Writing Rules


1- A cover file (title page) containing author name, institution, e-mail, ORCID number and Corresponding Author information must be uploaded in word format. The phone number and address information of the corresponding author should be provided. It is recommended that the cover file be prepared in the same way, by looking at the published articles.

2- Author names and institution information should not be included in the main text file.

3- All articles must include Turkish and English abstracts/keywords. There should be at least 3 and at most 6 keywords. Summary and Abstract should not exceed 250 words.

4- Tables and images should be uploaded as separate files, tables should also be added to the end of the text file. Explicit abbreviations should be given at the bottom of the tables.

5- The title should be written in lowercase letters, and the introduction, materials and methods, findings and discussion titles in the main text should be written in capital letters.

6- Reference numbers in the text should be shown as superscripts after the period at the end of the sentence.

7- For in-text and end-of-text citation, AMA (American Medical Association) style should be used. For source notation, see. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html

8- As a rule for writing references, if the number of authors in the study is 6 or less, all authors should be stated; if there are 7 or more, the first 6 names should be written and "et al" should be added.

9- Author contribution statement, conflict of interest statement and ethics committee statement should be added at the end of the discussion.

10-Full spelling rules are given in the attached file, it is recommended to organize the posts by taking the articles in previous issues as an example.

11- Previously rejected articles cannot be sent to our journal again.

12- In Turkish articles accepted to be published in our journal as of 2024, an extended English abstract of at least 750 and at most 1000 words should be added under the title of extended abstract after the English abstract section.

13-It is mandatory to add a form reporting the plagiarism rate. Manuscripts with a plagiarism rate above 30% are not accepted.

14-Copyright Agreement and Author Acceptance Form must be attached. The forms can be accessed from the link below.





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