Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University

Prepare your manuscript for Acta Medica Alanya.

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Article types

Research Article

Review

Systematic Review

Case Report

Letter

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

· All pages of the manuscript should be consecutively numbered starting from the title page (page 1, title page; page 2, Turkish abstract; page 3, English abstract, etc.).
Articles should include Turkish and English abstract.

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· Abstract: The abstract should be written on a separate page.
Turkish abstract should be based on Turkish Language Society’s Turkish Dictionary and Spelling Dictionary (http://tdk.org.tr).
Case Report: · Case reports should be presented following abstract section, under headings of introduction, case presentation, and discussion.

Keywords

Include Turkish and English titles, one paragraph of Turkish and English summaries, and keywords in Turkish and English.
· Key words: There should be at least three and at most seven keywords in accordance with MedicalSubject Headings (MeSH).

Reference style

Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
Research Article / Case Report: Number of references must be up to 25 in research articles and 10 in case reports.

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All text material, including references, footnotes, and table and figure legends, should be typed using one and a half-spacing in an 11 point font with left alignment and without hyphenated line breaks.
The article that is the subject of the comments should be listed in the references section.
The references should be numbered consecutively in the order of their first mention in the text.
Total number references of non-PMID and / or DOI or book-book chapters or web-addressed should not exceed three (all) in whole.
· References should be numbered as the sequence they appeared in the manuscript.
All sources the authors made direct use of should be included as references, excluding unpublished results and personal communications.
References should also be submitted to online section references box (with the original sequence appeared in manuscript but this time without numbers).
Abstracts should not contain any references.
If no conflict of interest exists, this should be stated as “none declared.” Declarations related to conflicts of interest should be placed at the bottom of a separate page after the acknowledgements and before the references.
For abbreviation of journal names and citations http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html should be followed.

Figure and table rules

Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
Group figures at the end of the manuscript.

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Group tables at the end of the manuscript.
Short communications should include maximum two tables and one figure/graphic/picture.
Papers should include the necessary number of tables and figures in order to provide better understanding.
The findings should be supported by figures and tables.
Information given in figures and tables should not be repeated in the text unless absolutely required.
Authors should make sure that each table is cited in the text.
If the table data or figures is taken from another published source, the necessary permissions must be obtained.
Manuscripts should not exceed three tables.

Funding statement

Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
· Funding sources: The full name of any sponsoring foundation or institution should be provided.

Competing interests

· Conflict of Interest: All potential conflicts of interest should be declared under this heading.

Blinded manuscript

Include or confirm the blinded manuscript required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Cover letter

Letter: Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
Letter: Therefore the letter accompanying the manuscript should include a statement that copyright of the article is transferred to the Acta Medica Alanya.

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Letter: The cover letter should contain a statement that the manuscript will not be published or evaluated for publication elsewhere while under consideration by Acta Medica Alanya.

Title page and author information

All pages of the manuscript should be numbered at the top right-hand corner, except for the title page.
Research Article / Case Report: A maximum of three author names can be specified for case reports and reviews, and a maximum of six author names for research articles.

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Review: Submitted manuscript files (e xcept title page) should be blind in order to ensure a double blind review process.
Letter: In addition, the full name of the corresponding author and his/her contact information including the address, phone number and e-mail address should be provided at the bottom of the cover letter.
Letter: Authors should be specify two referees who do not work in the same institution and it is not name in manuscript.The cover letter should be signed by corresponding author, scanned and submitted in jpg or pdf format with other manuscript files.
All affiliations with pharmaceutical firms, biomedical device manufacturers, and other service or product procurers relevant to the subject matter of the study should be explicitly indicated.

Statistical reporting

For parametric tests represent continuous variables as Mean±Standard Deviation, while for nonparametric tests represent data as Median and range (Minimum- Maximum) or Median and interquartile range (25th and 75th percentiles).
· Statistic: A concise report of all statistical methods used for summarizing available data and for testing the proposed hypothesis should be provided under a subtitle, including the p value criteria determined for statistically significant difference.Describe software used for analysis.

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Do not stress statistical significance over clinical importance.

Other submission requirements

Preparing Manuscript: · The manuscript should not exceed 5000 words in total.
· General Format: All manuscripts should be typewritten on A4 white paper, and 2.5 cm-wide margins should be left on all sides.

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Arabic numerals in brackets should be used starting from [1].
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Latin versions of anatomical terms should be used.
Authors should keep a copy of their manuscripts.
· Short communications should briefly include research data which may have significant contribution to the relevant area.
Letters must be sent to the editor within 4 weeks following publication of the subject article in the Acta Medica Alanya.
The fonts Arial should be used in the text, for symbols, and all other special characters.
Then, the abbreviated version should be used throughout the entire text.
Page numbers should be indicated on the upper right-hand corner of each page.
Doses, concentrations, routes, and duration of administration of drugs and chemical agents should be indicated.
The written consent of all individuals mentioned should be obtained.
· Chapter in book: Must be cited to the last edition of the main textbooks published by national and / or international well-known bookstores.
Letters, numbers, and symbols on the pictures should be clear and equal in the entire article, and readable even when downsized for publication.
Pictures should be comprehensible by themselves as far as possible.
Information that may indicate an individual or institution should be excluded from the manuscript files.
All objections and requests should be communicated to the editors in a written format.
Structured summary is not required.
Submission of Manuscript: · Online Submission of Manuscripts: All manuscripts should be submitted online via Tubitak- Dergipark Open Journal System. ( https://dergipark.org.tr/medalanya ).
· Acta Medica Alanya do not charge any article submission or processing charges.
· Opinions presented in published articles do not represent official endorsement of the Medicine Faculty of Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat Üniversity.
Do not suggest “more research is needed” without stating what the specific next step is.

Language and text style

Please use the editing features of your word processing program to type bold or italic letters, mathematical symbols, Greek letters, subscript and superscript characters.
Terms which are commonly used in daily medical language should be written as pronounced according to Turkish spelling rules.

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· Abbreviations used in the article should be accepted internationally, expanded at first mention, after which the abbreviation should be written in parenthesis.
A minimal number of abbreviations and/or acronyms should be used.
All nonstandard abbreviations should be expanded in the footnotes.
· Journal names must be abbreviated according to the list of Index Medicus/Medline/PubMed (the list of MEDLINE journals and their abbreviations published annually by NLM can be accessed at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html).
Abbreviations and acronyms should be written in parentheses following the full name or an explanation of the usage should be provided just after the first appearance in the text.
· Articles need to fully comply with the indicated spelling rules to be put in process instantly.

Authorship and originality

Also the final manuscript should have been read and approved by the all authors.
Acknowledgement: The names of individuals who contributed to the study but who fail to meet the criteria of authorship should be mentioned in this section.

Article type and manuscript length

· Figures: Should not be included in the main text file and should be uploaded as separate files as with the properties describes above in required filetypes section.
· Figure Legends: Figure legends should be included in the main text in a separate page and this page should be the at the end of the main text file.

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· Tables: At the end of the main text file as separate pages.Each table should be given a short title.
Letter: Manuscript Sections: All research articles must contain the following sections: · Cover Letter: On the cover letter; the author(s) should present the title, manuscript type and and whether the submitted work had previously been presented in a scientific meeting.

Manuscript structure

It should contain at most 250 words, and be structured as follows: (1) Objective, (2) Methods, (3) Results, and (4) Conclusion.
· Methods: All methods used to select participants and conduct the study should be described in detail.

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Novel or modified methods used should be described in detail.
· Results: The study results should be presented in logical sequence and in detail.
· Discussion: The main and secondary results of the study should briefly presented and compared with similar findings in the literature.
Providing intensive background information should be avoided in this section.
· Limitations: The limitations of the study should be mentioned in a separate paragraph subtitled as the “Limitations” in the end of the discussion.
· Conclusion: A clear conclusion should be made in the light of the results of the study.
The potential effects of the results of the study on the current clinical applications should be stated in a single sentence.
Inferences that are not supported by the study results should be avoided.
Explanations should not be made in the title, but in the footnotes.
Known methods should be cited.

Ethics and consent

If patient’s photograph will be used, written consent should be obtained from the patient(s) or their legal guardians.

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Declarations: Funding

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