Journal of Polytechnic-Politeknik Dergisi accepts scientific original articles in Turkish or English in order to create scientific communication between scientists working in the fields of Science and Engineering. 

Research Article: Studies reflecting the original research with its findings and results,

Review Article: Reviewing sufficient scientific articles and summarizing the subject at the level of information and technology at the present day, evaluating and comparing these findings,

Technical Note: Articles describing a new method or technique explaining the important findings of a research.

Copyright of all manuscripts must be filled out by all authors of the manuscript and submitted to the editor. Publications of the Authors that do not signed the Copyright Agreement Form are not processed. No add-ons can be made by the authors on the articles that were decided to be published.

Each article is sent to at least two referees in terms of form and content. The articles that are determined to be published in the journal are prepared for publication.

Preparation of Manuscripts 

1. TEXT should be written in Times New Roman font and 12 pt, not exceeding 20 pages except for review articles including references and figures. Authors should state what kind of article his/her article is.

2. TITLE of the work should be written in Turkish and English, the first letter of which must be capital, and the title should be short and clear.

All the first degree titles in the text should be written in capital letters, the first letters of all the words in the second degree titles should be capitalized and the first word of the title should be in capital letters for the third and lower headings (all the headings and subheadings used in the text should be specified in parentheses. Articles in English should not include any brackets. All text must be in English)

3. ABSTRACT should be written in Turkish and English, not exceeding 200 words.

4. KEYWORDS: At least 3 maximum 5 keywords should be given in Turkish / English.

5. COORDINATION of the MANUSCRIPT: Generally covers the introduction, method, findings, conclusion and discussion, respectively.

6. REFERENCES: In the text [1], [2] etc. numbers should be numbered and written at the end of the text.

     If the reference is an article: the first letter of the author's surname, authors’ name, the full title of the article in quotation, the name of the journal (if available international abbreviations), volume no: start and end page of the article, (year).

    Example: Sözen A., Özbaş E., Menlik T., Cakir MT, Guru M. and Boran K., '' Improving the thermal performance of diffusion absorption with alumina nanofluids '', International Journal of Refrigeration, 44: 73 -80, (2014).

     If the reference is a book: the first letter of the author's surname, author’s name, title of the book in quotes, the volume no, the editor, if any, the name of the publisher, the publication number, the place of publication, (year).

     A section from the reference book: The first letter of the last name of the author of the section, author’s name, title of the section in quotation, the name of the book from which the department was taken, the name of the publisher, the place of publication, (year). 

    If the reference is a published thesis: Name of the author's surname, author’s name, title of the thesis, the type of the thesis (master, doctorate), the university and institute where it is presented, (year).

     If the reference is a proceeding: the first letter of the author's surname, authors’ name, title of the paper in the quotation, the name of the congress, the place where it was made, the beginning and ending page of the proceeding, (year).

     If the reference is a standard: the standard number, the name of the standard in quotation, (year).

7. TABLES & FIGURES: All images without charts (photographs, drawings, diagrams, graphs, maps, etc.) should be named as Figure. Each chart and figure should be placed in the text. All figures should be numbered consecutively within the text.

8. FORMULAS & UNITS: All formulas in the text should be written in equation format. Formulas (1), (2) should be given the sequence number. All units must be in the SI unit system.

9. NOMENCLATURE can be given at the end of the text before the REFERENCES.

10. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: If people or institutions are to be acknowledged, they should be written in this section and given before the REFERENCES.

PUBLICATION ETHICS & MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

Publication ethics are kept in the course of publication processes in Journal of Polytechnic-Politeknik Dergisi (e-ISSN: 2147-9429) to assure the best practice guidelines and hence it is crucial for the journal’s editors, authors, and peer reviewers to abide by the ethical policies.
Journal of Polytechnic-Politeknik Dergisi conforms to the principles below that are described by COPE’s Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (https://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct) and not only transparency principles, but also best practice in scholarly publishing pointed out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Duties of Editor-in-Chief & Section Editors
Objectivity
Editor-in-chief & section editors of the journal are account for deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal ought to be published. In this process, the authors of the manuscript are not distinguished based on his/her race, ethnicity, gender, religion and citizenship by the editors. Editors´ decision to accept, revise or reject a manuscript for publication should be based merely on the importance, originality and clarity of the manuscript, and also convenience of the study performed in manuscript to the coverage of the journal.

Confidentiality
Editor-in-chief and section editors staff must not reveal any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone but the corresponding author, reviewers/potential reviewers and the publishing personnel. Editors will assure that all material submitted by authors remains confidential during the review process.

Conflicts of interest & Disclosure
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be utilized in any reviewers’ own studies without expressing written permission of the author. Exclusive information or opinions attained from peer review process must be maintained confidential and not used for personal benefit. Reviewers ought not to take into account manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest deriving from competitive, collaborative or other relationships/connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions linked to the articles.

Peer review process
The editor-in-chief/section editors must assure that a double-blind peer review process is effectively performed for each manuscript submitted to journal system.

Management of unethical behaviour(s)
The editors, together with the publisher(s), should take rationally responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented regarding a submitted manuscript or published article.

Duties of Author(s)
Authorship of the paper
Authorship should be narrowed to those who have made a vital contribution to the reported study including conception, execution, design and interpretation. All authors made significant contributions to the submitted manuscript should be listed as co-authors.

Originality and plagiarism
The authors are responsible for the content, language and originality of the manuscript they submitted. The authors should assure that they have composed their original works entirely, and if the authors have used the study and/or words of other authors, that this has been conveniently cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms varying from “passing off” someone´s paper as the authors’ own paper to copying or paraphrasing important parts of someone´s paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research performed by others. Plagiarism in all its forms comprises unethical publishing behaviour and is inadmissible. Before being sent a manuscript to reviewers, it is checked in terms of similarity by iThenticate to explore the plagiarism.

Acknowledgement of funding sources
All funding sources for the research reported in the manuscript should be acknowledged thoroughly at the end of the manuscript before references.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should reveal in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest which may be construed to affect the findings or interpretation of their manuscript. All financial support sources for the project should be disclosed as well. Disclosed examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interest should be declared at the earliest stage possible.

Reporting standards
Authors of manuscript should present an accurate explanation of the study conducted and an objective discussion of its importance. Underlying data should be accurately given in the manuscript. A paper should include sufficient detail and references to allow other researchers to repeat the study. Tricky or knowingly imprecise statements form unethical behaviour and are unacceptable. Review and professional publication articles should also be precise, original and objective, and editorial opinion works should be described overtly as such.

Data access & retention
Authors might be asked to ensure the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review process, and should in any event be prepared to keep in such data for a moderate time after publication.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
Submitted manuscripts must not be under consideration of any other journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently comprises unethical publishing behaviour. The authors must also assure that the article has not been published elsewhere before.

Principal errors in published studies
When an author corresponds to a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author´s obligation to notify swiftly the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to withdraw or correct the paper.

Duties of Reviewers
Reviewers should review and send the review comments in due time period. If the manuscript is not in the reviewer’s field of interest, then the manuscript must be sent back to editor so that the other reviewers can be assigned without losing time.

Contribution
Reviewers are the main members contributing to the quality of the journal being a peer reviewed one. The reviewers who feel unqualified to review the received manuscript must swiftly notify the editor and reject to review that manuscript.

Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Objectivity standards
Reviews should be objectively performed. Personal criticism of the author is unsuitable. Referees should frankly express their aspects with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of sources
Reviewers should describe relating published study which 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. A reviewer should also point out to the editor’s attention any vital resemblance or coincide between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal information.

Disclosure & conflict of interest
Reviewers should not take into account the manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest derived from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships/connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions linked to the manuscripts.