Article submissions that do not comply with these notes will not be processed.
Only one work per author will be published within a calendar year.
Authors uploading to the Dergipark system must upload the article file without personal information and the contact information file separately.
Authors must also delete the author information from the metadata in the files they submit (by right-clicking on the file, selecting properties, and clicking on details) before uploading them to the system.

The plagiarism report results for authors' articles should not exceed 20%.
The works are checked with artificial intelligence detection applications. 
The use of academic language is mandatory in the articles, and personal judgement statements should not be used.
Authors should avoid sentence structures that reveal their identity in references to their own work, such as ‘in a study we conducted...’.
For the publication of studies based on surveys or interviews, an ethics committee approval document must be uploaded to the system under all circumstances. 
The copyright transfer agreement template will be displayed during the file upload steps to the journal. After downloading the document, the corresponding author will have it signed by all authors and upload it to the file upload system.

Evaluation Criteria

The original contribution of the study to the relevant scientific field, the extent to which this contribution is expressed and justified in the study
The presentation of the problem and the purpose of the study, how it is justified, whether the study forms a whole in line with this purpose
The suitability of the theoretical framework of the study to the scientific research methodology, the extent to which the study focuses on its objectives, the extent to which the basic concepts, variables, processes and causal relationships are explained, the extent to which the study supports its basic assumptions and, if any, its hypotheses
The manner in which the assumptions and hypotheses, if any, are presented, whether they are clearly stated, their suitability to the objectives of the study, and whether they are sufficiently and robustly supported by arguments
The degree to which the study utilises relevant literature and appropriately uses sources that can be defined as primary sources on the subject, and whether it sufficiently includes the necessary discussions
If any research is conducted to support the study's fundamental assumptions/hypotheses, whether this research is sufficiently explained and whether the methodology used is appropriate in terms of its objectives, fundamental assumptions and testing of hypotheses, if any
Whether the study findings are sufficiently explained, the extent to which the findings and their implications are discussed, the extent to which the fundamental limitations of the study are addressed, and whether scientific/practical conclusions are drawn from the study results
Whether the study is prepared in accordance with a systematic scientific research methodology
The adequacy of the study's abstract, the extent to which it contains elements such as the purpose, basic assumptions, methods, findings, results, etc., whether it provides sufficient information about the study as a whole, and the clarity of the language used
Compliance of the study with scientific writing rules
Consistency between the title and content of the article
Comprehensibility of the language used in the article and compliance with writing rules
Comprehensibility of the tables and figures used and their suitability in terms of the study's objectives

The decision to publish articles in the journal is made by the Editorial Board based on the editor's recommendation. All articles submitted to the journal are first pre-evaluated by the editor. Articles that are not directly related to the topics covered by the journal or that do not comply with the content and format requirements of a scientific article may be rejected by the editor or the Editorial Board without initiating the peer review process, or suggestions for changes to the articles may be made.

Journal of Bartın University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences  Writing Guidelines

Manuscripts that do not comply with the following writing guidelines will not be considered for evaluation. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must:
Page Count: Not exceed 35 pages, including appendices and references.
The article itself must be submitted as a Word file that complies with the writing guidelines, and two additional Word files must be attached via the DERGİPARK system, containing the author's title, name, institution (academic or private), email address, ORCID number, and any footnotes.

Click here for the Template File to be used in articles prepared in Turkish.

 

Click here for the Template File to be used in articles prepared in English.

Tables and figures should be prepared according to our journal's page dimensions, not A4 or similar page formats. If necessary, the font size should be reduced to at least 8 point.
Figures in image format should be of sufficiently high resolution (or dpi value) to avoid reading difficulties, but low enough not to increase the file size beyond 2 MB.
Submissions should be uploaded in two files:
1. Header file: Article title, author(s)' titles, full names and institutions, contact details, ORCID numbers.
2. Full text file:
2.1. Article title
2.2. Abstract in Turkish and English (100-300 words), Keywords (3-5 items). JEL Classification Code (3-5 items).
2.3. Main article text 
2.4. References 
2.5. Extended Summary for Turkish articles
2.6. Appendices
Citations: In our journal, which adopts the APA 7 citation style, citations should be given in parentheses in the text with the author's surname, year of publication, and page number after the (:) sign. For example: (Taşdelen, 2001: 42). Attention should be paid to punctuation and alphabetical order in citations. If the source cited has more than two authors, the surname of the first author should be given, followed by ‘et al.’ for the others. Example: (Altunışık et al., 2001). However, in the bibliography section, all authors' surnames and initials should be listed. 
Sources:
All sources referenced in the text are listed at the end of the article under the heading ‘Bibliography’. Sources in the Bibliography are arranged in alphabetical order based on the author's (or editor's) surname, the surname of the first author if there are multiple authors, or the initial letter of the name of the institution (e.g., Central Bank) or periodical (e.g., Business Week) if the source belongs to an institution or periodical. If reference is made to more than one publication by an author or group of authors, these sources are listed in order based on their publication date (earlier publication years come first). If these sources were published in the same year, they are listed with letters such as a, b, c added to the publication year.

Bibliography Format:
For books:
Single-Author Books

Ataöv, T. (1989). Bilimsel Araştırma El Kitabı. 2. Baskı, Ankara: Savaş Yayınları.

Two-author books

Tuna, O. and Yalçıntaş, N. (1976). Sosyal Siyaset. İstanbul: Filiz Kitabevi.

Books with more than two authors

Altunışık, R., Coşkun, R. and Yıldırım, E. (2002). Sosyal Bilimlerde Araştırma Yöntemleri. Adapazarı: Sakarya Kitabevi.

Translated Book

Durkheim, E. (1985). Toplumbilimsel Yöntemin Kuralları. Çev., Celal Baki Akal, İstanbul: Bilim-Felsefe-Sanat Yayınları.

Edited Book

Demirkol, Ş. (2002). Değişim Mühendisliği, Editörler: Coşkun, R., ve R. Altunışık, Stratejik Boyutuyla Modern Yönetim Yaklaşımları, (ss. 163-176), İstanbul: Beta. Yay.

Books Without Author Names

Devlet Planlama Teşkilatı (1984). Türkiye'de Sanayileşme Sorunları, Ankara: DPT Yayınları, 102.

Encyclopedia Britannica, Turkey, 22, 125-140.

Periodicals (articles in scientific journals)

Ahıska, Y. (1990). Ticaret Bankalarının İşlevleri. Banka ve Ekonomik Yorumlar, 27(12), 37-44.

Neilson, G., Pasternack, P.A. and Mendes, D. (2000). The Four Faces of Organizational DNAs. Management, 45(3), 45-53.

Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., and Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185

                                                                                                                                                                                       Web Site

Bologna, C. (2019, October 31). Why some people with anxiety love watching horror movies. HuffPost. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anxiety-love-watching-horrormovies_l_5d277587e4b02a5a5d57b59e

                                                                                                                                                                                                       Government Agency Websites

National Institute of Mental Health. (2018, July). Anxiety disorders. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/anxiety-disorders/index.shtml
 

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

In the work uploaded to the Bartın University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal via the Dergi-Park system for evaluation for publication, all sources used and cited have been referenced in accordance with scientific research methods and ethical principles.
If the work belongs to more than one person, all authors have made a direct and joint academic-scientific contribution to the work.
This work is an original work of the author(s).
All authors have seen the final version of the submitted article and approved its results.
The study has not been previously submitted for publication in any form as an article and/or is not a study accepted for publication and/or awaiting publication in another journal. It will not be submitted for evaluation for publication in another scientific journal until the evaluation process of the “Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences” is completed.
No ethical violations have been committed regarding the subjects used in the study, and all data collection methods have been conducted in accordance with scientific ethical principles.

All processes related to the evaluation of the work (referee reports, editor notes, etc.) have not been/will not be shared with third parties.
All publication rights for articles accepted for publication belong to the institution publishing the journal.
The thoughts and suggestions in the articles are entirely the responsibility of the authors.
If the work is an abstract previously presented at a scientific meeting or a shorter version of this work, this is stated in the article.
The author(s) agree(s) and undertake(s) to transfer the financial rights to this work, including all rights of communication to the public, such as processing, reproduction, representation, printing, publication, distribution, and transmission via the internet, to the “Bartın University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal” for unlimited use.
Regarding the study, the “Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences” and its relevant boards shall bear no responsibility for any claims or lawsuits filed by third parties for copyright infringement; all responsibility lies with the author(s).
The work does not contain any criminal elements or unlawful statements, and no unlawful methods were used during the research. All legal permissions related to the work have been obtained, and ethical rules have been followed.
Regarding all matters not mentioned above concerning the suitability of the study in terms of scientific research and publication ethics, the provisions of the “Higher Education Institution Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Guidelines” have been followed.In addition, the principles published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) regarding publication ethics, ethical duties, and responsibilities have been adopted as open access.
The Bartın University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal uses a double-blind review method in the evaluation process of submitted articles. Accordingly, in the double-blind review method, the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed throughout the entire process.
Published twice a year (May-November) in electronic format, the Bartın University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal is published as open access via the Tübitak Dergi-Park-Akademik system. With the decision of the Publication Board and Editor, special issues may also be published in addition to the current issues.
The Bartın University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal, within the scope of open access, adopts the TÜBİTAK Dergi-Park-Akademik Open Access system and the principles of the “Budapest Open Access Initiative” within this scope. According to these principles, “scientifically peer-reviewed works should be freely accessible, readable, downloadable, copyable, distributable, printable, scannable, linkable to full texts, indexable, transferable to software as data, and usable for any legal purpose via the internet, without financial, legal, or technical barriers.” Authors and copyright holders acknowledge that all users have free access to these materials."
Authors whose articles are accepted are deemed to have agreed to share the information contained in their work with proper citation, in order to protect copyright and the rights of the journal under the Creative Commons Attribution License. In this regard, Bartın University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal applies the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0) to all articles it publishes.
When uploading an article to the journal, you are expected to upload the “plagiarism report” related to the article as an additional file to the system. In this regard, please upload your plagiarism report (Turnitin and/or Ithenticate, etc.) as a separate PDF file along with your article. The relevant report must clearly show the title of your article, the names of the authors, and the percentage.

Author responsibility:
 

Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences conducts every stage of the article evaluation and publication process professionally. Therefore, authors have certain responsibilities, just like editors and reviewers. The journal's expectations from authors are as follows:
• Authors must guarantee the originality of the works they submit to the journal. They must declare that the work has not been published anywhere else, in any language, or submitted to another journal for publication.

• Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the journal's writing guidelines. For writing guidelines, see.
• When uploading the manuscript to the journal via the system, author information and order must be carefully entered. If there is an error in the author order, if changes are to be made to the order, if a new author is to be added to the manuscript, or if an author is to be removed from the manuscript, the editor must be informed. In such cases, the reason for the change in author status must be submitted to the editor in writing.
• Copyrighted material (such as tables, figures, or other quotations) can only be published with valid permission and copyright approval. Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions and approval documents and submitting them to the journal.
• Permission must be obtained from the owners for the use of scales, surveys, and photographs/images belonging to other researchers in the studies, and the permission document obtained must be uploaded to the system during the article submission stage.
• Authors must comply with Turkish language and expression rules throughout the study. In addition, Turkish equivalents of foreign concepts and words that have common equivalents in Turkish should be preferred.
• For editorial review, authors may be asked to share the raw data of the study with the journal editors. In this case, authors are obliged to share the data.
• Authors should properly cite other authors, contributors, or sources and indicate the relevant sources in accordance with the journal's writing rules.

• In addition to the subject and content of the studies, the methods and application information should also be carefully explained in terms of “reproducibility” in applied studies.
• Authors should upload the updated version of their study to the system within the given time frame, based on the corrections they received during the evaluation process.
• When uploading the revised study to the system, the “responses to reviewers” file must also be uploaded. This file should contain the authors' correction notes and comments regarding the reviewers' suggestions. 
• Authors cannot request the information of the reviewers assigned to their studies. Bartın İİBF Journal applies a double-blind peer review system.
• Authors should review the journal's research ethics guidelines before submitting their work to the journal and act in accordance with ethical rules. To review ethical principles, see.
• If the study involves human participants, authors must obtain ethical committee approval and upload the document to the system along with the study. In addition, the document number related to the ethical committee approval should be provided in the study.
• Individuals or organizations that have made significant and meaningful contributions to the research should be acknowledged in the acknowledgments section of the study. Any financial support and project funding used should also be disclosed here.
• If there is a conflict of interest in the study, authors must declare this when submitting to the journal. The editor decides how to proceed with the study based on the conflict of interest declaration. If there is no conflict of interest, authors are required to declare that there is no conflict of interest in the study.
• The corresponding author is the author who assumes responsibility for the submission of the study to the journal, the communication process with the journal, and the post-publication processes on behalf of the other authors. They are responsible for informing the other authors about the process and evaluation notes related to the study.

Reviewer responsibilities:

Studies submitted to the Bartın University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal and passed by the editor are evaluated by expert reviewers in the field. Reviewers invited by the editor accept the invitation through the system and undertake the review task. The review process is conducted using a double-blind peer review system. At this stage, the Bartın Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal expects the following from reviewers:
• Reviewers must inform the editor and request to be excused from the review process if they believe the content of the submitted work is incompatible with their scientific field or expertise, or if they are unable to provide a prompt and comprehensive review.
• Every work sent to reviewers is confidential. Therefore, reviewers should not share or discuss the works they review with anyone.
 

 • Reviewers must upload their evaluation reports to the system within the time allotted to them. In the event of a possible delay, the editor should be notified and additional time requested.

• Reviewers may not request access to the author information of the work they are reviewing. Each work is evaluated anonymously.
• Reviewers are responsible for evaluating the work they review in terms of scientific content and in a manner that contributes to the quality of the work.
• Reviewers should clearly express their opinions on the work with supporting arguments. Reviewer reports should be objective and use clear and understandable academic language.
• Reviewers should check the bibliography and in-text citations of the work. If there are sentences that should be cited but are not supported by citations, the author should be notified. If copyright infringement or plagiarism is detected in the work, the editor should be informed.
• If the work is found to contain significant similarities to another published work, the editor should be informed.
• Reviewers may not use the entire work, any part of it, or the materials used in the work in their own work. Reviewers should not consider a work in which they have a conflict of interest. If any conflict of interest is detected, the editor should be informed.

Editorial responsibility:

Editors agree in advance to evaluate manuscripts submitted to the journal based solely on their scientific content, without regard to the authors' ethnic origin, gender preference, nationality, religious beliefs, or political philosophy. All information related to the submitted manuscript is guaranteed to remain confidential until publication. Editors keep information and ideas obtained through peer review confidential and do not use them for personal gain. They also ensure that subject editors do not use them. Editors cannot use submitted works or specific sections of the work for personal research purposes. They also ensure that subject editors and editorial board members do not use them. Editors pay attention to whether the content and quality of the proposed publication contribute to the scientific development of the field of economics and administrative sciences. The final decision regarding publication is made based on the importance, originality, contribution to the field and practice, validity of the work, and suitability for the scope of the journal. While the final decision rests with the editors, they may consult with subject editors and reviewers when making this decision. Editors do not evaluate articles by authors with whom they have personal connections that could lead to conflicts of interest. 

The evaluation of these articles is carried out by the field editors or members of the editorial board. This also applies in cases where editors have a conflict of interest with an institution/organization mentioned in the article. Editors agree to prevent any conflict of interest or competition that may arise between authors and reviewers. Editors request authors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest prior to publication. If a conflict of interest not disclosed by the authors is identified after the work is published, the work will be retracted (withdrawn) by the journal editors. The published article will be marked as retracted or removed from the journal.

Publication Policy

The publication rights of articles published in any medium belong to the Journal of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Bartın University. Authors submitting articles for evaluation are deemed to have accepted this rule in advance. Articles must be submitted via the Dergipark system in accordance with the conditions specified under the heading “Writing Rules.”

Articles submitted for publication must not have been previously published elsewhere. Submissions to the journal are first evaluated by the Journal Editorial Board for compliance with the journal's publication principles. The results of this evaluation are communicated to the authors within the process following the receipt of the work by the journal editorial board. Manuscripts submitted to the journal and deemed worthy of being sent to reviewers by the editor are sent to at least two reviewers who are experts in the relevant field. The identities of the reviewers and authors are kept confidential during this process. The journal editorial board makes the final evaluation based on the information received from the reviewers and sends the reviewer reports to the authors. For manuscripts requested to be revised during the final evaluation stage, the evaluation process starts again.

The editor makes the final evaluation based on the final reports received from the reviewers. The publication of a work submitted to the journal is based on the results of the peer review and the opinions of the journal editorial board. For all manuscripts that have reached the publishable stage from the referees' perspective, the final evaluation is conducted by the Editorial Board. Once the “publishable” decision is made, the manuscript is placed in the publication queue, and the final stage is communicated to the author(s). After this stage, the author(s) can not request withdrawal.
 

The following behaviors, which are considered unethical during the preparation and publication stages of a study, are rejected when submitted to the journal.

- Fabrication: Creating data that does not exist in the research, reporting it, or publishing it.

- Falsification: Altering research materials, instruments, procedures, and records, or changing the results in a way that could produce different results.

- Plagiarism: Using the ideas, methods, data, writings, and figures of others without acknowledging their authorship,

- Duplication: Submitting or publishing the same research results to more than one journal,

- Least Publishable Units: Publishing multiple papers by dividing the results of a study into parts in an inappropriate manner that compromises the integrity of the research,

- Failure to acknowledge the support of the funding institution or organization in presentations and publications containing the results of studies conducted with their support.

- Removing the names of those who have actively contributed to the research and article without the written agreement of the co-researchers and authors, or adding new authors or changing the author order due to contributions that are incompatible with authorship.

Articles in the journal are not official; they are published under the name of the author and reflect the author's views. They do not reflect the views of the faculty. If, despite the review, a work that meets the above characteristics (i.e., does not comply with publication ethics) is published in the journal, the author of the work is responsible for this.

Articles published in the journal may be quoted and cited. Persons or organizations that quote and publish the content of the article are liable under the law for any distortions that may occur in the content of the article. The Editorial Board may change words in the article as it deems necessary.

No fee (royalty) is paid for articles published in the journal. Articles submitted to the journal are not returned, whether they are published or not. The copyright of published articles and studies belongs to the Journal, while the legal and scientific responsibilities belong to the authors.

Special Issue Publication Policy

Upon the request of the Editorial Board, a special issue may be published once a year in our journal. Articles submitted for inclusion in the special issue are first subject to editorial pre-review. They are then reviewed for compliance with the journal's writing rules and similarity scanning is performed to prevent plagiarism. After these stages, they undergo a peer review process using a double-blind model.

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern

If editors identify minor errors in a published article that do not affect the findings, interpretations, or conclusions, they may consider publishing a correction. If there are major errors/violations that invalidate the findings and conclusions, editors should consider retracting the article. If there is a possibility that the research or publication has been misused by the authors; if there is evidence that the findings are unreliable and the authors' institutions have not investigated the matter, or if a possible investigation appears unfair or inconclusive, editors should consider publishing a statement of concern. COPE and ICJME guidelines are considered regarding corrections, retractions, or expressions of concern.

Plagiarism Action Plan and Journal Measures

The journal checks submitted works for plagiarism: Articles undergo preliminary screening and are scanned for plagiarism using TURNITIN software. If plagiarism/self-plagiarism is detected, authors are notified. Editors may subject the article to plagiarism checks at various stages of the evaluation or production process if necessary. High similarity rates may result in an article being rejected before acceptance and even after acceptance. This rate must be less than 20%.

The journal respects intellectual property and aims to protect and encourage the original work of its authors. Plagiarized articles are contrary to standards of quality, research, and innovation. Therefore, all authors submitting articles to the journal are expected to adhere to ethical standards and avoid plagiarism in any form. If a writer is suspected of plagiarism in a submitted or published article, the work is first reviewed by the journal's Ethics Editor. Subsequently, this work is reviewed by the Editorial Board. The journal then contacts the author(s) to send their explanations within two weeks. If the journal does not receive any response from the author within the specified period, it contacts the author's university and requests an investigation into the allegation.

The journal will take the following serious measures against published articles found to contain plagiarism:
1. The journal will immediately contact the university to which the author(s) belong for definitive action to be taken against the author(s).
2. The journal will remove the PDF copy of the published article from its website and disable all links to the full-text article. The phrase “Plagiarized Article” will be added to the title of the published article.
3. The journal will disable the author's account and reject all future submissions from the author for a period of 5 years.