Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers" principles have been adopted.

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

All submitted publications must be original, unpublished and not under evaluation in another journal. Each article must be sent through a plagiarism program (Turnitin or iThenticate) by the author(s). Articles with a plagiarism (similarity) rate above 15% are not taken into consideration. The following points should be taken into consideration when reporting the file uploaded to the plagiarism detection program:

Bibliography excluded
Quotes included or Quotes excluded
Except for text parts with overlap of less than 7 words (Limit match size to 7 words)
Select "No Repository" for the "Send Assignments to" option under the "Optional Settings" tab. Plagiarism (Similarity) Rate Report of Publications and Ethics Committee Approval must be sent with the publication.
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Publishing Rights Transfer Form:

When submitting the publication to the journal, all authors must sign and submit the Copyright Transfer Form.

Responsibilities of Editors and Reviewers

The editor evaluates the publications sent to the journal independently of the authors' ethnicity, gender, gender orientation, nationality, religious beliefs and political philosophies. They ensure that submitted articles undergo double-blind peer review in a fair manner. They ensure that all information regarding the submitted article is kept confidential until it is published.
Each publication sent to OKAD must be approved by at least two referees who are experts in their field and must be deemed publishable by the referees. A publication copyright agreement must be filled out for studies uploaded to the system to be published in our journal. Academicians and scientific researchers who want to take part in our journal's referee and scientific committees must be experts in their fields. The journal scientific board constitutes the highest decision-making and executive mechanism of the journal. Any decision taken by the scientific committee is final and unchangeable. The journal editor can decide whether the studies that are not sent for referee approval will be accepted in the journal and whether they will be sent to the referee process.

Information about the transaction process for JOWF is notified to the authors and authors in writing on the journal website. The start of the referee process is carried out under the control of the editor. The editor has the authority to inform and decide on the publication's referee process in the journal. A publication that the editor does not find appropriate or accept is not included in the process in the journal. Even if it is approved by the referee, if the editors or the scientific committee of the journal do not express a positive opinion on the publication of the current study, it may be canceled by the decision of the committees, even if the article is published in the system. In such a case, the author or authors cannot impose any sanctions on the journal. All authority belongs unilaterally to the editor, the journal scientific board and the editorial board.
Reviewers should not have conflicts of interest regarding the research, the authors, and/or the financial sponsors of the research. They must make an impartial judgment as a result of their evaluation.

Author responsibilities

1) Author(s) must submit an original study to Ondokuz Mayıs University Journal of Women's and Family Studies.
2)Author(s) must submit their unpublished work.
3) It is unethical to submit studies to more than one journal at the same time. Author(s) should not submit an article that they have published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
4)Any conflict of interest must be clearly stated.
5) The accuracy of the data sources used in the development of the article should be acknowledged.
6)Any errors found during the pre-publication phase of the article or after its publication should be reported to the Editor immediately.
7) The author(s) must correctly cite the sources used while writing the article, in line with ethical principles.
8) The names of people who do not contribute to the article should not be written as authors, and changing the author order of an article applied for publication, removing or adding authors should not be recommended.
9)In case information or raw data regarding their articles is requested from the author(s) during the evaluation process, the expected information must be provided to the Editors.
10) The author(s) must document that they have received permission to use the data they use in their articles, permissions for research and analysis, or the approval of the participants on whom they conducted research.
11) The author(s) have received ethics committee approval for research that requires collecting data through quantitative or qualitative methods such as experiments, surveys, scales, interviews, observations, focus group studies, which require ethics committee decision; The name of the ethics committee, decision date and number should be stated on the first and last pages of the candidate article and in the method section, and the document showing the ethics committee decision should be uploaded to the system together with the application of the article. In addition, in case reports, information regarding the receipt of informed consent/consent form should be included in the article.
12) The author(s) must present evidence in the article that they have paid attention to ethical principles during the data collection process (such as obtaining permission from others to use their documents such as scales, surveys, photographs). It should be stated that articles comply with research and publication ethics and copyright regulations for intellectual and artistic works. If the research was conducted on human and animal subjects, it should be stated that the research was carried out in accordance with international declarations, guidelines, etc.
13) Ethics committee approval is not required from the author(s) for review articles. However, in articles that do not require an ethics committee decision, it should be stated on the first and last pages of the article and in the method section that an ethics committee decision is not required.