Writing Rules
Authors are required to submit the Copyright Transfer Form (available from the journal's WEB page) in PDF format with the publication. Copyright transfer of the articles is taken by filling out and signing the form presented on the journal website. Articles of authors who do not submit the signed Copyright Transfer Form are not published.
The author (s) acknowledge that the submitted work complies with the PUBLICATION ETHICS and accepts ethical responsibility for the article. Each author is equally responsible for the article content. The manuscripts submitted manuscripts are first submitted to the referees after being subjected to iThenticate® (Professional Plagiarism Prevention). Manuscripts are checked with the iThenticate® program, and if plagiarism or self-plagiarism is determined, the article is not evaluated. The similarity rate should be at most 25%, excluding references.
Ethical committee approval must be obtained and documented separately for clinical and experimental animal studies requiring an ethics committee decision.
The recommendations of ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) and the "International Standards for Editors and Authors" of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) should be taken into consideration in scientific articles to be submitted to journals.
Referees: Author(s) may suggest three referee names and e-mail addresses from at least two different universities. In addition, the author (s) may declare the names of the referees that he/she does not want to review their articles. Each manuscript is sent to at least two referees related to the subject and examined in terms of form and content. The journal editor can send the articles to the referee.
PRINTING: After completing the deficiencies stated in the referees' opinions, the articles that can be published in the journal are returned to the editor in the last edition format by the authors. The authors are responsible for any errors that may occur in the article as published in the journal.
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FIRST PRESENTATION FORMAT:
1. The text should be written in A4 (210x297mm) in single-spaced using Palatino Linotype character and 10 pt. Manuscripts should not exceed 20 pages, except for manuscripts including references and figures. Each application must be submitted with a cover page (specifying the author's information to be contacted). On the cover page, the subject of the article should be stated and the innovations ((highlights)) should be stated in the articles. If available, a graphical abstract may be provided.
2. If possible, recommended main section titles are:: ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSIONS, CONCLUSIONS, DECLARATION OF ETHICAL STANDARDS, CREDIT AUTHORSHIP CONTRIBUTION STATEMENT, DECLARATION OF COMPETING INTEREST, FUNDING / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, DATA AVAILABILITY, REFERENCES, APPENDIX.
3. COVER PAGE: The title of the work should be written centered on the page in capital letters. The title should be short and clear. Under the title, the name and surname of the author (s) and postal and e-mail addresses should be written. The ORCID icon must be linked to the ORCID. Highlights of the study and, if available, a graphical abstract may be provided.
4. PAGE FORMAT: The text should be written in single line spacing using the English character "Palatino Linotype" and 10 pt. Page margins should be selected as 3.42 cm at the top, 2.04 cm at the bottom, 3.14 cm at the left, and 1.5 cm at the outside. Again, in the page structure, on the 'Layout' tab, click 'Different on odd and even pages' and 'Different on first-page2 boxes and select 'Entire document' as the 'Application location'. In this tab, the distance from the edge should be 1.25 cm for the header and footer. The tab distance in each paragraph should be 0.63 cm.
5. ABSTRACT: Abstract should not exceed 200 words in English. Keywords should be included at the end of the abstract.
6. REFERENCES: Citations in the text should follow the referencing style used by IEEE (https://ieee-dataport.org/sites/default/files/analysis/27/IEEE Citation Guidelines.pdf). IEEE citation style [1] includes in-text citations, numbered in square brackets, which refer to the full citation listed in the reference list at the end of the paper. The reference list is organized numerically, not alphabetically. Articles must be created using resource management software such as Mendeley [2], EndNote [3], Zotero [4], etc.
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa).
7. TABLES AND FIGURES: All images (photos, drawings, diagrams, graphics, maps, etc.) that do not contain charts should be named figures. Each table and figure should be numbered according to their transitions in the text and should be placed as close to the place they are mentioned. Table headings should be placed above the table and figure headings should be placed under the figure. The titles of figures and tables used in the study should be centered and written in 10 points.
Text in the tables should never be less than 8 points. It is preferable that the table fits on a single page, but may overflow onto the second page if necessary. Handwriting should never be used in the figures. All graphics and photographs should be of printable quality.
Figures must have a minimum resolution of at least 300 DPI. Faint and fine lines should be avoided in the preparation of shapes. Each figure and table are cited in the text.
8. FOOTNOTES: Footnotes should be avoided as much as possible, but if necessary, they should be separated by a line at the bottom of the page where they are used.
9. TERMINOLOGY AND UNITS: For terminology, please use the IUPAC Terminology for Organic Chemistry (www.iupac.org). Chemical names, abbreviations, and short names (acronyms) should be given in parentheses where the article is first used. Well-known procedures/reactions should be indicated with a name and an appropriate reference from the literature.
Please use the International Unit System (SI). For the use of units, the Regulation on the International System of Units should be reviewed. You can read the article in the link for many mistakes made in unit usage. Temperatures should be given as C. The 'billion' unit in English articles has two meanings (109 in the USA, 1012 in Europe) and should be avoided. Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
Articles should be written in Microsoft Word.
ELECTRONIC PRESENTATION-PRINTING FORMAT:
The layout of the articles that have been evaluated and decided to be published is made in accordance with the template article on the web page of the journal and submitted to the approval of the authors. During the printing of the articles, no typesetting work is done except entering the page number.
Application Checklist
During the application process, the authors should check that their application complies with all the items listed below, and the applications that do not comply with this guide will be returned to the authors.
- The submitted manuscript has not been published before and has not been submitted to any journal for review (provided detailed guidance in the Author's Guide).
- The submission file is in the format of an OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file.
- If there are issues about authors about conflict of interest, these are stated.
- Files to be uploaded to the system; It has been prepared to send online as a cover letter, title page, article main text, and Copyright Transfer Agreement.
- References are written in strict compliance with the source writing format required in the Journal Writing Rules.
- Unpublished data, information obtained through personal communication, articles currently under consideration, presentations made at meetings, and articles published in non-refereed journals are not cited.
- References are given in square brackets before the point at the end of the sentence, eg "... [1]."
- References are numbered according to the order in which they are cited.
- Each table is cited in the text.
- Each figure is cited in the text.
- The letters and markings on the figure are clean and legible.
KONYA JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
Click here to download the copyright form. After this form is printed by the authors, the signed version should be scanned in PDF format and uploaded to the system.