Bartın University International Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed, scholarly, and open-access journal published on behalf of the Graduate School of Bartın University. The journal aims to introduce current developments, innovative approaches, and original scientific research in various fields of natural and applied sciences to the scholarly community. The abbreviation of Bartın University International Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences is JONAS.
The journal publishes original scholarly studies prepared in the fields of agricultural sciences, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, ecology, engineering, environmental sciences, forestry, landscape architecture, mathematics, materials science, planning and design, physics, sustainability, and forest science and technology.
Bartın University International Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences is published electronically twice a year, in July and December. Manuscript submissions are accepted throughout the year. The issue in which an article will be published is determined according to the date on which the peer-review and editorial evaluation processes are completed.
The journal accepts only research and review articles, book reviews, case studies, and image presentations prepared in Turkish or English.
The journal employs a double-blind peer-review system. Under this system, the identities of the authors are not disclosed to the reviewers, and the identities of the reviewers are not disclosed to the authors. Manuscripts submitted to the journal are initially screened by the editorial office in terms of their compliance with the journal’s aims and scope, author guidelines, scientific quality, ethical declarations, and similarity rate. Manuscripts that pass the preliminary screening are sent to at least two independent reviewers who are experts in the relevant field.
The publication processes of Bartın University International Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences are conducted in accordance with the principles of research and publication ethics, editorial independence, impartiality in peer review, transparency, academic integrity, open access, and the free dissemination of scholarly knowledge. The journal takes into consideration national and international scholarly publishing standards, principles of scientific publication ethics, and the evaluation criteria of relevant indexing services.
The scientific, ethical, legal, and linguistic responsibility for the articles published in the journal rests with their authors.
Bartın University International Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences adopts an open-access publishing model. All articles published in the journal are made available to readers immediately upon publication, without any access fee, subscription requirement, registration requirement, or embargo period.
Article Template (Formatting Guidelines) Access Link
To enable authors to prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the journal’s author guidelines, the current Turkish Article Template (Word) and English Article Template (Word) have been made available. The author guidelines and all other forms can also be accessed through this link.
The journal is indexed in ASOS Index.
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