Articles submitted for publication in this journal should be arranged according to the Current Perspectives on Health Sciences Writing Rules prepared on the basis of the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf" guide. Accordingly, the authors should prepare articles in accordance with
the CONSORT (https://www.elsevier.com/__data/promis_misc/CONSORT-2010-Checklist.pdf) guidelines for randomized research studies,
STROBE guidelines (https://www.strobestatement.org/ fileadmin/ Strobe/ uploads/ checklists/ STROBE_checklist_v4_combined.pdf) for observational original research studies,
STARD guidelines https://www.equator-network.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/STARD-2015-checklist.pdf) for studies on diagnostic accuracy,
PRISMA guidelines (http://prisma-statement.org/documents/PRISMA%202009%20checklist.pdf or BLACK guidelines (file:///C:/Users/g%C3%B6zde/Downloads/modified_downsandblack.pdf) for systematic reviews and meta-analysis,
ARRIVE guidelines (https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/sites/ default/files/documents/ Guidelines/NC3Rs %20ARRIVE%20Guidelines%20Checklist%20%28fillable%29.pdf) for experimental animal studies, and
TREND guidelines (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?type= supplementary&id= info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0152697.s002) for non-randomized public behavior.
Cover Letter:
The cover letter should include a description of whether the article has been published in any language, including the abstract, and whether the article is being evaluated elsewhere for publication.
Title page:
A separate title page should be submitted with all submissions and this page should include:
The full title of the manuscript as well as a short title of no more than 50 characters,
Name(s), affiliations, and academic degree(s) of the author(s),
Grant information and detailed information on the other sources of support,
Name, address, telephone (including the mobile phone number), and email address of the corresponding author,
Acknowledgment of the individuals who contributed to the preparation of the manuscript but who do not fulfill the authorship criteria.
Manuscripts should be written in A4 paper size (210 x 297 mm), 1.5 line spacing, 2.5 cm space on page edges, in one column and justified.
“Times New Roman” font should be used for texts, symbols and other special characters.
“Times New Roman” font and 12 font size should be used for texts, symbols and other special characters.
Individuals and Methods / Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion sections should be written with related subtitles. Subheadings should be used up to the third degree. Main titles should be written in bold and left aligned with capital letters, second title should be written in bold and left aligned with the first letter in capital, and third headings should be written in bold with the first letter in capital, and then the text should be continued by putting a colon.
TAB key should not be used for paragraph separation.
Descriptions of the abbreviations should be given where they were first used, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. International Units System (SI) abbreviations (http://jn.nutrition.org/content/120/1/20.full.pdf) can be used for measurement units to be used in clinical and laboratory studies.
Up to 15 pages (excluding title page, abstracts, references, tables and figure descriptions) for research articles and reviews, up to 8 pages (including title page, titles, abstracts, references, tables and figure descriptions) and letters to the editor It should be prepared with a maximum of 2 pages (including resources).
References should belong to recent years, the number of sources should be maximum 40 sources for research articles and 50 articles for reviews, maximum 20 sources for case reports and 10 sources for letters to the editor.
Number of tables should be maximum 6 and number of figures should be maximum 6.
All articles should be carefully checked in terms of English grammar and spelling rules.
The English abstract should be carefully checked in terms of grammar and spelling.
The final version of the article should be carefully checked by all authors, especially for spelling and formatting errors.
For communication, the author's mobile phone, e-mail address, detailed correspondence address and the institutions where all authors work should be written clearly.
Structured Abstract
After the title page, Turkish and English abstracts should be written on separate pages. Turkish and English abstracts should contain minimum 100 words and maximum 300 words. In abstracts, as few abbreviations as possible should be used, non-standard or rare abbreviations should be avoided and not cited. Turkish and English abstracts should reflect the entire article and should be compatible with each other in terms of content and language.
At the bottom of the summary page, minimum 3 and maximum 5 keywords should be entered. Turkish keywords for Turkey Science Terms list, American National Library of Medicine for keywords in English (National Library of Medicine, NLM) Medical Subject Headings (Medical Subject Headings, MeSH) exploited the list.
Research Articles: (1) Title page, (2) Turkish abstract and keywords, (3) English abstract and keywords, (4) Introduction, (5) Individuals and method / Material and method, (6) Results, (7 It should be prepared as discussion, (8) Conflict of interest, (9) Resources and optionally (10) Acknowledgment, (11) Financial support and (12) Author contribution.
Review Articles: (1) Title page, (2) Turkish abstract and keywords, (3) English abstract and keywords, (4) Introduction and (5) Conclusion and Suggestions titles can be composed of different subtitles.
Case reports: (1) Title page, (2) Turkish abstracts and keywords, (3) English abstracts and keywords, (4) Introduction, (5) Case reports and (6) Discussion titles.
The Reference Styles for Different Types of Publications
Journal Article
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Book Chapter
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Book
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Software
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Online journals
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Database
6. CANCERNET-PDQ [database online]. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute; 1996. Updated March 29, 1996.
World Wide Web
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