Articles
Issue Editorial Board
Aim & Scope
It aims to contribute to the knowledge of the field of natural and applied sciences by publishing qualified scientific studies in the field .
Natural & Applied Sciences Journal is an international open access, peer-reviewed, free of cost academic journal that includes articles and reviews on natural and applied sciences published by İzmir Democracy University. It is published twice a year in June and December. Our journal accepts only English content from the second issue.
Writing Rules
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
I. General Rules About Style
1. Manuscripts should be written in Times New Roman, 12 font size and single spaced on one side of A4 paper.
2. Manuscript should be competent, profound and voluminous as required and allowed by the research. Not being strict, number of pages including all parts is limited to 25.
3. All headings including introduction and conclusion should be numbers and typed bold. References should not be numbered.
4. First degree headings should be written in “upper case” and others should be written in “title case”.
5. Top, bottom, left and right margins should be 4 cm. in order to ease editing and reproduction.
6. Authors, directly or indirectly, should not act so as to reveal their identity for an objective assessment process.
7. A cover page that consists of title, author name, author title and affiliation, e-mail address, if available any acknowledgment and a footnote indicating if author share research data.
8. Additionally our advice as Publication council is for authors to take a paper published in the previous issue as an example.
Page numbers:
All pages should be numbered consecutively. Page numbers should be centered at the bottom of the page.
Numbers in the manuscript:
Numbers from one to ten, except for ones in tables and lists or in indicating mathematical, statistical or technical units and amounts (distance, weight etc.) should be written in text. All other numbers should be written numerically.
Example: third day, 3 km., 30 years.
Percentages and fractions:
If not mandatory “percentage” should be used in the manuscript instead of “%”.
Equations:
Equations should be numbered in parenthesis and numbers should be right aligned and consecutive.
Key words:
Below abstract 4 key words should be written, in the matching same language with the abstract, in order to help indexing.
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
All articles submitted for publication in the journal must conform to the ethical rules of scientific research. The authors of each article are required to sign the Copyright Form confirming that they have granted permission for their work to be published in Natural and Applied Science Journal. Publication will not take place, even if the manuscript is accepted without this form. Authors are solely responsible for the content of their articles and any responsibilities they may incur regarding copyrights. The work submitted to the journal should not have been published in any language, in any journal, or in the process of being evaluated in any other publication.
Articles should be prepared in accordance with the general ethical rules specified by DOI and DOAJ. Plagiarism Control All articles submitted to Natural and Applied Science Journal are checked using the iThenticate plagiarism detection software. Based on the similarity report generated by the software, the editorial board determines whether the article should be submitted to peer review or rejected.
Price Policy
No fee is charged from the author or institution under any name.
