Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series B Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Publication Ethics, Malpractice Statement, and Publication Policy

Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series B Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (Commun. Fac. Sci. Univ. Ank. Series B) is a single-blind peer-reviewed open access journal that has been published biannually since 1948 by the Faculty of Sciences of Ankara University, accepts original research articles written in English in the fields of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.

Faculty of Sciences of Ankara University takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities.

The editorial board pursues the best practice guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). To guaranty the integrity of the published papers, Commun. Fac. Sci. Univ. Ank. Series B editors are guided for using COPE’s flowcharts whenever they suspect an ethical issue about the paper they process. The authors, reviewers, editors, and owner of the journal are expected to be strictly committed to ensuring the policy of publication ethics and malpractice, and respect to the following statements:

Authors
Papers submitted to Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series B Chemistry and Chemical Engineering must be original and adhere to a high scientific and technical standard. The authors are expected to strictly follow the policy of publication ethics and malpractice

Copyright
Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series B Chemistry and Chemical Engineering is a free open-access journal licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). Thus, the authors accept the following conditions:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of its authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors grant the Faculty of Sciences of Ankara University to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details, and publisher are identified.

Authorship
It is a fundamental condition that articles submitted to Commun. Fac. Sci. Univ. Ank. Series B has not been previously published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. After the manuscript has been accepted for publication, the author will not be permitted to make any new additions to the manuscript.
Before publication, the galley proof is always sent to the author for correction. Thus it is solely the author's responsibility for any typographical mistakes which occur in their article as it appears in the Journal. The contents of the manuscript published in the Commun. Fac. Sci. Univ. Ank. Series B is the sole responsibility of the authors. Authors should not post their submitted work online in any sense, before or during the submission process, as this may cause nomenclatural problems.
With the submission of the manuscript authors declare that:

All authors of the submitted research paper have directly participated in the planning, execution, or analysis of the study;
All authors of the paper have read and approved the final version submitted;
The contents of the manuscript have not been submitted, copyrighted, or published elsewhere and the visual-graphical materials such as photographs, drawings, pictures, and documents within the article do not have any copyright issue;
The contents of the manuscript will not be copyrighted, submitted, or published elsewhere, while acceptance by the Journal is under consideration;
Authors are expected to keep accurate records of the data and to have an ethical attitude on processing data since intentional manipulation of the dataset to fit the desired results will be considered fraud. Graphics/Illustrations used to present data can only be manipulated to clarify the graphics. If so, the author must ensure that the manipulation does not lead to loss or misinterpretation of data. Techniques used to clarify images must be described in the caption part of the graphic/illustration.
They can not submit a manuscript if they already have a manuscript in process.
Plagiarism and self-plagiarism
Plagiarism is unacceptable and any suspicion of plagiarism will be investigated by the editorial team. The article must be clean in terms of ‘plagiarism’, and the legal and ethical responsibility of the article belongs to the author. Duplication of authors’ previous works (self-plagiarism) should also be avoided, or if necessary, it should be reported transparently and be fully cited in the publication itself.
The objectivity and transparency in research and the principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed. Authors must cite appropriate and relevant literature in support of the results presented in their manuscript. Authors who already published papers on the same topic are expected to include citations of these papers, but they are expected to avoid excessive and inappropriate self-citation.
There is no page limitation for the papers. That is why data and results gathered in the same framework should not be broken up into smaller publishable units. The authors are expected to publish their results obtained in a single framework as a unique and original publication.


Conflicts of Interest
There is a conflict of interest when someone is influenced in his/her choices or actions by a personal or financial interest such as recommendation of a reviewer, an editor’s decision, or interpretation of a result by an author. In this case, every suspicion of a conflict of interest should be reported to the editorial team of the Communications Faculty of the Sciences University of Ankara.
Authors should declare that they have no potential conflict of interest (financial or non-financial). If any, authors must declare all potential interests in a ‘Conflicts of interest’ section, which should explain why the interest may be a conflict. Declared conflicts of interest will be considered by the editor and reviewers and included in the published article. If conflicts of interest are found after publication, this may be embarrassing for the authors, the Editor, and the journal. It may be necessary to publish a corrigendum or reassess the review process.

Human or animal subjects
Authors should declare that their research does not involve any human participants and/or animals. Otherwise, when reporting experiments with human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human/animal experimentation. For manuscripts reporting medical studies involving human/animal participation, authors are required to provide a statement identifying the ethics committee that approved the study and confirming that the study conforms to recognized standards.

License Agreement of the Authors
In submitting an article to any of the series of the Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara, The Author/Corresponding Author certify that:

1. He/She is authorized by his/her co-authors to enter into these arrangements.

2. He/She warrants, on behalf of himself/herself and his/her co-authors, that:

The article is original, has not been formally published in any other peer-reviewed journal, is not under consideration by any other journal, and does not infringe any existing copyright or any other third party rights;
He/She (and co-authors) is(are) the sole author(s) of the article and have full authority to enter into this agreement and in granting rights to Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara are not in breach of any other obligation;
The article contains nothing that is unlawful, libelous, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy;
He/She (and co-authors) has(have) taken due care to ensure the integrity of the article. To his/their - and currently accepted scientific - knowledge all statements contained in the article claiming to be facts are true and any formula or instruction contained in the article will not if followed accurately, cause any injury, illness, or damage to the user.
Article-processing charges

The publication costs for the Communications Faculty of the Sciences University of Ankara are covered by the journal, so authors do not need to pay article-processing and submission charges. The PDF copies of accepted papers are free of charge and can be downloaded from the website https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/cfsuasmas. We print very limited hard copies that we believe helps us fulfill our commitment to care of the earth for ourselves and the next generations. That is why, hard copies of the paper, if required, are due to be charged for the amount of which is determined by the administration each year. Hard copies of the issues are also available in the libraries of the Institutions having bilateral agreements with the Faculty of Sciences of Ankara University, and the articles published are deposited in a trusted digital repository (LOCKSS).

Manuscript
Manuscripts should be typeset using a word processor editor. Authors should prepare the article using the COMMUNICATIONS style before submission to the editor via our submission system. A template of the manuscript can be downloaded in .docx format (or can be reviewed in .pdf format). For more information please visit the web page Author Guidelines.

It is a fundamental condition that articles submitted to the Communications Faculty of the Sciences University of Ankara have not been previously published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. After the manuscript has been accepted for publication, the author will not be permitted to make any new additions to the manuscript.

Before publication, the galley proof is always sent to the author for correction. Thus it is solely the author's responsibility for any typographical mistakes which occur in their article as it appears in the Journal. The contents of the manuscript published in the Communications Faculty of the Sciences University of Ankara are the sole responsibility of the authors. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.
When errors are identified in published articles, the publisher team of the Communications Faculty of the Sciences University of Ankara will consider what action is required and may consult the editors and the authors’ institution(s). Errors by the authors may be corrected by a corrigendum and errors by the publisher by an erratum. If there are errors that significantly affect the conclusions or there is evidence of misconduct, this may require retraction or an expression of concern following the COPE Retraction Guidelines.

Article Processing Time

Two months are given to the reviewers for the evaluation of the paper. The total processing time of a paper ended up between three to six months, in general.

Editors

Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series B Chemistry and Chemical Engineering accepts original research articles written in English in the fields of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. The editor-in-chief makes the final decision of acceptance or rejection, based on the reviewers’ reports and the recommendation of the field editor in charge of the review process. If there is any conflict of interest between an editor and an author, the editor in question will not be involved in the review and the decision processes.
The “Submission/Managing System” which is used for manuscript submission/processing in Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series B Chemistry and Chemical Engineering uses a single-blind peer-reviewed system that hidden the reviewers’ comments to authors. Reviewers can also send attached files that can be communicated to the author with the reviewer’s name anonymously.
The names, affiliations, and email addresses entered in our journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Every suspicion of ethical issues will be investigated by the journal. Any suspicious case on ethical issues, misconduct, or conflict of interest can be reported to the editor in chief or the field editor who conducts the investigation. Editorial Board and reviewers/authors are encouraged for their opinion on the treatment of ethical issues. I the case of the involvement of other journals, the editor-in-chief will contact the journal to make a common decision if possible.
In the case of plagiarism, the retraction of a publication can be decided. The readers and all persons involved in the decision and publication process of the article and employer of the incriminated author (or reviewer) works will be notified.
Editors should decline to be involved with a submission when they have a financial interest, a recent publication, current submission, a collaboration, close personal connection with any author of the submission. Editors must also declare if they have previously discussed the manuscript with the authors.
The AMS Subject Classification Codes are rigorously followed by our editors.

Reviewers
Following the Pre-Review process handled by Managing Editor, Manuscripts that conform to journal scope and style will be sent to at least two reviewers by the Field Editor, who will then act as the coordinating editor.
Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series B Chemistry and Chemical Engineering applies single-blind peer review, which means that reviewers remain anonymous by default. But, if reviewers want their names to be communicated to the author, then Field Editor will allow it.
The reviewers are expected to evaluate the paper in an objective manner. Reviewers are expected to inform the Field Editor of potential conflict of interest and they should decline to be involved with a submission when they have a financial interest, a recent publication, current submission, a collaboration, close personal connection with any author of the submission. The reviewer must also declare if they have previously discussed the manuscript with the authors.
Confidentiality of the manuscripts they are reviewing should be maintained. Potential reviewers who decline to review a paper are encouraged to state the declining reason.