Author Guidelines

Manuscripts submitted to Jurnal Keperawatan Komprehensif (Comprehensive Nursing Journal), abbreviated as JKK, must be prepared in English and submitted through the journal’s online submission system.

To support double-anonymized peer review, authors must submit the following as separate files:

File	Required content and purpose
1. Title Page	Author identities, affiliations, corresponding-author details, and complete declarations. This file is for editorial use and is not provided to reviewers.
2. Main Manuscript	The anonymized article, including the title, abstract, keywords, main text, appropriate declarations, references, tables, and figure legends.
3. Cover Letter	A brief explanation of the submission’s contribution and suitability for JKK, together with the required submission declarations. This file is for editorial use.

Additional reporting checklists, figures, supplementary materials, and supporting documents should be submitted separately when applicable.

Do not combine the title page or cover letter with the main manuscript. Clearly identify files intended for editorial use only. Uploading a document as a supplementary file does not, by itself, ensure that it is excluded from reviewer access.

1. Title Page

The title page must contain the following information.

1.1 Manuscript title and article type

Provide a concise, informative title that accurately represents the work. Identify the study design or review type in the title where appropriate.

Specify whether the submission is an Original Research Article, Review Article, or Case Report.

1.2 Author names and affiliations

List the full names of all authors in the agreed publication order, without academic degrees or job titles.

Provide each author’s institutional affiliation in full, including the department or unit where applicable, institution, city, and country. Use superscript identifiers to link authors to their respective affiliations. Authors sharing the same affiliation should use the same affiliation identifier.

Author names, order, and affiliations must be consistent between the title page and the information entered in the submission system.

1.3 Corresponding author

Clearly identify the corresponding author and provide:

• Full name.
• Institutional affiliation.
• Professional mailing address.
• Active email address.
• Telephone number, if supplied for editorial communication.

The corresponding author is responsible for coordinating communication with the journal and ensuring that all authors receive relevant information about the submission.

1.4 ORCID identifiers and professional information

Authors are encouraged to provide their ORCID iDs as complete links, for example, in the format https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000.

Brief information about an author’s academic or clinical role may be supplied if requested by the journal. Author biographies and identifying professional information must not be included in the anonymized manuscript.

1.5 Complete declarations

Include complete, unblinded versions of the declarations described in Section 3 below, including author contributions, funding, conflicts of interest, acknowledgments, ethical approval and consent, data availability, and AI use.

Where a declaration contains information that has been temporarily masked in the review manuscript, the title page must provide the full information for editorial assessment.

2. Main Manuscript

Submit the main manuscript as an editable Word document. The review copy must not contain author names, affiliations, contact details, biographies, or other unnecessary identifying information.

The manuscript should include:

1. Manuscript title.
2. Abstract.
3. Keywords.
4. Main text organized according to the article type.
5. Declarations, with identifying details appropriately anonymized where necessary.
6. References.
7. Tables and figure legends, with figures supplied as required by the journal.

Use consistent headings, page numbering, and terminology. Remove identifying information from document properties, comments, tracked changes, headers, footers, and file names. Apply the same anonymization checks to supplementary files intended for peer review.

Relevant citations to the authors’ previous work should remain in the reference list and be written in the same manner as other citations. Do not remove scientifically necessary references or methodological information solely to conceal authorship.

2.1 Original Research Articles

Original research may use quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches. The main text should normally contain:

• Introduction: Explain the problem, relevant evidence, research gap, and study objectives or questions.
• Methods: Describe the design, setting, participants, recruitment, sample-size rationale, procedures, measurements or data-generation methods, analysis, and ethical considerations. Include intervention and comparison procedures where applicable.
• Results: Present findings clearly and consistently with the study objectives and methods.
• Discussion: Interpret the findings in relation to existing evidence, address limitations, and explain their implications for nursing.
• Conclusion: State the principal conclusions without extending beyond the findings.

The organization of qualitative and mixed-methods reports may be adapted to the methodological approach, provided that the methods, findings, and interpretation remain clear.

View the Original Research Article Guidelines.

2.2 Review Articles

Clearly identify the review approach, such as a systematic review, meta-analysis, scoping review, or another appropriate form of evidence synthesis.

The manuscript should explain the review question or purpose, how the literature was identified and selected, how information was extracted or charted, and how the evidence was analyzed or synthesized. Report critical appraisal or risk-of-bias procedures where required by the review approach, and explain relevant limitations.

Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and scoping reviews should normally include Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion sections. Other review approaches may use an appropriate alternative structure.

View the Review Article Guidelines.

2.3 Case Reports

Case reports should normally include Introduction, Case Presentation, Discussion, and Conclusion sections.

Describe the clinical chronology, relevant assessment findings, nursing interventions, follow-up, and outcomes. Explain the contribution to nursing practice and the learning points, while acknowledging the limitations of conclusions drawn from an individual case.

Include a statement concerning consent for publication and protect the patient’s identity. Address any ethical approval or exemption requirements applicable to the case and setting.

2.4 Reporting guidelines

Authors should follow the current reporting guideline appropriate to the study design and submit a completed checklist where applicable. Relevant guidance includes CONSORT for randomized trials, STROBE for observational studies, SRQR or COREQ for appropriate qualitative designs, PRISMA for systematic reviews, PRISMA-ScR for scoping reviews, and CARE for case reports.

For nonrandomized intervention studies, use an appropriate guideline, such as TREND when applicable to the intervention and design.

Reporting guidelines and their extensions are available through the EQUATOR Network.

3. Required Declarations

Include a clearly labelled Declarations section before the references. Ethical approval and consent procedures should also be described in the Methods or other appropriate section; a cross-reference may be used to avoid unnecessary repetition.

All statements must be accurate and specific to the submitted work. Use “Not applicable” only when appropriate and explain the reason where needed.

3.1 Author contributions

Describe each author’s contribution to the work. JKK encourages use of the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) to describe contributions consistently.

All listed authors must meet all four ICMJE authorship criteria:

• Make a substantial intellectual or research contribution.
• Participate in drafting the manuscript or critically revising its intellectual content.
• Approve the final version for publication.
• Accept responsibility for addressing questions concerning the work’s accuracy and integrity.

A contribution role alone does not establish eligibility for authorship.

Provide the complete contribution statement with author names on the title page. In the anonymized review manuscript, the statement may be temporarily replaced with: “Author contributions are provided separately to the editorial office and will be included in the published article.”

3.2 Funding

Identify all sources of financial or material support relevant to the work, including the funder and grant number where available. Describe the funder’s role in the study and publication process.

If no funding was received, state this explicitly.

Where identifying details require temporary masking, retain the nature of the support and the funder’s role in the review manuscript and provide complete details to the editor.

3.3 Conflicts of interest

Disclose relevant financial and non-financial relationships or activities for all authors. If there are no conflicts of interest, state this explicitly.

Anonymization must not conceal the substance of a potential conflict. Provide complete disclosures to the editor and an appropriately anonymized account in the review manuscript where necessary.

3.4 Acknowledgments

Identify contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship and describe their assistance. Obtain permission from individuals before naming them.

Provide the full acknowledgment on the title page. Identifying acknowledgments may be withheld from the review copy and restored before publication.

3.5 Ethics approval and consent to participate

For research requiring ethical review, provide the full name of the approving committee, approval number, and approval date or year. Describe how informed consent was obtained or identify an authorized waiver.

If the study was exempt from ethical review, explain the basis for the exemption and identify the authority that determined it, where applicable. Do not assume that a particular design automatically qualifies for exemption.

When an ethics committee name or approval identifier could reveal author identity, supply the complete details to the editor and use a specific temporary placeholder in the review manuscript. Retain the substantive statement that approval or exemption was obtained, together with the relevant consent and participant-protection procedures.

3.6 Consent for publication

Provide a consent-for-publication statement for case reports and material containing potentially identifiable personal information or images.

Consent to participate in research does not automatically include consent to publish identifiable information. Written publication consent must be obtained where required, and supporting documentation must be available for confidential editorial verification.

3.7 Data availability

Explain whether the data supporting the findings are available, where they can be accessed, and any conditions governing access.

Provide a repository link or persistent identifier where appropriate. If access is restricted, explain the reason and any genuine procedure for requesting access. Do not state that data are available on request unless the authors can provide access under the stated conditions.

Data sharing must respect participant consent, privacy, confidentiality, and applicable restrictions. Use anonymized access links for peer review where practicable and provide complete information to the editor.

See the journal’s Data Sharing Policy.

3.8 Use of artificial intelligence

Every manuscript must state whether AI-assisted tools were or were not used in preparing the work.

Where AI was used, identify the tool, its purpose, and the stages or sections in which it was used. Explain how the authors checked the resulting material. Use relevant methodological detail when AI forms part of data collection, analysis, or other research procedures.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors. The authors remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, references, confidentiality, and integrity of the submitted work.

If AI was not used, state this explicitly.

3.9 Declarations in the published article

Before publication, all temporarily masked information must be restored. The published article must include the complete author contributions, funding, conflicts of interest, AI statement, data availability statement, and applicable acknowledgments, ethics, and consent information.

Keeping these declarations only in the confidential title-page file is insufficient for the final publication.

4. Cover Letter

The cover letter should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief and should:

• State the manuscript title and article type.
• Explain the principal contribution and its relevance to JKK’s scope and readership.
• Confirm that the manuscript is not under consideration by another journal and has not previously been published as a journal article.
• Disclose relevant preprints, thesis versions, conference presentations, or related publications, with links or references where available.
• Identify related manuscripts or reports using the same data and explain any overlap.
• Confirm that all authors have approved the submission and agreed on the author list and order.
• Confirm whether AI-assisted tools were used, consistently with the manuscript declaration.
• Confirm that the authors have read the journal’s submission, publication ethics, copyright, licensing, and author-charge policies.

An acknowledgment of the author-charge policy belongs in the cover letter or submission checklist, rather than in the scientific title page.

An article processing charge, where applicable, becomes payable only after formal editorial acceptance. Authors must not submit payment or proof of payment with the initial manuscript. Any waiver or discount request should follow the published policy, where such arrangements are available. Payment arrangements must not influence peer review or editorial decisions.

See the journal’s Article Processing Charge Policy.

5. Supplementary Materials and Supporting Documents

Submit additional materials when relevant to the article, including reporting checklists, study protocols, registration information, search strategies, instruments, additional tables or figures, and supporting data or analytical materials.

Label supplementary materials clearly, cite them in the main text, and anonymize files intended for reviewers.

Ethics approval documents, consent documentation, and other confidential administrative materials requested by the editor must be submitted separately for editorial use. They must not be included in supplementary files intended for public release.

6. Copyright and Publication Agreement

Authors retain copyright in their work.

Following editorial acceptance and before publication, authors must complete the journal’s publication agreement, confirming the required publishing permissions and the applicable licensing terms. The agreement grants JKK non-exclusive publishing rights and does not require transfer of copyright.

Authors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permission to reproduce third-party material and for identifying material that is not covered by the article’s license.

Read the journal’s Copyright Notice and Open Access Policy.

7. Manuscript Templates

The available manuscript templates can be accessed through the following folder:

Download the JKK Manuscript Templates

Use the template appropriate to the article type together with these Author Guidelines. Maintain the separation between the title page, anonymized main manuscript, and cover letter, and include all required declarations.

The corresponding author should verify that the submission-system metadata and uploaded files are complete, accurate, and consistent before completing the submission.