Manuscript Type
Manuscript Types
Madago Nursing Journal (MNJ) publishes scholarly manuscripts that advance nursing knowledge, strengthen evidence-based nursing practice, and improve the quality of care for individuals, families, and communities. The journal welcomes original, relevant, and methodologically sound contributions from nursing practitioners, academics, and researchers.
The journal covers adult and medical-surgical nursing, emergency nursing, gerontological nursing, community and family nursing, mental health nursing, pediatric nursing, maternity nursing, nursing leadership and management, complementary therapies in nursing, and nursing education.
The journal considers the following manuscript types:
1. Original Research Articles
Original research articles present original empirical findings that contribute to nursing science, clinical practice, nursing education, or healthcare delivery. These manuscripts may use quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches, including observational, experimental, quasi-experimental, and other appropriate research designs.
Submissions should clearly describe the research background, objectives, study design, setting, population, sampling procedures, data collection methods, instruments, analytical methods, and ethical considerations. Instrument validity and reliability, or strategies to establish qualitative trustworthiness, should be explained as appropriate.
Findings should be presented clearly and interpreted in relation to existing evidence. Manuscripts should demonstrate originality, methodological rigor, and meaningful implications for nursing. Authors should acknowledge study limitations and ensure that conclusions are supported by the design and findings.
2. Case Study Articles
Case study articles provide detailed accounts of nursing assessment, clinical reasoning, care planning, intervention implementation, and patient outcomes in a clearly defined care context. These manuscripts should offer meaningful clinical or educational insights into nursing care, including the application of evidence-based interventions or the management of complex care needs.
Submissions should describe the rationale for selecting the case, relevant patient information, assessment findings, nursing diagnoses or identified care needs, planned outcomes, interventions, and evaluation. Intervention procedures, duration, frequency, and outcome measurements should be reported sufficiently to support understanding and potential replication.
The discussion should connect the case findings with relevant scientific evidence and explain the implications for nursing practice. Authors should acknowledge the limitations of case-based evidence and avoid causal or generalizable claims that exceed the available data.
Patient confidentiality must be protected. Consent for participation, written informed consent for publication, and ethical approval or an institutional determination should be addressed as applicable. Authors are encouraged to follow the CARE (CAse REport) guidelines when appropriate.
3. Review Articles
Review articles critically examine and synthesize existing literature on topics relevant to nursing science, practice, education, and management. Manuscripts should clarify current knowledge, evaluate the strength and limitations of available evidence, identify knowledge gaps, and discuss implications for nursing and future research.
Reviews may use narrative, integrative, scoping, or systematic approaches. The review type should be explicitly identified, and the methods should be appropriate to its objectives. Submissions should explain how the literature was identified, selected, evaluated, and synthesized, with a level of methodological detail consistent with the review approach.
Systematic reviews should report the research question, information sources, search strategies and dates, eligibility criteria, study selection, data extraction, risk-of-bias or quality assessment, and synthesis methods. Where a meta-analysis is undertaken, authors should additionally explain effect measures, statistical models, heterogeneity assessment, and assessment of reporting bias where appropriate.
Reviews should provide critical interpretation rather than a descriptive list of previous studies. Authors are encouraged to follow PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, or PRISMA-ScR for scoping reviews, as applicable.
General Submission Requirements
All manuscripts must be original, relevant to the focus and scope of Madago Nursing Journal, and prepared in accordance with the journal’s author guidelines and publication ethics policies.
Manuscripts must not have been previously published or be under consideration by another journal. All authors must approve the submission and accept responsibility for the integrity of the work. Sources, data, figures, tables, and previously published materials must be appropriately acknowledged, with permission obtained where required.
Research involving human participants must address ethical approval, informed consent, privacy, and confidentiality in accordance with applicable institutional and ethical requirements. Authors must disclose funding sources and potential conflicts of interest.
Authors are encouraged to use reporting guidelines appropriate to their manuscript and study design, including CONSORT for randomized trials, STROBE for observational studies, COREQ or SRQR for qualitative research, PRISMA for systematic reviews, and CARE for case reports.
Madago Nursing Journal reserves the right to determine the most appropriate manuscript category, request revisions, or decline submissions that do not meet its scientific, ethical, or editorial standards.
