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Instructions to authors
Medical Journal of Trakya University is a peer-reviewed periodical that considers for publication clinical or experimental studies, original articles, case reports, invited reviews, letters to the editor, information on scientific meetings, and brief reports on original studies or evaluations, book reviews, and article abstracts.

The journal is published four times in a year and in March, June, September and December. Manuscripts may be written in English as well as in Turkish.

The author(s) undertake(s) all scientific responsibility for the manuscript.

The manuscripts should be submitted online via http://www.tutfd.org/submit web site.

Contact Person: Elif Ezgi GÜREL
Trakya Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi,
Trakya Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi,
22030 Edirne, Turkey
Phone: +90 284 2357641 / 1420
Fax: +90 284 2357652
e-mail: tutfd_editorluk@trakya.edu.tr

The author(s) guarantee(s) that neither the manuscript itself nor any substantially similar content thereof has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere.

All manuscripts should be accompanied by the statement printed in the Journal on authorship, exclusive publication, conflict of interest, and transfer of copyright.

Review Process

Upon submission, all manuscripts are reviewed to check for requirements requested by the Journal. Manuscripts that do not comply with these requirements will be sent back to authors without further evaluations. The registered manuscripts are sent to two independent experts for scientific evaluation.

The author(s) may be requested to handle possible shortcomings and corrections after submission and throughout the reviewing process until the article appears in the Journal.

All correspondence for accepted manuscripts are implemented through the responsible author via the Internet.

Organization of the manuscript

The text file should include the title in Turkish, keywords, the title in English, keywords in English, the text of the article, references, tables (only one table for one page) and figure legends (if any), respectively. Within the text file, the names of the authors, any information about the institutions, the figures and images should be excluded.

A structured abstract not exceeding 200 words should precede the main text. It should be divided into four sections in the following order: Objectives, Design or Patients and Methods, Results and Conclusion. Abstracts for case reports should be unstructured and shorter. In order to decrease superfluous use of paper, no part of the manuscript other than the title page needs to begin on a separate page. The pages should be numbered consecutively, starting with the title page.

The text of the article should be divided into the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References.

References

The authors are required to cite only those references that they can submit to the Journal in the event they are requested to do so. If there is any doubt on the availability and utilization of a reference the Journal reserves the right to exclude it from the text and the references list.

The use of unpublished observations and personal communications as references are strongly discouraged.

References should be typed double-spaced and numbered in the order in which they are mentioned in the text. Reference format should comply with the "Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals" (Ann Intern Med 1997;126:36-47) and its updated versions. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the Index Medicus. Journal references should provide inclusive page numbers, chapter references should cite specific page numbers. All authors if six or fewer should be listed; otherwise the first six and "et al." should be written. The style and punctuation of the references should follow the formats outlined below:

Journal article: Tuna H, Avcı Ş, Tükenmez Ö, Kokino S. İnmeli olguların sublukse omuzlarında kas-sinir elektrik uyarımının etkinliği. Trakya Univ Tıp Fak Derg 2005;22:70-5.

Book: Norman IJ, Redfern SJ (editors). Mental health care for elderly people. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1996.

Chapter in a book: Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP. Hypertension and stroke. In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, editors. Hypertension: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press; 1995. p. 465-78.

Conference paper: Bengtsson S, Solheim BG. Enforcement of data protection, privacy and security in medical informatics. In: Lun KC, Degoulet P, Piemme TE, Rienhoff O, editors. MEDINFO 92. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Medical Informatics; 1992 Sep 6-10; Geneva, Switzerland. Amsterdam: North-Holland; 1992. p. 1561-5.

Tables and figures

The tables, figures and charts should not be placed in the text file. The tables should be added to the end of the text, as one table in one page;whereas each of the figures, charts and photographs should be submitted as separate image files (as jpeg or gif).The titles of the tables and the figure legends should not be missing. The figure legends should be written at the end of the manuscript. The tables, figures and charts should be cited within the text.

Ethics

Manuscripts reporting the results of experimental studies on human subjects must include a statement that informed consent was obtained after the nature of the procedure(s) had been fully explained. Manuscripts describing investigations in animals must clearly indicate the steps taken to eliminate pain and suffering. Authors are advised to comply with internationally accepted guidelines, stating such compliance in their manuscripts and to include the approval by the local institutional human research committee.

For recognizable photographs of human beings, signed releases of the patient or of his/her legal representative should be enclosed; otherwise, patient names or eyes must be blocked out to prevent identification.