Please check the items below submitting a manuscript and send this checklist to the Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education via online submission system (http://acoms.kisti.re.kr/journal/intro.do?page=logo&journalSeq=J000088).

• □ Ethical regulations of the Journal of the Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education have been followed.
• □ Manuscript is submitted through the account of the corresponding author.
• □ The review fee has been deposited before submission of the manuscript (in the name of the corresponding author).
• □ A4-sized paper 10-point font size
• □ Line spacing of 200% (double space)
• □ Margins of 25mm for all pages
• □ Page numbers appear at the bottom of each page
• □ No more than 20 pages in total, including abstract, tables, and pictures.

  Composition of manuscript

  • Title page (Cover)

  • □ Title; research design type; author’ name(s), position and affiliation; corresponding author’ name, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address; keywords; any relevant statements of related funding or conflicts of interest, or mention of an associated graduate thesis

  • Main text

  • □ Title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusions, references, tables, figures, and appendix

    • Discussion

    • □ No redundancy compared to the description of introduction or results

      • Abstract

      • □ No more than 200 words
      • □ Title
      • □ Abbreviations are not included in paper titles and abstracts.
      • □ Body of abstract contains Purpose, Methods, Results, and Conclusion and is consecutively described without changing lines.
      • □ No more than 5 Keywords are described using MeSH term.

        • References

        • □ No more than 30 references (in the case of meta-analysis, systematic literature review, tool development, or structural model, the number of references is no more than 50)
        • □ Reference style follows the submission guidelines of manuscript preparation.
        • □ Paragraphs are outdented.

          • Figures and tables

          • □ Written in English
          • □ No more than five tables and figures (appendixes are excluded). Each is placed on a separate page.
          • □ Technical abbreviations and explanation of symbols should be defined below the tables or figures.
          • □ Numerical figures are consistent with the content of the body of the text without misspellings.

            I hereby authorize the return of my submitted paper if any of the submission guidelines listed above has not been followed.

            First author or corresponding author ______________________ (Signature)