Pre-examined articles are scanned for plagiarism using software such as iThenticate, Turnitin and İntihal.net. If plagiarism/self-plagiarism is detected, the authors are informed. If necessary, the editors can subject the article to plagiarism control at various stages of the evaluation or production process. High similarity rates can cause an article to be rejected before or even after it is accepted. Depending on the type of article, this rate is expected to be less than 20%. Articles with 20% or more similarity will be returned to the authors.

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with ICMJE-Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (updated in December 2015 - http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf). Randomized studies should follow CONSORT, observational studies STROBE, diagnostic value studies STARD, animal-based studies ARRIVE, and nonrandomized behavioral and public health studies TREND guidelines.

Articles can only be sent through the Dergipark online article uploading and evaluation system. Articles sent from different channels will not be evaluated.

Submitted articles will be checked for compliance with journal writing rules. Manuscripts that are not prepared in accordance with the writing rules of the journal will be sent back to their authors for correction.

The author(s) must submit the following:

ABSTRACT

All articles must have English abstracts. Abstracts of Original Research articles should be prepared in such a way as to include the subheadings of “Aim”, “Material and Method”, “Results” and “Conclusion”. Abstracts of case reports should be prepared in a way that includes the sub-headings of “Aim”, “Case Report”, “Discussion" and "Conclusion”. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words.

Keywords: All articles should be submitted with 5 keywords. Key words should be written just below the abstract. Abbreviations should not be used as keywords. Keywords should be selected from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) database prepared by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). You can use (www.bilimterimleri.com) for keywords.

Article Types

Original Article: Main text; It should consist of “Introduction”, “Materials and Methods”, “Results” and “Discussion” subheadings. Statistical analysis is often required to support the result. Information about statistical analysis should be written as a separate subtitle in the Material and Method section and the software used should be defined strictly. Units should be prepared in accordance with the International System of Units (SI), which is the international unit system.

Case Report: A limited number of places are reserved for case reports, and only cases with interesting and instructive features, which describe a new method, reflect information that are not included in the books, related to rare diseases that are difficult to diagnose and treat, are accepted for publication. Main text should contain sub-titles of “Introduction”, “Case Report”, “Discussion” and Conclusion”.

Tables

Tables should be added as a separate Word file and numbered in accordance with the order of passage in the main text. There should be a descriptive title on the tables and the expansions of the abbreviations in the table should be written under the table. Tables should be prepared in a Microsoft Office Word file using the “Insert Table” command and should be arranged in an easy-to-read manner. The data presented in the tables should not be a repetition of the data presented in the main text. The data must be of a supporting nature.

Pictures, graphics and photographs should be uploaded to the system as separate files in JPEG format. Images should not be presented in a Word document or in the main text. When there are images divided into subunits, the subunits should be given in a single image. Pictures should be labeled to identify subunits (a, b, c, etc.). Bold and thin arrows, arrowheads, stars, asterisks, and similar signs can be used to support captions on images. As with the rest of the article, the pictures should be blind. For this reason, the person and institution information in the pictures should not be included. Images must have a minimum resolution of 300 DPI. In order to avoid disruptions in the evaluation process, the resolution of all submitted images should be clear and large (minimum dimensions 100x100 mm). Image captions should be placed at the end of the main text. All abbreviations in the article should be explained separately in the main text and abstract if they are used for the first time, and the abbreviation should be given in parentheses after the explanation.

In the main text, device software, medicine, etc. when products are mentioned, all information including the name of the product, the manufacturer, city and country information should be given in parentheses; “Ex: Diagnostic Ultrasonography Device (Siemens Healthcare Germany)”.

Limitations, barriers and deficiencies of original research should be included in the “Discussion” section before the conclusion paragraph.

All references, tables and pictures should be cited in the main text by numbering in the appropriate places in the main text. The most recent and most up-to-date publications should be preferred when citing. The author(s) are responsible for the accuracy of the references.

If there are 6 or more authors, after the first 6 authors are listed, “et al.” should be written. When citing sources in the main text, Arabic numerals should be used in parentheses before the period in the “Vancouver” format.

Ex: ……..in the head and neck region (1-3).

When submitting the revision files of the articles, the author(s) should mark the changes they have made on the main text, in addition, they should send their notes on the suggestions put forward by the reviewers in the “Reply to the Reviewers” file. In the Reply to Reviewers file, the author’s reply should follow each referee’s comment and the line numbers where the changes were made should also be indicated. Revised articles should be sent to the journal within 30 days of the decision letter. If the revised version of the article cannot be uploaded within the specified time, the revision option may be revoked. If the author(s) needs additional time for revision, they must submit their extension requests to the journal before the first 30 days expire.

Articles accepted for publication are sent to the language editor for checking in terms of grammar, punctuation and format. After the grammar control is done, the article is submitted to the author’s approval. After the approval of the author, the article is placed in the layout. The typed article is sent back to the author for final approval. Articles with final approval from the author and completed typesetting are published on the journal website in early online format before publication with the issue in which they are included in the publication schedule. Print-ready PDF files of accepted articles are sent to the responsible authors and publication approvals are requested to be sent to the journal within 2 days.