In accordance with the publication rules of Sivas Cumhuriyet University Journal of Engineering Faculty, in studies that require Ethics Committee Permission/legal/special permission, the statement indicating where, in what scope, on which date and issue number the Ethics Committee Permission was obtained must be stated in the article when submitting the article to the Journal.

If it is determined that the author(s) of the article have used falsified and fabricated data, this situation will be reported to the institution where the authors work and the article will be rejected. The upper limit of the plagiarism rate is set as 20% (except for References) and articles with a plagiarism rate exceeding 20% will not be evaluated. For similarity rate, the full text of your article, including the references section, should be scanned with the iThenticate program.

Authors must fill out the copyright transfer form for articles submitted to our journal.

Sivas Cumhuriyet University Journal of Engineering Faculty (CUMFAD) has published this guide in order for the publishers, chief editors, editors, referees and authors to act in accordance with both ethical rules and behaviors and scientific values and principles, with an awareness of scientific and academic responsibility. This guide is based on its general principles and the "Journal Editors' Practice Guide" published by the International Ethical Principles and Publication Policy Publication Ethics Committee in 2011. (Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011).

The Editor-in-Chief and members of the editorial board cannot share any information about a submitted article with anyone other than the relevant author, referees, potential referees, language editors, layout editor and other editorial consultants.

The Editor-in-Chief and members of the editorial board may not use unpublished materials provided in a submitted work for their own research without the express written permission of the author. The editor-in-chief assigns another member of the editorial board to carry out the preliminary review and evaluation stages of the publication in cases where the editors have conflicts of interest arising from collaboration or connections with any of the author/s, company/s or institution(s).

The editor-in-chief, together with the publisher, examines any behavior reported to be contrary to publication ethics, regardless of the date of publication. In case an unethical situation is detected according to COPE procedures, it is responsible for publishing a notification stating that there is an error, inconsistency or misdirection regarding the relevant publication.

The evaluation process in Sivas Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Engineering Journal is carried out on the principle of double-blind refereeing. Reviewers do not contact authors directly. Evaluation forms and referee reports are sent to the author(s) through the journal management system, thanks to the editor. Peer review helps improve the article through communication between the author and the editor and helps the editor make decisions about the work.

All authors mentioned in the article must have contributed significantly to the research. The author responsible for the correspondence that sends the article to the journal ensures that all contributing co-authors are included and that people who do not contribute are not included in the author list. Authors cannot be added or removed during or after the evaluation phase of the article.

This journal provides open access to its content based on the principle of making research freely available to the public, supporting a greater global exchange of knowledge.
It provides free access from the journal's website (https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/cumfad) and allows free download of its content. Both anonymous and registered users can read and/or download articles (CC BY-NC-4.0).