Article Submission Process
1. In order to submit an article to the Journal of Current Approaches in Health Sciences published at Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, authors must be a member of the DergiPark System.
2. The author initiates the article submission process by using the "Submit New Article" option on the journal's address in DergiPark via the user profile he has created. The author must follow the steps in the new article submission directive in order to upload the article to the system.
3. When the uploading process to the DergiPark system is completed, an editor is assigned to the article.


Preliminary assessment
4. The editor evaluates the article (in terms of scientific competence, originality, suitability for the purpose and scope of the journal, etc.) and assigns an assistant editor to the article.
5. The assistant editor sends the article to the plagiarist in order to determine the similarity rate.
6. If the similarity rate of the article is below 20%, the plagiarist sends the article to the assistant editor.
7. Assistant editor sends the article to the editor for pre-checking.
8. The spelling editor communicates with the author via the message box in the system to make the necessary corrections, if any, completes the control phase after the necessary corrections are made and sends the article to the assistant editor.
9. Assistant editor sends the article to the field editor to start the evaluation process of the article.


Evaluation process
10. The field editor sends it to two referees simultaneously for evaluation within 15 days after examining it within 1 week in terms of ethical rules and scientific quality.
11. If one of the referees rejects the article, the field editor sends the article to a third referee. After the third referee evaluation, the journal board makes the decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of the article and it is entered into the system by the field editor.
12. The editor who receives the corrections from the referees uploads them to the Process Files area and is forwarded to the author via the "send back to the author" tab and requested that the corrections be made and uploaded to the system within 15 days.
13. The author makes the corrections by using the "Review and track changes" option on the Microsoft Word program (Author and referee must hide their own name from the "Options" section on Word) and sends it to the field editor with the "Complete the process" tab.
14. After the field editor checks the corrections comparatively, he sends the article for final reading for general control before printing. When necessary, sends the article to the statistics editor and/or language editor.
15. After checking the article, the end reader can resend it to the author for necessary corrections.

Printing Process
16. If the field editor accepts the article after the end reader process is completed, the DOI assignment is made and the article is sent to the layout editor for publication.
17. Before printing, the pdf format file from the layout is submitted to the author's control.
18. The final version of the layout file and the similarity report are uploaded to the system in pdf format by the field editor, and the process is completed.
19. The completed article is sent to the editor's system.
20. When a new issue is created by the editor, the author can view the article from the Future Issues tab.