Articles sent to the İzlek Academic Journal are first subject to a preliminary evaluation by the Editorial Board in terms of compliance with the journal's principles. Articles that do not fall within the scope of the journal or do not comply with the content and format requirements of a scientific writing format are rejected without starting the refereeing process or some changes may be requested. Academic impartiality and scientific quality are the most important criteria in the evaluation of articles submitted for publication.

Articles sent to the İzlek Academic Journal in accordance with the publication rules are sent to two referees known for their work in that field for evaluation. Our journal applies the double-blind refereeing system. If one of the two referees evaluates the article and the other gives a negative report, the article is sent to the third referee.

In the studies sent to the İzlek Academic Journal, the authors take into consideration the criticisms and suggestions of the referees and the Editorial Board. If there are issues they do not agree with, they have the right to object with their justifications.

The referee evaluation period of our journal is normally as follows: The editorial board's preliminary evaluation stage is 3-4 days. Each referee has a 30-day evaluation period, and if a correction is requested, the author's correction period is also 30 days. Under these conditions, the entire evaluation process of an article is expected to be completed within 60-90 days. However, the referee evaluation process may be extended due to reasons such as not responding to the referees on time, reassigning referees, etc., or the article evaluation process may be shortened due to reasons such as the referee sending his/her report before the last evaluation date, the corrections that need to be made by the author being completed in a short time, etc.

The journal is published two times a year (June and December), but additional issues may be published. Papers are welcomed after a strict peer-reviewed process. 

İzlek Academic Journal registered editors and reviewers are responsible for ensuring the quality of the published papers and the contribution to the academia fully committed to fulfilling the ethical responsibilities that are set by COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines.)

Section A: Publication and authorship 
1. The double blind method is applied.
2. All submitted papers are under strict peer-review process by at least two international reviewers who are specialized in the area.
3. The papers are only taken into account in review process in terms of their significance, uniqueness, readability, contribution, signification, relevance, and language.,
4. It is not possible to re-review rejected papers.
5. The decision process contains acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
6. If an author gets revision or resubmission for the paper, it is not certain that the revised version will be accepted or published.
7. The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as copyright infringement and plagiarism. 
8. Submitting the same paper to different journals is not acceptable.

Section B: Authors’ responsibilities
1. All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research. All authors must contribute to the research.
2. All authors must confirm that their research is original. Plagiarism is not acceptable.
3. All authors must confirm that the paper has not been published in any other journals.
4. All authors must report any mistakes that are in the published paper.
5. All authors must confirm that the paper has not been submitted for other journals’ review process.
6. All authors must provide corrections and retractions of the paper.
7. All authors must state that all relevant data that are in mentioned in the paper are genuine and real.
8. All authors must inform the Editors about the conflict of interest.
9. All authors must participate in the peer-review process.
10. All authors must cite the sources that are used in the research.

Section C: Reviewers’ responsibilities
1. Reviewers must define non-cited and relevant sources in the paper.
2. Reviewers must mind that all papers’ information is confidential.
3. Reviews should be objective.
4. Reviewers must notify the Editors about any similarity in the paper among other papers.
5. Reviewers must declare their opinions regarding supporting objectives.
6. Reviewers must be equal to all authors, but if there are conflicts of interest resulting from personal views, the reviewer should not review the paper.

Section D: Editors’ responsibilities
1. All Editors must guarantee the integrity of the academic level and the papers’ quality.
2. All Editors should be determined about their decisions and should not overturn the decisions.
3. All Editors should mind the confidentiality of the reviewers.
4. All Editors are responsible for the quality of the submitted papers’ content.
5. All Editors must mind the authors and the regarding readers’ requests.
6. All Editors must make literal corrections if it is necessary and publish these corrections.
7. All Editors should be clear and controllable about the funding sources that contribute to the journal.
8. All Editors should make their decisions based on the uniqueness, clearness, relevance, and language of the submitted research.
9. All Editors must be certain that all published researches correspond to the international guidelines.
10. All Editors are responsible for rejecting or accepting the papers.
11. All Editors should involve in any malpractice in the journal or the process of publishing and also should take action.
12. All Editors should be transparent in accepting papers and should have proof to present.
13. All Editors must ensure that there are no conflicts of interest between editors, paper authors, reviewers, and editorial board.
14. All Editors should be selective in the process of accepting the papers.

Authors who send articles to Izlek Academic Journal are deemed to have accepted the journal's said referee evaluation conditions and process. Authors cannot withdraw their articles and cannot send them to another journal until the article process is completed after the editorial board's preliminary evaluation.

The copyright of the studies that are decided (accepted) to be published in Izlek Academic Journal is deemed to have been transferred to our journal.