Research Articles
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Aim & Scope
We aimed to publish original research, review, case report, technical report, short papers, letters to the editor in the field of basic and clinical medical sciences.
The primary aim of our journal is to publish original research, review, case report, technical report, short paper, letter to the editor in the field of basic and clinical medical sciences in accordance with national and international standards within the framework of scientific and ethical rules, and to contribute academic knowledge in the medical field. Acta Medica Nicomedia is the official publication of Kocaeli University Faculty of Medicine. Our journal is published three times a year in February, June, and October. It is published open access and electronically within the framework of independent, unbiased and double-blind peer-review principles. The publishing languages of Acta Medica Nicomedia are Turkish and English.
Acta Medica Nicomedia is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. The articles in the Journal of "Acta Medica Nicomedia" are open access articles licensed under a CC BY-SA International License at the web address.
Writing Rules
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Submission of Articles to the Journal
Articles can only be submitted online at https://dergipark.org.tr/journal/1126/submission/start. Manuscripts sent in any other way are not evaluated.
Submission Files
• Copyright Transfer Form (Required / Signature of all authors is required)
• Similarity Report
• Reviewer Suggestion List
Text Files
• Title Page (Required, including Copyright Transfer Form)
• Main Text (Required)
• Figures (.jpg, .jpeg, .tiff, .png, .doc)
Title Page
• The file to be sent must have a ‘.doc’ extension.
• Turkish and English title of the manuscript, names of authors, academic titles and institutions, contact information of the corresponding author (address, telephone and e-mails), and name of the organization if there is any supporter of the research should be stated.
• The name, place and date of the organization should be indicated for the studies which have been presented in a congress and the abstract has been published.
• Turkish and English running titles should not exceed 50 characters (including spaces).
• ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) numbers of all authors should be added.
• It should be clearly stated whether the authors have any financial or other conflict of interest regarding the subject and/or any other author.
Main Text
• Manuscripts should be written in double spaced 12 pt with Times New Roman character. There should be at least 2.5 cm margins on all sides of each page.
• The main text should not contain any information about the names and institutions of the authors.
• Original research articles should include a structured Abstract.
• Abstract should contain sections of Objective, Methods, Results and Conclusion.
• Abstract should be limited to 250 words. References, tables, citations and unexplained abbreviations should not be used in abstract.
• The number of keywords should be between 3-5, located at the end of the abstract
• Comma sign (p <0,05) should be used in Turkish text and dot sign should be used in English text (p <0.05) while specifying decimal numbers. When percentage is reported, the percentage sign (%) must precede the number (%45) in Turkish texts but it is vice versa (45%) in English texts.
• All abbreviations used in the article should be defined at first use. The abbreviation should be given in parentheses after the definition. When referring to a drug, product, hardware or software program in the main text, product information (including the state in the United States), including the name of the product, the manufacturer of the product, the manufacturing city and the country of the producing company, must be enclosed in parentheses.
Original Research
There should be no more than 5000 words (excluding abstract and references) and include the following headings in order:
• Title (both in Turkish and English)
• Abstract (both in Turkish and English)
• Key words (both in Turkish and English)
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Disclosures, Ethical Standards Compliance, Conflict of Interest, Author Contributions, Financial Support
• References (up to 50)
• Figures and tables (up to 5)
Review Article
Maximum 8000 words (excluding abstract and references) and include the following subheadings:
• Title (both in Turkish and English)
• Abstract (both in Turkish and English)
• Key words (both in Turkish and English)
• Introduction
• Main text
• Discussion
• Disclosures, Ethical Standards Compliance, Conflict of Interest, Author Contributions
• References (up to 120)
• Figures and tables (if present)
Case report
Maximum 3500 words (excluding abstract and references) and include the following headings in order:
• Title (both in Turkish and English)
• Abstract (both in Turkish and English)
• Key words (both in Turkish and English)
• Introduction
• Case presentation
• Discussion
• Disclosures, Ethical Standards Compliance, Conflict of Interest, Author Contributions, Financial Support
• References (up to 10)
• Figures and tables (If present)
Letter to the Editor
Maximum 2000 words (excluding abstract and references) and include the following headings in order:
• Title (both in Turkish and English)
• Key words (both in Turkish and English)
• Main text
• References (up to 10)
• Disclosures, Ethical Standards Compliance, Conflict of Interest, Author Contributions, Financial Support
• Figures and tables (If present)
Technical Report
Maximum 3500 words (excluding abstract and references) and include the following headings in order:
• Title (both in Turkish and English)
• Abstract (both in Turkish and English)
• Key words (both in Turkish and English)
• Introduction
• Main text
• Discussion
• Disclosures, Ethical Standards Compliance, Conflict of Interest, Author Contributions, Financial Support
• References (up to 10)
• Figures and tables (up to 3)
Brief Report
Maximum 3500 words (excluding abstract and references) and include the following headings in order:
• Title (both in Turkish and English)
• Abstract (both in Turkish and English)
• Key words (both in Turkish and English)
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Disclosures, Ethical Standards Compliance, Conflict of Interest, Author Contributions, Financial Support
• References (up to 10)
• Figures and tables (up to 3)
Tables
• All tables should be indicated in parentheses at the end of the relevant sentence where they appear in the text with the consecutive table numbers in the main text.
• The table, table titles and descriptions should be at the end of the main text.
• Tables should be arranged with a horizontal border at the top and bottom of the table header and also below the bottom row, and a vertical border to the right of the first column.
• If exist, a description of the symbols should appear below the table.
Figures
• Figures, graphics and photos must be uploaded as separate files.
• Figures should be presented in one of the formats .jpg, .jpeg, .tiff, .png, .doc.
• Photos and scans taken with a digital camera must be at least 300 dpi resolution, 1280x960 pixels and saved in .jpg, .jpeg, .png or .tiff formats.
• Figure captions should be listed at the end of the references section in the main text.
• A description of the symbols, if any, should appear below the figures.
• Written informed consent must be obtained from the patient and/or their legal representative for any photograph used. If possible, the photograph should be arranged so that it does not reveal the patient's identity.
REFERENCES
• American Medical Association (AMA) style is used for the citation: http://www.citethisforme.com/citation-generator/ama
• Use of citation programs is recommended (EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero etc.).
➢References in Text
References should be numbered consecutively in the main text and source numbers should be given as superscripts.
Previously used reference should be written with the same number.
▪ …in the studies.8
If there is more than one reference, references should be separated with a comma.
▪ …in the studies.8,13,18
For consecutive references, the first and last reference must be separated by “-".
▪ ….in the studies.13-16
In the sentences where more than one author name is mentioned, references should be cited just above the author.
▪ …… Acar et al.7 reported high prevalence while Balcı et al.12 found lower values.
➢Listing of resources at the end of the text
References at the end of the manuscript should be listed according to the first order in the text. If the number of authors in the reference is 6 or less (≼6), all authors should be indicated. If more than 6, only the first 3 names should be given, and term of “et al.” should follow after the names of three authors. References should be presented at the end of the text according to the number of authors.
Single author: Surname AA.
Two authors: Surname AA, Surname BB.
Six authors: Surname AA, Surname BB, Surname CC, Surname DD, Surname EE, Surname FF. (All author names should be written without abbreviation.)
More than six authors: Surname AA, Surname BB, Surname CC, et al. (The names of the three authors should be written without abbreviation)
a. Citation from Articles Published in Printed Journals
▪ ‘Author's Last Name Initial letter of the author's name (s). Name of the article. Short name of the journal in italic. Publication year;Volume no(Issue):page number(s).
▪ Journal names should be abbreviated in italics in accordance with the journal abbreviations in Index Medicus / Medline / PubMed. A journal not included in the NLM catalog must be written without abbreviation.
Example: Özçelik F, Öztosun M, Gülsün M, Arslan E, Serdar MA. İdiopatik trombositopenik purpura ön tanılı bir olguda EDTA’ya bağlı psödotrombositopeni. Turkish J of Biochem. 2012;37(3):336-339.
▪ When a journal's supplement will be cited; It should be presented as (Suppl.) in English articles.
Example: McDougle CJ, Stigler KA, Posey DJ. Treatment of aggression in children and adolescents with autism and conduct disorder. J Clin Psychiatry. 2003; 64(suppl 4):16-25.
b. Citation from Articles with DOI Number from Online Journals
▪ Doi numbers should be included in articles published online
▪ No page number required
Example: Ozcelik F, Oztosun M, Gülsün M, ve ark. İdiopatik trombositopenik purpura ön tanılı bir olguda EDTA’ya bağlı psödotrombositopeni. Turk J Biochem. 2012;37(3):336-339. doi:10.5505/tjb.2012.18209
c. Citation from articles not yet published
Example: Brown JE. The relation between citations and references. J Med Style. In press
d. Website
Example: World Health Organization. Equitable access to essential medicines: a framework for collective action. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2004/WHO_EDM_2004.4.pdf. Published March 2004. Accessed December 6, 2005.
e. Book
▪ Book; ‘Author's Last Name Initial letter of the author's name (s). Book title. Edition number (do not indicate 1st edition). Place of publication: Publisher; Year.’
Example: Altuntaş B. Mendile, simite, boyaya, cope… Ankara sokaklarında çalışan çocuklar. 1st edition. İstanbul, Türkiye. İletişim Yayınları; 2003.
Example: Harmening D. Modern Blood Banking & Transfusion Practices. 6th Edition. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis Company; 2012.
f. Book chapter
▪ It should be written in the following format: ‘Chapter author(s). Chapter title. In: Editor(s). Book title. Edition number. Place of publication, City: Publisher; Year: Page number(s)’.
Example: Meltzer H, Lowy M. Neuroendocrin function in psychiatric disorders. In: Berger P, Brodie H, ed. American Handbook of Psychiatry. 2nded. New York, NY: Basic Books Inc; 2019:110-117.
g. Translated books:
▪ It should be written in the following format: ‘Author of the book. Title of the translated book. Translation editor, Trans-ed. City, Country: Publisher; Year.’.
Example: Plato. The Laws. Taylor EA, Trans-ed. London, England: JM Dent & Sons Ltd; 1934:104-105.
h. Conference Presentations:
▪ Author(s). Title of presentation. Paper presented at: Meeting name; day.month.year; City, Country.
Example: Diamond M. Lymphatic system. Lecture presented at: University of California, Berkeley; September 26, 2005; Berkeley, CA.
Example: Weber KJ, Lee J, Decresce R, Subjasis M, Prinz R. Intraoperative PTH monitoring in parathyroid hyperplasia requires stricter criteria for success. Paper presented at: 25th Annual American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Meeting; April 6, 2004; Charlottesville, VA.
ı. Thesis
▪ Author(s). Title [Speciality/PhD thesis]. City, Country: Name of the University/Institution where the thesis is made; Publication Year.
Example: Fenster SD. Cloning and Characterization of Piccolo, a Novel Component of the Presynaptic Cytoskeletal Matrix [Dissertation]. Birmingham: University of Alabama; 2000.
▪ Author(s). Title [Master Thesis]. City, Country: Name of the University/Institution where the thesis is made; Publication Year.
Example: Undeman C. Fully Automatic Segmentation of MRI Brain Images Using Probabilistic Diffusion and a Watershed Scale-Space Approach [Master thesis]. Stockholm, Sweden: NADA, Royal Institute of Technology; 2001.
Withdrawal or Rejection
• Authors who want to withdraw the article and publish it elsewhere due to delay in the evaluation process of the submitted article and other reasons, may withdraw it from the journal with a written application.
• Manuscripts that are not accepted for publication are sent back with reason. Fifteen days are allowed for the articles that require correction during the pre-control phase while it is 30 days for the articles in the post-control phase. If these periods are exceeded, the text may be rejected.
After acceptance
• If the manuscript is accepted, the acceptance letter is sent to the responsible author within two weeks. The final version of the manuscript before the publication is submitted to the author's final control.
• The journal owner and editorial board are authorized to decide in which issue of the manuscripts to be published.
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
POLICIES
PUBLISHING POLICY
• Acta Medica Nicomedia is the scientific publication of Kocaeli University Faculty of Medicine.
• Our journal is published three times a year in February, June, and October.
• It is published open access and electronically within the framework of independent, unbiased and double-blind peer-review principles.
• Acta Medica Nicomedia publishes original researches, reviews, case reports, technical reports, short reports and letters to the editor in the field of basic and clinical medical sciences that comply with national and international standards.
• The publishing languages of Acta Medica Nicomedia are Turkish and English.
• We do not ask for any kind of fees during submission, review, acceptance, or publication, and we do not ask for any payments to read or download final published articles.
• Authors' identity information and e-mail addresses are not used for other purposes in any way.
• The publication and editorial processes of the journal are carried out in accordance with the International Committee of Medical Journals Editors (ICMJE, https://www.icmje.org/). The journal complies with the transparency and principles of scientific periodicals (doaj.org/bestpractice).
• Manuscripts submitted to our journal must not have been accepted or published in another journal before (including full-text poster papers exceeding 400 words). They should be prepared in accordance with scientific and ethical principles (http://www.icmje.org/about-icmje/faqs/conflict-of-interest-disclosure-forms/). All authors involved in the articles are requested to provide a conflict of interest declaration.
• The entire content of the Acta Medica Nicomedia is protected under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Public License.
EDITORIAL POLICY
• Manuscripts sent to the journal first go through a preliminary evaluation process that will ensure that the article is prepared and presented in accordance with the journal's rules. The editorial board has the authority not to publish the articles that do not comply with the Instructions to Authors, to send them back to the author for correction and to rearrange them. Submitted articles are published with the decision of the editorial board after being evaluated by at least two reviewers. All peer reviews in the journal are performed blinded.
• Manuscripts submitted for publication in the journal must not have been previously published elsewhere or sent for publication. No royalties are paid to the authors for the articles published in the journal. The authors accept that all publishing rights of the article belong to the Acta Medica Nicomedia. The 'Copyright Transfer Form' (https://dergipark.org.tr/journal/1126/submission/start) and the 'Conflict of Interest Form' in which possible conflicts of interest are reported must be signed and sent by corresponding author. Scientific and legal responsibility of the published articles belong to the authors.
• The ICMJE Recommendations state that authorship credit requires: (1) Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data, (2) Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content, (3) Final approval of the version published. (4) Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. All four conditions must be met for authorship criteria in Acta Medica Nicomedia.
• Corrections and Retractions: All articles can be withdrawn by the corresponding author until the acceptance stage for publication. Corrections and withdrawal requests made after the acceptance stage for publication will not be accepted. In this case, the corresponding author reserves the right to publish an Erratum in the journal. Erratums sent to the journal are published with the knowledge and approval of the editorial board.
• Ethical committee approvals for original articles submitted for publication must be obtained and documented. The author(s) must state that the international guidelines accepted in this field (1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later updates) and the relevant provisions of the regulations issued by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey have been complied with.
ETHICAL POLICY
• Ethical violations are not allowed in the journal under any circumstances. All articles suspected of scientific misconduct are reviewed by the editorial board and rejected.
• An ethical committee approval of research protocols following WMA Declaration of Helsinki is required for all studies. We need every research article submitted to include a statement that the study obtained ethics approval (or a statement that it was not needed and why), including the name of the ethics committee or institutional review board, the number/ID and date of the approval(s). It should be stated at the Methods section and at the end of the article under the heading ‘Compliance with ethical standards’.
• Ethical committee approval is required for articles based on retrospective (catalog) studies.
• Ethical committee approval should be obtained in accordance with the regulation for prospective clinical studies.
• In case reports, it is the responsibility of the authors to protect the confidentiality of patients. For photographs that may reveal the patient's identity, a patient consent form signed by the patient and/or their legal representatives should be obtained and written consent should be stated in the text.
• Publication ethics principles and recommendations developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) should be taken into consideration; Council of Science Editors (CSE), International Committee of Medical Journals (ICJME) guidelines should be followed.
• Journal Plagiarism Policy: In articles submitted to the journal, the author(s) are requested to upload the similarity report to the system. All articles submitted to our journal are evaluated with plagiarism detection programs (iThenticate, Turnitin) by editorial team.
• The journal's Editorial Board handles all objections within the framework of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) rules. In such cases, authors should directly contact the editorial board regarding their complaints. If necessary, an ombudsman may be appointed to resolve issues that cannot be resolved internally. The Editor-in-Chief is the final authority in the decision-making process for all complaints.
• When submitting an article to Acta Medica Nicomedia, authors are deemed to have accepted to transfer the copyright of their article to the journal. If the author's work is rejected for publication, the copyright of the article is returned to the authors.
• Each article sent to Acta Medica Nicomedia must be accompanied by a ‘Copyright Transfer Form’ (https://dergipark.org.tr/journal/1126/submission/start) signed by all the named authors.
• Authors must obtain permission from the copyright holder for figures, tables or other printed and electronic materials taken from other sources. The authors bear all legal and financial responsibilities in this regard.
• The authors are ultimately responsible for the content of the articles published in Acta Medica Nicomedia. The editors, editorial board and publisher do not accept any responsibility for these articles.
Price Policy
• Publishing fee: We do not ask for any kind of fees during submission, review, acceptance, or publication, and we do not ask for any payments to read or download final published articles.
The articles in the Journal of "Acta Medica Nicomedia" are open access articles licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License at the web address https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/actamednicomedia