Only the manuscripts that determined and invited by the Editorial Board and the Guest Editor are published in Nuclear Medicine Seminars. The other manuscripts that sent to the journal out of this concept are not taken into consideration.
The Nuclear Medicine Seminars does not charge any article submission or processing charges. All manuscripts must be submitted via the online submission system after logging on to the website.
The format of the articles should be prepared in accordance with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Authors should send the Copyright Agreement Form indicating the transfer of commercial rights (Authorship Statement, Copyright Agreement, Financial Disclosure and Acknowledgment Permission) duly filled out to the journal editor. This form can be reached from the journal’s web address (www.nukleertipseminerleri.org). By signing this document, all authors guarantee that the manuscript has not been published previously and/or under assessment for publishing in a journal, and declare their scientific contribution and responsibility on the manuscript. No fee or provision is paid for the manuscripts that published in the journal.
The Editorial Board has right to organize, send back to the author, arrange the format, or refuse the manuscript in cases when the manuscripts do not comply with the publication requirements. The manuscripts are published after the reviews of the Editor, Assistant Editor, and Guest Editor, and after completion of the necessary revisions, if there is any, by the authors. The manuscripts are being evaluated prior to publication by the plagiarism detection software, iThenticate.
The abbreviation of the Nuclear Medicine Seminars is “Nucl Med Semin”.
The copyright of the published article belongs to its author under CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
The royalties of the Nuclear Medicine Seminars and the commercial rights to the published content, delivered with the written permissions of the authors, belong to the Turkish Nuclear Medicine Society. The scientific and ethical responsibilities for the manuscripts belong to the authors. An appeal to the Turkish Nuclear Medicine Society is necessary for using and copying of the manuscripts, tables, visual materials, and all remaining content.
Any technical or financial support or editorial contributions (statistical analysis, English/Turkish evaluation) towards the study should appear at the end of the article.
The Editorial Policies and General Guidelines for manuscript preparation specified below are based on “Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (ICMJE Recommendations)” by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (2013, archived at http://www.icmje.org/).
The editorial and publication processes of the journal are shaped in accordance with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Council of Science Editors (CSE), Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), European Association of Science Editors (EASE), and National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The journal is in conformity with the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.
Rules for Writing
Abbreviations
The abbreviations that used in the manuscripts should be used according to their internationally accepted styles, should be written in unabbreviated forms and should be written as abbreviated in parenthesis at the first place in manuscript. For example, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) should be used in the first mention. If the drug names are used, the generic names should be written in Turkish pronunciation. The measurement units should be in metric scales, e.g. “mg”. A period should not be used, and the attachments should be separated by (‘). The laboratory values should be reported by International System (Systéme International: SI) units.
Language
The publication language of the articles is Turkish, and Turkish manuscripts should be based on the Turkish Dictionary or the www.tdk.gov.tr web page of the Turkish Language Society. If necessary, the manuscripts and the abstracts should be reviewed professionally for grammatical rules prior to submitting to the journal. Also, the typos and grammatical errors in the submitted manuscripts are being corrected. The appropriateness of the manuscripts to writing and grammatical rules are in responsibility of the authors.
Article Types and Properties
There must be a short title for each article containing 3-4 words There must be the author names, affiliations, education degrees and ORCID ids There must be the name, address, phone number, fax number and email address of the corresponding author, The text should be wriiten in Times New Roman and 12 punto, and there must be 2,5 cm space (double space).
Nuclear Medicine Seminars publishes the manuscripts that prepared in conjunction with the rules of International Committee for Medical Journal Editors: ICMJE, 5th edition, which was published in 1997 (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. New England Journal of Medicine, 1997; 336:309-315), and which is called shortly as “Vancouver Style”.
The articles should be written in PC based computers with Microsoft Word software. There should be 2 cm of space in both sides of the page, double line-spacing, and the font should be “Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman”. All of the correspondence for the articles should be made to the first author, unless otherwise stated.
Reviews
The reviews should be prepared by a maximum of three authors. It should contain Turkish title, Turkish abstract, Turkish keywords, English title, English abstract, and English keywords. The abstract should be one paragraph in reviews, and should not exceed 400 words. It should consist the following sub-headings:
The full-text should be maximum 4000 words, and the number of the references should be maximum 70.
All articles must be submitted with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 keywords, which should be written just below the abstract. Abbreviations should not be used as keywords. The keywords should be selected from the "Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)" database prepared by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Introduction: It should contain the mainframe of the review, and it should mention the previous work on the subject.
Review body: Text should include headings and paragraphs related to the subject. Each heading should reach to a conclusion.
Conclusion: A brief paragraph should be prepared to include the outcomes about the subject of the review. If appropriate, it should make recommendations for the future studies.
Guideline
Guidelines are scientific publications intended to provide evidence-based recommendations for diagnosis, treatment, and clinical practice in the field of nuclear medicine, promote standardization of clinical practices, and offer guidance to healthcare professionals.
Guidelines are prepared by working groups consisting of experts in the relevant field. There is no upper limit on the number of authors; however, all working group members listed as authors must meet the authorship criteria established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Guidelines should be developed based on current scientific evidence, relevant international standards, and principles of publication ethics. All guidelines undergo scientific and editorial evaluation prior to publication.
Use of Large Language Models and Generative AI Tools
“AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements. Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.” COPE Position Statement on Authorship and AI tools. Detailed information about the statement can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/cope-position-statements/ai-author
After reviewing the COPE statement, the editors of the Nuclear Medicine Seminars have decided that papers should include a statement in a section called “Declaration Regarding the Use of AI and AI-Assisted Technologies” to let readers know if AI or AI-assisted tools were used in the writing process. It's important to remember that all authors are responsible for the content of their work. This declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools for checking grammar, spelling, or references (such as Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero, and others). If there is nothing to declare, there is no need to add a statement.
It is suggested that authors follow this format when preparing their statement:
During the preparation of this work, the author(s) utilized [NAME OF TOOL(S) USED] to [DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE TOOL(S) WERE UTILIZED AND HOW THE VALIDITY OF THE OUTPUTS WAS EVALUATED]. After carefully reviewing and editing the content as necessary, full responsibility for the publication's content is taken by the author(s). This incorporation of AI tool usage primarily impacted [SPECIFY WHICH ASPECTS OF THE STUDY, ARTICLE CONTENTS, DATA, OR SUPPORTING FILES WERE AFFECTED/GENERATED].
Example:
During the preparation of this work, the author(s) utilized OpenAI's ChatGPT to generate summaries of research articles related to the topic. These summaries were evaluated by comparing them to manually written summaries by experts in the field. Upon confirming the accuracy and relevance of the generated summaries, they were integrated into the literature review section of the manuscript. After carefully reviewing and editing the content as necessary, full responsibility for the publication's content is taken by the author(s). This incorporation of AI tool usage primarily impacted the efficiency of literature review process and the comprehensiveness of the gathered research insights.
Preparation of Manuscripts
The “ Nuclear Medicine Seminars’’ follows the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals” (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - http://www.icmje.org /). Upon submission of the manuscript, authors are to indicate the type of trial/research and provide the checklist of the following guidelines when appropriate:
PRISMA for preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J, Altman DG, The PRISMA Group. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement. PLoS Med 2009; 6(7): e1000097.) ( http://www.prisma-statement.org /),
MOOSE guidelines for meta-analysis and systemic reviews of observational studies (Stroup DF, Berlin JA, Morton SC, et al. Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: a proposal for reporting Meta-analysis of observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) group. JAMA 2000; 283: 2008-12).
These are the manuscripts that present and discuss the properties of one or more cases, which have scientific importance for diagnosis, differential diagnosis, clinical evaluation, and treatment.
Procedure Guideline
These are prepared by the workgroups of Turkish Nuclear Medicine Society for the physicians and health professionals for guidance, defining the methodologies, and providing accurate and standardized applications about the imaging and treatment options of Nuclear Medicine.
Each member of the workgroup is also an author of the guideline. The names of the members, who were recruited for the preparation of the guideline, are presented in first order, and the names of the remaining members are presented in alphabetical order afterwards.
The guidelines are prepared according to the format that described in “SNM/EANM Guideline for Guideline Development 6*, Delbeke D, Chiti A, Christian P, et al. JNMT 2012;40:1-7”. They include Turkish and English titles, Turkish and English abstracts, Turkish and English keywords (maximum 3 words). Main text should contain Introduction, Aim, Definitions, Indications, Patient Preparation, Radiopharmaceutics, Application, Radiation Safety, References, and Tables/figures/images.
References
References are numbered according to the order in the text, and presented in parenthesis in the text, tables, and footnotes of tables and images. If there are more than 6 authors in the references, the first 3 authors names should be written and "et al" statement should be added. The page numbers in references should be mentioned clearly. The following samples should be taken into consideration for the references. The “Common Rules” are applied for the references without samples. The names of the journals should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus; and unabbreviated names should be used for the journals which are not listed. The list of the journals can be obtained from the webpage (http://www.nlm.nih.gov) of the National Library of Medicine of USA.
It is recommended to choose the references from the publications in recent years.
The accuracy of the reference(s) is in the responsibility of the authors.
Journal:Author A, Author B, Author C. Title. Abbreviated Name of the Journal. 2011;4:25-27.
Book:Author A, Author Bi Author C. Chapter Title. In: Name of the Book. Edition Number. Editors Editor A, Editor B, Editor C. Place of Publication: Publisher; 2011. Pages. 25-27.
Samples for references
Journal Articles
Journal: Soukup V, Dušková J, Pešl M, et al. The prognostic value of t1 bladder cancer substaging: a single institution retrospective study. Urol Int. 2014;92:150-156.
Institution as the Author: The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Clinical exercise stress testing: Safety and performance guidelines. Med J Aust. 1996;164:282-284.
Supplement: Goodman WK, McDougle JC, Price LH. Pharmacotherapy of obsessive compulsive disorder. J Clin Psychiatry. 1992;53(Suppl 14):29-37.
Books
Person as the Author(s): Jacobson E. The Self and the Object World. 2nd Edition. New York: International Universities Press; 1964.
Institution as the Author: Institute of Medicine (US). Looking at the Future of the Medicaid Program. Washington: The Institute; 1992.
Book Chapter: Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP. Hypertension and stroke. In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, editors. Hypertension: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management. 2nd Edition. New York: Raven Press; 1995. p. 465-478.
Translation: Amerikan Psikiyatri Birliği. Mental Bozuklukların Tanısal ve Sayımsal El Kitabı. 4. Baskı. Köroğlu E, çev. editörü. Ankara: Hekimler Yayın Birliği; 1995.
Figure, Table, and Illustrations
* Number all figures (graphs, charts, photographs, and illustrations) in the order of their citation in the text. At submission, the following file formats are acceptable: AI, EMF, EPS, JPG, PDF, PPT, PSD, TIF. Figures may be embedded at the end of the manuscript text file or loaded as separate files for submission. All images MUST be at or above intended display size, with the following image resolutions: Line Art 800 dpi, Combination (Line Art + Halftone) 600 dpi, Halftone 300 dpi. Image files also must be cropped as close to the actual image as possible.
Figures and tables should be selected carefully. A maximum of 4 figures/tables should be allowed for reviews and original articles, and 2 figures/tables should be allowed for case-reports. All images should be named as “Figure” and should be cited numerically in the text. Figures should have a descriptive title and explanation. All abbreviations which are not in the main text, and only in the figures, should be defined in the figure explanations. If more than 4 figures/tables are needed in a specified manuscript, authors should inform Editorial Board about it. All tables and figures should be cited in the text.
Each table should be printed on separate pages, and numbered according to the order in the text. Each table should have a title and footnotes, if necessary (e.g. abbreviations in the tables). Each table should be exploratory enough that there should be no need to check the text.
If a previously published figure or table is going to be used, all illustrations and all details of the references should be provided by the authors. Publisher permission will be sought for the production of the figures. The required permissions for the figures and illustrations are in responsibility of the authors.
Contact
Prof. Özlem Özmen, MD
University of Health Sciences Türkiye, Ankara Etlik City Hospital, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ankara, Türkiye
E-mail: ozmenozlem@yahoo.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-5392-1626
