Dear Authors and Referees,

As it is known, scientific and academic journals must meet the criteria of the TR Index to be included in the TR Index.

These criteria are listed in the "Criteria", "General Points to Take Into Considerations for TR Index" and "TR Index Application Requirements and Journal Evaluation Criteria" pages of the TR Index and are updated every year.

Within these criteria, some obligations arise for the authors as well as our obligations as the Journal. obligations arise for the authors as well as our obligations as the Journal.

As a journal that aims to be included in the TR Index by making our application in the upcoming processes, we request these obligations from our authors during or after the article upload in line with the mentioned criteria.

Articles submitted following the criteria will speed up the processes. In this direction, we would like to remind our authors about the following criteria (List will be updated in line with the requests of TR Index):

1. Institutions of all authors, contact information and internationally valid "ORCID" information should be included.
2. Ethics committee approval was obtained for research conducted in all disciplines requiring Ethics Committee Approval; this approval must be stated and documented in the article.

In the researches requiring ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the board, date, and number) in the method section and also in one of the first/last pages of the article; in case of presentations, the information that the informed consent form has been signed should be included in the article.

A statement regarding compliance with "Ethical Principles and Publication Policy" should be included on the web page of the journal.

• All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using a questionnaire, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment, interview techniques,
• Use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical studies on humans,
• Research on animals,
• Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data.

Additionally,

• Stating that the "informed consent form" was obtained in case reports,
• Obtaining and specifying permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others
• It should be stated that the copyright regulations are complied with for the intellectual and artistic works used.

3. At the end of the article; The Researchers' Contribution Rate Statement, Support, and Acknowledgment Statement, if any, Conflict Statement should be included.