The candidate applying to our journal with the request to be published, the similarity rate determination or the plagiarism query for the articles should be carried out with the iThenticate program in accordance with the criteria specified by the authors, and the report regarding the query should be uploaded to the system in pdf format. Although our journal does not accept any responsibility for plagiarism problems that may occur regarding the scientific article during and after the evaluation and publication process, it is important to announce that the legal and ethical responsibility in this matter will belong only to the authors.

Articles with an Ithenticate similarity index of more than 20%, excluding references, and studies that do not have ethics committee approval and whose copyright transfer form is not signed by all authors are not considered for publication in our journal.