Author Guidelines

Before uploading your article to the system, the following steps should be followed.

The Article Submission Checklist should be read carefully, approved after all options are filled in, signed by the corresponding author and uploaded to the system as an additional file.

The Sample Template file should be used in the preparation of the full text file, for Research Articles and for Review & Systematic Reviews.

The Copyright Transfer Form must be uploaded to the system in PDF format after being signed by all authors and the corresponding author.

Research articles should be created according to the rules in the Research Article Writing Guideline file.

Reviews and systematic reviews should be written according to the rules in the Review & Systematic Review Writing Guideline file. The similarity rate in the plagiarism report should not exceed 20%.

Case reports should be prepared according to the rules in the Case Report Writing Guideline file.

The Title Page must be in line with the rules in the Sample Title Page file and should be uploaded into the system in a different Word file (*.doc or *.docx).

Manuscripts submitted to our journal should be written according to APA 7 (American Psychological Association). https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/ 

ETHICS COMMITTEE APPROVAL
Our journal requires that the relevant ethics committee decision must be obtained for all studies in all disciplines that require ethics committee permission. In this context, authors should write the date and number of Ethics Committee approval in the "Sampling and Methodology/ Materials and Methods" section. In case reports, the information that the informed consent form has been obtained must be included in the article.
In line with the regulations implemented by Ulakbim TR Index since 2020, studies that do not have ethics committee permission are not evaluated in our journal.

Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
In our journal, researches that require ethics committee permission include the following studies:
• All research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that involve collecting data from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations, experiments and interview techniques,
• Studies in which humans and animals (including materials or data) are used for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical trials conducted on humans,
• Scientific research on animals,
• Retrospective studies within the framework of the Personal Data Protection Law.
In order for such studies to be included in the evaluation, the relevant ethics committee permissions must be obtained and these permissions must be clearly stated in the text of the article.

NOTE: Scientific research on humans and animals must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and ARRIVE guidelines and approval must be obtained from the relevant ethics committee. Studies without ethics committee approval are not evaluated in our journal.

Last Update Time: 4/3/25, 10:12:08 PM

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The copyrights of the studies published in our journal belong to our journal, and the published studies are published as open access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

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