PUBLICATION POLICY

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

• The journal belongs to Dean of Erciyes University Faculty of Law. Since it does not have a legal entity, the authorized legal entity regarding the journal is Erciyes University.
• In each issue, the responsible chief editor (Dean of Erciyes University Faculty of Law) and the responsible director (Faculty Secretary, Erciyes University Faculty of Law) of the journal are shown.
• Erciyes University Journal of Law Faculty (ERÜHFD) is a blind peer-reviewed journal listed by ULAKBİM and 16 other databases and published twice a year, in the April and October issues.
• In addition to peer-reviewed studies, the journal also includes book reviews, legislative evaluations, and informative notes. These studies are not submitted to peer review. Acceptance or rejection of works of this kind of articles is made by the Publication Commission. It is stated at the beginning of each article that the peer review has been made.
• All responsibilities that may arise from the opinions expressed in the studies published in the journal belong to the authors.
• Articles published in our journal must comply with research and publication ethics of the journal. Authors who submit their works to the journal have the obligation to comply with the policies of ERUHFD.
• If the works are accepted for publication, the authors are deemed to have transferred all copyrights, including publishing them as full text electronically, and no additional royalties are paid to the authors.
• Printed formats of the journal are sent free of charge to the law facultys' libraries in Turkey.
• Our journal supports open access and free access to information in compliance with DOAJ, COPE, OASPA and YOK principles.

EVALUATION AND PUBLICATION PROCESS

• Works intended for publication in our journal must be submitted to eruhukukdergisi@gmail.com or delivered in person to ERUHF faculty secretary by January 31 for the April issue, and by July 30 for the October issue.
  

• Works submitted to the journal's email are subjected to a preliminary review by the publication committee for compliance with the journal's writing rules.
• The editorial board conducts initial evaluations and returns works deemed unsuitable for publication to the authors.
• Works successfully completing the seven-day preliminary review are forwarded to the editor relevant to the article's subject.
• Our journal sends a similarity report from one of the plagiarism programs to the reviewers at the end of the preliminary review stage. The similarity rate for Turkish law articles should not exceed 20% (excluding %1 similarity, quotes and bibliography).
• Works with a similarity rate exceeding 20% are returned to the author for final corrections.

• Works that pass the preliminary review stage proceed to the reviewer selection and appointment process, which is completed within 60 days.
• Works are sent for evaluation to two (blind) reviewers, higher in academic rank than the author, chosen from a panel of reviewers whose names are kept confidential.
• To maintain the blind peer review system, authors' names, including embedded author information in the document, are anonymized.
  

Reviewer Evaluation Process:

• Reviewers are given 20 days for normal evaluation and an additional 20 days if needed.
• Works reported by reviewers as "publishable as is" are published by our journal.
• For manuscripts where reviewers have reported that they can be published after revisions, authors are communicated with the assessments and requested to make the necessary amendments. Authors are given a period of 30 days to complete these revisions. If not completed within this timeframe, an additional 30 days can be granted upon the authors' request. If the deficiencies are not rectified within the initial or additional period, it is assumed that the authors have withdrawn their manuscript, and the work is removed from the publication process.
  
• If one reviewer reports the work as "not publishable," but the other reviewer gives a publishable report, the work is sent to a third reviewer.
• If both reviewers report the work as "not publishable," the work is returned to the author and removed from the publication process.
• If the article evaluation process cannot be completed in the issue for which the article was submitted, the authors are informed via email. If the authors agree to continue the process for the next issue, it will proceed in the next issue.

• Any objection to articles published in the journal should be made to eruhukukdergisi@gmail.com, the chief editor, or the technical editor.
• After assessing whether the complaint and its grounds constitute a criminal element or find correspondence in the COPE flowchart, the decision is made by the editorial board majority vote.
• The outcome of the complaint is communicated to the complainant and the relevant author(s) within 30 days. If there is no notification about the complaint outcome within 30 days, the complaint is considered rejected.
  

• Authors do not have the right to retract published articles. Likewise, authors are not intellectual rights holders of the published works.
• Like any stakeholder, authors may lodge a complaint about an article in accordance with the complaint policy.
• Following this notification, if the editorial board decides to discontinue the publication of the article in accordance with the COPE guide, access to the article will be terminated in all online databases.
• If the author continues to publish the article despite believing the removal to be unjust and assumes all responsibility, they are obliged to terminate the association between the article and ERÜHFD.
  

• Significant corrections to be made in published articles, especially if errors are identified by the journal boards, are published in a revised new version. Relevant databases are notified of the correction.
• Authors have the right to request corrections when unpublished preprints are sent to them; this right is valid for up to 3 working days.
  

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

• Anyone over the age of 18 can submit their legal studies to our journal.
• All our authors must have an ORCID ID and submit it with their application.
• The statuses of our journal's advisory, publication, editorial boards, or current/former employees of Erciyes University Faculty of Law are shown in the conflict of interest section at the end of the article.
• Works submitted by authors must be original and not previously published. Authors must declare that the work is not currently under review in another journal.
• All listed authors must have contributed to the experimental design and implementation or the analysis and interpretation of data in the work.
• Authors must inform the editorial board if they discover a significant error in their published article.
• Authors must submit ethical committee approval for research requiring such approval. If ethical committee approval is necessary for the research; information about the ethical committee (name of the committee, number, and date of the approval document) must be stated in the article.
• By submitting their work, the author commits that it is prepared in accordance with Law No. 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works, the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, and the research and publication ethics standards announced by COPE.
  

• Editors and assistant editors within the journal are obligated to perform their duties objectively and impartially, free from all biases.
• Editors and assistant editors within the journal are obligated to act confidentially to the extent required by their duties.
• Editors and assistant editors within the journal collaborate fully in all journal-related operations and transactions. Fair task distribution within the journal constitutes the essence of this collaboration.
  

• All articles should be evaluated fairly based on the scientific content of the work, regardless of the author's gender, ethnic origin, race, religion, or political values.
• Reviewers must respect the confidentiality of the peer review process and not share information about the evaluated work or the review process and its aftermath with third parties.
• Reviewer evaluations should be objective, constructive, and not hostile or provocative, and should not contain demeaning personal comments.
• If a conflict of interest is observed during the review process, the situation should be reported to the Editor board.
• Information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.
• The relevant editor does not have the authority to interfere with the opinions of reviewers. As long as the tone, used words, and expressions do not constitute a crime according to the Turkish Penal Code (insult, threat, etc.), no edits are made to the reviewer opinions. For expressions constituting a crime, the editor has the right not to forward the reviewer's opinion to the author(s). The relevant editor can only notify the reviewer about the style of the reviewer opinions and request changes from the reviewer. Reviewers freely determine their decisions on the change request.

Conflict of Interest:

• Our journal ensures that any known conflicts of interest in articles are explicitly indicated at the end of the article.
• Subsequent conflicts of interest are addressed through the complaint process in the publication policy.
  

FEE POLICY

• No fees are charged from authors for articles submitted to our journal.
• No fees are paid by our journal to reviewers involved in the article evaluation processes and authors whose articles are published.
• Authors are considered to have transferred all copyrights of their published articles to the journal management and cannot publish their articles in any medium (print, electronic, online, etc.) without the permission of the current chief editor of the journal.
• Any advertising in our journal is prohibited.
• Our journal supports free publication, free editorship, free authorship, open access, and free information access on a voluntary basis, in compliance with DOAJ, COPE, and OASPA principles.
  

OPEN ACCESS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY

• Our journal has an open access policy that is compatible with DOAJ COPE and OASPA principles.