Title
• Title of the manuscript must be included in Cover Page and Manuscript.
• The title of the manuscript should consist of a maximum of 15 words with standard abbreviations.
Abstract
• Abstract must be included in Cover Page.
• The abstract must not exceed 250 words.
• Non-standard abbreviations should be written in parentheses after their full explanation, when they are used for the first time.
Keywords
• Keywords must be included in Cover Page.
• A maximum of 5 keywords should be written in alphabetical order.
• Abbreviations should not be used as keywords.
Introduction
• Introduction must be included in Manuscript.
• The summary of the relevant literature, aim and novelty of the study, and the established hypothesis should be included.
• References should not be given in bulk and in intervals (example [1-5] or [1, 2, 3, 5, 8]), the contribution of each source to the study should be examined and stated in the text.
Materials and Methods
• Materials and methods must be included in Manuscript.
• If the study carried out is an experimental study, the test procedure/method should be clearly explained.
• If a theoretical study has been carried out, the theoretical method should be given in detail.
• If the method used in the study is a previously published method, the other study should be mentioned by citing.
Results and Discussion
• Results and discussion must be included in Manuscript.
• Obtained results should be given in a clear and concise manner.
• All of the results should be compared with the literature by citing.
• Tables should be numbered and in editable format.
• Figures in the manuscript should be numbered and have at least 300 dpi resolution. The texts on the figures should be in legible size and font. Accepted figure formats are TIFF, JPG, and JPEG.
Conclusions
• Conclusions must be included in Manuscript.
• Main conclusions and inferences obtained from the study should be given concisely.
• Future perspectives of the study are given in this section.
Acknowledgements
• Acknowledgements must be included in Manuscript.
• The financial resources provided and the infrastructure used during the study are specified in this section.
Author Contributions
• Author contributions must be included in Manuscript.
• Contributions of each author must be stated.
• Contribution roles are as follows: conceptualization, data analysis, data curation, funding acquisition, methodology, project administration, sourcing, software analysis, supervision, validation, visualization, writing original draft, writing review and editing.
References
• References must be included in Manuscript.
• DOI and ISBN numbers of printed sources should be specified.
• Website addresses (URLs) should not be given as a source. However, it can be specified after the data where statistical data is mentioned in the text.
• The list of references should be numbered according to the order in which they are used in the text.
• References should be prepared in accordance with the rules of “APA Publication Manual, Seventh Edition”.
• References should be prepared in English. English equivalents of sources should be indicated in square brackets.
• APA format and examples can be found at the link below.
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples
Appendices
• Appendices must be included in Manuscript.
• Appendices in the manuscript must be named as Appendix A (Appendix A), Appendix B (Appendix B) and Appendix C (Appendix C) etc.
• Equations in the appendices must be named as A1, A2, A3, etc., and table and figures numberings must be named as Table A1, Table A2, Figure A1, Figure A2 etc.