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| Medicine Science | International Medical Journal GUIDE FOR AUTHORS For comprehensive information regarding the journal's policies on submission, peer-review, publication, and ethical standards, kindly visit the Journal Policies page. Similarly, for detailed information about the journal, please visit the About page. It is strongly advised to review the journal's policies before submitting any manuscripts to ensure compliance with the journal's guidelines. Manuscripts submitted for evaluation should be original and not previously presented or published in any electronic or print medium. If a manuscript was previously presented at a conference or meeting, authors should provide detailed information about the event, including the name, date, and location of the organization. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with ICMJE-Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (updated in May 2023). Authors are required to prepare manuscripts in accordance with the relevant guideline listed below: • Randomized research studies and clinical trials: CONSORT guidelines (for protocols, please see the SPIRIT guidance) • Observational original research studies: STROBE guidelines • Studies on diagnostic accuracy: STARD guidelines • Systematic reviews and meta-analysis: PRISMA guidelines (for protocols, please see the PRISMA-P guidelines) • Experimental animal studies: ARRIVE guidelines and Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, 8th edition • Nonrandomized evaluations of behavioral and public health interventions: TREND guidelines • Genetic association studies: STREGA • Qualitative research: SRQR guidelines To find the right guideline for your research, please complete the questionnaire by Equator Network here. Medicine Sciences encourages authors to follow the ‘Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER – guidelines’ when preparing their manuscripts to promote the inclusion of sex and gender considerations in research. Before submission, authors can consult EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators to produce clear, concise and accurate manuscripts that are easy to understand and free of common errors and pitfalls. Manuscripts can only be submitted through the journal’s online manuscript submission and evaluation system. Manuscripts submitted via any other medium and submissions by anyone other than one of the authors will not be evaluated. In addition to the manuscript files, authors are required to submit the following during the initial submission: • Copyright Agreement and Acknowledgement of Authorship Form • ICMJE Potential Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form (should be filled in by all contributing authors) during the initial submission. These forms are available for download at https://medicinescience.org Publication Fee Article processing charges As of January 1, 2019, Medicine Science has implemented an article processing charge (APC) to support its open-access publishing operations. This fee is formally collected as a donation to the Turaz Bilim Association, a non-profit organization which financially supports the journal. Although referred to as a donation, the APC is mandatory for all submitted manuscripts. The collected funds are used exclusively for sustaining editorial operations, peer-review management, DOI registration, and technical infrastructure required for online publishing. The donation status of the APC reflects the journal’s non-profit structure; however, it does not imply voluntary payment. Editorial and technical processing will commence only after receipt of the APC.
As of September 1, 2025, the article processing charge is: 7,500 TL (Turkish Lira) or 150 USD (United States Dollars) This fee applies to each article submitted to the journal.
The APC supports the following services:
The APC must be paid at the time of submission.
The APC is non-refundable, regardless of the editorial outcome or withdrawal of the manuscript at any stage after submission.
In support of equitable access to scientific publishing, authors from developing and underdeveloped countries are exempt from APCs. This waiver policy has been in effect since January 1, 2020. Authors from high-income countries — including but not limited to the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, EU countries, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Turkey — are required to pay the APC. No other fee waivers are available beyond this policy.
Payment of the APC has no influence on the editorial or peer review decisions.
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Submissions will first go through a technical evaluation process during which the editorial office staff will ensure that the manuscript was prepared and submitted in accordance with the journal’s guidelines. Submissions that do not conform to the journal’s guidelines will be returned to the submitting authors with technical correction requests. Submissions that conform to the journal’s guidelines will be assigned to the Editor in Chief who will assess each submission’s suitability to the journal in terms of scope and quality. Submissions that are not suitable for the journal can be rejected at this stage. For papers that are suitable for the journal, the Editor in Chief will work with Associate Editors who will recruit reviewers for the manuscript. Once assigned, Associate Editors can decide to reject a manuscript, continue with the peer review process, or request revisions before further peer-review. Associate editors will submit their recommendations that are based on reports submitted by the reviewers to the Editor in Chief. Revised manuscripts will be reassessed by the Associate Editors who will aim to work with the original reviewers to make a new recommendation. The Editor in Chief is the final authority in the decision-making process for all submissions. In the event of delays, authors will be informed of the reason for the delay and given the opportunity to withdraw their manuscript. Once the peer-review process is completed, the authors will receive anonymous peer-review reports along with the editorial decision on their manuscript. Peer-review reports will not be posted publicly in any medium. The submitted material is considered confidential and must not be used in any way until after its publication. If it is suspected that a reviewer has appropriated an author’s ideas or data, the Editorial Board will handle the matter in accordance with the relevant COPE’s guideline. Authors can recommend peer-reviewers during submission. The handling editor is the sole authority to decide whether or not recommended peer-reviewers will be invited to evaluate the manuscript. Peer reviewers are required to adhere to the principles of COPE's Ethical Guidelines for Peer-reviewers and these guidelines provide a framework for reviewers to follow in order to ensure the integrity and fairness of the peer review process. The Editorial Board follows COPE’s relevant flowchart to minimize peer review manipulation. If there is suspicion of peer review manipulation after publication, the Editorial Board will follow the appropriate flowchart of COPE. Potential peer reviewers should inform the Editor of any possible conflicts of interest before accepting an invitation to review a manuscript. Informing the editor of any potential conflicts of interest allows them to make an informed decision about whether or not to invite the potential reviewer to participate in the review process. It also helps to ensure the integrity and transparency of the review process. Communications between Editors and peer reviewers contain confidential information that should not be shared with third parties. Medicine Sciences will recruit external editors to handle peer review processes of manuscripts submitted by members of the editorial board. If an article's peer review is an exception to the journal’s usual policy, the type of the review it received will be displayed on the article to ensure the transparency and accountability of the review process. Preparation of the Manuscript Title page: A separate title page should be submitted with all submissions and this page should include: • The full title of the manuscript as well as a short title (running head) of no more than 50 characters, • Name(s), affiliations, highest academic degree(s), and ORCID IDs of the author(s), • Grant information and detailed information on the other sources of support, • Name, address, telephone (including the mobile phone number), and email address of the corresponding author, • Acknowledgment of the individuals who contributed to the preparation of the manuscript but who do not fulfill the authorship criteria. Abstract: An abstract should be submitted with all submissions except for Letters to the Editor. Please check Table 1 below for word count specifications. Keywords: Each submission must be accompanied by a minimum of three to a maximum of six keywords for subject indexing at the end of the abstract. The words should be separated by a semicolon (;). The keywords should be listed in full without abbreviations. The keywords should be selected from the National Library of Medicine, Medical Subject Headings database (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html). ORCID ID The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) number of each author must be submitted when creating an account for correspondence. To obtain an ORCID number, please visit https://orcid.org/ Manuscript Types Original Articles: This is the most important type of article since it provides new information based on original research. Acceptance of original papers will be based upon the originality and importance of the investigation. The main text of original articles should be structured with Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, and Discussion subheadings. Please check Table 1 for the limitations of the Original Articles. Clinical Trials Medicine Science adopts the ICMJE's clinical trial registration policy, which requires that clinical trials must be registered in a publicly accessible registry that is a primary register of the WHO International Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) or in ClinicalTrials.gov. By registering clinical trials in a publicly accessible registry, authors can help to promote transparency and accountability in their research. Instructions for the clinical trials are listed below. • Clinical trial registry is only required for prospective research projects that study the relationship between a health-related intervention and an outcome by assigning people. • To have their manuscript evaluated in the journal, the author should register their research to a public registry at or before the time of first patient enrollment. • Based on the most up-to-date ICMJE recommendations Medicine Science accepts public registries that include a minimum acceptable 24-item trial registration dataset. • Authors are required to state a data-sharing plan for the clinical trial registration. Please see the details under the “Data Sharing” section. • For further details, please check ICMJE Clinical Trial Policy and COPE Data and Reproducibility guidelines. Reporting Statistical Analysis Statistical analysis to support conclusions is usually necessary. Statistical analyses must be conducted in accordance with international statistical reporting standards (Altman DG, Gore SM, Gardner MJ, Pocock SJ. Statistical guidelines for contributors to medical journals. Br Med J 1983: 7; 1489-93). Information on statistical analyses should be provided with a separate subheading under the Materials and Methods section and the statistical software that was used during the process must be specified. When reporting statistical data in a research paper, it is important to present the values in a clear and consistent manner. P values, confidence intervals (CIs), and other statistical measures should be rounded appropriately and expressed according to the guidelines provided. For example, P values should be expressed to two digits to the right of the decimal point unless the first two digits are zeros, in which case three digits should be provided (eg, instead of P < .01, report as P = .002). However, values close to .05 may be reported to three decimal places because .05 is an arbitrary cut-off point for statistical significance (eg, P = .053). P values less than .001 should be designated as P < .001 rather than providing the exact value (eg, P = .000006). Units should be prepared in accordance with the International System of Units (SI). Review Articles: Reviews prepared by authors who have extensive knowledge of a particular field and whose scientific background has been translated into a high volume of publications with a high citation potential are welcomed. These authors may even be invited by the journal. Reviews should describe, discuss, and evaluate the current level of knowledge of a topic in clinical practice and should guide future studies. The main text should contain Introduction, Clinical and Research Consequences, and Conclusion sections. Please check Table 1 for the limitations of the Review Articles. Case Reports: 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. Case reports should include an adequate number of images and figures. Case reports should be accompanied by “Informed Consent” whether the identity of the patients is disclosed or not. The “Informed Consent Form” is available at https://medicinescience.org Please check Table 1 for the limitations of Case Report. Letters to the Editor: This type of manuscript discusses important parts, overlooked aspects, or lacking parts of a previously published article. Articles on subjects within the scope of the journal that might attract the readers’ attention, particularly educative cases, may also be submitted in the form of a “Letter to the Editor.” Readers can also present their comments on the published manuscripts in the form of a “Letter to the Editor.” Abstracts, Keywords, and Tables, Figures, Images, and other media should not be included. The text should be unstructured. The manuscript that is being commented on must be properly cited within this manuscript. Please check Table 1 for the limitations of the Letter to the Editor. Tables Tables should be included in the main document and presented after the reference list, and they should be numbered consecutively in the order they are referred to within the main text. A descriptive title must be placed above the tables. Abbreviations used in the tables should be defined below the tables by footnotes (even if they are defined within the main text). Tables should be created using the “insert table” command of the word processing software and they should be arranged clearly to provide easy reading. Data presented in the tables should not be a repetition of the data presented within the main text but should be supporting the main text. Figures and Figure Legends Figures should be submitted as separate files in TIFF or JPEG format, and they should not be embedded in the Word document or the main manuscript file. If a figure has subunits, each subunit should be submitted as a separate file, and the subunits should not be merged into a single image. The figures should not be labeled (a, b, c, etc.) to indicate subunits. Instead, the figure legend should be used to describe the different parts of the figure. Thick and thin arrows, arrowheads, stars, asterisks, and similar marks can be used on the images to support figure legends.Images should be anonymized to remove any information that may identify individuals or institutions. The minimum resolution of each figure should be 300 DPI, and the figures should be clear and easy to read. Figure legends should be listed at the end of the main document. Figures should be referred to within the main text, and they should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are mentioned. Abbreviations All acronyms and abbreviations used in the manuscript should be defined at first use, both in the abstract and in the main text. The abbreviation should be provided in parentheses following the definition, and it should be used consistently throughout the paper. Identifying products When mentioning a drug, product, hardware, or software program in a manuscript, it is important to provide detailed information about the product in parentheses. This should include the name of the product, the producer of the product, and the city and country of the company. For example, if mentioning a Discovery St PET/CT scanner produced by General Electric in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, the information should be presented in the following format: "Discovery St PET/CT scanner (General Electric, Milwaukee, WI, USA)." Providing this information helps to ensure that the product is properly identified and credited.. References While citing publications, preference should be given to the latest, most up-to-date publications. If an ahead-of-print publication is cited, the DOI number should be provided. References should be written in compliance with the AMA Manual of Style 11th Edition style (see. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7256/). Authors are responsible for the accuracy of references. Journal titles should be abbreviated in accordance with the journal abbreviations in Index Medicus/ MEDLINE/PubMed. When there are four or fewer authors, all authors should be listed. If there are five or more authors, the first three authors should be listed followed by “et al.” In the main text of the manuscript, references should be cited using Arabic numbers in parentheses. The reference styles for different types of publications are presented in the following examples. References should be limited to 10 for letters to the editor, 20 for case reports, 40 for clinical/experimental reports, and review articles. Journal abbreviations should conform to the style used in the Cumulated Index Medicus (please see www.icmje.org). Journal articles, books, web pages, conference presentations, newspapers, audio-visual sources like CDs and DVDs, articles pending publication, theses, and dissertations can be used as references. Reference Format for Journal Articles: Authors’ initials, surnames, and names, article titles, journal titles, date, volume, and the pagination must be indicated. E.g. For Journal Articles Celbis O, Karakoc Y, Ozdemir B, et al. Investigation of lead mobilization from the buckshot residues to the critical organs. Biol Trace Elem Res. 2011;143:688-94. For Book References DiMaio WJ, DiMaio D. Time of death. In: Forensic Pathology. 2nd edition. CRC Press, London, 2001;21-42. Madea B, Henssge C. Timing of death. In: Payne-James J, Busuttil A, Smock W, eds, Forensic Medicine: Clinical Pathological Aspects. London: Greenwich Medical Media Ltd. 2003;91-114. For Internet References Beware: Toy Noise may be too loud for kids. http://hearingaiddocs. wordpress.com/tag/loud-toys access date 22.04.2013 For Congress Presentations Brandes U, Wagner D. A Bayesian paradigm for dynamic graph layout. 11th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, 12-15 November 2003. New York, USA, 236-47. For Newspaper References Susan S. How to prevent breast cancer. Australian 23 October 2003. For CD-ROM References The Oxford English Dictionary [CD-ROM]. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press; 1992. Online Journal Articles: Tamburini S, Shen N, Chih Wu H, Clemente KC. The microbiome in early life: implications for health outcometes. Nat Med. Published online July 7, 2016. doi:10.1038/nm4142 For Accepted Articles Kaya A, Aktas EO. Perception differences between in violence against child. Med-Science. Published Online: Nov 19, 2013. Epub Ahead of Print Articles: Cai L, Yeh BM, Westphalen AC, Roberts JP, Wang ZJ. Adult living donor liver imaging. Diagn Interv Radiol. 2016 Feb 24. doi: 10.5152/dir.2016.15323. [Epub ahead of print]. For Thesis Karakoc Y. Biological effect of direct electrical current in essential (idiopathic) hyperhidrosis. Ph.D. thesis, Istanbul University, Istanbul, 1996. In case of use of a previously published table, figure, or illustration, a reference of the material must be cited in the reference list. Revisions Authors must indicate the changes in the main text while resubmitting revised files, and also answers to each reviewer's suggestions separately must be included in the letter. Page and line number of corrections must be included as well. A revised form of the manuscript must be sent to the journal within 15 days, otherwise, the revision option may be canceled. A warning letter will be sent and then after 15 days, the manuscript will be rejected. If authors need an extension of time for revisions anyhow, the journal must be informed before the deadline for revision. Accepted manuscripts are copy-edited for grammar, punctuation, and format by professional language editors. Once the publication process of a manuscript is completed, it is published online on the journal’s webpage as an ahead-of-print publication before it is included in its scheduled issue. A PDF proof of the accepted manuscript is sent to the corresponding author and their publication approval is requested within 2 days of their receipt of the proof. PRODUCTION Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, it goes through a copy-editing process by professional language editors to ensure that it is clear and well-written. This process may involve correcting grammar, punctuation, and formatting errors, as well as making changes to improve the overall clarity and readability of the manuscript. After the copy-editing process is complete, the manuscript is published online as an "ahead-of-print" publication, which means that it is available to readers before it is included in a scheduled issue of the journal. This allows readers to access the latest research as soon as it becomes available. Before the manuscript is officially published, the corresponding author is sent a PDF proof of the accepted manuscript for review. The corresponding author is asked to review the proof and approve it for publication within a specified time period, typically 2 days. This is an important step in the publication process, as it allows the author to catch any errors or make any final changes before the manuscript is published. Table 1. Limitations for each manuscript type
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