Writing Rules
- The author is considered to be an independent intellectual contributor to a published study and must meet the following four criteria for authorship:
- He/she must make significant contributions to the conceptual or design stages of the study or to the collection/processing, analysis or interpretation of data,
- He/she must make significant intellectual/conceptual critical edits regarding the preparation of the draft of the study or the content.
- He/she must approve the study that has been prepared for publication,
- He/she must accept responsibility for everything in the study by ensuring that questions regarding the accuracy and integrity of any part of the study have been appropriately investigated and resolved.
- The names specified as authors must have authorship status; the names of those with this status must be reported in order in the study. The order of the authors must be a joint decision of the co-authors. Authors must be prepared to explain the order of authors if necessary.
- The responsibility for the sources, opinions, findings and conclusions used in the published articles belongs to the author(s).
- The author who acts as the contact with the journal assumes responsibility for the final version of the article on behalf of all authors.
- All authors must have a direct academic-scientific contribution to the submitted scientific article.

- The responsible author must provide data and additional information if needed after the publication of the study. Any contribution that does not meet the authorship criteria must be mentioned in the “acknowledgements” section of the study. Fundraising, data collection, general consultancy of the research group, literary and technical editing, language editing and corrections are the titles to be mentioned in the “acknowledgements” section since they do not provide authorship rights on their own.

- Articles written in either Turkish or English are published in our journal.

- Articles sent for publication undergo preliminary control, referee evaluation and Turkish-English language control stages. A study that fails to pass this process despite being reviewed three times during the preliminary control stage is returned to the author and is not processed again in the same publication period. Studies that pass the preliminary control stage conducted by the editor are taken into an evaluation process in which at least two referees take part within the framework of the double-blind refereeing principle.

- Plagiarism review of articles must be carried out by the author/authors before submission to the journal and the final report must be sent through the system signed by the responsible author.
- The author/authors must use the article template on our web page during the article writing phase.

- The articles specified in the article template must be written in Word 2003 or later versions, A4 size, “Times New Roman” font style, main text 12 points and single line spacing, justified and in single column and sent to the journal with the extension “.doc”.

- The first line indent in paragraphs must be 0.5 cm. There must be 6nk space before and after paragraphs, and there should not be too much space between empty lines and texts.
In your articles with main texts in Turkish or English, the journal’s spelling rules are defined in detail for convenience and guidance in terms of spelling rules.

The following forms must be used for articles to be sent to the journal.

1-Article Template.
2-Title Page.
3-Consent to Publication and Copyright Transfer Form.
4-Conflict of Interest Statement Form
5-Plagiarism similarity report signed by the responsible author.

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Turkish title: Should be written in bold 12 point font with the first letter of each word capitalized.
English title: Should be written in normal 10 point font with the first letter of each word capitalized.
Sample author footer:
*If there are any necessary explanations for this study, they should be written (Presented as… at a congress/symposium, thesis or project study, received from the University… board, supported by a Research Project (Project No.) etc.)... or should be stated by writing an acknowledgment text.
1 Title, Area of ​​Expertise, Institution and Department Worked, e-mail, ORCID number
2 Dr. Lecturer Member Public Health Specialist, Bingöl University Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Nursing, @mail.com, ORCID: 0000-XXXX-XXX-XXXX
Contact / Corresponding Author: Name SURNAME Date of Arrival/Received: 00.00.2020
e-mail/e-mail: xxxxxx@xxxxxmail Date of Acceptance/Accepted: 00.00.2020
The names of the authors should be written side by side under the English title as name and surname as specified in the sample author footer section. The author names following the title should be written first as the name starting with a capital letter without using the title, then the surname in all capital letters. The authors' names should be numbered in a superscript form at the end of the page and the authors' academic title, field of expertise and institution where they work, ORCID information should be written in 8-point font in accordance with these numbers in the table template area at the bottom of the page. If the research was presented as a paper (oral or poster) at a scientific meeting in italics above the author information or or thesis study, it should be stated under the title page of the article with the date and place as shown in the template. The project number can be added. Acknowledgements can be included in this area.

Article titles
In Turkish articles, the abstract is written before the abstract. In English articles, the abstract is written before the abstract.
Research article format: ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, MATERIAL AND METHODS, RESULTS AND DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS, REFERENCES.
Compilation article format: ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, Subheadings related to the subject, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS, REFERENCES.
Systematic review article format: ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, METHOD, RESULTS AND DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS, REFERENCES.
Case report article format: ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, MATERIAL AND METHODS (Data Collection-Case Presentation), RESULTS AND DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS, REFERENCES.

Main headings should be written in a single column width, centered on the page and in bold capital letters.

Writing rules according to article types
Randomized studies should be in accordance with CONSORT, observational studies STROBE, diagnostic value studies STARD, systematic reviews and meta-analyses PRISMA, animal experimental studies ARRIVE and non-randomized behavioral and public health studies TREND guidelines.

Abstracts
Should be written in 10 point font and single line spacing, not exceeding 200 words. Equations, references, non-standard abbreviations should not be included in the abstract. Subheadings should not be added to the abstract in the abstract paragraphs. Abbreviations used in the articles should be written clearly when they are first used in the text and their abbreviated form should be given in parentheses right next to them. The abstract should not include subheadings, references, and references. Abbreviations should not be used in the title or abstract. Headings should not be numbered and should be written in all capital letters, aligned with the beginning of the paragraph. Keywords should be compatible with Index Medicus: Medical Subject Headings (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html) and Turkish Scientific Terms Dictionary.

Introduction
- The introduction section should start on the second page and the last paragraph should include the purpose of the article.

- Care should be taken to ensure that text, drawings, or graphics are within the writing area. Page margins in texts should be 2.5 cm at the top and left, 2 cm at the bottom and right.

- Texts should not exceed 25 pages, including figures and tables.

- No space should be left before the period at the end of the sentence and the sentence should be started by leaving a space after the period.

- No space should be left before the comma and a space should be left between words in the sentence.

- A comma should be used when separating decimal numbers.
- Percentage (%) sign should be written without leaving a space between the numbers. Percentage sign should be written before the number in Turkish articles and after the number in English articles.

- In places where ( ), “ ” and / signs are used, the sentence/word should be written without leaving a space before and after.

- Numbers or letters should not be used in itemizations in the text.

- Various statistics; for example, variance analysis values ​​(F, t, z), correlation (R, r) and other statistical indicators should be italicized when reported.

- Abbreviations should be made where the relevant words are first used in the text and the number of abbreviations should be kept as low as possible.

Materials and Methods
- The principle of compliance with the Helsinki Declaration Principles is sought for experimental and clinical studies, drug research and some case reports. In such studies, authors are required to state in this section of the article that they conducted the study in accordance with these principles and that they received “informed consent” from the ethics committees of their institutions and from the people who participated in the study. This statement should be in the relevant section as "……….. ethics committee approval was obtained with ……. date and …… number". The phrase "Verbal ethics approval was obtained" should not be used.
- In articles reporting the results of experimental studies conducted on humans, after the characteristics of the procedures to be applied to the volunteers or patients in whom this study was conducted are fully explained, a sentence indicating that they were informed and their approval was obtained should be included under the subheading "Ethical Aspects of the Study". In the case of such a study, authors should submit the approval they received from the relevant Ethics Committee. The relevant ethical permission should also be obtained for studies conducted on animals. When a photograph is used to identify the patient, written consent should be obtained from the patient and the patient's eyes should be covered with tape. When a photograph belonging to a private institution such as an institution is used, it should be stated in the article that written permission was obtained and permission information should be provided to us.
- Information about the photographs used should be explained with the symbol "Figure X."
- In the material and method section of the article, the institutions that supported the study, if it is a project study, the number, ethics committee approval form and the institution and dates of the permission should be written. Also on the first page, it is indicated in italics above the author information.

Tables and figures
- A maximum of 5 tables may be used in the article.
- A maximum of 5 tables should be used in the article.

- Images, figures and graphics in the articles should be shown under the name "Figure"; figures and graphics should be drawn on the computer. Tables, figures and equations should be numbered sequentially, titles should be written above the tables and below the figures with the first letter of each word capitalized.

- Tables should be placed in the appropriate place in the text, decimal numbers should be separated by commas, not dots (except for the English abstract). Tables should be created using the table menu, cells should not contain more than one value, alignments should not be made with the space key, but with the help of a ruler, numbers should be right-justified and the number of tables should not exceed 5. Table titles and table content should be written in 10-point font, and sources should be written in 8-point font. Tables and figures should not be shown in the article one after another.

- Abbreviations used should be stated in the explanation below the figures, figures, tables and graphics. If previously published figures, figures, tables and graphics are used, written permission should be obtained and this permission should be stated in the explanation of the figure, figure, table and graphic as an explanation and cited as a source.
Financial support and conflict of interest:
- You should indicate the following phrases appropriately before the references in your article.
Financial source:
- No financial source has been used for this article.
Conflict of interest:
- There is no conflict of interest for this article. The Conflict of Interest Form in the journal forms section must be filled out and sent through the system.
References
- Authors can only show the sources they directly use in their articles. Our journal strongly discourages the use of sources reported in other studies as citations. When possible, references should be limited to publications within the last 5 years. The references section should be written in Times New Roman font size 10. http access dates should be up-to-date and the page should be accessible. The article name should be shown in the references with only the first letter capitalized. There should be no space before the parentheses. EX: 8 (2), is an incorrect notation, while: 8(2) is the correct notation. If there is a doi number in the references, https://doi.org/XXXXXXXXXX. can be added to the end of the references. - The reference writing style is provided as an example in the article template
- The number of sources should be sufficient and should not be excessive.
- The sources should be listed in the order they are used in the text. When writing more than one source number, a space should be left after the comma, and if more than two consecutive source numbers are to be written, a “-“ sign should be placed between the first and last numbers. The reference should only be cited at the end of the sentence. Unpublished sources that cannot be given with page numbers (unpublished congress, symposium, meeting, etc. documents) cannot be used as sources.
Some Reference Citation Styles:
1. Sancar A, Lindsey-Boltz LA, Ünsal-Kaçmaz K, Linn S. Molecular mechanisms of mammalian DNA repair and the DNA damage checkpoints. Annu Rev Biochem. 2004;73(1):39–85.

2. Carlson BM. Human embryology and developmental biology. Elsevier Health Sciences; 2018. 3. Blaxter PS, Farnsworth TP, Carter C, Peel JR. Social health and class inequalities. Equalities. 1976;
4. Nørvåg K. Space-efficient support for temporal text indexing in a document archive context. In: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. Springer; 2003. p. 511–22.
5. Sever A. Effect of Selenium on swimming endurance, oxidative stress and NRF2/HO-1 protein expressions in rats. Firat University; 2020. 6. Ciccia A, Elledge SJSJ, Adamo A, Collis SJ, Adelman CA, Silva N, et al. The DNA damage response: making it safe to play with knives. Mol Cell. 2010 Oct;40(2):179–204.

Ethical principles and publication policy
- In plagiarism similarity reports obtained by authors via iThenticate, Turnitin or intihal.net program, the similarity rate from a source should not exceed 3% and the total similarity rate should not exceed 30%.
- The author should fill out the author checklist for spelling rule check, and the article should comply with the “Yes” option in all steps of the author checklist.
- It is mandatory to upload the Consent to Publication and Copyright Transfer Form and the relevant Ethics Committee Approval Form for studies requiring ethics committee permission.
- Studies that do not comply with the above format will not be evaluated in terms of content and will be returned to the author by the editor.
- Therefore; check your article one last time according to the author checklist before sending it to our journal. The article template will facilitate the writing style of the author.
Important issues that prevent articles from being published
- Not deemed appropriate by the Editorial Board,
- Plagiarism similarity reports received by authors via iThenticate, Turnitin or intihal.net program, where the similarity rate from one source is more than 3% and the total similarity rate is more than 30%,
- The author does not have an ORCID number,
- The author's membership and imprint information are not sufficient,

- Not prepared according to the journal writing rules,
- Not having a Turkish or English abstract or not properly prepared,
- Except for the special decision of the Editorial Board, exceeding two articles per year by the author,
- With the author's name at the bottom of the page, inside or in the file name,
- The content, layout, source, evaluation, method, language, etc. are deemed inadequate in the editor's preliminary review,
- The evaluation process cannot be completed until the journal enters the printing and publishing process,
- Previously rejected,
- Articles whose preliminary review is conducted by the "editor" and/or "editorial board" and deemed appropriate for evaluation are published after the positive opinion of the referees from the relevant scientific field is received. After the preliminary control and evaluation processes, the authors must make the suggested corrections and send them within 15 days at the latest (30 days if an experimental addition is requested). Otherwise, the article will be rejected.
- Articles exceeding the relevant issue capacity of the journal are not evaluated/published.