Editorial Principles
1) SEYAD aims to contribute to the accumulation of knowledge in the field of theology and social sciences by publishing works with scientific qualities at national and international level.
2) SEYAD that uses a double-blind peer-review is published twice a year, as June and December.
3) The publication language of the Journal is Turkish and English.
4) The articles to be published in the Journal should be original and academic works prepared by using research methods suitable for their fields.
5) Articles submitted to be published in our journal are controlled by the similarity control software iThenticate. Articles with a general similarity rate of more than 30% are rejected without being included in the review process. Articles with a similarity rate higher than 20% are rejected without being evaluated. In addition, the singular similarity rate should be at most 3%.
6) Articles submitted to the Journal should be unpublished elsewhere or be unsent for publication.
7) Articles sent are first examined in terms of shape. Submissions that are found not to comply with the publication and editorial principles are returned to the author for necessary corrections without reviewing the content.
8) The articles submitted to the Journal for publication will be sent to referees who are experts of the subject determined by the Editorial Board after the preliminary examination. With two positive referee reports, to publish the article is decided and the author is informed about when the article will be published. If the two reviewer express negative opinion, the article will not be published. When there are positive and negative referee reports for the same article, the final decision about the article is given by the Editorial Board considering the content of the reports.
9) If the expression "can be published after corrections" is chosen by referees, the article will be returned to the author for necessary corrections. The author makes corrections with a different color. After the corrections, the article is re-evaluated to check whether referees' warnings are taken into consideration.
10) At the latest within three months it is decided on whether the article will be published or not and the author is informed about the decision.
11) A maximum of two works of the same author (manuscript or translation) can be published in the same issue.
12) No royalty fee is paid to the author for published articles.
13) All scientific and legal responsibilities of the published work belong to the author or authors.
SEYAD is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.