Bartin University International Journal of Natural And Applied Sciences (JONAS)

JONAS is a peer reviewed journal which is published twice in a year (July and December) and only published as online. Original researches and invited review papers in English and Turkish are accepted to publication in the JONAS. The manuscripts submitted to the JONAS are double-blind peer reviewed, and the review process is completed in 30 days. According to the reviewers’ comments, the submitted manuscripts are accepted or rejected. Manuscripts must be submitted with the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration by another journal. JONAS is an open access journal, and provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Publishing in JONAS is free of charge.

Bartın University International Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences should be abbreviated as JONAS.

Aims & Scope

The aim of the JONAS is to advance in the areas on the significant developments and innovations in the many faces of natural and applied sciences. 

JONAS publishes per article covered all areas of the subject such as: 

Agricultural sciences

Biology

Biotechnology

Chemistry

Ecology

Engineering

Environment

Forestry

Landscape architecture

Mathematics

Material Science

Planning and design

Physics

Sustainability

Wood science and technology

Types of Articles

Original Research Papers

Review Papers

Open Access

Abstracts and full texts of all articles published in the journals can be read online without any form of restriction. All users have the right to free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

Copyright & Permissions

Submission of a manuscript implies that authors have met the requirements of the editorial policy and publication ethics. Authors retain the copyright of their articles published in the journal. However, authors agree that their articles remain permanently open access. Please click here to download the copyright.

Review Policy

A manuscript submitted to the JONAS must be the original work of the author(s) and must not published elsewhere or under consideration for another publication in its submitted or a substantially similar form in any language. Every contribution submitted to the JONAS will be sent to, at least, two reviewers selected by the editors. Authors are welcome to suggest suitable independent reviewers and may also request the journal to exclude certain individuals or laboratories. The primary purpose of the review is to provide the editors with the information necessary to make a decision. The review should also instruct the authors on how to strengthen their paper up to the point where it should be acceptable. A negative review should explain to the authors the weaknesses of their manuscript, so that rejected authors are able to understand the basis for the decision and see, in broad terms, what needs to be done to improve the manuscript in order to be published anywhere. The editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts and to require revisions of contributions. Accepted for publication manuscripts should be corrected by the author taking into account experts remarks, otherwise motivated author's refusal to correct his manuscript should be presented. Double blind peer review type, names of reviewers and authors are not revealed to each other was applied to all manuscripts submitted to JONAS. For the summary of review and review process, use the link

Plagiarism Policy

The journal checks all manuscripts with iThenticate: Plagiarism Detection Software before a blind review process, and when high similarity index was determined to any papers, the editors can decide the rejection, or major revision can be demanded from the authors. Please to Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement from Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Manuscript Fee

There isn't any fee such as handling, publication, processing and others, etc. for publication in the JONAS.

Contacts with JONAS

Editorial Office