With the ULAKBIM decision of 25 February 2020, the condition "For all disciplines (including social sciences), for studies requiring an ethics committee decision, ethics committee approval must be obtained and this approval must be specified and documented in the article" has been introduced. For this reason, it is important that authors submitting studies to our journal whose process started in 2020 or will start in the following years pay attention to this issue and upload the ETHICS COMMITTEE APPROVAL as an additional file when uploading the article. In addition, authors are required to include the information about the ethics committee approval (name of the committee, date and number) in the Methods section and on the last page of the article.

The types of research that require ethics committee approval are as follows

1 - All types of research using qualitative or quantitative approaches that involve the collection of data from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment, interview techniques.
2 - Use of humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
3-Clinical research involving human subjects,
4- Research on animals,
5- Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data,

Also

1- Indication that the "informed consent form" has been obtained in case presentations,
2- Obtaining and stating permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires and photographs belonging to others,
3-Stating that the copyright of the intellectual and artistic works used has been respected.