Publication Ethics

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors:

1. Uploaded articles must comply with the journal's spelling rules.

2. Publication languages ​​are Turkish and English. Scientific and linguistic responsibility of the works published in the journal belong to the author(s).

3. The undertaking should be filled and signed by the author and uploaded together with the article through the DergiPark system.

4. The iThenticate similarity report should not exceed 20%, excluding references.

5. The opinions and responsibilities in the articles published in the journal belong to the authors.

6. If the article and article that is the subject of the research is supported by any institution or produced from the thesis, this should be stated in the article in accordance with the spelling rules.
7. The submitted work must not have been previously rejected in KAUJEASF, not peer-reviewed, not published anywhere, or not under review by another journal. Previously submitted papers can be sent by expanding and specifying this situation by giving footnotes to the article title.

8. The authors should have cited all the quotations they used in their articles.

9. The authors declare that the article is their own work, that they do not plagiarize in any way, that all responsibilities arising from plagiarism belong to them, and that the journal has no responsibility in this regard.

10. Authors should guarantee that they have contributed scientifically to the article and it should be known that all authors have equal responsibility for the article.

11. Corresponding author must ensure that all co-authors named in the article consent to publication and to be named as co-authors. All persons making significant contributions to the work should be named as co-authors.

12. Authors are obliged to declare the organizations that support the studies they submit, their financial resources or conflict of interest.

13 · Authors should provide access to the data sets in the article if deemed necessary.

14 · Authors must have prepared the articles submitted for publication in the journal in accordance with the rules of research and publication ethics. Ethics committee approval should be obtained separately for the researches carried out and for the studies that require obtaining data from human participants (survey studies, laboratory experiments, field experiments, interviews, examinations, etc.)

15. Within the framework of intellectual property and copyrights, it is necessary to obtain permission from the owners for the use of scales, surveys, photographs belonging to others and this should be stated in the article.

Ethical Responsibilities of Referees:

Our journal has a referee and advisory group consisting of faculty members from various universities. The ethical responsibilities of referees are as follows:

1. Any selected reviewer who is not qualified to review the research or who knows that it will be impossible to evaluate the article quickly should notify the editor of this situation and seek excuses from the review process.

2. The referees are obliged to keep the articles they receive confidential and not to use the information obtained from the refereeing process for their personal benefits.

3. Reviewers should not share their reports or information about the article with others and should not communicate directly with the authors without the permission of the editor.

4. Reviewers should be mindful of potential ethical issues in the manuscript and bring them to the attention of the editor. This includes substantive similarity and overlap between the review article and any other published work of which the reviewer has personal knowledge.

5. Refereeing should be done in an objective manner. Personal criticism of the authors should not be made, evaluations should be constructive, honest and polite.

6. Reviewers should consult the editor before agreeing to review a manuscript for which they have a potential conflict of interest, which may arise from a competitive, collaborative, or other relationship or affiliation with any of its authors.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Editorial Board:

1. It is the editorial board's responsibility to decide which articles will be published in the journal. The editorial board evaluating the articles of the authors; should evaluate regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnicity, citizenship or political philosophies. The decision to be taken should be based on the accuracy, validity and importance of the article and the appropriateness of the scope of the journal. Current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism should also be considered.

2. The editor or any member of the editorial board should not disclose information about an article to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors and publishers.

3. Unpublished materials described in a submitted article should not be used in the editor's or editorial board's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Last Update Time: 9/13/22, 4:43:32 PM

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