Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
- AUTHOR GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Editorial Requirements for Manuscript Structure, Formatting, and Submission Package
Manuscripts submitted for publication must be written in Ukrainian or English, presenting original research findings as well as discussions of key scientific challenges and research outcomes in the fields of nursing and medicine. The scholarly and practical journal is published quarterly (four issues per year).
FILE 1. TITLE PAGE
The title page must include author details and metadata in both Ukrainian and English, along with essential statements: Authors’ Contributions, Conflict of Interest, Declaration on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Adherence to Bioethical Principles, Sources of Funding, and Acknowledgements (if applicable).
1.1. Author Information
For each co-author, please provide:
- Full name (first name and surname in full, in Ukrainian and English).
- Academic degree and academic title.
- Position, full official name of the affiliated institution (workplace/study), city, and country (in Ukrainian and English).
- ORCID iD (mandatory, formatted as: https://orcid.org/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx).
- Email address for correspondence.
- Contact telephone number.
- Indication of the corresponding author.
- Article title (in Ukrainian and English).
- Field of science, specialty, and UDC index.
A concise description detailing the specific role of each co-author according to the CRediT taxonomy (conceptualization, methodology/study design, data curation, formal analysis, investigation, writing – original draft, writing – review and editing, supervision, final approval, etc.).
1.4. Conflict of Interest
An explicit statement declaring the presence or absence of any financial, personal, or other professional relationships that could inappropriately influence or bias the reported findings. If a conflict of interest exists, it must be described. (More details HERE)
1.5. Declaration on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies
A declaration disclosing the use of generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Grammarly, etc.) at any stage of manuscript preparation, specifying the tool used, along with the purpose and scope of its application (e.g., translation assistance, style editing, data analysis), or an explicit statement affirming that no AI technologies were utilized. (More details HERE)
1.6. Adherence to Bioethical Principles
For studies involving human participants or animals, provide confirmation of approval by an institutional bioethics committee/institutional review board (including the name of the institution, protocol number, and approval date), as well as written informed consent statements from participants. If the study is exempt from bioethical oversight, provide an explicit justification statement. (More details HERE)
1.7. Sources of Funding
Identification of any grants, funding programs, institutions, or organizations that supported the study, including relevant grant/project numbers, or an explicit statement declaring that the study received no external funding. (More details HERE)
1.8. Acknowledgements (if applicable)
Formal acknowledgement of individuals or institutions that contributed consultative, technical, or material assistance but do not meet the criteria for authorship.
FILE 2. MANUSCRIPT TEXT
Submissions must be strictly anonymized—free of author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or identifying details in the main text or document file metadata.
2.1. Manuscript Metadata:
- Article title (in Ukrainian and English).
- Field of science, specialty, and UDC index.
- Structured abstract in Ukrainian (250–300 words): Мета дослідження, Матеріали і методи, Результати, Висновки.
- Structured abstract in English (250–300 words): The aim of the study, Materials and methods, Results, Conclusions.
- Keywords: 5–8 terms/phrases in Ukrainian and English.
Recommended manuscript structure according to the IMRAD standard:
- Introduction (problem formulation, relevance, literature review of recent studies)
- The aim of the study
- Materials and methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Prospects for further research (if applicable)
- The bibliography must be formatted under the heading REFERENCES in accordance with international Vancouver style rules, cited sequentially in the text in numerical order of appearance (style details: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html).
- At least 50% of the cited literature should consist of publications from the past 5 years.
- Preference should be given to peer-reviewed sources indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, complete with active DOI hyperlinks.
- Reference tables and figures in the text sequentially in the order of their appearance.
- Tables must feature concise, informative titles. Duplicating the same data across both tables and figures is not permitted.
- All graphic elements (photographs, diagrams, charts, schematics, graphs) must be designated as figures.
- Charts, graphs, and mathematical formulas should be generated natively in Microsoft Word to allow editorial formatting.
- Photographs, ultrasound images, and high-resolution line art must be scanned at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi and saved in TIFF or JPEG format.
- Labels, symbols, and legends within figures must remain legible when scaled to journal column width.
- Explicit credit and permissions must accompany any previously published or adapted figures and tables.
Files must be submitted simultaneously via the journal's Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform (https://ojs.tdmu.edu.ua). Files must follow the standardized naming convention incorporating the primary author's surname:
Surname_Title.docxSurname_Article.docx
The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject submissions without full peer review if the manuscript:
- Fails to meet academic writing and styling standards;
- Lacks scientific novelty or practical relevance;
- Falls outside the journal’s aims and scope;
- Contains unedited text with significant grammatical or stylistic errors;
- Violates research publication ethics (including detected plagiarism).
Upon publication, open-access electronic versions of all articles are hosted on the journal platform at https://ojs.tdmu.edu.ua. The editorial staff reserves the right to copyedit, condense, and format accepted manuscripts. Authors bear sole responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of their citations and reference data.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following conditions:
- The authors retain the right to authorship of their work and transfer to the journal the right of first publication of this work under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows other persons to freely distribute the published work with a mandatory reference to the authors of the original work and the first publication of the work in this journal.
- The authors have the right to conclude independent additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work in the form in which it was published by this journal (for example, to place the work in the electronic repository of the institution or to publish it as part of a monograph), provided that the link to the first publication of the work in this journal is preserved.
Privacy Statement
The Editorial Board and editorial staff of the journal "Nursing" support a policy aimed at adhering to the principles of publishing ethics.
The names and email addresses provided by users of this journal's website will be used exclusively for the internal technical tasks of the journal; they will not be distributed or transferred to third parties. For more information on confidentiality, see the publishing ethics.
