International Journal of Nursing Sciences(IJNSS,Print ISSN 2096-6296,and Online ISSN 2352-0132,CN10-1444/R) is the official peer-reviewed research journal of the Chinese Nursing Association.The IJNSS publishes original research papers,reviews,discussion papers,editorial and letters to the editor.

Reporting guidelines

Please use the guidelines listed below to structure your article.The Equator Network (http://www.equator-network.org/resourcecentre/library-of-health-research-reporting/library/) provides a comprehensive list of reporting guidelines.

CONSORT Statement (for reporting of randomized controlled trials:please use the appropriate extension to the CONSORT statement,including the extension for writing abstracts)

TREND (for transparent reporting of evaluations with nonrandomized designs)

STROBE (for reporting of observational cohort,case control and cross sectional studies)

PRISMA (for reporting of systematic reviews)

COREQ (for reporting of qualitative studies)

CHEERS (for reporting of health economic evaluations)

SQUIRE(for reporting of Quality improvement studies)

AGREE(for reporting of Clinical practice guidelines)

Ethical approval

All studies must be conducted to a high ethical standard and must adhere to local regulations and standards for gaining scrutiny and approval.The work described in your article must have been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans (http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/); EC Directive 86/609/EEC for animal experiments (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/legislation_en.htm).This must be stated at an appropriate point in the article.For information on Ethics in Publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication,see https://www.elsevier.com/authorethics.

Open access

Every peer-reviewed research article appearing in this journal will be published open access.This means that the article is universally and freely accessible via the internet in perpetuity,in an easily readable format immediately after publication.To provide open access,an article processing charge (APC) of 150 USD per print page needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g.by their research funder or institution.This applies to accepted manuscript submitted after August 1,2020.

ACC user license manages the reuse of the article (see https://www.elsevier.com/openaccesslicenses).All articles will be published under the following license:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BYNC-ND)

For non-commercial purposes,lets others distribute and copy the article,and to include in a collective work (such as an anthology),as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article.

Submission

Submission to this journal proceeds totally online.A brief checklist to ensure that you have provided all essential information should be submitted as a supporting file.You can download the Checklist from https://www.elsevier.com/__data/promis_misc/IJNSS_checklist_original%20manuscript.doc.Via the homepage online https://www.evise.com/profile/api/navigate/IJNSS you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of various files.The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article,which is used in the peer-review process.

Double-blind review

This journal uses double-blind review,which means the identities of the authors are concealed from the reviewers,and vice versa.More information is available on our website.

Online proof correction after acceptance

Corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a link to our online proofing system,allowing annotation and correction of proofs online.Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting,editing,completeness and correctness of the text,tables and figures.Proofreading is solely your responsibility.

Copyright

Upon acceptance of an article,authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright,see https://www.elsevier.com/about/companyinformation/policies/copyright).An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement.

If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included,the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article.

For open access articles:Upon acceptance of an article,authors will be asked to complete an 'Exclusive License Agreement' (for more information,see https://www.elsevier.com/OAauthoragreement).Permitted third party reuse of open access articles is determined by the author's choice of user license (see https://www.elsevier.com/openaccesslicenses).

For more detailed information please visit： https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-nursingsciences/2352-0132/guide-for-authors.