General Guidelines

Articles sent to the journal are not yet published. To avoid double publication, IJNS does not accept any articles which are also sent to other journals for publication at the same time. Before sending a paper, make sure that the similarity of your paper is checked first, the maximum paper equality limit in our journals is 20% and make sure your paper references use mendeley.

Review Process

Each manuscript is reviewed by the editors, and if of a sufficient standard, sent for double blinded reviewed by at least two editorial board members who come from a range of countries as chosen by the journal team based on their expertise. The result may be accepted with no correction, accepted with little correction, accepted with many corrections and refused. The sending author is given opportunity to correct the article on the basis of suggestion received from the reviewer.

Manuscript Guidelines

Manuscript in MS Word or PDF format (generated from MS Word) must be submitted to Caring: Indonesian Journal of Nursing Science  (https://talenta.usu.ac.id/IJNS). The length of manuscript is expected not to exceed 10 printed pages (1 line spacing) including abstract, figures, tables and references.

The article of research should be written in English on essay format which is outlined as follow:

Title Page. This includes: the title of the manuscript, the full names without academic and professional credentials with commas between names. A number (1) is to be used to designate the corresponding author with academic and professional credentials, institutional affiliation(s), postal and e-mail addresses of each author.The title should describe the summary of the research (concise, informative, no abbreviation, and 12-20 words).

Abstract. Abstract for research articles, literature review, and case report should use Times New Roman 10pt, maximum 250 words. Research article should consist of background, purpose, methods, results and conclusion. Abstract is clearly written and is short to help readers get understanding on the new and important aspects without reading the whole article. Keywords are written on the same page with abstract separated each other with coma (,). Please use maximum 5 appropriate words for helping the indexing.

Manuscript

Manuscript is in continuous order:

Background: Background provides the state of the art of the study and consists of an adequate background, previous research in order to record the existing solutions/method to show which is the best, and the main limitation of previous research, to show the scientific merit or novelties of the paper. Avoid a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

Objective: The objective should state the major aim of the research.

Methods: Method consists of research design, place and time of research, population and sample, data measurement and data analysis method. Provide sufficient details of the methods including the ethical conduct.

Results: Results state the major findings of the research instead of providing data in great detail. Results should be clear, concise and can be reported on texts or graphics. Please provide some introduction for the information presented on tables or images.

Discussion:  The discussion should explore the significance of the results of the study. The following components should be covered in discussion: How do your results relate to the original question or objectives outlined in the background section (what)? Do you provide interpretation scientifically for each of your results or findings presented (why)? Are your results consistent with what other investigators have reported (what else)? Or are there any differences?

Conclusion: Conclusions should answer the objectives of research telling how advanced the result is from the present state of knowledge. Conclusions should be clear in order to know it merits publication in the journal or not. Provide a clear scientific justification and indicate possible applications and extensions. Recommendation should also be pointed out to suggest future research and implication in the nursing practice.

Acknowledgments (if any):Briefly acknowledge research funders, and any research participants in this section.

Reference: The Reference consists of all references used to write the articles. Ensure that citations used are as contemporary as possible, including those from the current year of writing. Delete older literature citations (more than 10 years) unless these are central to your study. References should avoid the use of secondary citations (if necessary use max 20% of citations).

The structure of article of literature study is title, name of author (with no academic title); abstract; keywords; background; objectives; methods (please describe searching databases, how many article retrieved); results (summary from the research review); discussion; or conclusion; and references.

Every table is typed on 1 space. Number of table is systematic as mentioned on the texts and completed with short title each. Provide explanation on the footnotes instead of on title. Please explain on footnotes all non standards information mentioned on table. Total table should not more than 6 tables.

The layout of article is to be written in A4 paper with margin at least 2 for each using Microsoft Word, Times New Roman font and single-spaced. The maximum number of page is 10. Each page is numbered starting from title until the last page of the article.

Reference and citation use bracketed citation (name, year). References must use a reference management tool such as Mendeley/Zotero/Endnote, style APA 7th edition. Minimum 15 references.

Below is the Article Template 

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