Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 3/31/22

Year: 2022

Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi (CEBED) is a periodical that aims to contribute to scientific knowledge in the field of educational sciences by publishing qualified research and studies in the basic fields of Educational Sciences. It is aimed to spread scientific production and participation to academic units and to reflect the publication characteristics of the branches of science objectively.

Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi (CEBED) is published within the Institute of Educational Sciences. Scientific research and publication ethics principles are prioritized in the studies to be prepared. It includes experimental, review and compilation articles that directly concern the fields of pre-school, primary education, secondary education, higher education and adult education. It is a national refereed journal that includes science education, Preschool Education, Educational Sciences, Elementary Mathematics, Secondary Mathematics, Classroom Teaching and interdisciplinary studies with these fields.

1. Studies to be sent to the Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi for evaluation must be prepared in accordance with the spelling rules specified below.

2. Publication language is Turkish and English.

3. The length of a work should not exceed 8,000 words, including the main text, bibliography and appendices. Full texts will be prepared according to the journal template. Click for the magazine template.

4. Candidate studies should be prepared in accordance with the journal template. For studies that do not require or do not have an "Ethics Committee Certificate", the "Ethics Commitment" should be uploaded to the system by the responsible author.

5. In the works to be sent to the journal, a short summary should be written in Turkish and English, in 9 font size, Paletino Linotype, justified and in a single paragraph, and should consist of 150 words. The abstract should include the purpose, method, findings, main conclusions and recommendations of the research. You must place the Turkish summary of the article in this section.

6. Care should be taken that the tables and figures sent do not go beyond the page dimensions of the journal and comply with the APA-6 style. A table or figure should not overflow to the next page. If it comes to the end of the page and some of it is overflowing, it should be placed on the following page. In addition, 10 points and single spacing should be used in tables and figures.

7. Manuscripts should be prepared in Word format, on A4 size page, with a margin of 2.50 cm from the top, bottom, right and left, with Paletino Linotype font, 10 font size and 1 line spacing. Single line spacing should be used in tables and figures.

8. The introduction should be followed by the methods, findings, discussion and conclusion sections, respectively. In compilation type articles, this order may not be followed depending on the characteristics of the study. Method, Results, Discussion and Conclusion sections should not start on a new page, and after one section ends, the other section should be continued on the same page. The main text must include section titles and, if desired, sub-titles.

9. In the method part of the research; research design, sample/study group/research group, data collection tools and data analysis, and processing sections. In the method section, the method to be followed in the research should be expressed in a clear and understandable language that allows the repetition of the research. This information should include the type, design, universe and sample of the research, data collection tools, data collection and analysis information. Information about the ethics committee permission of the research should be added under the relevant heading after the article acceptance, without specifying the name of the institution.

11. In articles containing quantitative data analysis, the findings should include statistical analyzes used to test the research hypotheses, mean and standard deviation values ​​of each variable. Tables and figures should be included in the relevant section where they are explained in the study.

12. Research findings including qualitative data analysis should be placed in this section, in accordance with the purpose of the research, by giving direct quotations from the participants when necessary. Direct quotations of the participants, if any, should be given in italics as exemplified below, and the participants should be anonymized.

13. APA (6th Edition) style should be used for bibliography, in-text citations, headings, tables, figures.

14. For candidate articles, the corresponding author is expected to submit an Ethical Commitment. For candidate studies that do not require/do not require ethical approval, an "Ethical Commitment" is expected to be uploaded to the system instead of an "Ethics Committee Document". Click here for the Ethical Commitment.

15. All authors are expected to fill in the Copyright Transfer Form during the article submission process. Click here for the Copyright Transfer Form.

16. All candidate articles should be scanned with software such as iThenticate© and Turnitin© before submission, and these screening reports should be submitted with the article. The similarity rate of the entire article must be less than 20%. CEBED reserves the right to reject all candidate articles that carry academic plagiarism at the editorial stage.

The journal stated that it complied with the rules regarding "Publication Ethics", "Research Ethics" and "Receiving Legal/Special Permission", by opening a separate heading for each one of them, referring to international standards.

The issue of compliance with publication ethics in the journal is not left only to the responsibility of the authors, and the path to be followed in the journal publication ethics is clearly defined in the full text.

In articles to be published in the journal, whether ethical committee permission and/or legal/special permission is required should be stated in the article. If it is necessary to obtain these permissions, it should be clearly presented from which institution, on what date and with what decision or issue number.

If the study requires the use of human and animal subjects, international declaration, guide, etc. should be declared appropriate.

Studies published in our journal go through three important stages: preliminary review, blind peer-review process and editorial process. During the peer-review process, each article is reviewed by at least two referees.

No fee is charged for the articles published in our journal.