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

Manuscripts must be original and must not be under consideration by another journal. Authors retain copyright of their work. Upon publication, articles are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), and any reuse must include appropriate attribution to the author(s) and the original publication (including the DOI where available). 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 disagreement, an additional adjudicator may be assigned and the final decision is made by the Editorial Committee. The names of the adjudicators remain strictly confidential.

Authors are informed of the editorial decision as soon as the review process is completed. Indicative timelines and decision stages are described on the Peer Review & Editorial Process page. Manuscripts may be returned to the authors for revision prior to publication. Deadlines for revisions are set by the Handling Editor depending on the extent of the requested changes; if a revision is not submitted within the specified timeframe and no extension is requested, the submission may be 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