“The Central European Nursing Review” is an interdisciplanary peer-reviewed academic journal, which publishes articles prepared at editorial board’s invitation, original works, case studies, review articles, opinion articles, commentaries to published works, summaries of world literature as well as other reports found substantive.
General remarks
All texts are published in English. The journal “The Central European Nursing Review” comply with the standards recommended by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) concerning the criteria of authorship and/or who should be named as an co-author. All information on the above-mentioned criteria can be found in the COPE report: publicationeticsics.org/files/2003pdf12_0.pdf .
The paper should be written succinctly, impeccably as regards the style, with proper nomenclature. The editorial remarks made by the editorial board are consulted with authors only when they concern substantive issues; in the rest of cases they are made without consultation. The authors are obliged to make a statement in the cover letter that the paper has not been released yet and it was not sent to publishing in another journal. The editorial board accepts for publishing only these papers which were recognized by the reviewers as compatible with the problematics of the journal as well as materially contributing to the progres in science and in clinical aspect. Authors’ signatures at the title page are tantamount to the declaration that:
- the paper is the work of all named authors;
- research results were not earlier published or accepted for publishing in other periodical;
- all authors named at title page expressed assent for publication of this paper in “The Central European Nursing Review”
Authors receive confirmation of acceptance of their papers for assessment. Articles are evaluated by reviewers and – if so needed – by the consultant to statistics.
The editorial board comply with the rules encompassed in the Declaration of Helsinki and absolutely requires the authors to conduct all researches with human participation in accordance with these rules as well as in accordance with ethical standards enacted by the appropriate ethical committee.
Patient’s data protection
The editorial board does not allow manipulations and implementation of changes in patient’s data which would be aimed at protection of his/her identity. The authors absolutely should guard patient’s privacy, publish merely data having scientific significance and not reveal any information which could anyhow enable his/her personal identification (for example, case record, initials of name and surname, photos of facial images, photos of test results on which patient’s data are positioned, etc.). Information regarding race, ethnic and cultural background, religious faith of descripted patient can be allowed exclusively if such information is relevant for science and impacts upon the course of treatment or disease.
Statement
An absolute requirement for paper’s acceptance to editorial process is submitting Authors’ Statement, which should be sent together with manusript advanced to publish. The lack of the above-mentioned document signed by all authors and sent to the editorial office in original explicitly excludes the paper’s acceptance.
Procedure of reviewing and accepting papers
The editorial board adheres to the rules of reviewing papers sent to “The Central European Nursing Review” in accordance with Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Sub-mitted to Biomedical Journals ICMJE and Ministry of Education and Science guidelines. Papers sent to the editorial office are initially assessed by the editor-in-chief and thematic editors. Manuscripts which do not meet the principal conditions of publication are rejected. Incomplete articles or articles prepared in a style inconsistent with the rules set out below are rejected by the editors without substantive evaluation. The main author of the paper is informed about it immediately, without initiating the review proces.
Other articles are peer-reviewed by independent reviewers, in a model in which authors and reviewers do not know their respective identities (so-called double-blind review proces). The maximum waiting time for a review is two months.
To evaluate each pre-qualified paper, the editorial board appoints independent reviewers, from outside the entity from which the authors come. In case of positive evaluation, the paper is qualified for release.
The review must be prepared in written form and contain the unequivocal motion for the acceptance or rejection of the paper.
Reviewer’s remarks along with request for implementation of appropriate corrections the editorial board conveys to the author indicated in the paper as a person responsible for correspondence.
The ultimate decision to qualify the article for publication is taken upon the condition that the Author corrects the paper according to the guidelines included in the review.
Manuscript upload
The article should be sent to the editorial office in an electronic version (it involves tables, figures and photos). The manusript should bear a cover letter containing the full name and surname, address, telephone number as well as e-mail address of the corresponding author along with the declaration of manusript’s acceptance by all the authors.
The materials mentioned above should be send to the editorial office.
Preparation of manuscript
The text of the article along with tables included in the end of the paper should be prepared in one collective text file. The text of the article should be written in font size 12 with double space between lines and 2.5 cm margins. The text should not be formatted. No tables and figures should be placed in the text. Instead of it, in the places suggested by the author a proper informartion should be put, e.g. table 1, figure 3. Figures and photos should be enclosed in separate graphic files. The total volume of article, including tables, figures, abstracts and references, should not exceed 15 pages. A photo of at least 300 dpi resolution of the principal author ought to be enclosed in the paper. This photo should be saved in either .tif or .jpg format. All pages ought to be numbered consecutively. The article should contain the following parts in the sequence given below.
TITLE PAGE
The first page should contain the title of the paper, list of all authors (name, initials of other names, surname), name of the insitution to which the author is affiliated, full correspondence address, telephone number, e-mail adress of the corresponding author along with city and state in which the work was conducted.
The requirement for the authors of the submitted article is that they provide a permanent digital identifier of the scientist – ORCID (Open Resear-cher and Contributor). In case of its lack, the authors ought to register in order to get this digital identifier (http://www.orcid.org).
ABSTRACT AND KEY WORDS:
Abstract must be comprehensive and entirely reflect structure of the paper.
No more than 6 key words should be enumerated. They should be in accordance with MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and arranged in alphabetical order.
In the original articles the following text layout applies:
Introduction (in which substantive background of the research and its purpose should be described); Material and methods (the choice of the statistical method should be indicated); Results; Discussion; Conclusions (reflecting the goal of the paper, stricly based on results gained in the work and conducted discussion).
In other than original works, the logical arrangement of the text should be preserved. Words in Latin ought to be differentiated in the text by the use of italics. Furthermore, it is advisable to reach for the assistance of a statistician in compiling data in justified cases.
LITERATURE
Referred scientific bibliography must be arranged according to reference sequence. All its positions must appear in the text in the form of number from bibliography list placed in square brackets. Solely essential bibliographic positions should be selected skipping textbooks and congressional abstracts.
Chapters in books or monographs should be cited as follows: surname and initials of authors’ names, title of the chapter, title of the book, surname and initial of the editor of the book, volume, publisher’s name, place of issue, year, pages. Bibliographic positions should be ordered in the following arrangement:
– artcile in the periodical: Hollinworth H, Howlett S, Tallett J, et al. Professional holistic care of the person with a stoma: online learning. Br J Nurs 2004; 13: 1268-1275.
– book: Timby BK. Fundamental Skills and Concepts in Patient Care. 7th edition Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2003; 12-21.\
– chapter in the book; Renwick R, Friefeld S. Quality of life and rehabilitation. In: Quality of Life in Health Promotion and Rehabilitation: Conceptual Approaches, Issues, and Applications. Renwick R, Brown I, Nagler M (eds). Sage Publications, New York 1996; 26-36.
The number of the bibliographic position should not exceed 30 for original works and case studies and 60 for the review articles.