Eskişehir Teknik Üniversitesi Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi - C Yaşam Bilimleri Ve Biyoteknoloji

Eskişehir Technical University Journal of Science and Technology  C - Life Sciences and Biotechnology (formerly Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology C - Life Sciences and Biotechnology)  is an peer-reviewed and refereed international journal by Eskişehir Technical University.  Since 2010, it has been regularly published and distributed biannually and it has been  published biannually and electronically only since 2016.

The journal accepts TURKISH or ENGLISH language manuscripts.

The journal publishes high quality original research papers, reviews and technical notes in the fields of life sciences: All aspects of biology such as taxonomy, physiology, biochemistry, ecology, environmental biology, biophysics, genetic, toxicology, biodiversity and biotechnology and, agricultural science, health sciences, biomedical sciences and pharmacy.

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically.

You will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. There are no page charges. Papers are accepted for publication on the understanding that they have not been published and are not going to be considered for publication elsewhere. Authors should certify that neither the manuscript nor its main contents have already been published or submitted for publication in another journal. We ask a signed copyright to start the evaluation process. After a manuscript has been submitted, it is not possible for authors to be added or removed or for the order of authors to be changed. If authors do so, their submission will be cancelled.

Manuscripts may be rejected without peer review by the editor-in-chief if they do not comply with the instructions to authors or if they are beyond the scope of the journal. After a manuscript has been accepted for publication, i.e. after referee-recommended revisions are complete, the author will not be permitted to make any changes that constitute departures from the manuscript that was accepted by the editor. Before publication, the galley proofs are always sent to the authors for corrections. Mistakes or omissions that occur due to some negligence on our part during final printing will be rectified in an errata section in a later issue.

This does not include those errors left uncorrected by the author in the galley proof. The use of someone else’s ideas or words in their original form or slightly changed without a proper citation is considered plagiarism and will not be tolerated. Even if a citation is given, if quotation marks are not placed around words taken directly from another author’s work, the author is still guilty of plagiarism. All manuscripts received are submitted to iThenticateR, a plagiarism checking system, which compares the content of the manuscript with a vast database of web pages and academic publications. Manuscripts judged to be plagiarised or self-plagiarised, based on the iThenticateR report or any other source of information, will not be considered for publication.

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT

(Click here to download a template file of the journal.)

Style and Format: Manuscripts should be single column by giving one-spaced with 2.5-cm margins on all sides of the page, in Times New Roman font (font size 11). Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc., should be numbered. All copies of the manuscript should also have line numbers starting with 1 on each consecutive page.

Manuscripts must be upload as word document (*.doc, *.docx vb.). Please avoid uploading  texts in *.pdf format.

Manuscripts should be written in English or Turkish.

Symbols, Units and Abbreviations: Standard abbreviations and units should be used; SI units are recommended. Abbreviations should be defined at first appearance, and their use in the title and abstract should be avoided. Generic names of chemicals should be used. Genus and species names should be typed in italic or, if this is not available, underlined.

Manuscript Content: Articles should be divided into logically ordered and numbered sections. Principal sections should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals (1. Introduction, 2. Formulation of problem, etc.) and subsections should be numbered 1.1., 1.2., etc. Do not number the Acknowledgements or References sections. The text of articles should be, if possible, divided into the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods (or Experimental), Results, Discussion, and Conclusion.

Title and contact information

The first page should contain the full title in sentence case (e.g., Hybrid feature selection for text classification), the full names (last names fully capitalised) and affiliations (in English) of all authors (Department, Faculty, University, City, Country, E-mail), and the contact e-mail address for the clearly identified corresponding author. The first page should contain the full title, abstract and keywords (both English and Turkish).

Abstract

The abstract should provide clear information about the research and the results obtained, and should not exceed 300 words. The abstract should not contain citations and must be written in Times New Roman font with font size 9.

Keywords

Please provide 3 to 5 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

Introduction

The motivation or purpose of your research should appear in the “Introduction”, where you state the questions you sought to answer, and then provide some of the historical basis for those questions.

Methods

Provide sufficient information to allow someone to repeat your work. A clear description of your experimental design, sampling procedures, and statistical procedures is especially important in papers describing field studies, simulations, or experiments. If you list a product (e.g., animal food, analytical device), supply the name and location of the manufacturer. Give the model number for equipment used.

Results

Results should be stated concisely and without interpretation.

Discussion

Focus on the rigorously supported aspects of your study. Carefully differentiate the results of your study from data obtained from other sources. Interpret your results, relate them to the results of previous research, and discuss the implications of your results or interpretations.

Conclusion

This should state clearly the main conclusions of the research and give a clear explanation of their importance and relevance. Summary illustrations may be included.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

References

Citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets. The list of references at the end of the paper should be given in order of their first appearance in the text. All authors should be included in reference lists unless there are 10 or more, in which case only the first 10 should be given, followed by ‘et al.’. Do not use individual sets of square brackets for citation numbers that appear together, e.g., [2,3,5–9], not [2], [3], [5]–[9]. Do not include personal communications, unpublished data, websites, or other unpublished materials as references, although such material may be inserted (in parentheses) in the text. In the case of publications in languages other than English, the published English title should be provided if one exists, with an annotation such as “(article in Turkish with an abstract in English)”. If the publication was not published with an English title, cite the original title only; do not provide a self-translation. References should be formatted as follows (please note the punctuation and capitalisation):

Journal articles

Journal titles should be abbreviated according to ISI Web of Science abbreviations.

Guyon I, Elisseeff A. An introduction to variable and feature selection. J Mach Learn Res 2003; 3: 1157-1182.

Izadpanahi S, Ozcınar C, Anbarjafari G, Demirel H. Resolution enhancement of video sequences by using discrete wavelet transform and illumination compensation. Turk J Elec Eng & Comp Sci 2012; 20: 1268-1276.

Books

Haupt RL, Haupt SE. Practical Genetic Algorithms. 2nd ed. New York, NY, USA: Wiley, 2004.

Kennedy J, Eberhart R. Swarm Intelligence. San Diego, CA, USA: Academic Press, 2001.

Chapters in books

Poore JH, Lin L, Eschbach R, Bauer T. Automated statistical testing for embedded systems. In: Zander J, Schieferdecker I, Mosterman PJ, editors. Model-Based Testing for Embedded Systems. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, 2012. pp. 111-146.

Conference proceedings

Li RTH, Chung SH. Digital boundary controller for single-phase grid-connected CSI. In: IEEE 2008 Power Electronics Specialists Conference; 15–19 June 2008; Rhodes, Greece. New York, NY, USA: IEEE. pp. 4562-4568.

Theses

Boynukalın Z. Emotion analysis of Turkish texts by using machine learning methods. MSc, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2012.

Tables and Figures

All illustrations (photographs, drawings, graphs, etc.), not including tables, must be labelled “Figure.” Figures must be submitted in the manuscript.

All tables and figures must have a caption and/or legend and be numbered (e.g., Table 1, Figure 2), unless there is only one table or figure, in which case it should be labelled “Table” or “Figure” with no numbering. Captions must be written in sentence case (e.g., Macroscopic appearance of the samples.). The font used in the figures should be Times New Roman. If symbols such as ×, μ, η, or ν are used, they should be added using the Symbols menu of Word.

All tables and figures must be numbered consecutively as they are referred to in the text. Please refer to tables and figures with capitalisation and unabbreviated (e.g., “As shown in Figure 2…”, and not “Fig. 2” or “figure 2”).

The resolution of images should not be less than 118 pixels/cm when width is set to 16 cm. Images must be scanned at 1200 dpi resolution and submitted in jpeg or tiff format. Graphs and diagrams must be drawn with a line weight between 0.5 and 1 point. Graphs and diagrams with a line weight of less than 0.5 point or more than 1 point are not accepted. Scanned or photocopied graphs and diagrams are not accepted.

Figures that are charts, diagrams, or drawings must be submitted in a modifiable format, i.e. our graphics personnel should be able to modify them. Therefore, if the program with which the figure is drawn has a “save as” option, it must be saved as *.ai or *.pdf. If the “save as” option does not include these extensions, the figure must be copied and pasted into a blank Microsoft Word document as an editable object. It must not be pasted as an image file (tiff, jpeg, or eps) unless it is a photograph.

Tables and figures, including caption, title, column heads, and footnotes, must not exceed 16 × 20 cm and should be no smaller than 8 cm in width. For all tables, please use Word’s “Create Table” feature, with no tabbed text or tables created with spaces and drawn lines. Please do not duplicate information that is already presented in the figures.

1. Clinical and experimental studies on people and animals that require ethical committee decisions for research in all branches of science must obtain ethics committee approval separately for the following items:
- All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques;
- Use of humans and animals (including material / data) for experimental or other scientific purposes;
- Clinical research on humans;
- Researches on animals;
- Retrospective studies under the law of protection of personal data.
These approvals must be stated and documented in the article.
Information about the approvals (board name, date and number no) should be included in the "Method" section of the article and also on the first / last page.
During the article submission, the Ethics Committee Approval file should be uploaded to the system in addition to the article file.
In addition, in the case reports, information about the volunteer informed / consent form should be signed and included in the article.

2. It should be stated in the article whether it is necessary to obtain legal / special permission. If the study includes application made in an institution, it should be clearly stated on which date and with which decision or number of permission has been obtained from the relevant institution.

3. For the use of experiments, questionnaires, and photographs of other authors, permission must be obtained from the owners, and this must be stated in the article (citing the source).

4. As a result of the analysis of the iThenticate Article similarities programs, the total level of similarity must be under 25%.

5. Ethical rules for Author, Referee, and Editor

Authors: Only those who contribute to the study should be considered as authors. At the end of the article, the conflict of interest with the authors' contribution rates should be declared.

Referees: Referees regarding conflict of interest if they fall into any doubt regarding the evaluation process should consult the Editor. In order to prevent conflicts of interest, the article authors and the referees should not be working in the same institution.

Editors: The Editor or Field-Editor appoints at least 2 (preferably 3) people from different institutions as referees to evaluate the article. The names of the referees evaluating the articles are not reported to the authors (blind peer review). In addition, referees are guaranteed to evaluate the articles without seeing the author's names (double-blind peer review). The Editor or Field-Editor is responsible for managing the referee evaluation process of articles and has the right to reject the article in case of any conflict of interest.

6. The articles should include the statement that Research and Publication Ethics have been followed.

7. In scientific articles sent to journals, ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) recommendations and International Standards for Editors and Authors of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) should be taken into consideration.

8. Original ideas and used artwork must be in compliance with copyright regulations.

9. At the end of the article; Declaration of "Contribution of Researchers", "Support" or "Acknowledgment" and "Conflict of Interest", if any, must be stated.

In the article, the contribution of each author to the research should be stated under the title of "Contribution of Researchers/Authors". The names of the authors will be added at the layout stage.

In the "Support" or "Acknowledgment" heading, support can be specified if the study was supported by an institution or Scientific Research Project. In addition, if someone other than the authors contributed to the data collection or other phases of the research, it can be acknowledged.

In order to clarify the issue of conflict of interest, the authors should declared at the end of the article whether there are any "Conflicts of Interest".

NOTE: For research data collected before 2020, produced from postgraduate / doctoral studies (/it should be specified in the article/), no retrospective ethics permit is required for articles submitted to the journal in the previous year, that are accepted but still not published.

There is no application and publication fee in our journal.