International Online Journal of Primary Education

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Submission Preparation Checklist

» As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

» The submitted manuscript has not been previously published and has not been submitted to any journal (more explanation was provided in the Author Guideline).

» The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.

» URLs are provided for the references.

» Manuscript was prepared according to IOJPE Manuscript Template

» The style and bibliography requirements added here can be seen in the Author Guidelines.

» If you are submitting your manuscript for the review, make sure that you have removed the identifying information from your manuscript to ensure a blind review. Please strictly follow the suggestions in the “Help” page.

» References used in the text have been added to the reference section. Likewise, each work in the reference section is cited in the text.

» All manuscripts are proofread in terms of grammar, consistency and the quality of writing.

» Plagiarism is avoided. The Manuscript similarity is under 15%.

» During submission, all manuscript authors should be added to Journal System.

Author Guidelines

Guidelines For Manuscript Preparation

IOJPE_Manuscript_Template

Copyright Transfer Form

Manuscripts should be typed on A4 paper. Manuscripts must be written in the form of a single column as plain text. For the page set up, the margins must be 2,5 cm from top, right, bottom and left. Manuscripts must be written in “Times New Roman” with font size 11; justified and single line spacing. There must be two lines in space between titles. Tables and references must be prepared in font size 9.

Because our journal is on-line, the lenght of the manuscript can change in accordance with the subject. There is no page limit for the manuscript.

Title

The title of the manuscript must be written in font size 14, in upper case and must be centered. It should be concise and informative. The title must not exceed 12 words.

The name(s) of the author(s) should be typed in font size 10. The first letter of the name(s) must be given in uppercase and centered below the title.

The titles and work places of author(s), and if any, the names of the university, laboratory or the instiution, where the study was conducted, and the e-mail address(s), should be placed below the name(s) of the author(s).

Abstract

Each manuscript must be preceded by an abstract written in English. The abstract must be written in font size 9, justified and limited to 75-200 words.

The abstract must be followed by 3-5 key words. The key words must be written in lowercase.

Sections and Subsections

Section titles must be written in bold uppercase, and subsection titles must be writtten in bold lowercase.

Tables

The table caption and table number must be given above the table (left aligned). The content of the table must be expressed in the title, next to the table number. The first letter of word in the table caption must be in uppercase. Table must be written in font size 9 and must be arranged in such a way that no space is left before or after the lines. Lines used in the tables must be 1pt at most and there must be no line between rows and columns except for in categorizations on row and column headings.

Figures

Diagrams and graphics must be drawn in such a way that they can be printed on white paper. The size should not exceed 13x18. Each figure must have a number and a subtitle. If any source was used, it must be given in paranthesis below the figure.

Figures must be indented 3 cm from the left margin and should be placed appropriately not to allow any text to the left or right. Pictures that do not fit in to the end of a page should be placed on the following page or given after the REFERENCES section as an APPENDIX

References

References must be given in accordance with APA 7 (American Psychological Association) standards. Detailed information on reference style can be found at:

APA Style (7th) Quick Guide Full-Paper-Template-for-Review-Process

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The publication process at International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE) is the basis of the improvement and dissemination of information objectively and respectfully. Therefore, the procedures in this process improves the quality of the studies.

Peer-reviewed studies are the ones that support and materialize the scientific method. At this point, it is of utmost importance that all parties included in the publication process (authors, readers and researchers, publisher, reviewers and editors) comply with the standards of ethical considerations.International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE) expects all parties to hold the following ethical responsibilities.

Ethical duties and responsibilities are written in the light of the guide and policies made by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Responsibilities of Editors

The editor and field editors of International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE) should hold the following ethical responsibilities that are based on the guides "COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" published as open Access by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

General duties and responsibilities

Editors are responsible for each study published in International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE). In this respect, the editors have the following roles and responsibilities:

Making efforts to meet the demand for knowledge from readers and authors,
Ensuring the continuous development of the journal,
Managing the procedures aimed to improve the quality of the studies published in the journal,
Supporting freedom of expression,
Ensuring academic integrity,
Following the procedures without making concessions on intellectual property rights and ethical standards,
Being transparent and clear in issues that require correction or explanation.

Relationships with Readers

Editors must make decisions taking into consideration the knowledge, skills and expectations of all readers, researchers and practitioners need. They must also ensure that the published studies contribute to literature and be original. Moreover, they must take notice of the feedback received from researchers and practitioners and provide explanatory and informative feedback.

Relationships with Authors

Editors have the following duties and responsibilities in their relations with authors:

Editors must make positive or negative decisions about the studies' importance, originality, validity, clarity in wording and suitability with the journal's aims and objectives.
Editors must accept the studies that are within the scope of publication into pre review process unless there are serious problems with the study.
Editors must not ignore positive suggestions made by reviewers unless there are serious problems with the study.
New editors, unless there are serious issues, must not change the previous editor's decisions about the studies.
Blind Review and Review Process must be published and editors must prevent possible diversions in the defined processes.
Editors must publish an Author's Guide that is comprehensive enough in answering queries by authors. This guide must be updated regularly.
Authors should be provided with explanatory and informative feedback.

Relationships with Reviewers

Editors have the following duties and responsibilities in their relations with reviewers:

Editors must

choose reviewers according to the subject of the study.
provide the information and guidance reviewers may need during the review process.
observe whether there are conflicting interests between reviewers and authors.
keep the identities of reviewers confidential in blind review.
encourage the reviewers to review the manuscript in an unbiased, scientific and objective tone.
evaluate reviewers regularly based on criteria like performance and timing.
develop practices and policies that increase the performance of reviewers.
take necessary steps to update the reviewer pool dynamically.
prevent unkind and unscientific reviews.
make effort to ensure the reviewer pool has a wide range.

Relationships with the Editorial Advisory Board

Editors must make sure that the members of the Editorial Advisory Board follow the procedures in accordance with the publication policies and guidelines, and must inform the members about the publication policies and developments. The editors must also train new members of the Editorial Advisory Board and provide the information they need.

Moreover, editors must

ensure that the members of the Editorial Advisory Board review the manuscripts in an unbiased and independent manner.
select the new members of the Editorial Advisory Board from those who can contribute to the journal and are qualified enough.
send manuscripts for review based on the subject of expertise of the Editorial Advisory Board.
regularly communicate with the Editorial Advisory Board.
arrange regular meetings with the Editorial Advisory Board for the development of publication policies and the journal.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

The authors who submit their manuscripts to International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE) are expected to comply with the following ethical responsibilities:

Author(s) must submit original studies to the journal. If they utilize or use other studies, they must make the in-text and end-text references accurately and completely.
People who have not contributed to the study at the intellectual level should not be indicated as author.
If the manuscripts submitted to be published are subject of conflicting interests or relations, these must be explained.
During the review process of their manuscripts, author(s) may be asked to supply raw data. In such a case, author(s) should be ready to submit such data and information to the editorial and scientific boards.
Author(s) should document that they have the participants' consent and the necessary permissions related with the sharing and research/analysis of the data that are used.
Author(s) bears the responsibility to inform the editor of the journal or publisher if they happen to notice a mistake in their study which is in early release or publication process and to cooperate with the editors during the correction or withdrawal process.
Authors cannot submit their studies to multiple journals simultaneously. Each submission can be made only after the previous one is completed. A study published in another journal cannot be submitted to International Online Journal of Primary Education.
Author responsibilities given in a study (e.g.: adding an author, reordering of author names) whose review process has begun cannot be changed.

Conflicts-of-Interest Statement

Authors

According to general publication policy of the International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE), only the researchers who contributed to the work in a real sense should be considered as an author. Authors should be responsible to disclose all the personal and financial relationships which might bias their work. Financial relationships such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony can be classified as the most easily identifiable conflicts-of-interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal. To clarify conflicts-of-interest issue, authors must submit a letter to the editorial office accompanying the submitted manuscript and explicitly state if any potential conflicts exist or not.

Peer Reviewers

Peer Reviewers should be responsible to decline the review process if any substantial conflicts-of-interest exists. In case of any doubt, they should consult to the Editor to make a decision regarding the review process. Researchers from authors' institutions should not be considered as peer reviewers to prevent any conflicts-of-interest.

Editors

Editors should be responsible to manage the review process and have the right of declining any submission in case of any conflict-of-interest. They should not have any direct personal and/or financial conflicts with their assigned manuscripts. They should not be assigned to manuscripts if they are in the author list of them.

Plagiarism Control

All the submitted articles to International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE) are evaluated by using the iThenticate plagiarism detection software. After evaluating the generated similarity report, the editorial board decides to proceed the submission to the review or directly decline it.

However, manuscripts based on papers published at related conferences and workshops proceedings may be submitted for consideration provided that: the papers are not identical; the authors cite their earlier conference paper on which this new work is based; the journal publication includes clearly shown novel elements (e.g., more comprehensive experiments). All the responsibility of the manuscripts regarding to ethical issues belong to authors.

Section Policies

Research Articles

√ Open Submissions      √ Indexed      √ Peer Reviewed

Review Articles

√ Open Submissions      √ Indexed      √ Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Review Process

Every manuscript submitted to the International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE) is first evaluated by the editor in chief and sent to the field editors within two weeks at the latest. The manuscripts; not original, not contributing to the field, outside of the scope, with similarity above 15%, that consist of major scientific mistakes and poorly written are rejected. The author(s) of such manuscripts receive an email within two weeks after the submission with the details of the rejection. All manuscripts passed from pre-assessment of the editor in chief and the fields editors are forwarded to two referees who are specialized in the field. All manuscripts submitted to IOJPE are double-blind reviewed.

Double Blind Review

IOJPE uses the double-blind review method in the review process of all manuscripts. The identity of the reviewers and the authors are not disclosed to either party. In this method the identities of the authors and reviewers are confidential.

These referees state their decision whether they take the submitted manuscript into evaluation or not to the publication board within two weeks at the latest. If the referees do not state an opinion to the publication board, new referees are assigned for the reviewing the manuscript.

The assigned referees evaluate the study by using IOJPE manuscript reviewer form.

Views of the referees serve as a guide to the editor in chief and the field editors to make a final decision. The final decision always belongs to the editors and the field editors.

Referees can state the following four views for the submitted manuscript:

√ Acceptance for publication

√ Acceptance for publication after minor revision [it is decided after revisions are checked by the editorial board]

√ Reviewing again after a major revision [After a revision is made by the author(s) of the study, to be evaluated for the second tour]

√ It is not published [Rejection]

Based on the views of referees third or fourth referees can be assigned. In such case, the same process of evaluation will be performed.

Editors and field editors give final decision for the manuscript by taking into consideration of views and suggestions of referees.

Finally, the final decision is sent to the author(s).

Open Access Policy

International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE) is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

IOJPE allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and allow readers to use them for any other lawful purpose.

Complaints Policy

Complaints regarding any published materials will only be accepted within 12 months from the first publication date. In case of any complaint, the authors are required to submit their complaints along with their reasons to the editorial office via e-mail (editor.online.iojpe@gmail.com).

Publication Frequency

This journal is published biannually (one issue in June and one in December).

Copyright Notice

Copyright and permissions

Copyright Transfer Form

The manuscripts submitted to International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE) for publication should be original studies that were not published before or not submitted to anywhere else for publication.

Authors who submit their manuscript to International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE) should acknowledge that they agree to transfer the copyright of their studies to IOJPE. All Open Access articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

All articles published in International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Any further distribution or use of content published under CC BY 4.0 must contain the author(s) and the published article’s title, and journal citation. All articles published in IOJPE under a CC BY License may be used for Text and Data Mining purposes, subject to the conditions of the CC BY License terms. The license allows for commercial use. IOJPE allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator.

The journal’s objective is to disseminate articles published are free. Under the Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.00), the journal allows the user to permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, and even use the publication for commercial activities, provided that the original work is properly cited.

Open access is an approach that eases the interdisciplinary communication and encourages cooperation among different disciplines. IOJPE, therefore, contributes to its own field by providing more access to its articles and a more transparent review process.

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