Author Responsibilities

Authorship and Contribution
Authorship should be limited to those who have made significant contributions to the concept, design, execution, or interpretation of the study. All significant contributors should be listed as co-authors. If there are individuals who have made very little contribution, such as language editing, they should be acknowledged in the acknowledgment section. The corresponding author should ensure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the article and have agreed for submission. Authors are expected to carefully review and finalize the list and order of authors before the original submission. The editor will consider adding, removing, or reordering authors only in exceptional cases after the article has been submitted. All authors must agree to such addition, removal, or rearrangement. Authors share responsibility for the work.

Requests for Authorship Changes
Changes in the author list, including adding, removing, or rearranging author names, can only be made before the article is accepted and must be approved by the journal's editor.
If such a change is requested, the Editor will ask the corresponding author to provide (a) the reason for the change in the author list and (b) written confirmation (via email) from all authors agreeing to the addition. The Editor will consider adding, removing, or reordering authors only in exceptional cases after the article has been accepted.

Manuscript Writing
Authors of original research articles should address the topic with originality and objectivity in their manuscript. The manuscript should contain sufficient details and references to allow others to replicate the study. Fabrication or knowingly providing false statements is unethical and unacceptable.

Originality
Authors must ensure that the manuscript is original, has not been previously published elsewhere, is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and does not infringe any existing copyright or any other third-party rights.

Use of Original Sources and Citation
Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if they have used the work and/or words of others, this has been appropriately cited. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used without explicit, written permission from the source.

Multiple and Concurrent Publications
An author should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior. An author should not submit for consideration in another journal a previously published manuscript, except in the form of an abstract.

Publication of Surveys and Interviews
For research in all fields requiring ethical committee approval, a document stating the approval of the ethical committee must be provided, and this approval must be specified and documented in the article. In research requiring ethical committee approval, information about the approval (committee name, date, and number) should be included in the methods section and also on the first/last pages of the article; in case reports, information should be included about the informed consent form signed by the volunteers.

Conflict of Interest
Conflict of interest arises when an individual's objectivity is compromised, and may be reasonably expected to bias the judgment or actions of an individual. All financial and other relevant interests must be disclosed. Funding sources and the role of sponsors in conducting research must be disclosed. If there is no funding source, this should also be indicated. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include consultancies, receipt of payment, grants. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest stage.

Error Reporting
An author who discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in a published work should promptly notify the journal editor and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. The author is obligated to collaborate with the editor or publisher to retract or correct the paper if the editor or publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error.

Image Integrity
Manipulation, enhancement, obscuring, moving, removing, or inserting a specific feature in an image is unacceptable. Authors must adhere to the graphical guidelines applied by the journal.