Articles should be prepared in Microsoft Word, 11 point Times News Roman font, 1.5 line spacing, justified, and leaving 2.5 cm of space from the top, bottom, right and left sides of the page. Except for the first page, other pages should be numbered. The title of the articles should be written in 12-point font, capital letters and bold characters. In the article, information such as author, institution, supporting institution/company should be written as XXX.
Articles to be sent by authors should be arranged to include the following sections. The text file to which the article is sent should include Turkish title, abstract and keywords, English title, abstract and keywords; texts of the article, references, tables (one table per page), and subtitles of the figures (if any) on the last page, respectively.
Title page: The title page should include the Turkish and English title of the article, the name and surname of the author(s), the institution they work for, and their ORCID IDs according to their order in the article. The phone number, address and e-mail information of the corresponding author should also be included. Author contributions (such as idea, design, data collection, data analysis and comments, article writing, critical review) should be stated. Information about the supporting company, conflict of interest, and the congress where the study abstract is presented as a paper, if any, should be added.
Abstracts: On the first page, Turkish and English abstracts should be given with the article title, should not exceed 250 words and abbreviations should not be used. Turkish summaries in research articles; It should be presented under the title of Summary with the headings Amaç, Yöntem, Bulgular and Sonuçlar, summaries in English; It should be presented under the heading Abstract with the headings Aim, Method, Results, Conclusion. In the rewiews, the summary section should include information and purpose regarding the subject and should be short and a single paragraph. Summaries of case reports should include information about the case and be short and single paragraph.
Short Title (Running Title): It should be given under the main title on the title page of the article, its content should include the article title and not exceed 8 words.
Key words: At least three and at most five keywords should be given under the abstracts in Turkish (Anahtar kelimeler) and English (Keywords) in accordance with "Medical Subject Headings (MESH)". For English keywords, www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html and for Turkish keywords, www.bilimterimleri.com can be used. A comma should be placed between Turkish and English keywords, and all letters should be written in lowercase. Turkish keywords should be sorted alphabetically, and English words should be sorted according to the order of Turkish keywords.
Article Texts: In research articles, Introduction, Purpose, Materials and Methods, Findings, Discussion, Conclusion and Recommendations, Acknowledgments, Conflict of Interest, Author Contribution (idea, design, data collection and/or processing, analysis and/or interpretation, article writing, critical review, resource/funding), Resources.
Authors must contribute in at least 3 areas specified in parentheses. The limitations of the research should be given before the title of results and recommendations. Reviews should include Introduction and Conclusion sections. Case reports should be organized as Introduction, Case(s), Discussion and Conclusion after the title and abstract. The text file should not contain author names, information about institutions, figures and images used in the article. The written language of the articles must be clear and understandable. In Turkish articles, the Turkish dictionary of the Turkish Language Association or http://www.tdk.org.tr, as well as the dictionary of terms of the Turkish Medical Associations related to their branches, should be taken as basis. Abbreviations used in articles should be written clearly when they are first used in the text, and their abbreviated form should be given in parentheses next to it.
Tables/Figures/Graphs: Tables in the article should not contain vertical lines, should be prepared using the table menu in the Word program, and the number of tables should not exceed 5. A period should be used between fractions (such as 10.45). Figures, pictures, tables and graphs should not be sent embedded in the text. Tables should be included in the file to which the text is sent, one table per page. Each of the figures, graphics and photographs of the article should be sent as a separate image file in high resolution jpeg format. Descriptions of the figures should be written at the end of the file to which the manuscript is sent. Where tables, figures and graphs appear in the text should be stated at the end of the sentence. If previously published figures, pictures, tables and graphics are used, written permission must be obtained and this permission must be stated as an explanation in the description of the figure, picture, table and graphic.
References: Our journal's reference writing style is "Vancouver style". When using the Endnote program, unlike the Vancouver style, journal names are written in longer formats. In Vancouver style, journal names are abbreviated. For this purpose, an example link for the Vancouver writing style is provided within the scope of spelling rules. When the Endnote program is printed, please provide the short name of the journal if your source is a journal.
For detailed information, you can use the link regarding Vancouver source writing style.
Link:https://www.bcit.ca/files/library/pdf/bcit-vancouverstyle.pdf
Sources that are not published and cannot be given with page numbers (unpublished congress, symposium, meeting, etc. documents) should not be used.
You can access the Copyright Transfer Form from the link below (Sending is mandatory).
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/25767
During the article upload process, the "plagiarism report/similarity report" taken from the plagiarism program (Turnitin / iThenticate) where plagiarism is evaluated must be attached. The similarity rate should not exceed 20%.
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