For research in all disciplines that require ethics committee approval, an ethics committee decision must be obtained and information regarding the decision must be stated in the manuscript text. Our journal does not evaluate studies that do not have an ethics committee decision.

In studies requiring ethics committee authorisation, information about the authorisation (name of the committee, date and number) should be included in the text of the article. In case presentations, information about the signature of the informed consent form should be included in the article. Authors should upload their ethics committee authorisation documents or a document stating that there is no need for an ethics committee decision to the system during article upload.

In line with the decisions taken by Ulakbim TR Index, Ethics Committee Permission is required for studies to be published since 2020.

Research Requiring Ethics Committee Authorisation
All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment, interview techniques,
Use of humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
Clinical trials on humans,
Research on animals,
Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data.

Also;
Stating that copyright regulations are complied with for the intellectual and artistic works used
Obtaining and indicating permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others,
In case presentations, it must be stated that the ‘Informed Consent Form’ has been obtained.

Ethics Committee, Survey and Field Research, Human and Animal Rights
• The editor/editorial board takes care to ensure the protection of human and animal rights in the evaluated studies.
• It is responsible for rejecting the study in the absence of ethics committee approval for the subjects used in the studies and permissions for experimental research.
• All research on humans should be conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association (WMA) Helsinki Declaration for Medical Research in Human Subject).
• All experiments involving animals must comply with ARRIVE and ICLAS guidelines and be approved by the ethics committee.

DETECTION OF UNETHICAL SITUATIONS
The legal responsibility of the articles published in the Journal of Values Education belongs to the authors of the articles. If the reader notices a significant error or inaccuracy in an article published in the Journal of Values Education or has any complaint about the editorial content (plagiarism, ethical violations, duplicate articles, etc.), he/she can send an e-mail to ded.dergi@gmail.com.
In addition, if a stakeholder other than the reader encounters a behaviour or content that does not comply with the ethical responsibilities mentioned above, they can also report the situation via e-mail.
Journal of Values Education acts in accordance with COPE rules in the face of allegations and suspicions of plagiarism, citation manipulation and data falsification.