Aim & Scope
The aim of Journal of International Dental Sciences is to announce quality researches in dentistry and respective subjects to the national and international scientific environment, sharing and creating a continuous training platform to contribute to the provision of scientific and social communication in Turkey and abroad.
Journal of International Dental Sciences is a scientific publication of Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University Faculty of Dentistry. This is a refereed journal, which aims at achieving free knowledge to the national and international organizations and individuals related to dentistry sciences in electronic form. This journal is published three annually in April, August and December. The publication language of the journal is Turkish and English.
Writing Rules
Journal of International Dental Sciences is a scientific publication of Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University Faculty of Dentistry. This is a refereed journal, which aims at achieving free knowledge to the national and international organizations and individuals related to dentistry sciences in published and electronic forms. This journal is published three annually in April, August and December. The publication language of the journal is Turkish and English.
The aim of the journal is to announce quality researches in dentistry and respective subjects to the national and international scientific environment, sharing and creating a continuous training platform to contribute to the provision of scientific and social communication in Turkey and abroad.
In pursuit of these objectives in the journal original research, case reports, reviews, letters to the editor, biography, writings and conference proceedings brought to articles format are published. The papers presented at the symposium, congress, electronic media or preliminary studies can be published provided that this is stated.
The manuscripts will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that they are being submitted to one journal at a time and have not been published, simultaneously submitted or already accepted for publication elsewhere.
Editor and assistant editors review all submitted manuscripts initially. Then the manuscript is sent to the scientific advisory board member for evaluation. All the articles submitted to the journal for publication are referred to peer review. Corrections can be made in appropriate cases. Authors may answer some questions and may be asked to revise their article. Articles decided to be published in the journal would be taken in the process of page arrangement. At this stage, all the articles are checked for the accuracy of the information they give. Articles brought to the control of the authors are completed and submitted for approval prior to publication.
SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBILITY
All manuscripts’ scientific responsibility belongs to the authors. Authors specified in the article must be at a certain rate of contribution. The order of authorship should be a joint decision. Authors must indicate in the form of a signed transfer copyright of the author rankings. All of the author's name should be placed in the paper section at the bottom of the title. Contributions that need acknowledging but do not justify authorship can be listed in the section ‘Acknowledgements’.
ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY
• For any liability arising from non-compliance with the Code of Ethics belong(s) author(s).
The "human" element in all studies involving compliance with the Principles of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association (http://www.wma.net/en/30 publications / 10policies / b3 / index.html) principle is accepted. Therefore, all articles submitted for publication must be stated that compliance with the ethical standards of the above committee. In these studies, the author of the article had been made in accordance with the above principles in the MATERIALS AND METHODS section of the study, approval from the ethics committee and the individuals involved in the work / of the parents’ "Informed Consent" and acknowledgment is required. Any necessary approval from local and international ethics documents must also be sent along with the article.
• For experimental studies related "Animals" elements, author of the article are required to report in MATERIALS AND METHODS section that they received approval from the ethics committee in the institution where the study was conducted, in order to protect animal rights in accordance with the principles of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (www.nap.edu/catalog/5140.html).
• Certificates for the studies requiringthe ethic committee approval must be submitted to the board of the journal with the article.
• If there are quoted article which were previously published, tables, images, etc in the articleauthors must obtain written permission from the copyright holder and also this must be mentioned in the article.
• If directly or indirectly trade links or financial support institution for the study; at the source page, used commercial products, pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical companies etc. If there isno trade or be obliged the association that kind of a relationship, it must be mentioned in the article.
• Editors and the publisher do not accept responsibility for the purpose of advertising commercial product specifications and descriptions published in the journal.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY OF THE PATIENTS AND THE STUDY PARTICIPANTS
• Especially patient's name, the shortening of the name, patient protocol number and registration number should not be used.
• Unless patient consent and / or there is specific evidence regarding eyes, eyes in the photo will be masked in order the patient not to be recognized.
• If descriptive information is absolutely necessary for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) in writing 'Informed Consent' give permission, cannot be published.. 'Informed Consent' must be stated in the article is taken.
RELATIONS WITH EDITORS, AUTHORS AND REFEREES
Manuscripts submitted to the journal, must be prepared according to journal writing rules and brought to ready to complete the page edition. Extension board has the authority to ask the author revise the article and has also the authority to return writings which do not obey the spelling rules. An article containing answers to the referees should be added by the author with the desired corrections.
Editors and language editors are fully authorized in amendments and corrections for writing, language, spelling, spelling correction of compliance with the rules and control of references in other related topics.
Excerpts have been published previously in the article text, tables, and there are photographs, the author of the article is responsible for publication and has the right to obtain written permission from the author and must also be noted in this article.
Articles submitted to the journal will be sent to the referee by the editorial board according to blinding consultation system (peer-review) by removing author names from the text. Also, the authors do not be provided information about the referees. Editor does not share any information regarding articles (article receipt, review the contents of the review process, criticism of the referees or final results) with anyone except from the authors and referees. The referees and editorial board members cannot discuss articles publicly. The authors of the article are about to be released within six weeks.
After reviewing the article, referees send evaluation to editor. Referee's evaluation cannot be printed or disclosed without author and editor’s permission. Attention is paid to the anonymity of the referees. In some cases, the decision of the editor's interpretation of the relevant article is informed to other referees to review the referee sent the same article for clarifying the process.
TYPES OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Original Article: Clinical, laboratory, epidemiological and all kinds of experimental studies are submitted. Original articles should consist of the following sections;
Abstract (Turkish And English), Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, References.
Compilation: Assemblies consisting of current topics in dental science, or can be written directly by invited authors. Review articles should consist of the following sections;
Abstract (Turkish and English), Text, References.
Case Report:Very rare cases in the field of dentistry science, innovation and showing differences in diagnosis and treatment, completed treatment and follow-upare given. A case report should consist of the following sections;
Abstract (Turkish and English), Introduction, Case, Discussion, References.
WRITING RULES
Articles should be written in double-spaced, 12-point and aligned right-left, "Times New Roman" or "Arial ' as font. 2.5 cm space should be left in the margins and page numbers should be placed in the lower right corner of each page. Number should not be written on the cover page. Articles should be appropriate to "International Committee of Medical Journal Editors," defined by: Uniform Standards Required for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (from http://www.icmje.org). The original research papers and review articles should not exceed 15 pages with double-spaced, and case reports up to 5 pages (extract resources, excluding tables and figures). Writings should be sent in "doc" or "txt" format. The article should contain the following sections:
TITLE PAGE
Title of the paper (Turkish-English), authors' names, institutions they work, correspondence author's name, full address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address should also include a short title not exceeding 40 characters. If the article was presented at a scientific meeting name, date and place specified to be written.
ABSTRACT AND KEYWORDS
Each article should have abstracts both in Turkish and in English. The abstract should not exceed 250 words, should be capable of reflecting the article, it should give significant results and author’s interpretation should be made very short. Undisclosed abbreviations should not be used in the abstract, the references should not be shown.
Original research articles should have Turkish and English abstracts segment and configured as follows:
Objective, materials and methods, results, conclusion(s).
In a case report; objective case (s), result(s) must be configured containing partitions that essence.
Turkish and English keywords should be compatible with "Index Medicus: Medical Subject Headings" (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/mbrowser.html) and should be at least three to ten. The key words should be considered as the most important element in accessingto documents.
INTRODUCTION
This section should answer the question why the research performed and it should be considered as the historical literature on the subject.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Means must be defined and applied methods used in the study should be discussed in detail. Abbreviations in the text, tables, images and figures should be disclosed in its first occurrence. If a brand name is cited in the manufacturer's name and address (city, country) should be given.
RESULTS
The findings should be presented in a clear and concise manner. For this purpose, tables, graphs and photos could be used.
DISCUSSION
Without repetition of introduction, the importance of the findings should be noted.
RESULT(S)
In this section, the results of the study should be given.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Before the end of the article and references, contributing to the preparation of research or article appreciation can be written. In this section, personal, technical and acknowledgments will be included for some reasons such as aid supplies.
REFERENCES
References should be numbered consecutively in an order.The article number should be mentioned in parentheses at the end of the sentence within the text.The reference list should be based on numbers that appear paranthetical documentation Reference list must be on a separate page. While sources in the text, number of authors, all authors should be written in less than two or more than two first author's name is written "et al." abbreviations should be used. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references. Reference inform must comply the updated form of "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" (http://www.icmje.org) (February 2006). The names of journals abbreviated in the form according to Index Medicus is given. To see the names or abbreviations of journal list see. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html journals indexed in Index Medicus. No abbreviations are made if the journal names are not in the index. Only published or to be published "in press" articles, in references.
EXAMPLES FOR THE WRITING OF REFERENCES
JOURNALS:
Author names, article title, journal name ( shortened according to the "lndexmedicus" list) year, volume number, first and last page number.
Shannon K, RS Nanda. Changes in the curve of Spee with treatment and at 2 years posttreatment. Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop 2004; 125: 589-596.
ON-LINE ARTICLES:
Abood Q: Quality improvement initiative in nursing homes: the HOME acts in an advisory role. Am J Nurs [Internet publication]. 2002 Jun [cited 12.08.2002]; 102 (6). Access: http://www.nursingworld.org/ajn/2002/june/wawatch.htm
BOOKS:
Authors’ name of the parts, the book's name, the numberof the edition, place of publication, publisher, year.
Graber TM, Rakosi T, Petrovic AG. Dentofacial orthopedics with functional appliances. 2nd ed., St. Louis, Mosby; 1997.
Book section:
Related section, the author name (s), section names, editor (s), book title, place of publication, publisher, year, first and last page number.
Marsh PD, Nyvad B. The oral microflora and biofilms on teeth. In: Fejerskov O, Kidd E, editors. Dental caries the disease and its clinical management. 2nd ed. Blackwell Munksgaard; 2004. 29-48.
TABLES:
Tables should come after the references in the main text, each table should be typed double-spaced and will be on a separate page. According to the order mentioned in the article should be numbered with Roman numerals and short extracts should carry a title. It should be noted also within the text. Table header should be on the table; included descriptions and abbreviations should be below the table. Tables should have a self-explanatory nature rather than repeating the information in the text. References of the information or statements that are published recently should be indicated in a footnote attached to the corresponding table below.
ABBREVIATIONS
Word’sabbreviation is given in parenthesis where it first time passes and used the same abbreviation allthrough the text.
PHOTO AND FIGURES, SUBTITLES
Images, shapes, electronic photographs, radiographs, CT scans, and scanned images in .jpeg or .tiff format, 500 × 400 pixel size and 300 dpi resolution should be recorded and submitted online. In histological sections enlargement of the photo and staining technique should be stated. The figures should be numbered according to their sequence in the text. It should also be noted in the text areas. The pictures and illustrations’ subtitles should be given on a separate sheet at the end of the article. Pictures and captions should be short and should be in descriptive manner, the text must not have repetition. Pictures or numbers used in the figures, the meaning of symbols and letters should be stated clearly. Writing text on the drawing should be avoided unless it is necessary.
APPLICATION AND COPYRIGHT TRANSFER PAGE
Entries are accepted only online via the journal's article assessment system (http: // www.dentaljournal.org/submit). Along with the text, including the right to broadcast all of the authors of the signed approval of the transfer form must be sent to the publishing company BULU? Design and Printing. (e-mail: bulus@bulustasarim.com.tr fax: +90 312 222 44 07) Manuscriptis read by all authors, approved and should be expressed as the product of an original work and must have the signature next to the author's name. Any author should be noted that there is no conflict of interest with the institution or organization and the International College of Medical Journal Editors form for the Disclosure of Conflict of which is prepared in accordance with Interest "Conflict of Interest Form" should be completed and submitted.
Accepted articles broadcasting rights should be transferred to the Editorial Board of Journal of International Dental Sciences Publications. The copyright of the printed article comprising the reproduction and distribution rights. Authors may open the article free at web providing that Editorial Board of the Journal of International Dental Sciences is the owner of the copyright and the publication of this article. In this case the following statement must contain "original article is located in the http://dentaljournal.beun.edu.tr address " and the port connection must be created. All the articles published in this journal are protected by copyright. Any printed material can not be published else where in any way without the written permission of the Editorial Board Journal of International Dental Sciences,. Journal of International Dental Sciences Editorial Board does not accept any legal responsibility for the lackinginformation, rights claims and mistakesto occur via publication in this journal. Authors and referees for articles published in this journal are not paid any fees.
CHECKLIST FOR AUTHORS:
Before submitting your article to Journal of International Dental Sciences, please make sure that you have no missing files.
• Application Letter to the Editor
• Conflict of interest form
•Cover page
• Article text
• Abstract (Turkish)
• (English)
• References (Separate page).
• Tables and graphs
• Pictures and figures
PUBLISHMENTS
Free electronic reprint of the article (PDF) and a journal will be sent to authors. The publisher does not send free article reprints.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Editorial Address:
Journal of International Dental Sciences
Bulent Ecevit University Faculty of Dentistry
İbn-i Sina Campus Esenköy Kozlu
Zonguldak/ Turkey
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
1) Etik kurul kararı gerektiren klinik ve deneysel insan ve hayvanlar üzerindeki çalışmalar için ayrı ayrı etik kurul onayı alınmış olmalı, bu onay makalede belirtilmeli ve belgelenmelidir.
2) Makalelerde Araştırma ve Yayın Etiğine uyulmalıdır.
3) Uluslararası Diş Hekimliği Bilimleri Dergisine gönderilen bilimsel yazılar da, ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) tavsiyeleri ile COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)’un Editör ve Yazarlar için Uluslararası Standartlar dikkate alınmaktadır.
4) Etik kurul izni gerektiren çalışmalarda, izinle ilgili bilgiler (kurul adı, tarih ve sayı no) yöntem bölümünde ve ayrıca makale ilk/son sayfasında yer verilmelidir. Olgu sunumlarında, bilgilendirilmiş gönüllü olur/onam formunun imzalatıldığına dair bilgiye makalede yer verilmesi gereklidir.
5) Kullanılan fikir ve sanat eserleri için telif hakları düzenlemelerine riayet edilmesi gerekmektedir.
Price Policy
Dergimize makale gönderim , süreç işletimi ve basımı ücretsizdir.
It is aimed that the Journal of International Dentistry Sciences be included in the Ulakbim TR Dizin. Necessary preparations are continuing for the issues to be published in 2020 in the TR Dizin.