Dear Authors and Referees,
“Ethics Committee Permission” is required for studies to be published backdate to 2020 in line with the decisions by ULAKBİM TR Index. Studies requiring “Ethics Committee Permission” are listed below. When uploading your study to our journal, you must upload your Ethics Committee document along with your article file. If your study is not included in the study group that requires ethics committee approval, you should indicate the relevant situation in your article text.

Please send your articles according to the following items:
1. “Ethics Committee Permission” is required for all kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that indicate data collection from participants by using questionnaires, interviews, focus group work, observation, experimentation, and interview techniques.
2. The articles should indicate whether the ethics committee approval and/or legal/special permission is required. If these permissions are required, it should be clearly indicated from which institution, on what date and with what decision or issue number.
3. “Ethics Committee Permission” is required for research using humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes.
4. If the study requires the use of human or animal subjects, it should be declared that the study is appropriate with international declarations, or guides etc. (if existing).
5. “Ethics Committee Permission” is required for clinical trials on humans and research on animals.
6. In accordance with the law on the protection of personal data, “Ethics Committee Permission” is required for retrospective studies.
7. Permission must be obtained from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires and photographs belonging to others, and this should be stated in the article.
8. In case reports, it should be stated that “Informed Consent Form” was received.
9. It should be stated that the copyright regulations are complied for the intellectual and artistic works that are used.

NOTE:

-Researchers who are not members of a university can also apply to the “Ethics Committees” in their regions.