(except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint), furthermore articles should not under consideration elsewhere.

Articles are considered approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the research was carried out.

Accepted articles must not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language.

Professioni Infermieristiche considers as unacceptable research misconduct such as falsification or fabrication of data, omitted information about data, plagiarism or not clearly declared conflict of interest.

World Association of Medical Editors define plagiarism as “the appropriation of the language, ideas or thoughts of another without crediting their true source and representation of them as one's own original work”.

Professioni Infermieristiche follows the policy of COPE and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) in dealing this problem and other cases of scientific misconduct. To verify originality, manuscript are checked by Editors with specific plagiarism software.