Authors undertake that their publications are created in accordance with all universal ethical rules and research is accepted accordingly.


Authors are responsible for all statements in their work. Submitted studies should be prepared in line with the journal's writing rules. Studies that do not comply with the spelling rules are rejected or sent back to the authors for correction.


The journal has the right to make corrections in the accepted works without changing the content and meaning.


The journal accepts the research provided that it has not been published in another journal or publication.


All authors should indicate their relationships with individuals or organizations that may have conflicts of interest. Support received for the study, if any, should be stated in detail. Conflicts of interest should also be indicated on the title page.


In the management and publication processes of the journal, attention is paid to the publishing principles of "International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)" and "Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)".

Evaluation process
-Only articles uploaded to the journal's system are evaluated. Studies sent via e-mail are not considered.
- All submitted studies go through pre-evaluation, language editor, statistical editor and referee evaluation processes (about 2 months). The evaluation process is carried out by the editor of the journal.


Pre-Evaluation Process
After the article is uploaded to the journal, the pre-evaluation process begins. At this stage, the editor examines the article in terms of content, form, purpose and scope of the journal. As a result of this thinning
• Decides that the work is not suitable for the journal and declines the work.
• Resend the work to the responsible author for corrections.
• The study sends to the language editor and can request a correction.
• The study is evaluated by sending it to a statistics advisor. After this evaluation, the author may ask for a correction.
• Can direct the article to the referees and initiate the referee evaluation process.


Referee Evaluation Process
All articles in the journal are double-blind peer-reviewed. In order to ensure the impartial evaluation process, each article is evaluated by at least two independent referees who are experts in their fields. If there is no consensus among the referees, the article is evaluated by the third referee. The editor in chief makes the final decision in the decision-making process of all articles.
Revision
Authors should mark the changes they made in the main text in color while submitting the article revision files. The responses to the referees should be specified in a separate Word file. Revised articles should be submitted to the journal within one month following the decision letter. If the revised version of the article is not uploaded within the specified time, the revision option can be canceled. If the authors need additional time for revision, they must submit their publication requests to the journal before the end of one month.
Articles accepted for publication are checked again for grammar, punctuation and format.
Accepted articles are edited in accordance with the journal's publication format and the final version is sent to the responsible author in pdf format before publication, and approval is obtained for publication. Authors should review the article and approve for publication. If the article requires any correction other than the publication format, the request for correction is notified to the editor at ulkukaraman44@hotmail.com. Requests for correction are evaluated by the editor and notified to the responsible author. Articles that are not approved by the corresponding author are not published.

Plagiarism
The similarity rate of the articles should be made over iThenticate and should be at most 20%, excluding the "References" section.
The journal is published online only.
The journal is free and does not require any publication fee from researchers.

The journal is published by Ordu University.
Journal contact
ulkukaraman44@hotmail.com