Publisher Profile The Consociazione Nazionale Associazioni Infermiere/i (CNAI) was founded in 1946 (previously named ANITI from 1919) as generalist National Nurses Association with the aim to promote professional culture development and improve quality of nursing care in Italy. CNAI was officially affiliated to International Council of Nurses (ICN) as the unique Italian representative. As ICN member, CNAI fully adheres to ICN mission, vision and core values (http://www.icn.ch/who-weare/icns-vision-mission-and-strategic-plan/). Currently, CNAI is also affiliated to the European Federation of Nurses Association (EFN, http://www.efn.be/) and to the European Forum of National Nursing and Midwifery Association (EFNNMA, http://efnnma.org/). Full information about CNAI can be found at: www.cnai.info. The Journal Professioni Infermieristiche is the official peer-reviewed journal of CNAI. It is an international journal and publishes high quality original scientific papers of interest for all areas of nursing and midwifery knowledge and practice development. The Journal ISSN is 0033-0205. Professioni Infermieristiche strives for the highest ethical standards in editorial and publishing conduct. To this aim, the Journal follows the policy of the Committee for Publication Ethics (COPE; www.publicationethics.org) and ethical and legal standards outlined in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.; www.apastyle.org) and reporting of Conflicts of Interest as outlined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE; http://www.icmje.org). Furthermore, Professioni Infermieristiche fully adheres to the Equator Network for the best reporting of scientific results (www.equator-network.org/). Professioni Infermieristiche follows a rigorous double blind peer review on-line process. Accepted papers are abstracted and indexed in International Nursing Index, Medline/PubMed, CINAHL, SCOPUS (Medline-sources) and Google Scholar. Professioni Infermieristiche accepts for publications: original research papers, reviews, theoretical papers, case reports and case studies, methodological papers, instruments development papers, study protocols. The whole publication process is managed by the Editors through the Manuscript Submission system at www.profinf.net.
Editorial Board Editors in Chief Davide Ausili, PhD, RN Walter De Caro, PhD, RN Anna Rita Marucci, PhD, RN Associate Editors Bruno Cavaliere, MSN, RN Giancarlo Cicolini, PhD, RN Chiara Dall Ora, PhD, RN Roberta Da Rin Della Mora, PhD, RN Fiorella Fabrizio, MSN, RN Roberto Latina, PhD, RN Anna La Torre, MSN, RN Sara Levati, PhD, RN Enrico Lumini, PhD, RN Tiziana Nannelli, PhD, RN Massimiliano Vario, MSN, RN Ercole Vellone, PhD, RN Statistical Editor Paola Rebora, PhD Language Editor Elisabetta Corvo, PhD, MSc, Managing Editorial Staff Massimo Alberio, MSN, RN Peer review policy Professioni Infermieristiche has an international authors and audience. Reviewers are carefully selected from worldwide research community. Unbiased consideration is given to all manuscripts submitted for publication regardless of the authors race, gender, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, political philosophy, sexual orientation, age or reputation.
Professioni infermieristiche uses a double blind review process for all manuscripts. In order to carry out an unbiased and anonymous process, reviewers should consider any potential conflict of interest before agreeing to referee and should contact the editorial office to declare any potential conflict of interest in the following instances: direct competition with the authors; being co-worker or collaborator with one of the authors; being able to exploit authors work (commercially or otherwise); being unable to give an objective opinion of the work. Reviewers report is sent to authors along with the decision letter. Reviewers report is generally given as it arrived. Amendments will only be made in some case for greater clarity. Reviewers names are kept strictly confidential their identities may only be disclosed to Editorial Board members, who will maintain confidentiality. We also ask that reviewers do not otherwise disclose their identity to authors or discuss the paper they have reviewed with colleagues unless published. Ethics in publishing Professioni Infermieristiche follows the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, issued by the International Committee for Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) code of conduct for editors. Our guidelines should be read along with this broader guidance. More information on ICJME requirements can be found at http://www.icmje.org/ and the COPE's guidelines at http://publicationethics.org/files/u2/new_code.pdf. Studies described in papers must be 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/. This must be stated at an appropriate point in the article. The approving body and (if applicable) approval number should be identified. Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be mentioned in the paper. Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained where authors wish to include case details or other personal information or images of patients and any other individuals. Written consents must be retained by authors and copies of the consents or evidence that such consents have been obtained must be provided on request.
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could 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. Potential conflicts of interest do not necessarily preclude publication. Authorship criteria According to the International Committee of Medical Journals Editors, authorship is based on the following 4 criteria: substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND final approval of the version to be published; AND agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, and all who meet these criteria should be identified as authors. Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship. The first author is responsible for identifying who meets these criteria. The corresponding author is who takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal during manuscript submission, peer review, and publication process, and typically ensures that alljournal administrative requirements, such as providing details of authorship, ethics committee approval, clinical trial registration documentation (where applicable), and gathering conflict of interest forms and statements, are properly completed. The corresponding author should be available throughout the submission and peer review process to promptly answer to editorial queries in a timely way, and should be available after publication to respond to critiques of the work and cooperate with any requests may arise after publication. For more information about authorship, criteria please refer to ICMJE role of authors and contributors
Submission verification and research misconduct Articles submitted to Professioni Infermieristiche must be original and never previously published (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint), furthermore articles should not under consideration elsewhere. Articles are considered approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the research was carried out. Accepted articles must not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language. Professioni Infermieristiche considers as unacceptable research misconduct such as falsification or fabrication of data, omitted information about data, plagiarism or not clearly declared conflict of interest. World Association of Medical Editors define plagiarism as the appropriation of the language, ideas or thoughts of another without crediting their true source and representation of them as one's own original work. Professioni Infermieristiche follows the policy of COPE and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) in dealing this problem and other cases of scientific misconduct. To verify originality, manuscript are checked by specific plagiarism software. General peer review procedure The decision to publish a paper is based on an editorial assessment and peer review. Initially all papers are assessed by an editorial committee consisting of one or more members of the editorial team. The procedure is the follow The article is evaluated in order to decide whether to send a paper for peer review. a) Papers which do not meet basic standards (the papers does not follow journals authors guidelines such as referencing style, incorrect word count and so on) or are unlikely to be published irrespective of a positive peer review, (i.e. not relevant/nothing new is added by the article under submission), may be rejected at this point in order to avoid delays to authors who may wish to seek publication elsewhere; b) Occasionally a paper will be returned to the author with requests for revisions in order to assist editors in deciding whether or not send it out for review.
Authors can expect a decision from this stage of the review process within 1 week. Article which are worth to be reviewed by reviewers, undergo to a double blind peer review by an Associate Editor or two or more reviewers. Authors can expect a decision from this stage of the review process within 8 weeks. After this process possible decisions are: rejected, major revisions, minor revisions, accepted for publications. After the minor revisions, the paper is generally accepted for publication after corrections are made, while after major revisions, the paper can be accepted or rejected after authors revisions. The entire process is managed online by the submission management system: www.profinf.net. Furthermore, during the process the article may be evaluated in statistical and language terms. The Editors in Chief collegially reserve the right to the final acceptance. Guidelines for reviewers Peer review is the system for evaluating quality, validity, and relevance of scholarly research. The process aims to provide authors with constructive feedback from relevant experts useful to improve their papers, thus ensuring the highest standard possible. Authors can expect reviews to contain an honest and constructive appraisal, in a timely manner and provides feedback both clear and concise. Peer review, also known as refereeing, is a collaborative process that allows manuscripts submitted to a journal to be evaluated and commented upon by independent experts within the same field of research. The evaluation and critique generated from peer review provides authors with feedback to improve their work and, critically, allows the editor to assess the paper s suitability for publication in the journal. We suggest all reviewers to follow the guidance provided by Pearsons (2014) titled Reviewing Journal Manuscripts: an easy to follow guide for any nurse reviewing journal manuscripts for publication and available on line Guidelines for authors Authors should carefully read and follow the procedure as below. Professioni Infermieristiche publishes: Research Article à texts which report the results of a study (quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods approach or with other design research action and historical research), carried out within nursing context or of interest of nursing science.
Case Reports and Case Studies à analysis or discussion of nursing case which can be interesting as starting point of future research/ discussion Theoretical papers à texts which develop, review, adapt or discuss, nursing theories, theoretical models and concepts, or which reflect on nursing philosophy, ethics and theory Methodological articles à texts which discuss the development, application of tools or methodologies within different nursing settings; Research protocols à protocols which describe the development of a study already approved by ethical committee and registered in the appropriate web site (i.e. clinicaltrial.gov); Reviewà Short reviews, scoping reviews, literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta synthesis reviews, overview and umbrella reviews; The submission must be uploaded in 3 separate files. 1) A title page with title (Italian and English), authors, affiliation, corresponding author, type of article (i.e. Research Articles, Reviews) Title. Title should be no more than two typeset lines and should be comprehensible to a international scientific audience. Author Affiliations. Include highest academic title, role, department, institution, for each author. Authors are encouraged to supply their ORCID ID at submission. Corresponding Author. Name, affiliations, complete address, phone and email address of the author to whom correspondence and proofs should be sent. This data will appear in the article footnotes. Furthemore, in this files, it must be clearly stated: That the manuscript is not submitted elsewhere and is original. Each author contribution. Professioni Infermieristiche would appreciate to have a clear statement about the appropriateness of the submission with the mission/interest of the journal/readers and about the novelty of the paper. 2) Manuscript main document. This file must include:
Abstract in Italian (400 words) and English (250 words), please state total word count for abstract. Where available, abstract should be structured and submitted following the IMRaD format. Keywords: abstracts should be followed by a maximum of 6 key words preferably expressed as MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms. Manuscript. All manuscripts must be in Italian or English and fit within the aim and scope of Professioni Infermieristiche and submittet in MS Format, with a font size (Times New Roman 12) and should be follow a common format, as article should be developed. Manuscripts must be no more of 6000 words in length (excluded abstract, reference and tables). Editors will approve exceptions. Please state total word count for the body of the manuscript. 3) Tables. Tables, graphs, picture (a maximum of 6 tables/graphs for article). Tables should containing only essential data, each figure should have a legend and all legends should be numbered in Arabic numbers. Original spreadsheet data should be provided along with graphs. Figure, Graph and Pictures in JPG or TIFF format should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi (halftone) or 600 to 1200 dpi (line drawings) in relation to the reproduction size). If all or parts of previously published illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned. No supplementary tables or graphs are admitted. Professioni infermieristiche follows APA Style as referencing style. Authors should be aware that article with wrong referencing style will be not take into consideration. For more information about APA referencing style, please refer to the APA FAQ. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through www.profinf.net. After login, as author, the web site platform lead the submission process. At the end of the process an email will be automatically sent. Authors can follow the review process through the web system. More information about submission process on www.profinf.net. In the case of extreme difficulties encountered when submitting online, manuscripts can be submitted as email attachments (in the same form i.e. 3 different files) to info@profinf.net
Proof correction Corresponding authors will receive electronic communication with proof for its correction and verification. Professioni Infermieristiche will do everything possible to get article published quickly and accurately. At this stage authors should check typesetting, editing, text, tables and figures completeness and correctness. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage where allowed by Editors. All corrections should sent back in one communication. Please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Neither the editors nor the Editorial Board are responsible for authors expressed opinions, views, and the contents of the published manuscripts in the journal. The originality, proofreading of manuscripts and errors are the sole responsibility of the individual authors. Information and Inquiries: All correspondence and inquiries regarding submission information,manuscript preparation, the status of manuscripts or reprint should be directed to the Editors in Chief. Editors in Chief Davide Ausili, PhD, RN d.ausili@profinf.net Walter De Caro, PhD, RN w.decaro@profinf.net Anna Rita Marucci, PhD, RN ar.marucci@profinf.net General inquiries and submission E-mail: info@profinf.net