Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors are advised to read the rules and regulations below and then edit their manuscript following the relevant ones before sending it to TPHB. Dear Authors, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any hesitation during the manuscript submission process to TPHB. editor@tphbjournal.com

Article Types

• Original (Research) Article
• Review Article
• Brief Report
• Book Review
• Letter to Editor

Original (Research) Article

Reports of original research, with methods, results, and conclusions. Research articles should report on original primary research or computational methods or new experimental, tests or procedures. In original articles, the abstract should not be longer than 350 words. The full text of the article, including all elements (abstract, references, and appendices) of the text, should be no more than 10000 words. In exceptional cases, do not hesitate to get in touch with the editor.

Review Article

Overview of developments in fields or the current lines of thought. Synthesizes multiple sources of information and has a long list of references. Emphasis is more factual and less on opinion. Scoping review, narrative review, meta-synthesis, systematic review, meta-analysis, and other review studies are considered review articles. In review articles, the abstract should not be longer than 350 words. The full text of the article, including all elements of the text, should be no more than 10000 words. In exceptional cases, do not hesitate to get in touch with the editor.

Brief Report

With shorter references and fewer tables/figures. Must meet the demands of scientific rigour required of a TPHB article but can be preliminary findings. The abstract should not exceed 350 words. The entire article, including the abstract, bibliography and appendices, should not exceed 4000 words. In exceptional cases, do not hesitate to get in touch with the editor.

Book Review

TPHB also publishes book review papers. The board of editors thinks that review works are valuable parts of scientific and academic studies/publications. The critics and reviews of the books written in English are accepted. The review papers published in TPHB are given DOI (Digital Object Identifier) numbers and sent to the databases indexing TPHB.

What is a book review paper?

A review paper is a text which introduces a book, an article, or a compilation to a wider audience through discussing, criticising, and constructively interpreting its content and structure. A book review is different from a book report. A book report acknowledges just the content of the book, while the content stands for only a small part of an academic review paper. A book review is expected to criticise and comment on the content, method, and structure of the text in hand constructively. It also needs to review the thoughts critically, discuss the consistency of the thoughts, and how the sources and resources are used.

Writing the review

The author needs to ensure that the content of the review includes these points:

A brief, impressive introduction of the topic/subject, and the discussion of the text under consideration;

A summary of the original text;

Presenting the inferences made from the text, and the strengths and weaknesses it referring to the logical order of thoughts;

A discussion and conclusion part consisting of the reviewer's viewpoints concerning the original text.

The format of the book review

The formatting requirements presented for research articles are also valid for book reviews. Thus, the writing rules and citation style must be addressed. The title of a book review paper must be different from the title of the book reviewed. The issues listed below must be included in the book review paper.

° The author(s) or editor(s) name, and surname (it must be stated if the text is a compilation)

° The title of the book

° Publication year

° The place it published

° The publisher

° Number of pages in total

 The Review Process of the Book Reviews

TPHB prioritises the reviews of those books or texts published within the last five years. Demanding the review of their publication(s), the publisher(s) or the author(s) should send a request to TPHB by sending an e-mail to editor@tphbjournal.com Since book reviews are given a limited place in journal issues, monographs authored by individuals are given priority. Other types of reviews come after the monographs. The review of textbooks and handbooks is not published in TPHB. There should not be any personal connection between the author(s) of the original text and the reviewer (working at the same department chair, thesis jury membership, close friends, etc.).

Letter to Editor

A letter, or response to a letter, sent to the journal to raise a point of interest, discuss a difference of opinion, or encourage participation. Express points of view on scientific matters and should not exceed 2000 words. Authors should email the Editor-in-Chief or editors before submitting this type of paper.

Submission Files

1. Title Page

Introductory information about the authors of the manuscript (File Type= Title Page), (File Format: .doc or .docx) Title Page Template

The title page consists of the following headings. Please fill in the required fields in the title page template and upload it to the system.

Cover Letter (Optional): What is the main strength of your article? You can write the points you want to convey to the editors in this section.

Title: The title of the article should be short and clear. Including a few keywords in the title is important for accessibility. Avoid abbreviations, formulas and numbers in the title.

Running Head: It should not exceed six words—an abbreviated version of the article title.

Type of the Article: Please select your article type (Original Article, Review Article, Brief Report, Book Review, Letter to Editor)

Authors and Affiliations + ORCIDs of all authors: Author names, institutional information, and address information (e-mail) should be given in author order.

Corresponding author and address: Full Name, and contact information including address, phone, e-mail address, and Twitter or Instagram (optional) (so we can use it to disseminate your article if accepted).

Presentation(s) or Awards at a meeting: Provide the name of the organization, place, and date.

Acknowledgement(s): Verify and confirm that everyone who contributed to this manuscript is either listed as an author or acknowledged as a contributor in the acknowledgement section and that the title page details any professional writing assistance or others paid to provide manuscript support.

Source(s) of Support and Funding: Acknowledge all organizations that funded your research and provide grant numbers where appropriate. The statement should include specific grant numbers, Initials of authors who received each award, full names of commercial companies that funded the study or authors, initials of authors who received salary or other funding from commercial companies, and URLs to sponsors’ websites.

If the study was unfunded, please state: “The author(s) did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.”

Conflict of Interest Statement: Please disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) your work. If no such conflict of interest exists; please state: “The authors declare no conflict of interest”.

Author Contributions Statement (CRedIT Statement): Authorship provides credit for a researcher’s contributions to a study and carries accountability. Check the Authorship section above. The individual contributions of authors to the manuscript should be specified in this section so readers can judge that the authorship criteria for each author have been met, and who is accountable for which section of the article. This list may be revised according to the research and article type. We encourage the use of Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) for listing author contributions – for details check: https://casrai.org/credit/

Possible contributor roles that you may use are listed below. Multiple roles are possible and encouraged. Authors should be mentioned with their INITIALS, after each role. 

• Conceptualization– Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
• Data curation– Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
• Formal analysis– Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
• Funding acquisition​- Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
• Investigation– ​Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
• Methodology– Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
• Project administration– Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
• Resources– Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
• Software– Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
• Supervision– Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
• Validation– Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
• Visualization– Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
• Writing – original draft– ​Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
• Writing – review & editing– Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.
• While preparing the statement, follow the below principles:
• List all Contributions– All contributions should be listed, whether from those listed as authors or individuals named in acknowledgements;
• Multiple Roles Possible– Individual contributors can be assigned multiple roles, and a given role can be assigned to multiple contributors;
• Degree of Contribution Optional– Where multiple individuals serve in the same role, the degree of contribution can optionally be specified as ‘lead’, ‘equal’, or ‘supporting’;
• Shared Responsibility– Corresponding authors should assume responsibility for role assignment, and all contributors should be allowed to review and confirm assigned roles.

An example of an Authors’ Contribution statement using CRediT:

First Author: Conceptualization, methodology, software, investigation, validation, writing- original draft preparation, writing - review & editing, data curation. Second Author: Data curation, writing-original draft preparation, investigation, validation, formal analysis. Third Author: Data curation, writing-original draft preparation.

Ethical Approval: All manuscripts submitted to TPHB, which use data provided by human subjects/participants, are required to ensure that they have already gone under investigation and gained the relevant Ethics Committee’s approval. The Ethics Committee's name, the approval date, and the approval number should be stated on the title page, the methods section, and the last page of the manuscript. The authors are also required to provide evidence (i.e., getting permission from the relevant persons or bodies, when using questionnaires, scales, photos, or documents developed by others or belonging to others) that they obeyed the ethical rules and regulations during the data collection processes (in the Methods section of the Manuscript File. The name of the board should not be written here for blinding purposes). Further, it must also be stated in the manuscripts that the authors followed the relevant publication ethics and copyright policies. If the study includes human and animal subjects, it must be stated that the research was conducted by international guidance, rules, regulations, and standards. The authors are not required to submit an Ethics Committee approval if they only submit a review study. In case of this, it must be stated on the first and last pages of the manuscripts and in the methods section that the current study does not require an Ethics Committee approval. The manuscripts including case reports should also provide the information that an informed consent form was read, approved, and signed by the participants.

In the Title Pages file under the "Ethical Approval" section. The name of the board, approval number, and approval date should be included here.

The second use of data collected from human participants for further research purposes is exempt from ethics committee approval. This applies to the reuse of data by the original collector of the data for a purpose different to that for which they were collected and reused by other researchers (unless these uses are specifically encompassed in the original consent). Researchers seeking to reuse data which they did not collect themselves, and which are not in the public domain, should always seek the permission of the data controller for their use and comply with any research governance procedures required by the data controller before accessing the data.

There are a number of cases in which ethical review for the re-use of data collected from human participants will not normally be required. These are:

1. The reuse of data which are already in the public domain (i.e. published in books, journals, etc.).
2. The reuse of datasets for which consent for reuse for research purposes beyond which the data was originally gathered was provided by the participants and for which all data have been robustly anonymised.

2. Anonymous Manuscript

The full text of your manuscript is prepared according to the TPHB template. (File Type= Full Text), (File Format: .doc or .docx).

The uploaded "Anonymous Manuscript File" should include all the following sections:

• Title,
• Abstract,
• Keywords: At least 3, up to 5 keywords
• Blinded Main Text (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Limitations, Conclusion)
• References,
• Tables: These should be embedded in the main document.
• Figures: These should be embedded in the main document

3. Plagiarism report

Plagiarism report not exceeding 25 % (File Type= Plagiarism Report), (File Format: .pdf)

4. Ethics Committee Approval

Ethics Committee Approval (Except review studies). (File Type= Ethics Committee Approval) (File Format: .pdf)

Research & Reporting Guidelines

Manuscripts submitted to TPHB should conform to the following guidelines as appropriate:

• CONSORT guidelines for Randomized Controlled Trials http://www.consort-statement.org/
• STROBE (& MOOSE) guidelines for observational studies http://www.strobe-statement.org/ (Word Doc Version w/ line numbers)
• PRISMA (& MOOSE) guidelines for systematic reviews and meta-analyses http://www.prisma-statement.org/, with use of the RECORD extension for studies that use routinely collected health data (e.g., disease registries, eMR, administrative data)
• TRIPOD checklist for reporting of studies developing, validating, or updating a prediction model, including machine learning studies https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/tripod-statement/
• Disparities Research Guidelines https://www.ahajournals.org/disparities-research-guidelines
• ARRIVE guidelines for reporting animal research https://arriveguidelines.org/
• NIH principles and guidelines for reporting preclinical research http://www.nih.gov/about/reporting-preclinical-research.htm

Check List:

• Manuscripts need to be anonymised before submission.
• Please make sure that the manuscript you send to TPHB has not been sent to any other periodicals for review or publication.
• The manuscript has been formatted following the TPHB template.
• The authors are responsible for conducting a plagiarism check of their manuscripts using one of the major plagiarism software and uploading its report to the TPHB System. Any manuscript having a plagiarism rate of over 25 % will be returned to its authors.