REVIEWER AND EVALUATION PROCESS
The decision about the publication of all articles to be published in the journal belongs to the editors. However, the editors shape their decisions in line with the recommendations of the reviewers.

All studies submitted to Journal of ANKEM are subject to double-blind peer-review. The only person who knows every step in this evaluation is the editor and/or the responsible assistant editor. Authors cannot know who is the reviewer who will evaluate their work, and the reviewers cannot know the authors whose work they evaluate.

Each work to be sent is evaluated by at least two reviewers, preferably three, who are experts in their fields. Every effort is made by the editors so that the articles can be evaluated quickly. In case the opinions of the reviewers differ, the final decision authority in the evaluation processes of the articles rests with the editor.

Preliminary Evaluation Process
The relevant editor examines the incoming work according to the purpose and scope of the journal, whether it is in accordance with the spelling rules, scientific, English and Turkish language proficiency. At this stage, the editor can send questions to the author and request corrections.
The articles that are found suitable as a result of the examination are taken into the reviewer evaluation process, the articles that do not comply with the publication rules and publication policy of the journal or that are not scientifically sufficient are returned to the corresponding author.

Writing rules
Compliance with research and publication ethics is the most sought-after features for articles to be sent to Journal of ANKEM. Journal of ANKEM is published three times a year (April, August, December) starting from the 29th volume, research articles are mainly included in each issue, and only a few reviews and case reports are included.

Authors are required to state their ORCID numbers, which they will obtain from www.orcid.org.

ARTICLE PREPARATION

Scientific studies requested to be evaluated for publication in ANKEM Journal will be accepted through DergiPark as of January 1, 2024, and the process will proceed from there. Since ANKEM Journal carries out the evaluation process in a double-blind manner, the uploaded article as a  Word file should not contain information about the authors' identity information and the institution where the study is conducted.
In addition to article files; "Journal of ANKEM Author Approval-Transfer of Publication Rights and Declaration of Conflicts of Interest Form , which states that the article has not been published in another journal, that the authors approve the publication of the article in Journal of ANKEM and all its content, and that includes academic titles such as Bio, Dr, Specialist Dr., Prof Dr...., signed by all authors. When necessary, the approval of the Ethics Committee should be sent to the same address by e-mail, and originals with wet signatures should be kept by the authors so that they can be sent to the journal if desired. For case reports, a signed informed consent form obtained from the patient or the legal guardian, stating that the information can be published is mandatory. In cases where this is not possible, approval of the ethics committee is required. It is the authors' responsibility to provide the originals of the informed consent documents and ethics committee permission documents, when necessary. The mailing address of the correspondent author, tel, GSM, fax numbers, e-mail address and e-mail addresses and ORCID numbers of all other authors should be specified. Approvals from authors other than the relevant author are also received via e-mail.

If the article is about a presentation that has been made before, the meeting where the presentation was made should be reported with the name-date-place and presentation number. If any support is received, the institution from which the support is received and the relevant project number, if any, should be specified.

Research articles to be published in Journal of ANKEM should be deemed appropriate by the editorial board in terms of both scope and layout. After such articles are arranged according to the ANKEM format, the authors and addresses are hidden and sent to scientific reviewers. The reviewers who helped ANKEM for the articles in one volume are listed in the 3rd issue of the volume and they are acknowledged. The editorial board decides whether the articles are published, whether they are published after correction, and the priority of publication, taking into account the reviewer reports. The editorial board has the authority to make corrections and abbreviations that do not change the message of the article. Scientific and legal responsibility for the article belongs to the authors.

Spelling and language layout:
Articles are published in Turkish or English.
For texts in Turkish language, see the details given in the Turkish version of this page. For texts in English, proper grammar, spelling, and proper punctuations should be used.
Latin microorganism names used in the text (except in tables and references) should be written in italics. The microorganism name, which is written in full when first used, should be abbreviated by using the first letter of the genus name in later use. For example, write as “Escherichia coli” first in the text and as “E. coli” in the following. Latin-derived terms such as in vitro, in vivo, sensu stricto, sensu lato should be written in italics. All numbers at the beginning of a sentence and numbers smaller than 10 spelled out. If possible, avoid starting a sentence with a number. “Gram”, which is the staining method, and when used to identify bacteria, should be written in capital letters such as “Gram negative/positive” instead of “gram (-/+)”.

Manuscripts:
Original articles should include TURKISH TITLE, ENGLISH TITLE, TURKISH ABSTRACT, ENGLISH ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, FINDINGS, DISCUSSION, REFERENCES. If you want to write ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, it should be placed before the REFERENCES. Review articles should include TURKISH TITLE, ENGLISH TITLE, TURKISH ABSTRACT, and ENGLSIH ABSTRACT sections and should be divided into sections as the author deems appropriate. Case reports should have TITLE, ENGLISH TITLE, TURKISH ABSTRACT, ENGLISH ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, CASE and DISCUSSION sections. Opinions about the studies published in the journal and the answers of the authors of the related study are included in the "Letter to the Editor" section. Opinions sent as letters to the editor should be kept short, should not be used more than 500 words and 5 references unless necessary, and should not include an “ABSTRACT”.

Author names should be written in full with surnames capitalized. The affiliations of the authours should be shown under the names of the authors in the shortest form. If the authors work in different organizations, the names and organizations should be indicated with numbers. In addition to the institution where the authors work at the date of application, if different, the institutions at the date of the study should also be specified. In order to give this information correctly, more than one institution information can be entered for an author.

The abstract should contain the content of the article, important points about the findings, should be long enough to give the reader sufficient information about the whole article and should not exceed 250 words. Four to six “Keywords” should be placed after the abstract. Since these words will be used in subject indexes, they should be chosen carefully (please use Medical Subject Headings (MESH) at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html ) and sorted by letter index.

Turkish and English abstracts and keywords should be identical.

INTRODUCTION should give information that will facilitate understanding of the subject and the aim of the study in a short and concise manner.

The MATERIALS AND METHODS section should not re-tell what is known by the people who are related to the subject, and a narrative showing easily accessible references should be preferred.

FINDINGS should present the results of the study with the help of tables and figures, if necessary. Figures, graphics and photographs should not be used unless absolutely necessary. The information given in the tables should not be repeated in the text, important parts should be emphasized if necessary.
The DISCUSSION section should not repeat the findings and tables, should highlight important aspects of the findings and compare them with the findings of other researchers. Articles should not exceed 10 pages, excluding tables and figures, and the number of references (excluding reviews) should not exceed 25. Longer articles are accepted by the editorial board if deemed necessary, they can be shortened by the board or shortened by the author.

Table and figure layout: Tables should contain upper and lower lines and intermediate lines as necessary (unnecessary horizontal and vertical lines should be avoided), they should be listed with Arabic numerals, the table legend should be written above the table top line. The table legend should be as short as possible. Efforts should be made to present the findings in tables for easy understanding, but a separate table should not be prepared for the issues mentioned in a few sentences in the text. The information in the table in the text should not be repeated unnecessarily, it should be contented with stating the important issues. If means and percentages in tables (and text) are not significant, they should not be run after the whole number (or should be run as significant), and should be rounded to the nearest number. For example: specifying 13 of 34 strains as 38% may facilitate understanding, but this ratio should not be extended to 38.2%. It should be considered that the first digit in the extension indicates a probability of one in a thousand, but in large numbers it is right to indicate this probability. Averages should be given in a way that is meaningful and easy to understand. For example, the average of the erythrocyte counts should be given as 4,365,000 and not 4,365,248. Figures, graphics, chemical formulas, photographs, and microphotographs to be added to the article only if necessary should be named and listed as "Figure".

REFERENCES should be listed in alphabetical order and the spelling should be in accordance with the "Vancouver" citation style. Examples can be taken from the following examples and the spelling rules on the web page of our journal (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html). All the works used should be given as a reference, but the reference should not be used to increase the number. Turkish references that will be useful should not be ignored. All of the references must be used in the text and all those used in the text must be included in the list of references.

When citing references, the number of parentheses to be placed at the end of the sentence in the text should be written: “...shown (1,5,6)”. If the name of the author is used when citing the reference in the text, the reference number should be written next to the author's name. According to Smith and Jones(4)........., if there are more than two authors, according to Smith et al.(4).........

When preparing the reference list, the names of all six or fewer authors should be used, and in the references with seven or more authors, "et al." or “et al.” abbreviation should be used.

The list of references should be sorted in alphabetical order. For references with the same author names, the year should be taken into consideration, and if they are in the same year and in the journal, the volume and page numbers should be taken into account.

While citing the reference, the following examples should be taken as a basis, punctuation, word and letter spacing, capital letters, journal, volume, issue, page numbers should be written accordingly.

Journal names: International journals should be abbreviated as "PubMed Journals Database", Turkish journals should be abbreviated as "http://www.atifdizini.com/Journals/ tr-index.html".

Hindler JF, Stelling J. Analysis and presentation of cumulative antibiograms: a new consensus guideline from the clinical and laboratory standards institute. Clin Infect Dis. 2007;44(6):867-73. https://doi.org/10.1086/511864

References from the internet websites:
If author/s available: In accordance with the spelling rules of Journal of ANKEM, the author's name, subject title, institution to which the page belongs, access address and access date should be given: Töreci K. Young authors of Journal of ANKEM, ANKEM Association, http://www.ankemdernegi.org.tr/?sp =guest0606 (accessed 1.1.2015)

If the author is not available: The subject title, the institution to which the page belongs, the access address and the date of access should be given. Inappropriate antibiotic use for pneumonia common. Medscape Infectious Diseases, http://www.medscape.com/ viewarticle/876918, (accessed 03.03.2017)

When books and book chapters are used as a reference, the following examples should be taken as basis in terms of spelling and punctuation:
Book: 4th Baron EJ, Peterson LR, Fingeold SM. Bailey and Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology, 9th ed., pp.168-204, Mosby Co., London (1994).
Book chapter: 4. Swenson JM, Hindler JA, Peterson LR. Special tests for detecting antibacterial resistance, in the book “Murray PR, Baron EJ, Pfaller MA, Tenover FC, Yolken RH (eds): Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 6th edition”, pp. 1356-72, ASM Press, Washington (1995).

In books in Turkish, the name of the publishing institution and the publication number, if any, should be used, not the publisher. Like “Istanbul Medical Faculty Publication No.20, Istanbul (2001)”.

Congress proceedings: Abstracts and presentations in congresses if published in a journal, are cited as other articles in the journal. Those published in a special congress book can be cited according to the following example:
Akyüz Z, Dinç U, Güler NC et al. Determination of the distribution of Candida species isolated from blood samples in our hospital between 2005-2008, XXXIII. Turkish Microbiology Congress Book, pp.846-7, Bodrum (2008) (may be in Poster no. instead of page).

SUBMIT AND WITHDRAW ARTICLES

Article Submission: Articles must be uploaded to the DergiPark system as of January 1, 2024.

Article Withdrawal: Due to our publication policies, the journal editor and the author have to cooperate in the withdrawal process.

The author who wishes to withdraw his/her work in the evaluation phase should submit the request containing the justification to the editorial board in electronic or printed form, with a wet signature stating that all authors have approved.

The Editorial Board examines the request and returns to the author within ten days at the latest. Unless the withdrawal request is approved by the editorial board, the work whose publishing right has been transferred to Journal of ANKEM at the time of article submission cannot be sent to another journal for evaluation.

CONTACT US:

The Turkish Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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Tel: 0212 219 9339-40
Fax: 0212 219 9341
E-mail: ankem@ankemdernegi.org.tr
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This guide should be carefully reviewed by all researchers who will submit a study to the Journal.
The sources used while preparing these policies are indicated at the end of the guide.
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
Being aware of the need for easy access to information in order to advance scientific studies, Journal of ANKEM supports the open access initiative of the peer-reviewed journal literature included in the Budapest Open Access Declaration and presents all published articles free of charge in an environment where everyone can read and download it. In this declaration, open access is used as “the ability to access, read, save, copy, print, scan, link to the full text, index, transfer to software and use for any legal purpose the scientific literature without financial, legal and technical barriers through the Internet”. Considering the role of knowledge sharing in the advancement of science, open access is of great importance for researchers and readers. For this reason, the articles in this journal can be used as long as the author and the original source are cited. No permissions are required from authors or publishers. The articles in this journal can be accessed among search engines, websites, blogs and other digital platforms. translation can be accessed from the address. No subscription fee, publication fee or similar payment is requested for accessing the articles published in Journal of ANKEM. Authors can store submitted, accepted and/or published versions of their articles in their preferred archives.
These open access policies, which were accepted on 12 September 2012 and adopted by our editorial board, can be accessed at http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-translations/turkish-translation.
No subscription fee, publication fee or similar payment is requested for accessing the articles published in Journal of ANKEM.
Authors can store submitted, accepted and/or published versions of their articles in their preferred archives.
Creative Commons
A Creative Commons license is a type of public copyright license that allows free distribution of a copyrighted work or work. When an author wants to give the right to share or make changes to the work he has created, he uses the CC license.
Journal of ANKEM approves the "Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND)" license for all published articles.
This license allows other authors to use your work in their own work for non-commercial purposes and attribution to your work.
Open access is an approach that reinforces interdisciplinary development and encourages collaboration between different disciplines. Therefore, the JOURNAL contributes to its field by offering more access to its articles and a more transparent review process.
ETHICS POLICY
It is aimed that all stakeholders (author, editor, reviewer, publisher and reader) who present a scientific study contribute to the correct progress of science. Compliance with scientific ethical principles is important in scientific studies prepared in accordance with this goal.
These ethical principles have been accepted by us on the basis of the directive prepared by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), and some of them are presented below, with suggestions for adoption by stakeholders.
Ethical Responsibilities of Authors:
To ensure the accuracy of the data related to the study, to keep the records of the research in order and to be able to access this data upon possible request.
Making sure that the article submitted is not published or accepted elsewhere.
If the presented content matches a previously published or submitted content, this conflict should be accepted and cited, if necessary, the editor should beprovided with a copy of any work that may have similar content related to the submitted work, permission should be obtained to reproduce or use any content from other sources, and the source should be cited.
Ensuring compliance with national and international laws and guidelines for all studies involving human or animal subjects (for example, WMA Declaration of Helsinki, NIH Policy on the Use of Laboratory Animals, EU Directive on the Use of Animals), confirming that necessary approvals have been obtained, and respecting subject privacy. To indicate the relevant ethics committee approvals and research details of the study in the "Materials and Methods" section of the study.
In case of any conflict of interest, when he/she detects an ethical violation regarding his/her article, to share it with the editor and publisher, to issue an error statement, addendum, compensation notice or to withdraw the work when deemed necessary.
Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Editors
To act in a balanced, objective and fair manner in the performance of their duties without discrimination on the basis of gender, religious or political beliefs, ethnic or geographical origin of the authors.
Evaluating the works submitted to the journal according to their content, not giving any privilege to any author.
To take necessary measures to prevent possible conflicts of interest and to evaluate existing statements, if any.
Treating sponsored works or studies on special subjects in the same way as other studies,

In case of an ethical violation complaint, to follow the necessary procedures by adhering to the journal's policies and procedures. To give the authors an opportunity to respond to the complaint, not to avoid the necessary sanctions, regardless of who the work belongs to.
To reject the incoming study if it is not suitable for the purpose and scope of the journal.
Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers
To review the article in a timely manner objectively and to agree to consider only studies related to the area of expertise, in order to contribute to the editor's decision-making process.
To make the evaluation objectively only in relation to the content of the study. To evaluate the work without considering religious, political and economic interests.
To provide directions that will help improve the quality of the article to be published and to examine the study meticulously. To convey his comments to the author in a constructive and kind language.
To protect the confidentiality of the information provided by the editor and the author, to destroy the study after the evaluation process in accordance with the confidentiality principle, to notify the editor if there is a situation contrary to blind reviewering and not to evaluate the study.
Be aware of potential conflicts of interest (financial, corporate, collaborative, or other relationships between author and author) and alert the editor to withdraw their assistance for this article if necessary.
Publisher's Ethical Responsibilities
The publisher, one of the stakeholders involved in a scientific study, should also act within the scope of all these ethical principles.
The publisher is obliged to use its communication power without any personal interest and to direct its target audience correctly.
It undertakes the task of archiving every published product.
People should not hesitate to contact the publisher when they encounter an unethical situation.

Some of the actions considered to be against scientific research and publication ethics:
Plagiarism: To present the original ideas, methods, data or works of others as one's own work, in whole or in part, without attribution in accordance with scientific rules,
Fraud: Using non-existent or falsified data in scientific research,
Distortion: To falsify research records or obtained data, to present devices or materials that are not used in the research as if they were used, to falsify or shape the research results in line with the interests of the people and organizations that receive support,
Republishing: Presenting duplicate publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions,
Slicing: To present the results of a research as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions by disaggregating the results of a research in a way that violates the integrity of the research and publishing it in more than one issue,
Unfair authorship: Including people who do not have active contributions among the authors or not including those who do, changing the order of authors in an unjustified and inappropriate way, removing the names of those who contributed actively from the work in subsequent editions, using his influence to include his name among the authors,
Not specifying the people, institutions or organizations that support them and their contributions in the publications made as a result of the research carried out with support,
Using the thesis or studies that have not yet been presented or defended and accepted as a source without the permission of the owner,
Failure to comply with ethical rules in research on humans and animals, not respecting patient rights in their publications, harming animal health and ecological balance, not obtaining necessary permissions,
To misuse the resources, places, facilities and devices provided or allocated for scientific research,
Making false or misleading statements regarding scientific research and publications in academic appointments and promotions,
Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism, whether intentional or not, is an ethical violation. Similarity of studies with other sources without reference and publishing them in this form is not only unethical, but also a crime and unacceptable.
The Editorial Board can act in accordance with the COPE rules in the face of allegations and suspicions of plagiarism, citation manipulation and data fraud regarding the studies submitted to the journal.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Situations that provide economic or personal benefits create a conflict of interest. The reliability of the scientific process and published articles; It is directly related to the objective handling of conflicts of interest during the planning, implementation, writing, evaluation, editing and publication of scientific work.
Financial relationships are the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest and it is inevitable that they damage the credibility of the journal, the authors, and the science. These conflicts can be caused by personal relationships, academic competition, or intellectual approaches. Authors are not responsible for any activities that restrict access to all data of the study or analyze the data, interpret it, prepare the articles, publish it, etc. avoid entering into agreements with both for-profit and non-profit sponsors that interfere with their capabilities.
In order to avoid conflicts of interest, editors should also avoid bringing together people who may have a relationship during the evaluation of studies. Editors who make the final decision on articles should not have any personal, professional or financial ties to any of the issues they will decide on. Individuals should inform the editorial board about possible conflicts of interest so that the articles can be evaluated within the framework of ethical principles and an independent process can be carried out.
Our editorial board works devotedly to carry out the evaluation process in an impartial manner, taking all these situations into account.
Resources used in the preparation and adoption of policies:
Budapest Open Access Declaration
ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors)
Creative Commons
COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)
Journal of Education and Science Editorial Policies
DOAJ Principles Of Transparency And Best Practice In Scholarly Publishing, Version 3
YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive