THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL NURSING CONFERENCE

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHOR (GFA)

Condition of Approval
To maintain the high standards of editorial in journal, articles are only published if they pass
Editorial Process:
Are not promotional in any way, including relating to a product(s) and/or a company (ies),
are new, timely and relevant to the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
For submitted manuscripts, it is the responsibility of the author(s) to demonstrate novelty or a
new approach taken in his research. The references should reflect the most recent relevant
articles, and the discussion should compare the author’s findings with the results of former
investigations. For an experimental work, the data have to be determined and classified in a
suitable way, problems must be formulated in view of the data, hypotheses should be
suggested an/or the author should give possible explanations for any inconsistencies.
If possible, the author(s) should perform mathematical or statistical calculations, fit the
curves appropriate, and carry out the experiments under controlled conditions. Studies
involving animals or human volunteers must include details of ethical approval.
Paper copy submissions are no longer acceptable. Articles are considered for publication
depending on their value and relevance and with the understanding that they have not been
published previously and are submitted exclusively to the journal. All manuscripts are subject
to experts review. Additional corrections may be done by the editors.
How to Prepare Your Manuscript?
Word Processing Formats - Preferred formats for the text and tables of your manuscript are
Word DOC. The text should be double-spaced throughout with standard 1 inch margins (2.54
cm). Text should be standard font (i.e., Times New Roman) 12 point.
Title – The title should describe the summary of the research (concise, informative, no
abbreviations, and a maximum of 15 words).
The authorship of articles should be limited to those who have contributed sufficiently to take
on a level of public responsibility for the content. Provided should be full names of authors
(without academic title); author’s affiliation [name(s) of department(s) and institution(s)]; the
corresponding author’s name, mailing address, telephone, and fax numbers, and e-mail
address. The corresponding author is the person responsible for any correspondence during
the publication process and post-publication.
Abstract
The Abstract should concisely state the problems, approach, findings, and implications of the
work in 250 words maximum and use the following headings: Introduction, Methods, Results
and Conclusions.
 Introduction: State the background or problems to be addressed and the study aims.
 Methods: Describe the research design, settings (please do not mention the actual
location, but use geographic type or number if necessary); Participants (details of how
the study population was selected, inclusion and exclusion criteria, numbers entering and
leaving the study, and any relevant clinical and demographic characteristics).
 Results: Report the main outcome(s) or findings including levels of statistical
significance and confidence intervals where relevant.
 Conclusions: Provide conclusions that are relevant to the study aims, hypothesis and
 practical implications.
Keywords: Add minimum 3 and maximum 5 keywords or phrases separated by
semicolons (;) for use in indexing this paper; avoid general and plural terms and multiple
concepts; the keywords should be referring to https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/search where
relevant.
 Full-Text
We encourage authors to write the full-text manuscript in no more than 3,000 words, excluding
the abstract, tables/figures, and references. The full-text must be blinded for double- blind
peer-review purpose; do not include any author identifying information in your manuscript,
including author’s own citations. The text sections should be structured as follows:
 Introduction: It should explain the problems, scale, chronology and state of the arts
of the study. Please be noted that the last paragraph of the introduction should include
the aims or purpose of study.
 Methods: It should clearly explain the research procedure conducted including, but
not limited to, study design; population, sample size, and sampling; instruments;
intervention procedure (where relevant); data analysis; and ethical clearance.
 Results: It should report the main outcome(s) or findings including levels of
statistical significance and confidence intervals where relevant.
 Discussion: The discussion should explain the findings and discuss it with the facts,
theory and the authors’ opinion. The discussion should also explain the limitation of
the study.
 Conclusions: It should provide conclusions that are relevant to the study aims and
hypothesis. Please also give brief explanation about the practical implications and
recommendation for further research.
Footnotes are not advisable; their contents should be incorporated into the text. Use only standard
abbreviations; the use of nonstandard abbreviations can be confusing to readers. Avoid
abbreviations in the title of the manuscript. The spelled-out abbreviation followed by the
abbreviation in parenthesis should be used on the first mention unless the abbreviation is a
standard unit of measurement. If a sentence begins with a number, it should be spelled out.
Acknowledgment (Optional)
Acknowledgments should be limited to the appropriate professionals who contributed to the
paper, including technical help and financial or material support, as well as any general
support by a department chairperson.
Declaration of Conflicting Interests
Please ensure that a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ statement is included at the end of your
manuscript, after any acknowledgments and prior to the references. If no conflict exists,
please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’.
Tables and Figures
Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals; and any captions should be brief, clearly
indicating the purpose or content of each table. If your manuscript includes more than five
tables in total, or for very large tables, these can be submitted as Supplementary Data and will
be included in the online version of your article.
Please do not:
1. Supply file that are optimized for screen use (e.g., GIF, BMP, PITC, WPG); These
typically have a low number of pixels and limited set of colors.
2. Supply files that are too low in resolution.
3. Tables with picture are not permited; table must be editable.
Reference
The author-year notation system is required and completed. All reference mentioned should
be written down in reference using Harvard Cite Them Right 10th Edition style and arranged
from A to Z. Articles have minimal 20 recent references (last 10 years) and 80% are from
journal or main references. References from journal publication should be provided by DOI.
All cited references must be mentioned in in-text citation and using Mendeley. Please
download the reference style here.