and PDF) is deleted and replaced with an HTML page, and the PDF simply states that the article has been withdrawn.
  4. If the author doesn't agree to pay the penalty, the manuscript isn't deleted or removed. The author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal.
  5. If the author request to withdraw a manuscript, an official letter signed by the corresponding author and all authors must be sent to the Editorial journal e-mail.