Turkish Neurosurgery is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal directed at an audience of neurosurgery physicians and scientists. The official language of the journal is English. The journal publishes original articles in the form of clinical and basic research. Turkish Neurosurgery will only publish studies that have institutional review board (IRB) approval and have strictly observed a sufficient follow-up period. With the exception of reference presentation, Turkish Neurosurgery requires that all manuscripts be prepared in accordance with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals.

Turkish Neurosurgery periodically publishes the following papers: Original article, Reviews, Clinical and Experimental Studies, Case Reports, Technical notes, Historical Perspective, and Letters to the editors.

Manuscript Submission

Authors are to submit their manuscripts through the Web-based tracking system at http://www.turkishneurosurgery.org.tr. The site contains instructions and advice on how to submit manuscripts, guidance on the creation/scanning and saving of electronic art, and supporting documentation. In addition to allowing authors to submit manuscripts on the Web, the site allows authors to follow the progression of their manuscript through the peer review process. Authors who submit their manuscripts through the Web-based tracking system are asked not to send hard copies of the manuscript to the editorial office. Please address all inquiries regarding manuscripts not yet accepted or published to the Journal's editorial office. The editorial office will acknowledge receipt of your manuscript and will send you a manuscript number for reference.

Revised Submission
Author's comments to the reviewers are required for revised submissions. Authors must address the reviewer's concerns/suggestions and whether the change was made or not. Authors must also highlight the changes made within the text. Do not track the additions or deletions to the manuscript. If the Authors do not want to revise the manuscript within a period of two months the manuscript will automatically be declined.

Patient anonymity and informed consent. It is the author's responsibility to ensure that a patient's anonymity is carefully protected and to verify that any experimental investigation with human subjects reported in the manuscript was performed with informed consent and followed all the guidelines for experimental studies with human subjects required by the institution(s) with which all the authors are affiliated. Authors should mask patients' eyes, private parts and remove patients' names from all figures.

Copyright. All authors must sign a copy of the Journal's "Copyright Transfer/Conflict of Interest and Device Status Form" and submit it to the Editorial Office if the manuscript is accepted for publication in Turkish Neurosurgery. The authors of all published material must sign this form at the time of manuscript acceptance.

Permissions. Authors must submit written permission from the copyright owner (usually the publisher) to use direct quotations, tables, or illustrations that have appeared in copyrighted form elsewhere, along with complete details about the source. Any permissions fees that might be required by the copyright owner are the responsibility of the authors requesting use of the borrowed material and not the Turkish Neurosurgical Society.

Preparation of Manuscript

Manuscripts that do not adhere to the following instructions WILL BE RETURNED to the corresponding author for technical revision before undergoing peer review.

General format. All manuscripts should be submitted in English, and formatted for standard 81/2 x 11-inch (21 x 28-cm) paper with at least a 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin on all sides and double-spaced.

Style. Pattern manuscript style after the American Medical Association Manual of Style (9th edition). Stedman's Medical Dictionary (27th edition) and Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th edition) should be used as standard references. Refer to drugs and therapeutic agents by their accepted generic or chemical names, and do not abbreviate them. Use code numbers only when a generic name is not yet available. In that case, supply the chemical name and a figure giving the chemical structure of the drug. Capitalize the trade names of drugs and place them in parentheses after the generic names. To comply with trademark law, include the name and location (city and state in USA; city and country outside USA) of the manufacturer of any drug, supply, or equipment mentioned in the manuscript. Use the metric system to express the units of measure and degrees Celsius to express temperatures, and SI units rather than conventional units.

Submit the manuscript electronically via: http://www.turkishneurosurgery.org.tr in the following order:

1) Title page. Include on the title page (a) complete manuscript title; (b) authors' full names, highest academic degrees, and affiliations; (c) name and address for correspondence, including fax number, telephone number, and e-mail address; (d) address for reprints if different from that of corresponding author; (e) sources of support that require acknowledgment; (f) any other acknowledgment the authors wish to include. Please verify that the spelling, order, and affiliation of each author are correct. The Journal is not responsible for published misspelled names due to author error. A Running Head should appear in the title page. The running head should be no more than three to five words from the title, and should NOT include the authors' names.

2) Structured Abstract (only for clinical and experimental research papers), and Key Words. The following subheads must be included in the Structured Abstract: Objective (Background), Methods, Results, Conclusions. Do not cite references in the abstract, and limit the use of abbreviations and acronyms. The structured abstract must be no more than 200 words. List three to eight Key Words after the Abstract. It is not necessary to provide a structured abstract for submissions to the Case Reports, Review article, Technical note, Historical article and Letters to the editor sections.

3) Text. Organize the manuscript into four main headings: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion. For Clinical Trials, Experimental and Anatomic Studies and similar study designs, please attach the Ethical Committee Approval Form to the manuscript submission. Define abbreviations at first mention in text and in each table and figure. If a brand name is cited, supply the manufacturer's name and address (city and state/country).

Terms. Do not use the term hardware. Acceptable substitutions include implants and instrumentation. Constructs or montage may be used if the reference is to a particular pattern of fixation points for the instrumentation.

Abbreviations. For a list of standard abbreviations, consult the Council of Biology Editors Style Guide (available from the Council of Science Editors, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814) or other standard sources. Write out the full term for each abbreviation at its first use unless it is a standard unit of measure.

4) References: The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references. Key the references (double-spaced) at the end of the manuscript. Cite references in text in alphabetical order. Do not link the references to the text. Cite unpublished data, such as papers submitted but not yet accepted for publication or personal communications, in parentheses in the text. List all authors of the reference. Refer to the List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus for abbreviations of journal names, or access the list at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html. Sample references are given below:

1. Journal article
Guiot BH, Khoo LT, Fessler RG: A minimally invasive technique for decompression of the lumbar spine. Turkish Neurosurgery 27: 432-438, 2002

2. Additional example
Altınörs N, Kars Z, Arda N, Şenveli E, Türker A, Çınar N: Spinal extradural metastasis of medulloblastoma. Turk Neurosurg Suppl (veya ek) 1: 144, 1989