1. Author Responsibilities
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University Journal of Social Sciences requires publications submitted for evaluation to be checked by a plagiarism program. In this context, each study must be checked for plagiarism by its author and its report must be uploaded to the system during the application. If the article has not been checked by its author or if a re-check is needed, the editor can check for plagiarism. The overall similarity rate must be below 20%.
-All references made in the text must be included in the References in full.
-Plagiarism and fake data must not be included.
-The same research should not be attempted to be published in more than one journal, and scientific research and publication ethics must be followed.
-Actions that are against scientific research and publication ethics are as follows:
a. Plagiarism: Presenting the ideas, methods, data, applications, writings, figures or works of others as one's own work, partially or completely, without citing their authors in accordance with scientific rules,
b. Forgery: Producing data that is not based on research, editing or changing a presented or published work based on false data, reporting or publishing these, presenting a research that has not been conducted as if it had been conducted,
c. Distortion: Falsifying research records and obtained data, presenting methods, devices and materials that were not used in the research as if they were conducted, evaluating data that is not in line with the research hypothesis, manipulating data and/or results to fit the relevant theory or assumptions, falsifying or shaping research results in line with the interests of the persons and organizations receiving support,
d. Repeat publication: Presenting more than one work containing the same results of a research as separate works in associate professorship exam evaluations and academic promotions,
e. Slicing: Presenting the results of a research as separate works in associate professorship exam evaluations and academic promotions by inappropriately dividing them into pieces and making multiple publications without citing each other in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research,
f. Unfair authorship: Including people who do not actively contribute among the authors, not including people who do actively contribute among the authors, changing the author order in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of those who actively contribute from the work during publication or in subsequent editions, using one's influence to have one's name included among the authors even though one has not actively contributed,
g. Other types of ethical violations: Not clearly stating the supporting persons, institutions or organizations and their contributions to the research in the publications of research conducted with support, not complying with ethical rules in research conducted on humans and animals, not respecting patient rights in publications, sharing information in a work that one has been assigned to review as a referee with others before publication, using resources, places, facilities and devices provided or allocated for scientific research for purposes other than intended, making completely unfounded, unfounded and intentional accusations of ethical violations (YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, Article 8).
-All authors must contribute significantly to the research.
-A declaration that all data in the article is real and original is required.
-All authors accept the withdrawal and error correction procedures during the submission of the article.

2. Publication Policy
1. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University Journal of Social Sciences (RTEÜSBD) is published in the field of social sciences in one volume per year; two issues (June and December issues) in each volume.
2. The publication language of RTEÜSBD is Turkish. In addition, scientific studies in Arabic and English are published. The Editorial Board decides on the publication of studies in other languages.
3. Copyrighted and translated articles, simplifications, edition critiques, book reviews, scientific meeting evaluations and doctoral dissertation abstracts are published in RTEÜSBD.
4. Articles sent to the journal must not have been published elsewhere or sent for publication.
5. Studies sent to the journal must comply with academic standards and be original.
6. In translation and simplification articles, a copy of the original texts must be transferred to the computer and added to the submission.
7. Articles sent to the journal without complying with the journal's writing principles are returned to the author for correction without being sent to the referee.
8. Article publication process:
a. Articles sent for publication are subject to pre-check, plagiarism screening, Turkish-English language check and referee evaluation stages.

b. A study that fails to pass this process despite being reviewed three times in the pre-check and plagiarism stages is returned to the author and is not processed again in the same publication period.

c. Studies that pass the preliminary control and language control stages and are deemed suitable for evaluation are taken into the referee evaluation process.

9. Referee Evaluation Process
a. A double-blind refereeing system is applied at RTEÜSBD.
b. The editor of the field to which the article is related, if necessary, contacts the Editorial Board and sends the article to two expert referees in the field. The period for both referees to respond to the invitation is 3 days. The invitations of referees who do not respond positively or negatively to the invitation at the end of the 3rd day are canceled. They are sent to a different referee. The period for completing the evaluation is 15 days from the date that both referees accept the invitation. A period of 3 days is added to the referees who do not complete the evaluation at the end of the 15th day. If the referee does not complete his/her evaluation at the end of the 3rd day, his/her duty is canceled and a different referee is assigned.
c. If both referees who complete their evaluations report positively, the article is taken into the publication process. The article that is passed to the publication stage is sent to the spelling control again. After the 7-day spelling control stage, it goes through the final reading process, which will take another 7 days.
d. If both referees decide to reject the article, the relevant article is rejected. If both referees request major revisions from the author or if the referees make major-rejection decisions, the rejection of the study or sending it to a third referee will be on the agenda. The Publication Advisory Board makes the decision on this issue. If the referees make acceptance-minor, minor-minor or minor-major decisions, the relevant article will be sent to the author for correction. If there is a disagreement between the referees on the decision (acceptance-major, acceptance-rejection, minor-rejection), the article will be sent to a third referee. In such a case, the third referee's opinion determines the decision on the relevant article. Once each of these refereeing stages is completed, the editorial process takes 7 days to move on to the next stage.
e. Confidentiality is essential in referee reports; for this reason, referee names are not included in the journal's imprint.
10. A maximum of two studies by the same author (copyright or translation) can be published in one issue.
11. No royalty fee is paid for published articles. No fee is requested from authors for their publications.
12. RTEÜSBD reserves the right to make corrections to submitted articles and to store unpublished articles in the journal archive.
13. The legal responsibility of all works published in RTEÜSBD belongs to the author and cannot be associated with the RTEÜSBD Publication Advisory Board.
14. All policies and processes in RTEÜSBD are determined by the Publication Advisory Board. The Publication Advisory Board has the authority to decide on matters not specified here.

3. Article Submission Stage
a. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University Journal of Social Sciences is published online and the evaluation process is carried out electronically using the double-blinded method. Articles requested for publication are prepared in a computer environment and submitted online.
b. It is mandatory for the studies to be uploaded to the system in accordance with the RTEÜSBD writing template in the Writing Rules tab. Click for the RTEÜSBD writing template. If the information in the writing template (Author's Name-Surname, Title, affiliated institution, Orcid, e-mail addresses) is not filled in completely, the work will be redirected to the author for filling in the missing information.
c. When the work is submitted, it is deemed that the author/authors accept that it is an original article and has not been published anywhere before.
d. The file showing the final version of the article, which has been rearranged in line with the referee suggestions and has been decided to be publishable, is uploaded to the system online.
e. An article that does not receive a positive report from the referees will not be published and will not be returned to its author; no administrative or judicial responsibility is accepted in this regard.