INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS 

Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series C-Biology is a single-blind peer reviewed open access journal which has been published twice a year since 1948 by Ankara University, accepts original research articles written in English in the field of Biology.  Review articles written by eminent scientists can also be invited by the Editor.

Article-processing charges

The publication costs for Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series C-Biology  are covered by the journal, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing and submission charges. The PDF copies of accepted papers are free of charges  and can be downloaded from the webside. Hard copies of the paper, if required,  are due to be charged for the amount of which is determined by the administration each year.

Submission

All manuscripts should be submitted via our online submission system https://dergipark.org.tr/en/journal/2987/submission/step/manuscript/new  

Cover Letter

Manuscripts should be submitted in the PDF form used in the peer-review process together with  THE COVER LETTER and the TEX file (Source File). In the cover letter the authors should suggest the most appropriate Field Editor for the manuscript and potential four reviewers with full names, universities and institutional email addresses. Proposed reviewers must be experienced researchers in your area of research and at least two of them should be from different countries. In addition, proposed reviewers must not be co-auhors, advisors, students, etc. of the authors. In the cover letter, the author may enter the name of anyone who he/she would prefer not to review the manuscript, with detailed explanation of the reason.

Note that the editorial office may not use these nominations, but this may help to speed up the selection of appropriate reviewers.

Preparing your manuscript

Manuscripts should be typeset using a word processor editor. Authors should prepare the article using the COMMUNICATIONS style before submission to the editor via our submission system.  A template of manuscript can be downloaded in doc  form from the  link http://dergipark.org.tr/download/journal-file/13889  (or can be reviewed in pdf form). 

Title Page

The title page should contain the title of the paper, full names of the authors, affiliations addresses and e-mail addresses of all authors. Authors are also required to submit their Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)’s which can be obtained from http://orcid.org as their URL address in the format http://orcid.org/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx. Please indicate the corresponding author.

Abstract and Keywords

The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research. The length of the Abstract should be between 50 to 5000 characters. At least 3 keywords are required.

Formulae

Formulas should be numbered consecutively in the parentheses ( ). 

Tables

All tables must have numbers (TABLE 1) consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and a legend above the table. Please submit tables as editable text not as images.

Figures

All figures must have numbers (FIGURE 1) consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and a caption (not on the figure itself) below the figure. Required final resolution is 300 dpi for coloured images (RGB), 300–600 dpi for black and white images and 600–1200 dpi for line art. Pictures and line drawings should be saved as TIFF files.

Authors Contribution Statement, Declaration of  Competing Interests, Acknowledgements

Authors Contribution Statement, Declaration of Competing Interests and Acknowledgements should be given at the end of the article before the references.

References

The following format for the references should be used. Authors are urged to use the Communication.csl style (https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/journal-file/18514) in Mendeley Desktop or Zotero automated bibliography. If manual entry is prefered for bibliography, then all citations must be listed in the references part and vice versa. Below, It has no relationship with the text, but can be used to show sample citations such as; for articles [1, 4], for books/booklets/theses [3], book chapters [5], and for proceedings/conferences etc. [2].

[1] Demirci, E., Unal, A., Özalp, N., A fractional order SEIR model with density dependent death rate, Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 40 (2) (2011), 287–295.
[2] Gairola, A. R., Deepmala, Mishra, L. N., Rate of approximation by finite iterates of q-Durrmeyer operators, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India Sect. A Phys. Sci., 86 (2) (2016), 229–234.
[3] Lehmann, E. L., Casella, G., Theory of Point Estimation, Springer, New York, 2003.
[4] Özalp, N., Demirci, E., A fractional order SEIR model with vertical transmission, Math.Comput. Model., 54 (1-2) (2011), 1–6, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mcm.2010.12.051.
[5] Tug, G. N., Yaprak, A. E., Vural, M. The Floristical, Ecological, and Syntaxonomical Characteristics of Salt Marshes and Salt Steppes in Turkey. In: Gul,B., Böer, B., Khan, M.A., Clüsener-Godt, M., Hameed, A. Editors. Sabkha Ecosystems. Springer, Cham, (2019), 413-446.

Peer-review policy

The Editor may seek the advice of two, or three referees, depending on the response of the referees, chosen in consultation with appropriate members of the Editorial Board, from among experts in the field of specialization of the paper. The reviewing process is conducted in strict confidence and the identity of a referee is not disclosed to the authors at any point since we use a single-blind peer review process.

Copyright

• Copyright on any open access article in Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series C Biology is licencesd under  a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).
  
• Authors grant Faculty of Sciences of Ankara University a licence to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
  
• Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.

It is a fundamental condition that articles submitted to COMMUNICATIONS have not been previously published and will  not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. After the manuscript has been accepted for publication, the author will not be permitted to make any new additions to the manuscript.

Before publication the galley proof is always sent to the author for correction. Thus it is solely the author's responsibility for any typographical mistakes which occur in their article as it appears in the Journal. The contents of the manuscript published in the COMMUNICATIONS are the sole responsibility of the authors.

Declarations/Ethics

Archiving

Research papers published in Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara are archived in the Library of Ankara University(Volume 1-27) and Dergipark immediately following publication with no embargo.