Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

 I-EDİTORİAL POLİCY AND ETHİC RULES:

· Acta Medica Alanya Journal promises to folow highest editorial and ethical standards defined by "World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) Board of Directors". Acta Medica Alanya follows the ethics flowcharts developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for dealing with cases of possible scientific misconduct and breach of publication ethics. www.publicationethics.org 

· The manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with ICMJE-Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf ). Authors are required to prepare manuscripts in accordance with CONSORT guidelines for randomized research studies, STROBE guidelines for observational original research studies, STARD guidelines for studies on diagnostic accuracy, PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews, MOOSE guidelines for meta analyses of observational studies, ARRIVE guidelines for experimental animal studies and TREND guidelines for non-randomized public behavior.

·Acta Medica Alanya Journal acknowledges to comply with the ethical standards of the Declaration of Helsinki (http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/index.html ). Therefore, ethics board approval should be obtained and indicated in the Material and Method section in all studies performed on humans. Patients and volunteers included in the study should be informed regarding procedures to be conducted, their approvals should be obtained, and this should be indicated in the article’s Material and Method section. In animal studies, it should be indicated in the article’s Material and Method section that the study was conducted according to the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (www.nap.edu/catolog/5140.html ) and the ethics board approval was obtained from the relevant institution. If required, a copy of the ethics board approval may be requested by the editor from the authors.

· The author(s) guarantee(s) that the manuscript will not be published elsewhere in any other language without the consent of the Association. If the manuscript has been presented at a meeting, this should be stated together with the name of the meeting, date, and the place.

· An approval of ethic committee or an equivalent acceptance letter prepared by the officials of the institution in accordance with general ethics is mandatory for Original Research and even for some of the Case Reports. The concept and suggestions presented in the manuscript are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not reflect the opinions of Editor and his/her associates.

· Authorship: All individuals listed as “author” in the submitted manuscript must make an adequate contribution to the study, meet the criteria of authorship, and take responsibility for their part of the manuscript.


II-PUBLICATION ETHICS AND PLAGIARISM:

Publishing Board of Acta Medica Alanya complies with the criteria of the International Council of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) , and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). About plagiarism, we act based on flow charts and workflows determined in COPE.
Ethics committee approval will be requested from the authors for all original research articles submitted.
Submitted manuscript are checked for similarity or plagiarism. with the help of the free plagiarism programs given below URL addresses. 

Acceptable similarity rates: Up to 5% for one-to-one similarity, Maximum 15% for total similarity.

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