ETHICAL PRİNCİPLES

Authors, editorial board and referees involved in the publishing process should make decisions in accordance with ethical principles. Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans has set standards that all parties expect to comply in order to guarantee ethical principles. As a publisher, Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans takes its task very seriously at all stages of publishing and accepts all its responsibilities, including ethics.

Author Policies:

Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans does not request a signed application letter from all authors of an article and does not make applications that give orders to the authors. Authors applying to the journal for publication are expected to voluntarily comply with the ethical principles determined by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE). Plagiarism, forgery, duplicate publication, bragging, data production etc. are prohibited in Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans.

1) Authors should not cause physical and legal harm to the participants of the research. They should not engage in any form of psychological abuse and should guarantee privacy and any form of anonymity to those participating in their research.
2) Authors must confirm that the works submitted to the journal are original.
3) Authors must confirm that their works have not been published before and that they have not submitted them for evaluation for publication elsewhere after applying to the Turkish Language and Literature Research in the Balkans.
4) Authors should define and indicate the sponsorship and support of people, institutions or organizations that support their work.
5) Authors should include all sources used in the formation of their manuscripts in their bibliography.
6) Authors must confirm that they do not hide or change any information, document or evidence in their works submitted to the journal.
7) Authors should report any interest (conflict, interest) about their works to Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans.
8) The author, who realizes that there is an important mistake or problem in his work in the process of evaluation or publication, must immediately notify the editor of the journal and cooperate with the editor for options such as retracting the article or correcting it.

Editorial Board Principles:

The editor of Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans and members of the editorial board are expected to voluntarily comply with the ethical principles determined by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE).

1) Plagiarism control is carried out using the iThenticate program for the articles sent for publication to the Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans. Authors should strictly avoid any form of plagiarism.
2) The Editorial Board should keep the information of any article sent for publication confidential.
3) The Editorial Board is responsible for conducting the evaluation and publication process for all kinds of articles sent for publication.
4) The Editorial Board should strive to improve the publication and representation quality of Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans. In this regard, it should give importance to scientific quality, originality and journal identity.
5) The Editorial Board should make efforts to increase the level of research in the field of study and to improve the literature.
6) The Editorial Board should be diligent in responding to the needs of readers and authors.
7) The Editorial Board should be ready to issue explanations, corrections, changes in decision and apologies when necessary.

Referee Principles:

Referees of Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans are expected to voluntarily comply with the ethical principles determined by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE).

1) The referees should keep the information of any manuscript sent for publication confidential.
2) The referees should evaluate all kinds of articles in terms of scientificity.
3) The referees should notify the Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans of any conflict of interest for a paper they are appointed.
4) Referees must submit all information to the editor for a study they are in a position to reject.
5) The referees should evaluate the articles objectively.
6) The referees should make sure that the works to be published in the Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans are original and have not been published before.
7) The referees cannot submit the studies submitted to the journal for publication elsewhere.

PUBLICATION POLICY

Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans, and BALTED, with its short name, is an international, peer-reviewed, open access scientific journal aiming to present academic studies on Turkish language and literature in the Balkan field for the evaluation of relevant field experts and to bring together other scientists working in this field and the mentioned publications. It does not charge any fees from its authors and readers.

Articles that apply for publication to the journal are checked with a plagiarism program in terms of compliance with scientific ethics at the pre-control stage. Article submission is done through the DergiPark system, and the evaluation process of the articles is completed through the "DergiPark" system, taking into account objective criteria. The candidate article is taken into preliminary evaluation within 15 days. After the preliminary evaluation, the works that do not comply with the BALTED publication principles are returned to their authors. The waiting period for the article, for which two referees are appointed after the positive preliminary evaluation, is 30 days and the extension period is 7 days. In case of a positive and a negative report in the referee evaluation, the publication decision of the candidate article is made after the evaluation of the 3rd referee and 3/2 positive majority. All responsibility for the content of the articles in the journal belongs to the authors. All publication rights of the published articles belong to Turkish Language and Literature Studies in the Balkans.