Early Childhood Education Researches

Early Childhood Education Researches (ECER) is an international scientific journal that publishes academic articles on early childhood education and child development online twice a year (June and December). The language of the journal is Turkish and English. The journal publishes quantitative, qualitative and descriptive research. ECER is a non-profit, open-access journal.

ECER is an Educational Research and Publications Association (ERPA) publication.

ECER publishes articles directly relevant to early childhood education and/or child development but welcomes interdisciplinary articles which take one of the aforementioned fields as a stakeholder.

The language of the journal is Turkish and English.

• APA 7 (American Psychological Association) criteria should be used for article writing and reference.

• Submitted works must be in Turkish or English.

• Articles should be prepared with Microsoft Office Word Program.

• On the first page and page header, The name of the article should not be the name of the author(s), the institution(s) and contact addresses.

• Abstract Garamond should be 10 point size, between 100-150 words; 3-5 keywords should be included.

• If the article is in Turkish, an extended English summary of 600-1000 words under four main headings (Aim, Method, Results, Discussion and Conclusion) should be written before the article.

• If the article is in English, an extended Turkish abstract is unnecessary.

• The research should not exceed 35 pages/10000 words in total.

• Ethics committee approval should be obtained for research conducted in all disciplines that require ethics committee approval, and the document should be uploaded to the system.

ECER (Early Childhood Education Researches) adopts the principles of the Editorial Ethics Committee (COPE) "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers" to establish ethical assurance in scientific periodicals. In this context, the following points should be followed in the studies submitted to the journal:
• Ethics committee approval must be obtained for research conducted in all disciplines that require ethics committee approval, and this approval must be stated and documented in the article.
• In studies that require ethics committee permission, information about the consent (committee name, date and issue number) can be included in the method section.

Studies that require the approval of the Ethics Committee are as follows:

• All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches require data collection from the participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, and interview techniques.
• The use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
- Clinical studies on humans
- Research on animals.
- Retrospective studies by the law on the protection of personal data,
Moreover;
• Indicating that an "informed consent form" was received in case reports,
• Obtaining and specifying permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others,
• Indication of compliance with copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used.

Any manuscript considered for publication in the ECER journal must meet the following criteria:
• Authenticity
• Not to contain ethical violations
• To contain clear messages to be conveyed to the scientific community
• To what extent will it contribute to the field's researchers and its importance in terms of social sciences.
• Current fields and topics of interest to researchers in the field
• Structural and logical integrity
• Research results are based on scientific evidence
• Appropriateness of the scientific method

ECER does not charge fees for article submission, refereeing and editorial processes, layout and publication printing (page or colour fees).
• ECER journal does not pay the authors, referees, editors and editorial board fees.
• The articles in the ECER journal are free to read and download.
• ECER journal signed the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI: Budapest Open Access Initiative), which promotes free access to research literature, and adopted the Open Access Principles outlined in this initiative.
• By the publication policy of ECER magazine, advertisements, advertisements, sponsorships, etc., activities are not accepted.