Language: Publication language can be Turkish and /or English. The manuscripts should be written in a clear and fluent manner with appropriate scientific and technical expressions. When the articles are written in Turkish, both Turkish and English abstract should be placed in the main text. When the articles are written in English, only English abstract is adequate. 

Articles  should not be included no longer needed or useful and well-known  information, as well as featureless sources as references. Previously published data, formulas and results should be cited by referring their original papers. Nomenclature, abbreviations and symbols should be used in accordance with international standards.  Abbreviations which are special to the articles and common for the relevant field should be indicated in parentheses in the first place their used. SI (Systemé International) units and abbreviations are accepted in the articles.

The manuscripts are required to comply with national and international ethic rules for publishing. Authors must pay attention to ICMJE (International Committee of Medcial Journal Editors) recommendations and COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines, namely “International Standards for Editors and Authors”.  

Format: Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the templates as follows:

Original_Article_Template_TR / Original_Article_Template_EN / Review_Article_Template_TR /  Review_Article_Template_EN  

The manuscripts must be uploaded in “.docx” extension.


2. Article Structure

Scaling: The page margins should be 2.5 cm (Right-Left-Above-Below). The margin values should not be changed in the template.

Title: A title should be comprehensive and understandable. The title should be written with Times New Roman (TNR) font in 14 size and it should be left aligned. The first letter should be written in capital letter and the rest are in lowercase. In Turkish articles, the relevant English title should be placed before the Turkish abstract. In terms of English title, the first letter should be capitalized, and should be written with TNR font in 12 size, as well as should be left aligned.

Author Names and Contacts: The name line should be placed as left aligned under the title line. The titles of the authors should not be written before names. The contact information should be given in full-length. A letter superscript should be used in terms of different contacts. The contact information should be written with TNR font in 7 size and italic style. In addition, the corresponding author's phone and e-mail address should be written with TNR font in 7 size.

Keywords: Immediately after the abstract, it should be provided a maximum of 8 and a minimum of 3 keywords. They should be written with TNR font in 7 size and left aligned. The first letter of keywords should be in capital letter. 

Abstract: Abstract should briefly state the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. In case of both Turkish and English versions, it should not exceed 250 words and it should be in one paragraph. It should be written with TNR font in 7 size and aligned on both sides.

Text: The main text of the manuscript should be written using TNR font in 10 size with 1.5 line spacing. Before paragraphs, line spacing should be set to 0 PT before spaces and 6 PT after spaces. The article should be divided into main sections with different titles and each section should be numbered. The titles should be written in Bold Font. In terms of main sections, the numbering should start from I (then II, III, …) and “Summary”, “Acknowledgments” and “References” should be not included in the section numbering. Considering the numbering of the related main section, secondary subsections should be numbered as 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, … and the first letters of the words placed the secondary titles should start with capital letters. Regarding  the secondary subsections, tertiary subsections should be numbered as 1.1.1., 1.1.2., 1.1.3…For the tertiary subsections, only the first letter of the first word should be capitalized. Fourth subsections should be underlined. The format of the article is illustrated as follows:

I. INTRODUCTION

It states the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background. In this section research subject should be explained avoiding giving a detailed literature survey or research results. References should not be given as group or sparse (eg [1-5] or [1, 2, 3, 5, 8]). The contribution of each source should be examined and stated in the text. Also, references should not be hyperlinked.


II. EXPERIMENTAL METHOD/THEORETICAL METHOD

In case of research driven by experimental study, test procedure / method should be explained in a clear way. If a theoretical study has been carried out, the theoretical method should be given in detail. If the method has been previously mentioned in published studies, the difference of the current study should be stated by referring to the previous studies.

2.1 Materials and Preparation Techniques

2.1.1. Characterization of materials


III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Results should be clear and concise. Discussion parts should explore the significance of the results of the work by compared them with the literature.


IV. CONCLUSION

The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short and clear ways.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It can be given before the resources section at the end of the article. A example for “Acknowledgement Section”; This study was supported with Yalova University BAPKO Graduate Thesis Project (2018/YL/0016).


REFERENCES

Citation

Reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets. Some examples:

1. Negotiation research spans many disciplines [3].

2. This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman [5].

3. This effect has been widely studied [1-3, 7].


Reference list

The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text.

The entries in the list should be numbered consecutively.

If available, please always include DOIs as full DOI links in your reference list (e.g. “https://doi.org/abc”).


Reference to a journal publication:

[1]      Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L (2009) Effect of high intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in prepubescent children. Eur J Appl Physiol 105:731-738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8

Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author lists will also be accepted:

[2]      Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med 965:325–329

Article by DOI:

[3]      Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001090000086

Reference to an edited book: 

[4]      South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

[5]     Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257

Reference to thesis as published: 

[6]     Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California

Reference to presentation presented in a congress:

[7]     Caratelli D, Viganó M.C, Toso G, Angeletti P (2010) Analytical placement technique for sparse arrays. 32nd ESA Antenna Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Oct. 5–8.

[8]     Arrillaga  J, Giessner B (1990) Limitation of short-circuit levels by means of HVDC links. IEEE Summer Power Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Jul. 12–17, Bildiri 70 CP 637.

Reference to a standard or patent:

[9]      Schulze R. (1980). Process for the Isolation of Noble Metals. US Patent 4, 925, 485

[10]    Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater (1998). 20. baskı, American Public Health Association, Washington DC, USA

Reference to a website: 

[11]    Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007


Journal titles should be abbreviated with regard to WEB page, as follows:

http://woodward.library.ubc.ca/research-help/journal-abbreviations/

APPENDICES

If there is one appendix, it should be identified as APPENDIX A. If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as APPENDIX A, B, C etc. In appendices, formulas and equations should be numbered as A1, A2, A3 etc. and, tables and figures should be numbered as Table A1, Table A2, Figure A1, Figure A2 etc.

Additing and Numbering of Equations: Equations should be given as Eq. 1, Eq. 2 etc in text. Equations should be numbered in parentheses as (1), (2), (3) etc. and, reaction numbers as (R1), (R2), (R3) etc. Formulas should be written using Mathtype or the Microsoft equation editor.

Units: SI unit system should be used in the text, figures and tables. For example, "min" should be used instead of "minute", "h" units should be used instead of "hour"

Footnotes: Footnotes should be avoided as much as possible, but if necessary, they should be written at the bottom of the page and this section should be separated by a line from the main text.

Tables: Table captions should be placed at the top of the related table and should be written with TNR font in 8 size. Vertical lines should not be used in tables. Variables should be written as Bold font. If any, units should be in italics and shown in parentheses one line below.  

Figures: Figures should be uploaded in JPEG or TIFF format. Figure captions should be at the bottom of the related figure,  should be written using TNR font in 8 size. Figures should be numbered by considering in which main section they are presented. Figures should be placed in main text. The resolution of the figures must be at least 300 DPI.  If necessary, inset figures can be used. For figure notes, the font should be TNR, Arial or Symbol. The  font size of  the notes should not be larger than 10 size. Please avoid using outer border. 


3. Article Submission

1. Authors must upload their articles by considering Template in online submission system http://jiens.org . It should be ensured that all the authors' information is correct. In further, any changing on this information cannot be done for the article.

2. All manuscripts are subject to peer review for compliance and similarity with the editorial guide as soon as they reach the editorial office. The similarity report must be uploaded to the online system by the authors through the process of uploading their articles. The similarity rate should be below 20%. Studies should be created with regard to Article Template and with. Authors who do not receive such approval within a reasonable period of time should notify the editor.

3.  Authors acknowledge that the copyright of their submitted articles has been transferred to the publisher. A letter stating that the “Submitted article has not been published elsewhere or has not been sent to another journal for publication” should be uploaded to the system as an additional document. All authors in the article must sign the Copyright Form stating that they have given the publication rights of their work to the International Journal of Engineering and Natural Sciences. Even if the publication is accepted without submitting this form, it will not be published.

Publication Policy;

- JIENS is a peer-reviewed journal published electronically twice a year (January, July).

- JIENS publishs scientific research articles, graduate thesis articles, review articles and letters to the editor written in Turkish or English.

- Articles submitted to JIENS for evaluation should be prepared according to the JIENS article writing format and manuscript template.

- There is no limit to the number of pages in the articles. The abstract should be between 100-250 words. The number of keywords should be at least 3 and should not exceed 8.

- Articles submitted to be published in JIENS should be prepared according to the journal's writing rules; should be innovative in terms of content; suggest a new method or add a new dimension to previously existing scientific knowledge.

- All articles submitted to JIENS are evaluated with a blind review system as a requirement of objective publishing policy by at least two reviewers.

- The reviewer evaluations of the articles submitted to JIENS are expected to be completed within 15 days. If this period is exceeded, the editors appoint a new reviewer.

- After the reviewer evaluation, acceptance/rejection desicion of the submitted article is made by the editors. In line with the reviewer comments, a major (re-submit for evaluation) or minor (revision required) revision decision is requested to improve the article. After the "resubmit for review" or "revision required" decision, the requested changes are expected to be made within 30 days by the author for the "resubmit for review" decision, and within 20 days for the "revision required" decision. Otherwise, the article will be rejected. The articles that are uploaded again after the revision but do not reach the desired quality and are not scientifically sufficient are rejected. 

- JIENS works with an open access system. Articles published in journal issues are accessible free of charge.

- No fee is requested from the authors for the article submission or publishing.

- JIENS started to be published in 2021.

- Maximum "40" articles can be published in each issue. Articles will be published in the order of acceptance date. DOI numbers will be given to all accepted articles.



Ethical Principles;

- Ethical committee report should be attached for manuscripts requiring ethical committee approval.

- The blind review method is applied, in which the authors do not see the reviewers.

- Articles uploaded to the JIENS should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. 

- Authors should reference all the citations they use in their articles and the references should be added to the end of the manuscript text. 

- The copyright transfer form, in which all authors approve their responsibilities regarding the publication, must be uploaded to the system, signed by all authors.

- The results of articles should be presented clearly and honestly, without fabrication, falsification, wrong or inappropriate data manipulation.

- All authors have equal responsibility regarding ethical principles.

- Similarity score control is performed for all manuscripts at the pre-check stage. Manuscripts with a similarity rate of over 25% are not taken into consideration.