Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi

Sivas Cumhuriyet University Educational Sciences Institute Journal is a periodical that aims to contribute to scientific knowledge in the field of educational sciences by publishing qualified research and studies in the basic fields of Educational Sciences. It is aimed to spread scientific production and participation to academic units and to reflect the publication characteristics of the branches of science objectively.

Sivas Cumhuriyet University Educational Sciences Institute Journal is published within the Institute of Educational Sciences. Scientific research and publication ethics principles are prioritized in the studies to be prepared. It includes experimental, review and compilation articles that directly concern the fields of pre-school, primary education, secondary education, higher education and adult education. It is a national refereed journal that includes science education, Preschool Education, Educational Sciences, Elementary Mathematics, Secondary Mathematics, Classroom Teaching and interdisciplinary studies with these fields.

1. Studies to be sent to Sivas Cumhuriyet University Journal of Educational Sciences Institute (CUJESI) for evaluation must be prepared in accordance with the spelling rules specified below.

2. Publication language is Turkish and English.

3. The length of a work should not exceed 8,000 words, including the main text, bibliography and appendices.

4. The articles to be sent to the journal should have a short summary of 200-250 words in Turkish and English, and also include at least 5 key words. In addition, an English/Turkish long summary between 750-1000 words should be included in all studies to be sent in Turkish or English. Articles without long abstracts will not be included in the evaluation process. Long English/Turkish abstracts in original research articles; It should contain sub-headings of purpose, method, findings, discussion and conclusion.

5. Manuscripts should be prepared as a Word file without any formatting, in accordance with the journal rules stated below.

6. Care should be taken that the tables and figures sent do not go beyond the page dimensions of the journal and comply with the APA-7 style. A table or figure should not overflow to the next page. If it comes to the end of the page and some of it is overflowing, it should be placed on the following page. In addition, 10 points and single spacing should be used in tables and figures.

7. Manuscripts should be prepared in Word format, A4 size, 12 points, Times New Roman font, with 2.5 cm margins on all four sides of each page. Please make sure that the text of your article is double-spaced and has sequential line numbering. Each page should be numbered.

8. The main text of empirical studies may include introduction, method, findings, discussion and conclusion sections. In the method part, design, universe and sample, study group or participants, data collection tools and data analysis etc. should have subsections.

9. In compilation-type studies, the subject should be original and up-to-date, the problem should be clearly presented, and the relevant literature should be analyzed and discussed effectively. Compilation studies that have been studied before, that do not bring innovation to the field and do not contain a critical perspective will not be accepted.

10. APA (7th Edition) style should be used for bibliography, in-text citations, headings, tables, figures.

11. The file uploaded to the system should not contain any information about the author(s). In Microsoft Word documents, the user name should be removed from the File menu, General > Options tab, and there should be no information that makes it possible to identify the author.

12. Information about the ethics committee permission of the research should be added under the relevant heading after the article acceptance, without specifying the name of the institution. In addition, the responsible author for candidate articles is expected to submit an Ethical Commitment. For candidate studies that do not require/do not require ethical approval, an "Ethical Commitment" is expected to be uploaded to the system instead of an "Ethics Committee Document". Click here for the Ethical Commitment.

15. All authors are expected to fill in the Copyright Transfer Form during the article submission process. Click here for the Copyright Transfer Form.

16. All candidate articles should be scanned with software such as iThenticate© and Turnitin© before submission, and these screening reports should be submitted with the article. The similarity rate of the entire article must be less than 20%. Sivas Cumhuriyet University Journal of Educational Sciences Institute  has the right to reject all candidate articles bearing academic plagiarism at the editorial stage.

The journal stated that it complied with the rules regarding "Publication Ethics", "Research Ethics" and "Receiving Legal/Special Permission", by opening a separate heading for each one of them, referring to international standards.

The issue of compliance with publication ethics in the journal is not left only to the responsibility of the authors, and the path to be followed in the journal publication ethics is clearly defined in the full text.

In articles to be published in the journal, whether ethical committee permission and/or legal/special permission is required should be stated in the article. If it is necessary to obtain these permissions, it should be clearly presented from which institution, on what date and with what decision or issue number.

If the study requires the use of human and animal subjects, international declaration, guide, etc. should be declared appropriate.

Studies published in our journal go through three important stages: preliminary review, blind peer-review process and editorial process. During the peer-review process, each article is reviewed by at least two referees.

No fee is charged for the articles published in our journal.