ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

Authors' Ethical Responsibilities

Authors;

a) The submitted article is the original work of the author(s);
b) All authors have individually participated in this work and take all responsibility for this work;
c) All authors have seen and approved the final version of the submitted article;
d) The article has not been published elsewhere or has not been submitted for publication;
e) The written and visual materials in the article do not violate the Copyrights of other persons;
f) They accept and undertake to transfer their financial rights on the submitted article, especially all open usage rights including processing, reproduction, representation, printing, publication, distribution and transmission via the Internet to E-Scala Journal.

Editors' Ethical Duties and Responsibilities

Editors;

a) Managing processes aimed at ensuring the development of the journal and improving its quality,

b) Continuing business processes without compromising on intellectual property rights and ethical standards by adopting the principles of openness and transparency,

c) Taking all feedback into account and providing explanatory and informative feedback,

d) Determining referees in accordance with the subject of the study,

e) Monitoring whether there is a conflict of interest between authors and referees,

f) Preventing rude and unscientific evaluations,

g) Ensuring that the referee pool is dynamically updated.

h) Responsible for implementing the "Blind Refereeing and Evaluation Process" policies included in the journal's publication policies. In this context, editors ensure that each study is evaluated fairly, impartially and on time.

ı) Responsible for publishing each article in the journal in accordance with the journal's publication policies and international standards.

i) Responsible for protecting the individual data of authors, referees and readers.

j) In cases where there is no ethical committee approval for the subjects used in the studies and permissions for experimental research, the referee is responsible for rejecting the study.

Ethical Responsibilities of Referees

Evaluation of all studies with "Blind Refereeing" directly affects the quality of the publication. This process provides confidence with the objective and independent evaluation of the publication. The evaluation process of Kırklareli University Faculty of Architecture Journal (E-SCALA) is carried out with the principle of double-blind refereeing. Referees cannot directly contact the authors, evaluations and comments are communicated through the journal management system. During this process, the referee comments on the evaluation forms and full texts are communicated to the author(s) through the editor. In this context, referees who evaluate studies for Kırklareli University Faculty of Architecture Journal (E-SCALA) are expected to have the following ethical responsibilities:

a) They should not accept publications that are not related to their areas of expertise.

b) They should evaluate within the principles of impartiality and confidentiality, and if they think they are faced with a conflict of interest during the evaluation process, they should reject the study and report it to the journal editor.

c) They should destroy the studies they have reviewed after the evaluation process due to the principle of confidentiality. They can use the studies they have reviewed after they are published in the journal.

PUBLICATION POLICY

E-Scala journal is an internationally refereed electronic journal published twice a year by the Faculty of Architecture of Kırklareli University. It uses the infrastructure of Tübitak Ulakbim DergiPark. The publication language is Turkish or English.

The journal focuses on original theoretical articles, original research articles, compilations, articles on project/design applications and current discussion texts on professional fields in the fields of Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Interior Architecture and Landscape Architecture. However, studies on other related scientific fields (Sociology, History, Art, Anthropology, Botany etc.) at the intersection of these fields are also accepted on condition that they comply with the scope of the journal.