East Black Sea Journal of Health Sciences

East Black Sea Journal of Health Sciences is a peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to disseminating qualified scientific knowledge and enhancing the field of health sciences literature. Scientific articles submitted to our journal undertake a quick and thorough editorial and double-blind peer review procedure before being published. For this purpose, the journal is published three times a year in June, September and December.

EBSHealth accepts articles in Turkish and English. The journal publishes scientific research, review, and case reports from the fields of nursing, midwifery, medicine, nutrition and dietetics, veterinary medicine, physiotherapy, social work, and other health sciences. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must not have been previously published or accepted for publication in another journal. Studies presented at the congress or symposium should be indicated as footnotes on the title page. The plagiarism rate of the submitted articles should be at most 20%. Authors should check the plagiarism through related softwares (Turnitin, ithenticate etc.) before submitting an article to the journal and uploading this report from the journal panel.

Articles should be written in Microsoft Word, in Times New Roman font, 12 pts for the title, 11 pts for the main text, 10 pts for the bibliography and tables (1.5 line spacing).

Manuscripts should be prepared with a margin of 2.5 cm on the top and left sides of the page, 2.5 cm on the bottom and right sides of the page, and not exceeding a total of 15 pages. Except for the first page, all other pages should be numbered.

The titles of the articles should be written in 12 font size, capital letters, and bold characters. The title should reflect the content appropriately. Below the title, the authors names should be written in the order in the article.

For the article;

a) Title page; should contain the title, correspondence addresses, e-mail addresses, ORCID IDs of all authors in the order in the article. The corresponding author should also be specified.

b) In the article file, the title of the article should be written in capital letters, the name should be written without the title at the bottom, followed by the surname in capital letters, if there is more than one author, they should be written side by side. Authors should be numbered as superscripts at the end of their names and these numbers should be used in the footnote section. The title, ORCID ID, and institutions of the author(s) should be written as footnotes at the bottom of the first page in the same font and in 10 font size.

The first page of the article should include an abstract section. At the beginning of the article, there should be a maximum of 300 words "ABSTRACT" in Turkish and "ABSTRACT" in English (10 points and italic).

In research articles: The following sections should be included

INTRODUCTION
AIM
MATERIALS AND METHODS
RESULTS
DISCUSSION
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, if any
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
REFERENCES

In review articles: The abstract should be 250-300 words and should be written in Turkish and English. Related titles and references should be included. Review articles; It should be prepared in a way to includes the current literature for all kinds of issues in all areas of health.

The abbreviations used in the articles should be written clearly when they are first used in the article and the abbreviated form should be given in parentheses next to it.

Tables in the articles should not contain vertical lines as long as possible, they should be made using the table menu in the Word program, and the number of tables should not exceed 5. Tables should be written by dividing each value in the table into a row and column. Between fractions should be a period (like 10.88), not a comma.

The language of the articles should be clear and understandable.

Citation format
It should be prepared in accordance with the APA Style. References should be given in 10 point characters. If the benefited works are accessed from digital sources, the doi number or access link should be specified.

EBSHealth follows an open access policy, adopting the principle that providing scientific research free of charge to society and health professionals will increase the global sharing of knowledge.

EBSHealth adopts the condition of having the highest ethical and scientific standards on the subject in the articles it publishes. The scientific and legal responsibility of the articles belongs to the author and/or authors. The editorial board cannot be held responsible for scientific and ethical violations.

Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published elsewhere or sent to another journal for simultaneous publication, or should not be under review in another journal.

Publication ethics and open access policy followed by EBSHealth, are in line with the guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in open access (For example, “The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors; “Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors” and “COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors”) were created.

Our journal has the right to request output files related to the analysis results from the authors according to the evaluations made by the editorial board and/or the referees. rejection will take place.

Scientific Responsibility
Scientific and legal responsibility of the articles belongs to the author and/or authors. All authors must have a direct scientific contribution to the submitted article. Names determined as authors should have all the roles and responsibilities of the authors defined in the Guide of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)” (http://www.icmje.org). ( http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/about-the-recommendations/)

All publication expenses are covered by EBSHealth within the framework of the publication policy of the journal. Accepted articles are published online. No publication fee is charged for the execution of the article processes in the journal or for the articles accepted for publication. In addition, the authors of the articles are not paid royalties and a separate reprint copy is not given.