Writing Rules

Instructions to Authors 

1.  Veteriner Hekimler Derneği Dergisi (Journal of the Turkish Veterinary Medical Society) is published biannually (January, June) and its abbreviation is “Vet Hekim Der Derg”.

2.  The language of the journal is Turkish or English.

3.  The journal publishes original scientific research, reviews, case studies, and short communication studies on current issues not previously published anywhere else. Review studies are requested by invitation.

4.  The Editorial Board decides whether to publish the paper, considering peer reviews, scientific significance, and manuscript quality. Except for the referees' comments, the articles cannot be changed or deleted after acceptance.

5. Manuscripts should be prepared using "this template". The template includes all information about the manuscript layout including "use of references, in-text citations, nomenclature and units, tables, figures, etc."

--> After preparing the manuscript according to the template; the author(s) are expected to upload 4 documents via the Dergipark submission system (1 Full text, 1 Additional manuscript file, 1 Ethical statement file, 1 Copyright Agreement and Authors' Contribution file):     

        (a) A word document file including author names, tables, figures, and references (file name: nameofthearticle-withauthor.docx) (should be uploaded as Supporting file)
        (b) A pdf-converted version of the manuscript without author information (including tables, figures, and references). (file name: nameofthearticle-withoutauthor.pdf) (should be uploaded asFull text")
        (c) Ethics Committee Approval File (or Ethical statement form (click here to download) if ethics approval is not necessary for the study) (should be uploaded as Ethics Committee Approval file)
        (d) Copyright Agreement and Authors' Contribution form (click here to download) (should be uploaded as "Copyright Agreement and Authorship Contributions Form")
        

6.  . Manuscripts including figures and tables should not exceed 15 pages for original research articles and review articles, 10 pages for short communications, and 8 pages for case reports.

7.  Manuscript title should be short and clear; the first letter should be in capital letters and the rest in small letters (e.g. “Uterine pathologies in cats and dogs”). If needed, the explanation regarding the study should be indicated as footnotes.

8.  Name and surnames of the authors should be written under the article title; their addresses, ORCIDs, and titles must be placed on the first page as a footnote.

9.  Abstract should be short, and plain and include the most important parts of the manuscript. The English abstract must be at least 200, at most 300 words. At least 3, at most 5 English keywords should be selected in accordance with MeSH and written alphabetically. Researchers whose native language is not Turkish do not have to write an abstract in Turkish. 

10.  The introduction should include the literature reviews related to the study and the aim/s should be indicated in the last paragraph. The introduction should not exceed 2 pages.

11.  Material and methods should be written in a clear and understandable manner without any unnecessary details. If ethical committee permission is required, it should be stated absolutely (with Institution, Date, issue number).

12.  In the results, the data should be shortly explained. Repetition of data given in tables should be avoided.P values should be reported exactly in the display of statistical analysis results. 3 digits after the decimal point are sufficient for the P value, and 2 digits after the decimal point are sufficient for reporting descriptive statistics. For articles whose native language is Turkish, a comma (,) should be used as a decimal separator, and a dot (.) should be used for English-language articles.

13.  Titles must be centered and written boldly with the first letter of each word capitalized. Second-degree subtitles must be left justified with only the first letter capitalized. Third-degree subtitles must be at the beginning of the paragraph and written Italic with only the first letter capitalized.

14.  Table and figure titles must be written both in Turkish and in English. Vertical lines should not be used in the tables. If horizontal is needed, they may only be used under the first and last lines of the table.

15.  Authors must place the extension of abbreviations in the first use of the text. Genus and species names in Latin must be written in Italic. All measurements must be indicated according to Systeme Internationale (SI) units.

16.  In the discussion and conclusion, the data should be interpreted with other study results indicated in the reference list.

17.  Journal uses the Vancouver citation style. Details about how to cite a study are given below. Click here to download the Endnote style appropriate for this journal

Example of Reference used in the text: Each piece of work that is cited in your text should have a unique number, assigned in the order of citation. If, in your text, you cite a piece of work more than once, the same citation number should be used. You can write the number in brackets. If you want to cite several pieces of work in the same sentence, you will need to include the citation number for each piece of work. A hyphen should be used to link numbers that are inclusive, and a comma used where numbers are not consecutive.
The following is an example where works 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, and 15 have been cited in the same place in the text.
"In previous studies (6-9,13,15) discussed the effect of prebiotics on growth performance in poultry."
You can use the author’s name in your text, but you must insert the citation number as well.
"Watkins et al. (2) showed in their study that FOS had a significant effect on growth performance in broilers."
If a work has more than one author and you want to cite author names in your text, use ‘et al.’ after the first author.
Some books may contain chapters written by different authors. When citing work from such a book, the author who wrote the chapter should be cited, not the editor of the book.

Representation in the references section: Only commas should be placed between the names of the authors in studies with multiple authors. References should be listed and numbered, taking into account the index in which the reference is first made in the text.
In reference writing, the names of the authors and the title of the subject should be written in normal font. The first letter of the Author Surnames should be capitalized, the following letters should be written in lowercase, and only the initials of the names should be written in capital letters without a dot in between. Abbreviations of journal names should be used and the abbreviated names of journals should be based on the latest edition of "Periodical Title Abbreviations: By Abbreviation". The period should not be used in the abbreviation of the journal. All the names of the authors mentioned in the source should be given, only if there are more than 6 authors, et al. or et al. abbreviation should be used.

Example of various references

If the reference is a Journal article:

Kasperowicz A, Michalowski T. Assessment of the fructanolytic activities in the rumen bacterium Treponema saccharophilum strain S. J Appl Microbiol 2002;92:140–146.

Christy RC, Thirunavukkarasu M. Emerging importance of animal health economics: A note. Turk J Vet Anim Sci 2006;2(3):113–117.

Russell FD, Coppell AL, Davenport AP. In vitro enzymatic processing of radiolabelled big ET-1 in human kidney as a food ingredient. Biochem Pharmacol 1998;55:697-701.

If the reference is a book:

Lodish H, Baltimore D, Berk A, Zipursky SL, Matsudaira P, Darnell J. Molecular cell biology. 3rd ed. New York: Scientific American; 1995.

Fauci AS, Braunwald E, Isselbacher KJ, Wilson JD, Martin JB, Kasper DL, et al, editors. Harrison’s principles of internal medicine. 14th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, Health Professions Division; 1998.

If the reference is a book chapter:

Porter RJ, Meldrum BS. Antiepileptic drugs. In: Katzung BG, editor. Basic and clinical pharmacology. 6th ed. Norwalk (CN): Appleton and Lange; 1995. p. 361-80.

If the reference is a conference paper:

Kimura J, Shibasaki H, editors. Recent advances in clinical neurophysiology. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of EMG and Clinical Neurophysiology; 1995 Oct 15-19; Kyoto, Japan. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 1996.

If the reference is electronic, it must be written together with the access date;

Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious disease. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] 1995 Jan-Mar [cited 1999 Dec 25]; 1(1):[24 screens]. Available from:URL: http://www/cdc/gov/ncidoc/EID/eid.htm

Garfinkel PE, Lin E, Goering P. Should amenorrhoea be necessary for the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa? Br J Psych [serial online] 1996 [cited 1999 Aug 17]; 168(4):500-6. Available from: URL:http://biomed.niss.ac.uk

National Organization for Rare Diseases [Online]. 1999 Aug 16 [cited 1999 Aug 21]; Available from: URL:http://www.rarediseases.org/

18. Address of correspondence should be given at the end of the research. In research with more than one author, only the corresponding author’s name should be given as correspondence address.

19.  In researches based on animal experiences that are to be published in the Journal of Turkish Veterinary Medical Society should include an approval statement from the Ethical Committee. A copy of Ethical Committee’s approval statement might be requested for accepted manuscripts at review stage.

20.  The tradenames of products which are subjects of study should not be used.

21.  Authors are fully responsible for the article published in the journal. 

22.  The articles received are subjected to review according to their arrival dates and are published consistent with the decision of the Editorial Board. After the article is published, the rights of publication belong to the journal.

23.  If the article is accepted for publication by the Journal of the Veterinary Medical Association, the author(s) agrees that the article will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC).


Veteriner Hekimler Derneği Dergisi (Journal of Turkish Veterinary Medical Society) is an open access publication, and the journal’s publication model is based on Budapest Access Initiative (BOAI) declaration. All published content is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license, available online and free of charge. Authors retain the copyright of their published work in Veteriner Hekimler Derneği Dergisi (Journal of Turkish Veterinary Medical Society). 

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