For Contributors

All submissions to the Japanese Society of Nursing Science are accepted through the electronic submission system, ScholarOne ManuscriptsTM.

When submitting your contribution, please use the "rules for submissionand "Online Submission ManualPlease refer to the "Electronic Submission and Peer Review System" and click on the link below to proceed to the Electronic Submission and Peer Review System page to submit your paper.

In addition, we ask that you please submit a copy of your contribution to theThesis ChecklistPlease note that the submission of the "Application Form" is mandatory, so please be prepared to submit it beforehand.

The journal has made major revisions to its submission rules and peer review guidelines effective December 1, 2022, and will accept submissions under the old submission rules until January 31, 2023. In addition, revised submissions of papers submitted under the old submission rules may be submitted either under the old rules or under the new rules. However, as a general rule, the electronic submission system requires submission based on the new rules. After December 1, 2022, the review process will, in principle, be based on the new peer review guidelines.

For frequently asked questions, please contact us,Submitted Papers Q&Afor more information.

Document Download & Paper Submission

• rules for submission(Amended on December 6, 2024)
• Explanation of Major Amendments to the Submission Rules and Regulations (Amended May 21, 2024)
• Online Submission Manual
• Thesis Checklist(Partially amended on May 21, 2024)
• Peer Review Guidelines(Amended on December 1, 2022)
• Explanation of Major Amendments to the Peer Review Guidelines (Revised December 1, 2022)
• From Submission to Publication
• Guidelines for the Prevention of Misconduct in Research Paper Submission
• Expedited Peer Review Application Form

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Rules for Submission to the Journal of the Japan Academy of Nursing Science

Amended on December 6, 2024

1. purpose of this journal

The Journal of the Japan Academy of Nursing is an academic journal that disseminates research and scholarly efforts that contribute to the development of nursing science in Japan. By publicizing excellent nursing research that contributes to people's health to society, the journal aims to lead the development of nursing science and contribute to people's health and welfare through the exchange of nursing knowledge.

2. eligibility of contributors

The first author must be a regular member of the Society. The first author does not need to be a member of the Society, but a paper including a non-member as a co-author must be paid the publication fee after the acceptance of the paper. However, this does not apply to manuscripts requested by the Editorial Board of the Japanese Journal of Nursing Science (hereinafter referred to as the "Editorial Board"). However, this does not apply to manuscripts requested by the Editorial Board of the Japanese Journal of Nursing Science (hereinafter referred to as "Editorial Board").

Authorship is defined as follows in accordance with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) "Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scientific Research for Publication in Medical Journals. Authorship is not granted to those who have obtained funding, collected data, or provided only partial advice to the research group.

(1) Made a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the study, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the study data.
(2) Drafted or made significant revisions to the key findings.
(3) Final approval was given to the manuscript prior to publication.
(4) You agree to take responsibility for all aspects of the research and to properly investigate and resolve any doubts about the accuracy or integrity of the paper should they arise.

3. type of manuscript

The types of manuscripts are Reviews, Original Articles, Materials, and Others, and the contents are as follows.

Original paper]
Research papers that contribute to the development of knowledge in nursing science and that logically describe the findings and implications for practice. High-quality case reports (case studies) and case studies should also be included. The word limit for original research papers is 12,000 characters or less (not including abstracts, references, figures and tables).

Review]
A comprehensive overview and discussion of the academic status of a specific topic in nursing science, based on a multifaceted collection of internal and external knowledge and a review of the literature. It includes not only systematic reviews but also scoping reviews and conceptual analyses. The word limit for a review article is 12,000 words or less in the main text (not including abstracts, references, figures, and tables).

[Materials
The following are the articles that provide some suggestions to the clinical and educational fields in the development of nursing science and have material value. For example, reports of practice, case reports (case studies), case studies, introductions of various activities, and writings or proposals on issues and topics related to nursing science that point out the future direction of the field. As a general rule, the length of the text should not exceed 12,000 words (not including abstracts, references, figures, and tables).

Other
Opinions on published articles (Letter to the editor), committee reports, manuscripts requested by the Board of Directors or the Editorial Board, etc. There is no limit on the number of words for other types of manuscripts.

Acceptance and rejection of manuscripts

(1) The date of receipt of a submitted manuscript is the date when the manuscript is submitted to the electronic submission system. (1) Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission rules of JSME may not be accepted.
(2) The acceptance or rejection of manuscripts will be decided by the Editorial Board after the review process. (2) The acceptance or rejection of the manuscript will be decided by the Editorial Board after the review process. The review will be conducted under a double-blind system (i.e., the name of the reviewer and the Editorial Board members in charge are not informed to the authors, and the authors of the paper are not informed to the Reviewing Committee members).
(3) After acceptance of the paper, the authors' names (in Japanese and English), institutional affiliations (in Japanese and English), contact information, and conflicts of interest should be clearly indicated, and the full text manuscript and figure/table files (MS-Word, MS-Excel, etc.) should be uploaded to the electronic submission system.
(4) The deadline for submission of revised manuscripts is one month from the notification of the review results. If the revised manuscript is not resubmitted after the deadline, it will be treated as withdrawn. However, if the submitter requests an extension of the deadline, it may be taken into consideration.
(5) The Editorial Board reserves the right to propose revisions to the manuscript or changes in the type of manuscript to the authors.

5. submission procedures

(1) Papers should be submitted through the electronic submission system "Scholar One Manuscripts TM".
(2) Enter the name(s) of author(s), institutional affiliation(s), acknowledgments, research grant, author qualifications, and additional information according to the electronic submission system, and upload the following documents to the electronic submission system. (3) Enter the information on conflict of interest and copyright transfer according to the e-mail sent after the submission is received.
(1) Manuscripts and figures
(2) Thesis checklist
(3) If you wish to request expedited review, the following documents must be uploaded to the electronic submission system.
(4) Application for expedited peer review
(5) Documents such as rules and guidelines for degree application, if necessary.

[Entry into the submission system
(1) The information entered on the electronic submission system screen, such as the names of authors, institutional affiliations, acknowledgements, and the authors' contributions, is not included in the main manuscript.
(2) The contributions of the authors should be described as follows: e.g., A and B contributed to the conception and design of the study. (e.g.) A and B contributed to the conception and design of the study; C performed statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript; D provided suggestions for the manuscript and advice on the overall research process. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. (A and B are not initials, but Japanese names.)
(3) If there are contributors other than the author(s) who have contributed to the research or the preparation of the paper (hereafter referred to as "contributors"), they may be acknowledged in the "Acknowledgments" section of the electronic submission system by writing a description of their contributions. Examples of persons who may be listed in the acknowledgments include those who provided purely technical assistance, assisted in the writing of the paper, or were responsible for the department.
(4) If there are any research grants received for conducting the research, enter them as research grants in the electronic submission system.
(5) If you have already presented your paper at a scientific meeting, or if you have made additions or revisions to your master's or doctoral thesis, enter them in the "Additional Notes" field on the electronic submission system screen.
<Example
Example: Part of the contents of this paper was presented at the XXth Annual Meeting of the ○○○○○ Society.
Example: This research is a master's (doctoral) thesis submitted to the Graduate School of XX University, XX, with additions and revisions.
Each author's contribution to the manuscript in the paper should be listed in the "Authorship" section of the electronic submission system.

6. expedited peer review

Expedited review will be given to papers that meet any of the following requirements and that are submitted for expedited review. Papers accepted for expedited review will, in principle, be notified of the review results within 30 days of the date of acceptance. The same applies to revised submissions. Expedited review does not mean that the paper is accepted for publication.
(1) The first author's submitted paper must have been published or accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal required at the time of application for the doctoral degree examination at the respective educational institution.
(2) The submitted paper must be based on a thesis that has been reviewed as a doctoral dissertation by the first author and is required to be published within one year after obtaining the doctoral degree according to Ordinance No. 5 of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2013.

(1) covers any thesis that is required for application for the doctoral degree. D. dissertation, including the main results and sub-thesis(s) of the dissertation (*). Institutions may accept more than one thesis and apply for more than one thesis.
Those who wish to apply for expedited review should enter this information in the electronic submission system and upload the necessary documents. The application for expedited review must be accompanied by an application form for expedited review (form is available). The application form must be signed by the supervisor of the doctoral dissertation. If necessary, attach documents such as rules and guidelines for degree application that certify that the requirements are met. No fee will be charged for expedited review.

In these rules, the terms "main thesis," "secondary thesis," "reference thesis," "related thesis," etc., refer to the thesis published in or accepted by a peer-reviewed journal required by each institution at the time of application for degree review. Since the titles and definitions of these terms vary from institution to institution, examples are given below.

Theses with content related to the dissertation
A thesis that does not need to be related to the dissertation but is required to be included to demonstrate the applicant's research ability in the applicant's area of specialization.

7. clinical trials

Clinical trials are registered in the Clinical Trial Registry Open System (UMIN-CTR (e.g., RCTs) will be enrolled. For randomized controlled trials (RCTs), follow the CONSORT statement.

8. change of author

After acceptance of a paper, no additions, deletions, or changes in the order of authors are permitted, except when authorized by the Editorial Board. When requesting the addition or deletion of an author, or a change in the order of authors, a signed request form must be submitted, indicating that all authors before and after the change have agreed to the change.

9. research ethics

(1) The content of the submitted paper must not have already been published or submitted to any other journal, whether national or international. Duplicate submissions are prohibited. However, reports of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research or other research grants, dissertations in institutional repositories, preprint servers, etc. that have been published in writing or on the Internet without being peer-reviewed are not considered journal publications.
(2) The research on which the article is based must be properly conducted in accordance with the "Code of Conduct for Scientists of the Japanese Society of Nursing Science.
(3) When conducting research involving human subjects, the World Medical AssociationHelsinki Declaration (wherein Hirohito renounced the imperial claim to divinity; Jan. 1, 1946)The research will be conducted in accordance with the "Ethical Guidelines for Life Sciences and Medical Research Involving Human Subjects" and other applicable domestic guidelines and laws.
(4) For research involving human or animal subjects, the ethical considerations should be described in the text. (4) For research involving human or animal subjects, the ethical considerations should be described in the text, particularly with respect to obtaining informed consent from the research subjects. (5) The research involving human or animal subjects should be described in the text, particularly with regard to obtaining informed consent from the research subjects, taking care not to identify facilities or individuals.
(5) For research that requires approval by an ethics review committee, the name of the ethics committee and the approval number should be written in the text in red letters. If your institution does not have an ethics committee, you may have your research reviewed by the Research Ethics Review Committee of the Japanese Society of Nursing Science.
(6) The Council of Surgical Societies of Japan has established the "Privacy Protection Policy for Case Reports" to protect the privacy of case reports and other information.Guidelines for Protecting Patient Privacy in Medical Papers and Conference Presentations, Including Case ReportsThe following is a brief description of the procedures to be followed.

In this journal, approval by the Ethics Review Committee is not required for the following items.
(1) In principle, ethics review is not required for case reports and case studies. However, they should follow the rules of the institution to which they belong.
(2) Only public information such as databases that are widely available to the public is used.
(3) Other items that do not fall under the "Ethical Guidelines for Life Sciences and Medical Research Involving Human Subjects".

10. conflict of interest

For all authors, conflicts of interest with companies, organizations, or groups related to the content of publications within the past one year from the time of submission should be entered according to the e-mail sent after the submission is received. If no conflicts of interest exist, the statement "No conflicts of interest in this study exist" should be made after acceptance of the paper.

*Conflict of interest: A situation in which a third party may express concern that fair and proper judgment required in public research is impaired or impaired due to financial interests with external parties. Guidelines for the Management of Conflict of Interest (COI) in MHLW Scientific Research" (March 31, 2008, KAKENHI 0331001)

11. copyright

The copyright belongs to JSME and the paper may not be published in any other journal without the permission of JSME. Please enter your consent to the transfer of copyright as provided by the Editorial Board in the e-mail sent after the submission is received.

12. Manuscript Writing

How to write a manuscript.
(1) Manuscripts should be written in Japanese.
(2) The manuscript should consist of the title of the paper (in Japanese and English), a Japanese abstract (400 characters), an English abstract (250 words), key words (no more than 5 words in Japanese and 5 words in English), text, references, figures and tables, and appendices, in that order. words), keywords (no more than 5 words each in Japanese and English), text, references, figures, tables, and appendices in this order. The position of figures, tables, and appendices should be indicated in the text. The number of figures and tables should not exceed six.
(3) Author names, institutional affiliations, acknowledgments, and author qualifications entered on the electronic submission system screen are not included in the main manuscript.
(4) An Appendix may be included in the manuscript. The number of words in the Appendix is not included in the number of words in the main text. Appendixes may include figures, tables, and explanations necessary for an accurate understanding of the research. The number of appendices should not exceed 10.
(5) If the paper has already been published on a pre-print server, please indicate this in the Appendix section of the electronic submission system.
(6) In principle, the document should be written in MS-Word using a standard font (MS Mincho, MS Gothic, etc.).
(7) Page numbers should be inserted and line numbers should be added consecutively to the manuscript.
(8) Manuscripts should be written horizontally in A4 size, with no more than 40 characters per line and no more than 36 lines per page, with appropriate line spacing.
(9) The manuscript file should be divided into the text (including references), figures (including photographs), and tables. (10) Before submitting the manuscript, make sure to check the text in the file for garbled characters and the clarity of the images.
(10) When citing your own work, do not use the words "author" or "authors," but clearly state your proper name, and clearly indicate this in the bibliography.
(11) As a rule, foreign words should be written in katakana, and names of foreigners and academic terms for which Japanese translations have not yet been established should be written in the original spelling of the printed form.
(12) Do not use MS-Word's review function to make changes or comments in the submitted file.
(13) Since the journal is peer-reviewed blindly, the names of authors should not be easily guessed in the text. However, the journal does not require the anonymization of the names of the institutions surveyed.
(14) In principle, abstracts should include the following items: purpose, methods, results, and conclusions, each of which should be briefly described.
(15) The English abstract must be consistent with the Japanese abstract and must be checked by a native speaker.
(16) Revised manuscripts should be underlined where corrections have been made based on the reviewers' suggestions.

13. literature

(1) For references, the name of the author(s) and the year of publication should be indicated in parentheses in the text. (2) When a [translation] is cited in the text, the name of the original author(s) (year of publication of the original/year of publication of the translation) should be indicated.
(2) References should be listed in alphabetical order of authors' names. (2) The references should be listed in alphabetical order of the author's name, except that up to three names of co-authors should be listed. (3) The names of foreign authors should be listed in the following manner: "Last name (full spelling), First name (initials). The names of foreign authors should be listed using the following format: "First name (full spelling), Last name (initials).
(3) Example: Benner, P., Orem, D. E. The method of describing references is as follows. As a general rulePublication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition).

［Journal Article]

Author's name (year of publication): Title of article, name of journal, issue or volume (number), first page number? Number of the last page
Japanese journal names follow the abbreviated title of Igaku Chuo Zasshi (Central Medical Journal), and international journal names follow the NLM Title Abbreviation of Index Medicus (U.S. National Library of Medicine). Japanese journal names follow the abbreviated title of the Japanese Journal of Medical Science (Medical Central Library of Japan). However, if the journal is not included in both databases, the full title of the journal should be used.

[monograph].
Author's name (year of publication): Book title (edition number), publisher's name, place of publication
Author's name (year of publication): Title of article, editor's name, book title (edition), page numbers, publisher's name, and place of publication.

［Translated by.]
Name of original author (year of publication of original book) / name of translator (year of publication of translated book): Title of translated book (edition number), publisher's name, place of publication
［Online version with no DOI.]
Author(s): Title of article, journal name, volume (issue), start page - end page, URL
［Online version with DOI]
Author(s): Title of article, journal name, volume (issue), start page - end page, doi: DOI number
［When citing content that is supposed to be updated sequentially, such as web pages]
The date of retrieval should be indicated in parentheses after the publication data.
For Web page
Site Name: Title, Retrieved from: http://・・・・. (Retrieved on: XXXX XX XX XX)

14. chart

(1) Figures, tables, and photographs should be numbered consecutively as Figure 1, Table 1, etc., with one item per page.
(2) For figures, upload original files in DOC(X), XLS(X), PPT(X), JPG, TIFF, GIF, AI, EPS and PSD formats.
(3) In principle, tables should be ruled horizontally and not vertically.

15. proofreading by author

Manuscripts accepted by the Editorial Board after peer review will be proofread once by the author(s). However, in principle, no additions or corrections by the author(s) other than those requested by the Editorial Board will be accepted during the proofreading.

16. expenses to be borne by the author

(1) Publication fee: If all co-authors are members of the society, the publication fee is free of charge. (2) Publication fee: If all co-authors are members of the Society, the publication fee will be free of charge. The publication fee is the number of non-members × 5,000 yen. The publication fee will not be refunded in any case.
(2) Reprint fee: The actual cost of all reprints shall be borne by the authors.
(3) Others: Any special printing costs for figures and tables, etc., should be borne by the author(s).

17. revision of regulations

Amendments to these Regulations shall be proposed by the Editorial Board and approved by the Board of Directors.

Supplementary Provisions
The amendments to these regulations shall come into effect on January 1, 1997.
The amendments to these regulations shall come into effect on April 1, 2000.
The amendments to these regulations shall go into effect on November 18, 2005.
The amendments to these regulations shall go into effect on February 11, 2010.
The amendments to these regulations shall go into effect on April 5, 2010.
The amendments to these regulations shall go into effect on October 23, 2011.
The amendments to these regulations shall go into effect on February 17, 2013.
The amendments to these Rules and Regulations shall come into effect on July 1, 2014.
The amendments to these regulations shall go into effect on January 1, 2016.
The amendments to these Rules and Regulations shall go into effect on February 21, 2016.
The amendments to these regulations shall go into effect on October 23, 2016.
The amendments to these Rules and Regulations shall go into effect on December 15, 2017.
The amendments to these regulations shall go into effect on February 18, 2008.
The amendments to these regulations shall go into effect on November 1, 2020.
The amendments to these regulations shall go into effect on December 1, 2022.
The amendments to these regulations shall go into effect on May 21, 2024.
The amendments to these regulations shall go into effect on December 6, 2024.