Journal of Values Education, published by Ensar Neşriyat (Istanbul/Türkiye). Journal of Values Education is published biannually every (25 June and 25 December).The ethical duties and responsibilities of The Journal of Values Education have been prepared based on the recommendations and guidelines developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

PUBLISHER'S ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Journal of Values Education is an Ensar Neşriyat publication. The publisher must observe the following ethical responsibilities below and act accordingly:
• Editors are responsible for all the processes that the manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Values Education will go through. Within this framework, regardless of the economic or political interests, the decision-makers are the editors.
• The publisher should guarantee an independent editorial decision.
• The publisher bears the responsibility to take the necessary precautions against all kinds of scientific abuse, fraud and plagiarism.
• The publisher does not charge authors any fee for submitting articles.

ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR EDITORS/EDITORIAL BOARD

Responsibility for Journal Content
Editor/Editors are responsible for each study published in the Journal. They should ensure the quality of the material they publish and maintain the integrity of the published record. In this respect, the editor/editorial board have the following roles and responsibilities:
• Editors should make decisions on academic merit alone and take full responsibility for their decisions.
• In order to evaluate the works fairly and impartially, editors should act in accordance with the principle of intellectual freedom.
• Following the procedures without making concessions on intellectual property rights and ethical standards.
• Making efforts to meet the demand for knowledge from readers and authors, and ensuring the continuous development of the journal.
• Keep the referee’s credentials confidential, and manage the review process accordingly.
• To improve the ways of journal processes, the editor should actively seek the views of editorial board members, reviewers, and authors.
• Editor should stay up-to-date with the latest researches related to refereeing and publishing, and reviews the journal processes in the light of new information.

Relations with the Readers
• Editor/editorial board should ensure that the published articles are original and make a contribution to readers, researchers, practitioners and the scientific area.
• Editor/editorial board have the responsibility to pay attention to the feedbacks from readers, editors and practitioners, and to report back in an explanatory and informative way.

Relations with Authors
• Editor/editorial board should ensure that all the manuscripts will go to the most appropriate and best-qualified reviewers.
• To avoid deviations from pre-determined processes, editor/editorial board must put efforts to be constantly in communication with the author.

Relations with the Referees
• During the appointment of the referee, the editor/editorial board should monitor if there is a conflict of interest between the authors and the referees.
• Since the evaluation procedure is based on a blind peer review method, editors should keep the referee’s credentials confidential.
• Referees should be encouraged to use an impartial, scientific and objective language when evaluating the manuscripts.
• Necessary works should be done to ensure that the referee pool is composed of different disciplines and constantly updated.
• Unkind and unscientific evaluations should be prevented.

Process of Refereeing and Evaluation
• Editor/editorial board; is obliged to apply the refereeing and evaluation process policies. In this context, the editor/editorial board should ensure the completion of the fair, impartial and timely evaluation process for each work.
• Referees can make a definite opinion about whether the study is publishable or not in the reports they prepare. However, the editor/editorial board can make a decision upon the similar and opposite opinions of other referees who evaluated the study.
• The editor/editorial board considers the strength of the arguments of the referees or authors, rather than the number of referees who have accepted or rejected the given study. The editor/editorial board considers reports with strong, justified propositions rather than reports with evaluation questions answered with mere yes or no.
• The referee may see that his/her views are not fully reflected in the study after publication. It is possible that other referees have different opinions and that the Editor/editorial board has taken these views into consideration. In this case, upon the request of the referee evaluating the work, the opinions of the other referees may be sent to the referee if the editorial board deems appropriate.
• According to the recommendations of the referees, the editor/edutorial board follows one of the following ways:
- Publish the work.
- Accept partial and significant changes and improvements to the publication.
- Can ask the author (s) to reorganize the work in accordance with the opinion of the referee and initiate a new evaluation process.
- He may reject the work.

Relations with Field Editors and Editorial Board Members
• The editor strives to identify suitably qualified field editors and editorial board members who will contribute to the development of the journal.
• Field editors and editorial board members are reviewed regularly.
• The Editor ensures that all members advance the processes in accordance with their editorial policies and guidelines. It informs members of the editorial board about the publishing policies and developments.
• The activities of field editors and editorial board members are evaluated impartially and independently.
• The editor sends the works that are appropriate within their area of expertise of the field editors and editorial board members for evaluation.
• The editor receives ideas from the fields editors and editorial board members about the management of the journal, reports the changes occurred in journal policies, and consults them for future plans.

Relationships with the Journal’s Owner and Publisher
The relationship between editors and the publisher is based on the editorial independence principle. In accordance with the written agreement between the editors and the publisher, all the decisions of the editors are independent of the publisher and the journal owner.

Protection of Personal Data
• The editor/editorial board rejects the study if there is no explicit consent of the individuals used in the studies containing personal data.
• Editor /edutorial board is responsible for protecting the personal data of the referees and readers.

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
Editors/edutorial board are responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all the articles published in the journal and the rights of the journal and author(s) in cases where these rights are violated.

Constructiveness and Openness to Discussion
• Editors/edutorial board must pay attention to the convincing criticism about studies published in the journal and must have a constructive attitude towards such criticism.
• Editors must grant the right of reply to the author(s) of the criticized study.
• Editors must not ignore or exclude the study that include negative results.

Complaints
Editor/edutorial board must examine the complaints from authors, reviewers or readers and respond to them in an explanatory manner.

Political and Economic Apprehensions
Neither the owner of the journal, publisher or any other political or economic factor can influence the independent decision taking of the editors.

Conflicting Interests
Editor/edutorial board, acknowledging that there may be conflicting interests between referees and other editors, guarantee that the publication process of the manuscripts will be completed in an independent and unbiased manner.

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.
• For detailed information, you can review our Ethical Principles page. Please click here to access our Ethical Principles page.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
• The Journal of Values Education Editorial Board (hereinafter, referred to as “Editorial Board”) and the editor/edutorial board are responsible for each article submitted to the Journal of Values Education, including the processes after its publication.
• Editorial board ensures the determination and implementation of journal policies such as publication, blind review, evaluation process and ethical principles.
• Putting the article into the referee process by the editorial board does not imply or guarantee that it will be accepted for publication. Even if the review process come out with positive decision for the publication, the editorial board have the final say.
• Editorial board promotes academic integrity. The editorial board ensures the authenticity of the written works by inspecting them through the iThenticate plagiarism prevention software before publication.
• The editorial board always examines the claims of plagiarism and abuse in regard to published articles. In case it is established that an author committed plagiarism, or used copyrighted material that belongs to third parties without proper and full reference and permission, The editorial board reserves the rights, including but not limited, to retract the article, inform the author’s head of department, dean of faculty and/or other academic institutions.

REFEREE'S ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
The Journal of Values Education evaluation process is carried out with double-blinded peer-review principle. Referees cannot communicate directly with the authors, and reviews and comments are transmitted through the magazine management system. In this process, the evaluation forms and referee comments on the full text are transmitted to the authors by the editor. In this context, it is expected that referees will have the following ethical responsibilities:
• They only accept work evaluation related to the field of specialization.
• They should evaluate within impartiality and confidentiality.
• If they think they are facing a conflict of interest during the evaluation process, they should inform the editor of the journal, refusing to review the work.
• In accordance with the Privacy Principle the studies they asses can only be used after publication.
• They should objectively evaluate only the content of the study. They should not allow nationality, gender, religious beliefs, political beliefs and commercial concerns to influence assessment.
• They should do assessment in a constructive and polite language. They should not make humiliating personal comments that include hostility, slander and insults.
• They should carry out the work on which they have accepted the assessment on time and within the framework of ethical responsibilities mentioned above.

AUTHORS' ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Author(s) sending works to The Journal of Values Education are expected to conform to the ethical responsibilities below:
• Author(s) are expected to send works that are unique. In case author(s) utilize other works or include other works, they are required to refer and/or quote fully and correctly.
• Individuals who do not intellectually contribute to the contents during the creation of the work must not be cited as authors. It is against the ethics of science to add people who do not have academic contribution as additional authors, or to rank authors with nonscientific criteria such as title, age and gender regardless of their contributions.
• Situations and relationships of all works sent to be published that could constitute a conflict of interest if any must be disclosed.
• Raw data may be requested of author(s) in the scope of evaluation processes, in such a case author(s) must be prepared to submit the expected data and information to the editorial board.
• Author(s) must possess a certificate that they have the right to use the data, the necessary permits regarding the research/analyses or the permission of the respondents that are queried.
• In the event that the author(s) becomes aware of an inaccuracy or error in their published, early view or under review manuscript, they have an obligation to notify the journal editor or publisher and to cooperate with the editor in correcting or withdrawing the manuscript.
• Author(s) may not apply their works to more than one journal. Each application may be initiated upon the completion of the previous application. Works that are published in another journal may not be submitted to the Journal of Values Education.
• Changing of the author liabilities (such as adding authors, switching the order of the authors, excluding authors) of any works whose evaluation process started cannot be proposed.
• It is assumed that the authors who submitted articles to the journal have read and accepted the ethical rules and publication principles and writing guidelines of the journal.
• 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 manuscript. In the case reports, it is necessary to include the information that the informed volunteer consent form is signed in the article. Authors should upload the ethics committee permission documents or the document stating that there is no need for an ethics committee decision during article submission.

PLAGIARISM POLICY
The authors, who submit their works to the Journal of Values Education, acknowledge that their works are original and properly cited.
Plagiarism is a violation of ethics, regardless of whether it is intentional or not. It is a criminal offense, unacceptable as well as it is unethical to have similar study to other resources without citing the sources. For this reason, the Journal of Values Education obliges a plagiarism inspection for all of the works that are going to be published.
The articles sent to the journal are expected to comply with journal writing rules, spelling-writing errors, and other general rules. Authors must upload a similarity report of their article during article upload. The articles sent to the journal are sent to the editor and editorial board for screening them if they meet the aforementioned requirements, then they are put through scanning software (currently iThenticate program). Screening the main text of the article while excluding bibliography and references, the similarity should not exceed 18%. In case of having 18-30% similarity rate, the author is contacted and the manuscripts;
1- Will be sent by the editor to the author for rework.
2- May get rejection from editor.
3- Can be sent to the editorial board for the inspection about the reasons of similarity.
However, if the similarity rate is more than 30%, even if the source is cited, the article may be rejected by considering that the study is weak in terms of originality and contribution to the field.

If plagiarism is detected in an article submitted or published in our journal, our journal acts in accordance with the COPE principles (Plagiarism in a submitted manuscript - Plagiarism in a published article).

IDENTIFYING ETHICAL ISSUES
The author bears the legal responsibility of the article published in the Journal of Values Education. If the reader notices an important error or mistake or if s/he has any complaints about editorial content (plagiarism, ethical violations, duplicate publication, etc.), he/she should raise their concern by writing via email sent to ded.dergi@gmail.com.

Apart from the readers, one of the stakeholders can also report their concern via email in case encountering behavior or content that does not comply with the ethical responsibilities mentioned above.
The Journal of Values Education acts in accordance with COPE rules in the face of allegations and suspicions of alleged misconduct, citation manipulation and data fraud.

Language of publication
Journal of Values Education accepts Turkish and English language articles. Articles should include English title, Öz/ abstract (200 word), keywords (3-5 concepts), extended abstract / summary (1500 words) and a bibliography in the APA-style. 
A 1500-word Turkish abstract is required for articles written in English. The Turkish extended abstract should have the same characteristics as the English extended abstract in terms of format. 

The Reference List and Citations Style
Sources used in both references list and in-text citation must conform to the rules of Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA),7th edition, published by American Psychological Association.

SPECIAL ISSUES
The Journal of Values Education can publish special issues with the decision of the editorial board. For articles to be published in the special issue, the publication and evaluation principles are applied as they are applied in the planned issues.