SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY
Scientific articles to be submitted to the Geriatrik Bilimler Dergisi - The Journal of Geriatric Science (JoGS) must comply with the current recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) standards. If an ethical problem is detected in the article, COPE (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guidelines) guidelines are followed.

The Journal of Geriatric Science accepts the principle of compliance with the Principles of the Declaration of Helsinki in all studies involving the 'human' element (https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for- medical-research-involving-human-subjects/). The article should comply with recommendations for conducting, reporting, organizing and publishing scientific study in medical journals (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/) and aim to include representative populations (gender, age, and ethnicity) according to these recommendations. In studies, authors should report in the article that they will work in accordance with these principles in the material and methods section of the article, that an ethics committee approval document from the ethics committee of their institution and an informed consent form are obtained from the people who participate in the study. The privacy rights of the participants should be respected at all times. Ethics committee approval should be documented and uploaded to the journal system during article submission.

If the 'animal' element is used in the study, the authors should state and certify that they will protect animal rights in their work in line with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals principles in the materials and methods section of the article, and that they have received ethics committee approval from the ethical committees of their institution (https://www.nap.edu/catalog/5140/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals). The gender of the animals and, where appropriate, the effect (or relationship) of it on the results of the study should be pointed out.

In the preparation of case reports, care must be taken to protect the privacy of the patient. Information identifying the patient's identity and photographs should not be used. In case reports, an informed consent form should be obtained from the patient(s) and should be reported in the article. All authors should have direct academic-scientific contributions to the submitted article, which should be clearly reported in the article and the authors should accept the final version of it. Compliance of the articles with scientific and ethical rules is the responsibility of the authors. All authors should disclose whether they have any financial or personal relationships with other individuals or organizations that may affect their work. If there is a direct-indirect commercial link in the article or an institution that provides financial support for the study, the authors are obliged to inform the editor on the submission page how they are related to the commercial product, drug, company used, etc., (employment, consultancies, stock ownership, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding). If there is no such relationship, it should be declared that it does not exist.

SUBMISSION STATEMENT AND VERIFICATION
Submission of an article to the journal means that the study in question has not been published or evaluated before (other than in the form of an abstract, a published lecture, or an academic thesis), that the article has been approved by all authors and the responsible authorities. Your article can be checked by authenticity detection services to verify its authenticity.

USE INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE
Inclusive language accepts diversity, respects all people, is sensitive to differences and promotes equal opportunity. Content should not make any assumptions about the beliefs or commitments of any reader, and should not contain anything to imply that one individual is superior to another because of age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition. It is recommended not to use descriptive terms that refer to personal characteristics such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health status unless they are relevant and applicable.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
For transparency, a statement should be submitted summarizing their individual contributions to the article using the roles of the authors. Contributions such as conceptualization, data analysis, methodology, project management, supervision, visualization, original draft, revision and editing should be mentioned in a separate section before references in the manuscript.

AUTHOR LIST
Authors are asked to carefully compose the author list and order before submitting their manuscript, and to provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Adding, deleting or rearranging author names in the author list can only be done before the article is accepted and approved by the journal editor. To request such a change, statements must be made by the corresponding author to the editor: (a) the reason for the change in the list of authors, (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree to the addition, removal or rearrangement. If the article has already been published in an online issue, all requests approved by the editor will be noted in the journal with a corrigendum..

REPORTING CLINICAL STUDIES
Randomized controlled trials should be submitted according to the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines. At the time of manuscript submission, authors should provide the CONSORT checklist with study flowchart detailing procedures such as inclusion, enrollment, randomization, withdrawal, and study completion (http://www.consort-statement.org/media/default/downloads/CONSORT%202010%20Checklist.pdf).

COPYRIGHT
For manuscripts submitted to the journal, authors are requested to fill out a copyright transfer form. The contents of the magazine can be accessed free of charge. Articles published in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If citations are included from other copyrighted works mentioned in the article, authors should obtain written permission from the copyright holders and cite sources in the article.

PUBLICATION POLICY
The Journal of Geriatric Science (JoGS) is the official, periodic, peer-reviewed, open access scientific publication of the Geriatric Science Association. JoGS is published three times a year (in April, August, and December). Special issues may also be published during the year when deemed necessary. JoGS conducts its publishing activities in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (CoPE) guidelines.

All articles submitted to the journal are evaluated by the editorial board in terms of compliance with the journal scope and writing rules. Editors may decide to reject the article or submit it back to the author(s) for edition before submitting it for peer review. The articles are evaluated according to the double-blind peer-review system in terms of the referee and the author. Articles are submitted to at least 2 referees who are experts in the relevant subject. Editors may request revision of the article in line with the referee's evaluations. The articles for which revision is requested should be completed within the specified time (usually within 1 or 2 weeks, depending on the revision status) and submitted to the journal. In case of contacting the relevant editor for additional time requests, defining additional time is at the discretion of the editor. If the revised version of the article is not submitted to the journal on time, the process should be started from the beginning with a new article application. It is aimed to inform the author(s) about the evaluation result within 8 weeks from the submission of the article to the journal. The editor notifies the responsible author of the final decision (acceptance or rejection) about the article. Withdrawal requests made during the decision phase period without a valid explanation are rejected. All authors are deemed to have accepted the editor's editions in the text of the article without changing the basic meaning.

No fee is charged to the author(s) during the evaluation and/or publication of the articles.

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Articles published in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.