Author Guidelines

Guidelines for Contributing Articles to The Nursing Information Journal (NIJ)

The Nursing Information Journal (NIJ) is an peer-reviewed and open access journal that is published three times a year.

Focus and Scope
Nursing Information Journal (NIJ) is a nursing journal which publishes scientific works for nurse practitioners and researchers. NIJ welcomes and invites original and relevant research articles in nursing as well as literature study and case report particularly in nursing with coverage namely basic research in nursing, management nursing, emergency and critical care nursing, medical surgical nursing, mental health nursing, maternity nursing, pediatric nursing, gerontological nursing, community nursing, family nursing, Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in nursing.

General Guidelines
Articles submitted to journals have never been published before. To avoid double publication, NIJ does not accept any articles which are also sent to other journals for publication at the same time. The writer should ensure that all members of his/her team have approved the article for publication. Any research report on humans as subject should enclosure the signed informed consent and prior ethical approval was obtained from a suitably constituted research ethics committee or institutional review board. If any financial support was received, or relationship(s) existed, the authors should mention that no conflict of interest of any financial support or any relationship or other, exists during a research project. Those points should mention in the Cover Letter to Editor of NIJ.

Review Process
Each manuscript is reviewed by the editors, and if of a sufficient standard, sent for blinded reviewed by at least two editorial board members or reviewers 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. Certain information of whether the article is accepted and published or refused is given to the sending author in written.

Manuscript Guidelines
The article of research Could be written in Indonesian/English on essay format which is outlined as follow:

1. 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.
2. Abstract. Abstract for research articles, literature review, and case report should use maximum 300 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 semicolon (;). Please use maximum 5 appropriate words for helping the indexing.
3. Manuscript.
   Manuscript is in continuous order:
   -Introduction: 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. and 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.
   -Suggestions: Identify implications/recommendations for practice/research/education/management as appropriate, and consistent with the limitations.
   -Acknowledgments: Briefly acknowledge research funders, and any research participants in this section.
   -Declaratin conflict of interest: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
   -Funding: Please clarify related to research funding.
   - Author contribution: state the role of each author in the research.
   -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. The maximum number of libraries used are publications from the last 5 years unless these are central to your study. References should avoid the use of secondary citations (if necessary use max 20% of citations). Use APA (American Psychological Association) 6th Edition format for citation and references. The bibliography uses a Reference manager (EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, and similar). 90% of the sources referred to are accredited national and international journals.
   -Biographies of authors: write the author's biographical information, which includes a brief description of each author, researcher's email and social media account links as complete as possible (Google Scholar, ORCID, Scopus, and Web of Science (WoS).
4. The structure of article of literature study is title, name of author (with no academic title); abstract; keywords; introduction; methods (please describe searching databases, how many article retrieved); results (summary from the research review); discussion; conclusion; Suggestions; Acknowledgments; Declaratin conflict of interest; Funding; Author contribution; Reference; and Biographies of authors.
5. 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.
6. The layout of article is to be written in A4 paper with margin at least 2.5 for each using Microsoft Word, Arial font and single-spaced. The maximum number of page is 20. Each page is numbered starting from title until the last page of the article.
7. Reference and citation use bracketed citation (name, year). Direct citation on references should include page number of the citation. American Psychological Association applies in writing the article. See Examples of referencing below:
   
   Journal Article
   Chan, S. W. (2011). Global perspective of burden of family caregivers for persons with schizophrenia. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 25, 339–349. doi:10.1016/j.apnu.2011.03.008
   
   Book
   Polit, D. E., & Beck, C. T. (2008). Nursing research: Generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
   
   Website
   World Health Organization. (2008). The global burden of disease: 2004 update. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization. Retrieved from: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GBD_report_2004update_full.pdf
8. Submission. Each submitted manuscript must conform to the Instructions to Authors and should be submitted online at 
   https://www.ojsstikesbanyuwangi.com/index.php/NIJ
   The instructions for registering, submission and revision are provided on this website. If any difficulties the authors can contact via email: [email protected]
9. Author publication charges
   Article Submission Charge (ASC): 0.00 (IDR)
   Article Publication Charge (APC): 1.000.000 (IDR)

Manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the MS Word article template

https://bit.ly/NewTemplateNIJv5

Guideline for Online Submission

Author should first register as Author and/or is offered as Reviewer through the following address: https://www.ojsstikesbanyuwangi.com/index.php/NIJ/user/register

Author should fulfill the form as detailed as possible where the star marked form must be entered. After all form of textbox was filled, Author clicks on “Register” button to proceed the registration. Therefore, Author is brought to online author submission interface where Author should click on “New Submission”. In the Start of a New Submission section, click on “’Click Here’: to go to step one of the five-step submission process”. The following are five steps in online submission process:

1. Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of journal, i.e. Original Research Articles, Review Article, or Short Communication. Thus, the author must check-mark on the submission checklists. Author may type or copy-paste Covering Letter in Letter to Editor.
2. Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file (.doc/.docx) to be submitted, then click "Upload" button until the file has been uploaded.
3. Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered including marked corresponding author. After that, manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords.
4. Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Additional files in the form of author declaration which states the article has never been published and is not being submitted to another journal which has been signed should be uploaded. Therefore, click the Browse button, select a file, and then click the Upload button.
5. Step 5 – Confirming the Submission:  Author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to Nursing Information Journal, click Finish Submission button after the document is true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgment by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging into the journal web address site.

After this submission, Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes the status of manuscript review and editorial process.

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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 11-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.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Ns. Badrul Munif, M.Kep (Editor-in-Chief)

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