Instructions for Authors

Düzce University Journal of Forestry (DÜOD) publishes original research and review manuscripts in Turkish and English languages twice a year (June-December). An author can publish a maximum of one article per year in the journal.

The manuscripts for DÜOD should be submitted online via the journal’s online system. In order to start the manuscript review process, the Copyright form must be filled in and uploaded to the online system. During the submission process, please suggest potential reviewers with the appropriate expertise to review the manuscript. Submission for publications to DÜOD is free. Plagiarism is not acceptable in DÜOD submission. If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected by the editor.
The submitted manuscript (Turkish or English) should not be published in other journals or under review elsewhere.
The submitted manuscript should include authors name and affiliation.

The title of your manuscript should describe and express the study in a concise, specific, and relevant.

Abstract: This section is about 250 words maximum. For research articles, abstract should briefly describe the novelty of context (problems and significance of the study), objective (purpose of the study) and give a pertinent overview of the methods, results and conclusions.

Introduction: The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important with a sufficient amount of literature. It should also define the purpose of the study and its significance, including specific hypotheses being tested in the last paragraph.

Materials and Methods: In this section, the study area should be described with sufficient details, and the reason why it was chosen or what is unique about should be explained in detail. Also, the sample design and techniques, and the statistical analysis, which allows the other researchers to replicate and build on published results, should be explained. Besides, applied methods and protocols in the study should be briefly described and/or appropriately cited.

Results and Discussion: This section should provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, and their interpretation that can be drawn a clear conclusion of the study. The authors should discuss the findings and their interpretation from the perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The data shown in the tables of figures should not be re-stated in the main text; instead, the results should be compared and discussed with similar and different results from previous studies. Factors that make the findings valuable should be highlighted.

Conclusions and recommendations: This section is mandatory and should provide readers with a brief summary of the main conclusions. The findings should not be re-stated, but any suggestion regarding the findings should be stated. Reference should not be included in the results section.

Acknowledgment: Collaborators, sources of findings or anyone who helped the work should be mentioned in this section.

References: Make sure that each reference cited in the main text is included in the references section or vice versa.

When preparing manuscripts, author(s) should follow the writing rules which is written on the journal publication instructions page. Otherwise, author(s) have to wait under pre-control until further corrections are made.
When authors submit the manuscript, it is taken pre-control stage. If the manuscripts pass this stage, which is being forwarded to next stage for the control of similarity rate and writing rules. If you pass these stages, the manuscript will be evaluated.
If the manuscript is produced from the thesis or previously presented somewhere as a short summary paper, a foot note should be added at the bottom of the page on the first page in accordance with the examples in the manuscript writing template.
The type of the manuscript, such as research / review, should be specifies in the field shown in the manuscript’s writing page.
An acknowledgment letter on behalf of those who provide individual/institutional support for the research/study should be included at the end of the article with the specified template format.