Journal of Halal and Ethical Research

Journal of Halal and Ethical Research, published by Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University Halal Food R&D Center, aims to be an academic platform where different disciplines come together within the scope of halal and ethical research. In this context, our journal includes original research, reviews or reports on topics including halal and healthy food, nutrition, food additives, counterfeit/adulteration detection and method development, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products and their additives, tourism-hospitality and gastronomy, as well as ethical problems in every field.

Article Submissions
Journal of Halal and Ethical Research is open for article submission. Submitted articles should be appropriate to the purpose and scope of the journal. Original manuscripts, which have not been published anywhere else before and are not under evaluation in another journal, and whose content and submission have been approved by each author are accepted for evaluation.

Readership
Academics, researchers, experts, professionals and students studying at the undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and specialty level who are interested in the fields in which articles are accepted.

Copyright
Authors agree to transfer their copyrights to our Journal under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license when the article is accepted for publication.

Our journal is within the scope of Halal and Ethical research;
• Healthy and Halal Food,
• Healthy and Halal Nutrition,
• Halal Food and Alternative Additives,
• Ethical Problems in the Food Industry,
• Imitation / Adulteration Detection and Method Development,
• Cosmetic Products and Additives,
• Pharmaceuticals and Medical Products,
• Society and Ethics,
Tourism-Hospitality, Gastronomy etc. fields/topics;
• Original research,
• Research Methods,
• Report,
• Compilation,
• Technical Report,
• Other (Note to the editor, etc.)

will accept articles in Turkish or English. 

Journal of Helal and Ethical Research publishes in bilingual (Turkish or English) scientific/academic refereed articles should be written in MS Word format by using Times New Roman font (12 pt), double-spaced and justified to both side. The page margins should be 4 cm from the top, 2.5 cm from the bottom, right and left sides. The page number should be given at the right bottom corner of each page and the manuscript lines should be numbered. Research and review articles should not exceed 25 pages or 10,000 words including tables and figures. It can be accessed to our journal template from this link https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/14829.
The chapters in the articles should consist of Abstract, Turkish Abstract (Özet), Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, References sections. ‘Acknowledgement’ section can be added if necessary. All titles of the manuscript must be bold and uppercase, and subtitles should be in lowercase and numbered properly. Only the first letters of the subtitles must be uppercase. 
Content and ranking of the article to be sent:
Article title should explain the article in the best way and should not exceeded 15 words. The title words should be all in uppercase except for conjunctions, and it should be written 14-pt, bold, centered. The supporting institutions and information such as project, thesis can be specified as a footnote. The footnote in the title should be indicated with “*”.
Author names and addresses; all authors, institutions and addresses should be given on the first page. The addresses should be given below the names of the authors and numbered clearly. Corresponding author and the information of telephone/e-mail should be written at the bottom of the first page as a footnote.
Abstracts should include the purpose, material-method, findings and results of the article briefly and should be written in both English and Turkish languages as a single paragraph (no longer than 250 words), Keywords should be added as 3-6 words below the abstracts.
Introduction should reveal the purpose of the study and emphasize the importance of the current literature.
Material and methods should be explained in a plausible detail.
Results and Discussion should present the research finding elaborately that were obtained in the study, and the results of the current study should be interpreted and discussed with literature.
Conclusion should summarize the results of the study and the suggestions for future studies should be addressed.
Acknowledgement: The persons, institutions and projects contributing to the work can be stated.
Graphs and figures in the article should be mentioned as “Figure”, tables and charts should also be given as “Chart”. Figures and Charts should be cited in the text, be numbered sequentially according to the order of transition, and abbreviations in each figures and charts should be explained at the bottom and written in 10-pt.
Units and Abbreviations; international standard units (SI system, System International d’Unites) should be used in measurement units within the text. In the expression of units, for example, instead of mg.mL-1, mg/mL should be preferred, and the use of ppm and ppb should not be preferred, instead mg/kg and μg/kg could be used respectively. 
• Abbreviations must be based on national and/or international standard units, and should be explained in parentheses at the first pass.
• Names of genus and species of microorganisms, plants and animals should be written in italics.
• Desimals should be represented with a dot, not a comma (e.g not 9,86; it must be 9.86). 
• In large numbers, e.g. thousands separations should be avoided (e.g 10 000 instead of 10,000 10000 or 10 thousand).
• Exponential numbers should be shown before and after the x sign representing the multiplication (e.g in case of 2.5x10-4).

Copyright Transfer Form
Authors should fill out the Copyright Transfer Form when submitting their articles to our journal. The relevant form can be accessed from https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/16383 link.

Ethics Committee Report
In our journal, all studies that require ethics committee approval must be approved by the relevant committee. Surveys, experiments, observations, clinical and animal studies and research involving personal data are subject to ethics committee approval. This permission must be clearly stated in the text of the article. Studies without ethical approval are not evaluated. Scientific research on humans and animals must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and ARRIVE guidelines and approval must be obtained from the relevant ethics committee. Studies without ethics committee approval are not evaluated in our journal.

Conflict of Interest and Contribution Rate Statement
In studies with more than one author, the contribution rate and conflict of interest statements of the authors should be submitted to our journal at the article submission stage.

Financial Support
Authors should clearly declare the financial support provided by any organization within the scope of their work in the text of the article.

Authors’ ORCID Numbers
Upon the recommendation of Dergipark, the international researcher identification number (ORCID) number has been made obligatory in our journal to prevent some problems arising from the authors' name similarities, surname changes or names written in Turkish characters. Our authors who do not currently have an ORCID number can easily get this number by registering for free from the link http://orcid.org . In the article, the ORCID number should be added below the e-mail information at the bottom of the first page. Example: https://orcid.org/0000-000x-xxxx-xxxx Note: If the number of authors is more than two, the ORCID numbers of the authors will be at the end of the article.

References
The references must be cited in APA 6.0 (American Psychology Association) format.
In the reference list of the articles; author surnames, first litters of names, publication year, article title, journal name, volume, issue, page numbers, and doi numbers should be provided if possible. In the books; author surnames, first letters of names, publication year, book name in italics, press, place of press and ISBN numbers should be given. Examples:

Anonymous Issues:
Anonymous, (2005). ISO 6658. Sensory analysis-methodology-general guidance. International Organization for Standardization, Geneva.

Instutition Issues:
AOAC, (1990). Official Methods of Analysis AOAC. 15th Edition, Washington DC, the USA.

Articles:
Ballin, N. Z. (2010). Authentication of meat and meat products. Meat Science, 86(3), 577e587.
Yetim, H., Ekici, L., Özcan, C., Öztürk, İ., Törnük, F., Karaman, S. (2017). Effects of some food juices and additives on some physichochemical, teztural, color, microbiological and sensory properties, of cemen paste. Journal of Food Processing Preservation 41 (3): 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1111/jfpp.12950 

Book Chapters:
Fratamico, P.M. and Crawford, C.G. (1999). Detection by commercial particle-based assays. In: Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology, Robinson, R. K. (Ed.), Vol. 2, Academic Press, the UK, pp. 655-661.
Hammes, W.P. and Vogel, R.F. (1995). The genus Lactobacillus, B.J.B. Wood ve Holzapfel, W.H., ed. The Genera of Lactic Acid Bacteria. Boston, MA: Springer US, pp.19-54.

Thesis:
Samdani, G. (2018). Tocopherol regeneration by phospholipids in soybean oil-in-water emulsions: Effect of tocopherol homologue and emulsifier type. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Food Science Master Thesis, pg. 59, Massachusetts-USA.
Coşkun, Ö. (2018). Production of protein concentrates from oilseed and oil fruit meals and their utilization. Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences Department of Food Engineering Master Thesis, pg. 154, Istanbul-Turkey.

Web pages:
ISO, (2001). How conformity assessment works. www.iso.ch/9000, Last accessed: 07.11.2019
Basrur, S. V. (2001). Genetically Engineered Foods. http://www.toronto.ca/health/hphe/pdf/ge_foods, Last accessed: 07.11.2019
EFSA, (2014). Chemical contaminants: Mycotoxins, https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/mycotoxins, Last accessed: 07.11.2019
References in the text should include the surnames of the authors and the publication year. In the references whose authors are unknown, should be defined as “Anonymous”. If there are more than two authors in a cited reference, “et al.” should be placed after the first author. Examples: … (Tarbell, 2008; Munaut and Van Hove, 2011; Yetim et al., 2016), Anonymous. 2015 and AOAC. 2014…

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
Journal of Halal and Ethical Research is committed to maintaining the accuracy of the published content at the highest level. This Journal has a Conflict of Interest policy and acts in accordance with national and/or international standards regarding research involving Humans and/or Animals as participants and requiring Informed Consent. The ethical principles and publication policy of our journal have been prepared in accordance with the guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The content published in this journal is subject to independent peer review (referee and author are not aware of each other).
Halal and Ethical Research is a journal that complies with the principles of publication ethics at the highest level and has a peer review system in which referees and authors are not aware of each other (double blind review).

Actions Contrary to Scientific Research and Publication Ethics
• Plagiarism: Representing the original ideas, methods, data or works of others as one's own work in whole or in part without citation in accordance with scientific rules,
• Forgery: Using non-existent or falsified data in scientific research,
• Distortion: Falsifying research records or data obtained, falsifying devices or materials that were not used in the research, falsifying or shaping the results of the research in line with the interests of the persons and organizations receiving support,
• Republishing: Presenting duplicate publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions,
• Slicing: Inappropriately and inappropriately dividing the results of a research into parts in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research and publishing them in more than one issue and presenting these publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions,
• Unfair authorship: Including or excluding people who have not actively contributed, changing the author ranking in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of active contributors from the work in subsequent editions, using one's influence to have one's name included among the authors even though one has not actively contributed,

Ethics Committee Permission
In our journal, all studies that require ethics committee approval must be approved by the relevant committee. Surveys, experiments, observations, clinical and animal studies and research involving personal data are subject to ethics committee approval. This permission must be clearly stated in the text of the article. Studies without ethical approval are not evaluated. Scientific research on humans and animals must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and ARRIVE guidelines and approval must be obtained from the relevant ethics committee. Studies without ethics committee approval are not evaluated in our journal.

Research Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
In our journal, researches that require ethics committee permission include the following studies:
• All research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that involve collecting data from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations, experiments and interview techniques,
• Studies in which humans and animals (including materials or data) are used for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical trials conducted on humans,
• Scientific research on animals,
• Retrospective studies within the framework of the Personal Data Protection Law.
In order for such studies to be included in the evaluation, the relevant ethics committee permissions must be obtained and these permissions must be clearly stated in the text of the article.

Protection of Personal Information
All personal data submitted to our journal are protected in accordance with legal regulations and ethical rules.

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern
Editors may consider publishing a correction if minor errors are identified in the published article that do not affect the findings, interpretations and conclusions. In the case of major errors/violations that invalidate findings and conclusions, editors should consider retracting the article. COPE guidelines regarding correction, withdrawal or expression of concern are taken into account.

Ethical Violation Notifications
Readers can send an e-mail to helal.dergi@izu.edu.tr if they notice a significant error or inaccuracy in an article published in our journal or if they have any complaints about the editorial content (plagiarism, duplicate articles, etc.). The editors will take appropriate action when ethical issues are raised about a submitted text or a published article. Every allegation of unethical publication behavior will be investigated, even if it is raised years after publication. If, as a result of the investigation, the ethical allegation turns out to be true, corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, and similar initiatives will be taken with the relevant parties. These initiatives may take the form of publishing an official statement in the journal; sending an official letter to the employer, institution or organization of the person concerned; and sending an official letter to the relevant professional body.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
1. Originality and Plagiarism - All texts must be the original work of the authors and free of plagiarism.
2. Authorship - Authorship should be limited to authors who have made significant contributions to the text. Authors must have permission to use the software, questionnaires/web surveys and scales used in their work.
3. Multiple publication of the same manuscript - Authors should not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time.
4. Citing sources - Authors should properly and accurately cite the work of others.
5. Disclosure, conflicts of interest and financial support - Authors should clearly disclose any conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, that may affect the conclusions or interpretation of their manuscript, and should identify the individuals or institutions that provided financial support for the research. All authors must provide information about funding sources and financial or non-financial interests; obtain ethics committee approval for research involving humans and/or animals; and, if the research involves animals, include a statement that the status of the animals has been taken into account.
6. When submitting their manuscripts to the Journal, authors should take care not to provide inaccurate information about the author group, the author handling the correspondence and the order of authors. In general, it is not allowed to add new authors or remove existing authors during the manuscript evaluation phase. However, in some cases it is possible to add or delete authors. When changes are made to authors, the reasons for the change should be explained in detail. Please note that author changes are not allowed after acceptance of the manuscript.

Related institution
Each author should give the name of the institution where the majority of his/her work was carried out as the institution to be listed next to his/her name. If the author has subsequently left the institution with which he/she was affiliated, he/she may give the name of his/her new institution. The institutional name and address provided will not be updated or changed after the manuscript has been accepted for publication.
Please note that author names will be published as submitted to the journal!

Responsibilities of the Editors
1. Publication decisions - Editors are responsible for deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal should be considered or published.
2. Honesty - Editors should ensure that the publication review process works properly. In this context, editors should not disclose the identity of the authors to the reviewers and the identity of the reviewers to the authors.
3. Confidentiality - Editors should treat manuscripts submitted for review as confidential documents and should not disclose any information about the submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the author responsible for the correspondence, referees, members of the editorial board and the publisher.
4. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest - Editors and any person responsible for editorial work should not use any material from a submitted manuscript (published or unpublished) for their own research without the written permission of the author.
5. Investigation - Editors should properly and honestly investigate ethics complaints.

Responsibility of Arbitrators
1. Confidentiality - Reviewers should treat all information about submitted manuscripts as confidential and proprietary.
2. Objectivity Standards - Reviewing should be carried out objectively, without criticizing the author personally.
3. Contribution to the Editors' Decisions - Reviewers should make their views clear, based on strong arguments.
4. Promptness - Reviewers should complete their evaluations within the time allotted to them.
5. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest - Reviewers should not consider a manuscript if they have a conflict of interest arising from competition, collaboration, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or organizations associated with the manuscript submitted to them.

PUBLICATION POLICIES

General Principles
• Journal of Halal and Ethical Research, published by Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University Halal Food R&D Center, aims to be an academic platform where different disciplines come together within the scope of halal and ethical research. In this context, our journal includes original research, reviews or reports on topics such as halal and healthy food, nutrition, food additives, counterfeit / adulteration detection and method development, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products and their additives, tourism-hospitality and gastronomy, as well as ethical problems in every field.
• The journal is published in Turkish and English. Our journal is a scientific peer-reviewed journal and is published twice a year, in June and December.
• The journal is open for article submission on a continuous basis. Submitted articles should be appropriate to the purpose and scope of the journal. Original manuscripts, which have not been published anywhere before and are not in the evaluation process in another journal, and whose content and submission have been approved by each author are accepted for evaluation.
• The target audience of our journal consists of academicians, researchers, experts, professionals and students studying at undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and specialty level who are interested in the fields in which articles are accepted.

Referee Evaluation Process
The publication process for articles and translations in our journal takes place in seven stages: Preliminary Evaluation (Secretary), Spelling and Language Control, Editorial Control, Reviewer Evaluation, Author Revision, Decision (Acceptance/Rejection/Editing), Layout Process and Final Control.

1. Preliminary Evaluation (Secretary)
The secretary pre-checks the article received by the journal and sends it to the Spelling and Language Editor. The article is automatically checked for plagiarism (Turnitin) before it is sent to the journal and appears in the system. The similarity rate should not exceed 20%.

2. Spelling and Language Check
The Spelling and Language Editor checks the article for compliance with the journal's spelling rules and the language used in the writing.

3. Editorial Control
The Spelling and Language Editor checks the article before sending it to the referees and initiates the peer review process.

4. Referee Evaluation
• Referee evaluation is based on double blind refereeing.
• The Editor checks the suitability of the referees recommended by the Editorial Board for the article and sends each article to 2 referees. In order for the manuscripts submitted to our journal to be published, at least two referees must give a publishable decision. If one referee gives a positive opinion and one referee gives a negative opinion, the article is sent to a third referee.
• Referees review the manuscripts according to the journal's criteria.

5. Author Revision
The editor opens a revision process to the author in line with the referee suggestions.

6. Decision (Acceptance/Rejection/Editing)
After author revision, the editor checks whether corrections have been made according to the referee suggestions. At the end of the review, the editor may accept the article for publication, request a reorganization or reject it.

7. Layout Process and Final Control
The article accepted for publication is taken into the layout process. Accordingly, the article,
• DOI numbers are obtained.
• The layout of the article is made.
• Author names and information, metadata and page numbers of the article are updated.
• It is typeset and prepared for publication.
Articles are sent to the author for proofreading. The editor does the final reading. The new issue of the journal is published.

Open Access and Copyright
Authors agree to transfer their copyrights to our Journal under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license when the article is accepted for publication. All articles published in our journal are published as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

License Scope
Share: you may copy and redistribute the work in any medium or format.
As long as you fulfill the terms of the license, the licensee may not revoke these freedoms (specified rights).
Under the following conditions:
Attribution: you must give proper credit, provide a link to the license, and provide information if changes have been made. You may do these things appropriately, but this does not imply that the licensor approves of you and your use.
Non-commercial: You may not use this material for commercial purposes.
Not derivative: You may not distribute updated material if you have mixed, transferred, or worked on the material.
There are no additional restrictions: You may not limit the rights granted by the license to others, either by law or through the use of technology.

Archive Policy
The content of the Journal is digitally archived at Istanbul Sabahattin University's Journal storage and LOCKSS.
The Journal of Halal and Ethical Research also allows authors to share their articles on their own web pages, web pages of their institutions and other storage areas. Since the journal is a public journal, its content is not hidden from the public.
Articles published in our journal can be accessed free of charge at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/head/archive.

Fee Policy
Article submission, evaluation and publication processes in our journal are completely free of charge. No fee is charged for articles submitted or accepted for publication. In accordance with our editorial policy, sponsorship and advertisements are not accepted and all expenses of our journal are covered by the Publisher.

Special Issue Publication Policy
With the decision of the Editorial Board, a special issue may be published once a year. The publication and evaluation principles for the articles to be published in the special issue are applied in the same way as in the planned issues.

Authors are not required to pay handling fee. Publication of articles in the Halal and Ethical Research is free.