1- Original research articles include the title, abstract and keywords, introduction, material and methods, results, discussion, conclusion, acknowledgement, author contribution statement, conflict of interest, and references. They should not exceed 20 pages (excluding text, tables, artwork, and illustrations). The language of the journal is English. Manuscripts (including footnotes, references, figure legends, and tables) should be prepared with the following attributes: The manuscripts submitted for publication should be prepared in the format of Times New Roman style, font at 12 pitch, full double spacing throughout and 2.5 cm margins of all edges. Each line should be numbered using the continuing line numbering facility within the word processing package. The pages should be numbered from the “Abstract” section, and numbers should be placed in the lower right corner. The legend or caption of all illustrations, such as figures, tables and graphics, must be written, and their appropriate line and position should be indicated in the text.
2-Short papers and case reports are concise but complete descriptions of limited investigations that will not be included in a later paper. Short Communications should be as completely documented, both by reference to the literature and description of the experimental procedures employed, as a regular paper. They should not exceed 10 pages (excluding text, tables, artwork and illustrations)
3- Review article; the editorial board accepts review articles on topics of broad interest from invited authors with acknowledged expertise in their field. For unsolicited Review Articles, it will be asking that the authors have noteworthy studies in their field. The articles should include the title, abstract and keywords, introduction, text and references and it should not exceed 20 pages (excluding text, tables and illustrations).
4- Letters to the editor offering comments, or useful critique on material published in the journal are welcomed. The decision to publish submitted letters rests purely with the Editor-in-Chief. Any letter received and approved for publication will be sent to the Corresponding Author of the paper to which it refers for a response. Both letter and response (if received) will then be published together. It is hoped that the publication of such letters will permit an exchange of views which will be of benefit to both the journal and its readers.
Cover letter
The corresponding author must give written assurance that the manuscript has solely to this journal and is not published in the press or is under consideration for publication elsewhere. If authors had an article previously related to the study, authors are required to declare this in their letter and to enclose copies of those publications for editorial perusal.
Title Page
The title page should be written after cover letter with the following information below:
• Title: Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information retrieval systems. Where possible, avoid abbreviations and formulae (Only First Letter of the Words Should Be Capital)
• Running Title: The running title includes a shortened version (no more than 50 characters, including spaces) of the manuscript title of the document. (Only First Letter of the Words Should Be Capital)
• Author names and affiliations and ORCID numbers. The given name(s) and family name(s) of each author should be indicated and all names are should be accurately spell-checked. The authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done): (xxxx University, xxxx Faculty, xxxx Department, City, Country) should be presented below the names. All affiliations with a lowercase superscript letter should be indicated immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. The full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and the e-mail address of each author, should be provided. Please indicate the ORCID numbers of the authors individually.
• Corresponding Author: The corresponding author who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, as well as post-publication, must be clearly indicated. This responsibility includes answering any future queries about Materials and Methods. The e-mail address is given, and the corresponding author must keep contact details up to date.
• Present/permanent address. If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
• The authors should acknowledge that if the manuscript has been published in proceedings of conferences, symposiums, etc., elsewhere before.
Manuscript
• Abstract: A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. The abstract should be 300 words at maximum.
• Keywords: Keywords must be written in alphabetical order. Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 5 keywords, using British spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
• Introduction: This section should be brief and comprise literature knowledge stating the paper's purpose. It should also state the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results. The purpose/s and hypothesis of the study should be indicated in the last paragraph of the introduction.
• Materials and Methods: Ethics committee approval, if any, should be stated in the materials and methods section. ‘This study was approved by the Aydın Adnan Menderes University Animal Experiments Local Ethics Committee (XXXXXXX).’
The authors should describe the detailed knowledge of all experimental techniques and the nature of these controls (including positive and negative controls). Routines or procedures published previously should not be described in detail but merely cited with appropriate references. Any modifications to existing methods should also be described. However, new or significant modifications of previously published procedures need full descriptions. The sources of special chemicals or preparations should be given along with their location (company name and country). If authors give subheadings in the section, these should be in italics. The first word of the subheading must begin with a capital letter, while the other words must continue in lowercase. Statistical analyses should be provided in subheadings.
Results: This section should include a clear and concise textual description of the data collected in the research. Repetition of the same data presented in tables and figures should be avoided. Statistical analysis results within the text should show uniformity. (e.g. true 'P' value, 'P<0.05' or '*') should be preferred. The legend or caption of all illustrations, such as figures, tables and graphics, must be written, and their appropriate position should be indicated in the text.
• Discussion: The data should be interpreted concisely without repeating the material already presented in the results section. This interpretation should also add new evaluations and information to the knowledge in that field. Extensive citations and discussions of published literature should be avoided. A thorough description should be included in the discussion in the presence of possible limitations in the study that might affect the outcomes.
• Conclusion: The study's main conclusions may be presented in a short conclusion section, which should stand alone as a separate section.
• Acknowledgement: All persons who provided purely technical help, language support, writing assistance or proofreading the article, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support should be listed in this section. The articles derived from the thesis or dissertations should be identified if they are available. Also, the acknowledgements section should include a declaration concerning Funding and any Role of the Funding Source. List funding sources in this standard way to facilitate compliance with the funder's requirements. This section should include a declaration concerning funding and any role of the funding source, along with the institute/organisation name and grant number. If no funding has been provided for the research, please include the following sentence in this section: “This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.”
• Author contribution statement: To recognise every author’s contribution to a research paper, reduce authorship disputes and facilitate collaboration, we encourage authors to include a statement in the manuscript that shares and accurately describes each author's contribution. For multi-authored publications, authors are encouraged to add an "Author contribution" section, in which the contributions of all co-authors are briefly described, with the authors referred to using their initials.
Example:
Author contribution statement: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
Author contribution: "PAU and SK designed the experiments, and UP carried them out. GE developed the model code and performed the simulations. CDA prepared the manuscript with contributions from all coauthors." The approach to determining the sequence of authors is also required.
Please also note that authorship should be limited to those who have contributed significantly to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.
• Conflict of interest: Please provide details of all known situations with potential biases in the work. If the authors have no conflict of interest, the statement should read, “The authors declared that there is no conflict of interest.”
References
• The references should be formatted as indicated by the American Psychological Association (APA 6) Style.
(Please visit https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples).
• The maximum number of references must be 40.
• Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list, they should follow the standard reference style of the journal. They should substitute the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. The citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication. In the text, refer to the author's name (without initial) and year of publication. Examples: "Since Peterson (1988) has shown that...", "This is in agreement with results obtained later (Kramer, 1989)". If a reference is made in the text to a publication written by more than two authors, the first author's name should be used, followed by "et al.". This indication, however, should never be used in the list of references. The names of the first author and co-authors should be mentioned in this list. References cited together in the text should be arranged chronologically. The list of references should be arranged alphabetically based on authors' names and chronologically by author. Suppose co-authors also mention an author's name on the list. In that case, the following order should be used: publications of the single author, arranged according to publication dates – publications of the same author with one co-author – publications of the author with more than one co-author.
Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be listed as 2000a, 2000b, etc.
• Reference link: DOI should be used in all references, if available. Online links to the sources ensure increased discoverability of research and high-quality peer review cited. To allow us to create links to abstracting and indexing services, such as Scopus, CrossRef and PubMed, please ensure that the data provided in the references are correct. Please note that incorrect surnames, journal/book titles, publication year and pagination may prevent link creation. When copying references, please be careful as they may already contain errors. Please note the format of such citations should be in the same style as all other references in the paper.
• Web references: At a minimum, the full URL and the date when the reference was last accessed should be given. If known, any further information should also be provided (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.). Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired or can be included in the reference list. The web reference list must contain at most three references for letters to the editor, case reports, short communications, review articles, and research articles.
Examples:
• Reference to a journal publication: Ulutas, P.A., Bayazit, M., Kiral, F., & Bildik, A. (2010). Acute phase protein levels in pregnancy and oestrus cycle in bitches. Research in Veterinary Science, 86(3), 373-376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2008.09.001
***If there are more than 7 authors, after listing the names of the first six authors, add three dots followed by the name of the last author. No more than seven names should be included.
Miller, F.H., Choi, M.J., Angeli, L.L., Harland, A.A., Stamos, J.A., Thomas, S.T., . . . Rubin, L.H. (2009). Web site usability for the blind and low-vision user. Technical Communication, 57, 323-335
• Reference to a journal publication with an article number:
Jerrentrup, A., Mueller, T., Glowalla, U., Herder, M., Henrichs, N., Neubauer, A., & Schaefer, J.R. (2018). Teaching medicine with the help of “Dr. House.” PLoS ONE, 13(3), Article e0193972. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193972
• Reference to a journal available online but not in an issue:
VanDecar J.C., Russo R.M., James D.E., Ambeh W.B., & Franke M. (2003). Aseismic continuation of the Lesser Antilles slab beneath northeastern Venezuela. Journal of Geophysical Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2001JB000884
• Reference to a whole authored book: Strunk Jr., W., & White, E.B. (2000). The Elements of Style (4th ed.). Longman Publications.
• Reference to a whole edited book: Torino, G.C., Rivera, D.P., Capodilupo, C.M., Nadal, K.L., & Sue, D.W. (Eds.). (2019). Microaggression theory: Influence and implications. John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119466642
• Reference to several volumes of a multivolume work: Harris, K.R., Graham, S., & Urdan T. (Eds.). (2012). APA educational psychology handbook (Vols. 1–3). American Psychological Association.
• Reference a chapter in an edited book: Parin, U., Kirkan, S., & Erbas, G. (2018). Emerging bacterial zoonoses in migratory birds. In J. Kideghesho, & A. Rija (Eds.), Wildlife Management - Failures, Successes and Prospects (pp. 23-41). Intech Open. http://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.72244
• Reference to a conference presentation: Evans, A.C., Jr., Garbarino, J., Bocanegra, E., Kinscherff, R.T., & Márquez-Greene, N. (2019, August 8–11). Gun violence: An event on the power of community [Conference presentation]. APA 2019 Convention, Chicago, IL, United States. https://convention.apa.org/2019-video
• Reference to a dissertation or thesis: Zambrano-Vazquez, L. (2016). The interaction of state and trait worry on response monitoring in those with worry and obsessive-compulsive symptoms [Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona]. UA Campus Repository. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/620615
• Reference to a website: Cancer Research UK (1975). Cancer statistics reports for the UK. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/ (accessed 13 March 2018).
• Reference to a dataset: Oguro, M., Imahiro, S., Saito, S., & Nakashizuka, T. (2015). Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt disease and surrounding forest compositions. [dataset]. Mendeley Data, v1. https://doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1
Tables: Tables should be prepared in Word format (8-12 fonts). Tables should be presented separately from the text. The heading or title of the table should be complete so that the reader can understand the table without reference to the text. All parts of a table must be double-spaced and set in full-size type. Omit all vertical lines from the table format. Number tables consecutively by their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body. Be sparing in using tables and ensure that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. Please do not use vertical rules and shading in table cells. The table lines should have 3 main horizontal lines: 2 on the top and 1 at the bottom.
Figures: Figures should be presented separately from the text. Figures designed to span one or both columns on a page should be 8.2 cm or 16.9 cm wide, respectively. The submitted figures must be in TIFF or JPEG format (minimum resolution of 300 dpi) for colour and halftones. The figure numbers should appear directly at the lower left corner if several illustrations are grouped into a composite plate. Legends to all submitted illustrations should be shown separately, and where appropriate, the stain and magnification should be stated.
Nomenclatures, Symbols, Unit, and Abbreviations: Authors and editors are, by general agreement, obliged to accept the rules governing biological nomenclature, as laid down in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria, and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. All biotic (crops, plants, insects, birds, mammals, etc.) should be identified by their scientific names when the English term is first used, except common domestic animals. All biocides and other organic compounds must be identified by their Geneva names when first used in the text. Active ingredients of all formulations should be likewise identified. Nomenclatures and abbreviations should follow the guidelines in the instructions to authors of journals SI units (System International Unites) and IUPA-IUB Commission.
Submission of Manuscripts: Submission (main text, figures and tables) to the Journal now proceeds online: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/journal/3420/submission/step/manuscript/new.
