Instructions to Contributors
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 which has been published twice a year since 1948 by Ankara University, accepts original research articles written in English in the fields of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Review articles written by eminent scientists can also be invited by the Editor.

Article-processing charges
The journal covers the publication costs for Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series B Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 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. Hard copies of the paper, if required, are due to be charged for the amount of which is determined by the administration each year.
Submission
All manuscripts should be submitted via our online submission system https://dergipark.org.tr/en/journal/3239/submission/step/manuscript/new
Note that only two submissions per author per year will be considered. Once a paper is submitted to our journal, all co-authors need to wait 6 months from the submission date before submitting another paper to Commun. Fac. Sci. Univ. Ank. Series B.

Cover Letter
The manuscripts should be submitted in the PDF form used in the peer-review process and the COVER LETTER, and the SOURCE FILE (see the template). The authors should suggest the most appropriate Area Editor for the manuscript and potential four reviewers with full names, universities, and institutional e-mail addresses in the cover letter. Proposed reviewers must be experienced researchers in your research area, and at least two of them should be from different countries. Besides, proposed reviewers must not be co-authors, advisors, students, etc., of the authors.
In the cover letter, the author may enter the name of anyone who he/she would prefer not to review the manuscript with a detailed explanation of the reason.

Note that the editorial office may not use these nominations, but this may help speed up selecting appropriate reviewers.

Preparing your 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.

Title Page
The title page should contain the title of the paper, full names of the authors, affiliations addresses, and e-mail addresses of all authors. Authors are also required to submit their Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)’s which can be obtained from http://orcid.org as their URL address in the format http://orcid.org/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx. Please indicate the corresponding author.

Abstract and Keywords
The abstract should state the purpose of the research briefly. The length of the Abstract should be between 50 to 5000 characters. At least 3 keywords are required.

Formulae
Formulas should be numbered consecutively in the parentheses ( ).

Tables
All tables must have numbers (TABLE 1) consecutively following their appearance in the text and a legend above the table. Please submit tables as editable text, not as images.

Figures
All figures must have numbers (FIGURE 1) consecutively following their appearance in the text and a caption (not on the figure itself) below the figure. The required final resolution is 300 dpi for colored images (RGB), 300-600 dpi for black and white images, and 600-1200 dpi for line art. Pictures and line drawings should be saved in TIFF format.
Authors Contribution Statement, Declaration of Competing Interests, Acknowledgements
Authors Contribution Statement, Declaration of Competing Interests, and Acknowledgements should be given at the end of the article before the references.

References
The following format for the references should be used. All citations must be listed in the references part and vice versa. A number of the references (numbers in squared brackets) in the list can be in alphabetical order or in which they appear in the text. Use of the DOI is highly encouraged. Formal abbreviations of the journals can be used. Below, It has no relationship with the text but can be used to show sample citations such as; for articles [1, 4], for books/booklets/theses [3], and proceedings/conferences, etc. [2].

[1] Demirci, E., Unal, A., Özalp, N., A fractional-order SEIR model with density-dependent death rate, Hacet. J. Math. Stat., 40 (2) (2011), 287–295.
[2] Gairola, A. R., Deepmala, Mishra, L. N., Rate of approximation by finite iterates of q-Durrmeyer operators, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India Sect. A Phys. Sci., 86 (2) (2016), 229–234.
[3] Lehmann, E. L., Casella, G., Theory of Point Estimation, Springer, New York, 2003.
[4] Özalp, N., Demirci, E., A fractional-order SEIR model with vertical transmission, Math.Comput. Model., 54 (1-2) (2011), 1–6, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcm.2010.12.051
The authors should suggest the most appropriate Field Editor for the manuscript and potential three reviewers with full names, universities, and institutional e-mail addresses in the cover letter. The proposed reviewers must be experienced researchers in the area of research. Besides, the proposed reviewers must not be co-authors, advisors, students, etc., of the authors.
In the cover letter, the author may enter the name of anyone who he/she would prefer not to review the manuscript with a detailed explanation of the reason.
Note that the editorial office may not use these nominations, but this may help speed up selecting the appropriate reviewers.

Peer Review Policy
The Editor may seek the advice of two, or three referees, depending on the referees' response, chosen in consultation with appropriate members of the Editorial Board, from among experts in the field of specialization of the paper. The reviewing process is conducted in strict confidence, and the identity of a referee is not disclosed to the authors at any point since we use a single-blind peer-review process.
Copyright
Ø Copyright on any open access article in Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series B Chemistry and Chemical Engineering is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).
Ø Authors grant the Faculty of Sciences of Ankara University a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
Ø Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained. Its original authors, citation details, and publisher are identified.
It is a fundamental condition that articles submitted to COMMUNICATIONS 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 are the sole responsibility of the authors.

Declarations/Ethics
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 manuscript contents will not be copyrighted, submitted, or published elsewhere, while acceptance by the Journal is under consideration.
* The article is clean in terms of plagiarism, and the legal and ethical responsibility of the article belongs to the author(s). Author(s) also accept that the manuscript may go through plagiarism check using IThenticate software;
* The objectivity and transparency in research and the principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed. Authors have also declared that they have no potential conflict of interest (financial or non-financial), and their research does not involve any human participants and/or animals.
* They cannot submit a manuscript if they already have a manuscript in process.

Archiving
Research papers published in Communications Faculty of the Sciences University of Ankara are archived in the Library of Ankara University (Volume 1-60) and DergiPark immediately following publication with no embargo.