Scope
Erciyes Medical Journal, published quarterly (march, june, september, december) is the
official publication of the Medical Faculty of Erciyes University. The journal welcomes the
submission of the manuscripts directed to clinical and experimental investigations, original
case reports, letters to the editor as well as literature reviews in various fields of
medicine. Research and case reports regarding medical situations revealing both increased
regional frequency and characteritic are given priority.The journal also aims at announcing
national or international scientific meeting or symposia in most fields of medicine. The editor
is free to publish or not publish scientific comminications between the authors and readers.
The reason for any manuscript being published considerably later than expected, is usually
caused by the authors mis-understanding of the regulations. Therefore the authors are
kindly requested to carefully read "instructions for authors". Editorial board, thus
reserves the right to reject any article not complying with the stated rules; the board may
make the necessary corrections or return the manuscript to the author for correction.
Submission
Manuscripts of original papers should be submitted online at www.erciyesmedicaljournal.org and
following the on-screen instructions. The author(s) should either fax Authorship Form
(available at the journal website, http://www.erciyesmedicaljournal.org/pdf/autorshipform.pdf) within three days of their online
manuscript submission or send it along with their postal submission. All the authors, in the
order of the appearance of the names, must sign authorship form.
Publication Language
The official publication language of the journal English or Turkish. Eventhough the manuscript
in Turkish, it sould have an abtract section written in English. Paper especially written in
English are preffered because of the fact that English is an international language of science.
Editor-in-Chief may want the authors to translate their paper written in Turkish that was sent
for publishing and decided for publishing at the end of the peer-review period, to English.
Ethics
The manuscripts sent for consideration for publication are subject to peer review and
must not be previously published elsewhere or be under evaluation of another journal. The
protocol of the clinical investigations must be approved by the appropriate ethical
committee of the related institution. All manuscripts dealing with human subjects must contain,
in the Materials and Methods section, a statement indicating that the study has been approved
by the committee or there should be a statement that the research was performed following the
Declaration of Helsinki principles ( http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm). In research work which includes
humans, informed consent must be obtained prior to the study and this should be stated in the
text.
Solely the authors are responsible for the content of the manuscript; the journal does not
accept any responsibility from the ideas or conclusions made by the authors. The copyright
of the published articles belong to the journal. Re-publication of whole or part of the
article without written permission of the journal is strickly prohibited.
All the authors must actively participate in the study. If the number of the authors is
more than 4, the nature of contribution of each author must be clearly explained in written
form.
Reviews
Reviews are accepted on an invitation basis. However, those who are interested in sending a
review to our journal are required to communicate with the journal before sending the
manuscript, with regard to the field of the review, and to supply a list of their previous
publications on that specific field. The editorial board, having evaluated such application,
may than require the applicant to send the review.
Letters
In the "letters to the editor" section, opinions of the readers on a specific topic or on a
recently published article in the journal may be published. The letter is immediately faxed
to the related author and the reply of the author, if there is any, is published in the same
issue. The editor is free to publish or not publish scientific communications between the
authors and the readers.
Short case or research reports not exceeding one side of an A4 paper with up to five
references may also be published as a letter.
Main Body of Text
Manuscript should be in Microsoft Word 6.0 or later versions, and the style should be in Times
New Roman font, 10-point type (12 point in Title and 9 point in Abstract), double-spaced.Main
body of the manuscript should follow these headings:
- Abstract: Structured abstract (for research reports)
- Introduction: State briefly the nature and purpose of the work, quoting the relevant
literature
- Material (Patients) and Methods [for the case reports: Report of the case/s]:
Include details of clinical and technical procedures, study design, sample size, inclusion and
exclusion criteria, tools used, how the data was obtained and analyzed (statistical methods
used)
- Results (only for research reports): Present these clearly, concisely and
without comment
- Discussion: Explain your results and relate them to those of other authors; define their
significance for clinical practice
- Acknowledgment (if any): Individuals who contributed significantly to the
research or preparation of the manuscript may be acknowledged in this section.
- References: Only essential references should be cited. Must be numbered in the order of
the appearance and only numerals should be cited in the text. The reference number must be
given in brackets. If there are more than 6 authors, the first three must be written in full,
followed by 'et al.' for the remaining authors. Journal names should be abbreviated according
to MEDLINE ( www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=journals). In those periodicals
which do not appear in the Index Medicus, full name of the article must be written.
Structured Abstract & Keywords
An abstract of between 100-200 (for case reports and reviews: 50-100) words both in Turkish
and English must accompany each manuscript, although articles from abroad written in English
are not obliged to have Turkish abstract or key words. Abstracts in research articles must be
structured and contain the following sections (Abstracts for Reviews and Case Reports need not
be structured):
- Purpose [What is the major problem that prompted the study and the purpose of the
study?],
- Material (Patients) and Methods [How was the study done?],
- Results [What are the most important findings?],
- Conclusion [What is the single most important conclusion?].
Abstracts of the review articles should be a brief overview of the main points from the review.
Abbreviations without explanations must not be used and references or tables not given in the
abstract section.
A maximum of 5 key words must be given. The key words, written in alphabetical order, must be
prepared in accordance with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of Index Medicus.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations must be made after the first appearence of the related term in the text. When
first used, abbreviations must remain in brackets. Abbreviations should not be used in title or
abstract.
Units of Measurement – Metric units should be used in scientific contributions
Drugs – The generic names of drugs and not proprietary names, including dose(s),
route(s) and period of adminstration should be mentioned.
Numbers between 1-10 must be written with latin characters (eg. Five, six, eight..),
those greater than 10 must be written with arabic letters (11, 13, 15...). Numbers in front of
the text must be written with latin characters (eg. Sixteen patients were...).
Names of bacteriae must be given in Latin in the following format: "Eschericia coli"
It can be abbreviated as : E. coli.
Tables
Each must must have a title, be prepared on a separate sheet and numbered with Roman numbers.
The legend must be written on the top of the Tables.
Figures & Pictures
All figures must be numbered with Arabic letters in the order of appearance in the text and
must have legends. Lettering and symbols on figures should be large enough, and shading
distinct enough, to remain readable after the figure is reduced.
Electronic versions of figures should be submitted with the manuscript, as separate files. We
prefer figures to be jpg or jpeg format and 300 DPI (dots per inch) at least. Figures should be
prepared at the size you would expect them to appear in Erciyes Medical Journal. (Journal's
standard figure sizes are 75mm and 155mm wide). In the event a manuscript is accepted for
publication, hardcopy of all figures in the form of glossy prints will be required.
There is a charge for colour reproduction in print if an article was accepted. Erciyes Medical
Journal offers two options for reproducing colours illustrations in your article. Please let us
know what you prefer: 1) Free online colour. The colour figure will only appear in colour on
our website and not in the printed version of the journal. 2) Online and printed colour. The
colour figures will appear in colour on our website and in the printed version of the journal.
The charges are EUR 80 / USD 100 (150 YTL) per article. Despite these obtions, the pictures
that contain microscopic views, the pictures in which colored markers are used, the pictures in
which colour discrimination is mandatory to define the cases, the figures in which there are
graphics of numerous groups and the figures that can not be distinguished in its colorless
view, are published in color and charged to authors.
For microscopic pictures, the staining technique as well as magnification must be included in
the legend.
The figures and pictures must be prepared as seperate files and uploaded separately. Please
name your figure files with the convention: "manuscriptcode_fig1.jpg". (do NOT use author or
institution name in these filenames)
Reference Style
| PUBLISHED MATERIAL |
Author(s) |
Title of (book /article/Periodical) |
Place of Publication |
Publisher |
Year |
Volume |
First page |
Last page |
| CODE |
AU |
TB / TA / TP |
PP |
PU |
Y |
V |
FP |
LP |
| Journal Article | AU. TA. TP Y;V:FP-LP. |
| example | Jennett B, Teasdale G, Fry J, et al. Treatment for severe
head injury. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1980; 43:289-295. |
| Organization as author example | Diabetes Prevention Program Research
Group. Hypertension, insulin, and proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance.
Hypertension. 2002; 40:679-86. |
| with supplement example | Geraud G, Spierings EL, Keywood C.
Tolerability and safety of frovatriptan with short- and long-term use for treatment of migraine
and in comparison with sumatriptan. Headache. 2002;42 Suppl 2:S93-9. |
| Book | AU. TB. edition. PP: PU; Y. |
| example | Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical
microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002. |
| Editor(s) as author example | Gilstrap LC, Cunningham FG, VanDorsten
JP, editors. Operative obstetrics. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. |
| Author(s) and editor(s) example | Breedlove GK, Schorfheide AM.
Adolescent pregnancy. 2nd ed. Wieczorek RR, editor. White Plains (NY): March of Dimes Education
Services; 2001. |
| Organization(s) as author example | Royal Adelaide Hospital;
University of Adelaide, Department of Clinical Nursing. Compendium of nursing research and
practice development, 1999-2000. Adelaide (Australia): Adelaide University; 2001. |
| Book chapter | AU. TA. in: AU, editor(s), TB. PP: PU; Y. p
FP-LP. |
| example | Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations
in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human
cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113. |
| Conference paper example | Christensen S, Oppacher F. An analysis of
Koza's computational effort statistic for genetic programming. In: Foster JA, Lutton E, Miller
J, Ryan C, Tettamanzi AG, editors. Genetic programming. EuroGP 2002: Proceedings of the 5th
European Conference on Genetic Programming; 2002 Apr 3-5; Kinsdale, Ireland. Berlin: Springer;
2002. p. 182-91. |
| Inpress material | AU. TA. TP. In press Y. |
| example | Tian D, Araki H, Stahl E, Bergelson J, Kreitman M.
Signature of balancing selection in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. In press
2002 |
| |
| ELECTRONIC MATERIAL |
Author(s) |
Title of (document / homepage) |
Publisher |
Place of publication |
Date of (publication / last revision / access) |
Internet address |
| CODE |
AU |
TD / TH |
PU |
PP |
DP/DR/DA |
IA |
| Website | AU (if available) 'TD' TH (DP or DR) (DA). |
| example | 'National Library of Medicine'. Images from the History of
Medicine.(May 1, 1997) (January 5, 1999). |
| Journal article on the Internet example | Abood S. Quality
improvement initiative in nursing homes: the ANA acts in an advisory role. Am J Nurs 102(6).
(2002 Jun) (Aug 12, 2002) |
| CD-ROM | AU. TD [CD-ROM]. PP: PU; Y. |
| example | Anderson SC, Poulsen KB. Anderson's electronic atlas of
hematology [CD-ROM]. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2002. |
Online Submission Steps
STEP 1. |
Please click on www.erciyesmedicaljournal.org |
STEP 2. |
If you are a non registered user, press the Create Account
link. Else you could enter our "Online Manuscript Submission and Tracking
System"typing your name and password. |
STEP 3. |
You are in "Author Center" now. You could see your submitted or
partially submitted manuscripts as well as your manuscripts waiting for revision. For online
submission of a new manuscript please press "New manuscript" link. |
STEP 4. |
Select the kind of your manuscript from pulldown menu and than pres the
continue button. |
STEP 5. |
Enter the institution information of all authors in the available fields
and than press the continue button. |
STEP 6. |
Enter name, surname, institution number for all the authors. Select the
corresponding author and enter his/her e-mail address. Than press the continue button. |
STEP 7. |
Please write the title of the manuscript to the available field. You may
pass the Title in Turkish field if you out of Turkey. Than press the continue button. |
STEP 8. |
Write the abstract of the manuscript to the abstract field. You may pass
the Abstract in Turkish field(s) if you out of Turkey. |
STEP 9. |
Write the keywords seperated by semicolons to the field
below. Last keyword should be ended by dot. Please don't write more than 5 keywords. You may
pass the Keywords in Turkish field if you out of Turkey. Than press the
continue button. |
STEP 10. |
Point that your manuscript has not been published and / or is not being
considered for publication elsewhere and your manuscript was presented in the congress
indicated below and was published in abstract form in the proceedings of the congress. Than
press the continue button. |
STEP 11. |
Upload your files. The names of the files you have submitted
should not resemble the names or institutions of the authors. Your text files should
contain, title, abstract, keywords, full text article, references, (+PMID if exists) in order.
There should be one table per page. If exists legends of the images should be at the last page.
There should not be any figure, image etc. in your text file. Images should be sent
seperately one by one. Your text file will be converted to a pdf file in a minute and will be
able to be viewed. Than press the continue button. |
STEP 12. |
To finish your submission approve your file(s) and press Submit Your
Manuscript button. |
