Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal
Policies
Contents
- Article Processing Charge
- Article Types
- Authorship Policy
- Digital Archiving
- Formatting Requirements
- General Submission Rules
- Open Access
- Peer-Review Policy
- Permissions
- Plagiarism
- Publishing Agreement
- Statements and Conventions
- Submission Requirements
- Who Can Submit?
Article Processing Charge
Upon acceptance of your manuscript, you will be charged a one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) of $250. The APC is charged to you or your funder, institution, or employer. This fee covers the cost of publication and ensures that your article will be freely available. Once the APC has been processed, your article will be prepared for publication and can appear online.
Article Types
Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal accepts research papers, empirical and theoretical articles, editorials, abstracts of recent dissertations, and conference summaries.
Authorship Policy
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Please refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information.
Digital Archiving
Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal participates in industry-standard discovery and preservation tools. Articles from the journal are placed in the world’s major library catalogs and databases (OCLC Worldcat, ProQuest’s Summon, Ex Libris’s Primo, and EBSCO Discovery). Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal is preserved in CLOCKSS and Portico, the two leading preservation archives that guarantee persistent access for the very long term. Articles also receive Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) from the CrossRef organization to ensure they can always be found.
General Submission Rules
Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal, please contact the editors.
Formatting Requirements
Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details. Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.
It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.
Obtaining English-Language Help for Your Submission
Authors who want to refine the use of English in their manuscripts might consider utilizing the services of a non-affiliated company that offers professional editing services to authors of journal articles in the areas of science, technology, medicine, or the social sciences.
Open Access
Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal is an Open Access publication; all articles are freely available online immediately upon publication. All articles are rigorously peer-reviewed, and brought to publication as rapidly as possible. Production costs are covered by Article Processing Charges paid by the author, institution, or funder upon acceptance of the manuscript (see below, Article Processing Charge). There is no charge for submitting a paper to Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal. For more information, please see Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal Aims and Scope page.
Peer-Review Policy
Following a preliminary evaluation to eliminate submissions unsuitable for Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal, all papers are sent out for review. To help the Editor, please include a cover letter indicating why you think the paper suitable for publication. The journal’s policy is to have manuscripts reviewed by two expert reviewers. Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal utilizes a double-blind peer-review process. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, while maintaining rigor. Reviewers make comments to the author and recommendations to the Editor who then makes the final decision.
Permissions
It is the authors responsibility to obtain permission from copyright holders for reproducing illustrations, tables, figures, or lengthy quotations. This includes copyright of the author's own material. Papers without correct permissions will not be published.
Plagiarism
The journal actively checks for plagiarism using Turnitin. The authors are not allowed to utilize verbatim text of previously published papers or manuscripts submitted elsewhere. We accept all terms and conditions of COPE about plagiarism.
Publishing Agreement
Articles in Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal are freely available under the
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).The Creative Commons Attribution License allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly cited. For more information, visit the Creative Commons licenses page.
Copyright is retained by the author(s). Where an author is prevented from being the copyright holder (i.e., U.S. government employees), the copyright line and license statement in individual articles will be adjusted. Please contact the editors during or immediately after submission of your paper.
Statements and Conventions
State Acknowledgments at the end of your article followed, appearing first, followed by your Declaration of Conflicting Interests and then Funding acknowledgments.
Acknowledgements
Those who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Examples of those who might not be listed as an author include a person who only provided technical assistance, writing assistance, general support.
Conflict of Interests
Within APIN's publishing agreement, you will be required to declare any conflicting interests. It is the journal's policy that all authors provide a statement declaring conflicting interests within the paginated pages of the published article. Please include declarations prior to the Reference section. If no declaration is made, then 'None Declared' will be listed following that heading. Alternatively, you may wish to state that 'The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest'. Please list any financial relationships between the author(s) and a sponsoring organization(s). An additional disclosure is needed for any involvement that might represent a conflict of interest. Please disclose this information in a letter to the Editor at the time of submission. The Editor will evaluate if sufficient disclosure has been made.
Funding Acknowledgment
To comply with the guidance for research funders, Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal requires that all authors acknowledge their funding. The funding agency should be written out in full, followed by the grant number in square brackets.
Other Acknowledgments
Research Ethics
All papers reporting the inclusion of animal or human subjects must provide in the paper whether written consent was obtained from the local Institutional Review Board or Ethics Committee or if no formal ethics committee is available, were in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. Provide the full name and institution of the review committee and an Ethics Committee reference number. If the study is exempt from requiring ethics approval, this should be detailed in the paper (including the full name and institution of the review committee that granted the exemption).
CONSORT and Trial Registration
All randomized controlled trials submitted for publication should include a completed Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) flow chart. Please refer to the CONSORT Checklist for more information.
Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal has adopted the proposal from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) which requires, as a condition of consideration for publication of clinical trials, registration in a public trials registry. Trials must register at or before the onset of patient enrollment. The clinical trial registration number should be included at the end of the abstract of the article. Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal uses the National Institutes of Health definition of a clinical trial: “A research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions (which may include placebo or other control) to evaluate the effects of those interventions on health-related biomedical or behavioral outcomes.” Visit the ICMJE website for more information.
Submission Requirements
Article Length
Manuscripts should be no more than 25 pages in length, including text, references, figures, and tables. Authors submitting manuscripts that exceed the page limit should send a query letter via email to the editor-in-chief explaining the need for additional length.
Reports of Empirical Studies
An introduction that provides a brief review of background material and clearly delineates the purpose of the study.
A materials and methods section that provides sufficient detail for qualified investigators to replicate the study. Reference to published procedures by appropriate and succinct summary with citation is encouraged but should not be used to replace adequate methodological description. The journal endorses the Helsinki and the U.S. National Institutes of Health “Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals”. It is an expectation that authors have conscientiously and consistently followed principles and practices in accord with these documents in experiments involving human subjects and experimental animals.
A results section that provides a clear and concise description of the findings with appropriate reference to illustrations and tables.
A discussion section that includes a summary of the main findings, their relation to other published work in the area, and a statement of their significance, including relevance to nursing practice.
Theoretical, Methodological, and Invited Papers
The papers should be organized in an appropriate, logical format for the material being addressed. Theoretical papers will be evaluated on their relevance to the focus of the journal, internal consistency, and the extent to which they contribute to advancement of knowledge of Asian/Pacific Island issues related to health and/or illness.
Integrative Reviews of Literature
Papers should address a focused, scientific question and display a logical organization. The criteria and search strategy used for selection of articles to include in the review should be made explicit. If appropriate, a figure linking concepts together or providing the framework for the content should be included.
Notes: Abbreviations should be introduced in parentheses after the first occurrence of the term being abbreviated.
Who Can Submit?
Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).
