Editorial Policy

Editorial Responsibilities

The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board are responsible for deciding whether articles submitted to Cukurova University Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences (CUNAS) will be published or not. The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board are constrained by legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. They shall evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content free from any ethnic, gender, religious, or political prejudice and are fully responsible for ensuring that the reviewers remain anonymous to the authors. The information and ideas presented in submitted manuscripts shall be confidential and must not be used for personal gain.

Author's Responsibilities

The Authors warrant that their manuscript is their original work that has not been published previously and has not been under consideration for publication elsewhere (except for an academic thesis). Parallel submission of the same paper to another journal eliminates the manuscript from consideration by the journal. The Authors also warrant that the manuscript is not and will not be published elsewhere after the publication in Cukurova University Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences (CUNAS) in any language as well. It is the responsibility of each author to ensure that papers submitted to journals are written with ethical standards in mind. The authors affirm that the article contains no unfounded or unlawful statements and does not violate the rights of third parties. The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board as well as the Publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Reviewers Responsibilities

Reviewers evaluate manuscripts based on content without regard to ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, religious belief, or political philosophy of the authors. They must have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors, and/or the research funders. Their judgments must be objective.

Reviewers should identify the relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. They must ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept confidential and must report to the Editor if they are aware of copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author's side.

A reviewer who feels unqualified to review the topic of a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editor and excuse himself from the review process.

The editor informs the reviewers that the manuscripts are confidential information and that this is a privileged interaction. The reviewers and editorial board cannot discuss the manuscripts with other persons. The reviewers are not allowed to have copies of the manuscripts for personal use, and they cannot share manuscripts with others. Unless the authors and editor permit, the reviews of referees cannot be published or disclosed. The anonymity of the referees is important. In particular situations, the editor may share the review of one reviewer with other reviewers to clarify a particular point.

Reporting Standards

A submitted manuscript should contain sufficient detail and references to permit reviewers and, subsequently, readers to verify the claims presented in it. The deliberate presentation of false claims is a violation of ethical standards. Authors are exclusively responsible for the contents of their submissions and must make sure that they have permission from all involved parties to make the data public. Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or other materials that have already been published elsewhere are required to be referred to the reference used or to have permission from the copyright holders. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Authorship

Authors must make sure that only contributors who have significantly contributed to the submission are listed as authors and, conversely, that all contributors who have significantly contributed to the submission are listed as authors. If persons other than authors were involved in important aspects of the research project and the preparation of the manuscript, their contribution should be acknowledged in a footnote or the Acknowledgments section.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a clear violation of scientific ethics and may also involve a violation of copyright law, punishable by legal action. Please note that all submissions are thoroughly checked for plagiarism. Any paper which shows obvious signs of plagiarism will be automatically rejected, and those authors will not be permitted to submit papers to Cukurova University Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences (CUNAS) forever.

Important note: The journal may use software to screen for plagiarism.

Conflict of Interest and Funding

The Authors shall include a summary statement in the text of the manuscript in a separate section before the reference list if any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest might have influenced the presented results or their interpretation.

Open Access Policy

Cukurova University Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences (CUNAS) is an Open Access Journal and charges a fee, regardless of the acceptance/rejection condition, during the article application.

Self-Archiving Policy

Cukurova University Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences (CUNAS) allows authors to deposit Author's Post-print (accepted version) and Publisher's version/PDF in an institutional repository and non-commercial subject-based repositories or to publish it on Author's personal website (including social networking sites) and/or departmental website, at any time after the acceptance.

Copyright

The Authors retain the copyright of the published article and have the right to use the article in the ways permitted to third parties. Full bibliographic information (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages) about the original publication must be provided. The Authors grant to the publisher the right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media.

Disclaimer

The views expressed in the published works do not express the views of the Editors and Editorial Staff. The authors take legal and moral responsibility for the ideas expressed in the articles. The Publisher shall have no liability in the event of issuance of any claims for damages. The Publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree to abide by Cukurova University Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences (CUNAS)’s Editorial Policies.

Peer-Review Policy

General Information

Criteria for Publication

Cukurova University Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences (CUNAS) receives many more submissions than it can publish. Therefore, we ask peer reviewers to keep in mind that every paper that is accepted means that another good paper must be rejected. To be published in Cukurova University Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences (CUNAS), a paper should meet four general criteria:

Provide strong evidence for its conclusions.
Be novel.
Be of extreme importance to scientists in a specific field.
Ideally, interesting to researchers in other related disciplines.
In general, to be acceptable, a paper should represent an advance in understanding likely to influence thinking in a field. There should be a discernible reason as to why the work deserves the visibility of publication in Cukurova University Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences (CUNAS).

The Review Process

All submitted manuscripts are read by the editorial staff. To save time for authors and peer-reviewers, only those papers that seem most likely to meet our editorial criteria are sent for formal review. Those papers judged by the editors to be of insufficient general interest