Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University Journal of Social Sciences is committed to national and international standards in research and publication ethics. In this context, it has adopted the Press Law, the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works, the Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive and the International Ethical Publishing Principles published by the Committee on PublicationEthics (COPE).

Publication of Studies Based on Surveys and Interviews
Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University Journal of Social Sciences adopts the “Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors” and “Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers” principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in order to create ethical assurance in scientific periodical publishing. In this context, the following points should be followed in the studies sent to the journal:
1) For studies requiring ethics committee approval and conducted in all branches of science (ethics committee approval must be obtained, this approval must be stated and documented in the article.
2) In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information regarding the permission (board name, date and issue number) should be included in the method section and also in the article.

Special Issue Publication Policy
Articles sent for inclusion in the special issue are first subject to an editorial preliminary review. Then, they are examined for compliance with the journal's writing rules and a similarity scan is performed to prevent plagiarism. After these stages, they are taken into an evaluation process using the double-blind model.

Article Retraction Process
Articles can only be retracted if they have not been formally published. To retract an article, authors must write a clear and concise letter that includes an in-depth explanation of why the article should be retracted. The letter must be signed by all authors. The journal reserves the right to retract an article for plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or other violations of ethical rules.

Plagiarism Action Plan and Journal Measures
The journal respects intellectual property and aims to protect and encourage the original work of its authors. Articles containing plagiarism are against quality, research and innovation standards. Therefore, all authors submitting articles to the journal are expected to comply with ethical standards and avoid plagiarism in any form.
The journal will immediately contact the university to which the author(s) are affiliated in case of any published article found to contain plagiarism. The journal will remove the PDF copy of the published article from its website and disable all links to the full-text article.

This journal checks for plagiarism in submitted works: Pre-checked articles are scanned for plagiarism. Authors will be notified if plagiarism/self-plagiarism is detected. 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 a paper being rejected before acceptance or even after acceptance. This rate is expected to be no more than 20% similarity, excluding the references and metadata, and no more than 5% similarity from a single source.

1. Author Responsibilities
• All authors must have contributed significantly to the research.

A statement that all data in the article is true and original is required.

• All authors must provide retractions and corrections of errors.
Authors must pay attention to the following scientific research and publication ethics:
• The reference list must be complete.
• Plagiarism and false data must not be included.
• The same research should not be attempted to be published in more than one journal, and scientific research and publication ethics must be followed. Actions that are against scientific research and publication ethics are as follows:
a) Plagiarism: Presenting others' ideas, methods, data, applications, writings, figures or works as one's own work, partially or completely, without citing their owners in accordance with scientific rules,
b) Forgery: Producing data that is not based on research, editing or changing a presented or published work based on false data, reporting or publishing these, presenting a research that has not been conducted as if it was conducted,
c) Distortion: Falsifying research records and obtained data, presenting methods, devices and materials that were not used in the research as if they were used, not evaluating data that is not in line with the research hypothesis, tampering with data and/or results to fit the relevant theory or assumptions, falsifying or shaping research results in line with the interests of persons and organizations receiving support,
ç) Re-publication: Presenting more than one work containing the same results of a research as separate works in associate professorship exam evaluations and academic promotions,
d) Slicing: Making multiple publications without citing each other and in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research by inappropriately dividing the results of a research into parts presenting them as separate works in the evaluation of associate professorship exams and academic promotions,
e) Unfair authorship: Including people who have no active contribution among the authors, not including people who have active contribution among the authors, changing the order of authors without justification and inappropriately, removing the names of those who have active contribution from the work during publication or in subsequent editions.

2. Responsibilities of Reviewers

• Reviews must be impartial.
• Reviewers must have no conflict of interest with the research, authors, and/or research funders.
• Reviewers must indicate relevant published but uncited works.

3. Editorial Responsibilities
• Editors have full responsibility and authority to accept or reject a paper.
• Editors must have no conflict of interest with respect to the papers they accept or reject.
• Only papers that contribute to the field should be accepted.
• When errors are found, they should support the publication or retraction of the correction.
• Reviewers must keep their names confidential and prevent plagiarism/false data. The review process is central to the success of scientific publication.

Bilecik Seyh Edebali University Journal of Social Sciences uses a two-stage process in the evaluation of submitted papers: internal editorial review and external review. Immediately after submission, the Editor-in-Chief/Editor checks the article for compliance with the journal's purpose and scope and ethical standards in research and writing. Articles that comply with the journal's publication policy are sent to one of the Associate Editors for formal review. The Assistant Editor reviews the article for compliance with the journal's writing rules and scans the article for plagiarism. The external evaluation process is initiated for articles that complete these processes. During the external evaluation phase, at least two external referees are selected by the Field Editor from among experts who have research on the subject of the article. Referees are determined from among researchers who have at least a PhD degree in the relevant field. Referees evaluate the article in detail in terms of its subject, method and results and express their opinions on whether it should be published or not. Articles that are evaluated are subject to double-blind peer review. Articles that are accepted by at least two referees are prepared for publication. The work accepted for publication is read for the last time by the Editor-in-Chief/Editor. It is then sent for English language control.