1. General
• The journal publishes original research articles, case reports, reviews and letters to the editor. Our journal is open access with Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-ND 4.0), and the authors are not charged for evaluation, publication or any other process.

• The manuscripts submitted should be based on a well defined research question, and the titles should be coherent. References should be sufficient and diverse enough to reflect the scope of the study.

2. Language
• The journal accepts manuscripts written in Turkish or English. In all manuscripts, abstract and title of the article should be prepared in both languages.
• The latest edition of Turkish Language Society Spelling Book is based on for spelling and punctuation. Manuscirpts should be in conformity with scientific rules, plain and clear with regard to language and expression.
• When necessary, manuscripts may be revised in terms of spelling and punctuation by editors and/or advisors.

3. Compliance with Scientific and Ethical Rules
• Authors are responsible for the conformity of their manuscripts with scientific and ethical rules. In this regard, the explanations stated in the Ethical Responsibilities of Authors section of the Ethical Principles and Publication Policy should be followed.
• Manuscripts that do not comply with the spelling, ethics and publication rules of the journal in pre-evaluation may be returned to the authors for correction or rejected by the editor.
• Authors are responsible for the conformity of their manuscripts with bio-statistical rules. “P” values should be given precisely (i.e. p=0.025; p=0.524). The article can be evaluated by the statistics editor before or after the peer-review process. When it is decided that the statistical method is not suitable, the article can be rejected before or after the peer-review process.

4. Copyright and License
•Troia Medical Journal requires each submission to be accompanied by a Copyright Agreement and Acknowledgement of Authorship form. By signing this form, authors retain the copyright of their work and full publishing rights without restrictions and agree that the article, if accepted for publication by the Troia Medical Journal will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-ND 4.0) which permits third parties to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially by giving the appropriate credit to the original work.

Under the CC BY-ND 4.0 license terms: when you make attribution, you must give an appropriate credit and provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

• Authors have the full responsibility of ideas and suggestions in their manuscripts.
• No fees or rewards are paid for the pubished manuscripts.

Permissions for Repository Posting

Authors are permitted to post the final accepted version or the published version of their articles in third-party repositories, subject to the following conditions:
Attribution: Authors must properly cite the article and provide a link back to the article published in Troia Medical journal.
No Derivatives: The article may not be altered, transformed, or built upon.
Commercial Use: The article can be used for commercial purposes.

Embargo Period
There is no embargo period for posting the final accepted or published versions of the article.

Citation Requirements
When posting on third-party repositories, authors are required to include the following citation:
[Author(s)], "[Title of the Article]", [Troia Medical Journal], [Volume and Issue], [Year], [DOI].

Updates and Corrections
In case of corrections or retractions, authors are required to update the article on third-party repositories to reflect changes made in Troia Medical Journal.

User Rights
Users who access the articles from third-party repositories have the right to read, download, and share the article but may not modify it.

5. Forms

Authors are required to submit the following:
· Copyright Agreement and Acknowledgement of Authorship Form, and
· ICMJE Potential Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form (should be filled in by all contributing authors) during the initial submission.

6.Types of Manuscripts

We welcome submissions in the following categories:

Original Research
Reviews
Case Reports
Letters to the Editor

Exclusions
The following types of submissions will not be considered for publication:
Multiple Submissions: Manuscripts that have been submitted simultaneously to more than one journal.
Redundant Publications: Manuscripts that substantially overlap with previously published work.
Ethical Considerations: Manuscripts that do not meet ethical guidelines, including proper authorship attribution and declarations of competing interests, will be rejected.
By submitting a manuscript to Troia Medical Journal authors confirm that they comply with the above guidelines and the publication's ethical practices.

7. Peer Review Policy

Definition and Purpose

Peer review at Troia Medical journal is understood as obtaining impartial and confidential evaluations of submitted manuscripts from experts in the field who are not part of the journal’s editorial staff. The purpose of peer review is to ensure the academic and scientific quality of the published articles. All manuscripts submitted for publication are strictly reviewed for their originality, methodology, importance, quality, ethical nature, and suitability for the journal.
After submission, the first step is a technical review by the editorial secretary. In this first step, technical evaluations include adherence to the journal's formatting requirements and filling out forms correctly. All articles are routinely screened for plagiarism, and articles with more than 20% similarity, excluding references, are not eligible for further evaluation and are returned to the author. Technical review is typically processed in a few days after submission. After this stage, the editor-in-chief evaluates the manuscript's originality, methodology, quality, ethical nature, and suitability for the journal. The manuscripts that pass this stage are sent to the field editors, and the peer review begins.

Manuscripts submitted to Troia Medical Journal will go through a double-blind peer review process. During the process, the identities of the peer reviewers and the author/authors are hidden. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two independent peer reviewers who are experts in their fields to ensure an unbiased evaluation process. If there is a difference of opinion among the peer reviewers or the editor deems it necessary, more opinions can be taken from other peer reviewers. The double blindness and independence of the process are always kept. The Editor in Chief is the final authority in the decision-making process for all submissions.

Timeframe
While we strive for a timely review process, Troia Medical Journal prioritizes the quality and integrity of published work over speed. We do not guarantee manuscript acceptance or specific timeframes for peer review.

8. Formatting Pages
• Manuscripts are only accepted in electronic form. They should be written in a format suitable to be viewed in Microsoft Word.
• Automatic formatting features (section and page breaks, footer and header, page number, automatic numbering and bullets, automatic heading formatting, automatic numbering in references, etc.) should not be used in articles.
• The manuscript should be written in 12 points font with Turkish character support (Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, etc.), double spaced, A4 size, with minimum page margins of 2,5 cm in each direction.
• The manuscript should include titles. Titles should be written in bold capitals without numbers. All the titles should be in alignment with the first line of the paragraph.
• System International (SI) units should be used in manuscripts. A dot should be used as a separator for fractional numbers.

9. Tables and Figures

• Tables and figures must be original and not previously published elsewhere. 
• Tables and figures (graphics, pictures, photographs, etc.) should not be included in the text. All tables and figures should be cited in the text. Tables and figures should be numbered in Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.) in the order of citation. Table titles and figure legends should be listed in a separate page after the references section of the manuscript.
• Tables should be prepared in separate Word files, and uploaded to the journal system as separate files.
• Graphics, pictures, drawings, photographs, histopathological and radiological images, flow diagrams and other visual elements should be named as Figure.
• Figures should be in JPEG format and at least 300 dpi. Figures should be large enough to provide high quality details, and they should be clearly visible when reduced or enlarged for printing. The fonts used inside of the figure should be in Times New Roman, and in a point that can be read when reduced at the printing stage.

Number of Tables: To enhance the readability and accessibility of our journal, and to maximize the clarity and effectiveness of our articles, we have decided to limit the number of tables in any published article to a maximum of six. This decision has been made to ensure articles are more focused and understandable, as well as to optimize printing and distribution costs. This limitation is not intended to diminish the integrity or quality of research. Rather, it aims to encourage our authors to select and present the most significant data, avoiding unnecessary details and clearly conveying the essence of their research. We kindly ask our authors to consider this limitation when creating their tables and to choose the data that best presents their article's content in the most effective manner.

10. Title Page and Cover Letter
• All manuscripts should be submitted with a title page and a cover letter.
• Title page should include Turkish title, English title, Turkish running title (maximum 40 characters), English running title (maximum 40 characters), numbered names of the authors in the order to appear for publication, the name and city of the institutions where the authors work, the e-mail addresses and ORCIDs of the authors, the corresponding author's name, address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers.
• The names and institutions of the authors should not be written in the article text.
• The cover letter should be addressed to the editor, the subject and importance of the submitted article should be specified, and it should be clearly declared that the issues stated in the journal's Ethical Principles and Publication Policy are complied with. Conflicts of interest and funding should be explained here. It should be noted that the article has not been published before and has not been sent to another journal for publication, and that the authors approved the final version of the text. If the article has been presented at a meeting before (poster, oral presentation, etc.), it should be indicated, and meeting details should be given.

11. Formatting the Manuscript Text According to the Type of Article
• Original research articles should have sections including abstract (Turkish and English), keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, references, table titles, and figure legends. Özet should be structured including amaç, yöntem, bulgular ve sonuç sections, and abstract should be structured including objectives, methods, results and conclusion sections. The özet and the abstract should be identical, and have 100-250 words. 3-6 keywords in Turkish and English should be written. The entire text (including Turkish and English abstracts, excluding references) should not exceed 5000 words. References should not exceed 40.
• Case reports should have sections including abstract (Turkish and English), keywords, introduction, case(s), discussion, references, table titles, and figure legends. The özet and abstract shouldn’t be structured. The özet and abstract should have 100-250 words. 3-6 keywords in Turkish and English should be written. The entire text (including Turkish and English abstracts, excluding references) should not exceed 3000 words. References should not exceed 20.
• Reviews should have sections including abstract (Turkish and English), keywords, introduction, adequate titles, discussion, references, table titles, and figure legends. The özet and abstract shouldn’t be structured. The özet and abstract should have 100-250 words. 3-6 keywords in Turkish and English should be written. The entire text (including Turkish and English abstracts, excluding references) should not exceed 7000 words. There is no restriction for the number of references.
• In these article types, a thank you section can be added at the end of the text and before the references section.
• Letter to the editor is accepted in the following formats: i) Letters invited by the editor, ii) analysis of an article published in the Troia Medical Journal or another journal, and iii) letters expressing the opinions of an expert researcher on a current topic within the scope of the journal. Invited letters (i) and letters sent for analysis of an article (ii) can be published without the peer-review process with the editor's decision. Letters expressing the opinions of an expert researcher (iii) should be written by a single author, and the author is required to have articles published in journals listed in international indexes on the subject. The author must show that he/she meets this requirement by referring his/her articles in the cover letter. Letters should have sections including abstract (Turkish and English), keywords, text and references. The özet and abstract shouldn’t be structured and should have maximum 100 words. The entire text (excluding abstract and references) should not exceed 1000 words. References should not exceed 10. In the letters sent for criticism, contribution and response, the full citation of the relevant article should be clearly stated.

12. Keywords  

Keywords: 3-6 key keywords must be added after the abstract.  Keywords in English should be consistent with “Medical Subject Headings (MESH)” (www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html). Turkish key words should be direct translations of the terms in MESH and choosen from Turkey Science Terms (http://www.bilimterimleri.com).

13. References
• Authors are responsible for the correctness of the references.
• References should be written in conformity with Vancouver style (https://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/ Guide72.pdf). They should be expressed with numbers in square brackets at the end of sentences.
• References section should be placed at the end of the script and the references should be in the same order as they appear in the main text.
• References should contain the initials of the authors, title of the script, name of the journal, publication date, volume number, first and last page numbers of the script. For scripts which have more than six writers, after the first three, the term “ve ark.” in Turkish and “et al.” in English should be used. Abbreviations should be in accordance with Index Medicus.

Examples:
References of scripts published in a journal:
Edremitlioğlu M, Oner G. The role of cholesterol on the pressure sensing ability of kidneys in rats. J Basic Clin Physiol Pharmacol 2003(4);14:345-58.
Stephane A. Management of congenital cholesteatoma with otoendoscopic surgery: case report. Türkiye Klinikleri J Med Sci 2010(2);30:803-7.
*Names of the journals published in Turkey (excluding the ones indexed in PubMed) should be fully written.

References of presentations:
Galloway AC, Ribakove GH, Miller JS, et al. Minimally invasive port-access valvular surgery: Initial clinical experience. Presented at the 70th Scientific Session of the American Heart Association; Nov 10-13, 1997; Orlando, FL. Circulation 1997;96:2845.

References of books:
Dieffenbach CW, Dveksler GS. PCR Primer, 2nd Edition. New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2003:107-8.

References of sections of books:
Aşgün HF, Kırılmaz B, Şener A. Cardiovascular Tuberculosis. In: Şener A, Erdem H (Eds). Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis. Cham: Springer, 2019, pp: 155-73.

References for on-line publications:
Non-commercial official web pages of governments, national and international scientific boards and institutions may be referenced with the date accessed.
Kavuncu V, Evcik D. Physiotherapy in rheumatoid arthritis. http://www.medscape.com/ viewarticle/474880?src=search. Accessed on Oct 10, 2018.

References of theses:
Yüksel P. The effect of ozone treatment to blood samples of patients with rheumatoid arthritis on DNA damage. Post Graduate Thesis. Çanakkale: Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Physiology, 2017.