ISSN (online)：2789-0430 ISSN (print)：2709-1961
1 General rules
1.1 Overview
Chinese Journal of Integrative Nursing (CJIN) is a high-quality international peer-reviewed, open access (OA) and monthly academic journal co-sponsored by the Association of Integrative Nursing and Beijing Office of Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing Competence Improvement Project, and published by Integrative Nursing Press. The journal receives manuscripts both from invitation and author submission. The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) of this journal is 2709-1961 (print), and 2789-0430 (online).
1.2 Aims of the journal
This journal publishes the most updated theories and experiences in the field of integrative nursing. We are striving to provide an exchange platform for the academic nursing community at home and abroad, so as to promote the academic development and disciplinary construction of integrative nursing, and publicize the academic characteristics and culture of Chinese nursing to the world.
1.3 Scope of the journal
This journal mainly publishes articles related to basic theory, clinical practice, the most updated research, academic achievements, or other relevant content in the field of integrative nursing.
1.4 Columns
The columns cover, but are not limited to, special topics, original study, TCM characteristic nursing, techniques and methods, specialized nursing, general nursing, nursing education, nursing management, survey study, case reports, reviews, and lectures.
1.5 Editorial Committee
For more information on the Editorial Committee, please visit: http://www.zxyjhhl.cn/info/2280?lang=zh.
Address:
Nursing Department, Dongfang Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
Room 604, North Branch, East Building, Building #6,
Fangxingyuan Area #1, Fangzhuang
Fengtai District, Beijing 100078, China
Tel: 010-67689872
E-mail: bwh@zxyjhhl.com.cn.
1.6 Editorial Department
Address: Room 3-203, Zijin Lianhe Cubic Square,No. 155, Longpan Road Nanjing, Jiangsu 210037, China
Tel: 025-85552880,
E-mail: tg@zxyjhhl.com.cn.
1.7 Editorial / Publishing
Integrative Nursing Press
website: http://www.zxyjhhl.hk
Address: RM 14, 29/F HO KING Commercial Centre 2-16 FA Yuen Street Mongkok KL
1.8 Data storage/Digital archiving
The journal content is archived automatically through the official website and the server. It is also archived in various open-access databases.
1.9 Income source
The main income source of the journal is paper publishing service fee or article processing charge (APC).
1.10 Official website
http://www.zxyjhhl.com.cn and http://www.zxyjhhl.cn.
1.11 Academic dissemination
Integrative Nursing (Nanjing) Co., Ltd
Email: bjb@zxyjhhl.com.cn.
1.12 General requirements for the manuscript
1.12.1 The content of the manuscript should reach a certain academic level. The presentation should be prominent in theme, clear in view, sufficient in argument, reasonable in structure, fluent in the language and concise in writing.
1.12.2 The author is responsible for the authenticity and confidentiality of the manuscript. If the research work has been funded or awarded, please indicate the name and number of the project or award.
1.12.3 The manuscript hasn’t been officially published elsewhere except published as a preprint. No academic misconduct (see: http://www.zxyjhhl.cn/info/2244?lang=zh) is allowed.
1.12.4 The manuscript should be written in accordance with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (May 2022), the National Standard Academic Paper Writing Rules (GB/T 7713.2-2022) (Please refer to http://www.zxyjhhl.cn/info/2238?lang=zh), GB6447 Abstract Compilation Rules, GB7714-2015 Bibliographic Description Rules and GB/T 3179 Format of Scientific and Technical Journals. It should also follows the Recommended Rules for the Implementation and Reporting of Academic Research and the Editing and Publishing of Medical Journals (updated in December 2021) formulated by the International Medical Journal Editorial Committee, as well as the group standard for the Compilation of Chinese Medical Journals (T/CACM 019-2017) issued by the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
1.13 Submission of manuscript
1.13.1 Manuscripts are submitted online through the website http://www.zxyjhhl.cn. If you experience any problems, please contact the editorial office by e-mail tg@zxyjhhl.com.cn.
The subsequent revision and proofreading should be completed according to the system prompts.
1.14 Medical ethics statement
When this journal publishes research articles, case reports or brief reports of patient experience, medical ethics and informed consent statements must be made. Please refer to http://www.zxyjhhl.cn/info/2267?lang=zh.
1.15 Detection of academic misconduct
This journal uses the AMLC system to detect plagiarism in the submitted manuscripts and take necessary actions for manuscripts involving academic misconduct. Please refer to http://www.zxyjhhl.cn/info/2244?lang=zh.
1.16 Peer review policy
The peer review process usually takes 14-28 days. All manuscripts will be strictly reviewed by at least one reviewer. The peer review of the journal is mainly undertaken by members of the editorial committee and reviewers in the field of integrative nursing. Please refer to http://www.zxyjhhl.cn/info/2243?lang=zh for the manuscript review process.
1.17 Editor decisions
The important criteria for this journal to accept manuscripts are the originality and academic nature of the content. Other reference factors include, but are not limited to, the standardization of manuscript writing.
1.18 Erratum and withdrawal
Articles published online are considered final version. This journal generally does not correct or withdraw published articles. If it is really necessary, the manuscript can be corrected or withdrawn.
1.18.1 Erratum: If there is an unintentional scientific error in the article and it will not have a significant impact on the results and conclusions of the article, the editorial office will publish the correction in the journal as soon as possible and indicate the updated date.
1.18.2 Withdrawal will be undertaken in the following two circumstances: When there are serious scientific errors in the article, resulting in unreliable results and conclusions of the article; For articles suspected of plagiarism, data falsification and other academic misconduct, the editorial office will take actions to withdraw the manuscript and issue a withdrawal statement.
1.19 Preprint Policy Statement
We encourage and support authors to give priority to publishing their manuscripts (first draft or submission version) on the Chinese Nursing Preprint Platform (ChinaXiv-NursRxiv) before submitting to this journal. Please refer to http://www.zxyjhhl.cn/info/6159?lang=zh.
1.20 Fees and standards
This journal is an open-access (OA) journal. After the manuscript is accepted, the author will be appropriately charged with the "paper publishing service fee" (also known as the article processing charge, APC). If the manuscript is rejected, no fee will be charged. Please refer to http://www.zxyjhhl.cn/info/2236?lang=zh for details of charging standards and fee reduction.
1.21 Remuneration
No remuneration will be given. After the article is published on the official website of the journal, the author can download and obtain a high-quality cover, table of content and PDF version of the article for free.
1.22 Copyright
The copyright of the article belongs to all the authors. The authors need to sign a non-exclusive "copyright transfer agreement" with CJIN. The third-party and the authors have the right to share the articles according to the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 agreement.
2 Requirements for writing papers
2.1 Title
2.1.1 The title should reflect the most important content in the manuscript using accurate and concise words. Generally, use phrases that can fully reflect the content of the manuscript instead of complete sentences with subject, predicate and object structures.
2.1.2 Manuscript with English abstract should have an English title, which should be consistent with the meaning of the Chinese title.
2.1.3 The use of characters, codes, abbreviations, colloquial names, and abbreviations not recognized by the public should be avoided in the title. The original words and abbreviations should not be listed at the same time.
2.1.4 Generally, there is no subtitle. When necessary, the subtitle should be printed in a font or size different from the subject name, or the subtitle should be preceded by a dash "——".
2.2 Authorship
2.2.1 According to International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the authorship should meet the following four criteria: (1) Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; (2) Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; (3) Final approval of the version to be published; (4) 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.
2.2.2 All articles should be signed by the author. The author's name is placed below the title, and multiple authors are separated by commas ",".
2.2.3 Multiple authors are usually ordered by their contribution. The authorship of the manuscript should be jointly agreed on before submission, and should not be changed after submission. If it is necessary to change, an agreement document from the affiliation of the corresponding author and all the authors should be submitted.
2.2.4 The corresponding author, referring to the person in charge of the research project, is primarily responsible for the innovation and originality of the selected topic, the rationality of the experimental design and methods, the credibility and preciseness of the conclusions, and is mainly responsible for contacting the journal in the process of submission, peer review and publication.
2.2.5 The corresponding author should be determined by all the authors before submission. According to the international common practice, the first author of the article is considered the corresponding author when no corresponding author is assigned.
2.2.6 In the case of group author, the names of the authors can be indicated at the end of the main text.
2.2.7 The affiliations of the authors should be listed according to the order of the authors. The full name of the affiliation, the name of the province (autonomous region), city (county) and the postal code should be provided.
2.2.8 If authors belongs to different units, the Arabic numeral serial number should be added in the upper right corner of the author's name in sequence, and the affiliation should be indicated with the corresponding serial number. Different affiliations can be separated by semicolon ";". When belonging to different affiliations, the author should be marked in Arabic numbers in the upper right corner of the name, and the affiliations are listed according to the order of the numbers.
2.2.9 The full name of the corresponding author, address and the postal code of the affiliation should be provided. The telephone number and e-mail address of the corresponding author can be provided for the ease of communication between the audiences and the corresponding author.
2.2.10 When the special identity of the author needs to be marked, it can be marked as the footnote of the first page or at the end of the article. For example, “Wang, the first author of this article, is the PhD candidate from xxx University”.
2.2.11 The names and affiliations of the authors should be indicated in the English abstract.
2.2.12 The information regarding the authors’ affiliations in the English abstract should be consistent with that in the Chinese abstract. The name of the country should be added after the postal code.
2.3 Abstract
2.3.1 To facilitate quick access to the information for readers, the Chinese and the English abstracts should be both provided for original studies.
2.3.2 The abstract is a brief overview of the main content of the article. It should focus on reflecting the innovative content in the research and the author's original views without comments and explanations; The details can be determined according to the actual needs of the type and content of the article.
2.3.3 The names and dosage units of Chinese medicines, prescriptions and traditional Chinese patent medicines in the English abstract should be consistent with the translations issued by the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China, Terminology of Traditional Chinese Medicine (published by the National Science and Technology Terminology Examination Committee), and the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies.
2.4 Keywords
2.4.1 Keywords refer to the characteristic words or phrases that can best reflect the key information in the article. Keywords include subject terms and free terms.
2.4.2 Keywords can be extracted from the MeSH database of the National Library of Medicine（http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh）, the Corresponding Table of Medical Nouns and Subject Words (MeSH) compiled by the Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Thesaurus of Chinese Traditional Medicine compiled by the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Information, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
2.4.3 The keywords should be in the full name, and the abbreviations not recognized by the public should not be used.
2.4.4 Select no less than three keywords for each article, and separate multiple keywords with a semicolon “;”. For example, “Stroke; Buyang Huanwu Tang; benefiting Qi for activating blood circulation”.
2.4.5 Articles with English abstracts should be marked with English keywords corresponding to Chinese keywords. English keywords are listed following the term "KEY WORDS". Each keyword is separated by a semicolon ";".
2.5 Main text
2.5.1 Research article
It is generally divided into the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion.
2.5.1.1 Introduction
It mainly outlines the background, purpose, research ideas, theoretical basis, research methods, expected results and significance of the study. Relevant references should be marked when quoting others’ research results. Generally, no more than 300 Chinese characters are appropriate.
2.5.1.2 Materials and Methods
(1) If the study objects are patients, the source and time period of the study objects and the control group should be indicated. The diagnostic criteria, inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria and withdrawal criteria should be clarified (give the rational and cite the references), as well as the grouping method and the baseline data of each group.
(2) According to the Regulations for Ethical Review of Biomedical Research Involving Human Beings published by the National Health Commission of PRC, when human Beings are involved as subjects, the research report should indicate whether the experiment procedures adopted have been evaluated and approved by the national or institutional ethics committee, and indicate the approval number.
(3) If there is no formal ethics committee in the institution, the authors need to explain whether the research conforms to the relevant provisions of the International Code of Ethics for Biomedical Research Involving Human Beings issued by the World Health Organization and the Helsinki Declaration (www.wma. net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/index. html), which is newly revised by the World Medical Association.
(4) If the objects of study are experimental animals, it is necessary to indicate the name, species, grade, source, animal license number, quantity, sex, age, body mass, feeding conditions, health status and the method of killing animals in the experiment. Please refer to the Consensus of the Author's Guide on Animal Ethics and Welfare of the International Association of Veterinary Editors（ http://veteditors.org/ethicsconsensusguidelines.html ）.
(5) The common names should be used for drugs and chemical reagents. The source, batch number, specification, dose and unit should be provided. The name, model and manufacturer of instruments and equipment should be indicated.
(6) The innovative and the improvement of the method should be detailed in the experimental method section so that other researchers can replicate the study. When using others' methods, the source of the methods should be cited. The intervention methods adopted by each group should be clearly explained.
(7) For traditional Chinese medicine decoction and traditional Chinese patent medicines, the name, dosage, processing method and administration method of the constituent drugs should be listed; For acupuncture and moxibustion and other non-drug therapies, the name of the acupoint (treatment site), acupuncture method, treatment frequency, or related content of non-drug therapy, and the course of treatment should be clearly stated. For studies using control, not only the methods of the observation group but also the intervention methods of other groups should be introduced.
(8) The observational indicators should be listed separately, and the special detection indicators and methods should be described in detail.
(9) For the statistical method, the name and version number of the statistical software used should be stated. In the statistical description, if the data follow the normal distribution, the mean ± standard deviation is used; if the data do not follow the normal distribution, the median ± interquartile interval is used. In parameter estimation, if the data follow the normal distribution, the mean and standard error are used; if the data do not follow the normal distribution, the percentile is used, and the highest/lowest value is given according to the actual clinical situation. For a hypothesis test, the statistical analysis method used should be clearly stated (such as t-test of group design data, analysis of variance of two-factor factorial design data, etc.), and the significant level should be clearly defined.
2.5.1.3 Results
The narration should be realistic and concise. The results should correspond to the observational indicators. When reflecting the results with data, it should not only describe the relative number (such as percentage), but also give the absolute number of the data; The specific value of statistics (such as t=3.450) and the specific P value (such as P=0.023) should be given. Give a brief introduction of the table or diagram before it. Please avoid overlapping the contents of the diagram, table and text.
2.5.1.4 Discussion
The focus of this section is the innovation of the research results and the conclusions derived from them, including theoretical value, practical application value, limitations, and implications for further research. It can also put forward suggestions, ideas, or suggestions for improvement through discussion. The results of this study should be compared with other relevant studies, and the similarities and differences between this study and other relevant research results should be pointed out. The conclusion should be discussed in connection with the objective. Data or information detailed in the introduction and results should not be restated.
2.5.2 Experience summary articles
It is advisable to briefly introduce the author's practice, that is, the background of the experience gained. If the article is about the experience from a famous person of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the resume of this person, as well as the academic inheritance relationship and academic origin between the author and the person should be described. The introduction of typical cases should highlight the process of syndrome differentiation and treatment.
2.5.3 Medical record articles
This kind of article is based on clinical cases, and the author's comments are expressed in the form of "notes". The medical record should be detailed and accurate, including the date of treatment, the four diagnostic data of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the physical and chemical examination data of western medicine (if any), diagnosis, dialectical thinking, treatment process and outcome. The notes should comment on the key points and points worthy of readers' reference in the case.
2.5.4 Theoretical discussion paper and literature review
They should be written in accordance with GB 7713-1987 Format for Preparation of Scientific and Technological Reports, Dissertations and Academic Papers, GB/T 7713.1-2006 Rules for Preparation of Dissertations and GB/T 7713.3-2014 Rules for Preparation of Scientific and Technological Reports.
2.6 References
2.6.1 References should be provided for the research articles.
2.6.2 References cited by the authors should be those that have been read by authors and published in official publications. Avoid citing abstracts and newsletters.
2.6.3 In-text citation
(1) The reference should be numbered by the order of their sequence in the main text, using the Arabic number, in a square bracket after the relevant sentence. When the number is a part of the sentence, it is not necessary to mark it as a superscript (e.g. example 1). When the name of the author of the original literature is provided in the sentence, the number should be marked in the upper right corner of the author’s name (e.g. example 2). If the main text does not indicate the author of the original literature, the number should be marked at the end of the sentence (e.g. example 3).
Example 1: Rheumatoid arthritis model was prepared by reference to [2].
Example 2: Wu Zhongping [1] developed the "ancient and modern medical record query statistical analysis system".
Example 3: Traditional Chinese Medicine has a significant effect on improving fatigue[1,3-5].
(2) For the figure, the citation number is marked in the caption or title of the figure according to the order in which they appear in the full text. There is no citation mark in the figure.
(3) For the table, the citation number is marked in the table notes or on the table title according to the order in which they appear in the full text. The source of the literature can also be explained in a single column in the table. This column should list the name of the first author of the literature, and mark the citation number in the upper right corner of the name.
2.6.4 References
(1) The format of the reference should comply with GB/T 7714-2015 Rules for the Description of Information and Document References.
(2) All references should be listed in order according to the serial number marked in the main text. All numbers are [Arabic numerals], which are consistent with the format of serial numbers in the main text. When there is only one reference, the serial number is "[1]".
(3) Each reference should be complete.