Ethical Principles

For the Authors
• The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation.
• Researchers should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation.
• Researchers should strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others.
• Researchers should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarised, and has not been published elsewhere.
• Authors should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work.
• The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting.
• Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed.

For the Reviewers:
• Reviewers should evaluate the studies of the authors from an honest, impartial and scientific perspective.
• The reviewers are responsible for keeping information about the study of the authors confidential.
• The reviewers should inform the editorial board when they encounter situations that do not comply with ethical rules, scientific perspectives and violate the rules of plagiarism in any study.

For the Editors
• Editors should make fair and unbiased decisions independent from commercial consideration and ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process
• Editors should adopt editorial policies that encourage maximum transparency and complete, honest reporting
• Editors should guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct
• Editors should pursue reviewer and editorial misconduct
• Editors should critically assess the ethical conduct of studies in humans and animals
• Peer reviewers and authors should be told what is expected of them
• Editors should have appropriate policies in place for handling editorial conflicts of interest

Publication Policy

Publication Review Period
The publication review process of the submitted articles is completed in about 3 months.

Publication Language
Turkish and English.

Publication Fee
Authors are not charged for the publication of the articles in our journal.

Plagiarism Checking
In our journal, iThenticate software is used to determine the similarity rate. Articles with plagiarism reports over 20% are rejected.

Open Access Policy

Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty (MAKU BIFD) provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research free available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication Process
Articles submitted to Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty are examined in a three-step process: "Preliminary Review", "Review" and "Editing". These processes are planned and implemented by the editorial board.
1- Preliminary Review Process
It is the general review made by the editorial board after the submission of the article by the author. In this context, the scope of the article, the suitability of the similarity ratio, the completion of the required documents, the compliance of the article with the author guidelines, the appropriateness and timeliness of the citations are examined. According to examination, the authors are asked to compansate for shortcomings if their articles do not meet the criteria mentioned above. The articles meeting the preliminary review criteria are transferred to the review stage.
2- Review Process
In this process, the articles are forwarded to two referees who are experts in their field to be determined by the editorial board. During the review process “double-blind review method” is applied, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. The referees inform the editorial board whether they can evaluate the work within 15 days after the article is sent to them. If the referee does not make a notification within the specified time or if he / she cannot evaluate it, a new referee is appointed for the study. The period given to referees for the review process is 30 days. At the end of this process, the referees can request it to be published as it is, give minor or major corrections or decide that it cannot be published.
Referees take into account the following criteria while making their decisions: The scientific quality of the article, its original contribution to the relevant discipline, compliance with the preparation systematic, compliance with scientific writing rules, consistency of title and content, the degree of benefiting from the literature, revealing the problem and the purpose of the study, the adequacy of the abstract prepared in both Turkish and English, comprehensibility of the language, the adequacy of the research method used, the understandability of the tables and figures added to the research, and inferring sufficient conclusions from the findings.
In cases when the referee requests a correction, the authors are expected to make changes in their study in line with the referee's comments and upload the study to the system as soon as possible. The referees examine the corrections made by the author and may decide whether they are appropriate or, if necessary, request corrections more than once. The corrected study is re-evaluated by the referees who want changes or corrections when necessary. In case of discrepancy in the referee reviews, the editorial board sends the study to another referee. If two referees report that the article is publishable then the articles are passed to the editing phase. On the other hand, getting negative reports from two referees leads to the rejection of the study. The editorial board decides on the publication of the studies in line with the referee opinions.
3- Editing Process
The typesetting and editing of articles is done during the editing process.

Article Withdrawal
A study whose referee review process has been initiated cannot be withdrawn by the author. In accordance with our Journal Publication Policy, withdrawal is carried out only in accordance with the decision made by the editorial board, if a reasoned petition signed by each author is sent. Unless the withdrawal request is approved by the editorial board, authors cannot send their study to another journal for evaluation.