AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Submission of the Manuscript

Submissions are only accepted which match the profile of the journal, have not been submitted
for print in another journal, and if the author (or team of authors) hold all copyrights for the
submitted manuscript. The author accepts full responsibility for the originality of the work, for
its scientific and formal accuracy. Redundant publication, the inappropriate division of study
outcomes into more than one article (salami slicing), may result in rejection or a request to
merge submitted manuscripts, and the correction of published articles. The journal does not
support duplicate publication - submitting the same study to two journals or publishing more or
less the same study in two journals. CEJNM does not accept articles that have been shared as
preprints.

The journal publishes: research papers (original research papers, research case study) and
reviews (reviews papers, reviews protocol) in the field of nursing and midwifery. All
submissions are peer-reviewed by two independent reviewers (double-blind).

Manuscripts, written in English, have to be submitted electronically using our Electronic

Submission System Actavia. In order to submit a manuscript, authors have to register with the
Actavia system as an Author first. Manuscript must be written in good and clear English, free
of grammatical and spelling mistakes.

The manuscript should be submitted in three separate files: 1. title page; 2. main text with tables
and figures; 3. checklist (research reporting guideline relevant for type of the manuscript).

1. Title page should contain:

• Title of the paper. The title should not contain abbreviations.
• The full name of the authors
• The author's institutional affiliations.
• Email addresses of all authors.
• Corresponding author´s contact address, email address and telephone number.
• Ethical aspects and Conflict of interest Statement
• Acknowledgements
• Author contributions
• ORCID

2. Main text file should contain

• Title
• Abstract
• Key words
• Text of the article according to the provided structure (Introduction, Aim, Methods,
Results, Discussion, Conclusion)
• References
• Tables, figures

Tables should be understandable without reference to the text. Tables should not duplicate
information contained in the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote
symbols: a, b, c, d, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values.

3. Checklist
The author selects the appropriate checklist form according to the type of article from the table
of Research Reporting Guidelines table (download from website “Author Guidelines”).
All files should be submitted as Word documents, other formats will not be accepted. The
names of authors should NOT be included on the main text file. Please follow the guidelines
required for anonymous peer review. Submissions will be registered with the date which they
are received in electronic form by the editor.

Ethical publishing principles

The Central European Journal of Nursing and Midwifery makes an effort ensuring the best
quality of published manuscripts from the field of nursing and midwifery through the double-
blind peer-review process. To ensure such quality the peer-review process has to be objective,
accurate and right minded – it has to be realized on the base of the ethical principles and ethical
decision making of authors, editors, reviewers and publisher. When reporting experiments on
patients or animals, please indicate whether the procedures followed were approved by your
local ethics committee and/or in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964, as revised
in 2013. The basic ethical principles of publishing in the journal are on the web site for
downloading.

Conflict of Interest
At the end of the text, under a subheading „Ethical aspects and conflict of interest“, all authors
must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that
could inappropriately influence their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include
employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent
applications/registrations, and grants or other funding.

Acknowledgements
Authors should mention all funding sources.

Author contributions
Each person who contributed to the manuscript should be listed. Any person who cannot be
shown to have made a substantial contribution to the article cannot be listed as an author in the
final version. A substantive contribution includes one or more of the following: conception and
design (AB, MR), data analysis and interpretation (MR, IP, LH), manuscript draft (AB), critical
revision of the manuscript (AB, MR, IP, LH), final approval of the manuscript (AB).

ORCID

The Central European Journal of Nursing and Midwifery requires the authors to provide an
ORCID iD (a persistant digital identifier) which distinguishes the author from every other
researchers.

Copyright and Licence

Prior to publication of the manuscript, the authors conclude a license to publish. Author(s)
contributing to Central European Journal of Nursing and Midwifery agree to publish their
articles under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-
 NC-4.0) license for non-comercial purpose. Lets others copy, distribute, display, perform, and
modify and use the creator’s work for any purpose other than commercially unless you get
permission first.

Manuscript Types Accepted

All submitted manuscripts should include the title of the manuscript written in capital letters,
and include a structured abstract in the range 150–200 words (aim, design, methods, results,
conclusion) five to eight key words, and the body of the text (3,000–5,000 words) using the
following structure:

Original papers – empirical study

• Introduction
• Aim
• Methods (Design, Sample, Data collection, Data analysis)
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• References (alphabetical order)
• Tables / figures

For quantitative studies are required inferential statistical data processing. Common techniques
of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics should be used to evaluate empirical data,
depending on the types of data and levels of measurement.

Review articles
• Introduction
• Aim/s
• Methods (Eligibility criteria, Search strategy, Study selection inc. PRISMA flow
diagram,Evaluation of quality of articles, Data extraction)
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• References (alphabetical order)
• Tables / figures

The manuscript should follow the PRISMA checklist and flow diagram.

Research Reporting Guidelines

We strongly encourage authors to comply with the reporting guidelines relevant to their
submissions. The table below provides information about guidelines for different study types.
All Checklists are available for download at the CEJNM website "Authors Guidelines"
Study type Name Source
Systematic reviews PRISMA https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-
guidelines/prisma/
Scoping/literature reviews PRISMA ScR https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-
guidelines/prisma-scr/
Randomized controlled trials CONSORT https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-
guidelines/consort/
Nonrandomized controlled trials
Observational studies
Qualitative studies
Qualitative studies – interview,
focus group
Quality improvement studies
Interventions studies
Describing and evaluating
training interventions in
healthcare professions
Case reports
TREND https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-
guidelines/improving-the-reporting-quality-of-
nonrandomized-evaluations-of-behavioral-and-
public-health-interventions-the-trend-statement/
STROBE https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-
guidelines/strobe/
SRQR https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-
guidelines/srqr/
COREQ https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-
guidelines/coreq/
SQUIRE https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-
guidelines/squire/
TIDieR https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-
guidelines/tidier/
CRe-DEPTH https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-
guidelines/criteria-for-describing-and-
evaluating-training-interventions-in-healthcare-
professions-cre-depth/
CARE https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-
guidelines/care/

Manuscript Format and Structure

Authors are responsibile for the originality of the work, its objective accuracy and formal
correctness. Manuscripts must be formated using Times New Roman font, size 12, in a normal
text style and be single spaced. Pages are not to be numbered. Bold or italicized writing is to be
used as little as possible.

Tables and figures. The maximum number of tables and figures for a single manuscript is five.
All tables and figures must be contained in the same file as the main text, numbered and titled.
Each table and figure must be referred to in the manuscript text. Tables must be in MS Word
format and placed at the end of the manuscript (below the References section). The font sizes
are 10 for text in tables, 11 for table titles and 8 (italics) for legends below tables. Data in tables
must be consistent with the text. A table must not exceed one page. See an example of table
format.

Abbreviations. Abbreviations are to be used as little as possible. When used the first time, they
must be completely written out.

Statistical data. Statistical data must be described using formatting (symbols, abbreviations)
according to examples.

References. References should be prepared according to the Publication manual of the

American Psychological Association (7th edition). The document must contain accurate and
complete bibliographic references for all quotations used. APA Style uses author-date citation
system. The reference in the text must include the author’s last name and year of publication
(Antonová, 2018; Bužgová & Nečková, 2019, p. 1088).

The basic in-text citation style

Author type Parenthetical citation Narrative citation
One author Willis, 2019 Willis (2019)
Two authors Bužgová & Nečková, 2019 Bužgová and Nečková
(2019)
Three or more authors Nelissen et al., 2019 Nelissen et al. (2019)
 First citation (World Health Organization World Health Organization
Group author with [WHO], 2020) (WHO, 2020)
abbreviation Subsequent (WHO, 2020) (WHO, 2020)
citation
Group author without abbreviation (McMaster University, 2020) McMaster University (2020)

A complete reference list including all citations must be included at the end of the document
and include only literature that is referenced in the text. References are listed in alphabetical
order by last author´s name and must not be numbered. References must include sufficient
information to retrieve source material. Multiple references by different authors (e.g. Lesser et
al., 2015; Minarik, 2011; Oliverius, 2003) must be ordered alphabetically. Multiple references
by the same author (e.g. Smith, 2010; 2012) must be in chronological order. For references not
uniquely identified by the author’s name and year, use a letter after the year (e.g. Willis, 2019a;
Willis 2019b).
A sample of the most common entries in reference lists appears below.
For a work with up to 20 authors, include all of the names in the reference. When the work has
21 or more authors, include only the first 19 names, an ellipsis, and the final name.
For more information about APA referencing style, please refer to the APA.

References - example

Article from journal:

Bužgová, R., & Nečková, A. (2019). Nursing studentsʼ attitudes towards the elderly in the Czech
Republic. Central European Journal of Nursing and Midwifery, 10(3), 1087–1091.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/CEJNM.2019.10.0018

Papastavrou, E., Charalambous, A., Vryonides, S., Eleftheriou, C., & Merkouris, A. (2016). To what
extent are patients' needs met on oncology units? The phenomenon of care rationing.
European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 21, 48–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
ejon.2016.01.002

Book:

Plevová, I., Bužgová, R., Janíková, E., Jarošová, D., Machová, A., Sikorová, L., Slowik, R.,
Tomagová, M., & Zeleníková, R. (2019). Ošetřovatelství I. (2nd ed). Grada Publishing, a.s.
(in Czech)

Chapter from a book:

Degner L. F., & McWilliams M. E. (1994). Challenges in conducting cross-national nursing research.
In J. J. Fitzpatrick, J. S. Stevenson, & N. S. Polis (Eds.). Nursing Research and its Utilization:
International State of the Science (pp. 211–215). Springer.

Internet resources:

Fagan, J. (2019, March 25). Nursing clinical brain. OER Commons. Retrieved September 17, 2019,
from https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/53029-nursing-clinical-brain/view

National Institute of Mental Health. (2018, July). Anxiety disorders. U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, National Institutes of Health.
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/anxiety-disorders/index.shtml
Manuscript/Main text – example:

PSYCHOSOCIAL NEEDS OF CANCER PATIENTS

Abstract

Key words:

Text of the article (according to the provided structure)

References

Title page – example:

PSYCHOSOCIAL NEEDS OF CANCER PATIENTS

Alena Nováková1, Eliška Jasná2

1
Oncology Department, Faculty Hospital Ostrava, Czech Republic
2
Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, Ostrava University, Czech
Republic

Email addresses of all authors

Corresponding author´s contact address, email address and telephone number
Ethical aspects and Conflict of interest Statement
Acknowledgements
Author contributions
ORCID
Table – example:

Table 1 The relationship between sociodemographic variables and sexual assertiveness score [font size
11; font size in table 10]
Assertiveness
p-
all participants nonassertive assertive
value*
n = 93 n = 47 n = 46
mean (SD)
Agea (years) 34.29 (5.91) 35.53 (5.56) 33.02 (6.05) 0.04b
BMI (kg/m2) 24.91 (5.83) 25.39 (7.29) 24.42 (3.83) 0.42b
Cigarettes smoked per day 8.56 (5.89) 10.80 (5.93) 5.75 (5.18) 0.22b
median (Q25-Q75)
Number of hookah sessions per week 1.50 (1.00–
1 (1.00–2.00) 1 (1.00–2.00) 0.61c
2.75)
n (%) n (%) n (%)
Marital status married 64 (68.8) 32 (68.1) 32 (69.6)
0.87d
other 29 (31.2) 15 (31.9) 14 (30.4)
Education lower than diploma
47 (50.5) 29 (61.7) 18 (39.1)
diploma or higher 0.03d
46 (49.5) 18 (38.3) 28 (60.9)
education
Occupation housewife 75 (80.6) 37 (78.7) 38 (82.6)
0.63d
other 18 (19.4) 10 (21.3) 8 (17.4)
Economic satisfactory
56 (60.2) 26 (55.3) 30 (65.2)
status unsatisfactory 0.33d
37 (39.8) 21 (44.7) 16 (34.8)
Cigarette yes
9 (9.7) 5 (10.60) 4 (8.7)
smoking no > 0.99e
84 (90.3) 42 (89.40) 42 (91.3)
Hookah yes
15 (16.1) 7 (14.9) 8 (17.4)
smoking no 0.74d
78 (83.9) 40 (85.1) 38 (82.6)
*p < 0.05; awomen between 18 and 45 years; bIndependent samples t-test; cMann-Whitney U test; dChi-square test; eFisherʼs exact test; BMI
– Body Mass Index [font size 8]

Statistical data – example:

n = 293
SD = 3.2
mean = 5.12
r = 0.75
adjusted R2 = 0.014 (variance)
p ≤ 0.001
p = 0.005
χ2 = 12.71
p-value is 0.048
min. =
max. =
median =
mean age was 66.4 years (SD = 12.3; range 31–92)
mean score was 12.07 (95% CI 3–25)
score of 25 (OR = 1.87; 95% CI = 1.07–3.27; p < 0.001)
Figure – example 1:

Figure 1 Correlation between burnout and length of experience in hospice care [font size 11]

Figure – example 2:

Records identified through database Additional records identified through

searching (n = 52) other sources (n = 0)

Records after duplicates removed (n = 38)

Records screened (n = 23) Records excluded (n = 15)

Full-text articles assessed for Full-text articles excluded, with

eligibility (n = 8) reasons (n = 15)

No target population:6
No selected outcomes: 3
No original quantitative research:5
Unable to retrieve an article:1
Studies included
in synthesis (n = 7)

Figure 2 Flow diagram of the exclusion process of quantitative studies on predictive validity of delirium
screening instruments [font size 11, font size in diagram 10]