An approval of research protocols by Ethics Committee in accordance with international agreements (World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki “Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects”, amended in October 2013, www.wma.net) is required for experimental, clinical and drug studies and some case reports. If required, ethics committee reports or an equivalent official document may be requested from the authors. For manuscripts concerning experimental research on humans, a statement should be included that shows informed consent of patients and volunteers was obtained following a detailed explanation of the procedures that they may undergo. For studies carried out on animals, the measures taken to prevent pain and suffering of the animals should be stated clearly. Information on patient consent, name of the ethics committee and the ethics committee approval number should also be stated in the materials and methods section of the manuscript. It is the authors’ responsibility to carefully protect the patients’ anonymity. For photographs that may reveal the identity of the patients, signed releases of the patient or of their legal representative should be enclosed.

Ethical principles and publication Policy
Ethics committee approval must be obtained for research conducted in all disciplines that requires ethics committee approval, and the “committee name, date, and issue number” of this approval should be stated and documented in the method section of the article and on the last page before the references section.

Journal policy
Manuscripts submitted to Journal of Basic and Clinical Health Sciences will go through a double-blind peer-review process. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two external, independent peer reviewers who are experts in their fields in order to ensure an unbiased evaluation process. No fee is charged for the manuscript submitted to the journal.
Due to the variability that may occur in the duration of the evaluation processes, number-based articles are not accepted. The manuscripts accepted as a result of the review processes are put in the queue for the first issue to be published. In the journal, the pre-control and reviewer assignment periods take place on an average of 7–10 days. After the review process starts, the reviewers have a 15-day invitation period and a 30-day evaluation period. Since this process may vary according to the reviewers, it is not possible to give precise information about whether the work you will submit will be able to reach the numbers whose article acceptance is ongoing.

The correction period given to the authors is 15 days, and the works that are not requested for corrections within this period will be rejected. An extension period can be added for this period if the editors are consulted. Authors can withdraw their work only during the pre-check period. In other cases, if peer-review processes have been initiated, studies can only be returned by the editors. Our journal has adopted the Open Access Policy and is served only in Dergipark. The Journal of Basic and Clinical Health Sciences requires each submission to be accompanied by a Copyright Agreement. By signing this form, authors retain the copyright of their work and agree that the article, if accepted for publication by the Journal of Basic and Clinical Health Sciences will be licensed.

Ethical guidelines for journal editors
The editor should reject the article in the case of ethical violations.
Journal editors should give unbiased consideration to each manuscript submitted for publication. They should judge each on its merits, without regard to race, religion, nationality, sex, seniority, or institutional affiliation of the author(s).
Journal editors must keep the peer-review process confidential. They must not share information about a manuscript with anyone outside of the peer-review process.
Journal editors may reject a submitted manuscript without formal peer review if they consider it to be inappropriate for the journal and outside its scope.
Journal editors should make all reasonable effort to process submissions on time.
Journal editors should delegate the peer review of any original self-authored research article to a member of the editorial or advisory board as appropriate.
Any data or analysis presented in a submitted manuscript should not be used in a journal editor’s own research without the consent of the author.
The editor has full responsibility to reject, accept or request changes to the articles submitted to the journal.

Ethical guidelines for authors
Authors must declare that the manuscript they submit is original and has not previously been published elsewhere.
Authors must declare that their manuscript is not currently being considered by another journal.
All authors named in the study must have contributed to the experimental design and execution of the study, as well as the data analysis and interpretation.
Authors should provide access to the data sets used in the study, if deemed necessary.
Authors must notify the editorial board if they discover an important error in their published article.
For studies that require ethics committee approval, authors should submit it to the journal.If "Ethics Committee Approval" is required for the research, information regarding the approval of the Ethics Committee (name of the ethics committee, number and date of the approval document) should be stated in the article.

Within the framework of ethical rules, studies that require Ethics Committee Permission for evaluation in the journal are as follows:
- All types of qualitative or quantitative research that requires data collection from participants via surveys, interviews, focus group work, observation, experiments, or interview techniques.
- The use of humans and animals (including material and data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
- Clinical studies on humans,
- Studies on animals,
- Retrospective studies in accordance with the personal data protection law.

Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers
All peer reviewers must follow these ethical guidelines for Journal of Basic and Clinical Health Sciences journal articles in review:

Reviewers must give unbiased consideration to each manuscript submitted. They should judge each on its merits, without regard to race, religion, nationality, sex, seniority, or institutional affiliation of the author(s).
Reviewers must declare any conflict of interest before agreeing to review a manuscript. This includes any relationship with the author that may bias their review.
Reviewers must keep the peer review process confidential. They must not share information or correspondence about a manuscript with anyone outside of the peer review process.
Reviewers should provide a constructive, comprehensive, evidenced, and appropriately substantial peer review report.
Reviewers must avoid making statements in their report which might be construed as impugning any person’s reputation.
Reviewers should make all reasonable effort to submit their report and recommendation on time. They should inform the editor if this is not possible.
Reviewers should call to the journal editor’s attention any significant similarity between the manuscript under consideration and any published paper or submitted manuscripts of which they are aware.

Editorial and blind peer review processes
Editors are obliged to implement the "Blind Peer-Review and Evaluation Process" policies included in the journal's publication policies. In this context, the editors ensure that the fair, impartial, and timely evaluation process of each work is completed.

Quality assurance
The editor is responsible for publishing every article published in the journal in accordance with journal publication policies and international standards.

Protection of personal data
Editors are obliged to ensure the protection of personal data regarding the subjects or images included in the evaluated studies. Unless the explicit consent of the individuals used in the studies is documented, they are responsible for refusing the study. In addition, editors are responsible for protecting the individual data of authors, reviewers, and readers.

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

Political and commercial concerns
The journal's owner, publisher, and no other political or commercial factors affect the editors' independent decision-making.

Conflicts of interest
The Editors consider potential conflicts of interest between the author(s), reviewers, and other editors and ensure that the studies are published in an independent and impartial manner.