Submission declaration and verification

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection software such as iThenticate. The maximum values for individual source similarity and the similarity index are accepted as 2% and 20% in our journal, respectively.

Changes to authorship
Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Only in exceptional circumstances will the Editor consider the addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been accepted. While the Editor considers the request, publication of the manuscript will be suspended. If the manuscript has already been published in an online issue, any requests approved by the Editor will result in a corrigendum.

Copyright and Author rights
As an author, you have certain rights to reuse your work. Our journal doesn’t demand any copyrights. Please look the copyright for the detailed information.

Role of the funding source
You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this should be stated.

Open Access
This journal is open acess. Abstracts and full texts of all articles published in the journals can be read online without any form of restriction. All users have the right to free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerives (CC BY-NC-ND)
For non-commercial purposes, lets others distribute and copy the article, and to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article.

Language (usage)
Please write your text in good English and Turkish.

Submission
Our online submission system guides you stepwise through the process of entering your article details and uploading your files. Editable files (please provide your file as Microsoft Word) are required to typeset your article for final publication. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, is sent with diolog box (its colour’s orange) in the dergiPark system. Please do not send your manuscript with e-mail to any editorial staff, our journal only accepts all manuscriptes with online system.

Submit your article
Please submit your article via https://dergipark.org.tr/journal/171/submission/start

Peer review
The Manuscripts submitted to the BAROFD are reviewed by the reviewers. According to the reviewers’ comments, the submitted manuscripts are accepted or declined. BAROFD is open access and the BAROFD provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. This journal operates a double-blind review process. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. If at least one of the reviewers considers that the manuscript has 'no scientific contrubition' or that is 'inferior to average', the manuscript publication will be declined. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final.

Online proof correction
Corresponding authors will receive an e-mail to correct your manuscripts in our online web page previous publication. We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. It is important to ensure that all corrections are sent back to us in one communication. Please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility, and it is not possible to corrections again your papers after publication. Our journal only offers online publication; we don’t offer any hardcopy for your papers.

Ethics in publishing
Bartın Journal of Faculty of Forestry accepts the standards announced by the Council of Higher Education as the basic conditions for research and publication ethics ( https://www.yok.gov.tr/Sayfalar/Kurumsal/mevzuat/bilimsel-arastirma-ve-etik-yonetmeligi.aspx).

Before submitting an article to the journal, authors should consider the standards announced by the Council of Higher Education, the recommendations of ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) and the “International Standards for Editors and Authors” set by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).

Authors must ensure that the manuscript has not been issued elsewhere. Any work or words of other authors, contributors, or sources should be appropriately credited and referenced. Authors are also responsible for language editing before submitting the article. Authors submitting their works to the journal for publication as original articles confirm that the submitted works represent their authors’ contributions and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works without clearly citing. All authors should disclose financial or other conflict of interest that might influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. An author agrees to the license agreement before submitting the article. All articles must be submitted using online submission procedure. Submitting a paper simultaneously to more than one publication at a time is a breach of publications ethics. In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information regarding the approval (committee name, date and issue number) should be included in the method section and first/last page of the article.

Editors must ensure a good blind peer-review of the submitted manuscripts for publication. They will strive to prevent any potential conflict of interests between the author and editorial and review personnel. Editors will also ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential before publishing. Editor-in-Chief will coordinate the work of the editors.

Reviewers evaluate manuscripts based on content without regard to ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, religious belief or political philosophy of the authors. They must ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential and must report to the Editor-in-Chief if they are aware of copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author’s side. They must evaluate the submitted works objectively as well as present clearly their opinions on the works in a clear way in the review form. A reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editor-in-Chief and excuse himself from the review process. Transferred from http://www.iiass.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=938&Itemid=676

Manuscript Fee
There isn't any fee such as handling, publication, processing and others, etc. for publication in the BAROFD.

DOI Information
Each accepted manuscript on the BORFD gets a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number.