WRITING RULES
A- GENERAL PRINCIPLES
1. The article should be sent by the corresponding author as a Microsoft Word file.

2. The language of authorship is ENGLISH.

3. The work should consist of an original research article and a technical note; the main sections should be: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgments (if any), and References.

4. Main section titles are bold and all capitalized; 2nd degree titles are bold and the first letters of the words are uppercase and the others are lowercase; 3rd degree titles should be bold and only the first letter of the first word should be written in capital letters and all other words should be written in lowercase letters.

5. A 1.15 line spacing should be used before and after the main headings. In subtitles, only 1.15 line spacing space should be left between the previous line. No space should be left after the subtitle.

6. The title of the article in English should be short and descriptive, the first letters of the words should be capitalized, other words should be small and not more than fifteen words (excluding prepositions). Mathematical formulas should not be in the article title.

7. Main Headings and subheadings should be numbered.

B- RULES FOR PAGE LAYOUT

1. The text should be written on A4 size page with 12 font size, Times New Roman font, 1.15 cm line spacing. The font size can be reduced so that the summary and abstract on the 1st page of the article do not extend to the second page.
2. Margins are 2 cm above the page, 2 cm below, 2 cm to the left and 2 cm to the right.
3. Turkish and English titles should be centered on the page, the rest should be written justified, and 1 cm indent should be left at the beginning of the paragraph.
4. The total number of pages should not exceed 20 pages in original research articles and 7 pages in technical notes. Articles that exceed these page limits will not be considered for publication.
5. Article samples written according to the spelling rules of our journal can be accessed by clicking the links below.
    RESEARCH ARTICLE

C- ABSTRACT, KEY WORDS, ABSTRACT, KEYWORDS SECTIONS

1. The "ABSTRACT" section should contain a minimum of 100 and a maximum of 250 words.
2. Keywords should be written with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 6 words following the abstracts. In keywords, the initial letter of the keyword must be capitalized. Words should be separated by commas (,) and a space should be left and other words should be written.

D-FIGURES AND SCHEDULES

1. All Figures and Charts should be given on the potrait page style. If the table does not fit on the portrait page style, the Table can be divided into 2 parts and shown as a continuation Table. landscape page style should not be used.
2. "Figure" and "Table" should be used for Figures and Charts (Table 1., Figure 1.). In addition, Figure 1., Table 1. should be written in bold. Explanations and footnotes of the Tables and Figures should be given under the Table and should be written in 8 to 10 font size, and the sentence should not end with with “full stop” at the end of the sentence.
3. Figure should be placed centered on the page. Tables should be placed centered on the page. There should be no vertical lines in the charts.
4. Table titles should be 10 points, left-aligned and above the Table, and the content of the Table should be at least 9 points. Figures, graphics, photographs and etc. should be under the figure with the title "Figure" and left-aligned 10 point font size. Figure and Table should be given in the relevant places in the main document; they should not be uploaded as separate files or added to the end of the text.

E- EQUATIONS

1. Equations should be numbered and the equation number should be shown in parentheses based on the side of the equation and to the right. The main characters and variables should be italic, numbers and mathematical expressions should be plain, with the controls in 12 points. If reference is made in the text, "Equation 1." (The model for… is given in Equation 1). Microsoft Word program should be used in mathematical formulas and other additional programs should not be used.

F- REFERENCES IN THE TEXT

Manuscripts submitted to our journal must be prepared in accordance with the APA (American Psychological Association) 7th edition guidelines.

If the author’s name is not part of the sentence, the citation should be placed at the end of the sentence in parentheses.

Single author;

(Surname, Year) → (Kayalı, 2025)

Two authors;

(Surname & Surname, Year) → (Kayalı & Yalçın, 2025)

Three or more authors;

(Surname et al., Year) → (Kayalı et al., 2025)

Same author, same year;

(Surname, Yeara) → (Kayalı, 2025a), (Surname, Yearb) → (Kayalı, 2025b)

Same author, same year – combined citation;

(Surname, Yeara, Yearb) → (Kayalı, 2025a, 2025b)

When citing multiple sources in a single parenthesis, citations should be separated by semicolons and listed from oldest to most recent (Surname, 1977; Surname et al., 2013).

If the author’s name is part of the sentence;

Single author;

Surname (Year) followed by the rest of the sentence.

Two authors;

Surname and Surname (Year) followed by the rest of the sentence.

Three or more authors;

Surname et al. (Year) followed by the rest of the sentence.

Same author, different years;

Surname (Year, Year) followed by the rest of the sentence.

Same author, same year;

Surname (Yeara, Yearb) followed by the rest of the sentence.

Corporate author;

Organization Name (Year) followed by the rest of the sentence.

Direct quotations;

Surname (Year, p. page number) followed by the rest of the sentence.


G- UNITS AND NUMBERS

1. For numbers, only the dot (.) should be used as the decimal separator (20.23 instead of 20,23),
2. “/” Sign should not be used for units, it should be made exponential by leaving a space (g L-1 instead of g / L).
3. For very large numbers, it should be separated by three spaces (such as 100 000.85 instead of 100000.85).

H- REFERENCES SECTION

All references must be prepared in accordance with the APA (7th edition) guidelines.

The references section should be written in 12-point font, left-aligned, with a hanging indent of 1 cm applied to the second and subsequent lines of each reference.

All references must be listed in alphabetical order.

Multiple works by the same author published in the same year should be distinguished using lowercase letters (e.g., 2025a, 2025b).

Journal titles, conference names, and thesis-awarding institutions must be written in full (no abbreviations).

Journal Articles;

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title of the article. Journal Title, volume(issue), page range. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy

Kayali, Y. (2015). Investigation of diffusion kinetics of borided AISI P20 steel in a microwave furnace. Vacuum, 121(3), 129–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2015.08.006

Atlı, İ. S., & Çiftçi, H. (2025). Investigation of Hydrophobicity in Calcium Stearate-Epoxy Based Composite Materials. Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A, 6(1), 214-225. https://doi.org/10.55546/jmm.1665380

Kayali, Y., Yalçin, M. C., & Buyuksagis, A. (2023). Effect of electrospark deposition coatings on surface hardness and corrosion resistance of ductile iron. Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 62(3), 483-496. https://doi.org/10.1080/00084433.2022.2119039

Books;

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

Callister, W. D., & Rethwisch, D. G. (2020). Materials science and engineering: An introduction (10th ed.). Wiley.

Totten, G. E. (2016). Steel heat treatment handbook (2nd ed.). CRC Press.

Edited Books;

Editor, E. E. (Ed.). (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

Kou, S. (Ed.). (2019). Welding metallurgy (2nd ed.). Wiley.

Totten, G. E., & MacKenzie, D. S. (Eds.). (2003). Handbook of aluminum. CRC Press.

Book Chapters;

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title of the chapter. In Title of the book (pp. xx–xx). Publisher.

Porter, D. A., Easterling, K. E., & Sherif, M. Y. (2009). Phase transformations in steels. In Phase transformations in metals and alloys (pp. 299–340). CRC Press.

Chapters in Edited Books;

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title of the chapter. In E. E. Editor (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. xx–xx). Publisher.

Kou, S. (2019). Solidification phenomena in welding. In S. Kou (Ed.), Welding metallurgy (2nd ed., pp. 123–158). Wiley.

Theses;

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title of the thesis [Master’s thesis / Doctoral dissertation, University Name].

Yalçın, M. C. (2017). Optimization of sintering conditions depending on doping in BiNaTiO3 and KNaNbO3-based piezoelectric ceramics [Master’s thesis, Afyon Kocatepe University].

Yalçın, M. C. (2024). Investigating the effects of B and Mo additions on the mechanical and physical properties of FeNiMnCrCoTi0.1 high entropy alloy [Doctoral dissertation, Afyon Kocatepe University].

Conference / Symposium Proceedings;

Published in conference proceedings;

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title of the paper. In Title of the proceedings (pp. xx–xx). Publisher.

Lee, S., Park, J., & Kim, H. (2019). Additive manufacturing of titanium alloys. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing (pp. 112–118). Springer.

Published in a journal;

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title of the paper. Journal Title, volume(issue), pages. DOI

Silva, R., & Costa, J. (2018). Optimization of machining parameters for aluminum alloys. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 34(2), 301–306. https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxx

Unpublished oral presentation;

Surname, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of the presentation [Conference presentation]. Conference name, Location.

Yılmaz, A., & Demir, M. (2022, October 14). Microstructural evolution of borided steels [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Materials Engineering, Ankara, Türkiye.

Unpublished poster presentation;

Surname, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of the poster [Poster presentation]. Conference name, Location.

Kaya, H. (2021, September 22) Wear behavior of plasma-nitrided steels [Poster presentation]. Materials Science Congress, İzmir, Türkiye.

Corporate Publications;

Organization Name. (Year). Title of the topic. URL / DOI

World Steel Association. (2022). Steel statistical yearbook 2022. https://worldsteel.org/steel-by-topic/statistics/

National Institute of Standards and Technology. (2021). Mechanical properties of metals. https://www.nist.gov/materials

Standards;

Standards Organization. (Year). Standard number: Title of the standard. Publisher.

ASTM International. (2021). ASTM E8/E8M-21: Standard test methods for tension testing of metallic materials. ASTM International.

International Organization for Standardization. (2020). ISO 15614-1: Specification and qualification of welding procedures for metallic materials. ISO.

Web Sources;

If a publication year is available;
Title of the page. (Year). URL

An overview of cast iron types. (2020). https://dokumhane.net/kutuphane/dokme-demir-turlerine-genel-bir-bakis/

If no publication date is available;

Title of the page. (n.d.). Retrieved Month Day, Year, from URL

An overview of cast iron types. (n.d.). Retrieved February 16, 2020, from https://dokumhane.net/kutuphane/dokme-demir-turlerine-genel-bir-bakis/

I- UPLOADING THE ARTICLE ON THE SYSTEM

1. When submitting an article, author's name (s), addresses and e-mail should be written clearly in the Cover Page and should not be shortened.

2. The author's names and addresses should not be given in the main text during the sending of the work to system due to the blind referee, and should not be implied in anyway. It should only be written on the Cover Page.

3. While submitting the article, Copyright Transfer Agreement, (ethical committee document, if needed) should be signed and uploaded to the system.

4. All authors of the article should fulfill and sign The Declaration of The Conflict of Interest. The fulfilled and signed declaration of the conflict of interest should then be scanned and uploaded to the system during the initial manuscript submission. The declaration of the conflict of interest can be found in https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/23804.

5.All authors of the article should fulfill and sign The Declaration of Author Contribution. The fulfilled and signed declaration of author contribution should then be scanned and uploaded to the system during the initial manuscript submission. The declaration of author contribution can be found in https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/23805.

6. All responsibility of the work belongs to the authors. Articles should be prepared in accordance with the international scientific ethical rules, which we have mentioned on this page. In addition to the above-mentioned Research and Publication Ethics Statement, The Research and Publication Ethics Declaration Form signed by the responsible author should be uploaded as an additional file at the submission stage.

7. Tables and Figures should not be loaded as supplementary files and should be given in the main document.

8. Plagiarism report (iThenticate will be used) must be loaded. Plagiarism should be below 25 %. in total, and should not exceed 5 % in each source.

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A started publishing in 2020. It is published by Prof. Dr. Yusuf KAYALI. Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A is a peer-reviewed e-journal featuring original scientific articles in the fields of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Automotive, Electrical, Electronics, Biomedical, Chemical, Physics, Computer Engineering. It is an international refereed scientific journal that will be published twice a year (June and December). There is no article fee and an open access policy has been adopted. The journal accepts scientific articles in English via the Dergi Park system. The article evaluation period is approximately 3 months.

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A only publishes studies that reflect an original research with its findings and results.

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A folllows guides and politics published by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for ethical rules and responsibilities of authors, journal editors/subject editors, reviewers and publisher.

Plagiarism Check

Articles submitted to Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A, are evaluated after passing through the Plagiarism Detection Program “ithenticate”. The similarity rate criterion is 25% or below. Similarity rate in a single resource should not exceed 5%. The manuscript, which does not pass similarity criterion as a result of the preliminary evaluation, is sent back to the author / authors again to make the necessary corrections without being evaluated.

Pre-checking the manuscript by author

The article submitted by the author must not have been previously published and submitted for evaluation to any journal.

The submission file must be in Microsoft Word 2010 and later.

URLs of references should be provided where available.

The text should be prepared according to rules specified in the author’s guide.

On the submission of the article, the instructions given in the Blind Referee link are applied.

The authors in the first submission sent to the journal cannot be added / removed later.

Blind Referee Process

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scientific articles that go through the double-blind review process.

For review of submitted manuscripts, at least two referees are appointed by the editor (s) according to the content of the work and the expertise of the referees. All referee evaluation reports are sent electronically and anonymously. The names of the referees who made the assessment are not specified in the reports and in the journal due to the double blind process. However, after the evaluations, a letter of appreciation is sent to the referees.

Blind refereeing processes directly affect the quality of academic publications. The evaluation process is carried out with the principle of double-sided blind review. Referees cannot contact the authors directly, evaluation and referee reports are sent through the e-Mail management system. In this process, evaluation forms and referee reports are sent to the author (s) by the editor. Double-sided blind reviewing helps editors make decisions in an impartial manner to the authors. Authors also have the opportunity to improve their work by obtaining important information about their work.

Decision Making Process

The editors and the publisher send all works submitted for publication to at least two referees who are experts in their fields for evaluation. In case of a dispute between the referees, a third referee is appointed and the article is decided according to the majority’s decision. Evaluation forms filled in by the referees and corrections on the text, if they prefer, are sent to the authors by contacting the responsible author. The final corrected file from the author is re-evaluated by the referees and the field editor, and it is decided whether the study will be published or not.

Privacy

Studies sent to the referees for evaluation should be considered as confidential documents. Studies should not be shown to others and their contents should not be discussed. Where necessary, referees may seek advice from other colleagues, with the permission of the Chief Editor. The Editor-in-Chief can give this permission only in the event of an exceptional condition. The confidentiality rule also includes people who refuse to act as reviewers.

Impartiality Principle

No personal criticism should be made to the authors during the evaluation process. Evaluations should be made in an objective and contributing way.

Specifying a Source of information

The referees are obliged to inform the authors if there are any citations that are not cited in the study. Referees should pay particular attention to works that are not cited in the field or citations that overlap with similar works. The referees should inform the editors in the event of publication that is similar to any previously published work or information.

Information and Conflicts of Interest

Referees should not agree to evaluate if they have any collaborative connections with any author, company or institution for which they are asked for evaluating their work, and should inform editors of the situation as soon as possible.

Referees may not use unpublished works or parts of works in the manuscripts aubmitted to the journal without the written consent of the author (s) for evaluation. The information and ideas obtained during the evaluation should be kept confidential by the referees and should not be used for their own benefit. These rules include those who do not accept the reviewing.

Publication Language

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A (JournalMM), reviews research articles written in English.

Publication Frequency

In Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A (JournalMM), which has been publishing issues since 2020, a volume has been published every year since 2020 and each volume consists of 2 issues (June, December).

Open Access Policy

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A publishes original research articles without any fee or charge.

All articles accepted and published by Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A are freely available, openly accessible. We follow the guidelines presented by Budapest Open - Access Initiative (BOAI) regarding the Open-Access.

Wage Policy

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A (JournalMM), does not charge the author / authors at any stage (submission, evaluation and publication of articles) for publication procedures.