Selçuk Dental Journal contains original scientific publications. All published articles, except editorials, are subject to a blind peer review process.

Selcuk Dental Journal aims to publish research, case reports and scientific studies related to dental sciences and other disciplines related to dentistry.

Selcuk Dental Journal publishes original research articles, case reports, reviews and letters to the editor related to dentistry, including basic and clinical sciences. If the submitted article contains copyrighted parts, it is the author's responsibility to obtain permission from the right holder and this should be stated in the article. Manuscripts submitted for publication must not have been previously published, accepted for publication elsewhere or under evaluation. If the article submitted to the journal is suitable in terms of quality and format, it is sent to at least two referees who are experts in their fields for scientific evaluation. After the article is submitted to the journal for publication, none of the authors can be deleted from the author list without the written permission of all authors, and no name can be added as an author and the order of authors cannot be changed. Selçuk Dental Journal Editorial Board members take into account the comments of the referees on each submission. The final decision for all submitted manuscripts belongs to the Editor-in-Chief. The Editorial Board of the journal is committed to comply with the criteria of the International Council of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Approval from the appropriate ethics committee is required for research. Late article submissions will not be accepted. Multiple article submissions by the same author will not be accepted in the same period.

It covers all scientific fields related to dentistry.

The target readership is members of the profession, specialists, researchers, speciality and doctoral students as well as students related to this field with all fields of dentistry. It aims to contribute to the spread of continuous professional development and research culture.

Submitted manuscripts should be appropriate to the purpose and scope of the journal. Original, unpublished manuscripts that are not in the evaluation process in another journal and whose content and submission have been approved by each author are accepted for evaluation.

The publication of articles in the journal and the execution of article processes are not subject to any fee. No processing fee or submission fee is charged under any name for articles submitted to the journal or accepted for publication. Selçuk Dental Journal does not accept sponsorship and advertisement in accordance with its publication policies. All expenses of the journal are covered by the Dean's Office of Selçuk University Faculty of Dentistry.

The copyrights of the works published in Selçuk Dental Journal belong to the authors. Authors give permission for their intellectual work to be published by Selçuk Dental Journal under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence.