Conflict of interest

Professioni infermieristiche follow guidelines of International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, 

In order to carry out an unbiased and anonymous process, reviewers should consider any potential conflict of interest before agreeing to referee and should contact the editorial office to declare any potential conflict of interest in the following instances:

• direct competition with the authors;
• being co-worker or collaborator with one of the authors;
• being able to exploit authors’ work (commercially or otherwise);
• being unable to give an objective opinion of the work.

Reviewers’ report is sent to authors along with the decision letter. Reviewers’ report is generally given as it arrived. Amendments will only be made in some case for greater clarity.

Reviewers names are kept strictly confidential; their identities may only be disclosed to Editorial Board members, who will maintain confidentiality. We also ask that reviewers do not otherwise disclose their identity to authors or discuss the paper they have reviewed with colleagues unless published.

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could influence their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interest do not necessarily preclude publication.

If there is no conflict of interest, please state, "The authors declare no conflict of interest". Any role of the funding sponsors in the design of the study, in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data, in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section. If there is no role, please state, “The founding sponsors had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results”.

As part of the online submission process, corresponding authors are required to confirm whether they or their co-authors have any conflicts of interest to declare, and to provide details of these. If there is no conflict of interest, please state, "The authors declare no conflict of interest".

 If the Corresponding author is unable to confirm this information on behalf of all co-authors, the authors in question will then be required to submit a completed  form to the Editorial Office. It is the Corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that all authors adhere to this policy. 

If the article is published, Conflict of Interest information, including if none was declared, will be communicated in a statement in the published paper. 

General peer review procedure

The decision to publish a paper is based on an editorial assessment and peer review. Initially all papers are assessed by an editorial committee consisting of one or more members of the editorial team.

The procedure is the follow

• The article is evaluated in order to decide whether to send a paper for peer review.
1. Papers which do not meet basic standards (the papers does not follow journals’ authors guidelines such as referencing style, incorrect word count and so on) or are unlikely to be published irrespective of a positive peer review, (i.e. not relevant/nothing new is added by the article under submission), may be rejected at this point in order to avoid delays to authors who may wish to seek publication elsewhere;
2. Occasionally a paper will be returned to the author with requests for revisions in order to assist editors in deciding whether or not send it out for review.

Authors can expect a decision from this stage of the review process within 1 week.

• Article which are worth to be reviewed by reviewers, undergo to a double blind peer review by an Associate Editor or two or more reviewers.

Authors can expect a decision from this stage of the review process within 8 weeks.

• After this process possible decisions are: rejected, major revisions, minor revisions, accepted for publications. After the minor revisions, the paper is generally accepted for publication after corrections are made, while after major revisions, the paper can be accepted or rejected after authors’ revisions. The entire process is managed online by the submission management system: www.profinf.net.
• Furthermore, during the process the article may be evaluated in statistical and language terms.

The Editors in Chief collegially reserve the right to the final acceptance

 

Authors should carefully read and follow the procedure as below.

Professioni Infermieristiche publishes:

• Research Article: texts which report the results of a study (quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods approach or with other design research – action and historical research), carried out within nursing context or of interest of nursing science.

 

• Case Reports and Case Studies: analysis or discussion of nursing case which can be interesting as starting point of future research/ discussion
• Theoretical papers: texts which develop, review, adapt or discuss, nursing theories, theoretical models and concepts, or which reflect on nursing philosophy, ethics and theory
• Methodological articles: texts which discuss the development, application of tools or methodologies within different nursing settings;
• Research protocols: protocols which describe the development of a study already approved by ethical committee and registered in the appropriate web site (i.e. clinicaltrial.gov);
• Review: Short  reviews,  scoping  reviews,  literature  reviews,  systematic  reviews,  meta  – synthesis reviews, overview and umbrella reviews;

 

The submission must be uploaded in 3 separate files.

1. A title page with title (Italian and English), authors, affiliation, corresponding author, type of article (i.e. Research Articles, Reviews)

• Title. Title should be no more than two typeset lines and should be comprehensible to a international scientific audience.

 

• Author Affiliations. Include highest academic title, role, department, institution, for each author. Authors are encouraged to supply their ORCID ID at submission.

 

• Corresponding Author. Name, affiliations, complete address, phone and email address of the author to whom correspondence and proofs should be sent. This data will appear in the article footnotes.

 

Furthemore, in this files, it must be clearly stated:

 

• That the manuscript is not submitted elsewhere and is original.
• Each author contribution.

Professioni Infermieristiche would appreciate to have a clear statement about the appropriateness of the submission with the mission/interest of the journal/readers and about the novelty of the paper.

1. Manuscript main document. This file must include:

• Abstract in Italian (400 words) and English (250 words), please state total word count for abstract. Where available, abstract should be structured and submitted following the IMRaD format.
• Keywords: abstracts should be followed by a maximum of 6 key words preferably expressed as MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms.
• Manuscript. All manuscripts must be in Italian or English and fit within the aim and scope of Professioni Infermieristiche and submittet in MS Format, with a font size (Times New Roman 12) and should be follow a common format, as article should be developed. Manuscripts must be no more of 6000 words in length (excluded abstract, reference and tables). Editors will approve exceptions. Please state total word count for the body of the manuscript.

1. Tables.

Tables, graphs, picture (a maximum of 6 tables/graphs for article). Tables should containing only essential data, each figure should have a legend and all legends should be numbered in Arabic numbers. Original spreadsheet data should be provided along with graphs. Figure, Graph and Pictures in JPG or TIFF format should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi (halftone) or 600 to 1200 dpi (line drawings) in relation to the reproduction size). If all or parts of previously published illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned. No supplementary tables or graphs are admitted.

 

Professioni infermieristiche follows APA Style as referencing style. Authors should be aware that article with wrong referencing style will be not take into consideration. For more information about APA referencing style, please refer to the APA FAQ.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through www.profinf.net. After login, as author, the web site platform lead the submission process. At the end of the process an email will be automatically sent. Authors can follow the review process through the web system.  In the case of extreme difficulties encountered when submitting online, manuscripts can be  send by mail: info@profinf.net