TOGÜ Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi

Journal of TOGU Health Sciences aims to contribute to the literature and convey current developments by publishing original articles, case reports, reviews, and letters to the editor that belong to researchers working in the fields of health sciences such as “medicine, nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, nutrition and dietetics, emergency aid and disaster management, gerontology, occupational therapy etc”. 

-Journal of TOGU Health Sciences is a double blind peer reviewed, open access journal and published electronically three times a year, in January, May and September.
-The language of publication is Turkish and English.
-Scientific research and review articles on all fields of health sciences are included in the journal.
-Articles previously published, accepted for publication or being evaluated for publication in other journals are not taken into consideration in the Journal of TOGU Health Sciences.

Open Access Policy
Journal of TOGU Health Sciences is an Open Access journal that allows its readers to access, download, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles free of charge. The journal does not charge article evaluation and publishing fees. 

Copyright

Journal of TOGU Health Sciences is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). When applying to the journal, the copyright transfer form is signed by all authors for the articles. Accepted articles are published in Journal of TOGU Health Sciences under CCBY-NC license. All rights will be returned for rejected articles.

Peer-Review Policy

All of the manuscripts have been sent to at least two reviewers and reviewers are blind to authors identities. Authors are also blind to reviewers identities. (Double Blind Peer-Review)

The article text file should be prepared in the form of an OpenOffice or Microsoft Office Word document file.
Page margins should be: Top: 2.5 cm, Bottom: 2.5 cm, Left: 2.5 cm and Right: 2.5 cm.
Text: It should be written in 12 font size and with "Times New Roman" character using 1.5 line spacing. There should be a break of one character after commas and dots. Pages should be numbered.
Indentation in the paragraphs should start 1.25 cm inside, no additional blank lines should be left between paragraphs.
The sections of the article (introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion) should be separated with a blank line.
The word count should not exceed 3000 words for original research articles, 5000 words for reviews, 1000 words for case reports and 500 words for letters to the editor.


Title Page
The title of the article should be short, but the content should be descriptive and compatible with the purpose. Abbreviations should not be used in the title. The title of the article should be written in Turkish and English. Turkish and English titles should be written in capital letters in bold. The word number of the article (except the title page, references, tables, figures) should be written. All authors' full names, surnames (to be written in capital letters), academic titles, institution, communication information, Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) numbers, full name and address of the clinic, department, institute, hospital or university where the study was conducted should be indicated and top numbering should be used for each author. Communication information of the corresponding author should be stated separately. It should include each author's contact information, address, current e-mail address and business phone number.



Turkish Abstract and Key Words
Each article should contain Turkish and English abstracts. The Turkish abstract should start on a separate page and should not exceed 250 words. The abstract section should include the purpose of the study, the method applied, the most important findings and the result. The abstract should be divided into "Purpose", "Materials and Methods", "Result", "Conclusion" subheadings. The p value should be specified in the "Results" section. Abbreviations can be used in repetitive words. Abbreviations and symbols should be written where they are first mentioned in the text, first their expansions and then abbreviated in parentheses, like the World Health Organization (WHO).

Keywords should not be less than 3 and more than 5. Key words should be selected from the list of "Turkey Science Terms" (https://www.bilimterimleri.com/). Turkey Science Terms, is a key word for the directory where the Turkish equivalent of the term MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Unlisted words can be used for a new concept that has not yet been included in the MeSH list. Each keyword must start with a capital letter; They should be separated by commas and written in alphabetical order.



English Abstract and Key Words
The English abstract should start on a separate page and should not exceed 250 words. A dot (.) should be used in decimal numbers in English abstracts. The English summary should be divided into "Purpose", "Materials and Methods", "Result", "Conclusion" subheadings. The English abstract and keywords should be exactly the same as the Turkish abstract and keywords. Keywords should be selected from "MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)" terms. Unlisted words can be used for a new concept that has not yet been included in the MeSH list. Each keyword must start with a capital letter; they should be separated by commas and written in alphabetical order. If the article is in English, Turkish keywords will be listed according to the alphabetical order of English keywords.



Tables and Figures
Tables and figures should be numbered according to the order of appearance in the text and placed in the appropriate place in the text.
The title of the table and the text within the table should be written in 11 pt., explanations under the table should be written in 10 pt. of Times New Roman font and lowercase letters.
The resolution of the figure or pictures should be 300 dpi.


Sections of Research Paper
The article text consists of "Introduction", "Materials and Methods", "Results" and "Discussion" sections. In the text, standard abbreviations should be used for expressions that are repeated more than 5 times when necessary.

Introduction: In the introduction part, the literature on which the study is based should be briefly summarized. The purpose (s) of the study should be clearly stated in the last paragraph.

Materials and Methods: The selection and characteristics of the participants in the study, the nature of the study, the methods used and data analysis should be clearly stated. Subheadings can be arranged according to the nature of the work. Ethics committee approval should be obtained separately for research in all disciplines and for clinical and experimental studies on humans and animals that require an ethical committee decision. In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information about the permission (name of the board, date and number) should be included in the method section and also on the last page of the article. In case reports, the information that the informed consent form was signed should be included in the article.

Results: Findings obtained as a result of the study should be expressed clearly. If necessary, the findings can be supported with tables, graphics, figures or drawings.

Discussion and Conclusion: The findings obtained should be evaluated in the light of the relevant literature. The limitations of the study should also be given in this section. The conclusions obtained as a result of the study and the contribution of the study to the literature and / or the clinic should be briefly summarized and written as a conclusion paragraph.

The following titles should be added with their explanations after the discussion part;

Thank; The persons, institutions or organizations that directly contributed to the study, if any, should be specified in this section.
Financial Support; If there are supporting organizations, it should be specified.
Permissions; Ethics committee permission and required institutional permissions should be specified.
Conflict of Interest; If there is, it should be specified.
Author Contributions; Contributions of the authors to the article should be indicated.
Descriptions; If the article was previously presented in the form of a summary and / or a paper, the information about the scientific meeting where it was presented, the place of presentation, date and, if published, the publication organ must be specified.


References
References section should start on a separate page.
Vancouver style should be used when creating the references.
It should be written in Times New Roman font, 10 font size, aligned on both sides, one line spacing, and numbered.
All references mentioned in the text should be included in the "References" list.
If there are references to more than one work at the end of the sentence, the publications should be given in numerical order (such as 1,5,7 or 1-4).

-Bibliography should start from a separate page.
* All references mentioned in the text should be included in the "Bibliography" list.
* A blank line should be left between references. It should be written in Times New Roman font, 10 font size, aligned on both sides, one line spacing, and numbered.
* References should be indicated in the text with numbers in parentheses at the end of the sentence.
Sample; Myocardial infarction is not a primary event and always develops as a result of ischemia (1). Myocardial ischemia occurs when the oxygen requirement of the myocardium increases or its supply decreases (2). If the ischemia lasts long enough to cause irreversible damage to myocytes, myocardial infarction develops (3).
* If there is a reference to more than one work at the end of the sentence, the publications should be given in numerical order (such as 1,5,7 or 1-4).
Sample; … As the blood passes through the capillary vessels, a continuous exchange takes place between the plasma part of the blood and the interstitial fluid that fills the intercellular space (3-5). Capillary vessel walls are permeable to many molecules other than protein molecules that are too large to pass through capillaries in the blood plasma (6,8-11).

Printed book:
Author's Surname The first letter of the name. Title of the book. Third edition. Editor's Name and Surname. Place of publication: Publisher; year of release.
Sample
Guyton AC, Hall JE. Medical physiology. 12. Edition. Ed: Berrak Ç. Yeğen. Istanbul: Nobel medical bookstores; 2011.

Electronic book:
Author's Surname The first letter of the name. Title of the book [electronic resource]. Edition number. Editor's Name and Surname. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of release.
Sample
Fong H. Alternative treatment for cancer [electronic resource]. Ed: Ping-Chung Leung. New Jarsey: World scientific; 2007.

Book without author (dictionary, encyclopedia and.):
Title of the book. (Edition number) Place of publication: Publisher; Year of release.
Sample
The Australian Oxford dictionary. (3. baskı) Melbourne: Oxford University press; 1999.

Chapter in a book:
Author's Surname The first letter of the name. The title of the book. In: Editor's Last Name First letter of his/her name, editor. Name of the chapter. Edition number. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of release. Page number.
Sample
Beizer JL, Timiras ML. Pharmacology and drug management in the elderly. In: Timiras PS, editor. Physiological basis of aging and geriatrics. 2nd ed. Boca Raton: CRC press; 1994. p279-84.

Article:
Author (s) Surname First letter of the name. Title of the article. Journal Name. Release date; Volume (Issue): page numbers.
* For works with more than 6 authors, "et al" statement should be used for those after the 6th author.
Sample
Günal A, Pekçetin S, Demirtürk F, Şenol H, Håkansson C, Wagman P. Validity and reliability of the Turkish occupational balance questionnaire (Obq11-T). Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy. 2020;27(7):493-499.
*Mumcuoglu I, Kurt SG, Aydın D, Ekici F, Kasap Z, Aygün H et al. The effect of varying doses of intravenous paracetamol on the electrical activity of the brain in penicillin-induced status epilepticus in rats. Epilepsi. 2015;21(1):13-19.

Congress / Symposium Papers:
Author (s) Surname First letter of the name. Name of the paper. Name of the Congress / Symposium. Date; Location; Page number.
Sample
Aras M, Seçgin Y. The effect of quality of work life on devotion to work-the case of public/private banks. ICPESS (International Congress on Politic, Economic and Social Studies). 2017; International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; p69.

Thesis:
Author's Surname The first letter of the name. Name of the thesis [Master/Doctoral thesis]. Place of Publication: University; Year of publication.
Sample
Esin K. The relationship between serum vitamin D levels and some hormone, biochemical findings and nutritional status in obese and normal weight children [Doctoral thesis]. Ankara: Gazi University Institute of Health Sciences; 2016.

Web Site:
If the author of the page is known:
Surname of the person who created the page, the first letter of their name. The name of the web page is [Internet]. Publication date [last updated; date of access]. Access address: http: // ...
If the page of scientific organizations:
Name of the scientific organization. The name of the web page is [Internet]. Publication date [last update date; date of access]. Access address: http: // ...
Sample
Beckerman J. Congestive heart failure and heart disease [Internet]. 2020 [last updated August 2020; Accessed on 20 April 2021]. Access address: https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/guide-heart-failure
Sample
American Cancer Society. Complementary and alternative methods and cancer [Internet]. 2015 [last updated March 2015; Accessed on April 15, 2021]. Access address: https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects/complementary-and-alternative-medicine/complementary-and-alternative-methods-and-cancer.html

Publication Policy
Journal of TOGU Health Sciences is the publication organ of Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University Faculty of Health Sciences. Journal of TOGU Health Sciences is a double blind peer reviewed, open access journal and published electronically three times a year, in January, May and September.
It is published electronically in order to follow the developments in the field of health sciences and medicine, to create a qualified resource in this field and to support the development of qualified academic publications in this field in our country.
The language of publication of the articles to be published in the journal is Turkish or English. It is important to use a proper Turkish in articles written in Turkish. For this reason, the Turkish dictionary of the Turkish Language Association or the address https://sozluk.gov.tr/ and the terms dictionary of the Turkish medical associations should be taken as a basis.
In addition to giving priority to research articles, the journal also publishes review articles, case reports, letters to the editor, technical notes and meeting reports. Scientific and theoretical articles are also accepted for review for publication. Review articles are generally in the form of invitation, but priority is given to these invitation review articles. Maximum 4 review articles are accepted in each issue.
The editorial board may request the articles submitted for publication to be reviewed and corrected or rearranged in order to comply with the spelling rules. If the article sent to the journal is in conformity with the formal principles, it is published after the editor and at least two referees have been examined, and if necessary, the requested changes are made by the authors.
Article submission is done "electronically". Article acceptance procedures are made through the web address (https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/togusagbilderg/). Only articles submitted this way are processed. You can also follow all the processes related to your articles from this address.
The editorial rules of the journal are based on the standards of the document titled “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals-International Committee of Medical Journal Editors” (http://www.icmje.org/) and “Committee on Publication Ethics-COPE (https://publicationethics.org/).
If the article sent to the journal conforms to the formal principles, the “Ethics Committee Approval Document” must be uploaded.
When applying to the journal, the copyright transfer form is signed by the all authors for the articles. The "Copyright Transfer Form" must be signed with e-signature or wet signature and scanned and uploaded to the system together with the article. The author responsible for communication is the one who carries out all kinds of correspondence from the presentation of the article to its publication. Authors whose names are mentioned on the copyright transfer form must have a direct contribution to the submitted article.
The name designated as the author must have all of the following attributes:
He/she should contribute to the planning of the study and the collection of the data or the analysis and interpretation of the data.
He/she should contribute to the drafting or revision of the article.
He/she must read and accept the final version of the article to be sent to the journal and published. Excerpts from previously published articles, books or magazines are included in the article, table, figure, etc. If available, authors must obtain written permission from the copyright owner and authors of the relevant article, table, figure, questionnaire and scale, send the permission letter with the article and indicate this in the article.
If citations, tables and figures that were previously published in a manuscript, book or a journal are used in the current paper, the authors must obtain written permission from the copyright holder and authors of the relevant article, table, figure, questionnaire and scale and must send the permission letter with the article and indicate this in the text.

Ethical Principles
In the studies submitted to our journal, the following issues should be followed under the heading of ethical rules:

Ethics committee approval must be obtained separately for research in all disciplines, including social sciences, and for clinical and experimental studies on humans and animals that require an ethical committee decision, this approval must be stated and documented in the article.
Articles should include a statement that the Research and Publication Ethics are complied with.
In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information about the permission (name of the board, date and number) should be included in the method section and also on the last page of the article. In case reports, the information that the informed consent form was signed should be included in the article.
In accordance with the ethical rules recommended by TR Index, which is a bibliographic / full-text database developed by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM;
"In the studies that require the permission of the ethics committee, the information about the permission should be included in the article". In the articles to be evaluated in our journal, it should be stated in the article that the approval of the ethics committee was obtained. It should be clearly presented from which institution, on what date and with which decision or issue number the permissions were obtained.

Researches requiring Ethics Committee permission are as follows:
All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using questionnaires, interviews, focus group work, observation, and experimentation.
Use of humans and animals (including material / data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
Clinical studies on humans,
Research on animals,
Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on protection of personal data
It should be stated that permission is obtained from the owners for the use of scales, surveys, photographs belonging to others, and the copyright regulations are complied with for the ideas and works of art used.
Publisher's Ethical Responsibilities

Journal of TOGU Health Sciences is the publication organ of Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University Faculty of Health Sciences. In this context, fee or donation for evaluation or printing cannot be requested from any author at any stage of the journal's publication process or after the article is published.
Members of the Editorial Board are appointed for three years, taking into account the branches of health sciences.
According to the field of the article, the editor in chief or editorial board may also send an article to academicians who are not members of the Editorial Board for review as assistant editors, if necessary.
The editor first evaluates the conformity of an article submitted for evaluation to the publication ethics and examines the scientific importance, originality, scientific validity and relevance of the subject to the field of the journal and submits the article to the editorial board or referees.
In the event of a negative situation about the article, the editor can use the right to "reject" the article or send it back to the author without taking it into consideration.
The editor is responsible for the selection of referees from among the academicians who have a command of the subject, the "blindness" of the referees to the authors and their institutions, and the "blindness" of the authors to the referees unless the referee specifically requests them.
He/she is responsible for submitting the corrections requested by the referees to the author in an explanatory and polite language. The ethical maintenance of referee evaluations or special evaluations (statistical analysis etc.) within the scope of the "article evaluation form" of the referees and contribution to the authors in the scientific preparation of the articles at higher levels are also in the scope of the editor’s responsibility.
Ethical Responsibilities of Referees

During the article evaluation process of Journal of TOGU Health Sciences, referees cannot communicate directly with the authors in accordance with the "blind" refereeing practice.
The notes specified on the text and requests for correction, primarily the article evaluation forms, are forwarded 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. Although the referees have been appointed, if they are not experts on the article, they should not accept to evaluate the relevant article.
The referees should make the evaluation confidentially and should not share positive or negative comments about the content of the article before the article is published. They should evaluate in accordance with the principle of impartiality. If they detect a conflict of interest between "author-author" or "author-referee" in the article, they should only report this to the editor.
Referees should make their evaluations in accordance with academic etiquette, especially constructive principles. The referees must evaluate the manuscript, which they have accepted to be evaluated, within the specified period. If the referee will delay the evaluation process for any reason, he/she should report this failure to the editor.

Ethical Responsibilities Demanded From Authors
Ethics committee approval must be obtained for research conducted in all disciplines, and this approval must be clearly stated in the article. If requested by the editor, it should also be documented.
Articles without the approval of the ethics committee will not be accepted for evaluation and will be removed from the process at any stage.
Articles sent to our journal must not have been published in another journal or sent for publication.
If it was presented as a summary text at congresses or meetings, this should be clearly stated during the submission of the article.
Authors should have organized their articles according to the journal's writing rules and should reference all the citations they use in the article.
Authors should declare their scientific contributions to the article by specifying the field of contribution. Authors must ensure that the work is their own and that the article does not contain plagiarism.
All article authors must have read the final version of the article. In the articles submitted for publication, each author who has signed the "Copyright Form" has equal responsibility regarding the ethical principles.
The authors can recommend the referees they hope will contribute to the evaluation process of the article to the editor. The appointment of these referees to the article is at the discretion of the Editor. No communication or interest relationship should be entered into with the proposed referees.

Plagiarism
All submitted works are checked for plagiarism using iThenticate, and then their suitability for publication within the journal is evaluated.
Works with high plagiarism rate, insufficient originality, serious scientific or technical errors are rejected.

Journal of TOGU Health Sciences is the publication organ of Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University Faculty of Health Sciences. In this context, fee or donation for evaluation or printing cannot be requested from any author at any stage of the journal's publication process or after the article is published.