Bingol University Journal of Technical Sciences publishes two issues per year.

Scientific articles published in the journal must be written in English or Turkish.

The similarity rate of articles published in the journal must be under 20% by scanning the index. (In the 3rd step of the article upload process, your article will be examined with the intihal.net software integrated into the system interface. Necessary information is provided with system notifications in the relevant step)

Authors sign an agreement stating that the article has not been published on another platform before and approve the publication of the article by our journal.

The following points must be followed under the heading of ethical rules.

1- Separate ethics committee approval must be obtained for research conducted in all branches of science, including social sciences, and for clinical and experimental studies on humans and animals that require an ethics committee decision, and this approval must be stated and documented in the article.

2- Under this heading, information about ethical rules must be provided under separate headings for the referee, author and editor.

3- Articles should include a statement indicating that Research and Publication Ethics have been complied with.

4- Ethical principles should be stated under a separate heading in the journal and/or web page, referring to national and international standards. For example; in scientific articles sent to journals, the recommendations of ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) and the International Standards for Editors and Authors of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) should be taken into consideration.

5- 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 on the first/last page of the article. In case reports, information indicating that the informed consent/consent form was signed should be included in the article.

6- Copyright regulations must be observed for the intellectual and artistic works used.

Our journal expects authors, readers, researchers, referees and editors to comply with the principles regarding ethical rules during the publication process of the studies. In these studies, attention should be paid to the standard, general and specific ethical rules and responsibilities shared below, according to the open access guidelines published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

I. General actions against scientific research and publication ethics

a) Plagiarism: Presenting the ideas, methods, data, applications, writings, figures or works of others as one's own work, partially or completely, without citing them in accordance with scientific ethical rules,

b) Forgery: Producing data not based on research, editing or changing the presented or published work based on false data, reporting or publishing these, presenting a research that has not been conducted as if it has been conducted,

c) Distortion: Falsifying research records and obtained data, presenting methods, devices and materials not used in the research as if they were used, not evaluating data that is not in accordance with the research hypothesis, tampering with data or results to fit the relevant theory or assumptions, falsifying or shaping research results in line with the interests of persons and organizations from which support is received,

ç) Duplicate 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: Separating the results of a research into pieces in an inappropriate manner and citing each other in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research presenting as separate works in certain exam evaluations and academic incentives and promotions by publishing numerous publications without doing so,

e) Unfair authorship: Adding people who do not actively contribute to the article as authors, not including people who do actively contribute among the authors, changing the author order in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of those who actively contribute from the work during publication or in subsequent editions, using one’s influence to have one’s name included among the authors even though one has not actively contributed,

f) Other types of ethical violations: Not clearly stating the supporting persons, institutions or organizations and their contributions in the publications of research conducted with support, not complying with ethical rules in research conducted on humans and animals, not respecting patient rights in publications, sharing information in a work that one has been assigned to review as a referee with others before publication, using resources, places, facilities and devices provided or allocated for scientific research for purposes other than intended, making completely unfounded, unfounded and intentional accusations of ethical violation (YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, Article 8)

II. Responsibilities of Stakeholders

1. Responsibilities of Authors

· All data in the article must be declared to be real and original.

· It is mandatory to make any plagiarism, errors, suspicious situations and suggested corrections that are shown as a result of the preliminary evaluation or referee evaluation. If not, the reason should be stated consistently.

· The “References” of the article or research must be prepared completely and in accordance with the writing rules of our journal.

· Plagiarism and fake data must be avoided.

· The research must not be allowed to be published in more than one journal.

2. Responsibilities of Referees
Our journal administration is committed to the successful execution and improvement of the refereeing process within the framework of ethical publishing rules. Stakeholders and readers of the research are welcome to report any plagiarism, duplicate publication, inaccuracy, suspicious content or situations they see in the reviews published in our journal to turkdogafendergisi@bingol.edu.tr. The data obtained on the subject is reported to the relevant parties and the results are followed up. It is based on the following principles that referees must comply with.

· Evaluations must be conducted impartially.

· There must be no conflict of interest between referees and the stakeholders of the article in question.

· It must indicate that other articles, works, sources, references, rules and similar deficiencies related to the article have been completed.

· Articles evaluated based on the double-blind refereeing system or their referees must not be disclosed.

4. Responsibilities of Editors

· Editors have the responsibility and authority to accept or reject articles. They must use this responsibility and authority appropriately and on time.

· Editors must not have a conflict of interest regarding the articles they accept or reject.

· Editors must accept articles that are original and will contribute to their field.

· Editors must reject incomplete and erroneous research that does not comply with the journal policy, publication rules and level without being influenced in any way.

· Editors must allow incorrect, incomplete and problematic articles to be withdrawn before or after the referee report or to be published after being corrected.

· Editors ensure that articles evaluated by at least two referees are evaluated according to the double-blind refereeing system and keep the referees confidential.

Editors check the plagiarism status of articles and whether they are unpublished original research through the “İntihal.net” plagiarism program.

5. Plagiarism Policy

The scanning index of articles published in the journal is done with the İntihal.net software integrated into the DergiPark system. The similarity rate must be below 20%. (In the third step of the article upload process, your article will be examined with the intihal.net software integrated into the system interface. The necessary information is provided with system notifications in the relevant step)

Editors, referees and authors are required to comply with international publication ethics rules and that the articles comply with the writing rules.

Experimental Research Ethics Rules

In Experimental Research; In the publications of research conducted with support, it is mandatory to clearly state the supporting persons, institutions or organizations and their contributions to the research, to comply with ethical rules in research conducted on humans and animals, and to respect patient rights in publications within the context of the Experimental Research Ethics Rules. It is the fundamental principle of our journal not to harm the ecological balance and animal health in experiments within the scope of experimental research. The necessary ethical permissions for the studies to be conducted within this scope must be obtained from the relevant official institutions and added to the relevant file during the submission of the article to our journal. All responsibility in this regard belongs to the author.

Important Issues Preventing the Publication of Articles!

1. Plagiarism screening result is high

2. The Editorial Board does not approve

3. The author does not have an ORCID allocation number

4. The article is not prepared in accordance with the journal writing rules

5. The Turkish and English title and abstract are not missing or not prepared properly

6. Except for the special decision of the Editorial Board, the author exceeds two articles per year (no more than one in each issue)

7. The article is deemed inadequate in terms of content, layout, method, discussion, bibliography, language, etc. in the editorial preliminary review

8. In studies requiring an ethics committee document, the necessary document is not uploaded and the situation regarding the ethics committee document is not stated in the material and method section

9. Articles whose evaluation process cannot be completed before the journal enters the publication process cannot be published until the evaluation/revision process is completed.