Writing Rules

Manuscript preparation:
The manuscripts should be prepared in A4 size, with Arial 10 font, with two line spacing, and with continuous line numbers on the following pages. The total number of pages should not exceed 15 in research, meta-analysis, systematic review and review articles, including pictures and figures, and 6 in case reports.
The title page should contain the Turkish and English titles of the article, full names and e-mail adresses of the authors and the names of their institution.
On the second page, only Turkish and English abstracts and keywords should be given. Abstracts should be structured as Aim, Methods, Results, and Conclution, and should not exceed 250 words. For English manuscriipts, an extended-structured abstract of not more than 750 words should be provided in Turkish. Keywords should not exceed 5 words/word groups in Turkish under the Turkish summary and in English under the English summary.


Articles containing survey studies should include Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion, References, Tables and Figures.

The full text section of research articles should include Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion, References, Tables, Figures(with explanations).

Case reports should be in the form of Introduction, Case (s), Discussion and Conclusion, References, Table, Figures (with explanations).

Meta-analysis articles consist of Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclution, Results, References sections and Tables/Figures

Systematic review studies; Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion, References and Tables/Figures

Review articles are requested from invited authors determined by the journal. Review articles consist of Abstract (the abstract does not need to be structured in a specific format as in the research article), Keywords, Introduction and Conclusion sections. Authors who submit review articles should also include a section describing the methods they use for the selection and analysis of the data they use in the article. These methods should also be specified in the Summary section.

Tables, figures and pictures should be on a separate page and their place in the text should be written in parentheses at the end of the sentence. Table titles and footnotes of figures should be given in the relevant tables and figures, with single spacing. Symbols and abbreviations should be defined in the footnotes of Tables and Figures.

Photos must be sent in high resolution jpg format.

When abbreviations are used for the first time, they should be written clearly and then the same abbreviation should always be used in the article.

References should be used in APA style (Author surname, publication year.) (Http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/author-names). Punctuation and spelling examples to be followed while writing the resource list should be checked at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html. Journal abbreviations should be made as shown by Index Medicus. Sources with six or fewer authors should include all names, and references with seven or more authors should include the first six authors and in Turkish articles "ve ark." , "et al" should be added in English articles.

The acknowledgment part takes place before the References and expressions of thanks for reasons such as personal, method and material assistance are included in this part.
Editing the format of the articles according to the rules of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors -Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (updated in December 2017 - http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf) recommended.

The Editorial Board is authorized to make the necessary technical changes without touching the scientific content, in case there are places that do not comply with these rules in the submitted manuscript.

A document that is signed by the authors, declaring conflict of interest, not in the procedure of publishing the article in another journal, authorship rights / responsibilities and publication approvals in our journal must be attached.
In case the manuscript is accepted for publication, the Copyright Transfer Form signed by all authors must be sent to the postal address of the journal as pdf and the original with wet signature to the journal address.

If there is any financial support, even partial, it should be stated by which institution, organization or companies.