Submissions

Author Guidelines

• Manuscripts must be written in clear, concise and acceptable English and has to be consistent throughout the study either British or American.
• The article must be submitted to the Editorial Board of Pokhara Nursing Campus and not be submitted simultaneously to other journals.
• Manuscript must be submitted at publication@iompnc.edu.np and only electronic version is acceptable.
• The submission should enclose the declaration letter, copyright letter, title page, ethical clearance letter, informed consent form for case report and the manuscript
• The title page should include names of all authors, their institutional affiliations with their email address, mobile number of the author responsible for the correspondence.
• Corresponding authors should clearly mention their address along with their email address and phone number.
• Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors is not possible after the manuscript has been accepted for publication.

Preparation of Manuscript

The author should prepare the manuscript according to the guideline of the JNHSN. This journal follows the Introduction, Methods, Result and Discussion (IMRAD)format. Manuscript must be formatted as follows:

• With 1spacing, font size of 11 in Times New Roman.
• Heading: bold and title case
• The pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page. Uniformity in the language is required.
• There should be no abbreviations in Title and abstract; however, universally popular abbreviations such as HIV, WHO may be used.
• Abbreviations should be fully spelled out at its first use.
• Do not use ‘&’, ‘@’ in the text.
• Standard International (SI) units should be used in the manuscript. For eg. BP should be in mm Hg, the temperature in °C.
• Always abbreviate units when reporting numerical information. Write in full in a non-numerical context. e.g. The mean height was 48.2 cm. The length was measured in meters.
• Write a percentage as % without a space between the number and the sign. Write one decimal point in the number throughout the study except in p value.
• When starting a sentence with a number and unit, both must be spelled out as words e.g. Eighty-three milligrams of …………..
• Put a space between number and unit e.g. 232.1 m.
• Words, not numbers should begin a sentence.
• Use 0 before the decimal point when writing numbers between -1 to 1.
• Do not insert a tab, indent, or extra spaces before the beginning of a paragraph.
• Do not use the software’s facility of automatic referencing, footnotes, headers, footers, etc. Do not use ‘O’ for zero (0) and ‘l’ for one (1).
• The text of the article should be divided into sections with the headings and should commence on a new page in the following sequence: title page, abstract, keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusions, acknowledgment, references, tables, and figures.

The title page of the manuscript should contain:

• Type of manuscript (original article, Review and case report)
• Title of the article
• Name of the authors: Family name(s) followed by first name(s), designation and institutional affiliations.
• The second page should start with the title of the article (with no author name) followed by the abstract and the text.

For Original Article (Research Article)

The manuscript should not exceed 2500 words excluding abstract and references.

Abstract: The abstract should not be more than 250 words and must be presented in a paragraph format including title, objective, methodology, findings and conclusions of the study. The abstract should contain maximum of 5 keywords.

Introduction: This section provides a context or background with scientific reasoning from available research evidences to explain the rationale, justification for the study. The objectives should be included in the last paragraph of the background.

Methods and materials: This section should describe how and why a particular study was done in a particular way. This section should contain design, setting, duration, population, sample size, sampling technique, instruments used along with ethical considerations and statistical analysis and computer software used.

Findings: Findings of the study should be presented in a logical sequence in the text and table and descriptions, giving the main or most important findings first.

Discussion: Discussion section should include the new and important aspect of the study and compare the finding to other relevant study’s findings. Link the discussion with the objectives of the study. Include limitations of the study if any and mention any issues that are unsolved and need to be solved in future research

Conclusion: Conclusion should be short and to the point in line with the objectives of the study. Recommendation must also be added.

For Review Article

The review article should be of 3000 words excluding abstract and references.

Abstract: Cover the background, objectives and key message presented in the article. Text: Introduction background of the topic, objectives of the presentation, main body followed by conclusion.

References: References, citation and listing should be done using Vancouver style.

For Case Report

The cases that are interesting or rare with high clinical significance/ implications must be presented. The case report should not exceed 1000 words excluding abstract and referencing. The author should take written inform consent from the patient. The case report consists of abstract with keywords, introduction, case report, discussion, references, tables, figures, photographs.

Tables

1. Prepare tables in Word format. Do not embed the table as Excel files or submit as photographs.
2. Do not merge table cells, do not color the table, keep it as un-formatted as possible.
3. Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material.
4. Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals, consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and provide a brief title for each. Each and every table must be cited in the text. In the text, refer to every table e.g. As shown in Table 3, the …... Do not write “the table above” or “the table below.”
5. The title is placed above the table. The title should follow legend “Table x: ” without quotes. Ensure that table title is brief but explanatory. Tables should be with not more than 10 columns and 25 rows. In-case of large tables, attach it in appendix.
6. Give each column a short or an abbreviated heading.
7. If p-value is to be used, its real value should be used; not as >0.05, <0.05, or significant. If it is 0, then it should be expressed as <0.001.
8. Explanatory matter should be placed in footnotes, not in the heading.
9. Explain all nonstandard abbreviations in footnotes, and use the following symbols in sequence: *, **, #, $.

Figures (Illustrations)

1. Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been cited in the text.
2. Letters, numbers, and symbols on figures should be clear and large enough to remain legible when the figure is reduced for publication.

Acknowledgments This section should state person/s and/or institution/s or funding agencies to whom the author has to acknowledge and should specify the nature of support.

Source of Financial support Grants and funds received for research, if any.

Conflicts of Interest Potential conflicts of interest (e.g. employment, affiliation, consultancy, honoraria, grants or other funding, etc.) should be disclosed.

References: References and citation should be done using Vancouver style.

Sources of Support
The Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences Nepal (JNHSN) is published by the Publication Committee, Pokhara Nursing Campus, Pokhara, which is a fully government institution so all expenses for the review of papers, website, hard copy publication and others are beared by the institution.

Article Processing Fees
The journal does not charge any processing fees for the publishing of articles because the journal is fully funded by the institution.

Publisher
Publication Committee, Pokhara Nursing Campus, IOM,TU, Pokhara, Nepal

Copyright Notice
Copyright Publication Committee, Pokhara Nursing Campus, IOM, TU, Pokhara, Nepal

Copyright Information
Copyright on any research article in the Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences-Nepal is retained by the author(s). The authors grant Pokhara Nursing Campus permission to publish the articles and identify it as the original publisher. If accepted for publication, the article should not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language, without obtaining consent from the Editor in chief.

Authorship

1. Authorship credit should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to conception, design, execution, analysis, interpretation of the study, drafting the article, or revising it critically for intellectual content.
2. All those who have made a significant contribution should be listed as co-authors.
3. Deletion or rearrangement of authors is not possible once the manuscript has been accepted for publication.

Plagiarism policies Authors are encouraged to prepare their manuscripts avoiding plagiarism. The suspected contents will be checked by plagiarism checking software and if the content is not acceptable, the article will be rejected. Minor issues will be communicated to the authors and will be advised to submit the revised content avoiding plagiarism.

Corresponding Author The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Declaration A declaration should be submitted stating that the manuscript represents valid and original work, and has not been submitted simultaneously to another Journal, has not been accepted for publication elsewhere and has not already been published.

Disclaimer
The statements or opinions or ideas expressed in the Journal are the personal views of authors and do not represent the official views of JNHSN editorial board.

Citation
The citations are identified by Arabic numerals in superscript immediately after punctuation without word spacing). Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer.1(NOT: Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer 1.)

The number must be used even if the author(s) is named in the text and citation should be done immediately after the family name of the author. Example: In his study, Poudel11 found that….

New sources are numbered consecutively as they occur in the text. If a source is repeated, so is the number originally assigned to it. When multiple references are cited at the same place in the text, use commas without spaces to separate non-inclusive numbers.

Example: Several studies have indicated….1,3,9,16

If multiple references cited at the same place in the text are inclusive, use a hyphen to join the first and last numbers.

Example: Several studies have indicated that….7-10

References

1. Number the references by Arabic numerals in superscript consecutively in the order of their appearance in the text, tables or figures.
2. Include the last names and initials of the authors, the title of the article, name of publication, year published, volume number, and inclusive pages.
3. References should be at the end of the manuscript.
4. List all authors when six or less; when seven or more, list only first six and add et al.
5. Use one space only between words up to the year and then no spaces.
6. References should include DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and PMID (PubMed ID) if they have one.

The style and punctuation of the references should conform to the following examples.

Journal article: Print
Tamrakar N, Gurung B, Regmi R. Utilization of Medical abortion services in comprehensive abortion care clinic in Western Regional Hospital Kaski. Journal of Nursing Association of Nepal. 2016; 3(3)

Sharma S, Gharti K. Preoperative Anxiety and Social Support among Patients undergoing Surgery. Janapriya Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2019;8:149-59. https://doi.org/10.3126/jjis.v8i0.27314

Journal article: online/electronic
Lawot I, Tamrakar A, Sharma S. Outcomes of Pregnancy Among Teenage Mothers: Hospital Based Study in Western Region of Nepal. ISOR-JNHS. 2018;7(2):47-51. DOI: 10.9790/1959-0702014751

Poudel A, Sharma C, Gautam S, Poudel A. Psychosocial problems among individuals with substance use disorders in drug rehabilitation centers, Nepal. Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy. 2016 Dec;11(1):1-0. DOI: 10.1186/s13011-016-0072-3

Book: Print
Smeltzer SC, Bare BG. Brunner & Suddarth's textbook of medical-surgical nursing. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott; 1992 Jan.

Book: online/electronic
Hernon P, Hopper R, Leach MR, Saunders LL, Zhang J. E-book use by students: Undergraduates in economics, literature, and nursing. The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 2007 Jan 1;33(1):3-13.

For other types of references such as electronic media, newspaper items, etc. please refer to ICMJE guidelines (http://www.icmje.org or http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html)

Responsibilities of Editors

• The Editorial team and editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, editorial advisors, and the publisher, as appropriate.
• Editors are responsible for the selection, editing and review processes not for the content and ideas expressed in the articles and any form of ethical and other disputes emerged from that article published in the journal
• Editors prepare author and reviewer guidelines for manuscript preparation and submission.
• Editors collect the submitted articles and check whether the article is reviewable (preliminary check)
• Editors ensure the elements of author’s identity are not present in the article so that it can be processed for double blind review process.
• Editors will select the two appropriate reviewers, approach them, request for review of an article, send them and follow up for the written review, collect the review.
• If reviews from two reviewers contradict (such as regarding the whole article confirm rejection and confirm acceptation, or any section of the article), editors send the article to the third reviewer.
• Even if the reviewers have positive recommendations to the article but the editors find some serious issue in the article, the editors can reject the article at the final stage
• Editors have right to decide whether to follow the reviewers suggestions as it is, or which reviewers suggestion to follow.
• Editors can pass the selected or edited suggestions to the author in case there are contradicting suggestions from the reviewers
• Editors will ask the authors to revise their articles addressing the reviewer’s comments
• Editors will send the revised articles to the reviewers to know whether the comments are addressed and the reviewers are satisfied (in case the editors have given different suggestions from the reviewer, they need to be informed and need to agree)
• Editors will edit the article for press copy after getting positive suggestions from the reviewers on the revised articles. Otherwise, the process will be repeated.
• Editors will final check the documents related to copyright transfer and ethical issues before publication.
• Unpublished work disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editorial team members for their own research purposes without the author’s explicit written consent.
• Editorial team should not be involved in editorial decisions on their own work. If any member of editorial team contributes his/her papers, these papers will be reviewed by those reviewers outside the journal team.

Responsibilities of Reviewers

• The peer review process assists the Editorial team in taking editorial decisions and may also serve the author in improving the paper.
• Any selected reviewer/referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editors and withdraw from the review process.
• Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the Editors.
• Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting comments.
• Reviewers should identify cases in which relevant published work referred to in the paper has not been cited in the reference section. They should point out whether observations derived from other publications are accompanied by the respective source. Reviewers should notify the Editorial team for any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
• Ideas or privileged information obtained through paper review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers.

Responsibilities of Authors

• Author should declare that the paper is his/her original work and has not been published elsewhere.
• Authors are requested to declare the funding source if any.
• Authors should provide their name and family name, affiliated institution, complete postal address of each affiliation and email address of each author.
• Authors must provide raw data in connection with an article for editorial review if needed.
• When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the editorial team and cooperate to retract or correct the paper.