WRITING RULES
Starting its publication life in 2023, the “Journal of Health Research” is a free, academic e-journal that accepts original research articles, review articles, technical notes and book reviews published twice a year, in October and March, and conducts an international double-blind refereeing process. The publication languages ​​of the journal are Turkish and English. The Journal of Health Research, the publication organ of Toros University School of Health Services, is a scientific journal that includes experimental studies and current findings on topics covering Basic Medical Sciences, Nursing, Midwifery, Pharmacy, Oral and Dental Health, Child Development, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Biotechnology and Biomedical Applications. All articles submitted for publication are evaluated by the editor or section editors, the editorial board and referees.
Authors must show that the study is original (with a similarity rate of less than 20% in the iThenticate or Turnitin report). The text must be added as a full text, excluding the references, to plagiarism practices.
If the article is a derivative, the name of the study it is derived from, the institution, date and place information must be stated.
The editorial board may make changes to the content and format of the article, provided that the authors obtain their permission.
If the article contains previously published citations, tables, pictures, etc., the author(s) of the article must obtain written permission from the copyright holder and authors and indicate this in the article. The author(s) are responsible for whether the necessary permissions have been obtained in this regard.
The authors are responsible for the compliance of the articles with scientific and ethical rules.
It is important that the articles sent to the journal are prepared in accordance with the spelling rules specified below. The evaluation process will not be initiated after the editorial review for articles prepared without taking these rules into consideration.
Articles to be sent to the Journal of Health Research are accepted digitally from the www.…… website; all evaluation and correction processes are carried out on the relevant site. Apart from this, articles are not accepted by letter or e-mail. The procedures to be performed during the registration of the studies and additional documents are available at www.…….
1. File Uploaded to the System
The article file uploaded to the system by the authors should not contain any information about the authors. The responsible author should prepare the names, titles, institution information, open addresses and e-mail addresses and ORCIDs of each author in a second file in the AUTHOR INFORMATION FORM outside the article file and upload them to the system.

1.1. Copyright and plagiarism report
A COPYRIGHT FORM signed by all authors and a plagiarism report (iThenticate or Turnitin) should be added during the upload of article files to the system. The review process will not be initiated for studies where any of these 4 files are missing and not prepared properly.

1.2. Ethics committee approval
For clinical and experimental studies requiring ethics committee approval, ethics committee approval should include “ethics committee name, decision number and date” and should be uploaded as an additional file.

1.3. File editing tool
All files should be prepared in Microsoft Office Word.
2. Language of writing
The language of writing is Turkish and English.

3. Text Format
Articles should be prepared in a single column in accordance with the Article Template File.

4. Text Style and Page Layout
Article files should be sent only in Microsoft Word format. You can access the template by clicking this link. All text should be prepared in 11 point Times New Roman font. Line spacing should be 1 in the reference sections, 1.5 in the abstract (only for articles written in Turkish) and in the main text. Each paragraph header should start at the beginning of the line, and the line spacing should be maintained as 1 with a “space before the paragraph” selected.
The page layout should be A4 size, with margins left, right, bottom and top 2.5 cm, Times New Roman font, 11 point, 1.5 line spacing, with 6nk space added before and after the paragraph, and the paragraph header should be written with a 1 cm indentation. Click to access the Article Writing Template.
In the first and second level headings, all words should be written in capital letters, bold, Times New Roman font, 11 point, aligned to the left margin and numbered with Roman numerals. Lower level headings should be written with only the first letter of the words capitalized and the others lowercase, Times New Roman font, 11 point, italic and numbered.
The total number of tables and figures should not exceed 5. Tables, figures and equations should be numbered sequentially, titles should be written above tables and below figures with the first letter of each word capitalized. There should be no vertical lines in the table. Table titles should be written in bold Times New Roman font, 10 points, and the table content should be written in Times New Roman font, 8-10 points. If the table does not fit on the page, it should be given on a new page as Table X. (Continued). Abbreviations used in the table should be indicated in 8 points in the explanation below the table. Table