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Author Guidelines

Title of the Manuscript

The title of the manuscript should be written in Times New Roman, 14 pt, bold, centered, and with the initial letters capitalized.

Abstract

The abstract should be written in Times New Roman, 10 pt, justified, and should not exceed 150 words.

Section Headings and Main Text

Section headings should be written in Times New Roman, 11 pt, bold, and in capital letters. The main text should be written in Times New Roman, 11 pt, single-spaced, and justified.

In-Text Formatting

Paragraphs should be justified, and no indentation should be used. Paragraph spacing should be set to 6 pt before and after, and line spacing should be single.

Page margins should be arranged as follows: top margin 3 cm, bottom margin 2 cm, left margin 1.5 cm, right margin 1.5 cm, header 1 cm, and footer 1 cm.

Footnotes throughout the manuscript should be written in Times New Roman, 8 pt.

In-text citations should be arranged in accordance with the citation system adopted by the journal.

Presentation of Tables and Figures

Table titles should be written in 11 pt and centered. The initial letters of the words in the table title should be capitalized, except for conjunctions and prepositions. Intermediate lines should not be used in tables. Tables should be justified by using the “AutoFit to Window” option. The text within tables should be written in 9 pt. The spacing between the table number, table title, table, and table rows should be set to 1 pt. Source information below the table should be written in 8 pt. A one-character space should be left between the last row of the table and the following paragraph.

Figures should be centered on the page. If a figure is too large for the page, it should be adjusted by using the “AutoFit to Window” option, as in tables. Figure numbers and titles should be placed above the figure, centered, and written in 11 pt. Except for proper nouns, only the first letter of the figure title should be capitalized. The figure title should not be written in bold. However, the figure number, such as “Figure 1.” or “Figure 2.”, should be written in bold. Source information below the figure should be written in 8 pt. A one-character space should be left between the figure and the following paragraph.

Research and Publication Ethics Statement

This section should state that the manuscript has been prepared and conducted in accordance with research and publication ethics principles. For studies requiring ethics committee approval, the relevant approval should be clearly stated in this section, including the name of the ethics committee, decision date, and approval number. For studies that do not require ethics committee approval, this should also be stated with an appropriate justification.

The standard statement to be used is as follows:

The entire process of the manuscript was carried out in compliance with the research and publication ethics guidelines of the Celal Bayar University Journal of Science.

Example statement for studies with ethics committee approval:

Ethics committee approval was obtained from [Name of Ethics Committee] with the decision dated [date] and numbered [decision number].

Example statement for studies that do not require ethics committee approval:

Ethics committee approval was not required for this study, as it did not involve human participants, animals, personal data, or any procedure requiring ethical approval.

Author’s Contributions

This section should be completed during the final proofreading stage, after the manuscript has been accepted for publication. The contributions of each author should be clearly and explicitly stated.

Example format:

Name Surname: Drafted and wrote the manuscript, performed the experiment and result analysis.

Name Surname: Assisted in analytical analysis on the structure, supervised the experiment’s progress, result interpretation and helped in manuscript preparation.

Acknowledgement

This section should be completed during the final proofreading stage, after the manuscript has been accepted for publication. Authors may acknowledge technical assistance, the provision of special materials, financial support, and the institutional or organizational support under which the study was conducted. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

References

The reference list should be written in Times New Roman, 9 pt. Paragraph spacing should be set to 0 pt before and after, hanging indent should be 0.5 cm, and line spacing should be single.

References should be listed at the end of the manuscript under the heading “REFERENCES” and numbered in square brackets. The following examples should be followed for reference formatting:

[1]. Şirin, K, Doğan, F, Şirin, M, Beşergil, B. 2017. Mechanical and thermal properties of Polypropylene (iPP)-High density polyethylene (HDPE) binary blends. Celal Bayar University Journal of Science; 13(1): 15-23.

[2]. New, TR. Insects as Predators; New South Wales Univ. Press: Kensington, Australia, 1991; pp 178.

[3]. Hana, Y, Zhou, Z, Wu, H, Nie, H, Lei, R, Bai, Y, Liu, H. 2012. Simultaneous determination of jasmonic acid epimers as phytohormones by chiral liquid chromatography–quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry and their epimerization study. Journal of Chromatography A; 1235: 125–131.

[4]. Brown, B, Aaron, M. The politics of nature. In: Smith J, editor. The rise of modern genomics. 3rd ed. Wiley: New York; 2001. pp 230-257.

[5]. Cancer Research UK. Cancer statistics reports for the UK. Available from: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/ Accessed: 13.03.2017.

[6]. Garrone, E, Ugliengo, O. In Structure and Reactivity of Surfaces, proceedings of the European Conference, Trieste, Italy, 1988, pp 13-20.                     

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES and PUBLICATION POLICY

Celal Bayar University Journal of Science (CBUJOS) has adopted the principle of publishing qualified scientific studies in the fields of science and engineering. In this context, our journal publishes articles that comply with the principles and guidelines set out in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) website.
The authors of the article will be informed and their studies will be rejected, in the case of determining the situations such as misquotation, incorrect transferring and distortion of the data created in the articles by the authors, transferring of the study without including scientific data, and submission of the translation of the published paper in Turkish full text to our journal. All stakeholders (Editor, Author, Reviewer, Publisher, and Reader) who contribute to the publication of scientific work are expected to comply with the Publication Ethics and Journal Policy. In line with these expectations, the duties and responsibilities of the stakeholders are listed below:

Editorial Board Member’s Responsibilities

The Editorial Board members are responsible for increasing the scientific quality of Celal Bayar University Journal of Science and making an effort to be indexed in various scientific platforms.
The Editorial Board members attach importance to the confidentiality of the articles submitted to the journal, does not share any information about these articles with third parties, does not provide information about the authors mentioned in the articles, and does not share any information about the authors and the referees.
The selection of the referees in a transparent manner considering the working topics and sending these articles to the referees will be carried out by the Editorial Board members. It is decided by the Editorial Board members to determine acceptance / rejection status of articles after reviewed referees’ reports and answers of Authors’ to them.
In the decision-making phase, the Editorial Board members pay attention to the contribution of the article to the field, to be distinguished from other studies related to the relevant field, to the validity of the research methods, to the clarity of the narration and to a sufficient number of references.
Editorial Board members take the manuscripts prepared in accordance with the template of CBUJOS in the precursory check stage in terms of the plagiarism and originality and if deemed appropriate, the articles are sent to the referees for evaluation. The articles without an author's name are sent to the referees to be evaluated in accordance with the blind review process. The evaluations and suggestions from the referees are sent to the authors without sharing the referee information. After the necessary corrections, the final decision regarding the publication of the article in the journal is made by the Editorial Board members.

Referee’s Responsibilities

The referees declare that these articles are for their specialty while they agree to evaluate the articles sent to them.
Referees are required to respond positively / negatively to the proposals for evaluating the articles within the prescribed time.
The referee (s) who agreed to evaluate the article is responsible for evaluating the article within the time period given to them.
Within the framework of the Code of Ethics, referees should stay away from conflicts of interest, and if they recognize that any work is based on a conflict of interest, they should inform the Editorial Board members and refuse to evaluate the work.
Referees should act in accordance with the principles of confidentiality and impartiality during and after the evaluation process. Besides, they need to fill out the Publication Evaluation Form, and make positive / negative comments regarding the article with integrity.

Author’s Responsibilities

The authors should not submit their manuscripts to our journal if it is under evaluation in another journal.
Authors should submit their manuscripts to our Journal, obeying the Ethical Principles and Rules. In this context, if necessary, the Ethical Committee Approval Letter should be sent to our Journal at the time of application.
All the situations in which the Ethics Committee Decision is required / not required should be explained with a paragraph above the “References” subtitle in the article.
The authors are responsible for the content, narration, language and originality of the manuscripts which they submit. In terms of the plagiarism control using program named iThenticate, the manuscript will be rejected in the case of determining of its similarity more than 27%.
If the data used by the authors in their manuscripts are taken from the institutions / organizations, they should also need to submit a document showing the approval of the relevant institutions / organizations to our Journal.
Accepted manuscripts should be reviewed by the authors for proofreading (pre-approval) before they are proceeded to publish in our journal, and the necessary approvals should be made within the specified period and should be allowed to publish. Authors who request any changes after the article is published should contact the Editorial Board members within the first 3 days after publication.
Authors should use the contact button which is placed on the Dergipark Web Page in all kinds of correspondence about the article. Correspondence sent to the editors' personal e-mail addresses will not be taken into account within the framework of the Code of Ethics.

Journal Policy

CBUJOS is an open access journal and no fee is requested from the authors to be evaluated and published by our journal. The evaluation process of our journal is given below:
Additional time for all cases where the processing period is over: 10 days
Maximum time required for new article processing: 10 days
Maximum time given to the secretary while on the secretary step: 10 days
Maximum time required for editor to take over the article (Check Completed Step): 10 days
Maximum time required for editor to continue processing after taking on it (Step in Editor): 10 days
Maximum time to continue processing after the article is ready for decision: 15 days
Maximum period for the editor to make a decision (Awaiting Decision Step): 20 days
Maximum time given to the editor for the publication process after the manuscript accepted (Publication Process Step): 20 days
Maximum processing time for Spelling-Language, Statistics, Layout Editor, and Proofreader: 10 days
Response time to the invitation sent to the author to take action: 10 days
Time given to author to process: 7 days
Response time to the invitation sent to the referee to evaluate: 7 days
Evaluation period given to referee: 20 days