Cappadocia Journal of Health Sciences is committed to the ethics of science and publishing. The principles of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) are taken into account in scientific articles submitted to the journal by referring to national and international standards in the journal and / or on the web page. Accordingly, the responsibilities of authors, editors, editorial board and referees and the principles to be followed are as follows.

Not Previously Published: Manuscripts to be published in Cappadocia Journal of Health Sciences must not have been published anywhere before, in whole or in part. Studies based on papers presented in a scientific event can be published by specifying the title of the paper and event information in the footnote. Articles sent to another journal for evaluation for publication cannot be sent to Cappadocia Journal of Health Sciences at the same time.

Plagiarism Policy: The iThenticate and Turnitin program is used to evaluate manuscripts submitted for publication in Cappadocia Journal of Health Sciences for plagiarism. Articles with a maximum similarity rate of 10%, excluding citations and bibliography, are accepted for peer review. Articles with a similarity rate of 10% to 20% are sent back to the author for correction before peer review. Articles with a similarity rate exceeding 20% are rejected without request for correction. If the necessary arrangements are not made in the manuscripts that are found to have problems in terms of scientific ethics during the peer review process, the publication of the manuscript is rejected.

Conflict of Interest: Conflicts of interest, including financial, institutional and other relationships between authors, should be clearly declared on the Title Page.

Ethics Committee Approval: Cappadocia Journal of Health Sciences has adopted the principle of complying with the ethical standards of the Human Experiments Committee of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki, revised in 2013. In this direction, local or national ethics committee approval letters of the original research articles sent to our journal for publication must be uploaded to the system. In the method section of the article, it should be stated that the study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the ethics committee approval should be included.

Author contributions: The Title Page should indicate the roles of the authors in the conception, design, supervision, consultancy, data collection and/or processing, sourcing, analysis and/or interpretation, literature review, writing, and critical review stages of the study.

Article Evaluation Process

Manuscripts submitted to Cappadocia Journal of Health Sciences for publication are reviewed by the managing editors in terms of format, language and publication principles. Manuscripts that are found unsuitable in these aspects are sent back to the author. Manuscripts that are deemed appropriate are submitted to the Editorial/Advisory Board after the information revealing the identity of the author is concealed. The Editorial/Advisory Board evaluates the manuscripts in terms of scientific quality, originality and integrity of the journal. For the articles deemed appropriate, the editor in charge for the double-blind review process is initiated.

The referees make an evaluation within the 3-week period given to them. They observe the principles of scientific ethics in their evaluations, use constructive language within the framework of academic etiquette and operate the principle of impartiality. They do not share the texts they evaluate until the article is published and adhere to the principle of confidentiality. They refuse to evaluate the article and inform the editors when they notice information that may reveal the identity of the author and when they realize that there is a conflict of interest. If one of the referee reports is positive and the other is negative, the manuscript may be sent to a third referee or the editorial board may make its final decision based on the reports.

Corrections may be requested from the author according to the referee reports. The author takes into account the criticism, suggestions and correction requests of the referees and, if necessary, the editorial board, and prepares a report indicating the changes in the text and the suggestions rejected, if any, with the reasons. The revised texts are evaluated by the managing editor by comparing them with the referee reports. The editor-in-chief decides on publication according to the final version of the manuscript. Manuscripts that are decided for publication are read one last time by the managing editor to ensure that they comply with the journal's standards in terms of spelling, punctuation, in-text references and bibliography. Manuscripts that are decided for publication are placed in order as of the date of acceptance, but editors may make some changes depending on journalism such as file preparation, timeliness, necessity and completeness.

Typeset manuscripts are sent to the author for final reading before being made available for open access. At this stage, the author cannot withdraw the manuscript or request major corrections that would require the manuscript to be re-sorted, but can request mandatory, minor corrections.

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