Regulations
INFRMATION FOR
AUTHORS
„Pielęgniarstwo
Polskie” (Polish Nursing) is a quarterly. It prints reviewed original research,
opinion articles and case studies, book reviews, conference reports, notes on
events, obituaries, etc. in both Polish and English. “Pielęgniarstwo Polskie”
(Polish Nursing) is published in the open-access on the following website:
http://www.pielegniarstwo.ump.edu.pl/. The editorial office is located in the Chair of
Nursing, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, ul. Smoluchowskiego 11, 60-179
Poznan.
Paper submission:
Papers should be submitted
electronically via the editorial journal processing system ‘Open Journal
Systems’ (OJS), available in ‘submission of manuscripts on – line’. The paper should
be entered into the system in accordance with the instructions, after logging
in or registering if you are new to the system. When submitting papers in the
OJS be sure to enter the following data:
- all authors’ first names and surnames with affiliation (use the option ADD THE
AUTHOR)
- the completed scanned form of Authors’
declarations in the auxiliary file
of the editorial system. The model declaration is available on: statement.doc
- the corresponding author’s address. The address should be entered only
in the biographical note under the
affiliation of the author in question. Please provide: name, full address
(street, post code, town), office telephone number, e-mail address, author’s
affiliation.
Manuscript
preparation:
The text should be written with 12 spot font Times New
Roman, with the space between the lines 1.5 (one and a half space), 2.5 cm margin
from every side, without editing, i.e. without hard spaces, end of the line signs
(so-called soft enters). It should be justified (balanced to the left and right-hand
margins). One should write with an ordinary font in black exclusively (greased
titles and subtitles are possible), without upper case distinctions, spacing
out or underlining with the solid line, etc. In numbers, decimals should be separated by commas (not dots).
Paragraphs should begin indented using the appropriate commands in a text
editor (without using the so-called breaks between). Before saving, one must
remove all selections used when editing the text. Papers in English should be
written in the correct English language. The file should be saved in the format: DOC or DOCX. Pages
should be numbered, starting with the title page.
The paper should include, in order:
- title page
- abstract in Polish and English
- key words in Polish and English
- manuscript with tables, figures and photographs
- literature prepared in accordance with the Vancouver
style
- information on sources of funding and conflict of
interest.
Title
page:
It includes the
paper title in Polish and in English. The title should not contain
abbreviations. Please, do not include authors’ names and affiliations due to
review anonymity.
Second page:
It contains abstracts in
Polish and in English. The abstract of original papers should be structural –
it should contain Introduction, Aim, Material and Methods, Results and
Conclusions; in case studies - Introduction, Aim, Case, Conclusions; in review
papers - Introduction, Summary of each chapter, Summary / Conclusions. The
abstract (in Polish and English) should contain no more than 250 words.
Abbreviations should be avoided, and when used, the explanation of the
first application should be given.
Under the abstract key words should be included - not more than 5 in
Polish and English, from among those listed in the Medical Subject Headings
(MeSH)
Third and next pages:
They should
contain the main text of the paper.
ORIGINAL PAPER
The original
paper presents results of original investigations conducted in the field of
nursery and medicine in general (see Introduction). The paper should be divided
into:
Introduction – it should contain a synthetically recognized theoretical and empirical framework of
the research along with its justification, without a detailed, comprehensive
literature review and previous studies.
Aim – it should be
clearly defined and should refer to the information included in the Introduction
Material - the
description should be sufficiently detailed to allow for the study replication
Methods - the description
should be sufficiently detailed to allow for the study replication. When using
previously published methods and research tools, provide the appropriate
bibliographical references.
Results – they should be presented
in a clear and concise way, without a detailed repetition of the information
contained in tables and figures.
Discussion - it should emphasize the importance of one’s own research
results in the context of literature. It should not repeat results or replace
the literature review.
Conclusions - they should be justified in the research carried out.
The text should
not exceed 6000 words, i.e. about 12-15 pages (including tables, figures and
references). References should not exceed 25 items. Please provide
information on the approval of conducting the research by the relevant
bioethics committee (in Material or Methods).
OPINION ARTICLE
Opinion articles
concern fundamental findings in the field of nursery and medicine in general.
The opinion article structure is different
from the original paper in the lack of the conducted study description and,
instead of Discussion, it contains subsequent chapters constituting the main
part of the paper (e.g. summarized conclusions from other publications). It is
recommended to divide the text into chapters with concise titles and /or
subtitles. Summary / conclusions contain authors’ own reflections resulting
from the literature review, as described in separate chapters of the paper. The text should not exceed 6000 words, i.e. about
15-20 pages (including references).
CASE STUDY
The case study
presents one or more interesting rare cases or clinical conditions. The paper should
be divided into: Introduction, Case Description and Discussion. The text should
not exceed 2500 words, i.e. about 3-4 pages
(including references).
CONFERENCE
REPORTS AND OTHER INFORMATION TEXTS (compare Introduction)
The text should
not exceed 1000 - 1500 words (2 pages).
LITERATURE
Literature should
be presented on a separate sheet of paper using the Vancouver style. Only references related to the topic of the paper should
be included in the text of the manuscript. Quotations
should be numbered according to their appearance in the text and marked using
Arabic numerals in square brackets. Each
new item in the list of references should be written in a new line, preceded by
a number. Homogeneous punctuation should be respected as follows:
The sequence for
a journal article should be the following: authors’ names and first names,
paper title, journal title abbreviated as in the MedLine database (always ended
up with a dot), year of publication, volume number, first and last page numbers.
One should not include references: ‘in print’, ‘to appear soon’, ‘oral
information’.
Example:
1.
Kowalski
J., Nowak J. Nozologiczne aspekty bólów głowy. J. Med. 2007; 1:12–27.
The sequence for the book should be as follows: authors’ names and first letters of their first names,
book title, place and edition of publication, year of publication, first and
last page numbers.
Example:
2.
Pawlak P. Zycie i umieranie. Warszawa: PWN; 2007.12-32.
The sequence for the book chapters should be as follows:
chapter authors’ names and first letters of their first names, chapter title,
book title, book authors, place and edition of publication, year of
publication, chapter first and last page numbers.
Example:
3. Pawlak P. Zycie i umieranie. W: Malinowski A (red.). Gerontologia. Warszawa: PWN;
2007.12-32.
The sequence for the Internet should be as follows: authors’ names and first letters of their first names,
paper title, full address of the website, access date.
TABLES
Tables should be prepared in
Word for Windows. They should be
in the editable form, limiting vertical lines. All tables should be numbered using Arabic numerals and a full word ‘TABLE’, not an abbreviation ‘tab.’
(e.g. Table 5). The titles in both Polish and English should be placed above
tables. The text in the table should be written in 10-point Arial Narrow CE font. The width of the
table should not exceed 8 cm or 16 cm. The interior of the table should also
include the English version. The number of tables should be limited to the
necessary minimum.
FIGURES
Charts should be prepared in Word for Windows or Excel.
Illustrations must be saved in JPG or TIF format. Figures should be provided with Polish and English
captions and numbered using Arabic numerals, with no abbreviation ‘fig.’ (e.g.
Figure 5). Titles in Polish
and English should be written in Word, they should be editable and should be placed
under figures. The number of figures should be limited to the necessary minimum.
AUTHORS’ DECLARATIONS
Each manuscript should be
accompanied by authors’ declarations that the paper has never before been published
in any other journal. To counteract the occurrence of ‘ghostwriting’ or
‘ghost authorship’ phenomena the Editorial Board asks all listed
authors of submitted papers to provide information
on their contribution to manuscript preparation. The information has to be qualitative in
character, i.e. the authors should state whether their work
included preparation of the conceptual framework, assumptions, methods,
protocol, etc. Authors are also asked to
state sources of funding for research, the results of which are presented in
the submitted paper. The declaration, attached to the manuscript, should be
signed by all authors of a submitted paper.
ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations must be defined in full along with their
first appearance in the text. They should be placed in brackets after a full
text. Their correctness should be checked. Avoiding abbreviations in titles and
abstracts is recommended. Abbreviations used in tables and figures should be
defined in captions below.
REVIEWING PROCEDURE
All submitted papers are initially evaluated by the
Chief Editor or a member of the Academic Council. The manuscripts may be turned
down or reviewed further by two reviewers who do not know authors’ names or the
name of authors’ institutions. On receiving the reviews, the Chief Editor
decides whether the manuscript should be published, published after slight corrections,
published after essential corrections or rejected. Authors receive remarks on
the paper regardless of the decision made. If the manuscript is to be published
after corrections, authors are required
to express their opinion on reviews within 30 days.
The Editor reserves the right to make any adjustments
of style, terminology and abbreviations as well as corrections of the English
version without asking for the author’s consent.
COPYRIGHTS
In case manuscripts are to be published, the Editor
acquires the copyrights and no electronic or hard copy can be made without the
Editor’s consent.
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