AUTHOR GUIDELINES
Thank you for your interest in Genel Tıp Journal (GTD). GTD is an international, non-profit, Open Access (OA) journal, publishing articles on a broad range of topics within the field.
WRITTEN LANGUAGE IS ENGLISH. OUR JOURNAL; ORIGINAL ARTICLE, INVITED REVIEW, LETTER TO THE EDITOR AND CASE REPORT ON THE FIELD OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES ARE ACCEPTED.
Please read the complete Author Guidelines carefully prior to submission, including the section on copyright. To ensure fast peer review and publication, manuscripts that do not adhere to the following instructions will be returned to the corresponding author for technical revision before undergoing peer review.
This Journal recommends that authors follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). https://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf The submitting author and corresponding author are responsible for providing valid and attended email address, and should check the email regularly, in order not to delay the editorial procedure.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium. Once you have prepared your submission in accordance with the Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/journal/3567/submission/step/manuscript/new
The account of the corresponding author of the study should be used in the applications. All correspondence regarding the application is forwarded to the responsible author via e-mail sent through the journal system.

WRITING RULES
A-TITLE PAGE
1.A separate title page should be submitted with all submissions and this page should include (The title should be short and informative, containing major keywords related to the content. The title should not contain abbreviations): Turkish and English title, short title, name-surname, qualifications (academic degree), affiliations, affiliation addresses, e-mail, ROR ID, and *Orcid ID of all authors .
2.The name, address, email address and telephone number of the corresponding author should be clearly indicated separately on the title page.
3.The journal operates a double-blind peer review policy, so please ensure that identifying information is only included in the title page file, and that the separate 'Main Document' file is anonymized.
4.When uploading the article file, make sure that it does not contain any elements (SUCH AS AUTHOR NAME AND INSTITUTION) that would decipher the identity of the author due to the double-blind peer-review process.
5.Files You Need To Download Separately:

A. Article Full Text
B. TITLE PAGE
C. ETHICS COMMITTEE FILE
D. TABLES AND FIGURES
E. COPYRIGHT NOTICE TEXT
F. COVER LETTER

6. Change of Author: Only processed before the article is accepted. Authors are required to carefully review the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript, and to provide the definitive list of authors at the time of original submission.
7. CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND FINANCE information should be included.

B-MAIN DOCUMENT
1.Original papers should be divided into sections as follows: TR and ENG abstract, Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion.
2.Submit the manuscript as one Microsoft Word file; using 12 point font (Times New Roman); 1.5 spacing; and employs italics, rather than underlining. ARTICLE FORMAT SHOULD BE WORD. DOC. DOCX.
3.Pages should be numbered but do not use any other automated features (such as endnotes, headers or footers), or any mechanism to track changes to various drafts of a manuscript.
4.Numbers one to ten should be written as words in the text, unless used as a unit of measurement; all numbers should be written in digits in tables and figures.
5.All numbers which start sentences should be written in words, not digits.
6.Bold type-face should be used for headings of sections and sub-sections within the paper.
7.Do not use tabs or indents within the text of the paper.
8.Writing should be clear, simple and direct.
9.All tables are placed at the end of the paper, after the references.
10.ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TABLE SHOULD BE EXPLAINED UNDER THE TABLE.
11.TABLE AND FIGURE HEADINGS MUST BE ADDED TO THE END OF RESOURCES AS TABLE OR FIGURE LEGEND.
12.Photographs and illustrations are submitted and as separate JPG, JPEG or TIFF files (resolution of at least 300 dpi).
13.3-5 MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION OBTAINED AS A RESULT OF THIS STUDY SHOULD BE STATED IN ITEMS.
14.AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY MUST BE ADDED TO THE MAIN TEXT AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE.
15. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SHOULD BE BEFORE REFERENCES.

C-ABSTRACT & KEYWORDS
1.GTD requires structured abstracts for all original articles.
2.The following headlines should be used where appropriate: Objective, Material and Method, Results, and Conclusion.
3.Please make sure the abstract provides an answer to the aim of the study, and that the total number of words does not exceed 300.
4.A list of from 4-8 key-words or terms from Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html suitable for indexing terms should be typed at the bottom of the abstract page.

D-REFERENCES
1.Articles should be prepared according to the GENERAL MEDICAL JOURNAL Citation System.
2.References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text.
3.Identify references in the text by Arabic numerals in parenthesis as follows: "as shown by Kara (5)":... if two authors; "Yilmaz & Ulusoy (6)";... if more than two authors; "Turk-Dagi et al. (7)".
4.When citing two or more sources at once, write a number for each separated by a comma e.g. (1, 2) or (6, 12)
5.When citing more than two sources which are numbered consecutively, use a hyphen instead of a comma e.g. (3-5)
6.If you need to cite a particular work more than once, you can use the same reference number for each citation Numbers should be in brackets and placed after punctuation marks such as full stops or commas, but before colons and semi-colons.
7.The style of references must follow the Vancouver system, and for the abbreviations of journal titles: please consult the Journals database, hosted at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals/
8.A reference gives the full details of the brief citation you have referred to in text and is shown at the end of your essay.
9.A reference will include authors, titles, editions, publisher details and journal details If the work has six authors or fewer, list all of them.
10.If there are more than six authors, list the first six authors followed by et al.
11.The style of references must follow the Vancouver system, and for the abbreviations of journal titles: please consult the Journals database, hosted at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals/
12.Example list of references

Brown RG, Robinson PJ. The level of depression in Parkinson's disease. Am J Psychiatry 1987; 149:122‐129

Meakin CJ, King DA, White J, Scott JM, Handley H, Griffiths A, et al. Screening for depression in the medically ill. J Nerv Ment Dis 1991; 12: 45‐53

Guy J. The view across the river: Harriette Colenso and the Zulu struggle against imperialism. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia; 2001.

Sparkes V. Function of the spine. In Everett T, Kell C, editors. Human movement: an introductory text. 6th ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingston Elsevier; 2010. p. 191‐ 209.

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FINAL CHECKLIST
Make sure the following items are available:
1. Author information added.
• E-mail address
• Orcid number
• Full address
• Phone number
2. All necessary files have been loaded.
• Article text
• Copyright Notice Text
3. The article "spellcheck" and "grammar check" haven completed.
4. All references mentioned in the References have been quoted in the text AND CONFORM TO THE JOURNAL WRITING RULES.
5. Ethics Committee Approval: All manuscripts must be accompanied by the ethics committee approval document.

PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism is generally understood to be the “passing off” of another's research or work as your own. ALL ARTICLES SENT TO OUR JOURNAL WILL BE SCANNED FOR SIMILARITY AND plagiarism, AND STUDIES WITH MORE THAN 30% SIMILARITY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED WHEN EXCLUDING THE REFERENCES SECTION.

*ORCID ID
We recommend that the open researcher and contributor ID (ORCID) of all authors to be provided. For an ORCID, authors should register at the ORCID web site available from https://orcid.org/register Registration is free to every researcher in the world.

REVISION
Authors should mark the changes they made in the main text in color while submitting the article revision files. The responses to the referees should be specified in a separate Word file.

AUTHOR'S GUIDE
AUTHORS' DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

AUTHORSHIP AND CONTRIBUTION
Authorship should be limited to those who have made significant contributions to the concept, design, execution or interpretation of the work. All significant contributors should be listed as co-authors. If there are minor contributors to the work, such as language editing, these should be noted in the acknowledgments section. The corresponding author should ensure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final manuscript and agree to submit it for publication. Authors are expected to carefully review the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript, and to provide the definitive list of authors at the time of original submission. The editor will only consider adding, deleting or rearranging authors after the article is submitted in exceptional cases. All authors must agree to any such addition, deletion or rearrangement. Authors take joint responsibility for the study.

AUTHOR CHANGE REQUESTS
Adding, deleting or rearranging the names of the authors in the list of authors can only be done before the article is accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor.
If such a change is requested, the Editor requests from the responsible author (a) the reason for the change in the list of authors and (b) written confirmation (e-mail) from all authors that they agree to add it. The editor will only consider adding, deleting or rearranging authors after the article has been accepted, in exceptional circumstances.

ARTİCLE WRITING
Authors of original research papers should address the topic in an authentic way and with an objective discussion. The article should contain sufficient detail and references to allow others to repeat the work. Fraudulent or knowingly false statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

ORIGINALITY
The author must provide assurance that the article is original, has not been previously published elsewhere, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, in another language.

ORIGINAL SOURCE USE AND CITATION
Authors should ensure that they are writing completely original works and that if they have used the work or words of others, it is appropriately cited. Privately obtained information, such as in conversations, correspondence or discussions with third parties, should not be used without the express and written permission of the source.

DATA ACCESS AND RETENTION
Authors may be asked to provide research data supporting their articles for editorial review and/or comply with the journal's open data requirements. Authors should be prepared, where possible, to provide public access to such data and to retain such data for a reasonable period of time after publication.

MULTI AND SIMULTANEOUS BROADCASTING
An author should not publish an article containing the same research in more than one journal. Submitting the same article to more than one journal at the same time is unethical behavior. An author should not submit a previously published article for consideration in another journal, unless it has been published as an abstract.

PUBLICATION OF STUDIES BASED ON SURVEY AND INTERVIEW
For research that requires ethics committee permission and conducted in all disciplines (ethics committee approval should be obtained, this approval should be stated and documented in the article. For research that requires ethics committee approval, information about the permission (board name, date and issue number) is also provided in the method section of the article. In one of the first/last pages, in case reports, information that the informed consent form was signed should be included in the article.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Any financial or other interests that may conflict with one's work, significantly impair objectivity, or provide an unfair advantage to any person or entity. All financial support resources and the role of sponsors in the study should be explained during the conduct of the research and the preparation of the article. If there is no source of funding, this should also be stated. Examples of potential conflicts of interest that need to be disclosed include consultations, hiring, grants. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest possible stage.

ERROR REPORTING
When an author notices a material error or inaccuracy in his published work, he should notify the journal immediately. It is also the author's obligation to cooperate to retract or correct the article if deemed necessary by the editor. If the editor or publisher learns from a third party that a published article contains errors, it is the author's obligation to cooperate with the editor, including notifying the editor.

IMAGE INTEGRITY
It is not acceptable to enhance, darken, move, remove or add a particular feature to an image. Authors must abide by the policy for graphic images enforced by the journal.