Instructions for Authors
WRITING RULES
Manuscripts submitted for publication should be written in Microsoft Word. All text, figures and graphics should be sent electronically. Except for the cover page, the name of the institution and the authors should not be mentioned anywhere in the article. The cover page must be loaded separately.
ALL ARTICLES
Cover page,
Abstract,
Article Section,
Descriptions,
Referances,
Tables,
Figures and Pictures,
It should be arranged as subtitles.
Authors' Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID ID) information must be uploaded to the system during article submission.
The article part (except for the abstract, references, table, figure and subtitles) of the research reviews should not exceed 6000 words, the abstract part should not exceed 250 words, the references should not exceed 40, the number of tables 7 and the number of figures 7 should not exceed. Case reports should consist of abstract, introduction, presentation of the case(s), discussion and references. Case reports should not exceed 5 pages in total. Articles on technical and medical developments and image presentations of original topics should not exceed 3 pages. The following types of contributions are welcome:
• Original Research
• Brief Report
• Research Letter
• Narrative Review or Systematic Review Articles
• Meta-Analysis Review Articles
• Clinical Practice Review Articles
• Clinical Update Articles
• Commentaries
• Letter to the Editor
• Case Reports
PREPARATION OF ARTICLES
A plain and understandable writing language should be used in the text, scientific writing style should be adopted and unnecessary repetitions should be avoided. Writing; It should be written with 1.5 line spacing, Times New Roman 12 points. Pages should be numbered in the lower right corner. Manuscripts should be uploaded to the system in 2 files.
Title Page
The title of the article should not exceed 100 characters (letters) in research articles and 80 characters in case reports. The names and surnames of the authors who contributed to the study should be written clearly.
If the study has been presented in any congress before, the congress name, time (day-month-year and congress place) should be specified.
Reviewer recommendation:
Please assist the editor in selecting a referee for the specific study by providing the names and contact details of at least two potential reviewers via the submission system.
MAIN TEXT
The full texts to be reviewed by the referees during the evaluation process should be uploaded to the system as a single file. The full text file should be composed of the following parts and should be arranged in this order.
A) Abstract
Title of the Article; It should be short, easy to understand and describe the content of the article. It should not exceed 250 words in research reviews and 150 words in case reports. Abstracts, Purpose, Materials and Methods, Findings, Conclusion, Keywords. Case reports do not require these sections.
Keywords; there should be a maximum of five keywords that capture the main titles of the scientific article and are written in accordance with the Index Medicus Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
Abbreviations in the text should be explained in parentheses where they are first used. Abbreviations should not be used in abstracts.
Article
It consists of Introduction, Material and method, Results, Discussion and Conclusion sections.
Introduction: Information that will explain the subject and the purpose of the study is given.
Material and method: The place, time, and planning of the study, as well as the elements and methods used, should be reported. Data collection, characteristics of patients and individuals, characteristics of the experimental study, and statistical methods should be explained in detail.
Results: The obtained data should be given together with the statistical results.
Discussion: The results of the study should be evaluated by comparing with the literature data.
Abbreviations should be avoided as much as possible. References, figures, tables and pictures should be numbered in the order they appear in the text.
Conclusion: Findings from the study should be reported briefly without adding comments.
References
Articles should be prepared according to the Vancouver Citation System. References should be written with 1.5 line spacing. Reference numbers should be given in ( ) without a period at the end of the sentence, and the period should be placed later. If more than one reference number is given, “,” should be placed between them, and if more than two consecutive reference numbers are given, “-” should be placed between the numbers [eg. such as (1,2), (1-3)].
If the journal is used as a source: year, volume, issue, start and end pages are given.
If a book is used as a source: only year, start and end pages are given. The surnames and initials of the authors should be written in the references. If the number of authors is 3 or less in the references, all author names are written. If the name of the author is more than 3, instead of the names of the following authors, "et al." is written in sources and "et al."