Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Publication Policy
Süleyman Demirel University İfade Journal follows the principles, standards and recommendations of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) on publication ethics.
1. Süleyman Demirel University Journal of İfade is an international refereed e-journal published twice a year, in June and December.
2. The journal publishes research articles, reviews and book reviews covering the fields of public relations, advertising, journalism, visual communication, radio, cinema and television.
3. Süleyman Demirel University Journal of İfade publishes scientific articles in Turkish and English.
4. The content of the articles submitted to the journal should be compatible with the objectives and scope of the journal.
5. Articles that do not comply with ethical standards are not included in the evaluation process.
6. No fee is charged for the publication and execution of the processes of scientific studies evaluated within the scope of the journal.
7. Studies that have been previously published elsewhere in the journal, accepted for publication and under evaluation elsewhere are not accepted. The responsibility in this regard belongs to the author.
8. An author submitting an article to the journal cannot have more than one article published in the same year.
9. All articles submitted to the journal must be prepared in accordance with the article template in the forms section.
10. Abstracts, publications derived from master's and doctoral theses are accepted provided that they are mentioned in the article.
11. In studies requiring ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date and number) should be given in the method section and on the first page of the article. Articles that do not submit the ethics committee permission document will be rejected without evaluation.
12. The contribution rate statement of the researchers, the statement of support and acknowledgement, if any, and the conflict statement should be included in the articles.
13. In line with the co-operation between DergiPark and plagiarism.net, a similarity report is mandatory for article submissions. Authors will be informed at the article submission steps, a similarity report will be prepared at the file upload step, and the result will be notified to the author by e-mail. When the result of the report is announced, the author will be able to complete the submission process. In order for the studies to be evaluated, the plagiarism report must be 20% or less. The rate of utilisation of the same study should be maximum 3%. Studies with a similarity rate above these rates will be rejected during the preliminary evaluation process.
14. As a result of the preliminary evaluation made by the editors, the manuscripts that are deemed appropriate are sent to at least two referees for scientific evaluation by hiding the names of the authors. Double blind referee policy is applied in this process. The identities of the referees and the author are kept confidential throughout the evaluation process.
15. If both referee reports are positive, the article is published in the journal. If one of the referee reports is positive and the other is negative, the article is sent to a third referee. Authors are obliged to take into account the criticism, suggestions and correction requests of the referees.
16. Articles that do not comply with the above-mentioned publication principles will not be evaluated.
Book Review Principles Writing Guide
1. The books to be selected for review must be an academic work in one of the following fields
o Public Relations
o Advertising
o Marketing Communication
o Journalism
o Visual Communication
o Radio, Cinema and Television
2. Book reviews can be written in Turkish or English.
3. Book reviews should not only include a summary of the book.
4. Information about the subject, purpose and scope of the book should be given.
5. The strengths and weaknesses of the book should be discussed from a critical point of view.
6. The general format requirements in the ‘Writing Rules’ section of the journal should be followed.
7. The book review should not exceed 4500 words including everything.
1. The books to be selected for review must be an academic work in one of the following fields
o Public Relations
o Advertising
o Marketing Communication
o Journalism
o Visual Communication
o Radio, Cinema and Television
2. Book reviews can be written in Turkish or English.
3. Book reviews should not only include a summary of the book.
4. Information about the subject, purpose and scope of the book should be given.
5. The strengths and weaknesses of the book should be discussed from a critical point of view.
6. The general format requirements in the ‘Writing Rules’ section of the journal should be followed.
7. The book review should not exceed 4500 words including everything.
Ethical Responsibilities of Referees
1. Referees who do not have the appropriate qualifications to evaluate the subject and content of the submitted article should notify the editor and should not evaluate the article.
2. A double-blind referee policy is applied during the evaluation process. The identities of the referees and the author are concealed from each other during the evaluation process.
3. Reviewers should not contact the authors of the articles under any circumstances.
4. All evaluations should be made objectively.
5. Reviewers should evaluate the accepted manuscript within 20 days.
Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
1. The content of the articles submitted to the journal must be compatible with the objective and scope of the journal.
2. Articles that do not comply with ethical standards are not included in the evaluation process. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that scientific articles comply with ethical standards.
3. Authors are obliged to prepare their work in accordance with the publication principles.
4. Abstracts, publications produced from master's and doctoral theses are accepted provided that they are specified in the article.
5. Articles that have been previously published elsewhere, accepted for publication, and under evaluation elsewhere are not accepted in the journal. The responsibility in this regard belongs to the author.
6. Authors are required to include all the sources they have used in their articles in the bibliography section.
7. Authors should prepare their articles submitted to the journal in accordance with the journal's writing template. Authors who are found not to comply with the template will be resubmitted for correction.
8. Authors must upload the copyright agreement form to the system at the time of submitting their work to the journal.
9. In line with the co-operation between DergiPark and intihal.net, a similarity report is mandatory for article submissions. Authors will be informed at the article submission steps, a similarity report will be prepared at the file upload step and the result will be notified to the author by e-mail. When the result of the report is announced, the author will be able to complete the submission process. In order for the studies to be evaluated, the plagiarism report must be 20% or less. The rate of utilisation of the same study should be maximum 3%. Articles with a similarity rate above these rates will be rejected during the preliminary evaluation process.
10. Similarity reports must be uploaded to the system by the authors.
11. In order for the studies submitted to our journal to be evaluated, ethics committee permission must be obtained in the following cases:
* All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using data collection techniques such as questionnaires, interviews, focus group studies, observations, experiments, interviews.
12. In articles requiring ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date and number) should be given in the method section and on the first page of the article. Articles that do not submit the ethics committee permission document will be rejected without evaluation.
13. Articles that do not require Ethics Committee approval must upload a signed petition declaring this to the system.
14. The articles should include a statement of the contribution rate of the researchers, a statement of support and acknowledgement, if any, and a statement of conflict.
15. Authors are obliged to take into account the criticism, suggestions and correction requests of the referees.
Ethical Responsibilities of the Editor, Area Editors and Associate Editors
1. The editor and associate editors are responsible for all processes from the submission of articles to the journal until they are published.
2. The editor, area editors and associate editors are responsible for examining the conformity of the articles submitted to the journal with the publication principles.
3. Each article submitted to the journal is evaluated by the editor, area editors and associate editors in terms of objective, scope, spelling rules and plagiarism rates.
4. The journal editor sends the articles to the referees for evaluation by the area editors, taking into account the referees' areas of specialisation.
5. After the preliminary evaluation by the editor, area editors and associate editors, the eligible articles are sent to at least two referees to be evaluated scientifically, with the names of the authors concealed. Double-blind referee policy is applied in this process. The identities of the referees and the author are concealed from each other throughout the evaluation process.
6. Articles sent to referees for evaluation are published in the relevant issue of the journal when both referees report positive results. When one referee reports a positive result and one referee reports a negative result, the study is forwarded to a third referee. The article is accepted or rejected according to the evaluation of the third referee.