SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBILITY
In terms of scientific publishing standards, the articles to be submitted should be prepared in accordance with the criteria of the International Medical Journal Editors Board (ICMJE), World Medical Editors Association (WAME) and Publication Ethics Committee (COPE).
• The articles to be submitted must comply with research and publication ethics. The responsibility of the articles belongs to their authors.
• Articles should not have been published anywhere before and / or should not be in the evaluation process for publication.
• In order for the evaluation process to begin, the articles must be submitted with the Copyright Transfer Form signed by all authors. For author ranking, the signature order in the Copyright Transfer Form is taken into consideration.
• Corresponding author bears the responsibility of the final version of the article on behalf of all authors.


ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY
• Compliance with the Helsinki Declaration Principles (https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/) is sought in all studies involving the element of "Human". In such studies, the authors should state that they carried out the study in accordance with these principles in the MATERIAL AND METHODS section, and that they received approval from the ethics committees of their institutions and "informed consent" from the people who participated in the study.
• If the item "Animal" is used in the study, the authors should be informed in the MATERIAL AND METHODS section of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/guide-for-the-care-and-use- of-laboratory-animals.pdf), they should state that they protect animal rights in their work and that they get approval from the ethics committees of their institutions.
• In case presentations, "informed consent" should be obtained from the patients.
• Ethics committee approval information should be stated in the MATERIAL and METHODS section, together with the name, approval date and number of the committee.
• If there is a direct-indirect commercial connection or financial support institution in the study, the authors; used commercial product, drug, company, etc. They should indicate to the editor on the presentation page that they have no commercial relationship with or what kind of relationship (consultant, other agreements) they have.
• Authors are responsible for reporting all personal and financial relationships related to the study. It must be clearly declared whether there is any conflict of interest associated with the application and / or evaluation of the article.
• The authors are responsible for the compliance of the articles with scientific and ethical rules.

Similarity Rate Information Note:

All articles submitted for evaluation in our journal must have a similarity report obtained from intihal.net.  The similarity report rate must be at most 20% excluding references.

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers:

Reviewers are responsible for not evaluating the article and reporting any conflict of interest or relationship with the study and/or authors.
Reviewers must keep the work they receive confidential and cannot use the information they obtain from the reviewing process for their personal benefit.
Reviewers keep confidential all processes from the acceptance stage of the article to the publication process, and they cannot use or share the information and documents obtained.
Reviewers are responsible for reporting any unethical situations related to the study to the editor.
Personal criticisms of the authors should not be made, and evaluations should avoid individual feelings and thoughts and should use an impartial, honest, kind and constructive language, taking into account scientific principles and fundamentals.
During the article reviewing process, reviewers must take care to ensure that the personal information of the authors (gender, nationality, religious beliefs, political views, etc.) does not affect the scientific evaluation and they must be aware that they are legally responsible for the situation.

Ethical Responsibilities of Publisher, Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board

They act with the following ethical awareness:
• Editors are responsible for the entire process of manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research. Editors make decisions independently of economic or political interests.
• The publisher commits to ensuring independent editorial decisions.
• The publisher is responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all articles published in the journal and keeping records of unpublished articles.
• The publisher is responsible for taking necessary measures against scientific misconduct, fraud, and plagiarism.