Scientific studies sent to our journal;

* Must be original, unpublished elsewhere and not plagiarized. Therefore, your submission will be scanned with the help of intihal.net software during the article upload process. It is expected that the plagiarism rate of your article is below 20%.

* Explanations about the article (supporting organization, project name, etc.) must be written separately.

* If the article is accepted, a “Copyright Transfer Agreement” signed by the responsible author and other authors must be sent to our journal. No royalty fee will be paid to the authors. With this agreement, all publishing rights of the article are transferred to our journal.
*** If the spelling rules specified below are not followed, the article will be returned to the author for the necessary corrections to be made during the pre-control phase.

1. The article must be uploaded as a Microsoft Word file by the responsible author to our journal's DergiPark ( https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/buts ) address. The responsible author is responsible for following all processes of the article.

2. Articles sent to our journal for publication must be written in either Turkish or English. Articles that have been pre-reviewed by the “editor” and/or “editorial board” and deemed suitable for evaluation are published after receiving the positive opinion of referees from the relevant scientific field. After the pre-control and evaluation processes, authors must submit the suggested corrections within 15 days at the latest (30 days if an experimental addition is requested). Otherwise, the article will be rejected.

3. In order for previously unpublished research articles, compilations and full-text presentations to be published in our journal, they must be prepared in accordance with the rules stated below.

a) Research Article: Completed original and unique studies prepared as a result of scientific research and experimental studies.

b) Compilation: Original articles evaluating the findings obtained from research conducted on an important, useful and current topic by an author who is an expert on that topic upon the invitation of the editor.

4. If the article is written in Turkish; The cover page must include the Turkish title, the names of the authors and their contact/address information, and ORCID numbers. The full text file should consist of the Turkish title, Abstract, Keywords, English title, English abstract, English keywords, Introduction, Material and Method, Conclusion, Discussion, Acknowledgement (if any) and References sections.

If the article is written in English; The cover page should include the English title, authors' names and contact/address information, ORCID numbers. The full text file should consist of the Title, Afflilation, Abstract, Keywords, Turkish Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgement (if any) and References sections. Note: The results and discussion sections can be combined under the Results and Discussion title.

5. On the cover page, the author name(s) should be written clearly without any academic title, numbered and their addresses should be written below. The e-mail address of the corresponding author should also be stated.

6. The abstract should not be less than 100 words and not more than 300 words. The abstract should include the subject, purpose and summary of the results of the research. The use of non-standard abbreviations and formulas should be avoided as much as possible in the abstract. Abbreviations should be given in parentheses after their long forms are written where they are first used, and only these abbreviations should be used afterwards. For example; Short Chain Fatty Acids (SCF). It should continue to be used as SCF in the text.

7. A maximum of 6 keywords should be used. Words should be separated with a comma (,) and other words should be written by leaving a one-character space (Enzyme, Molecular Weight, Activity,…).

8. Main section titles should be written in bold and capital letters (1. GİRİŞ or 1. INTRODUCTION), 2nd degree titles should be written in bold and the first letter of the words should be capitalized (2.1. Subtitle), 3rd degree titles should be written in bold and only the first letter of the first word should be capitalized and all other words should be written in lower case letters (2.1.1. Third degree title).

9. The Turkish and English title of the article should be short, descriptive and should not exceed 250 characters.
10. Except for the Turkish and English titles, the rest of the article should be written justified.

11. The text should be written on an A4 page, in 12-point Times New Roman font, with single line spacing.

12. A 2.5 cm margin should be left on the right, left, bottom and top of the page.

13. The text should be written in a single column, and all pages should be numbered.

14. For Figures and Tables, the terms “Figure”, “Table” should be used in Turkish articles; and “Figure”, “Table” should be used in English articles (Table 1./Table 1., Figure 1./Figure 1.). In addition, the words Figure 1., Table 1. should be written in bold. Explanations of figures should be written in 10 points below the figure. Table/Table title texts should be in 10 points and above Table/Table, and the content should be given in at least 8 points. Figure/Figure and Table/Table should be given in relevant places in the main document, should not be uploaded as a separate file or added to the end of the text. The resolution of figures should be at least 300 dpi. Objects other than text and tables (images, graphics, figures) should definitely be in JPEG, PNG or TIFF format. There should be no frame around figures. Each figure and table should definitely be referred to in the text and the number and explanation of that figure or table should be given below figures and above tables. Important Note: All decimal numbers in the text or tables should be written using a comma in Turkish articles and a period in English articles.

15. Formulas should be numbered and the formula number should be shown in parentheses, justified to the right next to the formula. Formulas should be in 12-point font, main characters and variables should be given in italics, numbers and mathematical expressions should be given in plain text. Citations should be made in the text and should be given as “Equality 1.”

16. The “/” sign should not be used when writing units, instead it should be made exponential by leaving a space (EU mg-1 instead of EU/mg).

References
*** If the Reference writing rules specified below are not followed, the article will be returned to the author for necessary corrections to be made during the pre-control phase.

1. The References section should be written in Times New Roman characters in 12-point font size.

2. Vancouver reference system [numbering in square brackets] should be used in the references. Citations to a source in the text from articles, conferences, theses and web pages should be written in square brackets, numbered and starting from [1]. If the author's surname is used in the text, a notation such as Dilsiz et al. [1] or Alberts et al. [1] should be used if the article is in English. Each source used in the text should be included in the reference list. The reference list should be organized as in the examples given below:

Article:

For articles with 1-6 authors;

[1] Kwan I, Mapstone J. Visibility aids for pedestrians and cyclists: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Accid Anal Prev. 2004;36(3):305-12.

[2] Petitti DB, Crooks VC, Buckwalter JG, Chiu V. Blood pressure levels before dementia. Arch Neurol. 2005;62(1):112-6.

For articles with more than 6 authors;

[3] Hallal AH, Amortegui JD, Jeroukhimov IM, Casillas J, Schulman CI, Manning RJ, et al. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography accurately detects common bile duct stones in resolving gallstone pancreatitis. J Am Coll Surg. 2005;200(6):869-75.

Book:

[4] Carlson BM. Human embryology and developmental biology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2009.

[5] Dybvig DD, Dybvig M. Det tenkende mennesket. Filosofiog vitenskapshistorie med vitenskapsteori. 2nd ed. Trondheim: Tapir academy forlag; 2003.

Book Chapter:

[6] Blaxter PS, Farnsworth TP. Social health and class inequalities. In: Carter C, Peel JR, editors. Equalities and inequalities in health. 2nd ed. London: Academic Press; 1976. p. 165-78.

Conference:

[7] Nørvåg K. Space-efficient support for temporal text indexing in a document archive context. 7th European Conference, ECDL 2003. Berlin: Springer; 2003. p. 511-22.

Thesis:

[8] Hasund IK. The discourse markers like in English and liksom in Norwegian teenage language: A corpus-based, cross-linguistic study [dissertation]. Bergen: University of Bergen; 2003.

Web:

[9] Kapperud G. Utbruddsveil [Internet]. I Folkehelseins; 2016 [cited 2016 Jun 30]. Available from: https://www.fhi.no/nettpub/utbruddsveilederen/