ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE AUTHORS
The author(s) who submit a study to the Journal of Pre-Hospital are expected to comply with the following ethical responsibilities:
• The articles submitted by the author(s) are expected to be original. If the author(s) benefit from or use other works, they are required to cite completely and accurately.
• Persons who do not contribute to the content intellectually in the creation of the article should not be specified as authors.
• Situations that may constitute a conflict of interest of all articles submitted for publication should be disclosed.
• If there is an institution that provides financial support for commercial connection or work at any stage; The authors have to explain to the editor that they have no commercial relationship with the commercial product and drug used, or how they are related, if any.
• Raw data regarding the articles can be requested from the author(s) within the framework of the evaluation processes. In such a case, the data expected from the author(s) should be ready to present the information to the editorial board and scientific committee.
• The author(s) must have a document showing that they have the right to use the obtained data, the necessary permissions for the research/analysis, or the consent of the experimented subjects.
• In the event that the author(s) notices an error in the published or under review article, they have an obligation to cooperate with the editor in informing, correcting or withdrawing the articles.
• An article published in another journal cannot be submitted to the Pre-Hospital Journal. Articles cannot be included in the application process of more than one journal at the same time. Each application can be started following the completion of the previous application.
• Changing the author responsibilities of a work whose evaluation process has begun (such as adding an author, changing the order of authors, removing an author) cannot be proposed.

Copyright

In order for a journal article to be submitted for publication, the article must not have been published in another journal before and has not been evaluated for publication elsewhere. Articles and texts published in this journal are copyrighted by their authors, except for commercial purposes and cited.

ETHICAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF EDITORS
Editors and field editors must have the following ethical duties and responsibilities on the basis of the "COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" guidelines published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

General duties and responsibilities of editors;
Editors are responsible for all studies published in the Journal of Pre-Hospital and are obliged to implement the "Blind Refereeing and Evaluation Process" in the journal publication policies.
There are also the following role and responsibilities:
• Continuously ensure the development of the journal.
• Make efforts to meet the information needs of readers and authors.
• Should support freedom of thought.
• Ensure academic integrity.
• Must carry out business processes without compromising intellectual property rights and ethical standards.
• Show clarity and transparency in terms of publication on issues that require correction or explanation.
• Carry out processes aimed at improving the quality of the studies published in the journal.
• Should make an effort on dynamically updating the referee pool.
• Should work to develop of a wide range of referee pool
• Should respond any complaints enlighteningly and explanatorily by carefully examining complaints from referees, readers or authors.
• The journal owner, publisher and any other political and commercial element should not affect the independent decision-making of the editors.
• The editors; considering the conflicts of interest between the author(s), referees and other editors, should ensure that the publication process of the studies is completed independently and impartially.

The Duties and Responsibilities of Editors Towards Authors:
• They should make positive or negative decisions based on the original value of the articles, their importance, the clarity of the narrative and the objectives of the journal.
• It should take the studies that are suitable for the scope of the publication to the pre-evaluation stage as long as there are no significant problems and should not ignore the positive referee recommendations.
• Newly appointed editors should not change the decisions made by the previous editor(s) for the work unless there is a significant problem.
• The " Blind Refereeing and Evaluation Process" must be published and editors should prevent any problems from the processes defined.
• To consider whether there is a conflict of interest between the author(s) and the referees.
• To prevent unkind and unscientific assessments.
• Informative notification and return should be provided to the author (s).

The Duties and Responsibilities of Editors Towards Referees:
• Determine the referees in accordance with the working subjects.
• Provide the information and guidance that referees will need during the evaluation phase.
• Keep the identity of referees confidential in the context of blind refereeing.
• Should encourage referees to evaluate the articles in an impartial, scientific and objective way.
• Determine practices and policies that improve the performance of referees.

The Duties and Responsibilities of The Editors Towards the Editorial Board;
• Editors must ensure that all editorial processes proceed in accordance with publication policies and guidelines.
• Inform the members of the editorial board about the publication policies.
• Ensure that the members of the editorial board evaluate the work impartially and independently.
• The editorial board should determine its members in a way that can contribute to the field.
• The editorial board should submit the studies for evaluation in accordance with the members' specialty
• The editors should interact regularly with the editorial board.
• Should periodically organize meetings with the editorial board for the development of publication policies and the journal.

The duties and responsibilities of editors towards readers:
• Editors should make decisions based on the expectations of all readers, researchers and practitioners for the knowledge, skills and experience they need.
• Editors should take into account feedback from readers and provide descriptive and informative feedback.

Publisher relations with the editor:
The relationship between editors and publisher is based on the principle of editorial independence. All decisions taken by editors are independent of the publisher and the journal owner.

Quality assurance:
The editors are responsible for the publication of each article published in the journal in accordance with the journal publication policies and international standards.

Protection of personal data:
• Editors are obliged to ensure the protection of personal data related to subjects or images in the evaluated studies.
• Editors are tasked with refusing to work unless the explicit consent of the individuals used in the studies is documented.
• In addition, editors; is responsible for protecting the individual data of the author, referee and readers.

Ethics committee, human and animal rights:
• Editors are obliged to ensure the protection of human and animal rights in the studies evaluated.
• Editors are responsible for refusing to work in the absence of ethics committee approval for subjects used in studies and permissions for experimental research.
• Authors should comply with the ethics standards of the relevant committee and the Helsinki Declaration regarding medical research on humans when conducting and reporting experimental research on human beings.

Prevention against possible misconduct:
• Editors are obliged to take precautions against possible misconduct.
• In addition to conducting a rigorous and objective investigation into the identification and evaluation of complaints against this situation, it is the editor's responsibility to share the findings.

Protection of intellectual property rights:
• Editors are obliged to protect the intellectual property rights of all published articles and to defend the rights of the journal and the author(s) in possible violations.
• In addition, editors are obliged to take the necessary measures to ensure that the contents of all published articles do not violate the intellectual property rights of other publications.

Plagiarism
Studies submitted to the Journal of Pre-Hospital are screened with Turnitin plagiarism program. Excluding the bibliography and references, as a result of the search made for the main text of the article, the similarity with other texts should not exceed 15% without citing the source. At rates between 10% and 30%, the author may be contacted and requested to correct the situation. However, the article is rejected for similarities without references exceeding 30%.

The journal considers the following conditions to be plagiarism:
• Trying to publish someone else's work as your own,
• To use sentences or ideas as a whole from someone else's work without citation,
In citations, not to show sentences in quotation marks or to specify them with a smaller spelling size, even though they should be used,
• Not to give the source correctly or to mislead the source in the citations,
• To change the author's statements and/or to include them in the study, using them in different words, without citing them in quotes.

Ethical Responsibilities of Referees
Evaluation of all studies with "Blinding Refereeing" directly affects the quality of publication. This process provides confidence through objective and independent evaluation of the publication. The evaluation process in the Pre-Hospital Journal is carried out with the principle of double-sided blind refereeing. Referees cannot contact the authors directly, evaluations and comments are communicated through the dergipark management system. In this process, referee comments on evaluation forms and full texts are forwarded to the author(s) through the editor.

Referees must have the following ethical responsibilities:
• Referees should only agree to evaluate studies related to their area of expertise.
• Should make the evaluation in impartiality and confidentiality.
• If the referee thinks that he or she is facing a conflict of interest during the evaluation process, he should refuse to evaluate.
• In accordance with the privacy policy, they should destroy the studies they are examining after the evaluation process. It can only use final versions of the studies they review only after they are published.
• It should objectively make the evaluation only in relation to the content of the study. It should not allow nationality, gender, religious beliefs, political beliefs and commercial concerns to influence the evaluation.
• It should make the assessment in constructive and gentle language. It should not make derogatory personal comments that are hostile, defamatory and insulting.
• Referees should carry out the work they agree to evaluate on time and in the above ethical responsibilities.

Ethical Principals of The Publisher
The Association for Standardization and Accreditation in Paramedic Education (PESAD) is the publisher of the Pre-Hospital Journal. PESAD bears the following ethical responsibilities:
• It determines the editor and editorial board from areas that comply with the journal policies and from people with sufficient academic experience.
• It does not intervene in the subjects in the areas of responsibility of the editors, editorial boards and referees, especially the evaluation processes of the studies submitted to the journal, and provides an independent and impartial working environment.
• It is responsible for taking measures related to all kinds of scientific misconduct and plagiarism related to editors.

If You Encounter an Unethical Situation
If you encounter any unethical situations or other unethical behavior or content mentioned above in the Pre-Hospital Journal, please report it to hastaneoncesidergisi@gmail.com.

JOURNAL POLICY
• Pre-Hospital Journal (HOD) is a national peer-reviewed scientific journal that offers open access to readers. The journal is published twice a year, the fall (October-November) and Spring (March-April). Special numbers can be published when necessary.
• No fees are charged for the studies submitted to the journal for publication.
• Turkish writing rules should be taken care of in the studies to be sent to the journal for evaluation.
• Manuscripts submitted to the journal should not have been published in another journal before, sent for publication or accepted for publication. In the articles presented and not published in any scientific meeting, the name, place and date of the meeting should be indicated as footnotes.
• The articles submitted to the Pre-Hospital Journal are pre-examined by the editors and assistant editors in terms of structure and content, deciding whether they are worth publishing in the journal and then sent to the referees. The article is sent to 2 (two) referees related to the field. It is decided which article to send to which referees according to the interests of the referees and the articles. The authors are not informed about the identities of the referees evaluating the article and the referees are not informed about who owns the submitted article. Referee reports are confidential.
• In the case of positive opinions from the two-referee sent to the article, the article is set to be published. In case of negative opinions from two referees, the article is not published in any way. If the two referees report different views from each other, the article is sent to a third referee; The third referee decides to publish or not publish according to the answer to give. According to the reports from the referees, the publication of the article is determined to publish (accept), correction, add or remove (rejection), and this decision is reported to the authors.
• Authors can withdraw their work at any stage of the evaluation process.