1. PRE-EVALUATION PROCESS

Articles submitted to Manufacturing Technologies and Applications (MATECA), initially fall into the journal secretary's or editor system. The journal secretary or editor checks whether the files required for article submission are fully uploaded to the system by the author and whether the file names are appropriate. It also checks the article's similarity report. If there are missing files or errors in the files or if the similarity rate of the article is over 20% (except references), the article is sent back to the author to make the necessary changes.

The maximum duration given to the secretary for the article control is 10 days. When the article is sent back to the author, the status of the article will be Resubmission Requested and the author is given 1 week to respond to this request. The author accepting the request is given 15 days to resubmit the article. During this period, the status of the article will appear as Under Resubmission (With Author). The additional time to be given to authors who do not respond within the specified periods is 5 days.

If the similarity rate is appropriate and there is no problem in the files, the article is sent to the editor. From here on, the status of the article appears as “In Editor”. So the article has been pre-checked.

The editor makes a decision based on the scientifically sufficient content, if in line with the purpose and scope of the journal, its originality value and the similarity report of the article. If the article sufficiently complies with the journal’s pre-requirements, the editor approves the submission and the “In Review” step begins. Otherwise, the editor rejects the article without taking it into the refereeing process. The editor can also appoint a Section Editor to perform all these checks, when necessary. The maximum time (Step with Editor) required for the editor to continue processing after submission of the article is 10 days.

2. REFEREE PROCESS

The editor of the article or the section editor assigned by editor in charge, deemed to send an invitation to at least two referees in the subject field of the article to examine the article. The response period of the referee to the invitation sent for evaluation (accepting or rejecting the evaluation of the article) is at least 7 days. During this time, the status of the article will appear as "Reviewer Invited". The article evaluation form is automatically sent to the referee who accepted the invitation (In this process, the status of the article appears as "Under Review"). The review period for the article is 15 days. 1 week additional time is given to the referees who do not respond within the specified periods.

The following principle is taken into consideration in the referee process.

MATECA, works on the principle of double-blind arbitration, which means that the author(s) of the article will not know the identities of the referees who will evaluate the article, and the referees will not know the identity of the author(s) to have an unbiased assessment. In order to serve this purpose, the authors should prepare an article file without revealing their identities. Or, the information belonging to the authors can be removed from the article and sent to the referees by the Editor or the Field Editor. Thus, there is no pressure on the article author(s) or the reviewers who review the article.

Referees who accept the evaluation access the article file through the system (in this process, the referee cannot see the names of the article authors on the system) Examines the article within 15 days and uploads the completed referee evaluation form to the system.

The number of referee reviews required for the decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of the article is determined by the editor of the article. The status of the article that has the desired number of referee evaluation forms appears as ready for decision. The time given for processing in this step is 7 days. The maximum period given for the editor to make a decision (Decision Pending) is 7 days.

The editor has to make a decision in this process in line with the referee reports. It can also add additional opinion. The referee notifies the reports and suggestions to the author in a decision letter. With this letter, the article can be accepted or rejected. The editor may request a revision from the author. The period that can be given to the author to respond to the revision request is 7 days. The period given to the author who accepts the revision request is 15 days. (In this process, the status of the article appears as With Author) After all these steps, accepted articles are transferred to the publishing process.

3. PUBLICATION PREPARATION PROCESS

It is the process in which accepted articles are prepared for publication in the relevant issue. During this period, the status of the article appears as "In Production". In this process, publishing editor, layout editor and final reader are involved. The layout editor is responsible for making the article ready for publication as a shape (page layout, placement of tables and images in the article, the layout of the references, giving the page numbers according to the priority of the article acceptance date, placing the publisher's logo on the article).

The article whose layout has been completed is sent to the Author for a final review of the article in terms of grammar, spelling rules and semantic integrity, and to identify possible spelling errors. After completing the Author’s positive response, The Publishing Editor is sent the article’s final version (If necessary the article is sent to Final reader). The editorial editor will make the necessary corrections. There is a possibility of correcting potential errors Only 5 Days after the issue is published.

The periods stated above may be longer depending on the editors' intensity. For any questions about the process, you can contact the Technical Communication of Manufacturing Technologies and Applications (MATECA) journal