I. BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Hendese Journal of Engineering and Technical Sciences (HENDESE) is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal published by Muş Alparslan University and committed to ethical values. The journal is published twice a year (in April and October) and accepts original research articles in all subfields of engineering and technical sciences.

Article submissions are only accepted online via the DergiPark system:

https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/journal/4256/submission/step/manuscript/new

General Principles

• Peer Review Process: All submissions are reviewed using a double-blind peer review system.
• Fee Policy: Article submission and the review process are free of charge.
• Language: Turkish or English.
• For English articles, language and terminology checks are the responsibility of the authors.
• For articles written in English, only one of the American English or British English formats should be chosen and used consistently throughout the text.

Author Information

• Author names, institutions, or contact addresses must not appear in the article file.
• This information should only be entered in the submission form on the DergiPark system (name, institution, ORCID, email).

II. PRE-SUBMISSION PREPARATION

Authors must ensure that all of the following requirements are met before submitting their articles. Incomplete or unsuitable submissions will be rejected during the preliminary review stage.

Scientific and Ethical Requirements

• The article must not have been previously published anywhere or submitted to another journal for review.
• Ethical Committee Approval must be obtained for studies involving human or animal subjects and clearly stated in the text.
• Only individuals who have made a scientific contribution to the study should be listed as authors.
• Any potential conflicts of interest and funding sources must be declared.
• All research must be conducted in accordance with international ethical publishing principles.

Formatting Requirements

• The article must be prepared using the journal's official Word templates.
• The similarity rate must be below 20% according to Turnitin or iThenticate results, and below 3% for a single source.
• Files should only be uploaded in .docx (Word) format.
• Figures, tables, equations, and references should comply with the formatting rules in the journal template.
• Studies published in full text or as abstracts at conferences or symposiums will not be considered for publication in our journal.

III. ARTICLE SUBMISSION (FIRST STAGE)

Article submission is only possible via the DergiPark system.

The following three (3) documents must be uploaded in full during submission:

Article File:

• Word format (.docx), prepared in accordance with the journal template, anonymous version without author information.
• Author information will be entered separately in the DergiPark system.
• For the initial submission, the file name should be as follows: ArticleTitle_Version0.docx (e.g. LightweightHeadliner_Version0.docx)

Copyright Transfer Form:

• Must be signed by all authors and uploaded in PDF format.

Similarity Report:

• Must be obtained via Turnitin or iThenticate and uploaded to the system in PDF format.
• The report date, programme name, and total similarity rate must be visible.

Applications with missing documents will be rejected during preliminary review.

Similarity Policy

• Overall similarity rate: below 20%
• Quotation rate from a single source: below 3%
• References, proper names, addresses, and chemical/biological terms are not included in the assessment.
• Articles exceeding the limits will be returned to the authors or rejected.

IV. REVISION PROCESS (AFTER REVIWERS COMMENTS)

As a result of the referee evaluation, one of the following decisions may be made for the article:

• Accepted
• Minor Revision
• Major Revision
• Rejected

Revision Preparation Rules

The revision period is 30 days.

• All changes requested by the reviewers must be highlighted in yellow within the text. (The Track Changes feature will not be used.)
• All changes must also be explained in a separate PDF file titled ‘Response to Reviewers’.
• The revision file name should be in the following format: ArticleID_RevisionNo.docx (e.g. 1754641_Rev1.docx or 1754641_Rev2.docx)
• Responses to reviewer comments should be complete and constructive.
• Once the revision is complete, it must be uploaded via the system as a ‘New File’.
• The editor may redirect the article to the same or different reviewers if deemed necessary.

NOTE: Highlight only changes made in response to reviewer suggestions in yellow; summarise formatting or wording corrections in the form.

V. POST-ACCEPTANCE DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATION PROCESS

After the article is accepted, authors must upload the following two (2) additional documents to the system:

Author Information Form (PDF):

• Includes each author's name, surname, ORCID, institution, and email address.

Author Contribution Statement (PDF):

• Indicates each author's contribution to the article according to the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) system (e.g., Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – Original Draft, Supervision).

Post-Acceptance Process

• Articles are formatted by the typesetting and layout editors.
• Volume, issue, page range, and DOI information are assigned by the journal management.
• Articles approved for publication by the Editorial Board are typeset, layout, and final proofread by the journal team.
• After the final format is approved, the article is placed in the publication queue, taking into account the subject, order of submission, and term plan.

HENDESE fully complies with the principles of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). All articles are evaluated according to the principles of ethics, impartiality, and confidentiality. If plagiarism, multiple submissions, data fabrication, or ethical violations are detected, the article will be rejected, and the relevant institutions will be notified.