Language

The language of the submission should be English.

No article-processing charges

The publication cost for Maltepe Journal of Mathematics is covered by the journal, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing and submission charges The PDF copies of accepted papers are free of charge and can be downloaded from the website of the journal.

Thank you for choosing to submit your article to Maltepe Journal of Mathematics. The instructions below will ensure that you have everything you need to keep your paper running smoothly through pre-review, peer review, production and publication. Please take the time to read them and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure that your article fits the journal's requirements.

Manuscript Submission

Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Permissions

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere, photograph/personal data are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Online Submission

Please follow the hyperlink “Submit a Manuscript” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.

Preperation of manuscript

Manuscripts should be typesetted using the LATEX typesetting system. Authors should prepare their articles using the Maltepe Journal of Mathematics style (Template of Latex of MJM ) before submission to the submission system. Manuscripts written in AMS LaTeX format are also acceptable. A template of manuscript can be downloaded in tex form at the link Template of Latex of MJM. After the acceptance of a manuscript for publication, we will ask you to submit the TeX form of the manuscript prepared in accordance with the style of the Maltepe Journal of Mathematics. Authors are encoureged to submit their Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) ’s which could be obtained from http://orcid.org as their URL address in the format http://orcid.org/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx. The TeX source-file should be in a LaTeX format, and manuscript should be written only in English. The first page of the manuscript must include:

• the title, that is concise but descriptive and informative,
• the precise authorship (full name preferred),
• the abstract, 175 words at most,
• 2020 Mathematics Subject Classification following the annual index of the Mathematical Reviews,
• a list of key-words and/or phrases.
• The affiliations and the address of authors as well as the e-mail addresses should be included at the end of the manuscript.

Copyright

When submitting articles, authors acknowledge that the copyright of their article is transferred to the publisher, when and when the article is accepted for publication.

The authors give permission to Maltepe Journal of Mathematics to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.

The authors also grant the right to freely use the article to any third party as long as its integrity is preserved and the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.

It is essential that the articles sent to the Maltepe Journal of Mathematics have not been published before and should not be published elsewhere at the same time. After the article is accepted for publication, the author will not be allowed to make new additions to the article.

Before publication the galley proof is always sent to the author for correction. For this reason, typographical errors that occur in their articles as they appear in the journal are solely the responsibility of the author. The authors are fully responsible for the content of the articles published in the Maltepe Journal of Mathematics.

The contents of the manuscript will not be copyrighted, submitted, or published elsewhere, while acceptance by the Journal is under consideration.

Submission must include the following copyright form.

Copyright Form

Declarations/Ethics

On the submission of the manuscript, author(s) declare that:

All authors of the submitted research paper have directly participated in the planning, preperation, and analysis of study;

All authors of the paper have read and approved the final version of the submitted manuscript;

The contents of the manuscript have not been submitted, copyrighted or published elsewhere and the visual-graphical materials such as photograph, drawing, picture, and document within the article do not have any copyright issue;

The contents of the manuscript will not be copyrighted, submitted, or published elsewhere, while acceptance by the Journal is under consideration.

The article is clean in terms of plagiarism, and the legal and ethical responsibility of the article belong to the author(s). Author(s) also accept that the manuscript may go through plagiarism checking;

The objectivity and transparency in research, and the principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed. Authors have also declared that they have no potential conflict of interest (financial or non-financial), and their research does not involve any human participants and/or animals.

Headings

Please use the decimal system of headings with no more than three levels.

abbreviations

Abbreviations should be defined at the first occurrence and used consistently thereafter. Care should be taken not to use too many abbreviations.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

Reference list

The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.

Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work.

Tables

• Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
• Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
• Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.

English Language editing

For editors and reviewers to accurately assess the work presented in your manuscript you need to ensure the English language is of sufficient quality to be understood. If you need help with writing in English you should consider:

Asking a colleague who is a native English speaker to review your manuscript for clarity.

Visiting the English language tutorial which covers the common mistakes when writing in English.

Using a professional language editing service where editors will improve the English to ensure that your meaning is clear and identify problems that require your review,

Publication Charge

The publication cost for Maltepe Journal of Mathematics is covered by the journal, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing and submission charges The PDF copies of accepted papers are free of charge and can be downloaded from the website of the journal.

Peer-review policy

The Editor may seek the advice of two, or three referees, or more depending on the response of the referees, chosen in consultation with appropriate members of the Editorial Board, from among experts in the field of specialization of the paper.

Template of Latex of MJM

Copyright form of MJM

Coverletter

Ethical Responsibilities

The administration of Maltepe Journal of Mathematics (MJM) determined some policies for the purpose of providing the published articles convenience with scientific and ethical rules in every respect. These policies include ethical responsibilities of editor, author and referees.
Editorial Board takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities.

Publication Ethics, Malpractice Statement and Publication Policy

The Maltepe Journal of Mathematics (MJM) a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that provides an advanced forum for studies related to . All published items, including research articles, have unrestricted access and users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

The editorial board pursue the best practice guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). To guaranty the integrity of the published papers, Maltepe Journal of Mathematics (MJM) editors are guided for using COPE’s flowcharts whenever they suspect an ethical issue about the paper they process. The authors, reviewers, editors and owner of the journal are expected to strictly committed to ensuring the policy of publication ethics and malpractice, and respect to the following statements.

Editors' Responsibilities

Editor should make decision on which the manuscripts submitted to the journal will be published and without interference from the journal owner/publisher. Editors´ decision to accept or reject a manuscript for publication should be based only on the paper´s importance, originality and clarity, and the study´s relevance to the aim of journal.

Each editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for originality, making use of appropriate software to do so.

The editor will evaluate manuscripts without regard to the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.

Editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher. Editors must ensure that material submitted remains confidential while under review.

Editors should have systems to ensure that peer reviewers’ identities are protected unless they use an open review system that is declared to authors and reviewers.
The editor should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in conjunction with the publisher.

Editors should provide guidance to authors and reviewers on everything that is expected of them.

Reviewer's Responsibilities

Reviewers must objectively evaluate the manuscripts based only on their originality, significance and relevance to the domains of the journal. Review of submitted manuscripts must be done objectively and the reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Reviewers must bring to the attention of the Editor Board any information that may be a reason to reject publication of a manuscript.

In the event that a reviewer feels it is not possible for him/her to complete review of manuscript within stipulated time then this information must be communicated to the editor, so that the manuscript could be sent to an alternative reviewer.

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. Any kind of similarity or overlap between the manuscripts under consideration or with any other published paper of which reviewer has personal knowledge must be immediately brought to the editor's notice. Reviewed articles should be treated confidentially.

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication, and lies at the heart of the scientific method.

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider evaluating manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the submission.

Author's Responsibilities

Maltepe Journal of Mathematics (MJM) is a free open access journal licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Thus, the authors accept the following conditions:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of its authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors grant Maltepe Journal of Mathematics (MJM) to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.

Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.

All authors of the submitted research paper have directly participated in the planning, execution, or analysis of study;

All authors of the paper have read and approved the final version submitted;

The contents of the manuscript have not been submitted, copyrighted or published elsewhere and the visual-graphical materials such as photograph, drawing, picture, and document within the article do not have any copyright issue;

The contents of the manuscript will not be copyrighted, submitted, or published elsewhere, while acceptance by the Journal is under consideration;

Authors are expected to keep accurate records of the data and to have ethical attitude on processing data since intentional manipulation of dataset to fit the desired results will be considered as fraud. Graphics/Illustrations used to present data can only be manipulated to clarify the graphics. If so, the author must ensure that the manipulation does not lead to loss or misinterpretation of data. Techniques used to clarify images must be described in the caption part of the graphic/illustration.

They can not submit a manuscript if they already have a manuscript in process.

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms, from ‘passing off’ another’s paper as the author’s own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Authors may submit only their own original research, which has not been previously published in any other journal. Authors may not submit work that is currently under consideration for publication in any other journal. Submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to conception, design, execution or interpretation of the reported study. Others who have made significant contribution must be listed as co-authors.

If at any point of time, the author(s) discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in submitted manuscript, then the error or inaccuracy must be reported to the editor.

Conflicts of Interest

There is a conflict of interest when someone is influenced in his/her choices or actions by a personal or financial interest such as recommendation of a reviewer, an editor’s decision or interpretation of a result by an author. In this case, every suspicion of a conflict of interest should be reported to the editorial team of Maltepe Journal of Mathematics (MJM).

Authors should declare that they have no potential conflict of interest (financial or non-financial). If any, Authors must declare all potential interests in a ‘Conflicts of interest’ section, which should explain why the interest may be a conflict. Declared conflicts of interest will be considered by the editor and reviewers and included in the published article. If conflicts of interest are found after publication, this may be embarrassing for the authors, the Editor and the journal. It may be necessary to publish a corrigendum or reassess the review process.

Human or animal subjects.

Authors should declare that their research does not involve any human participants and/or animals. Otherwise, when reporting experiments with human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human/animal experimentation. For manuscripts reporting medical studies involving human/animal participations, authors are required to provide a statement identifying the ethics committee that approved the study and confirming that the study conforms to recognized standards.

Maltepe Journal of Mathematics (MJM) Papers submitted to must be original and adhere to a high scientific and technical standard. The authors are expected to strictly follow the policy of publication ethics and malpractice.