Publication Policy
The 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 accordance with the writing rules of the journal. Studies that do not comply with the spelling rules are rejected or sent back to the authors for correction.
The journal reserves the right to make language corrections in accepted studies 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 must state their affiliation with persons or organizations that may have a conflict of interest. If there is support received for the study, it should be stated in detail. Conflicts of interest should also be stated on the title page.
In the management and publication processes of the journal, the publication principles of the "International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)" and "Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)" are taken into consideration.

Evaluation process
-Only manuscripts uploaded to the journal's system are evaluated. Studies sent via e-mail will not be evaluated.
-All submitted works go through pre-evaluation, language editing, statistics editing and referee evaluation processes. The evaluation process is carried out by the editor of the journal.

Preliminary Evaluation Process
After the manuscript is uploaded to the journal, the pre-evaluation process begins. At this stage, the editor examines the manuscript in terms of content, form, suitability for the aim and scope of the journal. As a result of this review, the editor
• may decide that the study is not suitable for the journal and reject the study.
• may resend the work to the responsible author for corrections.
• may send it to the language editor and can request correction.
• may evaluate by sending it to the statistical consultant. After this evaluation, the editor may request corrections from the author.
• may refer the article to the referees and initiates the referee evaluation process.


Peer Review Process
All articles in the journal are subject to double-blind peer review. To ensure the objective evaluation process, each article is evaluated by at least two independent referees who are experts in their fields. In cases where there is no consensus among the referees, the article is evaluated by the third referee. In the decision-making processes of all articles, the editor-in-chief makes the final decision.

Revision
Authors should mark the changes they made in the main text in color when submitting the article revision files. The responses to the referees should be specified in a separate Word file. Revised articles should be sent to the journal within one month following the decision. If the revised version of the article is not uploaded within the specified time, the revision option may be canceled. If authors need additional time for revision, they should submit their publication requests to the journal before the end of one month.
The manuscripts accepted for publication are checked again for grammar, punctuation and format.
Accepted manuscripts are arranged in accordance with the publication format of the journal, and the final version is sent to the responsible author in pdf format before publication and approval is received for publication. Authors should review their article and give approval for publication. If any correction is required in the article other than the publication format, the correction request is notified to the editor at ulkukaraman44@hotmail.com. Correction requests are evaluated by the editor and reported to the responsible author. Articles that are not approved by the corresponding author will not be published.

Plagiarism
The similarity rate control of the articles should be made on iThenticate and should be at most 20%, excluding the "References" section.
The journal is published online only.
The journal is free of charge and no publication fee is requested from the researchers.

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