The following ethical duties and responsibilities are taken into consideration as open access guides and policies (such as "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).

Articles submitted in the Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A, must not have been previously published and simultaneously submitted to another journal.

All responsibility for plagiarism and unauthorized data use in the articles published in our journal or sent for publication purposes belongs to the author or authors of the study. In such a case, Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A does not accept any responsibility.

All authors must have academic and scientific contributions to the submitted article. Authors cannot request that the submitted publication be prioritized in any way.

For research requiring Ethics Committee Approval, the Ethics Committee Approval should be sent as a supplementary file with the initial manuscript. In addition, it should be stated in the Introduction and Conclusion sections of the article that the ethics committee approval was obtained for the research.

AUTHORS' DUTIES AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1- Articles submitted to the journal must be original and scientific work of the author (s). It is essential that the information created in a scientific study is new, proposes a new method or adds a new dimension to existing knowledge. The presented study should be a research article only.

2- If authors have used the works and / or statements of others, they should ensure that this is cited correctly and appropriately. The list of references should be complete. Plagiarism and fake data should not be included. Publications that are effective in determining the quality of the study reported in the article should also be mentioned. Plagiarism takes many forms, from writing someone else's publication like the author's to copying (without attributing) important parts of someone else's work, or in other words, using the result of research conducted by others. Any kind of plagiarism, fraudulent or deliberate misrepresentation constitutes unethical publishing behavior and cannot be accepted.

3- All studies submitted to Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A (JournalMM) are checked for plagiarism by the journal secretary through the iThenticate program at the pre-check stage. The similarity rate in the plagiarism report created after the plagiarism check should be at most 25%. In addition, the similarity rate in a single source should not exceed 5%. Articles with a similarity rate above this rate are directly rejected by the journal secretary. Articles with a similarity rate of 25% or less are directed to the relevant editor after spelling and language control. Even if the similarity rate of the article is not over 25%, the editors may ask the authors to make corrections regarding the relevant parts of their work or remove the work from the publication process after the similarity report evaluation. For this reason, authors should not include all quotation paragraphs in their work. If there is a suspicion of plagiarism in a published article, the editor in chief of Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A (JournalMM) initiates the necessary investigation and informs the indexes where the journal is scanned together with the relevant institutions and authorities.

4- 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.

5- Studies should not be published in another journal or submitted to another journal for printing.

6- When submitting the article to our journal, authors must sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement (ethical committee document, if needed) and upload it through the system. All authors must sign this form.

7- 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. 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.

8- Authors are expected to carefully consider the list and order of authors before submitting their articles, and to present the exact list of authors at the time of original submission. Adding or removing author names from the author list should only be done before article submission. In addition, the submission of the article to the journal should be made by the responsible author, and the information (author name, e-mail address, orcid information, etc.) of all authors of the article should be added to the system during the article submission phase. Submissions that do not comply with this rule will be rejected by our journal secretary.

9- Those who have not contributed to the article should not be stated as the article author. Relevant authors must have participated in the submitted work individually and should take all responsibility for this work. 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.

10- Contribution rates of all the authors of the article to the article process should be stated under the heading "Authors' Contributions" before the bibliography at the end of the article (This statement will be stated in the latest revision file to be sent to the layout editor after the acceptance of the article, as the referees should not know the names of the authors due to the principle of blind review.)

11- All authors must see and approve the final version of the submitted article before article submission process.

12- The text, figures, tables and documents contained in the article must not violate the copyrights of other persons.

13- Authors should not arbitrarily withdraw the article while the peer review process continues on the submitted article. If they want to withdraw the article, an email containing a reasonable explanation should be sent to the chief-editor of Journal of Materials and Mechatronics:A (Journal MM) to obtain permission to withdraw.

14- Authors are encouraged to write acknowledgment at the end of the article, after the article is accepted, thanking the person(s), or institutions, who supported the process of the article. The acknowledgment text should be under the title of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

15- 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.

16- When an author notices a material error or mistake in his or her published work, he should immediately notify the editor or publisher of the journal and cooperate with the editor to correct the article.

17- Raw data can be requested from the authors regarding their articles during the evaluation process. In such a case, authors should be present to present the expected information and documents.

DUTIES AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD

1- It is the editor's responsibility to decide which of the articles submitted to the journal will be published. The editor will review articles regardless of the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnicity, nationality, or political philosophy. The decision will be based on the article's importance, originality, clarity, validity of the study, and relevance to the journal's scope. They should take care that the study contributes to readers, researchers and practitioners. Current legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement and plagiarism should also be considered. Editors should not show any privileges to the authors of the articles submitted to the journal and should fulfill their duties in a balanced, objective and fair manner.

2- The editor should not reveal any information about a submitted article to anyone other than the relevant author, referees, potential referees and publisher.

3- Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript will not be used by the editor or editorial board for their own research purposes without the written consent of the author.

4- Editors should strive to continuously improve Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A (JournalMM) and increase the quality of the publication.

5- Editors are responsible for the determination and implementation of all policies of the journal.

6- During the evaluation of the studies, they should not bring together people with whom there might be a relationship. Editors who make the final decision about the articles are expected to have no personal, professional or financial ties with the authors of the study.

7- They should include the support or sponsored work in the evaluation process in the same way as any other study.

8- If the study is not prepared in line with the journal's purpose and scope, they should reject the study directly.

9- They should take the necessary measures to prevent possible conflicts of interest and evaluate the existing statements, if any.

10- They should apply the necessary sanctions in case of ethical violations related to the study.

11- During the evaluation process, they must appoint an arbitrator according to the blind review principle and respect the principle of confidentiality.

12- In order to evaluate the studies objectively, editors should act by checking the appropriateness of the referees' field of expertise and the subject of the study, not according to the relationship of interest when determining the referees.

13- Editors should work on the continuous updating and expansion of the referee pool.

14- When publishing issues in the journal, they should include not only articles in certain fields, but also a wide range of articles in every field within the scope of the journal.

15- Editors must ensure the protection of personal data in articles reviewed; they must protect individual data of authors, referees and readers.

16- Editors should take necessary precautions against people who abuse their job.

17- Editors should provide as much feedback as possible to authors 'or referees' questions about the process. They should also be open to negative criticism.

18- Editors should check the submission files, make a referee assignment after making sure that the files except the article file are complete. It should be checked whether the author has uploaded all the additional statements requested by the journal, as signed.

19- In all processes of the articles, they should act according to the rules of the journal's publication process.

DUTIES AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE REFEREES

1- All research articles submitted to Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A (JournalMM) are evaluated according to the double-blind peer-review principle. Referees are expected to fill in a referee evaluation form that includes their contribution to the fields under the scope of the journal, their views on whether the article is worth publishing, and their justification for these views. In this process, referees are required to pay attention to the following ethical responsibilities and make their evaluations accordingly.

2- To contribute to the editor's decision-making process by examining the work sent to them for evaluation, objectively and objectively (regardless of religion, language, race, gender, political opinion, economic interest) within the given time.

3- To accept the evaluation of only studies related to the field of expertise.

4- To provide constructive and developing suggestions to increase the quality of the study it evaluates.

5- In accordance with the principle of double-blind arbitration; It should not be known who the referee who evaluates the work is. For this reason, comments or any information that may suggest the name of the referee should not be given to the referee evaluation form.

6- In accordance with the principle of confidentiality, they should destroy the study after the evaluation process, but if they want to use the study after it is published, they should use it.

7- When referees understand that there is a conflict of interest or a common interest, they should decline to review the article and inform the editor of this. Reviewers should not consider articles that contain conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or link with any author, company or institution associated with the articles.

8- They should make the assessment in a constructive and courteous language. They should not make derogatory personal comments (especially on articles that are rejected) that contain hostility, slander, and libel.

9- All articles received for review should be treated as confidential documents. It should not be discussed or discussed with others unless authorized by the editor.

10- Reviewers should identify cases where the relevant published work cited in the article is not cited in the reference section. They should indicate whether observations or arguments from other publications accompany the relevant source. Referees will inform the editor about significant similarities or overlaps between the reviewed article and other published articles for which they have personal information.

It is recommended to take into account the following information taken from YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive.

Actions contrary to scientific research and publication ethics are:

1- Plagiarism: To show others' original ideas, methods, data or works as their own work, partially or completely, without reference to scientific rules,

2- Fraud: Using data that does not actually exist or has been falsified in scientific research,

3- Distortion: Falsifying the research records or the data obtained, showing the devices or materials not used in the research as being used, falsifying or shaping the results of the research in line with the interests of the people and organizations,

4- Republishing: To present repetitive publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions

5- Slicing: Dividing the results of a research into pieces in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research and inappropriately and publishing in more than one issue and presenting these publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions,

6- Unfair authorship: Including people who do not have active contribution among the authors or not including those who are, changing the author's order in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of those who have active contribution from the work in subsequent editions, including their names among the authors by using their influence even though they have no active contribution,

Other types of ethical violations include:

1-  Not specifying the supporting persons, institutions or organizations and their contributions in the publications made as a result of researches conducted with the support,

2- To use the thesis or studies that have not yet been submitted or accepted as a source without the permission of the owner,

3- Not complying with ethical rules in researches on humans and animals, not respecting patients' rights in publications,

4- To act contrary to the provisions of the relevant legislation in biomedical researches and other clinical trials related to humans,

5- Sharing the information contained in a work that has been assigned to review with others before it is published without the explicit permission of the owner of the study,

6- Misuse of the resources, places, facilities and devices provided or allocated for scientific research,

7- To claim unfounded, unwarranted and deliberate ethical violations,

8- To publish the data obtained without the express consent of the participants in a questionnaire and attitude research conducted within the scope of a scientific study or if the research is to be conducted in an institution, also without the permission of the institution,

9- To harm animal health and ecological balance in research and experiments,

10- Failing to obtain written permission from the authorized units in research and experiments before starting the work,

11- Research and experiments in legislation or engage in activities contrary to the provisions on related research and experimentation of the international conventions that Turkey is a party,

12- Failing to comply with the obligation to inform and warn those concerned about possible harmful practices regarding the scientific research conducted by researchers and authorities,

13- Not using the data and information obtained from other persons and institutions in scientific studies, to the extent as permitted, not to respect the confidentiality of this information and to ensure its protection,

14- To make false or misleading statements regarding scientific research and publications in academic appointments and promotions,

Situations That Will Not Be Considered Inconsistent with Scientific Research and Publication Ethics

The use of anonymous information, basic knowledge of science fields, mathematical theorems and propositions in studies cannot be considered as an ethical violation, provided that they do not use someone else's original style and expression exactly.