One original and two copies of the manuscript as well as three complete sets of black and white glossy figures should be submitted, accompanied by a cover letter icluding the name, address, and telephone number of the author to whom correspondence should be sent. 

Manuscript to  be considered for publication that will include original research and evaluation studies, program evaluation  reports, as well as review articles addressing teaching, profesional,clinical, practice issues and philosophical - ethical issues deemed to be of interest to our subscribers.

Submission of a paper implies that it reports unpublished work, except in abstract form and is not being submitted simultaneously to another publication. Accepted manuscripts become the sole property of ICUs and Nursing Web Journal (ICU NURS WEB J) and may not be published elsewhere without consent from the Managing Editor.

All articles are subject to review by experienced refereesusing the blind review method. The Managing Editor, Editorial Board and Scientific Committee judge manuscripts suitable for publication, and decisions by the Editor and the Scientific Committee are final. We adapted the blind review.

Form of Manuscript

The entire manuscript should be typed double-spaced using 1 1/2  inch margins on standard white heavy-duty paper. Submit the original typescript and two high-quality photocopies of all elements of the manuscript. You may keep a copy of the manuscript for your reference.

Title Page:The title page should include (1) a  concise and informative title of the article using terms that can be readily indexed; (2) the author's full names (first name, middle initial, surname) with higest earned degrees; (3) affiliations for each author such as department, section, institution, city and country where the work was done; (4) acknowledgment of support and of individuals who were of direct help in the preparation of the manuscript; (6) The name, address, telephone number of the author to whom correspondenceshould be sent; (7) Key words for indexing (up to five).

Abstact: Page 2 should include an abstract of no more than 150 words, divided into the following subheadings: Background, Methods, Results and Conclusions. Avoid abbreviations and reference citations in the abstract.

Text: The manuscript should be organized in the following format: Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion. You may use other descriptive headings and subheadings if it is appropriate. Type footnotes on the bottom of the page on which they are mentoned. Cite all tables and figures in the text, numbering them sequentially as they are cited.

References: References must follow: 1) The Vancouver Citation System (The Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals) or 2) The APA Citation format, that means the author-date method, in which the last name of the author and the year of publication are inserted in parentheses in the text at an appropriate point. If a work has two authors, cite both names and if a work has more than two authors, cite all authors in the first reference, then only the first author and "et al." for all following references. The reference list should appear alphabetically by main author's last name and conform to the style used by the Publications Manual of the American Psycological Association, latest editon. Journal titles are not abbreviated, and the initial letters of all major words are capitalized. Book and journal titles, and volume numbers, are underlined and will appear in italics when typeset. For article, chapter and book titles, only the initial letter of the first word is capitalized, except for proper names, and other common usage. All references must be verified by the author(s). 
 
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