Authors Guidelines

The Journal of Health Sciences publishes scientific and professional papers as well as other relevant papers. The category of the paper is proposed by the author, and the final assessment is based on peer review and made by the Editor-in-Chief. The published articles are peer-reviewed by two external anonymous reviews.

In the preparation of scientific and professional papers, please consider the following instructions:

1. Papers with your information and abstracts should be sent to e-mail address: editorial.office@jhs.si. The article should be attached to the e-mail in MS word and PDF format
2. Scientific papers may include up to 30,000 characters.
3. Each paper should have a separate sheet cover page that contains the name and surname of the author, home address, phone number, title of the article, academic and professional title, address of the institution where the author works, e-mail address and ORCID ID. In the event that there are several authors, the Journal writes the required information for each author individually. The author that wrote most of the publication is listed among the authors in the first place; the lead author who designed and led the research is written in last place.
4. Scientific and professional papers should have an abstract in Slovene (up to 1,200 characters with spaces) and in English. The abstract and keywords should be written at the beginning of the paper. It should also be accompanied by an extended abstract (10,000 characters including spaces) in English.
5. Tables and figures should be appropriately included in the text where they belong. Images should also be attached as separate files in the corresponding image (jpg, bmp) or vector (eps) format.
6. The list of references should be arranged in alphabetical order of authors, as follows:

• for books: Surname and name of the author. (publication year). Title. Publisher.
  Example: Henderson, V. (1998). Osnovna načela zdravstvene nege. Zbornica zdravstvene nege Slovenije.
• for articles in journals: Surname and name of the author. (publication year). Article title. Journal title, volume(number), pages.
  Example: Orel, R. (2010). Sindrom razdražljivega črevesa. Medicinski razgledi, 49(4), 479–486.
• for articles in proceedings: Surname and name of the author. (publication year). Article title. V Editor (ed.), Title of proceedings (pages of the article). Publisher.
  Example: Robida, A. (2013). Zaznavanje kulture pacientove varnosti v slovenskih akutnih splošnih bolnišnicah. In B. Filej (ed.), Celostna obravnava pacienta (pp. 7–16). Fakulteta za zdravstvene vede.
• for online references, it is compulsory to state the exact website along with the name of the document.
  Example: Brcar, P. (2003). How do the health of schoolchildren. Institute of Public Health. http://www.sigov.si/ivz/vsebine/zdravje.pdf

7. The inclusion of references in the text:
   - If it is a quotation, write the surname, publication year and page in brackets (Debevec, 2013, p. 15).
   - If it is a citation, the page is omitted (Debevec, 2013).

Additional instructions with examples of citing and citing literature and sources.

The Journal of Health Sciences follows the EQUATOR Network standards.

For any further clarification and information not covered in these instructions with regard to the preparation and publication of papers, please contact the Editor-in-Chief. For general information and technical assistance in preparing the paper, please contact the editorial office or send your questions to our e-mail address: editorial.office@jhs.si.