ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND PUBLICATION POLICY

Publication Policy:
The JEUNF is accessible free of charge via the Dergipark Directory through the internet, with open access and full-text registration.
Open Access Policy
The JEUNF is published under the Open Access policy. Open Access Address: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/egehemsire
General Principles
The entire evaluation process for the articles submitted to be published in the JEUNF is carried out through a double-blinded peer-review method by keeping the identity of the reviewers and authors confidential. In this context, all stakeholders should pay attention to the absence of identification information on the files they upload to the system. After the process is completed, the corresponding author is informed whether the article has been accepted or not.
Evaluation Process:
The evaluation process of the articles begins with the submission of the article to the system through the online application. The author team uploads a title Page file containing the title of the research, information about the researchers and previous academic background information about the research, the main text file with Turkish and English titles and abstracts in which the information of the author and institution is kept confidential, the Ethics Committee Approval Form and Copyright Transfer Form for original research and Case Approval Form for case reports. The submission process is completed with the upload of the Final Checklist, in which the author team confirms the fulfillment of the submission process properly.
With the submission of the article to the journal publishing process, the author(s) confirms that the changes deemed necessary by the JEUNF Editorial Board will be carried out or changes that will not distort the content can be made by obtaining the author's permission. The author (s) who are requested to revise their texts as a result of the evaluation are responsible for uploading a single Microsoft Word document to the system within two weeks, in which the necessary revisions for all the reviewers have been made by highlighting them in red and underlined. According to the reviewer evaluations to the system, during the upload of the revised text, a note called "Notification to the Editors and Reviewers" including all the detailed information about the revisions made should also be uploaded to the system.

Publication Ethics and Scientific Responsibility
JEUNF is committed to the highest standards in publication ethics and adopts the principles developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE); recommends following the following guidelines on the subject. Below are the ethical duties and responsibilities.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
• Statements and opinions presented in the JEUNF are the responsibility of the author(s). The authors are responsible for ensuring that the text meets the scientific language and the research's ethical requirements. The author team should consider the standard practice guidelines in line with the research methods, and the text should be presented in an appropriate flow (such as CONSORT for randomized controlled studies, PRISMA for systematic review, and meta-analyses studies). The edited main text should meet all the necessary conditions during the first submission. Within the framework of the journal's writing rules, the necessary sections, titles, and information in the references should be presented without the names of the authors and institutions in a way that does not violate the principle of anonymity of the text.
• Articles submitted for publication must be original, have not been previously published as a full-text paper or article at any congress, and must not have been sent to a different journal at the same time for evaluation. The authors have accepted this at the application stage, and if it is determined otherwise, all responsibility belongs to the authors. All articles that do not comply with ethical standards are removed from publication.
• The similarity rate of the text scanned with the plagiarism program, excluding sources, should not be over 20%.
• Conflict of interest; If there is a direct or indirect commercial connection or institution providing financial support in the article, the authors; It should state on the title page that it has no commercial relationship with the commercial product, drug or company used, and if so, what kind of relationship it has (consultant, other agreements). Additionally, if the author has a conflict of interest, this should be disclosed. Types of conflicts of interest expected to be disclosed include academic commitments, personal relationships, political, financial or corporate affiliations.
• JEUNF is a journal that has adopted the principle of complying with the ethical standards of the Committee on Human Experimentation of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki, which was revised in 2013. Accordingly, authors must have documentation proving that they have the right to use the data, that they have obtained the necessary permissions for research and analysis, or that consent has been obtained from the individuals from whom they collected data. Institutional permission and local or national ethics committee approval letters for original research articles submitted for publication in JEUNF must be uploaded to the system.
• Authors should contact the journal editor or publisher if they notice any inaccuracies or errors regarding the work that has been published, in early appearance, or in the evaluation process.
• Changing author responsibilities such as adding authors, changing the author order, or removing authors cannot be proposed in studies whose evaluation process has begun.
• During the evaluation process, raw data regarding the article may be requested from the author, and the author must be ready to present this data to the editorial board and scientific committee.
Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Editors
General Duties and Responsibilities
Following the submission, in the initial evaluation stage, the article's suitability to reviewer evaluation in terms of plagiarism and technicality is evaluated through the assistant editors of the journal. The articles whose originality is confirmed with the plagiarism program and meets the requirements are directed to the field editors, and the scientific evaluation process is initiated.
After the field editor makes the first evaluation regarding the scientific aspects of the study, the study is submitted to the reviewers for their evaluation. The author is informed of the evaluation results within twelve weeks following the submission through the Dergipark system. Delays caused by the author regarding the fulfillment of the revision requests are considered as a reason for the rejection of the article. Each manuscript, which is reviewed and approved for publication by three independent reviewers who are experts in their fields, is directed to the editor in chief after the approval of the field editor. The final decision on the publication of the article stands with the editor-in-chief of JEUNF.
Editors are responsible for every publication published in JEUNF. In this context, editors undertake the following roles and responsibilities:
• Making efforts to meet the information needs of readers and writers,
• Continuously ensuring the development of the journal,
• Carrying out processes to improve the quality of studies published in the journal,
• Supporting freedom of thought,
• Ensuring academic integrity,
• Continuing business processes without compromising intellectual property rights and ethical standards,
• Demonstrate openness and transparency in terms of publication on issues that require correction and clarification.

Relations with Readers
Editors should make their decisions by taking into account the knowledge, skills and experience expectations of all readers, researchers and practitioners. Care should be taken to ensure that published studies contribute to readers, researchers, practitioners and scientific literature and are original. In addition, editors are obliged to take into account the feedback from readers, researchers and practitioners and to give descriptive and informative feedback.
Relations with Authors
Editors assume the following roles and responsibilities towards authors:
• Editors must make positive or negative decisions based on the importance of the studies, their original value, validity, clarity of expression, and the aims and objectives of the journal.
• Studies that are suitable for the scope of publication should be taken to the preliminary evaluation stage unless there are serious problems.
• Editors should not ignore positive referee suggestions unless there is a serious problem with the study.
• New editors should not change the decisions made by the previous editor(s) regarding the studies unless there is a serious problem.
• "Double-Blind Referee and Evaluation Process" must be published and editors must prevent any deviations that may occur in the defined processes.
• Authors should be notified and responded to in a descriptive and informative manner.

Relations with Referees
Editors undertake the following roles and responsibilities towards referees:
• Referees should be determined in accordance with the subject of the study.
• It is responsible for providing the information and guides that the referees will need during the evaluation phase.
• It is necessary to consider whether there is a conflict of interest between authors and referees.
• In the context of blind arbitration, the identity information of the referees must be kept confidential.
• It should encourage referees to evaluate the work in an impartial, scientific and objective language.
• It should determine practices and policies that increase the performance of referees.
• Necessary steps should be taken to dynamically update the referee pool.
• It should prevent unkind and unscientific evaluations.
• Steps should be taken to ensure that the referee pool consists of a broad spectrum.

Relations with the Editorial Board
Editors must ensure that all editorial board members follow the publication policies and guidelines. The editorial board must inform its members about publication policies and keep them informed of developments. Also editors;
• Editorial board members must ensure that they evaluate the work impartially and independently.
• New editorial board members must be determined to be able to contribute and have appropriate qualifications.
• Editorial board members should submit studies that are appropriate to their areas of expertise for evaluation.
• Must interact with the editorial board regularly.
• It should organize meetings with the editorial board at regular intervals for the development of publication policies and the journal.

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

Editorial and double-blind peer review processes
Editors ensure that peer review in journals is fair, impartial and timely. Editors ensure that material submitted to their journal remains confidential during review. Editors are responsible for implementing the "Blind Review and Evaluation Process" policies included in the publication policies.
Quality Assurance
Editors are responsible for ensuring that every article published in the journal is published in accordance with the journal publication policies and international standards.
Protection of Personal Data
Editors are obliged to ensure the protection of personal data regarding the subjects or images included in the evaluated studies. Unless the explicit consent of the individuals used in the studies is documented, it is the duty to refuse the study. Also editors; is responsible for protecting the individual data of authors, referees and readers.
Ethics Committee, Human and Animal Rights
Editors are obliged to ensure that human and animal rights are protected in the evaluated works. Ethics committee approval regarding the subjects used in the studies is responsible for rejecting the study in cases where there is no permission for experimental research. Ethics committee approval is not required for review studies.
Precautions Against Possible Abuse and Misconduct
Editors are obliged to take precautions against possible abuse and misconduct. In addition to conducting a meticulous and objective investigation to identify and evaluate complaints regarding this situation, sharing the relevant findings is among the editor's responsibilities.
Ensuring Academic Publication Integrity
Editors must ensure that errors, inconsistencies or misleading judgments in studies are quickly corrected.
Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
Editors are obliged to protect the intellectual property rights of all published articles and to defend the rights of the journal and the author(s) in case of possible violations. In addition, editors are obliged to take the necessary precautions to ensure that the contents of all published articles do not violate the intellectual property rights of other publications.
Constructivism and Openness to Discussion
Editors should take into account convincing criticisms of the works published in the journal and display a constructive attitude towards these criticisms. The author(s) of the criticized works should be given the right to reply. One should not ignore or exclude studies containing negative results.
Complaints
Editors are obliged to carefully examine complaints from authors, referees or readers and respond in an enlightening and explanatory manner.
Political and Commercial concerns
The journal owner, publisher or any other political or commercial factor does not influence the editors' independent decision-making.
Conflicts of interest
All affiliations with pharmaceutical firms, biomedical device manufacturers, and other service or product procurers (consultation, any other agreement, etc.) relevant to the subject matter of the study should be explicitly indicated on the title page if there is any direct or indirect commercial connection or financial support of the institution in the article. Also, if there is a conflict of interest between the authors, this should be indicated. Academic commitments, personal relationships, political, financial, or institutional connections are types of conflicts of interest that should be disclosed.
Editors consider conflicts of interest between author(s), referees and other editors and ensure that studies complete the publication process independently and impartially.
Ethical Responsibilities of Referees
Evaluation of all studies by "Double Blind Referee" directly affects the quality of publication. This process provides confidence through objective and independent evaluation of the publication. The JEUNF evaluation process is carried out on the principle of double-blind refereeing. Referees cannot contact the authors directly, evaluations and comments are transmitted through the journal management system. In this process, evaluation forms and referee comments on full texts are forwarded to the author(s) through the editor. In this context, reviewers who evaluate studies for JEUNF are expected to have the following ethical responsibilities:
• Only work related to the field of expertise should be accepted for evaluation.
• Must make evaluations impartially and confidentially.
• If he thinks that he is faced with a conflict of interest during the evaluation process, he should refuse to review the study and inform the journal editor.
• In accordance with the principle of confidentiality, they must destroy the studies they have examined after the evaluation process. They may only use the final versions of the studies they review after they are published.
• The evaluation should be made objectively only in relation to the content of the study. Nationality, gender, religious beliefs, political beliefs and commercial concerns should not be allowed to influence the evaluation.
• The evaluation should be made in a constructive and polite manner. Must not make derogatory personal comments that include hostility, slander or insults.
• They must carry out the work they have agreed to evaluate on time and with the above ethical responsibilities.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Publisher
JEUNF Editors and Editorial Board act with the awareness of the following ethical responsibilities:
• Editors are responsible for all processes of the works sent to JEUNF. In this context, editors are the decision-makers, regardless of economic or political gains.
• Undertakes the creation of independent editorial decisions.
• Protects the ownership and copyright of every article published in JEUNF and assumes the obligation to keep a record of every published copy.
• Editors are responsible for taking precautions against all kinds of scientific misconduct, citation fraud and plagiarism.

Correction and Retraction Processes
Studies sent to JEUNF cannot be withdrawn after the referee process has started. When authors want to withdraw their articles before the referee process begins, they apply in writing to the editor-in-chief and cannot send the study to another journal until the withdrawal request is approved by the editorial board.