Submissions

Author Guidelines

Types of Papers

Authors should determine the type of paper before submitting it and indicate the type of paper on the title page. This is because, depending on the type of paper, the rules to be followed, including formatting and word limits, change.

The categorization system is at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief. Authors may be asked to change the article type at the request of the Editor at any stage of submission, including after acceptance.

The following types of papers will be considered for publication. For detailed information please refer to the "Types of Papers" page.

Original Articles 

Review

Case Report

Letter to the Editor

Editorial (Only Editors Use)

Special Editorial (Only Editors Use)

Reply by Authors

In memory of (Invited by EIC only)

Book Review (Invited by EIC only)

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Before submitting a manuscript to the European Journal of Therapeutics, authors must read the information provided in the link regarding the Information for Authors.

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The guidelines established for the preparation of articles submitted to the European Journal of Therapeutics have been prepared following the ICMJE Guidelines for Preparing Articles for Submission to Medical Journals.

Manuscripts can only be submitted through the journal’s online submission and evaluation system, available at https://eurjther.com/. Manuscripts submitted via any other medium will not be evaluated.

As the European Journal of Therapeutics, we ensure that every manuscript submitted undergoes an initial, rigorous technical evaluation. Our dedicated Editorial Office staff meticulously verifies that each submission fully aligns with the journal's comprehensive guidelines. Any manuscript found not to comply with these directives will be promptly returned to the submitting author, accompanied by specific requests for technical rectification. Please be advised that the Editor reserves the absolute right to decline submissions that fail to meet these essential requirements.

Authors are expected to address any identified technical deficiencies within seven business days. For necessary corrections requiring more extensive work, authors are granted a maximum of 15 days. Manuscripts that fail to meet these technical requirements or are deemed incomplete may be rejected at this stage.

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring the accurate declaration of all authors' information and for providing all required submission details, including the complete title page and necessary forms. The corresponding author is expected to be readily available to address any requested corrections or missing information.

For all experimental, clinical, and drug studies, authors must provide an ethics committee approval report following international agreements. This ethics committee information must be declared in both the "Materials and Methods" section and the designated area on the title page.

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word format, using 12-point Times New Roman font, 1.5 line spacing, 2.5 cm margins, and a single line space between parentheses. While writing rules remain consistent across all article types, structural guidelines may vary. Authors can find the appropriate structuring rules for their submission type under the "Type of Papers" section.

It is mandatory for all submissions that the title page and forms are completed with comprehensive information. For any declarations that are not applicable, authors must explicitly state "not applicable" rather than leaving the field blank or deleting it.

Authors are required to submit the following:

• Title Page (as a separate file)
• Main text (structured by type of paper)
• Main Points (consist of at least four items)
• Figures (each figure must be uploaded separately)
• Tables (each table must be uploaded separately)
• Copyright Agreement and Acknowledgement of Authorship Form
• ICMJE Potential Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form (should be filled in by all contributing authors) during the initial submission.
• Templates are available for download at www.eurjther.com

These forms are available for download at www.eurjther.com

Title Page

A separate title page should be submitted with all submissions, and this page should include:

• The full title of the manuscript is no more than 15 words (avoid using abbreviations).
• Name, address, telephone (including the mobile phone number), and e-mail address of the corresponding author,
• Name(s), affiliations, highest academic degree(s) and contact information of the author(s),
• Add the 16-digit ORCID of the author (s)
• Grant information and detailed information on the other sources of support,
• Conflict of Interest Statement: Potential conflicts of interest must be declared.
• In studies involving human participants, a declaration of informed consent must be made.
• A data-sharing declaration must be made, specifying which data can be shared and when it will be available. A link to the repositories where the study sets to be shared will be accessible must be provided.
• The name of the ethics committee and the date of approval must be stated in the manuscript.
• Authors must be identified according to their contributions.

Individuals who contributed to the preparation of the article but do not meet the authorship criteria should be acknowledged in the acknowledgements section.

Please refer to the link below for access to our structured sample templates.

https://eurjther.com/index.php/home/manuscript_template

Main Text

Place the title, abstract, and keywords on the first page of the main text.

Organize the manuscript into four main headings: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion.

Limitations, drawbacks, and shortcomings of original articles should be mentioned in the Discussion section before the conclusion paragraph. Then place the references and figure legends in the main text, respectively.

All references, tables, and figures should be referred to within the main text, and they should be numbered consecutively in the order they are referred to within the main text.

Define abbreviations at first mention in the text and each table and figure.

If a brand name is cited, supply the manufacturer's name and address (city and state/country).

DO NOT EMBED IMAGES or TABLES in the mail text.

Please refer to the link below for access to our structured sample templates.

https://eurjther.com/index.php/home/manuscript_template

Main Points

The content of the "Main Points" title should consist of an average of four items (as a separate file in Word format).

Text Formatting

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.

Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 12-point Times Roman, 1.5 line spacing, and justified) for text.

Do not use field functions.

Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.

Do not indent at the beginning of a line.

Save the file in docx format (Word 2013 or higher).

Tables

All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.

Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.

Each table must be uploaded as separate files (e.g., table 1, table 2, and table 3).

Figures

Figures must be saved at a resolution of at least 600 dpi.

Figures, graphics, and photographs should be submitted as separate files (in TIFF or JPEG format) through the submission system (e.g., figure 1, figure 2, and figure 3).

The files should not be embedded in a Word document or the main document.

Figures should not be embedded in the manuscript text file.

Figure legends should be listed at the end of the main document.

All acronyms and abbreviations used in the manuscript should be defined at first use, both in the abstract and in the main text.

The abbreviation should be provided in parentheses following the definition.

 Authors are responsible for the accuracy of references.

EndNote style of the Eur J Ther

References

In reference, the names of all authors should be written. The usage of "et al." should not be preferred.

Reference citations in the text should be numbered in square brackets.

Some examples:

Parent et al. [3] reported that ......

....... on medical radiation [21,22].

....... sleep quality among adolescents [15,18-21,22,25-30].

....... anxiety, depression, and a decrease in proprioception [5,16-18].

If available, please always include DOIs as full DOI links in the reference list.

(e.g. “https://doi.org/............”).

* Use the Crossref Text Query tool to match DOIs of references.

Use abbreviations for journal names. Journal titles should be abbreviated following the journal abbreviations in Index Medicus/ MEDLINE/PubMed.

 Journal Article

Yurci A, Gungor ND, Gurbuz T (2021) High Endometrial Thickness Does not Affect IVF/ICSI Outcomes. Eur J Ther. 27(1):94–98. https://doi.org/10.5152/eurjther.2021.20102

Epub Ahead of Print Articles

Doruk M, Mustafaoglu R, Gül H (2023) The Impact of Using Technological Devices on Mental and Physical Health in Adolescents. Eur J Ther https://doi.org/10.58600/eurjther.20232902-592.y

Book

Anderson DM (2012) Dorland’s illustrated medical dictionary, 32nd edn. Saunders Elsevier, Philadelphia.

Book Chapter

Gray H (1858) Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical 1st edn. In: John W, Parker and Son (eds), London, pp 150–155.

Online Document

Bergman RA, Afifi AK, Miyauchi R (2007) Persistent congenital arterial anastomoses. Available from http://www.anatomyatlases.org/AnatomicVariants/Cardiovascular/Images0200/0232.shtml

Accessed January 22, 2022

Abbreviations and Symbols

Abbreviations should be avoided in the title. Clarity and consistency must be maintained within the main text. When first used, abbreviations should be presented with their full form in parentheses, and thereafter, only the abbreviation should be used. In lengthy texts, an acronym may be reintroduced with its full form in parentheses at its first use within each new section.

Units of Measurement

Standard units and symbols should adhere to the rules of the International System of Units (SI). Please provide converted values in SI units in parentheses. Write unit symbols correctly (e.g., for millimeter "mm" in lowercase, for kilogram "kg" in lowercase). Do not put periods after symbols (e.g., "kg." not "kg"). Do not use plurals (e.g., "5 kgs" not "5 kg").

Supplementary Materials

Supplementary materials, which complement the main text of the article, including datasets and additional documents (e.g., appendices, supplementary figures, tables), should be uploaded as separate files and presented as a distinct section after the reference list. Each supplementary material must include brief descriptions to explain its relevance to the article. Page numbering is not required for supplementary materials.

Use of Products

When referencing any specific drug, product, hardware, or software program within the manuscript, always include the product's full name, the manufacturer, and their city and country in parentheses immediately after the first mention of the item.

Author-Suggested Reviewers

Authors are required to propose at least five reviewers when submitting their manuscripts.

It should be noted that there should be no conflict of interest between these proposed reviewers and the authors, and that these recommendations should comply with international ethical standards.

Recommended reviewers should have competence in the subject of the article.

The proposed reviewers must not have collaborated with the authors of the article in the last three years and must not be working in the same institution.

Revisions

When submitting a revised version of a paper, the author must submit a detailed “Response to the reviewers” that states point by point how each issue raised by the reviewers has been covered and where it can be found (each reviewer’s comment, followed by the author’s reply and line numbers where the changes have been made) as well as an annotated copy of the main document.

Revisions should be marked on the main text file with a yellow background. The deadline for submitting revised manuscripts is set at seven calendar days following the dispatch of the decision letter. If the revised version of the manuscript is not submitted within the allocated time, the revision option may be canceled.

Accepted manuscripts are copy-edited for grammar, punctuation, and format. Once the publication process of a manuscript is completed, it is published online on the journal’s webpage as an ahead-of-print publication before it is included in its scheduled issue. A PDF proof of the accepted manuscript is sent to the corresponding author, and their publication approval is requested within 2 days of their receipt of the proof.

Withdrawn

Articles accepted for publication and published in early view may be withdrawn in the following cases:

• If incorrect data is found in the content of the article or in cases where the authors declare that the information, such as copyright infringement, plagiarism, ethics committee reports, etc., is misleading or incorrect.

The Editor will decide to remove the retracted article from publication in conjunction with the Editorial Board. The Editors reserve the right to publish the article, depending on the degree of error in its content.

The withdrawn article will be linked to the published version, along with an explanation for its withdrawal.

Retraction

Published articles may be retracted if;

• In cases where the content of the article is found to be unreliable due to incorrect data, data manipulation as a result of incorrect calculation, unethical reports, etc.,
• In cases where it is complained/detected that information such as copyright infringement, plagiarism, ethics committee reports, etc., is misleading/incorrect in the authors' statements,
• Where findings are found to have been used without appropriate citation of previously published references, without justification, and without disclosure to the Editors.

Retractions will be published as quickly as possible to minimize harmful effects.

The COPE guideline will be followed in resolving issues.

1. COPE Council. COPE Guidelines: Retraction Guidelines. November 2019.

https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.4

© 2019 Committee on Publication Ethics (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://publicationethics.org

To request a retraction, please use the online request system or write a letter of explanation to the Editor at the contact address provided on the web page of the journal.

The Editor and Editorial Board will review the request and decide whether to publish a retraction.

The corresponding author submitting the request should provide a signed letter of application from all contributing authors.

The request for retraction includes a link to the retracted article and identifies the sender and the reasons for the retraction.

Correction

Where errors found in a published article do not alter the direction or significance of the article's conclusions, inferences, or interpretations, a correction will be published. The corrected text will be published promptly on a separate page, including clear information such as the full content of the corrected text/data and the date of correction. A link to the corrected article will be provided. The corrected version of the article will be published in both HTML and PDF formats. Citations should refer to the most recent version.

For details, please refer to the Corrections and Retractions page.

Editor in Chief: Prof. Şevki Hakan Eren

Address: Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, 27310, Şehitkamil, Gaziantep, Türkiye

E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

Last Revised on August 2025