1. For research in all disciplines, including social sciences, and on clinical and experimental people and animals that require an ethical committee decision;
Any research carried out with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques,
 Use of humans and animals (including material / data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
 Clinical researches on humans,
 In accordance with the law on protection of personal data, ethics committee approval must be obtained for retrospective studies, this approval must be stated and documented in the article.

Information about the permit (board name, date and number no) should be included in the "Method" section of the article and also on the first / last page. During the article upload, the Ethics Committee Approval file should be uploaded to the system in addition to the article file. In addition, information about the fact that the informed consent / consent form has been signed in the case reports should be included in the article.

2. The article should state whether it is necessary to obtain legal / special permission. If the study covers the application made in an institution, it should be clearly stated on which date and with which decision or number number the permission has been obtained from the relevant institution.

3. Permission must be obtained from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires and photographs belonging to others and this must be stated in the article (citing the source).

4. As a result of the analysis of the article with iThenticate similarity programs, the total similarity level should be below 20%.

5. The articles should include the statement that Research and Publication Ethics are complied with.

6. In scientific articles sent to journals, ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) recommendations and COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) 's International Standards for Editors and Authors should be taken into consideration.

7. Copyright regulations must be observed for the ideas and works of art used.

8. At the end of the article; Declaration of “Contribution of Researchers”, “Support” or “Acknowledgment” and “Conflict of Interest” should be given. In addition, if there is not a writer in the article but there are supporters in the data collection etc. phase of the research, it can be thanked.
To clarify the issue of conflict of interest, the authors should be declared at the end of the article whether there are any "Conflicts of Interest".

9. Studies produced from postgraduate / doctoral studies should be stated in the article.

10. No retrospective ethics permit is required for articles submitted to the journal before 2020, accepted but not yet published.