Publication Model: Continuous Publishing with Issue-Based Structure

Starting in 2026, the journal operates under a Continuous Publishing (article-based publishing) model. Once a manuscript has completed peer review and all editorial and production stages (including copyediting/typesetting and author proofing), it is published online immediately as a final, citable article, without waiting for an entire issue. Each newly published article is placed into the current open issue.

The journal continues to use standard volume and issue numbering. In total, four issues will be published. For 2026, each issue will be closed after 10 articles have been published, and the next issue will be opened accordingly. The target number of articles per issue is determined annually by the Editorial Board at the beginning of each year, based on editorial capacity and publication planning.

Manuscript Template

Authors must declare that there is no conflict of interest in the study.


Authors should fill the "Acknowledgement" section to thank their funders.


Authors must present CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1210]) when there are two or more authors.


The corresponding author is expected to present CRediT details that provide the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of the authors' contributions to the published article.

The role(s) of all authors must be listed, using 14 relevant categories in CRediT taxonomy.

Authors may have contributed in multiple roles.

This information must be provided after the authors' short bios.

The roles of authors may be classified as the followings, but not limited to:

Conceptualization          : Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
Data curation                   : Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including                                                                                         software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
Formal analysis            : Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize                                                                                                     study data.
Funding acquisition       : Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Investigation                        : Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence                                                                   collection.
Methodology                           : Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Project administration : Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
Resources                                 : Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation,                                                                     computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Software                                       : Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and                                                                                    supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Supervision                         : Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship                                                                  external to the core team.
Validation                                    : Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of                                                                  results/experiments and other research outputs.
Visualization                         : Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
Writing - original draft : Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including                                                                    substantive translation).
Writing - review & editing : Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group,                                                                             specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.


The corresponding author may use the following example to state author contributions as authorship credits:

Hamit Solmaz: Conceptualization, Supervision, H. Serdar Yücesu: Conceptualization, Writing-original draft, Validation, Alper Calam: Data curation, Formal analysis, Emre Yılmaz: Writing-original draft, writing-review&editing, software.

Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1210

References should be listed at the end of the paper in font 9. They should be numbered consecutively and referred in square brackets. While referring a journal paper, volume, number, page numbers and year must be given. From 2021, the reference list should be prepared using the Vancouver referencing style. Attention!: Article citations should demonstrate the integration of the published work in the scholarly community and surrounding research field. Articles reporting lists of references citing non scholarly documents, such as, webpages, blogs, commercial products, manuals of any device or software as well as references that cannot be accessed, are not acceptable.