* Articles written in either Turkish or English languages are published in our journal.

*It is recommended to use the article template on our web page while the author is writing the article.

* Manuscripts specified in the article template should be written in Word 2003 or higher versions, in A4 size, “Times New Roman” font style, main text in 12 points and single line spacing, justified on both sides and in two columns. An article is sent to the journal with a .doc extension.

The first line indent in paragraphs should be 0.5 cm. Before and after the paragraph, there should be 6 pt space between them, there should not be too much space between the blank lines and texts.

Turkish title: It should be written in 12 point bold with the first letter of each word being capitalized.

English title: The first letter of each word should be capitalized, and it should be written in normal 10 pt.

*Explanations required for this study, if any, should be written (…presented as … in congress/symposium, thesis or project work, received from the University … board, supported by Research Project (Project No) etc.) or acknowledgment text.

1Title, Author's Name SURNAME, Profession, Institution and Department, e-mail, ORCID:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXX
2Assoc. Dr., Author Name SURNAME, Public Health, Gumushane University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Management, e-mail, ORCID:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

İCorresponding Author: Name SURNAME
Received: 00.00.2021
e-mail: xxxxxx@xxxxxmail
Accepted: 00.00.2021

1.Example Author Footer

Names of the authors, as indicated in the 1st sample author footer: Name and Surname should be written under the English title and side by side. The names of the authors after the title should be written before using the title, the name starting with a capital letter, then the surname in all capital letters. At the end of the authors' names, a number should be placed in the form of a superscript and in the table template field at the bottom of the page, in accordance with these numbers, the authors' academic title, field of specialization and institution, ORCID information should be written in 8 points. In italics at the top of the author's information: if the research was presented as a paper (oral or poster) at a scientific meeting, or if the thesis is a thesis, it should be stated with the date and place as shown in the template at the bottom of the title page of the article. Project number can be added. Acknowledgments may be included in this field.

Article titles:

"In English articles, the abstract part (on the left of the page) is written before the abstract (on the right of the page)"

RESEARCH: SUMMARY«ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, MATERIAL AND METHOD, FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS, REFERENCES

REVIEW: ABSTRACT«ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, Subtitles related to the subject, CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS, REFERENCES

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW: SUMMARY«ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, METHOD, FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS, REFERENCES

CASE REPORT: SUMMARY ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHOD: (Data Collection-Case Report), FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS, REFERENCES

Main titles should be written in single column width, centered on the page and in Bold CAPITAL letters.

Abstracts: They should be written in 10 points size and should not exceed 250 words. The abstract should not contain equations, citations, non-standard abbreviations. Subheadings in summary paragraphs should not be added to the summary. The abbreviations used in the manuscripts should be written clearly when they are first used in the text and the abbreviated form should be given in parentheses next to it. Headings should not be numbered and should be written in all capital letters and in bold, aligned with the beginning of the paragraph.

Keywords; It should be compatible with IndexMedicus:Medical Subject Headings (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html) and Turkish Science Terms dictionary.

“INTRODUCTION” section should start from the second page and the last paragraph should include the purpose of the article.

It should be noted that the text, drawings or graphics are within the writing area. Page margins in articles; top and left should be 2.5 cm, bottom and right should be 2 cm.

Manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages, including figures and tables.

A maximum of 5 tables should be used in the article.

Pictures, figures and graphics in the articles should be displayed under the name of "Figure"; Figures and graphics should be drawn in computer environment. Tables, figures and equations should be numbered, the titles should be written above the tables and below the figures, with the first letter of each word capitalized.

Tables; should be placed in the appropriate place in the text, decimal numbers should be separated by commas, not periods (except for the English abstract). Tables should be made using the table menu, cells should not contain more than one value, alignment should not be done with the space bar, should be done with the help of a ruler, numbers should be right-justified and the number of tables should not exceed 5. Table Titles should be written in 10 points, Table Content should be written in 8-10 points, References should be written in 8 points. Subsequent tables and figures should not be shown in the article.

The abbreviations used should be stated in the explanation below the figures, pictures, tables and graphics. If previously printed figures, pictures, tables and graphics are used, written permission should be obtained and this permission should be stated in the description of the figure, picture, table and graphic and should be cited as the source.

Authors can only cite the sources they directly benefit from in their articles. Our journal does not deem it appropriate to use the sources reported in other studies in the form of citation.

Source numbers; In the text or at the end of the sentence, it should be written as superscript1 after the period.

Sources should not be more than 40 in total.

References should be listed in the order in which they are used in the article. When writing more than one reference number, a space should be left after the comma, and if more than two consecutive reference numbers are to be written, a “-” sign should be placed between the first number and the last number. References should only be at the end of the sentence. As a source; Unpublished source (unpublished congress, symposium, meeting, etc. documents) cannot be used.

References are similar to apa style, bibliography writing style is included as an example in the article template, care should be taken not to abbreviate a study with multiple authors with a single author name and to indicate the beginning and end of the reference pages. The abbreviations to be used should be in accordance with Index Medicus.

In the manuscripts reporting the results of experimental studies conducted on humans, after the characteristics of the procedures to be applied to the volunteers or patients in which this study was conducted, a sentence indicating that they were informed and their consent was obtained should be included in the "Ethical Aspect of the Study" sub-title in the Material Method. Authors should submit the approval they have received from the relevant Ethics Committee in the case of such a study. In case reports, information about signing the informed consent/consent form should be included in the article. Relevant ethical approval should also be obtained for studies performed on animals. When a photograph is used to promote patient identification, the patient's written consent should be obtained and the patient's eyes should be covered with tape. When a photograph belonging to a private institution such as an institution is used, the written permission should be stated in the article and the permission information should be sent to us. For the use of scales, questionnaires and photographs belonging to others, permission should be obtained from the owners and should be stated in this study. The photograph information used should be explained with the “Picture X.“ symbol.

In the material and method section of the article, the organizations supporting the work, the number of the project work, the ethics committee report and the institution and dates from which permission was obtained should be written. It is also indicated in italics above the author information on the first page.

The plagiarism rate measured by us during the pre-control phase of your article should be 10% or less.

To check the spelling rule for the author, the author must fill in the checklist, and all the steps in the article author checklist must be compatible with the "Yes" option.

The publication copyright transfer certificate and the ethics committee and the Institution's permission certificate, if any, should be sent as an additional file together with the article submission.

Works that do not comply with the above format will not be evaluated in terms of content and will be returned to the author by the editor.

That’s why; Before sending your article to our journal, check it one last time according to the "Author's Checklist". The article template will provide convenience to the author about the writing style.