Dicle Dental Journal

Dicle Dental Journal, formerly known as Dicle University Faculty of Dentistry Journal, which started its publication life in 1984 and has been archived since 1990, ( Dicle Dent. J., DDJ) It is a scientific publication of Dicle University Faculty of Dentistry.
The aim of the journal is to improve dentistry and dentistry research in Turkey by publishing quality scientific articles on Dentistry and related medical issues. DDJ is an open access, independent, impartial, double-reviewed and free national journal 3 times a year (April, September, December).

DICLE DENTAL JOURNAL WRITING RULES

Dicle Dental Journal, the publication organ of Dicle University Faculty of Dentistry, is a scientific journal containing experimental studies and current findings in different disciplines of dentistry. This journal adopts a double-blind peer-review process; The author and the referee are unaware of each other's identity. The editorial board can make all kinds of changes and corrections without the knowledge of the authors, in a way that does not spoil the scientific content of the articles.

Articles to be sent to Dicle Dental Journal are accepted at the web site of journal dicledentj.com , and all evaluation and correction procedures are done via web site. Other than that, postal letters are not accepted. In the submission of studies; Article File (doc. format), Title Page (doc. format), Copyright Transfer Agreement, Ethics Committee Approval (pdf. format) (if necessary), Conflict of Interest Declaration Form, Authorship Contribution form, Informed Consent Form (pdf. format) ) (if any) must be in the content of the mail.

Copyright transfer agreement, conflict of interest declaration form and authorship contribution form can be downloaded at the website dicledentj.com

Articles to be sent to Dicle Dental Journal for publication;

Must be original and of high scientific quality, should be citable, should not have been published in another journal or accepted for publication, and the authors should declare this information in writing when submitting their articles, and contain up-to-date data, information and resources must be from the last 10 years, should be prepared in accordance with the general rules regarding research and publication ethics, and when necessary institutional ethics committee approval and/or informed consent should be obtained in all studies conducted on human-induced cases and experimental animals.

A Publication Rights Transfer Agreement form should be attached with the collective signature of all authors stating their scientific contributions and responsibilities and that there is no conflict of interest. The compliance of the articles with scientific rules and ethical violations are the responsibility of the authors. The institution/organization/commercial companies that support the studies and the congress or symposium (if any) in which the study is presented should be stated in the footnotes.
The publication languages of Dicle Dental Journal are Turkish and English. A clear and understandable language should be used in the article, and care should be taken to avoid spelling and typing errors. The plagiarism rate of the submitted articles should not exceed 20% and the rate of plagiarism from a specific article should not exceed 4%.

For applications made in English, the language editors will be consulted for the language of the article before the acceptance of the article. If the language editor deems it necessary, authors will need to professionally edit and document the manuscript.

Care should be taken that the English abstract is prepared in an extremely comprehensive manner and should not contain grammatical and spelling errors. For all categories of writing , it is necessary to put the Purpose, Material-Method, Results and Conclusion sections in detail in the Abstract .
Studies submitted to Dicle Dental Journal; It is accepted in the categories of Original Study, Case Report, Review and Letter to the Editor .


It should consist of the following sections;

1) Turkish title,

2) Turkish short title (not exceeding 50 characters including spaces)

3) English title

4) English short title (not exceeding 50 characters including spaces)

5) Turkish Abstract (350 words),

6) Turkish Keywords (3-5 of them)

7) English Abstract (350 words)

8) English keywords,

9) Introduction

10) Materials and Methods

11) Results

12) Discussion

13) Conclusion

14) References (up to 35).



Case Reports

It should consist of the following sections;

1) Turkish title,

2) Turkish short title (not exceeding 50 characters including spaces)

3) English title (Short title not exceeding 50 characters including spaces)

4) English short title (6-8 words)

5) Turkish Abstract (350 words),

6) Turkish Keywords (3-5 of them)

7) English Abstract (350 words)

8) English keywords,

9) Introduction

10) Case Report

11) Discussion

12) Conclusion

13) References (up to 35).



Review

The number of authors should not be more than 3 in the review articles.

It should consist of the following sections;

1) Turkish title,

2) Short title in Turkish (6-8 words)

3) English title

4) English short title (6-8 words)

5) Turkish Abstract (350 words),

6)Turkish Keywords (3-5 of them)

7) English Abstract (350 words)

8) English keywords,

9) Introduction

10) Materials and Methods (appropriate subtitles can be given)

11) Results

12) Discussion

13) Conclusion

14) References (maximum 50).






Letter to the Editor

Turkish title, English title, author names and institutions (in Turkish and English), Abstract (300-500 words) should be arranged in a way that includes Turkish and English keywords. There is no need to open a subsection in the text of the letter and it should be written in a way that includes the main text and the conclusion paragraphs. The sources used should not exceed 10, the entire text should not exceed 1000 words, figures and tables should not be used.

Each article should contain 3-5 keywords; keywords should be selected from The Scientific Terms of Turkiye (http://www.bilimterimleri.com ) and/or Medical Subject Headings (MESH) (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html) and their suitability should be checked. .

Title Page

The title page should contain:

• Type of article (original research article, review, case report, letter to the editor)

• Title of the article and short titles

• Full names of the authors. The institutions (including the city and country) to which the authors are affiliated should be given in association with the superscript number indicated immediately after the surname.
• ORCID numbers of the authors

• Contact information of the author to whom the correspondence will be made (address, work phone, mobile phone and e-mail address)

• The number of words in the abstract and the main text (excluding the figures/pictures/table texts and references) should be written separately, the number of references, the number of figures/pictures and tables
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• Financial Support (if applicable, protocol/project number, appropriation number, etc. must be specified)

• Conflict of interest. If this is not the case, it can be written as follows: ' None of the authors of this article has any relation, connection or financial interest regarding the subject or material mentioned in the article '. Otherwise, the status of interest/relation must be declared. Example: 'Author A owns shares in company X, author B has received consultancy fees from company Y, which rivals the manufacturer of the material mentioned in the article, in the last 2 years' .

• Acknowledgment and Commemoration (If the abstract of the work has been presented somewhere before, the organization, date and place of the presentation should be explained, the source should be cited as in the summary booklet. Non-author contributors can also be cited in this section)

• Provide the Ethics Committee information (explicit name of the Ethics Committee, approval date and approval number) here and at the beginning of the materials and methods section in the text. Upload the digital copy of the confirmation page to the system at the time of application.




Rules to be followed in the text

• Microsoft Word program should be used and 12 point Calibri font should be selected. The article should be prepared in A4 page format with 2.5 cm margins.

• All text should be written in justified format with 1.5 line spacing.

• Headings and Sub-headings should be written in bold font with the first letter capitalized.

• Each new paragraph must be indented.

• The page number should be added to the bottom-middle part of the page.

• Italic characters should be used when writing Latin terms and species names (eg in vitro, Staphylococcus aureus).

• Standard units of measurement and abbreviations should be made according to the International System of Units whenever possible (SI; http://www.bipm.org/en/si/).

• Explanatory information on SI units can also be found on the National Metrology Institute page (UME; http://www.ume.tubitak.gov.tr/).

• Examples of frequently used abbreviations are: year-y, week-w, hour-h, minute-min, second-sec., gram-g, liter-L, microliter-µL, meter-m, Celsius degrees -°C, etc.

• For Turkish abbreviations, the website of the Turkish Language Institution should be applied (Abbreviations Directory, TDK; http://www.tdk.gov.tr/).

• The Period must be used as a decimal point and leave a space between the number and the unit (eg: 12.3 mm, 4.5 kg/cm2,37.2 °C). When giving percentage values, no space should be left between the number and the percent sign (eg 0.2%).
• Abbreviations other than standard units of measurement should be specified in parentheses after the clear spelling when first used and the same abbreviation should be used throughout the text.

• The origin of materials and equipment used should be identified in parentheses where first mentioned (brand, manufacturer, city, state and country if applicable).

• Tables, "Tables 1, 2, 3, etc." The table number and explanatory title should be placed at the top of the table. Figures, graphics and photographs “Picture 1, 2, 3 etc.” and the explanatory title should be placed under the figures. Tables and Figures should be cited in the text.

• References should be listed in the text according to the order of occurrence, and should be indicated as “ (1), (1-5), (3,7-9) etc.” in relevant places. References should be written according to the " Vancouver " system of the American National Library of Medicine (US National Library of Medicine; http://www.nlm.nih.gov/) . The page number should be abbreviated in all references. For example; 1033-8, 16-9, 133-43.

Book: Surnames of all authors, initials, name of the book, edition, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, page number (start-end).

Example: “ Schreid RC. Woelfel's dental anatomy: its relevance to dentistry, 7th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Maryland, 2007: 68-9”

Article: Surnames of all authors, initials, article title, abbreviated name of the journal according to Index Medicus, publication year, volume number (issue number) and page number (start-end).

Example: “ Bakır EP, Yıldırım ZS, Bakır Ş, Ketani A. Are resin-containing pulp capping materials as reliable as traditional ones in terms of local and systemic biological effects? Dent Mater J. 2022;41(1):78-86.”

Available at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext?ID=92013984&PLACEBO=IE.pdf (date accessed)

For articles with more than six authors, the phrase "et al" should be used after the first three authors.


Content of Sections of the Article

Introduction

The current problem and its importance should be explained. Only directly relevant sources should be cited; The findings and results of the present study should not be given. The findings of similar studies should not be discussed unless they help to establish the hypothesis. The purpose of the study should be clearly stated in the last paragraph of this section; If appropriate, the research hypothesis should be given.

Materials and Methods

The material used, the people involved in the experiment, and the methods should be described in sufficient detail so that the experiment can be repeated by others. The origin of the materials and equipment used should be identified in parentheses (brand, product number, production lot number, manufacturer, city and country). If a known method is used, the source should be cited, and if a new or modified method is used, it should be explained.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria should be specified for humans, animals, and controls examined in observational or experimental studies, and the source population should be defined.

Ethical issues should be mentioned in this section (explicit name of the Ethics Committee, approval date and approval number should be written). If appropriate, it should be cited that the consent was obtained from the patient(s).

The statistical analysis method should be explained in sufficient detail in the last paragraph of this section.

Statistical power analysis: The results of determining the sample size for prospective studies (software used, type 1 error value, power value, effect size, how the effect size was determined, which statistical test was taken into account), and the actual power value in retrospective studies should be given.

Statistical terms, abbreviations and symbols should be defined. The computer program used should be specified. It is recommended that the authors consult a statistician for statistical evaluation of the study.


Results

The findings obtained in the study should be given in this section. Sub-headings can be used if necessary in order to convey the findings more easily. Tables, figures or pictures can be used; but repetition should be avoided. Only the findings directly obtained in the study should be presented, personal comments should not be involved, and previous studies should not be mentioned.

Discussion

The findings of the study should be discussed here. This is a section where personal comments can take place. The repetition of the information given in the Introduction and Results sections should be avoided. It is often a good introduction to begin by summarizing the main findings of the study in the first paragraph. The strengths and weaknesses/limitations of the study are mentioned, current findings are compared with previous findings, similarities and differences are noted, and possible causes are explained. The level and importance of the current study in science is emphasised, the generalisability of the findings to other clinical settings or populations is expressed, and how the findings will affect future studies and clinical applications is discussed.

Conclusion

The main idea of the study should be given briefly. The conclusion part should be compatible with the purpose of the study and contain the answer to the question investigated in the study. Statistical details of the study should not be included in this section. Only the main idea drawn directly from the study should be given.

References

References should be indicated with Arabic numerals in parentheses before punctuation marks in the body of the article. The complete reference list should be in numerical order and start on a separate page. Only the references cited in the text should appear in the references list. Unpublished data or personal communications are not accepted.

It is a scientific obligation that all components (Editors, Referees, Authors, and Readers) act impartially and in accordance with ethical rules during the process, from the preparation of the article to its evaluation by the referees and the decision to accept or reject.

Articles sent to DDJ are evaluated by a double-blind peer-review process. It reserves the right to request documents related to the analysis results from the authors as a result of the examination reports submitted to the journal by the editors or the referees evaluating the article. If the data used in the articles are manipulated, do not reflect the truth, or similar situations are detected, the author-authors who prepared the article will be notified of this situation through official ways, and the article will not be accepted.
One of the journal’s publication policies is that the published articles contribute more to science and are easily accessible. For this reason, DDJ is published electronically and free of charge.
The DDJ aimed to act in accordance with the 'Principles of the Helsinki Declaration. Authors must demonstrate that they are operating in accordance with these principles in all studies using human or animal data. For this purpose, authors must obtain an ethics committee report from the ethics committee of the relevant institutions and upload this report to the system during the article submission process. Information of the ethics committee report (name of the committee, date and number) should be clearly stated in the material and method section of the article. If the study was conducted on patients, it should also be noted that the 'Informed Consent Form' was obtained. In accordance with the law on the protection of personal data, the source of the material used in the retrospective studies and the permission document obtained from the provided institution should be uploaded to the system when requested. It should be clearly stated whether support is received from other people and institutions for the study.
COPYRIGHT TRANSFER
All publication rights of the articles accepted for publication as a result of the peer-review process belong to DDJ. Authors are required to submit the "Copyright Transfer Form" to the journal after completing it. All responsibility for the opinions and suggestions in the article belongs entirely to the authors.

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