Spiritual Care

Manuscript types

Original Articles, Reviews, Experience Reports, Case Studies, Essays, Reader's Letters, Editorials, Communications, Keywords, Spiritual Impulses, Interviews, Conference Reports, Book Reviews, Obituaries

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• Rapid publication times
• Peer review of your article by two independent reviewers and near-term decision upon acceptance
• Professional publishing system facilitates the submission of your manuscript (ScholarOne Manuscripts®)
• Accepted papers will be published online first as DOI-citable, forward-linked articles for quickest possible visibility for the scientific community
• Optional open access publication
• Accepted papers will be published online first as DOI-citable, forward-linked articles for quickest possible visibility for the scientific community
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Submission process

• Submission of your manuscript via our submission management tool following the Instructions for Authors (you will be guided through every step of the submission process)
• Peer review process with two independent reviewers
• A decision on your paper is aspired within 4 weeks
• Accepted articles are published online ahead of print approx. 4 weeks after acceptance

Submission

You can easily submit your manuscript online. Simply go to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spircare and you will be guided through the whole submission and publishing process.

Please note

• Manuscripts may be submitted in clear and concise German or English
• Spiritual Care Tier 2 of our　Data Sharing Policy. Authors are encouraged to provide a data availability statement. Please refer to the Data Sharing Policy for guidance on how to write a data availability statement.
• Before submitting your article please have a look at Ethical Guidelines and our Copyright Transfer Agreement
• Spiritual Care follows Tier 2 of our Data Sharing Policy. Authors are encouraged to provide a data availability statement. Please refer to the Data Sharing Policy for guidance on how to write a data availability statement.　
• Once your article is accepted you have the option to publish it open access
• Our Repository Policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article to colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy). Please also feel free to distribute the link to the online abstract
• If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ for authors
• For more detailed information please contact the Spiritual Care Editorial Office SPIRCARE.editorial@degruyter.com

We look forward to receiving your manuscript!

Hybrid Open Access

In this journal, authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. Open Access allows you as an author to retain copyright and share your findings with colleagues and interested parties worldwide without any restraints.
Please note that authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement can publish open access without paying an article processing charge (APC). More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found under the "Funding and Support" tab here.

Editor-in-Chief
Eckhard Frick, TUM Universitätsklinikum der Technischen Universität München, München, Germany
Simon Peng-Keller, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Editorial Board
Alexander Bischoff, Haute école de santé Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Holger Eschmann, Theologische Hochschule Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
Annette Haußmann, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
René Hefti, Forschungsinstitut für Spiritualität und Gesundheit FISG, Langenthal, Switzerland
Maria Kotulek, Erzdiözese München und Freising, München, Germany
Ruth Mächler, TUM Universitätsklinikum der Technischen Universität München, München, Germany
Lydia Maidl, Hochschule für Philosophie München, München, Germany
Beate Mayr, Hochschule für Philosophie München, München, Germany
Michael Utsch, Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen, Berlin, Germany

Scientific Advisory Board
Ulrike Anderssen-Reuster, Städtisches Klinikum Dresden-Neustadt, Dresden, Germany
Michael Balboni, Harvard Medical School, Boston (MA), USA
Klaus Baumann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br., Germany
Claudia Bausewein, Klinikum der Universität München, München, Germany
Gerhild Becker, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br., Germany
Daniel Berthold, Uniklinikum Gießen und Marburg, Gießen, Germany
Brigitte Boothe, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Arndt Büssing, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany
Frank Erbguth, Klinikum Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Martin Fegg, Klinikum der Universität München, München, Germany
Monika Führer, Klinikum der Universität München, München, Germany
Heiner Gabriel, Katholische Stiftungshochschule München, München, Germany
Stefan Gärtner, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Konrad Hilpert, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany
Thilo Hinterberger, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Niels Christian Hvidt, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Ralf Jox, Universität Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Paul Kaplick, Rüsselsheim am Main, Deutschland
Isolde Karle, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Niko Kohls, Hochschule Coburg, Coburg, Germany
Ulrich Körtner, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria
Knoll, Franziskus, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar, Vallendar, Germany
Ralph Kunz, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Stefan Lorenzl, Paracelsus-Universität Salzburg, Agatharied/Salzburg, Austria
Susanne Magin, Hochschule für Philosophie München, München, Germany
Arne Manzeschke, Evangelische Hochschule Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Christian Metz, Kardinal-König-Akademie, Wien, Austria
Doris Nauer, CTS – Campus für Theologie und Spiritualität, Berlin, Germany
Anna Noweck, Katholische Stiftungshochschule München, München, Germany
Isabelle Noth, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Piret Paal, Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität, Salzburg, Austria
Stephan Probst, Klinikum Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Michael Reininger, Unversitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Traugott Roser, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
Patrick Schuchter, Institut für Philosophische Praxis und Sorgekultur, Wien, Austria
Julia Seiderer-Nack, München, Germany
Almuth Sellschopp, TUM Universitätsklinikum der Technischen Universität München, München, Germany
Jürgen Stausberg, Zentralinstitut für die Kassenärztliche Versorgung in Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
Charlotte Uzarewicz, Katholische Stiftungsfachhochschule München, München, Germany
Vogel, Ralf T. Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Ingolstadt/Dresden, Germany
Maria Wasner, Katholische Stiftungsfachhochschule München, München, Germany
Susan Weber, Maryville University School of Health Professions, St. Louis (MO), USA
Wolfgang Weig, Osnabrück, Germany
Herman Westerink, Radboud-University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Urs Winter-Pfändler, Schweizerisches Pastoralsoziologisches Institut, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Christian Zwingmann, Evangelische Hochschule Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Editorial Office Contact
SPIRCARE.Editorial@deGruyter.com

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