The manuscripts submitted to Kastamonu Education Journal for publication should be original studies that were not published before or not submitted to anywhere else for publication.

Authors who submit their studies to Kastamonu Education Journal should acknowledge that they have to transfer the copyright of their studies to Editor of Kastamonu Education Journal . The editorial board of the journal is authorized to publish the study. Nonetheless, the following rights are reserved:

• Patent rights,
• All unregistered rights apart from copyright,
• Duplication rights on condition that the study is not sold,
• The right to use the whole or parts of the study in the author's own books or other academic studies on condition that reference is given,
• The right to publish the study on personal websites or open archive of their university on condition that the copyright details are provided.

Those authors who will submit their studies to Kastamonu Education Journal  have to fill in the "Copyright Transfer Form". Wet signature is required. The signed form should be scanned and uploaded to the system via file upload option in the 4th step of submitting manuscripts to the journal. The studies whose copyright transfer form is not received by the journal will not be published.