All parties involved in the publishing process (Editors, Reviewers, Authors and Publishers) are expected to agree on the following ethical principles. Articles submitted first are checked for plagiarism with the Turnitin program. Articles with more than 20% similarity are rejected.

All submissions must be original, unpublished (including as full text in conference proceedings), and not under the review of any other publication synchronously. Authors must ensure that submitted work is original. They must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere or is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere, in any language. Applicable copyright laws and conventions must be followed. Copyright material (e.g. tables, figures or extensive quotations) must be reproduced only with appropriate permission and acknowledgement. Any work or words of other authors, contributors, or sources must be appropriately credited and referenced.

Each manuscript is reviewed by one of the editors and at least two referees under double-blind peer review process. Plagiarism, duplication, fraud authorship/denied authorship, research/data fabrication, salami slicing/salami publication, breaching of copyrights, prevailing conflict of interest are unnethical behaviors.

All manuscripts not in accordance with the accepted ethical standards will be removed from the publication. This also contains any possible malpractice discovered after the publication. In accordance with the code of conduct we will report any cases of suspected plagiarism or duplicate publishing.

GSI Journals Serie A: Advancements in Tourism Recreation and Sports Sciences adopts the ethical standards set by (The Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE). Publication and scientific ethics are based on the ethical standards of COPE (https://publicationethics.org/).

Research Ethics
The journal adheres to the highest standards in research ethics and follows the principles of international research ethics as defined below. The authors are responsible for the compliance of the manuscripts with the ethical rules.

- Principles of integrity, quality and transparency should be sustained in designing the research, reviewing the design and conducting the research.

- The research team and participants should be fully informed about the aim, methods, possible uses and requirements of the research and risks of participation in research.

- The confidentiality of the information provided by the research participants and the confidentiality of the respondents should be ensured. The research should be designed to protect the autonomy and dignity of the participants.

- Research participants should participate in the research voluntarily, not under any coercion.

- Any possible harm to participants must be avoided. The research should be planned in such a way that the participants are not at risk.

- The independence of research must be clear; and any conflict of interest or must be disclosed.

- In experimental studies with human subjects, written informed consent of the participants who decide to participate in the research must be obtained. In the case of children and those under wardship or with confirmed insanity, legal custodian’s assent must be obtained.

- If the study is to be carried out in any institution or organization, approval must be obtained from this institution or organization.

- In studies with human subject, it must be noted in the method’s section of the manuscript that the informed consent of the participants and ethics committee approval from the institution where the study has been conducted have been obtained.

Author's Responsibilities
It is authors’ responsibility to ensure that the article is in accordance with scientific and ethical standards and rules. And authors must ensure that submitted work is original. They must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere or is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere, in any language. Applicable copyright laws and conventions must be followed. Copyright material (e.g. tables, figures or extensive quotations) must be reproduced only with appropriate permission and acknowledgement. Any work or words of other authors, contributors, or sources must be appropriately credited and referenced.

All the authors of a submitted manuscript must have direct scientific and academic contribution to the manuscript. The author(s) of the original research articles is defined as a person who is significantly involved in “conceptualization and design of the study”, “collecting the data”, “analyzing the data”, “writing the manuscript”, “reviewing the manuscript with a critical perspective” and “planning/conducting the study of the manuscript and/or revising it”. Fund raising, data collection or supervision of the research group are not sufficient roles to be accepted as an author. The author(s) must meet all these criteria described above. The order of names in the author list of an article must be a co-decision and it must be indicated in the Copyright Agreement Form. The individuals who do not meet the authorship criteria but contributed to the study must take place in the acknowledgement section. Individuals providing technical support, assisting writing, providing a general support, providing material or financial support are examples to be indicated in acknowledgement section.

All authors must disclose all issues concerning financial relationship, conflict of interest, and competing interest that may potentially influence the results of the research or scientific judgment.

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published paper, it is the author’s obligation to promptly cooperate with the Editor to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

Responsibility for the Editor and Reviewers
Editor-in-Chief evaluates manuscripts for their scientific content without regard to ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, religious belief or political philosophy of the authors. He/She provides a fair double-blind peer review of the submitted articles for publication and ensures that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential before publishing.

Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication. He/She must publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.

Editor-in-Chief does not allow any conflicts of interest between the authors, editors and reviewers. Only he has the full authority to assign a reviewer and is responsible for final decision for publication of the manuscripts in the Journal.

Reviewers must have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders. Their judgments must be objective.

Reviewers must ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential and must report to the editor if they are aware of copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author’s side.

A reviewer who feels unqualified to review the topic of a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

The editor informs the reviewers that the manuscripts are confidential information and that this is a privileged interaction. The reviewers and editorial board cannot discuss the manuscripts with other persons. The anonymity of the referees must be ensured. In particular situations, the editor may share the review of one reviewer with other reviewers to clarify a particular point.

Manuscript Evaluation Process
A manuscript sent by researchers is examined by the journal secretary within 7 days from the date of submission to see if the manuscript, title page, copyright agreement, and service fee receipt are sent correctly and completely. If these requested files are sent properly and completely, the manuscript; in the second stage, it is evaluated whether it complies with the journal's writing rules (article template). If the manuscript does not comply with the writing rules, it is returned to the author. If the manuscript complies with the writing rules, it is evaluated whether it has been sent according to the template. If the manuscript is not adapted and sent according to the template, it is not taken into the evaluation process. During this process, it is expected that the researcher will upload the manuscript to the system in accordance with the conditions set by the journal. If the manuscript is prepared and sent in accordance with the template, in the last stage, the manuscript is examined in terms of the journal's publication principles, writing rules, abstract, abstract, extended abstract, bibliography display, etc. If there is a problem related to these details in the manuscript, the author is asked to complete these issues and send the manuscript back completely within the given time. Finally, the similarity report of the manuscript is taken by the secretary and uploaded. Manuscripts are forwarded to the editor for pre-control and then to be passed to the evaluation stage.

Manuscripts that pass all these stages are subjected to pre-controls by the editor and assistant editors within 7 days (the editor or assistant editors can reject in line with the journal's publication policies) and are sent to the field editor for the evaluation stage according to the subject of the manuscript. The field editors direct the author to make some corrections in the manuscript within 7 days for the purpose of inspecting its scientific adequacy or deem the manuscript sufficient for the referee evaluation process and send it to two suitable referees for their evaluations. The referees' evaluation periods are 15 days after the referee accepts the evaluation request. If a referee does not complete the referee duty within this period, an additional 7 days may be given to the relevant referee to complete the evaluation. If the referee does not fulfill his duty within this period, a new referee is appointed in his place. If reports from at least two referees are positive, the manuscript is taken to the publication stage. During this period, it may be necessary for the manuscript to be re-evaluated by the referees more than once. This process continues until the minor/major corrections given by the referees are marked as accepted by the referees. If one of the referee reports is positive and the other is negative, the field editor and editor decide whether to continue the publication process. In cases where the referee reports are insufficient and far from satisfying, the final decision regarding the manuscript is given by the field editor. A manuscript that has gone through all these stages is directed to the publication editor to be published in the nearest issue or taken into early view after all these inspections. If the manuscript is in Turkish, the publication editor undertakes the responsibility of checking the extended English summary and the English summary. Among the duties of the publication editor are also to control the number of keywords and the number of words in both Turkish and English summaries. After all these checks, the manuscript is directed to be published in the relevant issue or taken into early view for the final adjustments by the layout editor determined by the publication editor. The layout editor completes his duty by arranging the manuscript in terms of the journal's writing rules and styles and making the necessary corrections and arrangements with the responsible author if necessary. Once all the arrangements are completed, the editor obtains the DOI number of the manuscript and directs it to be published in the relevant issue or taken into early view. The author has the right to withdraw his article at any time and in all evaluation processes until the publication date of the relevant issue of the journal. However, this situation must be reported to the journal.