General Rules

Nobel Medicus publishes articles written in Turkish and English in the field of pharmacy and medicine. Authors’ writing style and language use are always respected unless there is a misuse of the language. Reviewers are expected to be sensitive and the editorial board is not to be insisting about changing authors’ writing styles. Manuscripts should only be written in Microsoft Word for Windows format. The original manuscript and an electronic copy in a Floppy disk or CD, along with a cover letter signed by the corresponding author should be sent to the following address.

Dr. Timur Koloğlu
İnkılap mah. Akçakoca sok.
No: 10 34768 Ümraniye/İSTANBUL

Manuscripts that are not suitable for publication format of Nobel Medicus are sent back to the author to be corrected. If a manuscript is in accord with the publishing policies, it is given a number and sent to at least two reviewers asked to be evaluated within thirty days.

After the manuscript is finalized, Editorial board may make the final corrections with Authors’ permission. However, if there is a minor correction that wouldn’t change the essence of the article, editorial board may make the corrections without obtaining permission. Unless specified otherwise, all correspondences are done with the first author.
All clinical research articles should list the name of the institution where the research is conducted and should clearly show that research is being approved by the ethical committee.

For an article which was already published, accepted for publication or reviewed for publication in other journals, corresponding author should have all the written permissions from all the authors and publishers before submitting the article to Nobel Medicus. Authors are responsible obtaining all the necessary permissions.

Format of Papers

Manuscripts which are not written with following rules may be returned to the author without a review. Authors are encouraged the read the rules with a great attention for not wasting any time or financial sources. Manuscript should be typed double spaced with the font size of 12, and with margin of 3 cm from each side of the paper. Each section should start with a new page and every page should consecutively be numbered on the bottom right corner of the page. Organization of the manuscript should be in the following order:

Title Page
The Abstract
The Main text
References
Tables and Figures

1) TItle Page: Title page of the manuscript should include authors’ names, academic or professional affiliations, and complete mailing and electronic addresses, phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author. Since these informations are not to be seen by the reviewers, they should not be written in the other pages.

2) The Abstract: Nobel Medicus is aimed to be a national and international journal which will be included in the citation index list. Therefore, the abstracts should be written in both English and Turkish. The abstracts should concisely (in maximum 250 words) explain followings in the text: Aims, Material and Method, Results, and Conclusions of the study. The abstract page should also contain 3-6 Key Words which are appropriate for Index Medicus. Uncommon or controversial Turkish Key Words should be accompanied with its original word written in parenthesis. A words that would be used abbreviated in the text, should at least be written as unabbreviated in its first use and the abbreviation should be shown in parenthesis. In further uses only abbreviated form should be used.

3) The MaIn Text: The format of the main text is different for research articles or case reports.

• Research article should contain following sections; Introduction, Material and Method, Results, Discussions and Conclusions.

• Case reports should have Introduction and Summary, Cases, Discussion and Conclusion sections. Authors are responsible from the reliability of the cited articles or references. Tables and figures should be mentioned in the text but original tables and figures should be located in separate pages. Authors are encouraged to use preferably the generic names of the drugs in their manuscripts.

4) References: Reference list should include all the books, thesis, articles and other material cited in the article. If a reference is an article, authors’ last name and initial of the first name should be written. If there are more authors, all authors names should be written same format separated with (,) Maximum of 5 authors name can be listed. If there are more than 5 authors, “et al” should be added after the third name.

• Example for reference article: Ding JW, Andersson R, Soltestz V, et al. Obstructive jaundice impairs reticuloendothelial function and promotes bacterial translocation in the rat. J Sur Res 1994; 57: 238-245.

• Example for reference book: WHO. Handbook for Reporting Results of Cancer Treatment, Geneva, WHO Ofset Publication.1979.

• Example for book chapter: Barış İ, Karakoca Y, Demir U.Çevresel ve Mesleksel Akciğer Hastalıkları, Barış İ. (eds.) Solunum Hastalıkları Temel Yaklaşım. Atlas Kitapçılık Ltd. Şti, Ankara 1998: 251- 280

• Example for meeting presentation: Karan MA. Yaşlılarda infeksiyonlar. 7. Ulusal İç Hastalıkları Kongresi, 20-25 Eylül 2004 Antalya. Kongre kitabı, s:25.

• Example for thesis: Kılıç C. Genel Sağlık Anketi: Güvenirlik ve geçerlilik çalışması. Uzmanlık tezi, Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Psikiyatri bölümü, 1992.

• Example for electronic article: Altun, A. E-okuryazarlık. Milli Eğitim Dergisi 2003;158. 10 Aralık 2003 http://www.meb.gov.tr/index800.htm

• Number of references: Research articles should have maximum 40 references. Case reports should have maximum 10 references.

5) Tables and FIgures: Every table and figure should be submitted in separate numbered pages. Tables should be double spaced and numbered according to their order of presence in the text. Every table should have titles. Figures shall also be arranged according to their order of presence in the main text, should have their titles on the top of the figure, and placed in a numbered page with an arrow showing the top of the paper. Figure legends should be written with the same format as the main text in double spaced. If they are taken from other publications, that should be clarified in the text. Permission of the original publisher should be obtained and submitted with the manuscript. Authors should encourage to use X-ray films and other pictures which are high contrast and clear.