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General Guidelines

Reference Style: HSRT uses American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Edition for formatting and referencing manuscripts. Manuscripts not adhering to these guidelines will not be considered for editorial review and will be desk-rejected. Please ensure that your manuscript adheres to APA 7th edition.

Title Page: The title page should contain information about the manuscript type, study title, authors’ name, affiliation, corresponding author, a conflict of interest statement, funding statement, and any other disclosures and acknowledgments. We do not require authors to provide the names of their degrees and qualifications on the title page.

Each research and non-research manuscript should include a structured abstract of 200-300 words and up to 5 keywords. Please see the guidelines of your manuscript type for organizing your abstract. Immediately after the title page, provide two bullet points in simple language under the following headings.

“Contribution for Interdisciplinary Audience in Health, Nursing, and Clinical Sciences”

“Take Home Message for Non-Specialists”

Tweetable Abstract (Optional): The authors can also provide a 20-30 word tweetable abstract outlining the take-home or key messages of their paper for social media promotions.

Ethical Approval: Reports of original research must clearly state the name of the ethics committee and/or board and the approval number. If deemed necessary, an ethical approval letter might be requested for review by the editors.

Predatory Publications: Please beware of predatory publishers and journals and do not cite sources from these journals. During editorial and peer review, citations from possibly predatory journals will be questioned and removed, resulting in substantial revisions of the manuscript

Publication Ethics: HSRT considers plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification, duplicate publications, copyright infringement, authorship conflicts, and ethical breaches of participant confidentiality as serious academic offenses. The cases are addressed in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/)

Cover Letter: Cover letters are not mandatory and can be provided at the authors’ discretion. However, always provide a cover letter if the manuscript has been drawn from a previously published study, explain how the submitted manuscript is different from the previously published manuscript, and add the reference to the published article in the cover letter.

In addition to the specific guidelines for each type of research manuscript, use the following checklists for reporting relevant studies. These checklists can be downloaded from https://www.equator-network.org/

CONSORT checklist for reports of randomized trials and cluster randomized trials.

TREND checklist for non-randomised controlled trials.

STROBE checklist for observational research.

COREQ checklist for qualitative studies.

SQUIRE checklist for quality improvement.

TRIPOD checklist for prediction model development and/or validation.

PRISMA checklist for reporting systematic review and meta-analysis.

Departments

The manuscripts published in HSRT are organized under four departments namely Clinical Sciences, Nursing Science, Methodological Insights, and Theoretical Perspectives.

The Clinical Sciences department includes manuscripts focused on healthcare practice and medicine in relation to direct clinical practice. This section only includes papers about different aspects of clinical practice such as care and disease management in clinical settings and patient outcomes and responses to clinical care.

The Nursing Science department publishes papers strictly about any aspects of the nursing profession and nursing knowledge development pertaining to practice, education, research, and policymaking.

Methodological Insights is devoted to publishing papers that advance the knowledge about research methods, methods of data collection, analysis, and interpretation and ways of operationalizing and conducting research in health sciences.

Theoretical perspectives are well-developed theoretical and argumentative papers about any aspect of health science and nursing. These papers should go beyond describing a theory or a model and focus on its application in clinical practice. The application to clinical practice can be presented as a single paragraph within the discussion section of the manuscript.

Manuscript Types Considered

HSRT considers the following type of manuscripts.

• Original research (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods).

• All types of literature reviews.

• Theory and scale development papers.

• Discussion papers (Also include research methods papers).

• Opinion pieces/short communication (published as guest editorials).

Manuscript types not considered for review or publication

• Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) surveys about health care professionals are not considered unless they are focused on contemporary issues.

• Concept analyses

• Case studies except when a mixed methods case study approach is used. Present mixed methods case studies in accordance with the guidelines of mixed methods.

• Translation of instruments