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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Preparation of paper

The manuscript should be typed on paper with A4 dimensions, leaving 2.5 cm space from the top, below, right and left edges, with double line space, without hyphenation at line end, by using font size 10 Times New Roman character font.

The tables, figures, graphs and similar that are included should not exceed an area of 10 x 17 cm for preventing exceeding of page borders and for using with convenience. Thus, smaller font sizes and single line space may be used for objects such as tables, figures, images, graphs etc. The tables, figures, images, graphs etc. should be inserted into the text.

Papers should not exceed 20 pages. Sending a copy of the paper produced through MS Word to the Journal's e-mail addresses or submitting the same online from the website is sufficient for the editorial process to commence. An electronic mail message confirming its receipt is sent at the latest in a week after the paper was sent.

For any clinical or experimental studies on humans and animals that require ethics board approval to be used in the research studies, separate ethics board approvals have to be obtained, such approval should be referred to in the paper, and duly documented.

For Turkish papers, the grammar rules in TDK Spelling Book (Yazım Kılavuzu, 2009, Turkish Language Association) or on the address www.tdk.gov.tr (online version) should be complied with in respect to both the text and the references sections.

References (For both the text and the references sections, the grammatical rules defined in the book named Publication Manual of American Psychological Association and published by American Psychological Association should be implemented). Authors are advised to use APA7 format.

Journal names should be abbreviated in accordance with Index Medicus or Ulakbim/Turkish Medical Index.

The papers submitted should include the sections presented in bold characters below:

  • Turkish Title Page (should include paper title, full names and titles of author(s), the institutions they are employed in, and their address, telephone, fax and electronic mail addresses)
  • Turkish Abstract (between 150 and 200 words)
  • Keywords (between 5 and 8 words)
  • Main Text (quantitative and qualitative studies should include introduction, methodology, findings and discussion sections)
  • English Title Page (should include the paper title, full names and titles of author(s), the institutions they are employed in, and their address, telephone, fax and electronic mail addresses, and their "ORCID" data with international validity)
  • Abstract (between 150 and 200 words)
  • Keywords (between 5 and 8 words)

English Main Text (quantitative and qualitative studies should include introduction, methodology, findings and discussion sections)

Review

Reviews prepared by authors who have extensive knowledge on a particular field and whose scientific background has been translated into a high volume of publications with a high citation potential are welcomed. These authors may even be invited by the journal. Reviews should describe, discuss, and evaluate the current level of knowledge of a topic in clinical practice and should guide future studies. The subheadings of the review articles should be planned by the authors. 

Original Article

This is the most important type of article since it provides new information based on original research. The main text of original articles should be structured with Introduction, Material and Method, Results, and Discussion subheadings. 

Statistical analysis to support conclusions is usually necessary. Statistical analyses must be conducted in accordance with international statistical reporting standards (Altman DG, Gore SM, Gardner MJ, Pocock SJ. Statistical guidelines for contributors to medical journals. Br Med J 1983: 7; 1489-93). Information on statistical analyses should be provided with a separate subheading under the Materials and Methods section and the statistical software that was used during the process must be specified.

Units should be prepared in accordance with the International System of Units (SI).

Literature Review

Literature Eeview
LITERATURE REVIEW
 
 
 

Articles

Section default policy

Case Reports

Intriguing and informative case reports including very rare conditions even for other authors or those representing challenges in the diagnosis and treatment or overlooked conditions in practice or those offering new therapies, involving information that are not even present in the textbooks can be published in the journal. Such case reports are published in limited numbers. Case report contains the subheadings of Introduction, Case Report and Discussion.

Letter to the Editor

This type of manuscript discusses important parts, overlooked aspects, or lacking parts of a previously published article. Articles on subjects within the scope of the journal that might attract the readers’ attention, particularly educative cases, may also be submitted in the form of a “Letter to the Editor.” Readers can also present their comments on the published manuscripts in the form of a “Letter to the Editor.” Abstract, Keywords, and Tables, Figures, Images, and other media should not be included. The text should be unstructured. The manuscript that is being commented on must be properly cited within this manuscript.

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