PRELIMINARY REVIEW PROCESS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD

JAUFC’s Editorial Board evaluates the manuscripts by considering the following criteria:

- Manuscripts should be written in accordance with rules stated in Author Guidelines.
- Academic language should be adopted while preparing the manuscripts.
- Manuscripts must be original works that have not been published elsewhere and have not been sent for publication.
- Manuscripts should not contain plagiarism, and originality reports obtained from Turnitin or iThenticate plagiarism checking programs should be uploaded to the system together with the Manuscript file. For the studies to be evaluated, the Turnitin or iThenticate plagiarism report must be 15% or less. Manuscripts with a similarity ratio above will not be considered for further evaluation. Manuscripts without a Turnitin or iThenticate originality report will be desk-rejected.
- Manuscripts should be consistent in terms of purpose, subject and content.
- Manuscripts should include title, abstract, keywords, abstract, introduction, literature, method, conclusion and references, English extended abstract (for manuscripts written in Turkish).
- The length of manuscripts should not be below 5000 words and above 8500 words.

Manuscripts are sent to two reviewers in accordance with the double blind peer-review system. If both reviewers’ reports are positive, the manuscript is published, and if it is negative, the manuscript is rejected. In case of a positive or negative report from the reviewers, a third reviewer is appointed. The manuscript is accepted or rejected in line with the report of the third reviewer. As a result of these examinations and evaluations, changes and/or corrections may be requested from the author(s) of the manuscript. If deemed necessary and/or recommended by the reviewers, the study can be submitted to the evaluation of more than three reviewers.

Manuscripts whose peer-review process is not completed will be evaluated for the next issue.

The peer-review evaluation process can take 30-240 days.