Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Research Articles
Original prospective or retrospective studies of basic or clinical researches in areas relevant to medicine.
The manuscript should contain English abstract, a maximum of 250 words, and the structured abstract should contain the following sections: objective, method, results [findings], and conclusion. Three to six words or determinative groups of words should be written as keywords below the abstract.
The text of articles reporting original research might contain up to 5000 words (excluding Abstract, references and Tables) and should be divided into Introduction, Methods, Results [Findings], and Discussion sections. References should also be included so that their number does not exceed 50. This so-called "IMRAD" structure is not an arbitrary publication format but a reflection of the process of scientific discovery. Articles need subheadings within these sections to further organize their content. Care should be taken to ensure that the number of figures or tables does not exceed 5-6 each.
The editorial office will check whether the submitted manuscripts comply with the writing rules before forwarding them to the editor, and will inform the corresponding author of the articles that do not comply with the points they need to correct.
Case Report
Brief descriptions of a previously undocumented disease process, a unique unreported manifestation or treatment of a known disease process, or unique unreported complications of treatment regimens.
The manuscript should contain both Turkish and English abstracts, a maximum of 150 words, but a structured abstract is not required. The main text should include titles or related topics to further organize the content.
The manuscript could be of up to 2000 words (excluding references and abstract) and could be supported with up to 25 references. Care should be taken to ensure that the number of figures or tables does not exceed 5-6 each.
The editorial office will check whether the submitted manuscripts comply with the writing rules before forwarding them to the editor, and will inform the corresponding author of the articles that do not comply with the points they need to correct.
Review
The authors may be invited to write or should be expert in that subject of review article.
The manuscript should contain both Turkish and English abstracts, a maximum of 250 words, but a structured abstract is not required. The main text should include titles or related topics to further organize the content.
The text of review articles might contain up to 5000 words (excluding Abstract, references and Tables). Number of references should not exceed 90. Care should be taken to ensure that the number of figures or tables does not exceed 5-6 each.
The editorial office will check whether the submitted manuscripts comply with the writing rules before forwarding them to the editor, and will inform the corresponding author of the articles that do not comply with the points they need to correct.
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