Scientific Responsibility

The standard requirements for the manuscripts submitted to medical journals are listed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE; http://www.icmje.org).

1.    Research and publication ethics should be followed in all submissions. The whole scientific responsibility of the manuscript belongs to the author(s).

2.    All submissions should state that neither they have been published already, nor they are under consideration for publication, or in press elsewhere. The corresponding author should make this statement on the page of ‘Letter to the Editor’.

3.    To start the review process of the submitted manuscript, a ‘Copyright Transfer Agreement Form’ should be signed by all authors, and sent during the submission. For author ranking, the order of signatures in the ‘Copyright Transfer Form’ is considered.

4.    The corresponding author bears responsibility for the final version of the manuscript on behalf of all authors.

Ethical Responsibilities

1.     All studies involving ’human’ should follow the principles described in an appropriate version of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, as revised in 2013. (https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/). Manuscripts submitted for publication must contain a statement that the study has been reviewed by the appropriate ethics committee and have therefore been performed under the ethical standards described in an appropriate version of the Declaration of Helsinki. It should also be stated clearly in the text that all human subjects gave their informed consent before their inclusion in the study. 

2.     In experimental animal studies, the authors should indicate in the Material and Method section that the procedures followed were in accordance with animal rights as per the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals.pdf) and they should obtain animal ethics committee approval. Experimental animal studies should be presented with the disclosure of the appropriateness to the institutional/national/international ethical guides on the care and use of laboratory animals.

3.     Ethical Approval should be stated in the Material and Method section by sharing the name of the approving committee, date and the number of the approval.

4.     In case reports, the patients, who were described in the paper, should have given written informed consent to the inclusion of material about themselves, that they acknowledge they are not identified via the paper; and/or fully anonymized.

5.     On submission, the author(s) must identify potential competing or conflicts of interest of a financial or other nature with any kind of institution in the cover letter. If there is any commercial connection or financial support from an institution in the study, authors should declare the kind of relationship (consultant or other agreements) with the commercial product, drug, company, etc used.Author(s) are responsible for reporting all personal and financial relationships related to the study. The declaration that there is no conflict of interest should be stated.

6.     The compliance of the articles with scientific and ethical rules is under the responsibility of the authors, and the editor does not accept any responsibility for the articles published in the journal.

Submission of Manuscripts

Information to the Authors and On-Line Manuscript Submission: All correspondence and manuscript submissions must be made via DergiPark. Detailed information about the submission of the articles can be obtained from the web address given via DergiPark. Manuscripts should be submitted after registration to the link on the DergiPark via e-mail by the corresponding author. Once a manuscript is submitted through DergiPark, it will be assigned a number, and the corresponding author will be notified by an e-mail.

The publication language of the journal is Turkish and English, and studies can be submitted in Turkish or English. Original peer-reviewed papers of prospective/retrospective studies, clinical-surgical and laboratory researches, case reports, reviews upon invitation, letters to the editor, short communications, reports on surgical techniques are welcomed and evaluated for publication. The studies that are submitted in Turkish should include Title, Abstract, Keywords in English; and those submitted in English should include Title, Abstract, Keywords in Turkish as well. Manuscripts in English should undergo a professional language editing process before submission. It is important to use a proper and clear language based on the “Turkish Language Association Dictionary” and “Turkish Spelling Guide” in the papers submitted in Turkish.

Clinical and laboratory research papers should include an introduction, material and methods, discussion, references, tables, figures, and legends. All pages after the abstract page should be numbered consecutively beginning with the abstract page. The title page should contain the title of the article, a running title, authors' names, types of the article (original article, case reports, review articles, letter to the editor, technical writing, short communication), the full name of the institution, academic degrees of the authors, contact information of the corresponding author (including address, telephone number, e-mail address) and number of the words. If the article was presented at a scientific meeting, authors should provide a complete statement including the date and place of the meeting.

Abstract: All types of articles should include abstracts in both Turkish and English that should not exceed 300 words. The abstract of the original articles should be structured with the following headings; aim, material and method, results, and conclusion. The abstract of a case report should include a brief description of the case and the aim of submission. Review articles should also contain a brief description of the aim of the submission.

The authors should list at least three keywords taken from Index Medicus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html) ‘’Medical Subject Headings’’ after Turkish and English abstract.

Case Reports should be arranged as follows; introduction, case report, discussion. 

Manuscripts should be prepared using Microsoft Word software, written in Times New Roman font, 12 point-type, double-spaced with 25mm margins on the left and right sides. “System International” (SI) units should be used.  Figures, tables and graphs should be given in the text. Abbreviations should be defined accordingly in the text in parenthesis when first mentioned and used in the text then, the abbreviated form should be used throughout the article. A comma must be used in decimal numbers in Turkish articles (45,5) and the point must be used in English articles written in English (45.5). Review articles should not exceed 4000 words, original articles 2500 words, case report 1200 words, letter to the editor (should not include abstract and reference numbers should not exceed 10) 500 words. If the anatomical formations, disease and syndrome names, are not special names, they should be written in Turkish readings in the text.

Conflicts of Interest: Authors must provide a statement on the absence of any financial relationship or conflict of interest with any financial/material support. All financial contributions and sponsorships for the study and all financial relationships and conflict of interest areas should be specified. The authors are responsible for reporting all personal and financial relationships related to the study.

Declaration of conflict of interest should be given at presentation information to the editor. If there is no conflict of interest, this section must include a “The authors declare no conflict of interest” statement.

References

When citing the references, the most recent and current publications should be referred to. References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text, they should be identified with numerals at the end of the sentence, in brackets before the full stop. When there are six or fewer authors, all author names should be listed. If there are 7 or more authors, the expression “ve ark.” should be added to Turkish articles and the expression ‘et al.’ should be added to English articles after the first 3 authors’ names. The number of references should be a maximum of 30 in original articles and review articles, a maximum of 10 in case reports. Names of journals should be abbreviated following the style of Index Medicus. The reference list should be written at the end of the manuscript on a separate page. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references.

The reference styles for different types of publications are presented in the following examples.

Journal Article:

Author(s)’ surname and initial(s) of the first name. Title of the article. Name of the journal abbreviated according to Index Medicus. Year; Volume (Suppl. Supplement number): First and last page number.

Example: Schiroli C, Carugati M, Zanini F et al. Exogenous reinfection of tuberculosis in a low-burden area. Infection 2015; 43:647–653.

Book:

Author (s)’ surname and initial(s) of the first name. Title of the book. Edition number. City of publication; Publisher, Year of Publication.

Example: Kleinman CS, Seri I. Hemodynamics and Cardiology. Neonatology Questions and Controversies. 2 nd ED. Philadelphia; PA Elsevier, 2008.

Book Section:

Surname and initial(s) of the first name of the author(s) of the chapter. Title of the chapter. In: Surname and initial(s) of the first name(s) of the editor(s) (ed) or (eds). Title of the book. Edition number. City of publication: Publisher; Year of publication: First and last page numbers of the chapter.

Hamvas A. Pathophysiology and management of respiratory distress syndrome. In: Martin RJ, Fanaroff AA, Walsh MC, eds. Fanaroff and Martin’s Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Diseases of the Fetus and Infant. 9th ed. St. Louis: Elsevier; 2011.p.1106-16.

Thesis:

Author’s surname and initials of the first name. Title of the thesis (thesis). City; Name of the university (if it is a university), Year.

Koç F. Amyotrofik lateral sklerozda klinik bulguların dağılımı (Uzmanlık tezi). Adana; Çukurova Üniversitesi, 1999.

Website:

Name of the web site. Access date. Available from: address of the web site.

Cancer-pain.org New York. Association of Cancer Online Resources. Access date: 16 May 2002. Available from:www.cancer-pain.org

Further detail information on writing other types of references is available on the website International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ (www.icmje.org).

Figures, Tables, Photographs, and Graphics:

All figures, tables, photographs, and graphics should be numbered consecutively in the order they are referred to within the main text, which should be stated at the end of the sentence. A descriptive title must be placed above the tables and abbreviations used in the tables should be defined below the tables by footnotes.

Figures and photographs (saved as either TIFF or JPEG format) should be submitted as a separate file. Images must have a resolution of at least 300 dpi.