Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications

Nowadays, the concept of ‘architecture’ has evolved into a branch of science and art that includes many versatile and diverse disciplines rather than the scale of a single building.
In this context, “Architectural Sciences” has become the common platform for disciplines that include spatial planning, design, repair, protection, and management.
The aims of JASA are;
• To create an international and quality/original journal platform,
• To produce and share multidimensional scientific knowledge,
• To encourage interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary cooperation,
• Contributing to product and technological innovations,
• To encourage the production of livable and healthy spaces,
• To protect and preserve natural and cultural heritage values,
• To produce ecological and nature-based architectural solutions,
• To provide access to all aspects of architectural science, such as scientific, artistic, ecological, social, economic, and technological.
• To produce scientific publications, symposiums, congresses, panels and educational activities, etc.

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Scope

 JASA is published "online" twice a year, in “July” and “December”.

 The JASA uses a double-blind, peer-reviewed process. All articles are evaluated by internal reviewers (Editors and Editorial Board Members) for preliminary review and external reviewers (international editorial advisory board and experts in the field) for content.

 JASA's editorial policy is based on quality and transparency.

 JASA has strongly adopted the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing set by DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals).

 All studies published in the JASA comply with the “YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive” provisions and the relevant legislation and ethical principles issued by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE). Ethics Committee Permission is mandatory for articles to be published in the journal, for publications starting in 2020. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/mbud/policy and https://publicationethics.org/node/39386

 JASA is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike 4.0 International License.

 The Turnitin Similarity rate is less than 18% in JASA.

 A “DOI number” is assigned for each article published in the JASA.

 JASA publishes "original research articles" written in English on theoretical and practical topics related to spatial planning and design, conservation, restoration, management, and economic aspects within the scope of Architectural Sciences. In addition, if deemed appropriate by the JASA Editor, a limited number of invited review articles, letters to the editor, project competition criticism, etc. can be published.

 Subjects and research studies of interdisciplinary architectural sciences (e.g., building architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, interior architecture, industrial product design, fine arts, civil engineering, etc.) have been primarily published in JASA.

 In addition, issues related to other multidisciplinary fields (e.g., forest engineering, agricultural engineering, biology, geography, mining engineering, sociology, archaeology, nature protection, tourism, recreation, cultural heritage, environment, business administration, etc.) are also published.

 If deemed appropriate by the JASA Editorial Board, "Special Issues" are published once a year on symposium, congresses, workshops and special thematic issues, etc. The same research article publication processes and policies in JASA apply to the articles in the "Special Issues". Experienced Field Editors or Publication Editors from the JASA Editorial Board are assigned as Editors for Special Issues. For details: JASA's Special Issue Policy:

Author Guidelines

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JASA_Article Template

JASA_Copyright Transfer, Author Contribution, and Conflict of Interest Declaration Form

JASA_Article Pre-Checklist Form

JASA_English Language Editing Certificate Form

JASA_Article Revision Report Form

1. THE IMPORTANT NOTES FOR THE AUTHORS• All the reviewing and publishing processes of the JASA are carried out online through the DERGIPARK system. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/ and https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/mbud

• The authors who want to submit publications to the JASA should sign up to the DERGIPARK and log in to the website of the journal.

• No application or publishing fee is required.

• The JASA is an international and double-blind peer-reviewed open access e-journal published online, in which original research articles in basic and applied sciences are published. Original research articles are given priority. Review articles are accepted in rarely.

• Original research articles and review articles may be related to spatial planning and design, conservation, repair, restoration, management, economics, etc. Manuscripts covering all disciplines, such as architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, interior architecture, industrial product design, and civil engineering, are published in the JASA. In addition, the study subjects of forest engineering, agricultural engineering, biology, geography, mining engineering, sociology, archeology, etc., which may be related to the subjects of architectural sciences, are published in the journal. In addition, technical notes, letters to the editor, discussions, case reports, project competition criticism, etc. are published.

• Manuscripts in English are welcome.

• The JASA is published in two issues annually (July and December).

• All articles in JASA are double-blind peer-reviewed (by at least two reviewers) by a distinguished international editorial advisory board and other experts in the field. All articles are evaluated by internal reviewers (Editors - Editorial Board Members) for preliminary review and external reviewers for content.

• If deemed appropriate by the JASA Editorial Board, "Special Issues" are published once a year on symposium, congresses, workshops and special thematic issues, etc. The same research article publication processes and policies in JASA apply to the articles in the "Special Issues". Experienced Field Editors or Publication Editors from the JASA Editorial Board are assigned as Editors for Special Issues. For details: JASA's Special Issue Policy:

• The Turnitin Similarity rate is less than 18% in JASA.

• A “DOI number” is assigned for each article published in the journal.

• After logging into the DERGIPARK system, the manuscript, which is prepared according to the "JASA Article Template” should be uploaded to the system as a word file ".doc" or “.docs”. Additionally, the "JASA Copyright Transfer, Author Contribution, and Conflict of Interest Declaration Form" and “JASA Article Pre-Checklist Form” with wet signatures should be uploaded.

• "JASA English Language Editing Certificate” should be uploaded to system.

• The acceptable similarity percentage is a maximum of 18%. The 'Similarity Report' received through the TURNITIN (https://www.turnitin.com/login_page.asp) should be uploaded to the system by the authors.

• The text should be written in plain language and expression, comply with the writing rules, use singular and passive verbs, and not contain transposed sentences.

• While writing the articles, writing rules, the APA-6 Reference Guide, and international abbreviations and unit symbols should be taken into consideration.

• If the articles were originated from MSc or Ph.D. studies, the information should be provided under the title "Acknowledgements and Information Note" that the article was produced from the thesis.

The copyright of each article in JASA is reserved by the author (s) of that article under the Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) copyright license, and this means that the original work can be copied, redistributed, rearranged and in any non-commercial medium or format, provided that the original work is properly cited. It allows creating a new study by using the material in the study. The author grants the non-exclusive publishing right to JASA Journal to publish their work.

Research requiring Ethics Committee Permit;

o All kinds of research are conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using surveys, interviews, focus group work, observation, experiment, and interview techniques.
o Use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
o Clinical research on humans,
o Research on animals,
o Retrospective studies by the Law on Protection of Personal Data,
o In the case reports, it is stated that the “informed consent form” has been taken,
o Getting permission and specifying the owners for the use of scales, surveys, and photographs belonging to others,
o Indicating that copyright regulations are observed for the ideas and works of art used…
For ethical rules, (https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/mbud/policy) must be read

2. ARTICLE SECTION CONTENTS

The manuscript prepared by taking into account the "Writing Rules" on the journal's website: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/mbud

should be uploaded to the system. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the JASA Article Template.

• Article Title
• The article title should be written in capital letters (Calibri, font size 16, and bold).
• Author name and surname should be written in Calibri and 13 font sizes.
• The ORCID number should be written in Calibri and in 10 font sizes.
• Author contact information should be written in Calibri, italic, and 10 font sizes.
• English Abstract
• The abstract should not exceed 150 words.
• In essence, the subject discussed in the article should be briefly introduced, and the methods used and the results achieved should be specified.
• The words (maximum 6 words) defining the subject should be given as "Keywords".
1. Introduction
• The importance, scope, and purpose of the study should be stated. Subject headings should be numbered as 1.1., 1.1.1.
2. Material and Method
• The properties of the materials used in the article, the way they are used, etc. should be included.
• The method used should be described in detail, clearly, and understandably.
3. Research Findings (Research Findings and Discussion)
• This section can optionally be organized as "Research Findings" or "Research Findings and Discussion".
4. Conclusion and Suggestions (Discussion and Conclusion)
• This section can optionally be organized as Conclusion, "Conclusion and Suggestions" or "Discussion and Conclusion".
Acknowlegements and Information Note
• In this section, people who contributed to the study, funds, donations, researchers' contribution rate statements, project support and acknowledgment statements, conflict statements, studies that require an ethics committee decision, etc. should be specified.
• If the study was produced from a thesis, the information should be given here. For example: The present study originated from the master's thesis titled "……………….," which was conducted by the first author under the guidance of the second author at the Department of ………….., Institute of ……., …….. University.
• The article complies with national and international research and publication ethics.
• ‘Ethics committee approval was not required for the study.’ or ‘Ethics Committee approval in the study was taken from the Ethics Committee of the University of ….. with the decision no ……..’
Author Contribution and Conflict of Interest Declaration Information
• ‘All authors contributed equally to the article’ or 1st author contributed ….%, 2nd author ....% contributed. ‘There is no conflict of interest.’ or ‘There is a conflict of interest with ……..’
References
Surname, A. A., Surname, B. B. & Surname, C. C. (2020). The title of the post. Title of Periodical Publication, Volume (number), s-s. DOI: xx.xxxxxxxxxx, Access Address (12.12.2019): http://www.springerlink.com/content/100370/
Gül, A., Örücü, Ö. K. & Karaca, O. (2006). An approach for Recreation Suitability Analysis to Recreation Planning in Gölcük Nature Park. Environmental Management, 37(5), 606–625. Online ISSN: 1432-1009. Access Address (12.12.2019): http://www.springerlink.com/content/100370/
Directorate of National Parks. (2019). Başpınar Nature Park Development Plan. National Parks 6th Regional Directorate, Isparta. Access Address (12.12.2019): http: //burdur.ormansu.gov.tr/6bolge/AnaSayfa/tabiatparklari/baspinartabiatparki.aspx?sflang=tr

WARNINGS

• The entire manuscript should be written, preferably in Rich Text Format (RTF) or in an MS Word 2003 compatible file, with a maximum of 25 pages including text, figures, and tables.
• For the main text of the manuscript, 11 font-size calibri should be used, and justified, and single-line spacing should be preferred.
• Figures and tables should be cited in the text and placed after the cited paragraph. Figures and tables should be centered in the article; figure and table texts should be justified; and calibri should be used in 10 points.
• APA-6 style should be used as the reference style.
• References at the end of the text should be listed first alphabetically and then in chronological order.
• In the arrangement of the references directory, the first line should be left aligned, if any, and the second and subsequent lines should be written 1.00 cm indented.
• Footnotes should not be used in the article. References in The Text (Citations)
• (Surname, 2020). or (Surname, 2020, p.120)
• (Surname & Surname, 2014). or (Surname & Surname, 2014, p. 120).
• (Surname, Surname, Surname, Surname & Surname, 2014). or (Surname, Surname & Surname, 2014, p.12).
• In the second use of the Citation with more than two authors in the article (Surname et al., 2010). or (Surname et al., 2010, p.15)
• In a study conducted by Evans and Shaw (2008),
• According to Fuller (1982) XXXXXXXXXXXXX……………(Küçük & Olcay, 2008).
• Xxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx (Surname, 2016; Surname & Surname, 2020; Surname et al., 2021).
Examples
Periodicals Articles
• One author:
Berndt, T. J. (2002). Friendship quality and social development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11(3), 7-10. Online ISSN: 1432-1009. Access Address (12.12.2019): http://www.springerlink.com/content/100370/
• Two authors:
Wegener, D. T. & Petty, R. E. (1994). Mood management across affective states: The hedonic contingency hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 1034- 1048. Online ISSN: 1432-1009. Access Address (12.12.2019): http://www.springerlink.com/content/100370/
• Between three and seven authors:
Kernis, M. H., Cornell, D. P., Sun, C. R., Berry, A., Harlow, T. & Bach, J. S. (1993). There's more to self-esteem than whether it is high or low: The importance of stability of self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 1190-1204.

Gül, A., Örücü, Ö. K. & Karaca, O. (2006). An approach for recreation suitability analysis to recreation planning in Gölcük Nature Park. Environmental Management, 37(5), 606– 625. Online ISSN: 1432-1009. Access Address (12.12.2019): http://www.springerlink.com/content/100370/
If the number of authors is eight or more; After the names of the first six authors are listed, three dots are added and the name of the last author is added. More than seven names should not be included:
Miller, F. H., Choi, M. J., Angeli, L. L., Harland, A. A., Stamos, J. A., Thomas, S. T. & Rubin, L. H. (2009). Web site usability for the blind and low-vision user. Technical Communication, 57, 323-335. Online ISSN: 1432-1009. Access Address (12.12.2019): http://www.springerlink.com/content/100370/
Dönmez, S., Basıç, G., Fakir, H., Özçelik, H., Yazıcı, N., Şahin, C. K., Gül, A.,… Dönmez, İ. E. (2017). Visual characteristics of some species belonging to the family of Lamiaceae in the Lake District. International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology, Aralık 2017, 6(12), 256-261. ISSN: 2277-9655. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1116674. Access Address (12.12.2019):http://www.ijesrt.com/issues%20pdf%20file/Archive-2017/December-2017/32.pdf
Books
Ören, T., Üney, T. & Çölkesen, R. (Ed.). (2006). Türkiye bilişim ansiklopedisi. İstanbul: Papatya Yayıncılık.
Tonta, Y., Bitirim, Y. & Sever, H. (2002). Türkçe arama motorlarında performans değerlendirme. Ankara: Total Bilişim. (elektronik ise) Access Address (12.12.2019): http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/yayinlar/tonta-bitirim-sever-arama-motorlari.pdf
Book Chapter
Gül, A. & Bostan, Ç. (2019). Peyzaj Mimarlığı Programına Yönelik Ulusal ve Uluslararası Akreditasyon Ölçütlerinin Karşılaştırılması ve İrdelenmesi. O. Uzun ve diğerleri (Ed.). 50. Yılında Peyzaj Mimarlığı Eğitimi ve Öğretimi. Düzce Üniversitesi Yayınları (Ağustos 2019), No.9. Orman Fakültesi Eğitim Dizisi; 1, Bölüm 5. (401-413). ISBN: 978-605-69138-5-3. Ankara: Pelin Ofset Tipo Matbaacılık.
Congresses and Symposiums
Schneider, R. (2013, 12.12). Research data literacy. S. Kurbanoğlu ve diğerleri (Ed.), Communications in Computer and Information Science: Vol. 397. Worldwide Communalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice (s. 134-140). Cham, İsviçre: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0. Access Address (12.12.2019): http://..........
Doctorate and Master Theses
• If published
Surname A. (Year). Title of doctorate or master's thesis (Master's thesis/Ph.D. thesis). Institution name, Location information. ……Accessed from database Access Address (12.12.2019): http://..........
Unpublished
Surname, A. (Year). Title of doctorate or master thesis (Unpublished doctoral thesis/master thesis) Institution name, Location information.
References with or without a legal author
The author of a study may be a group such as an organization, institution, or association, or it may not be any author of the study. For such studies, the name of the institution/association is written in the author section. An open name should be used instead of an abbreviation of an organization/institution/association name.
Directorate of National Parks. (2019). Başpınar Nature Park Development Plan. National Parks 6th Regional Directorate, Isparta. Access Address (12.12.2019):http://burdur.ormansu.gov.tr/6bolge/AnaSayfa/tabiatparklari/baspinartabiatparki.aspx?sflang=tr
Turkish Statistical Institute. (2015). Urban and Rural Population Data in Turkey. Access Address (12.12.2019): http://tuik.gov.tr/
• If the term “Anonymous” is mentioned in the study, Anonymous is written in the author section
Anonymous. (2015). Xxxxxxxxx
Official newspaper
Head. (Year, Day Month). Official Gazette (Number: xxx). Access Address (12.12.2019): http://..........
Decree-Law on Taking Certain Measures Under the State of Emergency (2017, January 6). Official Gazette (Number: 29940). Access Address (12.12.2019):http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2017/01/20170106M1-1.htm
National Parks Law. (1983, 11 08). T.R. Official Gazette (No: 18132). Prime Ministry Printing House, Ankara. Access Address (12.12.2019):https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/1.5.2873.pdf

Website
* If the author is certain
Surname, A. (Year). Topic title. Access address (Day, Month, Year): ttp://burdur.ormansu.gov.tr
Surname, A. (Year, day, and month). Topic title. Access Address (12.12.2019): http://burdur.ormansu.gov.tr
* If the author is anonymous
Directorate of National Parks. (2019). Başpınar Nature Park Development Plan. National Parks 6th Regional Directorate, Isparta. Access Address (12.12.2019):http://burdur.ormansu.gov.tr/6bolge/AnaSayfa/tabiatparklari/baspinartabiatparki.aspx?sflang=tr
Technical report
Meşhur, M. & Yoldemir, O. (1983). Geology of the Area Between Köyceğiz and Datça. TPAO Report No: 1732, 185s.
• Standards
TSE 2478. (1976). Determination of Modulus of Elasticity in Static Bending of Wood. TSE, I. Edition, Ankara.
•Official newspaper
Title. (Year, Day Month). Official Gazette (Number: xxx). Access Address (12.12.2019): http://..........
Decree on Taking Some Measures Under the State of Emergency (2017, 6 January). Official Gazette (Number: 29940 (Repeated)). Access Address (12.12.2019): http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2017/01/20170106M1-1.htm
National Parks Law. (1983, 11 08). T.R. Official Gazette (No: 18132). Prime Ministry Printing House, Ankara. Access Address (12.12.2019): https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/1.5.2873.pdf
NOTE: Other source representations and uses other than the examples given are in the APA 6 -Source Guidelines.

3.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS
The fact that the symbols and abbreviations used in scientific publications are accepted and easy to understand by everyone is important both for the necessity of universality in science and for the reader to understand the article correctly. In this regard, the articles sent to the journal must comply with the International Unit Symbols (SI Units) as well as the Turkish – English grammar rules.
Some common mistakes in using unit symbols are:
• Use of ‘gr’ instead of ‘g’ for gram as a measure of weight,
• Use of ‘Ha’ instead of ‘ha’ for hectare as area measure,
• Putting 'dot' behind the symbols,
• No space is left between the number and the symbol,
• Consistency in the text about the dot or comma used in decimal numbers.
Some points to consider when using unit symbols are summarized below:

• Unit symbols are written in lowercase letters, but the first letter is capitalized if it is derived from a proper noun.
• meters - m, hectares - ha, Paskal - Pa
• The first letter of the symbols should be lowercase when expansions of the symbols are written in the sentence.
• 10 meters, 25 hectares
• Symbols are not abbreviations; they do not include a dot in the sentence.
• 2 meters - 2 m, 100 milliliters - 100 mL
• A space must be left between the symbols and the values they follow, but no space between the degree sign indicating the angle and the value.
• 15 watts - 15 W, 88 degrees Celsius - 88 ° C, 73 degrees - 73 °
• A comma is recommended in Turkish as a decimal sign. However, if necessary, the dot can also be used in the text provided that it is consistent throughout.
• 1587,09 kg/ha
• Numbers with more than three digits can be separated into triple groups using spaces and should not be preferred because they can be mixed with a decimal separator in a dot or comma.
• 85 000 ha
• For numbers less than zero, zero (0) must be used before the decimal point.
• It should be 0.46 m, not .46 m
The general principles proposed by TDK in abbreviations are as follows:
• Except for some abbreviations that are traditionally used with a period, abbreviations with capital letters do not use a period.
• Republic of Türkiye (T.C.), Turkish (T.)
• SDU (Süleyman Demirel University), TBMM (Turkish Grand National Assembly), UN (United Nations), SE (southeast)
• - The ones in the form of abbreviations usually take a period at the end.
• eng. (in English), Prof. Dr. (professor doctor), trans. (translated), p. (page), No. (number), p. (hour), min. (minute)
• - Suffixes to abbreviations with a dot at the end and abbreviations with exponential signs are not separated by apostrophes.
• per m2 (per square meter), etc. (and the like), from kg (from kilograms)

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Publishing processes and policies implemented in the Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications (JASA) form the basis for developing and distributing information in a neutral and respected manner.

The JASA transparent about their ethical requirements for authors and published works.

JASA has strongly adopted the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing set by DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

The processes implemented in this direction are directly reflected in the quality of the authors' work and the institutions supporting the authors. Reviewers are studies that embody and support the scientific method. At this point, all stakeholders of the process (authors, readers, researchers, publishers, referees, and editors) must comply and have the following ethical responsibilities with the standards for ethical standards.

Fundamentals of Ethical Principles and Publication Policy of JASA

• Higher Education Institutions (YÖK) Scientific Research And Publication Ethics Directive (Türkiye)

https://www.yok.gov.tr/Sayfalar/Kurumsal/mevzuat/bilimsel-arastirma-ve-etik-yonetmeligi.aspx

• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

https://publicationethics.org/node/39386

• The World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Helsinki

https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/

https://toraks.org.tr/site/news/4969

• International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)

https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/

• The Declaration of Budapest Open Access

https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai10/

• Creative Commons

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

In the articles to be published in the Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, the "ETHICAL COMMITTEE PERMIT" will be mandatory for the publications that started in 2020. The rules of Scientific Ethics and Publication Ethics must be strictly followed in the articles to be published in the journal. It should be stated in the article whether it is necessary to obtain an ETHICAL BOARD PERMIT and/or a LEGAL / SPECIAL PERMIT. If these permits are required, they should be presented from which institution, on which date, and with which decision or number the permit was obtained.

Researches requiring Ethics Committee Permit;

• Any research carried out with qualitative or quantitative approaches requiring data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, or interview techniques,

• Use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,

• Clinical studies on humans,

• Research on animals,

• Retrospective studies by the Law on Protection of Personal Data,

• In the case reports, it was stated that the "Informed consent form" was taken,

• Obtaining and expressing permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, and photographs belonging to others,

• Indicating that copyright regulations are observed for the ideas and works of art used.

The following ethical duties and responsibilities have been prepared by considering the guidelines and policies published by COPE, YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, Declaration of Helsinki, The Declaration of Budapest Open Access, etc.

Authors' Ethical Responsibilities

Author(s) who submit their manuscript to JASA are expected to comply with the following ethical responsibilities:

• The manuscripts submitted by the author (s) are expected to be original. If the author (s) benefit from other studies or use other studies, they must cite or quote completely and accurately.

• People who do not contribute to the content intellectually in the creation of the study should not be specified as a writer.

• If there is a conflict of interest in all manuscripts submitted for publication, their situations, and relations that may constitute should be explained.

• Raw data about the articles can be requested from the author(s) within the framework of the evaluation processes. In such a case, the author(s) should be ready to present the expected data and information to the editorial board and the scientific board.

• The author(s) must have the right to use the data they use, Have the necessary permissions regarding research/analysis, or have a document showing that the test subjects have obtained their consent.

• Suppose the author (s) notices a mistake or error regarding the published, early view, or evaluation phase. In that case, there is an obligation to inform the journal editor or the publisher to cooperate with the editor in the correction or withdrawal.

• Authors cannot simultaneously keep their manuscripts in the application of more than one journal. Each application can be started following the completion of the previous application. The article published in another journal cannot be sent to us.

• Changing author responsibilities (such as adding authors, changing author order, or removing authors) of a study whose evaluation process has started cannot be offered.

Plagiarism Policy of JASA

All papers submitted to the Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications (JASA) should fulfill the expectations regarding the authenticity of the paper. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed. There is a zero-tolerance policy towards plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) in our journal. Papers are screened for plagiarism before, during, and after publication, and if found they will be rejected at any stage. After the review process has been completed and the manuscript has been accepted as a possible publication in JASA authors will be asked to submit a similarity report in PDF format by using plagiarism software which determines the similarity rates such as Turnitin/ iThenticate/ Academic Paradigms for Plagiarism/Grammarly-Plagiarism Checker. The Plagiarism-Similarity report must be in a PDF format for the entire text including tables, and figures (excluding references). The plagiarism rate of the accepted manuscript must be not exceeded the rate of 18%.

Editors' Ethical Assignments and Responsibilities

JASA editors and field editors must have the following ethical duties and responsibilities based on the guidelines of "COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as Open Access;

General Assignments and Responsibilities

Editors are responsible for every publication published in the journal. In the context of this responsibility, editors have the following roles and obligations:

• make efforts to meet the information needs of readers and authors,

• ensure the development of the journal continuously,

• carry out the processes for improving the quality of the articles published in the journal,

• support freedom of thought,

• provide academic integrity,

• continue their work processes without compromising intellectual property rights and ethical standards,

• show clarity and transparency in publication on issues requiring correction and explanation.

Relations with The Reader

Editors should decide by considering readers, researchers, and practitioners' knowledge, skills, and experience expectations. The reader should pay attention to the fact that the published studies contribute to the reader, researcher, practitioner, and scientific literature and be original. In addition, editors must take into account feedback from readers, researchers, and practitioners and provide explanatory and informative feedback.

Relationships with Authors

The assignments and responsibilities of the editors toward the authors are as follows:

• Editors should make a positive or negative decision based on the importance of the manuscript, its originality, validity, clarity of its expression, and the goals and objectives of the journal.

• The suitable manuscripts for publication should be taken to the preliminary evaluation stage unless they have a severe problem.

• Editors should only ignore the positive referee suggestions if there is a severe problem with the manuscript.

• New editors should only change the decisions made by previous editors for the manuscript if there is a severe problem.

• "Blind Review and Evaluation Process" must be published, and editors must avoid any deviations that may occur in the defined processes.

• Editors should publish an "Author's Guide" that contains detailed information on each topic expected by the authors. These guides should be updated at specific time intervals.

• Editors should provide descriptive and informative notifications or feedback to the authors.

Relations with Reviewers

The assignments and responsibilities of the editors toward the reviewers are as follows:

• Editors should identify the reviewers by the subject of the manuscript.

• They must provide the information and guides the reviewers will need during the evaluation phase.

• Editors must look for any conflict of interest between the authors and reviewers.

• Editors should keep the reviewers' credentials private for blind review.

• They should encourage reviewers to evaluate manuscripts impartially, scientifically, and objectively.

• They should evaluate the reviewers with criteria such as timely return and performance.

• Editors should determine practices and policies that increase the performance of the reviewers.

• They should take the necessary steps to update the reviewer pool dynamically.

• They should prevent unkind and unscientific reviews.

• Editors must take steps to make the reviewer's pool a wide range.

Relations with the Editorial Board

Editors should ensure that all editorial board members advance the processes by their editorial policies and guidelines. The editorial board should inform the members of the editorial policies and inform the developments. Editors should educate new editorial board members on editorial policies and provide the necessary information.

In addition, Editors;

• Should ensure that editorial board members evaluate the manuscript impartially and independently.

• Should identify new editorial board members who can contribute and have appropriate qualifications.

• Should send manuscripts suitable for editorial board members' expertise for evaluation.

• Should regularly interact with the editorial board.

• Hold meetings with the editorial board periodically to develop editorial policies and the journal.

Relations with The Journal Owner, Hosting Platform, and Publisher

The owner of the Journal is Prof. Dr. Atila GÜL. JASA's hosting and process management platform is Dergipark ( https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/). The publishing house is Süleyman Demirel University. JASA provides the entire online hosting service and editorial workflow management system through the DergiPark (TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM) platform.

The relationship between the editors, the journal owner, the hosting platform, and the publisher is based on the principle of editorial independence. All decisions and practices taken by the Editors are independent of the Hosting Platform, Publisher, and Journal Owner. In addition, JASA is an e-Journal published on the Dergipark platform. The publishing house of Süleyman Demirel University ( https://sdu.edu.tr and https://w3.sdu.edu.tr/sayfa/5725/e-dergi) does not have any right, authority, or responsibility.

Editorial and Blind Review Processes

Editors must apply the "Blind Review and Evaluation Process" policies included in the journal's publication policies. In this context, editors ensure that each article is completed on time in a fair and impartial evaluation process.

Quality Assurance

Editors are responsible for publishing every article published in the journal by journal publishing policies and international standards.

Protection of Personal Data

Editors are obliged to protect personal data related to the subjects or images included in the evaluated manuscripts. They are responsible for refusing the manuscript unless there is a document showing the consent of the individuals used in the works. Editors are also responsible for protecting the individual data of authors, reviewers, and readers.

The Ethics Committee, Human and Animal Rights

Editors must protect human and animal rights in the evaluated manuscripts. They are responsible for refusing the manuscript when there is no ethics committee approval and permissions for experimental research for subjects used in the studies.

Measure Against Possible Abuse and Misconduct

Editors are obliged to take action against possible abuse and misconduct. In addition to conducting a rigorous and objective investigation regarding the identification and evaluation of complaints regarding this situation, sharing the findings on the subject is among the editor's responsibilities.

Ensuring Academic Publication Integrity

Editors should ensure that articles with errors, inconsistencies, or misleading are quickly corrected.

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

Editors are obliged to protect the intellectual property right of all published articles and to defend the rights of the journal and author(s) in possible violations. In addition, editors are obliged to take necessary precautions so that all published articles do not violate the intellectual property rights of other publications.

Positivity and Openness To Debate

Editors;

• Should take into account persuasive criticism of the articles published in the journal and take a positive attitude towards these criticisms.

• Should grant the right to reply to the author(s) of the criticized manuscripts.

• Should pay attention to studies with negative results.

Complaints

Editors must carefully examine complaints from the author, referee, or readers and respond in an illuminating and descriptive manner.

Political and Commercial Concerns

Journal owners, publishers, and no other political and commercial factors affect the editorial decision-making of editors.

Conflicts of Interest

Editors consider conflicts of interest between authors, reviewers, and other editors, ensuring that the article is completed independently and impartially.

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers

• Evaluation of all studies with "Blind Review" directly affects the quality of the publication. This process provides confidence through the objective and independent evaluation of the publication. The evaluation process is carried out with the principle of double-blind peer review. The reviews cannot contact the authors directly; the reviews and comments are conveyed through the journal management system. The review forms and the reviewer's comments on the full texts are sent to the author (s) through the editor. In this context, reviewers evaluating manuscripts for our journal are expected to have the following ethical responsibilities:

• They should only agree to evaluate manuscripts related to their area of expertise.

• They should evaluate neutrality and confidentiality.

• If the referees consider that they face a conflict of interest during the evaluation process, they should refuse to review the study and inform the journal editor.

• After the evaluation process, they must destroy the manuscript they have reviewed per the principle of confidentiality. They can only use the final versions of the studies they have studied only after their publication.

• They should perform the evaluation objectively only on the content of the study. Reviewers should not allow nationality, gender, religious beliefs, political thoughts, and commercial concerns to influence evaluation.

• They should evaluate positive and courteous language. They should not make humiliating personal comments that include hostility, slander, and insults.

• They should carry out the manuscript they accepted the evaluation on time and with the above ethical responsibilities.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Journal Editorial Board

The Journal Editorial Board acts with the awareness of the following ethical responsibilities:

• Editors are responsible for all processes of the manuscript submitted to the journal. In this framework, decision-makers are editors regardless of economic or political gains.

• They are committed to the creation of an independent editor decision.

• JASA protects the property and copyright of every published article and undertakes to keep a record of every published copy.

• It is responsible for taking all precautions against scientific abuse, improper citation, and plagiarism.

Open Access Statement

JASA adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative and defines its Open Access policy according to the definition developed in the original BOAI:

By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. [See, http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-recommendations]

JASA views open access to academic publications and research as an immutable part of academic endeavor. The publisher recognizes the essence of public good provided by the journal and hence accepts its responsibility as a public service to academic and intellectual betterment.

The publisher via its host-providing institution Dergipark uses Lockss for the archiving and preservation of its online content. Authors retain their intellectual property: All articles published on JASA are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Licence and the journal does not require a transfer of copyright.

In addition to being available on JASA authors are encouraged to post any version of their manuscript in their institutional repositories or on their websites at any stage of the pre-and post-publication process. As an open-access journal, we do not require authors to transfer the copyright to JASA to publish in the journal. Authors retain full control of their intellectual property and we use the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 license for all works published in the journal.

The copyright of each article in JASA is reserved by the author (s) of that article under the Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) copyright license, and this means that the original work can be copied, redistributed, rearranged and in any non-commercial medium or format, provided that the original work is properly cited. It allows creating a new study by using the material in the study. The author grants the non-exclusive publishing right to JASA Journal to publish their work.

JASA's Special Issue Policy:

If deemed appropriate by the JASA Editorial Board, "Special Issues" are published once a year on symposium, congresses, workshops and special thematic issues, etc. The same research article publication processes and policies in JASA apply to the articles in the "Special Issues". Experienced Field Editors or Publication Editors from the JASA Editorial Board are assigned as Editors for Special Issues. For details: JASA's Special Issue Policy:

Archiving Policy

JASA is accessed via the Dergipark platform ( https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/) which utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. In addition, Metadata and full texts of all articles published in the JASA Journal are stored in XML and .pdf format on a 3rd party cloud server in a closed way.

Publication Language

JASA publishes articles written only in English and Turkish.

Publication Frequency

JASA is published "online" twice a year, in July and December. If the Editorial Board deems it appropriate, symposium, congress, workshop, and special themed topics, etc. A Special Issue may be published once a year.

For articles in Special Issues, the same research article publication processes and policies are applied.

Personal information entered into the JASA site is used only for the specified purposes of this journal, and cannot be used or shared for other purposes. This journal is committed to upholding the integrity of the scientific record and the journal.

If you encounter an Unethical Situation

If you find that our journal does not comply with the ethical responsibilities mentioned above and you encounter unethical behavior or content, please report it to atilagul@sdu.edu.tr via e-mail.

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