Academic impartiality and scientific quality are important criteria in evaluating articles submitted for publication. Therefore, COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)'s International Standards for Editors and Authors should be taken into account in scientific articles submitted to the JMFS journal.

• Sakarya University State Conservatory Journal (JMFS) is an international and peer-reviewed journal that publishes high quality articles in the field of music sciences.

• JMFS is a journal published twice a year, in June and December.

• One article per year is published by each author.

• The language of the articles can be Turkish or English.

• The similarity percentage in articles must be less than 20%, excluding references.

• Article submissions are not accepted via e-mail.

• Articles which do not comply with the journal's writing rules, or lack a bibliography or an abstract are not accepted to the referee process. The Editorial Board may make decisions for special cases.

• Ethics committee approval must be obtained for research conducted in all areas on clinical and experimental humans and animals.

• Articles to be published should be submitted via the "Send Article" page.

Click  here for an English article writing template.

*APA 7 citation system must be used in the articles.

*Articles to be sent to our journal should be submitted with the user account opened through DergiPark.

*Research articles and reviews of scientific books are published in Turkish or English.

*Articles should have an introduction at the beginning and a conclusion at the end.

*Articles should not exceed 12 thousand words, including all tables, figures, references (bibliography) and appendices.

*Articles should be prepared in A4 paper size, using Cambria font in MS Word program.

*Main headings and sub-headings should be arranged in 11 point bold.

*The text should be written in 11 point 6 pt paragraphs and 1,15 line spacing.

*At the beginning of the articles, there should be Turkish and English abstracts

*Abstracts should be between 200-250 words and include the purpose, scope, method and short results of the article.

*Abstracts should be written in 9 point, 6 pt paragraphs and single line spacing.

*3-5 Turkish and English keywords should be written under the abstracts.

*The introduction part should include the purpose, scope, method and research design of the study as an expanded version of the abstract.

*All manuscripts that pass the review process and are accepted for publication should be accompanied by an extended English abstract of 750-1000 words. (For the articles written in Turkish)

1- Word document of the article prepared in compliance with the writing rules (There should be no information about the authors. This file will be sent to the referees in accordance with the double-blind peer review policy.)

2- Title page containing information about the authors and, if any, information such as congresses and publications produced from the thesis.

3- Copyright Agreement and Author Acceptance Form

4-Uploading a plagiarism report to the system

1- If necessary for the study, the approved version of the Ethics Committee Permission Certificate must be uploaded to the system. Additionally, this approval (board name, date and issue number) should be stated in the method section. Ethics committee permission is required for any research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that requires data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment and interview techniques.