WRITING GUIDELINES
• Articles submitted to our journal must be written in Microsoft Office Word or adapted to this programme. Submitted articles must be in journal format, including all attachments, and must not exceed 11,000 words in total. Works exceeding this length will be accepted or rejected at the editor's discretion.
• Actions contrary to scientific research and publication ethics, such as plagiarism, falsification, distortion, republication, salami slicing, and unjust authorship, are considered criminal offences. In such cases, the scientific and legal responsibility for the articles lies with the authors. Our journal accepts no responsibility.
• The primary language of publication for the journal is Turkish. Articles in Arabic and English will also be accepted. Articles in foreign languages must include a 200-300 word summary in Turkish.
• Articles submitted to the journal must not have been previously published in another publication or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• Authors submitting articles to our journal must hold a doctoral degree or higher academic title. It must be ensured that other authors named in the article have contributed to the research. It is contrary to scientific ethics to list individuals without academic contribution as additional authors or to arrange authorship based on non-scientific criteria such as title, age, and gender without regard to the order of contribution.
• If articles are produced from unpublished conference papers or master's or doctoral theses, this should be stated on the first page of the work.
• The type of article (review/research/commentary, etc.) should be stated on the first page of submitted articles.
• The author's name, title, institutional affiliation, telephone number, email address, and ORCID number should also be included on the first page.
• Only one article per author may be published in each issue of the journal.
• For multi-authored works, authors must submit a statement of contribution and a conflict of interest declaration during the submission process. In studies derived from postgraduate theses, the author with the highest contribution must be a student.
• During the article submission process, if the study has received support from any institution, organisation, or fund, this support must be stated. Furthermore, if there are individuals, institutions, or organisations to be thanked, the relevant information must be clearly stated in the article file.
• If artificial intelligence-based tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Grammarly, etc.) were used in the article production process, the stages in which they were utilised must be clearly stated. This information must be provided during the article submission process. All responsibility regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence lies with the authors.
• The legal responsibility for articles published in the journal lies with the authors.
Ethics Committee Approval
Our journal requires that all studies in scientific fields requiring ethics committee approval have obtained the relevant ethics committee decision. In this context, information regarding ethics committee approval (committee name, date, and decision number) must be clearly stated in the article text.
In line with the regulations implemented by Ulakbim TR Index since 2020, studies without ethics committee approval are not considered for publication in our journal.
Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
Studies requiring ethics committee approval in our journal include the following:
• All research conducted using qualitative or quantitative approaches involving data collection from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus group studies, observation, experiments, and discussion techniques,
• Studies involving the use of humans and animals (including materials or data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical research conducted on humans,
• Scientific research conducted on animals,
• Retrospective studies within the framework of the Personal Data Protection Law.
For such studies to be considered for evaluation, the relevant ethical committee approvals must have been obtained and these approvals must be clearly stated in the article text.
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The ‘ISNAD Citation System 2nd Edition’ should be used as a basis for writing rules, footnotes, and references.