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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided. The journal uses APA 7 stlye of citation.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  • We are politely asking authors, to write in the online form informations about ALL THE AUTHORS of the article, writing just one author is not enough.

Author Guidelines

The manuscript should be written clearly and succinctly in a standard Slovene or English language and conform to acceptable language usage. Its length must not exceed 5000 words (with abstract, tables, figures and references) for quantitative and 6000 words (with abstract, tables, figures and references) for qualitative research articles, excluding the title, abstract, tables, pictures and literature. The authors should use the Microsoft Word template, accessible at the editorial website. All articles  considered for publication in the Slovenian Nursing Review will have been subjected to an external, triple-blind peer review. Manuscripts are accepted for consideration by the journal with the understanding that they represent original material, have not been published previously and are not being considered for publication elsewhere. Individual authors bear full responsibility for the content and accuracy of their submissions. The statement of responsibility and publication approval must be signed by the authors' full name. The author's (or authors') professional, academic titles and possible appointments to pedagogical or research title must be included. If the article is written in English, all the titles must be translated into the English language. In submitting a manuscript, the authors must observe the standard scientific research paper components, the format and typology of documents, and submission guidelines. The manuscript must be accompanied by the authorship statement, a copy of which is available on the journal website. The statement must be undersigned by the author and all co-authors in the order in which each is listed in the authorship of the article.

If the article publishes human subject research, it should be evident from the methodology chapter that the study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and Tokyo. All human subject research including patients or vulnerable groups, health professionals and students requires review and approval by the ethical committee on institutional or national level prior to subject recruitment and data collection. The title of the article, abstract and key words, tables (descriptive subtitle and legend), illustrations (descriptive subtitle or signature and legend) must be submitted in Slovene and English. The same applies to the articles written in English, where the above units must be given first in the English language, followed by the Slovene translation. The total of five data
supplements per manuscript is allowed. Tables and other data supplements should adequately accompany the text. The results presented in tables and other data supplements should be presented in
symbols as required by the journal, available at the journal website, chapter Guidelines. The authors should refer to each of these supplements in the text. The use of footnotes and endnotes is not allowed.

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).

ARTICLE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The corresponding author must submit the manuscript electronically using the Open Journal System (OJS). The authors should adhere to the accepted guidelines and fill in all the sections given. Prior to submission the authors should prepare the manuscript in the following separate documents.

1. The title page includes (template Title page ):
− the title of the article;
− the full names of the author/s in the sequence as that in the article;
− the data about the authors (name, surname, their highest academic degree, habilitation qualifications and their institutional affiliations and status, their mailing address), and the name of the corresponding author. If the article is written in the English language, the data about the authors should also be given in English. 
− the information whether the article includes the results of some other larger research or whether the article is based on a diploma, master or doctoral thesis (in which case the first author is always the
student) and the acknowledgements;


2. The main document should be anonymized and includes the title (obligatorily without the authors and contact data), the abstract, the keywords, the text in the agreed format, the tables, the figures, pictures and literature. Authors may use up to 5 tables/pictures in the article.

Template Original Scientific Article

Template Review Article

 

3. Statement about the autorship  (document ). In the case of an article by two or more authors, authors are required to define the contribution of each author in the creation of the article, as required by the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and statement need to include signatures of all the coauthors.

For more detailed  English guidelines please follow

Copyright Notice

As the author undersigned hereby, I transfer, assign, or otherwise convey the following authorship rights as comprised in the Copyright and Related Rights Act (CRRA) to the Slovenian Nursing Review, Ob železnici 30A, 1000 Ljubljana: the right of reproduction - the exclusive right to fix the work in a material medium or in another copy directly or indirectly, temporarily or permanently, by any means and in any digital form, in whole or in part (CRRA, Article 23); the right of distribution (CRRA, Article 24); the right of making a work available and accessible through the internet (CRRA, Article 32a); the right of transformation, especially the exclusive right to translate a pre-existing work (CRRA, Article 33). The transfer of author rights applies to the article in its entirety, including pictorial and/or graphic works and possible supplements. The transfer of rights is exclusive and unlimited in duration or territory.

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