Alfa Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (AJEAS) accepts research articles, review articles and technical notes in Turkish or English.

Research Article: Studies that reflect an original research with its findings and results.

Review Article: Studies that scan a sufficient number of scientific articles, summarize the subject at today's level of knowledge and technology, make an evaluation, and compare and interpret these findings.

Technical Note: Studies that describe a new method or technique that explains the important findings of a study.

The "Copyright Transfer Form" for all articles must be filled out by all authors of the article and submitted to the editor. Publications of authors whose Copyright Transfer Form is not sent will not be processed. No subsequent additions can be made by the authors to the articles decided to be published.

The Similarity Report must be uploaded at the first submission stage of the article (via Turnitin, iThenticate or intihal.net). The similarity rate is desired to be below 20%. Articles that do not have a similarity report will be returned.

There is no template at the initial submission stage of the article. For the first post, it is sufficient to prepare the articles according to the following rules.

Each article is reviewed for content and form by at least three reviewrs who are experts in their field. Articles that are determined to be suitable for publication in the journal are brought to the final presentation format, their layout is made and they are made ready for publication.

Title: The title of the work should be written with the first letters capitalized, and the title should be short and clear, appropriate to the text.

The first letters of the 1st degree headings in the text should be written in capital letters and bold, and for the 2nd degree and lower headings, only the first letter of the title should be capitalized and the font thickness should be normal. In Turkish articles, all headings, subheadings, figure and table descriptions used in the text should be stated in English in parentheses. In articles written in English, there is no need for any explanation in parentheses. All text must be in English.

Abstract: It should be written in Turkish and English, with a minimum of 150 and a maximum of 200 words. The title of the work should also be written in English at the beginning of the English abstract.

Key Words: At least 3 and at most 5 should be given in Turkish and English.

Text: It should be written in Times New Roman font and 12 pt, and should not exceed 20 pages, excluding screening texts, including references and figures. Authors should indicate what type of publication their article is. In general, it includes sections on introduction, method, findings, results and discussion.

Tables and Figures: All images that do not contain tables (photographs, drawings, diagrams, graphs, maps, etc.) should be named as figures. Each table and figure should be placed where it will appear in the text. All figures should be numbered consecutively within the text. Figures must be maximum 14 cm wide and high resolution (300 dpi).

Formulas and Units: All formulas (equations) in the text should be written in equation format. Formulas should be given serial numbers as (1), (2). All units must be in the SI unit system.

Symbols and Abbreviations: They should be given at the end of the text before the references.

Acknowledgments: If acknowledgment is to be made to individuals or institutions, it should be written in this section and given before the references.

Conflict of Interest Declaration: Author(s) must declare their conflict of interest in this section, before the references. Conflict of interest between article authors should be stated. If there is no conflict of interest, the phrase "There is no conflict of interest in this study" should be written.

Ethics Statement: Articles to be published in our journal must state whether ethics committee approval and/or legal/special permission is required. If it is necessary to obtain these permissions, it should be clearly stated from which institution, on what date and with which decision or issue number the permission was obtained. In addition, if the study requires the use of human and animal subjects, the study must comply with international declarations, guidelines, etc. It must be declared that it has been carried out appropriately. For cases where permission is not required, the following text should be added after the "Acknowledgments" section.

References: Must be in IEEE format. [1], [2] etc. in parentheses in the text. They should be numbered with numbers and written at the end of the text in the order in which they are presented in the work.

Declaration of Author Contributions: In this section, the contribution of each researcher mentioned in the article should be stated.

Presentation Format: If the article is accepted after reviewer evaluation, it must be brought to the final presentation format given in the submission files and uploaded to the system.

Alfa Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (AJEAS) has adopted the principle of publishing qualified scientific studies in the fields of basic engineering sciences. In this context, our Journal; It publishes articles that comply with the rules set out in the principles and guidelines explained on the website of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). As a result of detecting situations such as incorrect transfer or distortion of the data created by the authors in the articles, transferring the study without including scientific data, and sending the translation of the paper published in Turkish as a full text to this Journal, the article authors will be notified of this situation and their work will not be accepted. All stakeholders (Editor, Author, Reviewer, Publisher and Reader) who contribute to the publication of scientific work within our journal are expected to comply with Publication Ethics and Journal Policy. In line with these expectations, the duties and responsibilities of stakeholders are listed below:

Duties of the Editorial Board

The Editorial Board is responsible for improving the scientific quality of Alfa Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (AJEAS) and making efforts to have it scanned and indexed on various scientific platforms. The Editorial Board attaches importance to the confidentiality of the studies sent to the Journal, and does not share any information about these articles with third parties, does not provide information about the authors mentioned in the articles, and does not share information about the authors and referees. The Editorial Board is responsible for each article applied to the journal, and the Editorial Board decides on examining the article to be published, selecting and sending it to the referees in a transparent manner, taking into account the subject of their work, and determining the acceptance/rejection status. While the Editorial Board makes positive or negative decisions regarding the publication of articles in the Journal; It pays attention to the contribution of the article to the field, its distinguishability from other studies in the relevant field, the validity of the research methods, the clarity of the expression and the provision of a sufficient number of references. Articles are sent to referees for evaluation in accordance with the blind peer review process, without specifying the author's name. Evaluations and suggestions from referees are sent to the authors without sharing referee information. After the necessary corrections, the final decision to publish the article in the journal is made by the Editorial Board.

Duties of the Reviewers

While the referees agree to evaluate the articles sent to them, they declare that these articles are related to their fields of expertise. Referees must respond positively or negatively to invitations to evaluate articles within the time allotted to them. The referee(s) who agree to evaluate the article are responsible for evaluating the article within the time given to them. Within the framework of the Code of Ethics, referees must stay away from conflicts of interest, and if they notice that any study is based on a conflict of interest, they must inform the Editorial Board and refuse to evaluate the study. Referees must act in accordance with the principles of confidentiality and impartiality during and after the evaluation process, fill out the Publication Evaluation Form and make positive/negative comments about the article they evaluate in line with academic principles. Referees make evaluations depending on the language of the submission.

Duties of the Author(s)

Authors should not send a study to our Journal that is under evaluation in another journal. Authors must submit their works to our Journal in accordance with the Ethical Principles and Rules. In this context, if necessary, the Ethics Committee Approval Letter should be sent to our Journal during the application. In the article, all situations where an Ethics Committee Decision is/is not required should be explained in a paragraph above the "Resources" heading. Authors are responsible for the content, expression, language and originality of the articles they submit. Relevant programs will be used for plagiarism research (Turnitin, iThenticate or intihal.net), and the similarity rate should not exceed 20%. Studies above this rate will be rejected at the pre-check stage. Authors are required to submit the data they use in their articles, the document showing the approval of the relevant institutions/organizations in cases where they are received from institutions/organizations, and the Copyright Transfer Form to our Journal. Before the accepted articles are published in our Journal, they must be examined by the authors for preliminary approval, necessary corrections must be made within the specified period, and printing approval must be given. After the article is published, authors requesting any changes must contact the Editorial Board within the first 5 business days after the publication date. Authors should use the contact button on the Dergipark Web Page in all correspondence regarding the article. Correspondence sent to the editors' personal e-mail addresses is not taken into account within the framework of the Code of Ethics.

Policy of Journal

No fee is requested from the authors for the evaluation and publication of the articles by the Journal. The evaluation process of our journal is given below:

Additional time to be given for all cases where the processing time has passed: 5 days
Maximum time required to process a new article: 10 days
Maximum time given to the secretary while in the secretary step: 10 days
Maximum time required for the editor to take over the article (Check Complete Step): 10 days
Maximum time required for the editor to continue processing after committing (In Editor Step): 10 days
Maximum time allowed to continue processing after the article is ready for decision (Ready for Decision Step): 7 days
Maximum time for the editor to make a decision (Waiting for Decision Step): 7 days
Maximum time given to the editor for the publication process (Publication Process Step): 10 days
Maximum processing time for Spelling, Language, Statistics Editor and Proofreader: 15 days
Maximum processing time for Layout Editor: 20 days
Time given when re-sent to the author: 15 days
Time given to the author for minor revision: 10 days
Time given to the author for major revision: 20 days
Response time to the invitation sent to the referee for evaluation: 7 days
Evaluation period given to the referee: 15 days