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Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Submission that has not been previously published, nor is submitted to another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file should be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Wherever available the URLs of the references should be provided.
  • The text should be is single-spaced; using a 12-point font; employing italics, rather than underlining (except for URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text should adhere to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal section.
  • If submitting to the peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review will be followed.

Author Guidelines

Health and Research Journal (HealthResJ) is published every three months and its main target is to provide continuous education and up-to-date findings to health professionals. Studies referring directly or indirectly to the health science are mainly published in this journal.

Specifically

Original (Research) studies. Original Articles are scientific reports of the results deriving from original clinical research, including experimental, retrospective or perspective studies which are conducted based on a research protocol.

Reviews. Interesting topics related to health sciences, of as many research studies as possible around a particular research problem/question. NOTE: The text of an original or a review study is limited to 15 typed pages, including an abstract, a maximum of 7 tables and figures total, and up to 40 references.

Articles-comments of the Editorial Board.

Interesting cases. They are accepted only under the conditions that they regard new treatments of nursing or medical problems and as long as a new methodology is followed as far as their treatment is concerned. They should always be accompanied by a summary in the English language consisting of approximately 250 words and 3 to 4 key words. The text of the study should be divided into Introduction, Description of the case(s), Conclusion. The bibliography should be concise and absolutely specific to the topic.

Letter towards the editorial. They include judgments on published articles, precursor results of researches critics on the journals, etc. They are published according to the judgments of the Editorial Committee and should be signed. They should not be of more than 500 words. 

Studies submission.

Studies submission should only regard unpublished work, (except for the abstract form) and hasn’t be simultaneously submitted to another publication. Accepted studies become the sole property of Health & Research Journal and must not be published elsewhere without consent from the Managing Editor. Texts are submitted through an online system at the following address: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/HealthResJ/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions  

Acceptance of studies

Every submitted study is judged by at least two (2) adjudicators, who are not members of the Editorial Committee of the Journal. In case of a disagreement, a new adjudicator is being assigned and the final decision is made by the Editorial Committee. The names of the adjudicators remain strictly confidential. The authors are informed within 4 weeks about the acceptance of the study. Usually, a study is returned to the authors for modification before the publication. The modified study should be resent to the Journal within 3 weeks, otherwise it is considered withdrawn.

Health and Research Journal accepts manuscripts prepared in accordance with the requirements of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, as updated in April 2020.

 

All manuscripts should have the following structure:

The first page should include the following order:

Article’s Title. The title should be concise and informative using terms that can be readily indexed. The subtitle (if there is one) can be also written.

Authors’ Names. The author's full name (surname, first name). The Surname and First name of each author should be followed by the superscript and a comma which will separate each author. The superscript declares the current position of each author (the name of the department and the institution they are employed to) and should be written in the next paragraph after the end of the authors. For example: Maria Papadopoulou1, Helen Kanellou 2,

RN, MSc, place of work

RN, place of work

If two authors are of the same work level then the number of the superscript is the same for both of them.

Abstract. The abstract should include no more than 250 words, divided into the following subheadings: Background, Method and Material, Results and Conclusions. Avoid abbreviations and reference citations in the abstract.

Key words. Below the abstract, the authors should provide 3 to 5 keywords which assist in cross-indexing the article.

Corresponding author. All necessary authors’ contact information (name, address, phone number, e-mail) should be provided to the Journal Editorial Committee.

In the second page begins the text of the article.

If the article is a research study, it should follow the structure: Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Tables and References.

If the article is a review or any other study, other descriptive headings and subheadings can be used. All review articles undergo the same editorial process as original research reports.

Cite all tables and figures in the text, numbering them sequentially and place them before references in the same order as they appear in the text, using numbers (Table 1, Table 2) followed by a brief title before each table.

If you cite a picture which has been published elsewhere, then the source of origin and written permit of the editor who has the exclusive right of republishing it should be noted. In case there are pictures of people, they should either be accompanied by a written permit of using the pictures in their original form, or otherwise no faces must be discernible. The pictures must not be bigger than the dimensions of the pages of the Journal (width 17 cm height 24.5 cm).

References. The Vancouver Citation System should be used, which means that references are written at the end of the manuscript and their numbering should be according to the sequence mentioned in the text.

For more information about the way references should be written, consult the National Library of Medicine's on-line guide

 

Copyright Notice

A) OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The journal "Health and Research Journal", follows an open access policy both for submission and accessing of articles.

Specifically:

  1. The Journal doesn’t claim financial or any other kind of gain from the article’s authors, neither for the submission to the journal for publication, nor for the revision and modification when peer reviewed.
  2. The Journal doesn’t claim any financial or any other kind of gain by articles' authors or by journal readers, for reading or downloading any article.
  3. The Journal reserves the right for the content and format of the printed article. If to be used, it should not be altered, preserving the form, logo, layout and text as it is. The original version of the article provided by the journal, is posted on its website with free access. (See also section C. Copyright Policy).

[The aforementioned apply equally for everyone and there isn’t any differentiation, restriction or other specific condition.]
For any additional questions on the subject, readers should feel free to contact the editorial team of the journal by sending an email to the publication.

B) SELF-ARCHIVING POLICY
Health and Research Journal allows self-archiving of articles by the author or authors, under the following terms.

The journal allows:

  1. The free self-archiving from the author, of a pre-printed article, at any stage of the preparation without any limitations. As pre-printed, we consider the work that the author has not submitted yet to the journal and that certainly has not yet been peer reviewed.
  2. The free self-archiving from the author, of the final, pre-printed article, that has been corrected and reviewed from the journal, with the expressed obligation to indicate that the article will be published by the journal "Health and Research Journal" and that it has been reviewed (or it is currently reviewed) by the journal's peer review process.
  3. The free self-archiving from the author, of the final, printed article that has been published in the journal "Health and Research Journal" with the expressed obligation to use only the printed pdf version of the journal (exact copy), that has the same logo, format and layout, as it is shared freely by the journal.

For more information on self-archiving policy, please contact the following link: OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook)

You can also ask more on the subject, to the editorial team of the journal, by sending an email to the publication.

C) COPYRIGHT POLICY
The journal "Health and Research Journal" reserves the rights of copyright for the content of the website and also the copyright for the articles published.

Specifically:

  1. Does not allow any redistribution of part or the whole content of the journal's website, if the original source is not explicitly stated.
  2. Does not allow the usage of journal's direct links to the pdf files (printed articles), if the original source is not explicitly stated (necessarily the name of the journal and optionally: year, volume, issue, pages) by a third party.
  3. All the members of the editorial board accept and comply with the national and international laws regarding copyrighted material, plagiarism and text-piracy, both for the content of the journal's website and for the content of the published articles.

You can also ask more on the subject, to the editorial team of the journal, by sending email to the publication.

D) PLAGIARISM POLICY
"Health and Research Journal" reserves the right for detecting plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author’s own work, in whole or in part without proper citation, either with the use of special software or manually, at any stage before publication. For published articles by the journal, originality may also be checked after specific private complaint.

In case of plagiarism detection:

  1. If the percentage of the manuscript's plagiarism is below 25%, the journal will contact and inform the author, asking for further revision and resubmission.
  2. If the percentage of the manuscript's plagiarism is over 25%, the journal will contact and inform the author about the rejection of the article, without editorial review. Author is then advised to fully revise the manuscript before its new submission.

 

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