Ethics and related editorial policies

Ethical principles

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential building block in the development of a profession. Periodical literature is the most widely used manner of communication for an audience of professionals in the field since it is the most suitable mode of dissemination of research findings. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editors, the peer reviewers and the publisher of journals.

An important role of the publisher is to support the extensive efforts of journal editors and peer reviewers in ensuring the integrity of the scholarly record. Editorial board recognizes the responsibilities as the keeper of the guidelines it has adopted to support editors, reviewers and authors in performing their ethical duties. Slovenian Nursing Review follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.   

All accepted articles are checked against plagiarism with Detektor podobnih vsebin (DPV); developed by University of Maribor, and with iThenticate (articles are included to the database of Turnitin).

Should the editorial board find that the manuscript infringes any copyright, it will be immediately excluded from the editorial process. In order to detect plagiarism, a detector of similar contents Detektor podobnih vsebin (DPV) and the CrossCheck Plagiarism Detection System are used. The authors sign the Authorship Statement confirming that no part of the paper has been published or accepted for publication elsewhere and in any other language.

All adressed complaints and appeals should be addressed to the Editorial board. In case of ethical violations, a resolution and adjudication process is initiated, led by the editorial board of the journal. The second stage of the resolution process is conducted by an honorary review panel of the Slovenian Nurses Association.

In rare instances, after an in-depth consultation and resolution process, the Slovenian Nursing Review reserves the right to issue a "correction" (errata) for any published article.

Ethical Oversight and Research Ethics

 Authors are required to provide information on the ethical aspects of the research. In the case of research approval by an ethics committee, they should state the name of the ethics committee and the decision number. If the research did not require special permission from an ethics committee, the authors must explain this.

If the article publishes research on humans, it should be clear in the subsection of methods "Description of research process and data processing" that the research was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Helsinki-Tokyo Declaration, and the process of obtaining permissions for conducting the research should be described. Experimental research conducted on humans must have the consent of an ethics committee, either at the level of the institution or multiple institutions where the research is conducted, or at the national level.

Conflict of interest

When submitting a manuscript, the authors are responsible for recognising and disclosing any conflicts of interest that might bias their work. If there are no such conflicts to acknowledge, the authors should declare this by including the following statement: 'The authors declare that no conflicts of interest exist.'

Data Sharing and Copyright

Copyright is protected under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. The author transfers the following material copyrights to the Nursing Review, Ob železnici 30A, 1000 Ljubljana: the right to reproduce in an unlimited quantity, in all known forms of reproduction, which includes the right to store and reproduce in any electronic form (Article 23 of the Copyright and Related Rights Act – ZASP); the right to distribute (Article 24 of ZASP); the right to make available to the public including making available through the World Wide Web or computer network (Article 32.a of ZASP); the right to process, especially for the purpose of translation (Article 33 of ZASP). The transfer of rights applies to the entire article (including images, tables, and any attachments). The transfer is exclusive and unlimited in space and time.

Archiving and preservation

Slovenian Nursing Review is part of THE KEEPERS (PKP Preservation Network  + DOAJ) system to ensure a secure and permanent archive for journal content. We are also part of OAI-PMH repository and OAIster® database (OCLC  - WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway). We are archived by Slovenian DLIB - Digital library of Slovenia (National and university library of Slovenia). Our data you can find also in  FATCAT .

Review Process

Articles are reviewed with external professional review. Reviews are anonymous. An article proceeds to the editorial process if it meets the publication criteria. It will be sent for external professional (anonymous) review. Scientific articles are reviewed three times. Reviewers receive the text of the article without the author's personal information, review it based on set indicators, and suggest improvements. After the review process is completed, the editorial office returns the article to the author for approval of the corrections, to consider them, and to prepare the final draft. The author is obliged to review the improvements and consider them to the greatest extent possible. If the author does not follow any of the suggested improvements, they must explain this in writing. The final draft is sent to the editorial office for language review.

 Author contributions

In case of more than one author, the contribution of each author should be clearly defined according to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommendations (http://www. icmje.org/recommendations/). Each co-author must participate in at least two structural parts of the article (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion). In addition, it should be identified to which stage of manuscript development each author has substantially participated (conception, design, execution, interpretation of the reported study or to the writing of an article).

 Acknowledgements

All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship and provided purely technical help or general support in the research (non-author contributors) can be listed in the acknowledgments.

Funding

The authors are responsible for recognising and disclosing in the manuscript all sources of funding received for the research submitted to the journal. This information includes the name of granting agencies funding the research, or the project number. If there are no such conflicts or financial support to acknowledge, the authors should declare this by including the following statement: 'The study received no funding.'

Publication Fees

Publishing an article in the Nursing Review is not subject to a fee. If the author withdraws from publishing the article after the review has been prepared, a fee is charged.