Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• Text Consistency and Writing Rules: The article file has been prepared in accordance with all writing, formatting, and bibliographic rules specified in the Author Guidelines. Sources used in the text are referenced completely and accurately, and the reference list is formatted according to international standards (APA 7, Chicago, etc., depending on the journal's preference). Tables, figures, graphs, and appendices are numbered correctly within the text and accompanied by explanations.
• Author Information: The full names, academic titles, institutional affiliations, ORCID ID numbers, and contact details (phone number, email address, postal address) of all authors included in the study will be entered into the system. The author order has been determined by mutual agreement among all authors, and there are no conflicts of interest.
  
  Individuals who did not contribute to the study have not been included in the author list.
• Copyright and Publication Rights: Upon acceptance and publication of the article after submission, the author transfers the copyright and publication rights to the journal.
• For Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Approval: For all studies for which data was collected (surveys, interviews, focus groups, experiments, observations, animal experiments, clinical research, etc.), the Ethics Committee Approval Certificate (including the date, number, and name of the approving committee) has been uploaded to the system as an ‘Additional File’. This information is also stated in the ‘Methods’ section of the article and under the title of Declerations on the last page of the article.
  For Studies Not Requiring Ethics Committee Approval: (Reviews, theoretical studies, publicly available data sets, etc.) it is clearly stated in the ‘Methods’ section of the article or in a footnote that the study does not require ethics committee approval.
• AI Rule: The author(s) confirm that the article was written by them and not by an AI tool/Large Language Model (LLM). If an AI tool/LLM was used in the development or creation of any part of the article, this will be clearly stated in the Methods and Acknowledgments section.
• Preparation for Blind Review: The article has been prepared in accordance with the double-blind review process. Information such as the author(s)' name, institution, acknowledgments, and biography has been removed from the main text file. The blinded file has also been uploaded to the system.
• The full text file contains the following sections: 1) English title, abstract, and keywords, 2) Introduction, methods, findings, discussion, and conclusions sections
  The text has been prepared in an original manner in accordance with scientific ethical rules.
• Additional Files (if any): The data sets, analysis codes, or additional materials used in the study have been uploaded in the appropriate formats, and the necessary explanations for access have been provided. The images do not contain any copyright infringement, and the necessary permissions have been obtained for each material used.