Research Article
The main text is limited to 3000 words, and the abstract is limited to 250 words both in Turkish and English. References should not exceed 25. Tables and Figures should not exceed 5. Keywords should be concordant with National Library of Medicine (NLM) Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary terms, and there should be at least 3 and should be limited to 6. Keywords should be listed below the abstract, both in Turkish and English.
Statistical analysis should be performed in accordance with guidelines on reporting statistics in medical journals (Altman DG, Gore SM, Gardner MJ, Pocock SJ. Statistical guidelines for contributors to medical journals. Br Med J 1983: 7; 1489-93). The software used for analysis should be described. For parametric tests represent continuous variables as Mean±Standard Deviation, while for nonparametric tests represent data as Median and range (Minimum-Maximum) or Median and interquartile range (25th and 75th percentiles). Whenever complex analyses are used support the relative risk, odds or hazard ratios values by providing confidence intervals and p values.
Review Article
Review articles are solicited by the Editorial Board from authors who are experts in their field of study. The abstract should be submitted in both English and Turkish; should be unstructured and should not be longer than 300 words. Keywords should be concordant with National Library of Medicine (NLM) Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary terms, and there should be at least 3 and the number should be limited to 6. Keywords should be listed below the abstract, both in Turkish and English. The main text should include a title, abstract, keywords, main topics and references and should be limited to 5000 words. The number of cited references should be limited to 150.
If a previously published image is used, its original version (both printed and online) should be cited properly, and the permission obtained from the copyright holder (publisher, journal or author) to reproduce the material should be submitted to the journal.
Preparation of Manuscripts
The presentation of the article types must be designed in accordance with trial reporting guidelines:
Human research: Helsinki Declaration as revised in 2013
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: PRISMA guidelines
Case reports: the CARE case report guidelines
Clinical trials: CONSORT
Animal studies: ARRIVE and Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
Diagnostic accuracy: STARD Guidelines
Non-randomized public behaviour: TREND
Title Page / Cover Letter
Title: The title should be concise and informative.
Running Title: A running title not more than 40 characters including spaces should be entired.
Author names and affiliations: Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author. Present the authors' affiliation addresses below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript number immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.
Tables / Graphs / Illustrations / Photograph
Tables and figures should be located at the end of the main document, images should be submitted fin .JPG and. TIFF formats.
Tables must be prepared in a Microsoft Office Word document using the “Insert Table” command and be placed at the end of the references section in the main document. Decimal points in the text, tables and figures should be separated by a comma in Turkish sections and by dots in English sections. Particularly, tables should be explanatory for the text and should not duplicate the data given in the text.
Each table and figure should have a self-explanatory title and be numbered in order of their citation in the text. Arabic numbers should be prefered for tables, graphs, figures and photographs. In the case of the use of a previously published table, figure or illustration, written permission from the publisher should be submitted with the manuscript. Information or illustrations must not permit the identification of patients, and written informed consent for publication must be sought for any photograph.
In microscopic images, magnification and staining techniques must be specified in addition to figure captions. All images should be in high resolution with a minimum of 300 dpi. It would be more appropriate if the drawings are prepared by the professionals. Gray color should be avoided. 3D graphs should be avoided.
References
References should be numbered in the order they are cited. Only published data or manuscripts accepted for publication and recent data should be included. Inaccessible data sources and those not indexed in any database should be omitted. Titles of journals should be abbreviated in accordance with Index Medicus-NLM Style (Patrias K. Citing medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers [Internet]. 2nd ed. Wendling DL, technical editor. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007 - [updated 2011 Sep 15; cited Year Month Day]. All authors should be listed if an article has six or less authors; if an article has more than six authors, first six authors are listed and the rest is represented by “ve ark.” in Turkish articles and by “et al.” in English articles. Reference format and punctuation should be as in the following examples:
Standard Journal Article
Özhan MÖ, Süzer MA, Çomak İ, Çaparlar CÖ, Aydın GB, Eşkin MB, et al. Do the patients read the informed consent? Balkan Med J 2012; 29: 252-60.
Book Section
Sherry S. Detection of thrombi. In: Strauss HE, Pitt B, James AE, editors. Cardiovascular Medicine. St Louis: Mosby, 1974: 273-85.
Books with Single Author
Cohn PF. Silent myocardial ischemia and infarction. 3rd ed. New York: Marcel Dekker; 1993.
Editor(s) as author
Norman IJ, Redfern SJ, editors. Mental health care for elderly people. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1996.
Conference Proceedings
Bengisson S. Sothemin BG. Enforcement of data protection, privacy and security in medical informatics. In: Lun KC, Degoulet P, Piemme TE, Rienhoff O, editors. MEDINFO 92. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Medical Informatics; 1992 Sept 6-10; Geneva, Switzerland. Amsterdam: North-Holland; 1992.p.1561-5.
Scientific or Technical Report
Smith P. Golladay K. Payment for durable medical equipment billed during skilled nursing facility stays. Final report. Dallas (TX) Dept. of Health and Human Services (US). Office of Evaluation and Inspections: 1994 Oct. Report No: HHSIGOE 169200860.
Thesis
Kaplan SI. Post-hospital home health care: the elderly access and utilization (dissertation). St. Louis (MO): Washington Univ. 1995.
Manuscripts published in electronic format
Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis (serial online) l995 Jan-Mar (cited 1996 June 5): 1(1): (24 screens). Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/.
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