Article Template

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Author Rights
Excluding Certain Reviewers from the Assessment Process
The author(s) may/may designate the reviewers whose work they wish not to be sent due to conflict of interest or ethical reasons.

Withdraw
Author(s) may withdraw/withdraw their unpublished work while they are in the assessment process.

Objection to Reviewer Reports and Editorial Board Decisions
The author(s) have/have the right to object to reviewer reports and editorial decisions at any time and in any situation. In these and similar cases, the author(s) are requested to state their objections with justifications. In cases of objection, the editor may initiate a new assessment process if deemed necessary.

Erratum (Typesetting Errors)
Due to material errors that occur during the editorial process or the publication process, the author may request an erratum for problematic areas in the work to be published in the first issue or for errors in information caused by him.

Assessment process
The candidate article that reaches the journal is forwarded to the Editor after a preliminary review by the Secretariat.

Editor examines the candidate article in terms of;
(1) journal publication policy,
(2) publication principles,
(3) spelling rules and
(4) originality.
As a result of this review, the candidate article deemed appropriate is sent to the relevant field editors. Inappropriate candidate articles are returned to the author, stating the reason.

The Field Editor examines the candidate article in terms of its suitability and originality to the field and directs the candidate article that is deemed appropriate to at least 2 reviewers from outside the author's institution. Studies whose referee process has been completed are decided by the Field Editor about the candidate article (Acceptance-Major Correction-Minor Correction-Rejection), taking into account the reviewer feedback. This decision is communicated to the author(s) together with its justifications. However, the final decision regarding the publication of the candidate article is made by the Editorial Board.
The opinions of the members of the Editorial Board are consulted in determining and updating the journal's publication policies and, when necessary, in the process of determining the reviewers.

Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive
Ethical rules to be followed for studies submitted to the journal:
1) The works sent to the journal must not have been published or sent for publication elsewhere.
2) The candidate article must be uploaded to the system using the "Send Article" shortcut at http://kefad.ahievran.edu.tr.
3) Author(s) who prepare an article for publication must comply with the writing rules set by the publisher to avoid inconsistencies between their own work and other articles in the journal in question or between the sections of the work presented.
4) Each author whose name appears in the candidate article must create a profile at https://orcid.org/signin and save their information into the system, and then write their 16-digit ORCID ID number in the form of XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX in the space provided in the draft template.
5) Works to be sent to the journal; It should be written in double columns using the draft template on our website, without formatting, and on standard A4 paper size.
6) The article template should be downloaded from our journal's website and used after making corrections.
7) The candidate article to be sent to the journal must be uploaded anonymously and in accordance with the KEFAD article template. The name and any information about the author should not be included in the full texts to be uploaded.
8) Authors must prepare their works in accordance with APA7 (American Psychological Association) standards.
9) While writing the references, Table (s) and Figure (s) in the References section, the examples prepared based on the APA 7 criteria given in the draft template should be carefully examined and written.
10) WS Word 2007 or later versions should be used.
11) Ethics committee approval must be obtained for experimental research conducted on humans and animals that require an ethics committee decision.
12) Information about ethical procedures should be included in the ethical notification heading in the method section of the article (board name, date and issue number). In addition, within the scope of TR Index 2020 rules, information should be conveyed under this heading that all the rules in the "Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive" are followed and that none of the "Actions Contrary to Scientific Research and Publication Ethics" in the second part of the directive are carried out.
13) In qualitative research and case studies that require data collection in direct contact with people, such as interviews and observations, information must be given that the informed consent form has been signed.
14) The English version of the candidate article must be "proofreaded" and documentation proving that it has been done must be uploaded to the system.
15) In order for candidate articles to be processed, they must have an originality report obtained from any academic plagiarism prevention program (For example: Ithenticate).
16) In order for the studies to be evaluated, this information must be added to the candidate article before applying.
17) While uploading to the system

For the first submission;
a) Full text in Turkish,
b) Title Page
c) Tables (If any)
d) Figures (If any)
e) Similarity report
f) Ethics Committee Certificate
g) Transfer Copyright Agreement Form must be uploaded.

For accepted studies,
a) Full text in Turkish,
b) Full text in English,
c) Proofreading document,
d) Plagiarism report and
e) Transfer Copyright Agreement Form must be uploaded.