Publication Policy
Journal of TOGU Erbaa Health and Management is a double-blind peer-reviewed, open access, free and international journal published electronically. The journal is published in two issues per year, in June and December.
The publication language of the journal is English and Turkish. The journal publishes research articles, reviews, case reports, observations and letters to the editor. If the articles sent to the journal for publication do not comply with the spelling rules, the spelling and language editor may request the article to be revised and corrected. The articles sent to the journal are first sent to the spelling and language editor by the Secretariat and the article is examined for compliance with the spelling rules. Articles that are found to comply with the spelling rules are sent to at least two reviewers for evaluation if they are suitable for the scope and purpose of the journal as a result of the editor's preliminary review. Reviewer evaluation is carried out on the basis of double-blind reviewing and confidentiality of reviewer-author information is essential. As a result of the evaluation reports from the reviewers, it is decided to accept, correct or reject the article. If the corrected articles are not corrected by the author(s) and uploaded back to the system within the specified period, the article will not be published. Articles that are accepted as a result of the evaluation process are queued for publication.All authors must have made a direct academic-scientific contribution to the submitted article and accept the final version of the article. The compliance of the articles with scientific rules is the responsibility of the authors and has no relation with the journal. When it is decided to publish the article, the authors transfer the publication rights to the journal. Articles published in the journal cannot be reproduced in any way or republished elsewhere in print or electronically without the written permission of the journal management. The works submitted to the journal must not have been previously published elsewhere or sent for publication. The author(s) submitting an article are deemed to have accepted these principles.

Ethical Principles
The scientific content and compliance with ethical rules are the responsibility of the author(s). Separate ethics committee approval must be obtained for research in all disciplines and for clinical and experimental human and animal studies that require ethics committee approval, and this approval must be stated and documented in the article. For studies that require ethics committee approval, information about the permission (name of the committee, date and number of the decision) should be included in the method section of the article. In addition, in studies conducted on humans, the authors should indicate in the method section of the article that informed consent was obtained from the participants in the study.
Research requiring Ethics Committee permission is as follows:
- All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group, observation, experiment, interview techniques,
- Use of humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
- Clinical trials in humans,
- Research on animals,
- Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data
- For the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others, it is necessary to obtain and indicate permission from the owners, and for the intellectual and artistic works used, it should be stated that copyright regulations are complied with.

When uploading a study that requires ethics committee approval of the type mentioned above to the journal system, the “Ethics Committee Approval Document” of the study should be uploaded as a separate file with the article at the first stage.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
- The manuscripts submitted to the journal must not have been previously submitted for publication elsewhere and must not have been published elsewhere.
- By submitting the article to the journal, the authors acknowledge that the article is their own work, that they have not plagiarized in any way, that all responsibilities arising from plagiarism belong to them, and that the journal has no responsibility in this regard.
- The corresponding author must guarantee that all co-authors named in the manuscript consent to publication and to being named as co-authors. All individuals who have made significant contributions to the study should be named as co-authors. Other individuals should be acknowledged in the acknowledgments section.
- Authors are obliged to declare the organizations, financial sources or conflicts of interest that support the submitted work.
- Authors must have prepared the articles submitted for publication in the journal in accordance with the rules of research and publication ethics. Ethics committee approval must be obtained separately for the research conducted and for clinical and experimental human and animal studies that require ethics committee approval, this approval must be stated in the article and the ethics committee permission document must be uploaded to the system as a separate file when uploading the article file to the system.
- Articles without ethics committee approval will not be accepted for evaluation and will be removed from the process at any stage.

- If the abstract has been presented in congresses or meetings, this should be clearly stated in the manuscript submission.
- Authors should have organized their work according to the journal's editorial guidelines and should provide references for all citations used in the manuscript.
- All authors must have read the final version of the manuscript. Each author who has signed the “Publication Rights Copyright Form” in the articles submitted for publication has equal responsibility for ethical principles.

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers
- Any selected reviewer who is not qualified to review the manuscript, or who knows that it will be impossible for him/her to review the manuscript quickly, should inform the editor and ask to be excused from the review process.
- Reviewers are obliged to keep the manuscripts they receive confidential and not to use the information obtained from the review process for their personal benefit.
- In accordance with the “blind” review process, reviewers cannot communicate directly with the authors.
- Reviewers should not share their reports or information about the article with others.
- Reviewers should be attentive to potential ethical issues in the manuscript and bring them to the attention of the editor.
- Reviewing should be done in accordance with the principle of impartiality and objectivity. Reviewers should conduct their evaluations within the rules of academic etiquette, especially constructive principles. Reviewers should evaluate the manuscript they accept to evaluate within the specified period. If the reviewer is delayed in the evaluation process for any reason, he/she should notify the editor of this delay.
- If the reviewers detect any conflict of interest in the manuscripts submitted to them, they should report this to the editor.

- First of all, article evaluation forms, notes on the text and correction requests are sent to the editors via the website / e-mail address. These corrections should be prepared in a way to present the positive and negative features of the article to the editor. Reviewers should not accept to evaluate the relevant article if they are not experts in the article despite their appointment.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Publisher

- The editorial board should evaluate the manuscript independently of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity, citizenship or political philosophy. The decision should be based on the accuracy, validity and significance of the article and the appropriateness of the scope of the journal. Existing legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism should also be taken into account.
- The editor or any editorial board member should not disclose information about an article to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors and publishers.
- Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript should not be used in the editor's or editorial board's own research without the express written permission of the author.
- No author may be asked for review and publication fees or donations at any stage of the journal's publication process or after the article has been published.
- Depending on the field of the article, the editor-in-chief or the editorial board may, if necessary, send articles to academics who are not members of the editorial board for review as associate editors.
- If there is a negative situation about the article, it may exercise its right to “reject” the article or send it back to the author without evaluating it.
- The editor is responsible for selecting referees among academics who are knowledgeable in the subject, keeping the referees “blind” to the authors and the authors' institutions, and keeping the authors “blind” to the referees unless the referee specifically requests it.

Plagiarism
Each article submitted to Journal of TOGU Erbaa Health and Management will be subjected to plagiarism review. Articles with a similarity rate above 20% (excluding references) will not be evaluated.