Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Journal of Animal Science and Products (JASP) is a journal that strives to reach the highest publishing ethics standards and also considers the following Publication Ethics Principles.

Journal of Animal Science and Products (JASP) is an open-access journal — all the manuscripts published in this journal are freely available online for anyone. There are no subscription or submission charges. The journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This allows free reproduction of articles with appropriate citation information. All authors who publish with Journal of Animal Science and Products (JASP) accept these as publication conditions.
 

Journal of Animal Science and Products (JASP) undertakes to fulfill the ethical duties and responsibilities based on "Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive” published by Higher Education Institutions and “COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors” and “COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors” published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Therefore, the journal expects the authors and referees to act within this framework.

Ethics committee approval should be obtained for studies on clinical and experimental humans and animals that require an ethics committee decision for articles submitted to the journal, and this approval should be stated and documented in the article. In studies that require ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date, and number) should be included in the method section and also on the first/last page of the article. In the case of reports, information about signing the informed consent/consent form should be included in the article.

 

Ethical responsibilities of editors and associate editors

1. They should make a positive or negative decision by evaluating the studies submitted to the journal in terms of their importance, original value, validity, clarity of expression, and suitability for the aims and objectives of the journal. If they decide to reject the article as a result of the first review, they are obliged to clearly inform the authors about the reason.

2. The editor and his assistants should inform the author whether the studies submitted for publication to the journal will be evaluated within 30 days. The editor or his assistants are responsible for deciding which of the submitted works should be published.

3. Studies submitted to the journal should be checked first by the editor or his assistants for possible plagiarism. At this stage, the works with the possibility of plagiarism are rejected by the editor or his assistants.

4. Unpublished methods and information contained in studies submitted to the journal should not be used by anyone in their own work without the express written permission of the authors.

5. Studies submitted to the journal should be evaluated only within the framework of their intellectual values, without considering the social, cultural, economic, and religious beliefs of the authors.

6. Studies submitted to the journal should not be disclosed by the editor or their assistants to anyone other than the authors, referees, associate editors, and the publisher.

7. The editor and his/her assistants should appoint section editors who are experts in their fields in accordance with the subject of the articles and ensure that they send the articles to the referees suitable for their knowledge expertise.

8. They should encourage referees to evaluate the studies in an impartial, scientific, and objective manner.

9. They should establish the referee pool and keep it up to date. In the referee pool; They should take care to have scientists who evaluate the articles objectively, fulfill the refereeing process on time, evaluate the article with constructive criticism, and act in accordance with ethical rules.

10. If it is determined that the studies submitted to the journal by the editor or his assistants have a conflict of interest with another author and/or institution, the study should be withdrawn from the publication/evaluation process.

11. The final opinion regarding the acceptance or rejection of the studies submitted to the journal belongs to the editor. The editor should make his decision by taking into account the originality and importance of the work.

Ethical responsibilities of referees

1. A referee who feels that he/she does not have enough information about the study to evaluate the work sent to him by the editor or his assistants for evaluation, or is unable to make an immediate evaluation, should notify the editor of this situation and should leave the evaluation task.

2. The referees should make their evaluations by respecting the principle of confidentiality. Studies should not be shown to people other than the editor or their assistants and should not be discussed with others about the work.

3. The referees should keep the privileged information and ideas they have obtained during the review process confidential and should not use them for personal gain. In addition, reviewers should not use any part of the data of the work that they have evaluated and that has not yet been published.

4. Referee criticism should be made objectively. No personal criticism should be directed against the author. Referees should express their opinions with arguments that clearly support them.

5. If the reviewers detect a substantial similarity or overlap between the evaluated study and another previously published work, they should notify the editor.

6. Referees who find that there is a competition, cooperation, or another kind of relationship or connection between the author and him/herself, should not evaluate the study.

Ethical responsibilities of authors

1. Articles sent to Journal of Animal Science and Products (JASP) must be original studies that are suitable for the scopes of the journal.

2. Authors cannot send their articles sent for publication to another journal at the same time.

3. Authors should collect data on their study within the framework of ethical principles. If the raw data that forms the basis of the study are requested, the authors are obliged to forward it to the publisher, editor, and referees.

4. Articles submitted for publication should not be contrary to scientific publication ethics (plagiarism, forgery, distortion, republishing, slicing, unfair authorship, not specifying the supporting organization, not complying with ethical rules in studies on animals).

5. Studies submitted to the journal should contain sufficient reference information and detail. Fraudulent and deliberate false statements are unacceptable as they will lead to unethical situations. Theses or studies that have not yet been presented or defended cannot be used as sources without the permission of the owner.

6. Potential conflicts of interest of the authors should be stated. Authors are obliged to declare the organizations, financial resources or conflicts of interest that support the studies they submit.

7. Each person who contributed to the design, implementation, or interpretation of the study submitted to the journal should be cited in the study. All major contributors should be listed following the first author. Other supporters can be mentioned in the "Acknowledgements" section of the study.

8. During the publication process, the "Corresponding Author" who corresponds with the relevant journal/institution is accepted. The corresponding author should share his correspondence with other authors and take the necessary actions in a timely and accurate manner.

9. If the author detects a significant error or defect in his published work in the journal, he is obliged to immediately notify the journal editor or the publisher and cooperate with the editor to correct the existing error or defect.

10. It is accepted that all authors take responsibility for the content of the article. It is unethical for a person who does not contribute to an article to be an author. Likewise, it is unethical not to include someone who has made a significant contribution to the publication among the authors.

Actions Contrary to Scientific Research and Publication Ethics

Falsification

Making up, reporting, or publishing data as if it were done without a scientific research

Distortion

To falsify research records and obtained data, to present methods, devices, and materials that are not used in the research as if they were used, not to evaluate the data that are not suitable for the research hypothesis, to manipulate the data and/or results in order to fit the relevant theory or assumptions, in line with the interests of the people and organizations that receive support falsify or shape research results

Plagiarism

Presenting the ideas, methods, data, practices, writings, figures, or works of others as their own work, in whole or in part, without attribution in accordance with scientific rules

Fraud

To produce data that is not based on research, to edit or change the presented or published work based on untrue data, to report or publish them, to make unfinished research appear as if it has been done

Republishing (Duplication)

Republishing the results of a study in another journal without the permission of the editor of the journal in which it was originally published.

Slicing

Presenting the results of a research as separate works in associate professor examination evaluations and academic promotions by dividing the results of a research in a way that violates the integrity of the research, by dividing it into parts inappropriately, and by making multiple publications without citing each other

Unfair authorship

Including non-active contributors among authors, not including active contributors among authors, changing the order of authors unjustifiably and inappropriately, removing the names of active contributors from the work at the time of publication or in subsequent editions, using their influence, even though to have no active contribution but, being included among the authors

Other types of ethical violations

Not stating the supporting people, institutions, or organizations and their contributions to the research in the publications of supported research, not following the ethical rules in research on humans and animals, not respecting the rights of patients in their publications, appearing in a work assigned to review as a referee, to share the field information with others before it is published, to misuse the resources, places, facilities, and devices provided or reserved for scientific research, to accuse completely unfounded, groundless, and intentional ethical violations.

            Publishing Policy

1- Journal of Animal Science and Products (JASP) is publish 2 times a year and an international peer-reviewed open access journal publishing original scientific papers and reviews on animal science, animal production and related areas. The JASP journal welcomes innovative and novel science that relates to farmed, wild or experimental animals for animal production, and animal management practices and/or that is relevant to animal products. Manuscripts can be accepted from all animal species in which they contribute knowledge about animal production systems. JASP journal provides crucial reading for all animal scientists, stakeholders and policy makers interested in agricultural, veterinary, life sciences and food science with expected impacts on Animal Husbandry and Nutrition, Animal Genetics and Breeding, Animal Health, Animal Welfare and Behaviour, Farm Animal Biology, and Sustainability of Animal Agriculture and Livestock Systems.

2- Journal of Animal Science and Products (JASP) is established within the scope and responsibility of Turkish Federation of Animal Science.
3- Journal of Animal Science and Products is published 2 times a year (ISSN: 2667-4580). Its short name is JASP. The scope of the journal covers all aspects of animal science and production.

4- Journal of Animal Science and Products is an open access and an international journal. All issues are freely available without any charge for either user or institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
5- Research articles and reviews written in Turkish and English are published in our journal.

6- Articles submitted for publication must not be published elsewhere or sent to any journal for publication. Older studies more than ten years are not accepted to evaluate.
7- A research paper submitted to the journal for publication have following sections; Turkish and English Abstract, Introduction, Material and Method, Results, Discussion and Conclusion and References. Results and Discussions can either be combined into one section.

8- Research Article 2500-5000 words and Reviews must be within the limits of 4.000-7000 words.
9- If the research paper is summarized from graduate theses, this should be given as a footnote on the first page.

10- Our journal adopts the Open Source Publication Policy.
11- The articles published in our journal must comply with the scientific ethics rules. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with internationally accepted code of ethics.

12- A copy of the report should be submitted with the manuscript in the studies where the Ethics Committee Report is required (studies related directly / indirectly to the animal).

• Any research carried out with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques. Use of humans and animals (including material / data) for experimental or other scientific purposes, Researches on animals, 
• Retrospective studies in accordance with the law of protection of personal data,
• Also;
• In the case reports, it is stated that the “informed consent form” was taken,
• Obtaining and expressing permission from the owners for the use of scales, surveys and photographs belonging to others,
• Stating that the copyright regulations are complied with for the ideas and works of art used.

13- The articles submitted to Journal of Animal Science and Products (JASP) are controlled through the iThenticate software. Similarity Index (SI) of the article should be <20%; Each similarity ratio should be <5%. If the similarity index is above the acceptable limits, the article will be returned to the author(s) (no more than 3 plagiarism scans are performed for an article). If revisions are not made within 10 days, the article will be rejected. If the plagiarism is proved after the publication of the article, that article will be withdrawn and removed from the website immediately and the author(s) will not be able to submit a paper for a period of five years to the Journal of Animal Science and Products (JASP).

14- All authors should sign the Copyright Form for the publication rights of their article to the Journal of Animal Science and Products (JASP). The article will not be taken into consideration unless the Copyright Form is submitted by the authors.
15- The articles whose evaluation process is completed are published considering the date of submission. The articles are added to the first issue scheduled to be published as soon as they are ready for publication. The volume is published, after all articles will be published in the same volume are completed.

16- Response to control and correction postings to be sent to the author (s) during the page-layout the study should be replied within 15 days at the latest. The articles of the author (s) who are not responding within the specified period of time shall be forwarded for further volumes.
17- No changes are allowed in the article that is decided to be published. An author can publish a maximum of two study as a corresponding author, one without a corresponding author. The responsibility of the published study belongs to the author (s).