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Writing Guidelines

Thank you for choosing to submit your article to the International Multidisciplinary Journal of Hygiene Research. These instructions are necessary to ensure your article passes the peer review and publication stages smoothly. All articles submitted to the journal must not have been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

Submitted articles will be evaluated using a "double-blind peer review" system, and authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of all information and opinions contained in the article. Upon acceptance of the article, copyright will belong to the International Multidisciplinary Journal of Hygiene Research. The journal's publication languages ​​are English and Turkish.

Writing Guidelines

Page layout should be A4 size, using "Times New Roman" font, headings in 12-point bold, main text in 10-point font, lines aligned, and pages numbered consecutively starting from the first page. Latin terms and species names should be written in italics (e.g., in vitro, Staphylococcus aureus).

Units of measurement and abbreviations should be written according to the International System of Units (SI; http://www.bipm.org/en/si/). Examples of commonly used abbreviations include hour-h, minute-min, second-s, gram-g, liter-L, microliter-μL, meter-m, Celsius-°C, etc.
A comma (,) should be used as the decimal separator, and a space should be left between the number and the unit (e.g., 12.3 mm, 4.5 kg/cm2, 37.2 °C). There should be no space between the percentage sign and the number (e.g., %0.2).
Abbreviations in the text should be given in parentheses with their full forms the first time they are used. International System of Units abbreviations are an exception to this rule. After the first use, repeated abbreviations should be used consistently throughout the text. Articles should be uploaded in "docx" format and include the following information:

Title:
It should be as short, effective, and informative as possible (not exceeding 12 words). Abbreviations and formulas should be avoided, as titles are frequently used in search engines.

Author Names and Affiliations:
The names and academic titles of the authors should be listed. The institutions to which the authors are affiliated (including city and country) should be listed on a separate line, immediately below the author's name, as a superscript after the last name. ORCID numbers should be provided for all authors. You can obtain or find your ORCID number at https://orcid.org/.

*Corresponding Author:* The name of the author to be contacted regarding publication-related matters during and after the publication of the article should be underlined. Be sure to include and keep up-to-date their email address, postal address, work and mobile phone numbers.

Abstract:
The entire abstract should be in "Times New Roman" font. The title should not exceed 12 words, with only the first letter capitalized (abbreviations are an exception), in 12-point font, bold, and centered. The abstract should be in English and no more than 250 words in total. The abstract should be in 10-point font and justified.

Structure

Articles should consist of sections such as introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion, references, tables, and figure captions (if any). The conclusion and discussion sections may be presented together.

References:

References should be numbered in the order of citation. Only published data or articles accepted for publication and the most current data should be included. All sources should be easily accessible from standard databases (e.g., PubMed, Google Scholar, or Science Direct). Sources that are not easily accessible and sources not indexed in any database should not be used. References should not be shown in the abstract. Each source should be cited only once; subsequent citations should use the original (same) source number.

Citations should be numbered, written before punctuation marks in the text, and numbered according to the order in which they are mentioned in the text.

Examples of citations:

...found in a previous study (3).

...found in previous studies (3,5-7,12).

In a recent study by Laskin (9)...

In a study by Akçalı and Lang (7)...

In a study by Bozkaya and colleagues (9)...

For articles with three or fewer authors, all authors should be listed; for articles with more than three authors, the first three authors should be listed, and the rest should be indicated with "et al.". The citation style and punctuation should be as in the following examples.

Article with three or fewer authors:

Akçalı A, Lang NP. Dental calculus: calcified biofilm and its role in disease development. Periodontol 2000. 2018;76(1):109-115.

Article with more than three authors:

Bozkaya S, Durmuşlar MC, Çakir M, et al. Use of alveolar distraction osteogenesis for implant placement: a case report with eight-year follow-up. Aust Dent J. 2016;61(2):252-256.

Pre-publication (pre-press) articles:

Zancan RF, Di Maio A, Tomson PL, et al. S.