Guide for the Authors, for Journal of the Turkish Chemical Society, Section B: Chemical Engineering (JOTCSB)

We prefer that the authors use "Zotero" (http://zotero.org; free of charge) or "Endnote" (http://www.endnote.com; commercial), or a similar online software like Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/), for the generation of bibliographic list and citations. Please do not try to format the bibliography by yourself. We will, by the start of Volume 6(1), use the "American Psychological Association (APA) 7" citation style, which is available in all softwares cited.

Article template file for JOTCSB

We are using iThenticate plagiarism solution and our maximum allowed score is 30%. Higher scores are not allowed and the author will be given the plagiarism report and the manuscript will be declined.

We recommend that the authors register to ORCID at https://orcid.org/register and declare their user IDs when submitting their manuscript.

Our journal will, starting from 6(1), use a heading-based system with numbers. Just arrange the following items as described below:

Title: Verdana, 12 point, boldface, the first letter of each word is capitalized (except for the words which must be lowercase like Latin names for bacteria or plants, etc.).

Author names, affiliations: Verdana, 10 pt, regular typeface. Use superscripted Arabic number to differentiate between the author affiliations, placed just after the last name.

E-mail addresses: Provide the e-mail address for the corresponding author only. Authors may add telephone and fax numbers if they desire.

Abstract: Verdana, 10 point, boldface. The abstract text goes right after the title and will use single paragraph spacing.

Keywords: Verdana, 10 point, regular typeface, single paragraph spacing. The number of keywords will be between 3 (minimum) and 5 (maximum).

1. INTRODUCTION: Verdana, 10 point, boldface, all capitals with the number 1..

The article text will be Verdana, 10 pt.

2. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Verdana, 10 point, boldface, all capitals.

If desired, "2.1. Chemicals and Apparatus" title may be used where needed. This title will also be Verdana, 10 pt, and boldface. There will be blank lines preceding and succeeding every numbered titles. The text will be Verdana 10 pt.

The texts inside tables will be 9 points. Verdana again will be used as the typeface. Just add top and bottom borders to the heading row, and bottom borders to the last row.

Schemes usually used for reactions and related material will use Verdana, preferably at 9 or 10 points, inside the figures. Directly pasting from the drawing application into the word processor software is NOT recommended. Please use the "paste special" feature to paste it as an image (metafile pictures are strongly recommended).  Also it will be very good if you upload the figures and schemes to the Files tab, one by one. Use PNG (maximum compression) or TIF (LZW compression) when you save the image files. There is a freeware graphics software, at https://www.irfanview.com for your benefit.

Citing: Our journal uses APA7, based on last name and year-containing reference system (Like Uguz, 2022).

The words Scheme 1, Figure 1, etc., will have a fullstop at the end. The caption text will be centered the page.

Results: Verdana, 10 pt, bold typeface will be used. After a blank line, the article text will be Verdana, 10 pt, regular and 1.5 paragraph spacing.

The title "Conclusion" will be placed around here.

The title Acknowledgment will be 10 point, Verdana, and boldface.

References title will also be Verdana, 10 point, and boldface. The reference list will be arranged with Zotero or Endnote, or a similar software according to "APA 7" reference style. The reference list will be 9 pt, Verdana, left-aligned and single-spaced.

Guidelines for the other types of references can be found in Zotero or Endnote softwares.

Supplementary files

The authors are encouraged to use supplementary files for detailing the study with spectral data, crystal structure refinement data, and other types of material should you recommend inclusion. All types of synthetic procedure will be included in the main text.

Usage of the units

The units will be, where possible, SI-based and the style g/mL will be preferred over g.mL^-1.

Publication ethics: It is imperative that the authors comply with the national and international ethical rules in research and writing the article. More information can be found at http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines.

You can submit your works and work with the editorial staff. You are free to receive new issue alerts and read the contents.This open access chemical journal can be added to your list of journals, and you can help us about the policies we are using in order to create a perfect example of open access publishing.

Our open access policy is quite straightforward. No one should access a scholarly paper by paying money. All scholarly activities should be free to download, read, and cite.

Open Access Journals are very nice examples of this philosophy, and their most valued and important asset is the presence of a strong peer-reviewing medium. Without this, an open access journal would quickly turn into garbage.

We, managers of this journal, will keep the importance of peer-review in mind, and use this asset as much as possible, in order to make the readers meet the authors.

No private information, including the e-mails, names, or affiliations, will be shared outside this open-access journal system.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

a) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

b) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

c) Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

The copyeditor will investigate the article and use a separate list of the changes to be made.   The resultant document will be converted into PDF file and submitted to the journal website. The authors will work on their copies to follow the changes and will correct them if they agree with the copyeditor.