Bozok Journal of Engineering and Architecture

Bozok Journal of Engineering and Architecture aims to contribute to national and international science by publishing original research articles, reviews, technical notes, proceedings and letters to the editor in the fields of Mechanical, Civil, Electrical-Electronics, Earth Sciences, Computer, Information Technologies, Energy, Industry, Environment, Automotive and all other engineering disciplines and Architecture, Design, City and Regional Planning.

Bozok Journal of Engineering and Architecture is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, periodical and multidisciplinary journal published biannually (June and December) in online format by the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. The abbreviated name of the journal is Bozok J Eng Arch. Bozok Journal of Engineering and Architecture has started its publication period since 2022. The manuscripts sent to the journal for evaluation must be in Turkish or English and must not have been previously published in another journal, not accepted for publication, nor in the evaluation stage for publication. All responsibilities of the studies in the evaluation process and the publications published in the journal belong to the author (s). Copyrights of the works published in the journal belong to Bozok Journal of Engineering and Architecture. No fee or compensation is required for the articles published in the journal. The manuscripts submitted to the journal are pre-checked by considering the conditions specified in the journal's editorial rules and the issues specified in the publication principles. For this reason, the manuscripts to be submitted to the journal should be properly prepared in accordance with these points. The manuscripts submitted to the journal are subjected to a preliminary technical review (in terms of form and content). Technically appropriate manuscripts are submitted to the Editorial Board and/or Field Editors by the Editor-in-Chief. The manuscripts that are evaluated by the relevant Field Editors or the board and deemed suitable for the journal are assigned to at least two (2) referees to start the review process. Bozok Journal of Engineering and Architecture applies the refereeing process according to the double blind peer review system. Referee evaluation processes of the studies take an average of 2-5 weeks. According to the evaluation reports received from the referees and Field Editors, the journal editorial office may decide to accept the manuscript for publication, to request corrections and/or additional information from the author(s), or to reject the manuscript. The final decision for the manuscripts submitted to the journal is made by the Editor-in-Chief.

Font and Page Layout
1. Submissions to Bozok Journal of Engineering and Architecture should be prepared in Times New Roman font, 10 pt, 1.15 line spacing and taking into account the article template.
2. The page layout for the studies to be submitted to the journal should be as specified in the article template. The manuscripts should be written in Times New Roman 10 font size, 1.15 line spacing, leaving 1.27 cm space from all edges of the page.
Abstract, Title, Keyword
3. All manuscripts submitted to the journal and written in Turkish must include an abstract in Turkish and English. The abstract should be prepared in Times New Roman font, 9 pt, justified and single-spaced.
4. Titles of the manuscripts should be written above the Turkish and English abstracts with the first letters of the first words capitalized, centered, Times New Roman, 14 pt. and bold.
5. The title of the article should be written in lower case except for the first word and proper names. The title page should include the full title in a sentence, full names of all authors and institutions. Information about the corresponding author should be written at the end of the first page. All required notices or disclaimers should be included on the first page.
6. The abstract should be placed immediately below the title, should give clear information about the research and the results obtained and should not exceed 250 words. The abstract should not contain citations. The title and abstract should not contain mathematical formulas.
7. Under the abstract, between 3-5 Keywords should be included in Turkish and English. The first letters of the keywords in the should be capitalized. Keywords should not contain abbreviations.
Article Text
8. The main headings should be in Times New Roman 11 font size 1.15 line spacing. Text content should be Times New Roman 10 font size and 1.15 line spacing. In subheadings, the initial letter of each word should be capitalized.
9. The paper should discuss the status of the study, outlining only the basic background and should not include findings or conclusions. The paper should not be a review of the subject area, but should end with a clear statement of the problem addressed. Abbreviations should first be defined in parentheses and then used as abbreviations.
10. Authors should use this template when preparing an article for submission to Bozok Journal of Engineering and Architecture. The article should be written in Microsoft Word. The text in the relevant sections of the template can be changed by typing or copying and pasting, and the styles given in the template can be used. There should be 1 line space between paragraphs.
11. For studies submitted for publication in the journal and prepared in Turkish, the order should be as follows: Turkish Title, Turkish Abstract, Keywords, English Title, English Abstract, English Keywords, and then Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, References and Appendices. The spelling guide and spelling rules of the Turkish Language Association (TDK) should be taken into consideration and Turkish equivalents should be preferred as much as possible instead of foreign words. Nevertheless, when words that are unfamiliar in Turkish are used for the first time in the text, their foreign-language equivalents should be given in parentheses. Jargon-free, short and concise Turkish should be used. Repetitive long sentences and the use of passive voice should be avoided. It is recommended to run the text through computer spelling and grammar programs. All manuscripts should be checked for compliance with the instructions for authors. Manuscripts that do not comply with the guidelines will not be sent to the referees for evaluation.
12. For manuscripts submitted for publication in the journal and prepared in English, the sequence should consist of Title, Abstract, Keywords followed by Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, References and Supplementary materials. British English rules should be taken into consideration for articles prepared in English.
13. Extensive quotations and discussions from published literature should be avoided. Research articles should not be longer than 15 pages and should have a limit of 40 references.
Section Titles
14. Research articles should be divided into the sections listed below. The main sections should be numbered sequentially (1. Introduction, 2. Materials and Methods, etc.), and subsections should be numbered 1.1., 1.2., etc. Titles of more than three degrees should be avoided. "References" section should not be numbered.
Symbols, Units and Abbreviations
15. If symbols such as ×, µ, η, ν are used, they should be inserted using Word's Icon menu. Microsoft Word equation should be used to write mathematical equations and formulas. Equations should not be in the form of pictures.
16. Use degree symbols (°) from the Symbol menu, not the superscript letter o or the number 0. Multiplication symbols (×) should be used, not the letter x. Space should be placed between numbers and units (e.g. 3 km) and between numbers and mathematical symbols (+, -, ×, =, <, >), but not between numbers and percentage symbols (e.g. 45%). Please use SI units.
In-text Citation
17. The reference list should include only works cited in the text and published or accepted for publication. Unpublished results and personal communications should not be included in the reference list. References should be numbered in square brackets in the text in the form of [1]. Do not use separate sets of brackets for citation numbers that appear together, e.g. [2,3,5-9] instead of [2], [3], [5]-[9]. All references cited in the article should be included in the bibliography list at the end and all references in the bibliography list should be cited in the article. It is recommended to use reference management programs (Mendeley, Zotero, Endnote, Refworks, etc.) for citation numbering.

Author Names
18. Author names should be in 10-point font and addresses in 9-point font. There should be no line spacing between author names and addresses.
Footnotes
19. Footnotes should be avoided as much as possible, but if very necessary, they should be placed at the bottom of the page and separated by a line.
Tables and Figures
20. First, simple findings can be presented directly in the text without the need for tables or figures. All illustrations (photographs, drawings, graphs, etc.), except tables, should be labeled "Figure". All tables and figures should have a title and/or description and be numbered (e.g. Table 1, Figure 2); in the case of a single table or figure, the table or figure should be labeled "Table" or "Figure". Captions should be written in sentences (e.g. Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm). The font used in figures should be Times New Roman. If symbols such as ×, μ, η or ν are used, they should be inserted using Word's Symbol menu. All tables and figures should be numbered consecutively as they are cited in the text. Tables and Figures should be placed next to the relevant text.
21. The resolution of the images should not be less than 118 pixels/cm when the width is set to 16 cm. Images should be scanned at 1200 dpi resolution and should be in jpeg or tiff formats. Graphs and diagrams should be drawn with a line thickness between 0.5 and 1 point. Graphs and diagrams with a line thickness of less than 0.5 point or more than 1 point are not accepted. Scanned or photocopied graphs and diagrams are not acceptable. Figure style is given below.
22. Figures that are graphs, diagrams or drawings must be submitted in an editable format, so that graphics staff can modify them. Also all tables must be presented as editable text, not as images, excel or pdf. They should not be pasted as image files (tiff, jpeg or eps) unless they are photographs. Tables and figures, including the title, column headings and footnotes, should not exceed 16 × 20 cm and should not be less than 8 cm wide. For all tables, please use Microsoft Word's Table feature.
Acknowledgement
23. Authors should indicate the technical assistance, source of special materials, financial support. The names of the funding organizations should be written in full.

Author Contributions
24. The contributions of all authors in the study should be clearly indicated.

References
25. Do not include personal communications, unpublished data, websites or other unpublished material as references, even if such material is included in the text (in parentheses). If the author of a reference is an institution or organization, use its name in the reference list (using an abbreviation in the citation if appropriate); do not use "Anonymous". In case of publications in languages other than English, the published English title, if any, should be given with a description such as "(Turkish article, with English abstract)". References should be listed in order of first occurrence in the text. All authors should be included in the reference lists unless there are 4 or more, in which case only the first 3 should be given, followed by 'et al.'. Check carefully to make sure that the spelling of author names and years are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list. References should be formatted according to the IEEE standard as follows (please note punctuation and capitalization): It is recommended to use reference management programs (Mendeley, zotero, endnote, refworks, etc.) to create bibliographies.

Journal Article
[1] L. Deng and D. Yu, "Deep Learning: Methods and Applications," Found Trends Signal Process, vol. 7, no. 3-4, pp. 197-387, Jun. 2014, doi: 10.1561/2000000039.
[2] N. L. Panwar, S. C. Kaushik, and S. Kothari, "Role of renewable energy sources in environmental protection: A review," Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev., vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1513-1524, Apr. 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2010.11.037.
Book
[3] Y. A. Cengel, M. A. Boles, and M. Kanoglu, Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach. McGraw-Hill Education, 2018.
[4] K. Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History. Thames & Hudson, 2020.
Book Chapter
[5] S. Lattemann, S. G. S. Rodriguez, M. D. Kennedy, J. C. Schippers, and G. L. Amy, "Environmental and Performance Aspects of Pretreatment and Desalination Technologies," in Advances in Water Desalination, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012, pp. 79-195. doi: 10.1002/9781118347737.ch2.
[6] J. Pirskanen, K. Ranta-aho, R. Ruismäki, and M. Uusitalo, "Wireless Spectrum for 5G," in 5G for the Connected World, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2019, pp. 35-50. doi: 10.1002/9781119247111.ch2.
Conference Proceedings
[7] L. Katsman, V. Dubovsky, G. Ziskind, and R. Letan, "Experimental Investigation of Solid-Liquid Phase Change in Cylindrical Geometry", ASME/JSME 2007 Thermal Engineering Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2007 InterPACK Conference, Aug. 2009, pp. 239-244. doi: 10.1115/HT2007-32354.
[8] L. Liu and H. Miao, "A specification-based approach to testing polymorphic attributes," in Formal Methods and Software Engineering: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2004, Seattle, WA, USA, November 8-12, 2004, J. Davies, W. Schulte, M. Barnett, Eds. Berlin: Springer, 2004. pp. 306-19.
Theses
[9] S. Ebadi, "Performance Enhancement of Thermal Energy Storage System using Bio-based Composite PCM," PhD Dissertation, The University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 2018.
Web Page
[10] DHMI, "Statistics.", http://www.dhmi.gov.tr/istatistik.aspx. [Accessed: 13-Sep-2016].
26. Authors who encounter situations not specified in the writing rules should take into account the issues adopted in scientific articles.
a.The author retains the copyright of the work and gives the journal the right of first publication. The work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license, allowing it to be shared by others, provided that the author is acknowledged and the work is first published in this journal.
b. The author may make separate contractual arrangements for distribution of the version of the work published in the journal without full authorization (e.g., submission to an institutional database or publication in a book).
c. Authors are encouraged to share their work online (e.g., in an institutional database or on their own website) before or during the submission process, which can lead to fruitful exchanges of ideas as well as earlier and more frequent citation of the work (see Impact of Open Access).
NOTE:
a. Manuscripts should be prepared as specified in the writing rules and template and sent to the journal as a Word file.
b. Copyright Form printout should be obtained from the system, after filling in the necessary information, it should be signed by all authors and submitted in PDF format.
c. Corrections indicated on the manuscript during the preliminary control phase will be shown only once as an example. The manuscript should be edited by the author(s) in line with the explanations and sample markings and similar errors should be corrected. (e.g. if there is an edit in the reference notation of the study, all other references should be controlled).
d. Unless the arrangements specified in the preliminary control phase are completed by the author, the manuscript will not be evaluated.
e. Edits specified by the Typesetting and Design team during the publication phase must be finalized by the specified date. Failure to do so will result in your article being published in the next issue.

- Bozok Journal of Engineering and Architecture is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, periodical and multidisciplinary journal published electronically twice a year (June and December).
- Studies submitted to the journal are evaluated by at least two referees.
- In our journal, the referee process is carried out according to the double blind peer review system.
- Accepted studies will be published according to the date of acceptance.
- The journal operates with an open access system. Studies published in the journal issues can be accessed free of charge.
- No fee is charged at any stage for the studies sent to the journal.

No fee is charged for the works submitted to Bozok Journal of Engineering and Architecture or accepted for publication.