Necmettin Erbakan University Journal of Science and Engineering

Necmettin Erbakan University Journal of Science and Engineering (NEU-FMBD) is an interdisciplinary and open-access journal covering all subjects of basic sciences and engineering. The Journal of Science and Engineering aims to convey the latest scientific/technical developments in basic and engineering sciences to the relevant scientists and readers.

Necmettin Erbakan University Journal of Science and Engineering (NEU-FMBD) applies double blind refereeing system.

Submitted manuscripts must be in English or Turkish and authors must strictly adhere to publication ethics. There is no publication fee in the journal.

Necmettin Erbakan University Journal of Science and Engineering  covers both experimental and theoretical studies of basic sciences and engineering and includes original, qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method publications. Studies that do not comply with this scope are not included in the evaluation process.

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Correspondence Address: Necmettin Erbakan University Journal of Science and Engineering, Meram/KONYA
Tel: 0 332 321 20 17- 324 31 82
E-mail: neufmbd@erbakan.edu.tr

Copyright Transfer Form: Authors must submit the Copyright Transfer Form (available on the journal's WEB site) in PDF format with the publication when submitting their articles for publication. The transfer of copyright of the articles is done by filling out and signing the form on the journal's website. Submissions from authors who do not submit the signed Copyright Transfer Form will not be evaluated.
The author(s) accept that the submitted work complies with PUBLICATION ETHICS and accepts ethical responsibility for the article. Submitted scientific articles should take into account the recommendations of the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) and the International Standards for Editors and Authors of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).Each author is equally responsible for the article content. The articles sent for publication are first passed through the iThenticate® (Professional Plagiarism Prevention) software and then sent to the referees. The articles are checked with the iThenticate® program, if plagiarism or self-plagiarism is detected, the article will not be evaluated. The similarity must not be more than 15%, excluding references and including quotations.

Article Checklist Form: It is the form indicating that the text section of the work is accepted in accordance with the journal's spelling rules. “ Manuscript Checklist Form” should be filled in front of the text. You can access the form by clicking on the Checklist Form link. Submissions that do not comply with the journal format or the checklist is not filled in will not be evaluated.

Types of Publications
Necmettin Erbakan University Journal of Science and Engineering  is a peer-reviewed and scientific journal and accepts articles in the fields of science and engineering, whose qualifications are explained below, in Turkish or English.

Research Article: These are the articles that reflect original research with its findings and results. The study must necessarily contribute to science.
Review Article: These are the articles that examine a sufficient number of scientific articles, summarize the subject at the level of today's knowledge and technology, evaluate and interpret the findings by comparing them.

Cover Letter A cover letter must be included with each manuscript submission.

The author(s) acknowledge that the submitted work complies with the PUBLICATION ETHICS and accept ethical responsibility for the manuscript. The recommendations of ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) and the International Standards of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) should be taken into consideration for the Editor and Authors. Each author is equally responsible for the content of the manuscript. Manuscripts submitted for publication are first passed through iThenticate or Turnitin programs and then sent to reviewers. The manuscripts are checked with iThenticate® or Turnitin softwares, and if plagiarism or self-plagiarism is detected, the manuscript will be rejected. The similarity index cannot be more than 15% excluding references and including citations.

REVIEWERS: The author(s) may provide the names and e-mail addresses of three reviewers from at least two different universities. The author(s) may also submit the names of the reviewers they do not want to review their manuscripts. Each article is sent to at least two reviewers related to its subject and reviewed in terms of form and content. The journal editorial board has the right to send articles to any reviewe

Manuscript Preparation

ABSTRACT

Please use 16-point bold for your article title, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns. Please margin the article title to the center. All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, and corresponding author email addresses. ORCID information is required for all authors. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author. Please use one line for all author names and one line for all author information on the title page. An informative 11-point abstract (250 to 300 words) presenting the main points of the paper. Please include descriptive keywords (3 to 5). Capitalize the first letter of each keyword (e.g., Science education, Survey development). 

 Subdivision - sections

Introduction

 Headings should be in capital letters, bold Times New Roman font, 11 pt. font size and 1cm indentation. A 12k space should be defined before the headings. Paragraphs should be in Times New Roman font, 11 point size. Paragraphs should start with a 1cm indent. Line spacing should be 1.15k. There should be a 6nk space above each paragraph. You can do these operations using the line spacing option. In the header of the page with the introduction, the name and abbreviation of the journal should be added. At the bottom of the page, there should be only the page number.

First Level Subheading
First level subheadings should be capitalized, bold, in Times New Roman font and 11-point font size. A 12k space should be defined before headings. Headings and paragraphs should start with a 1cm indent. Line spacing should be 1.15k. There should be a 6k space above each paragraph. You can do these operations using the line spacing option.

Second Level Subheading
Second-level subheadings should be capitalized, bold, italic, Times New Roman font and 11-point font size. A space of 12 spaces should be defined before headings. Headings and paragraphs should start with a 1cm indent. Line spacing should be 1.15k. There should be a 6k space above each paragraph. You can do these operations using the line spacing option.

Third Level Subheading
Third-level subheadings should be capitalized, italicized, in Times New Roman font and 11-point font size. A 12k space should be defined before headings. Headings and paragraphs should start with a 1cm indent. Line spacing should be 1.15k. There should be a 6k space above each paragraph. You can do these operations using the line spacing option.

Material and methods

Main headings should be in capital letters, bold Times New Roman font, 11 pt. and 1cm indentation. A 12k space should be defined before the headings. Paragraphs should be in Times New Roman font, 11 point size. Paragraphs should start with a 1cm indent. Line spacing should be 1.15k. There should be a 6nk space above each paragraph. You can do this by using the line spacing menu.

The table number and text should be placed above the table in bold. There should be no period at the end of the table number. The title of the table should be italicized and capitalized and placed on a separate line below the table number. There should be no vertical lines in the table and as few horizontal lines as possible.

The figure number and text should be placed in bold below the figure. A period should not be placed at the end of the figure number. The title of the figure should be italicized and capitalized and should be placed on a separate line below the figure number.

 Results

Main headings should be in capital letters, bold Times New Roman font, 11 pt. and 1cm indentation. A 12k space should be defined before the headings. Paragraphs should be in Times New Roman font, 11 point size. Paragraphs should start with a 1cm indent. Line spacing should be 1.15k. There should be a 6nk space above each paragraph. You can do these operations using the line spacing option.


Discussion
Main headings should be in capital letters, bold Times New Roman font, 11 pt. and 1cm indentation. A 12k space should be defined before the headings. Paragraphs should be in Times New Roman font, 11 point size. Paragraphs should start with a 1cm indent. Line spacing should be 1.15k. There should be a 6nk space above each paragraph. You can do these operations using the line spacing option.


Conclusions
Main headings should be in capital letters, bold Times New Roman font, 11 pt. and 1cm indentation. A 12k space should be defined before the headings. Paragraphs should be in Times New Roman font, 11 point size. Paragraphs should start with a 1cm indent. Line spacing should be 1.15k. There should be a 6nk space above each paragraph. You can do these operations using the line spacing option. 

Cover Page

The title of the work should be written in capital letters, centered on the page, and the title should be appropriate to the text, short and clear. Formulas and abbreviations should be avoided in the title. Under the title, the name and surname, postal and e-mail addresses of the author or authors should be written, and the ORCID numbers (www.orcid.org) of the authors should be given. If an author has left the place where the work was done in the article, the Current Address and Permanent Address should be indicated in a footnote next to the author's name. The author's current address should remain in the main section as the address of the institution to which the author is affiliated. Footnotes should be numbered 1, 2, .... There should also be a corresponding author to be contacted at each stage of the publication process.

Ethical Statement
See https://www.isnadsistemi.org/guide/isnad2/akademik-yazim/1-yayin-etigi/yayin-etigi-beyani/
Example 1:
This study is derived from a master's/doctoral thesis entitled “...”, submitted under the supervision of ... on ... date.
Example 2:
This article has been produced by developing and partially changing the content of the paper titled “...”, which was presented orally at the conference but the full text was not published.


Ethics Committee Approval
Ethical approval was granted by the ethics committee of ... University, ... on .../.../20... with the number ....


Author Contributions
Research Design (CRediT 1) Author 1 (%00) - Author 2 (%00)
Data Collection (CRediT 2) Author 1 (%00) - Author 2 (%00)
Research - Data Analysis - Validation (CRediT 3-4-6-11) Author 1 (%00) - Author 2 (%00)
Writing the Article (CRediT 12-13) Author 1 (%00) - Author 2 (%00)
Revision and Improvement of the Text (CRediT 14) Author 1 (%00) - Author 2 (%00)


Financing
The study was supported by the ... institution with the number .....

Chemical designations, abbreviations and acronyms (acronyms) must be given in brackets when they are used for the first time in the article. Known processes/reactions are to be named and provided with a corresponding reference to the literature.

SI Units (International System of Units) should be used. Imperial, US customary and other units should be converted to SI units whenever possible.

Each symbol and variable in the text is in italics; units, mathematical formulas and abbreviations normally; matrices and vectors should be written in bold. The variables in the diagram axes and table captions are to be specified as variable, eg as time t (s), potential E (mV), current density i (mA/cm2).

A detailed mathematical discussion should be given in the appendices. Equations and formulas should be written in an equation editor whenever possible. Equations are to be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals in brackets on the right side of the page. It should be divded into terms in accordance with the notation of long equations.

REFERENCES 
All sources cited should be included in this section. In the bibliography, the citations are listed in the order of the numbers in the text. Citations should be given in accordance with the journal format. Make sure that every reference mentioned in the text is also in the bibliography (and vice versa). Unpublished results and personal contacts are not recommended in the bibliography, but can be cited in the text. [1], [3], [5] etc. in brackets in the text. should be numbered and placed at the end of the text in the order in which they are given in the paper. If the author's name is to be mentioned, it should be referenced immediately after the author's name (Gemi et al. [5]), without the author's name, at the end of the sentence (... ..... preserved [4], [6]).
Example:
[1] A. Aslan, E. Salur, A. Güneş, Ö.S. Şahin, H.B. Karadağ, A. Akdemir, Production and mechanical characterization of prismatic shape machine element by recycling of bronze and cast-iron chips, Journal of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Gazi University. 33 (2018), 1013–1027. doi:10.17341/gazimmfd.416402

Book
Example:
[2] U.P. Breuer, Commercial Aircraft Composite Technology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-31918-6

Chapter in edited book:
Example:
[3] M. Kaplan, M. Uyaner, Y. Ozgurluk, K.M. Doleker, A.C. Karaoglanli, Evaluation of Hot Corrosion Behavior of APS and HVOF Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBCs) Exposed to Molten Na2SO4+ V2O5 Salt at 1000 °C, içinde: Öchsner A., Altenbach H. (Ed.), Advanced Structured Materials, Springer, 2019: ss. 441–459. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-79005-3_28

Thesis:
Example:
[4] Ş. Yazman, Karbon Nanotüp ve Seramik Nanopartikül Takviyeli Hibrit Nanokompozit Yapıştırıcıların Mekanik Özelliklerinin Araştırılması, Doktora Tezi, Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Makine Mühendisliği Anabilim Dalı, Konya, 2018.

Conference:
Example:
[5] S. Yazman, A. Akdemir, M. Uyaner, B. Bakircioglu, The Effect of Build Up Edge Formation on the Machining Characteristics in Austempered Ferritic Ductile Iron, içinde: Volume 2B: Advanced Manufacturing, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, San Diego, California, USA, 2013: s. V02BT02A052. doi:10.1115/IMECE2013-63764

Internet:
Example:
[6] S. Ridout, HOWTO: edit citation styles for use in Mendeley, (2011). https://blog.mendeley.com/2011/05/03/howto-edit-citation-styles-for-use-in-mendeley/ (erişim 29 Aralık 2018).

Reference management software
It is recommended that authors use one of the bibliography editing software such as Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, Docear4Word, Paperpile while editing their sources. You can obtain the style file prepared in CSL (Citation Style Language) language, which can be used for our journal in these software, from the following address:
http://www.zotero.org/styles/necmettin-erbakan-universitesi-fen-ve-muhendislik-bilimleri-dergisi


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PRINCIPLES OF PUBLICATION ETHICS OF OUR JOURNAL

The author(s) accept that the submitted manuscript complies with PUBLICATION ETHICS and accepts ethical responsibility for the article. In the submitted scientific articles, the recommendations of the 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 account.

Each author is equally responsible for the article content.


Ethical Responsibilities of Authors


· Authors prepare and submit their works as original.

· Authors ensure that the citations they make in the articles they submit are correct and complete.

· Authors are required to state and explain situations that may have a conflict of interest in the articles they submit.

Editor, referee and section editor can request raw data of the article from the author. Therefore, the author should be able to present the raw data of the submitted article.
· In studies that require an ethical report, the author must send the Ethics report together with the submission.

Authors are obliged to inform the journal for correction or retraction of the article in case of errors or inaccuracies in any of the pre-control, evaluation, editing and publication stages.

Authors cannot follow the process for the same article in two journals at the same time. When the process is completed in one journal and his article is rejected, he can send his article to the other journal. An article published in another journal cannot be sent to our journal.

If there is a need for processes such as adding an author, changing the order of authors, removing an author to an article whose evaluation process has begun in our journal, it can apply to the journal with the approval of all authors. The editorial board of the journal examines the application and notifies the responsible author of the decision.


Editors' Ethical Responsibilities


The editor and section editors must have the ethical duties and responsibilities specified in the "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) on our Dergipark page. These duties and responsibilities are summarized below.

· Editors are responsible for taking into account the feedback from readers and researchers about published studies and taking necessary actions and responses.

· Editors make their decision about the article based on the original value of the article, the aims of the journal and ethical rules.

· Editors should evaluate articles with high novelty and originality, and articles prepared by considering the journal's purposes and ethical rules.

· The editors should take into account the positive comments of the referees unless there is a justification.

· Editors are required to respond to requests and comments from authors with feedback.

· Editors and referees to be appointed should be selected in accordance with the subject of the article.

· Editors should take care that there is no conflict of interest or conflict of interest between the referee(s) and the author(s).

· Editors are responsible for guiding the referees in the article evaluation process and providing the information they request.

· Editors are obliged to hide the identity information of the author and referee by applying the blind refereeing process.

· Editors should take the necessary warnings and precautions for the referees to evaluate the article in a timely, impartial and scientific manner.

· Editors should consider the opinions and suggestions of the advisory board about the articles.

· Editors' decisions about the article should be independent of the journal owner and publisher.

· Editors are responsible for observing the journal publication principles, journal aims and international standards in the articles to be published in the journal.

· Editors are responsible for not transferring their personal information to third parties without the consent of the article authors.

· Editors are responsible for protecting human and animal rights in case the content of the article includes studies on humans and animals. It is responsible for rejecting the article if ethics committee approval is not sent for studies that require an ethics committee report.

· Editors are responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all articles submitted and published to the journal.

· Editors are responsible for clearly responding to complaints from referees, authors and readers.

· Editors are responsible for taking precautions against conflicts of interest that may arise between authors, referees and third parties in order to complete the impartial and independent evaluation processes of the articles.



Ethical Responsibilities of Referees


The referees are responsible for not evaluating the article if there is a conflict of interest.

The referees are responsible for evaluating the article by paying attention to the principles of confidentiality and impartiality.

The referees cannot use the work sent to them for any purpose until the evaluation process is completed and it is published.

The referees are responsible for not allowing the gender, nationality, religious beliefs and political views of the authors to affect the evaluation process.

Reviewers should use courteous and constructive language when evaluating the article.

The referees are responsible for evaluating the article on time and by paying attention to the ethical rules.

Plagiarism Policy

Necmettin Erbakan University Journal of Science and Engineering Sciences has started to check the manuscripts sent for publication as of 01.01.2020 through plagiarism software (Turnitin, iThenticate, etc.). The author should also send the document showing the similarity rate with the study. Studies with a similarity rate of more than 15% (excluding references) are not evaluated and returned to their authors. If a work published in the journal is found to be plagiarism, the Editorial Board reserves the right to take various actions, including retracting the article, reporting the issue to the department head, dean, and/or relevant institutions in the institution where the author works.

There is no publication fee in the journal, which gladly accepts articles from domestic and international authors.