Instructions for Authors
Journal
of Pediatric Infection is the official, scientific, open access publication
organ of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunization Association of Turkey
and is published quarterly in March, June, September and December. Moreover, an
additional issue is published for the National Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Congress. The aim of the Journal of Pediatric Infection is to publish
scientifically high-quality research articles in the field of pediatric health
and diseases. Additionally, review articles, original research, editor opinion,
letters to the editor, case reports, pediatric radiology case and instructive
manuscripts (what is your diagnosis?, routines, question-answer, clinical tips,
news on world literature). The Journal, is bilingual both Turkish and English
for every manuscript (each is translated by editorial office the other
language), The journal is an independent, unbiased and double-blind peer-reviewed
journal.
The
editorial and publication processes of the journal are shaped in accordance
with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
(ICMJE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Council of Science Editors
(CSE), Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), European Association of Science
Editors (EASE), and National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The
journal is in conformity with the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice
in Scholarly Publishing (doaj.org/bestpractice).
Originality,
high scientific quality and potential for citation are the most important
criteria for a manuscript to be accepted for publishing. Manuscripts submitted
for evaluation should not have been previously presented or already published
in an electronic or printed medium. The journal should be informed of
manuscripts submitted to another journal for evaluation but rejected for
publication. The submission of previous reviewer reports will expedite the
evaluation process. Manuscripts presented in a meeting should be submitted with
detailed information on the organization, including the name, date, and
location of the organization.
Manuscripts submitted to the Journal of
Pediatric Infection will go through a double-blind peer-review process. Each
manuscript will be reviewed by at least two external, independent peer
reviewers who are experts in their fields in order to ensure an unbiased
evaluation process. The editorial board will invite an external and independent
editor to manage the evaluation processes of the manuscripts submitted by the
editors or the editorial board members of the journal. The Editor-in-Chief is
the final authority in the decision-making process for all manuscripts.
An approval of research protocols by the
Ethics Committee in accordance with international agreements (World Medical
Association Declaration of Helsinki “Ethical Principles for Medical Research
Involving Human Subjects,” amended in October 2013, www.wma.net) is required
for experimental, clinical, and drug studies and for some case reports. If
required, ethics committee reports or an equivalent official document will be
requested from the authors. For manuscripts concerning experimental research on
humans, a statement verifying that written informed consent of the patients and
volunteers was obtained following a detailed explanation of the procedures
should be included. For studies carried out on animals, the measures taken to
prevent pain and suffering of the animals should be stated clearly. Information
on patient consent, name of the ethics committee, and the ethics committee
approval number should also be stated in the Methods section of the manuscript.
It is the authors’ responsibility to carefully protect patients’ anonymity. For
photographs that may reveal the identity of the patient, releases signed by the
patient or his/her legal representative should be enclosed.
The responsibility of the supervision to
screen the manuscript by a similarity detection software lies with the authors.
In the event of alleged or suspected research
misconduct, e.g., plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data
falsification/fabrication, the Editorial Board will follow and act in
accordance with COPE guidelines.
Each individual listed as an author should
fulfill the authorship criteria recommended by the International Committee of
Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE - www.icmje.org). The ICMJE recommends that
authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:
1. Substantial contributions to the
conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or
interpretation of the data for the work;
2. Drafting the work or revising it
critically for important intellectual content;
3. Final approval of the version to be
published; AND
4. Agreement to be accountable for all
aspects of the work, and ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or
integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
In addition to being accountable for the
parts of the work he/she has done, an author should be able to identify which
co-authors are responsible for other specific parts of the work. In addition,
authors should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of their
co-authors.
All those designated as authors should meet
all four criteria for authorship, and all who meet the four criteria should be
identified as authors. Those who do not meet all four criteria should be
acknowledged in the title page of the manuscript.
The Journal of Pediatric Infection requires
corresponding authors to submit a signed and scanned version of the authorship
contribution form available for download through www.cocukenfeksiyon.org during
the initial submission process in order to act appropriately on authorship
rights and to prevent ghost or honorary authorship. If the editorial board
suspects a case of “gift authorship,” the manuscript will be rejected without
further review. As part of the submission of the manuscript, the corresponding
author should also send a short statement declaring that he/she accepts to
undertake all responsibility for authorship during the submission and review
stages of the manuscript.
The
Journal of Pediatric Infection requires and encourages the authors and the
individuals involved in the evaluation process of the submitted manuscripts to
disclose any existing or potential conflicts of interests, including financial,
consultant, and institutional.
Cases of a potential conflict of interest of
the editors, authors, or reviewers are resolved by the journal’s Editorial
Board within the scope of COPE and ICMJE guidelines.
The Editorial Board of the journal handles
all appeal and complaint cases within the scope of COPE guidelines. Authors
should get in direct contact with the editorial office regarding their appeals
and complaints. When needed, an ombudsperson may be assigned to cases that
cannot be resolved internally. The Editor-in-Chief is the final authority in
the decision-making process for all appeals and complaints.
When submitting a manuscript to the Journal
of Pediatric Infection, authors accept to assign the copyright of their
manuscript to the Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunization Association If
rejected for publication, the copyright of the manuscript will be assigned back
to the authors. Journal of Pediatric Infection requires each submission to be
accompanied by a Copyright Transfer Form available for download at
www.cocukenfeksiyon.org. When using previously published content, including
figures, tables, or any other material in both print and electronic formats, authors
must obtain permission from the copyright holder. Legal, financial and criminal
liabilities in this regard belong to the author(s).
Statements or opinions expressed in the
manuscripts published in the Journal of Pediatric Infection reflect the views
of the author(s) and not the opinions of the editors, the editorial board, or
the publisher. The editors, the editorial board, and the Publisher disclaim any
responsibility or liability for such materials. All responsibility in regard to
the published content rests with the authors.
Original
articles, reviews, case reports and letters to the editor regarding especially
pediatric health and diseases are published in the Journal of Pediatric
Infection.
1.
In order for a manuscript to be accepted for publication in the journal, the
manuscript should be original, worthy of attention and scientific. The language
of the journal is Turkish and English..
2.
Manuscripts submitted for evaluation should not have been previously presented
or already published in an electronic or printed medium. Manuscripts presented
in a congress are accepted provided that this condition is indicated. The
authors declare in writing that the right of publication of their manuscripts
is assigned to the journal. These conditions are stated in the letter of
application to the editor for publication, signed by all authors.
3.
Manuscript format should be organized following the rules in ICMJE-Recommendations
for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in
Medical Journals (updated in December 2015 - http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf).
4.
Manuscripts to be published in the journal should be in accordance with
research and publishing ethics. Regarding human and animal rights, an approval
of research protocols by the Ethics Committee in accordance with international
agreements (World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki “Ethical
Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects,” amended in October
2013, www.wma.net and “Guide for the care and use of
laboratory animals - https://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/Guide-for-the-Care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals.pdf)) is required for experimental, clinical,
and drug studies and for some case reports. For manuscripts concerning
experimental research on humans, a statement verifying that written informed
consent of the patients and volunteers was obtained following a detailed
explanation of the procedures should be included.
5.
All authors should submit a signed form stating their scientific contributions
and responsibilities and that there is no conflict of interest. If present,
funding and support received for the study should be indicated. Financial or
in-kind aid, though partial, to the research and from which institution, body,
and pharmaceutical company these aids came from should be stated as footnote
before the references at the end of the full-text
6.
Statements or opinions expressed in the manuscripts published in the Journal of
Pediatric Infection reflect the views of the author(s). Payment of royalties to
the manuscripts sent to the journal is not made.
7.
All manuscripts sent to be published should be prepared by meticulously
complying to the spelling rules of the journal. After being evaluated and seen
fit to be published by at least two reviewers, the manuscript is published in
the journal. If required, the editors may send the manuscript to independent
reviewers who are not in the editorial board and advisory board as regards the
subject matter of the manuscript. Manuscripts not accepted for publishing are
not sent back, and the authors do not lay a claim on this matter. The editors
have the right to make amendments and reductions that do not alter the message
of the manuscript.
8.
The editors have the right to not publish the manuscripts not in conformity
with the publishing rules or send back the manuscripts to the authors for
corrections or reductions. The authors
are deemed to have accepted that corrections in the text can be made by the
editors provided that fundamental changes are not performed as in the way of
Turkish and English language.
9.
The language of the journal is Turkish and English. Turkish manuscripts should
be in conformity with the dictionary of Turkish Linguistic Society (Türk Dil
Kurumu) (www.tdk.gov.tr/) and the new Spelling Dictionary
(http://www.tdk.gov.tr/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=50).
The authors are expected to be meticulous and diligent in using Turkish terms.
Anatomical terms should be given in their Latin equivalences. Terms set in
everyday medical language should be written as how they are read according to
Turkish spelling rules. Terms required by the authors to be written in their
form in the foreign language should be indicated in inverted commas.
Abbreviations can only be continued to be used in the rest of the text if
explanation is given in its first occurrence. The name of the Latin
microorganism used in the text should be shortened by using the first letter of
the species and written in italics, as in Streptococcus pneumoniae/S.
pneumoniae. Names set in our
language “like streptokok and stafilokok” and names of antibiotics
should be written in Turkish. Numbers smaller than ten without a unit beside
should be written in in writing, and affixes used after numbers written in
digits should be separated with apostrophe as in yedi çocuk, olguların 12’si (seven
children, 12 of the cases). No space should be given after the percent (%) sign
or numbers with units as in %95.12 mL. Sentences should not be started with a
number unless mandatory, and the number should expressed verbally.
10.
More than three manuscripts of the first author cannot be published in an issue
of the journal.
Preparation of the Manuscript
The
manuscripts should be sent via online manuscript acceptance system (www.emanuscript.org).
The manuscript should be written on Windows 2003 or higher program with
standard font size of 11, in Times News Roman character and with
double-spacing. If present, quality photographs, graphics, and diagrams should
be added and the manuscript be sent via online manuscript acceptance system
(www.emanuscript.org).
There
should be 2.5 cm margins on both sides of the page, adjusted to left, and the
pages should be numbered starting from the title page. Page number should be
written on the right upper corner of every page. Original articles should not
exceed 16, reviews 10, case reports 8 and letters to editor 2 pages. Each of
the photographs, graphics and diagrams should be placed on separate pages.
Title page
The title of the manuscript should be short
and appropriate for the text itself. The English title indicated in parenthesis
under the Turkish title of the manuscript should be in conformity with the
Turkish title. A short title (running head) of no more than 40 characters
should be added to this section. Names, affiliations, academic degrees and addresses
of all authors should be indicated as one under the other. Name and address of
the clinic, department, institute, and institution the study took place should
be stated. If the study has priorly been presented as a report in a congress or
symposium, it should also be stated.
Name, address, telephone (including the
mobile phone number) and fax numbers, and email address of the corresponding
author should be written. Acknowledgements can be given in this section, if
necessary. The acknowledgment note should also be added before the references.
Abstract
Turkish
and English abstracts should not exceed 350 words for reviews and original
articles and 150 words for short articles and case studies. English title,
running head and abstract should be equivalent to the Turkish title, running
head and abstract. The abstract should briefly indicate the objective of the
study and research, the methods(s) used, and main results should be stated in a
way that they support the conclusion. The abstract should include Objective,
Material and Methods, Results and Conclusion parts. Keywords should be written
under Turkish and English abstracts.
Keywords
There
should be a maximum of five keywords in accordance with Index Medicus Medical
Subject Headings (MESH) under the Turkish and English abstracts. If there are
no proper terms in the Index Medicus medical topic titles for new terms,
existing terms can be used. After the abstract, the main text of original
articles should be structured with Introduction, Material and Methods (with
subheadings), Results, Discussion, Conclusion, and References headings, and the
main text of case reports should be structured with Introduction, Case
Presentation(s), Discussion and References.
Introduction
The
objective and justification of the study and observation should be summarized.
Data and conclusion of the study should not be given in this part.
Material and Methods
For
experimental and clinical studies, ethics committee report, from where it has
been received, the date, and number should be specified. References should be
given to old and established methods, and brief explanations should be given to
new ones. In the last paragraph of the material and methods heading, the
statistical analyses used and what the values given with (±) mean after
arithmetic mean or ratio should be indicated. The real value of probability (p)
should be given (i.e. p= 0.012 instead
of p< 0.05).
Results
The
results should be written clearly and in a manner that does not lead to any
confusion. Unnecessary repetitions of the information specified in tables
should be avoided. The tables should be written with titles and footnotes after
the main text and references, each on separate pages. The tables should be
numbered in sequence as regards the order they appear in the text.
Abbreviations that are not standards should be explained with footnotes.
Figures (charts, graphics and photographs) should be written after the main
text and references, each on separate pages. Figures should be numbered in
sequence as regards the order they appear in the text and their footnotes
should be written respectively on a separate page.
Discussion
The
conclusions made should be compared with emphasis on prior literature, study
results and original hypotheses and interpretations be made.
References
References
should be numbered in the full text of the manuscript in the sentence after “et
al.” or in the end of the sentence in parenthesis with Arabic numbers, and the
references should be given in parenthesis as regards the order they appear in
the text. References should not exceed 40 in reviews and original articles and
15 in case reports. The references should be organized as demonstrated below in
their original languages. Abbreviations used msut be in compliance with Index
Medicus and Science Citation Index.
Journals: Abbreviations of journals are made according
to the January issue of each year of Index Medicus. In articles with six and less than six
authors, all names of the authors are given. In articles with seven or more
writers, the names of the first six are written and “ve ark.” Is added for
Turkish and “et al.” is added for English references. The ordering after the
names of the authors is a s such: “Full title of the article. Name of the
Journal. Volume Number. Page”
i.e. Yılmaz
Y, Candar T, Kara F. Serum sodium levels in children with lung infections. J
Pediatr Inf 2016;10:10-3.
Book: The ordering is: “Name(s) of the author(s). Title of the book. City:
Publishing House, Year.” Yazar(lar)ın ismi/isimleri. Kitap başlığı. Şehir:
Yayınevi, Yıl.”
i.e. Janner
D. A Clinical Guide to Pediatric Infectious Disease. Philadelphia: Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Book section: The ordering is: “Name(s) of the author(s), Title of the section,
Editors, Title of the book. Volume and Issue Number. City: Publishing House.
Year:Pages.”
i.e: Meissner
HC, Hall CB. Respiratory syncytial virus. In: Cherry JD, Harrison GJ, Kaplan
SL, Steinbach WJ, Hotez PJ (eds). Feigin & Cherry’s Textbook of Pediatric Infectious
Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders, 2014:2407-34.
Congress proceedings: Should be given as such:
i.e.: Çetin BŞ, Çelebi S, Bozdemir ŞE. Fungal infections and risk factors in
hospitalized children. 8. National Pediatric Infectious Diseases Congress,
10-14 May 2013, Antalya, Turkey, Congress Book, Oral Presentation-08, p.175.
Unpublished
observations and personal meetings cannot be used as references. Further
information on references can be found on the website of “International
Commitee of Medical Journal Editors” (www.icmje.org).
Pictures, Figures and Tables
Pictures
and figures should be clear. Written publishing consent should be sent if these
are taken from a previous published article of another author. Tables should
not be repetitions of the text but make the text more easily understood and
explained. Abbreviations used should be given as footnotes under the tables.
Reviews
Reviews
should be written by authors with studies and citations on the matter based on
their experience and information in the literature and should cover latest
innovations and developments in our country. Abstracts should not exceed 350
words. References are limited to 40.
Case reports
Case
reports should be instructive and specific. Abstracts should not exceed 150
words. References are limited to 15.
Letters to Editor
Letters
to editor discussed the importance, a part that has been overlooked or its
drawback. There are no titles of headings. References are limited to 5. Full
name and address of the author is given at the end. Evaluation to responses to
letters is made by directly the Editor-in-Chief and/or receiving the opinion of
the author(s) of the original manuscript.