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The submitted articles should be previously unpublished and should not be under consideration by any other journal.
If the whole or a part of the submitted articles are presented in any congress, this should be noted in the submitted article.
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The editorial and publication processes of the journal are shaped following the guidelines of the International Council of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/ ).
The journal conforms to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (DOAJ https://doaj.org/apply/transparency).
Originality, high scientific quality, and citation potential are the most important criteria for a manuscript to be accepted for publication. Manuscripts submitted for evaluation should not have been previously presented or already published in an electronic or printed medium. Manuscripts presented in a meeting should be submitted with detailed information on the organization, including the name, date, and location of the organization.
An approval of research protocols by the Ethics Committee following international agreements (World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki “Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects” https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/ ) is required for experimental, clinical, and drug studies and some case reports.
For all research that requires ethics committee permission ethics committee approval should be obtained, this approval should be stated and documented in the article.
In studies that require ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date, and number) can be found in the method section, as well as on one of the first/last pages of the article; In case reports, information about signing the informed consent/consent form should be included in the article.
- For manuscripts concerning experimental research on humans, a statement should be included that shows that written informed consent of patients and volunteers was obtained following a detailed explanation of the procedures they may undergo.
- 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, the name of the ethics committee, and the ethics committee approval number should also be stated in the Materials and Methods section of the manuscript.
- It is the authors’ responsibility to protect the patients’ anonymity carefully. For photographs that may reveal the identity of the patients, releases signed by the patient or their legal representative should be enclosed.
All submissions are screened by a similarity detection software (iThenticate), and the limitation without similarity is 20%.
When submitting a manuscript to Endourology Bulletin, authors accept to assign the copyright of their manuscript to the journal. If rejected for publication, the manuscript’s copyright will be assigned back to the authors.
Endourology Bulletin requires each submission to be accompanied by an Author Contribution&Copyright Transfer Form .
Authors must obtain permission from the copyright holder when using previously published content, including figures, tables, or any other material in both print and electronic formats.
In this regard, legal, financial, and criminal liabilities belong to the author (s).
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