The Journal of Ceramic Research

The objective of the Journal of Ceramic Research is to contribute to the evaluation of pottery which is found in huge numbers during archaeological investigations and which met the humans’ need and taste for millennia. The second aim is to fill a gap in the archaeological literature by an interdisciplinary discourse on ceramics in archaeology, history, archaeometry and art history in Turkey. Today archaeologists working on pottery benefit from an interoperability in technological, analytical and archaeological terms. ‘Old’ ceramics are a junction point between social and physical sciences. The desire to keep the ceramic studies and experiences together affected our decision to publish the Journal of Ceramic Research. Last not least, the Journal of Ceramic Research aims to reach a wider audience with the help of DergiPark and the journal’s official website, www.srmka.com, both of which offer open access opportunities.

The Journal of Ceramic Research deals with ceramics from its beginnings in the Neolithic Age until the end of the Ottoman period. Within that timespan developments in the production of pottery, different technologies, production centers, foreign influences as well as different possibilities of usage seen from archaeological, archaeometrical, ethnoarchaeological or art historical perspectives will be in the main focus of this journal.

Note: The SRMKA uses the double blind peer review method in the assessment of studies. Therefore, please do not include any author(s) details in your word file. The author(s) information will be added by the journal when the paper is accepted.

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

1-     The Journal of Ceramic Research will be published once a year, in December.

2-     The material submitted for publication should not be published previously.

3-     The Journal of Ceramic Research applies an anonymous peer review process.

4-     After the first examination the article will be sent to two referees. According to the report submitted by the referees, the article will be accepted for publication, corrections will be requested or the article will be rejected. In case of two diverging opinions a third referee will be appointed.

5-     Articles in Turkish or English are welcome.

6-     The articles must be sent to the journal’s editor through the online system "DergiPark".

Help is provided by the link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O2JZ8A1IHZwGZHk-ZtZCH0fcIR3pT_oA/view 

7-     Authors must approve the copyright form.

8-     The full responsibility of the texts, which will be published in the journal, stays with the author(s).

9-     A plagiarism programme will be used (Similarity should be below 20%).

10- Articles should be written in Microsoft Word and submitted in .docx format.

11- Articles should be written in Times New Roman.

12- The title of the article should be 14pt and centered  (with capital letters in Turkish and English). The text should be 12 pt, footnotes 10 pt.

13- Abstract: The article should includeTurkish and English abstracts at the beginning (150-250 words).

              Keywords: 5 to 8 keywords should be placed at the end of the abstract. The first letters of the keywords must be written in capital letters and a comma must be used between them.

14- One space must be given after the punctuation marks (Except for ‘commas’ used in measurements (For example: 5,5 cm)

15- Format of the page: A4 portrait, margins (normal) (top, bottom, left, right 2,5 cm)

16- The spacing of the paragraph line should be 1,5.

17- Photographs and drawings should be sent at least in 300 dpi resolution and preferably in TIFF format. 

18- The abbreviation “Fig.” should be used for all photographs, drawings, plates and maps.

19- Ceramics should be sent collectively (for the article) and one by one (for the database).

20- Besides the drawings, photographs of ceramics should be sent as well, if possible.

21- In the first footnote, the information about the author’s institution, an e-mail address and the ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) number should be added.

22- Footnotes should be given at the bottom of each page.

23- Italics will be used for old languages in any article only.

Footnote:

Surname Date, Page Number, Fig. or Plate.

Işıklı 1998, 23, Plate 8, Cat. No. 15.

Two authors

Yılmaz- Ergürer 2012, 23, Plate 8.

Three or more authors

Yılmaz et al. 2012, 23, Plate 8, Cat. No. 3.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kitaplar/ Books

The first letter of the name, Surname, Title of the Book, Place of Publication Date of Publication

Hayes 1972

J. W. Hayes, Late Roman Pottery, London 1972.

Crowfoot et al. 1957

 J. W. Crowfoot- G. M. Crowfoot- K. M. Kenyon,  The Object from Samaria. Samaria- Sebaste III, Londra 1957.

Journal Article

The first letter of the name and Surname, “Title of the article in inverted commas”, Name of Journal, Page range or plate.

Hayes 1967                     

J. W. Hayes, “North Syrian Mortaria”, Hesperia 36,  No. 4, 1967, 337- 347.

Borkisch-Böttger 1966                           

G. Borkisch- B. Böttger, “Spätrömische und Frühbyzantinische Keramik”, Klio 47, 1966, 209- 256

Translated Works

The first letter of the name and Surname, Title of the Book ( Trans. ) Place of Publication Date of Publication

Boardman 2005   

J. Boardman, Yunan Heykeli, Klasik Dönem (trans. by G. Ergin), Ankara 2005.

Chapter in an edited work

The first letter of the name and Surname, “Title of the article in inverted commas”, Name of Book, (Editor(s)), Place of Publication, Date of Publication, Page range.

Ergürer 2013       

H. E. Ergürer, Tiyatro, in:  (Ed. C. Başaran), Antik Troas’ın Parlayan Kenti Parion, Ankara 2013, 77- 86.

Ergürer 2014

H. E. Ergürer, “Late Roman Light Coloured Ware from Parion”, Late Hellenistic to Medieval Fine Wares of the Aegean Coast of Anatolia Their Production, Imitation and Use, (Eds. H. Meyza, K. Domzalski), Varsovia 2014, 175- 192

Symposium Publications

The first letter of the name and Surname, “Title of the article in inverted commas”, Name of Book or journal, (Editor(s)), Place of Publication, Date of Publication, Page range.

Mandel 2000                   

U. Mandel, “Die Frühe Produktion der Sog. Oinophorenware- Werkstätten von Knidos”, RCRFActa 36, Abingdon 2000, 57- 68.

Thesis

The first letter of the name and Surname, Name of the thesis, Informationof University, (Unpublished PhD diss.), Place of Publication and date

Ergürer 2012                    H. E. Ergürer, Parion Roma Seramikleri, Atatürk University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Classical Archaeology, (Unpublished PhD diss.), Erzurum 2012.

Internet Source

https://www.levantineceramics.org/wares (quote date and if available DOI number) should be.

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND EXAMPLE OF ABBREVIATIONS

For abbreviations of periodicals and book series see:

https://www.ajaonline.org/submissions/journals-series

http://www.tayproject.org/bibkisaltma.html

AASOR          Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research

AJA                American Journal of Archaeology

LRCW 1         Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphores in the Mediterranean, Archaeology and Archaeometry, Ed. J. M. Gurt i Esparraguera, J. Buxeda i Garrigos, M.S. Cau Ontiveros, BAR- IS 1340, The Basingstoke Press, England 2005                     

RIC                 The Roman Imperial Coinage

TAD                Türk Arkeoloji Dergisi

Abadie Reynal- Sodini 1992            

C. Abadie- Reynal- J. P. Sodini, L Céramique Paléochrétienne De Thasos (Aliki, Delkos, Fouilles Anciennes), Études Thasiennes XIII. Athens 1992.

Akyürek 1992           

N. E. Akyürek, “Terra Sigillata aus dem Heiligtum des Apollon Smintheios”, AMSt 8, Studien zum Antiken Kleinasien II, 1992,  125- 166.

Doğer 2005               

L. Doğer, “Byzantine Ceramics: Excavation at Smyrna Agora”, Çanak, Akdeniz ve Çevresindeki Arkeolojik Kazılarda Ele Geçen Geç Antik ve Ortaçağ Seramiği ve Mimari Seramiği, Byzas 7, (Ed. B. Böhlendorf- Arslan, A.O. Uysal, J. Witte- Orr),  İstanbul 2005, 97- 121.

Hayes 1972               

J. W. Hayes, Late Roman Pottery, London 1972.

Other abbreviations

Arş.                 : Arşiv                                                Arch.               : Archive        

Bkz.                : Bakınız                                           

Çev.                : Çeviren                                            Trans.             : Translate

Dn.                  : Dipnot                                              Fn.                  : Footnote

Ed. / Eds         : Editör (ler)                                       Ed. / Eds         : Editör (s)

Env. No.         : Envanter Numarası                          Inv. No.          : Inventory Number

Kat. No.          : Katalog Numarası                           Cat. No.          : Catalogue Number

Lev.                : Levha                                               Pl.                   : Plate

MÖ                 : Milattan Önce                                  BC                  : Before Christ

MS                  : Milattan Sonra                                 AD                  : After Date

Res.                 : Resim

vb.                 : ve benzeri                                        i.a.                   inter altri = among                                                                                                                      

vd.                   : ve diğerleri                                      et al.                : et alii           

A) Ethical Principles

• The publication ethics and abuse declaration of the Ceramic Research Journal has been prepared based on the guidelines and recommendations published with recommendations for the execution, reporting and regulation of the editorial ethics committee (COPE) and Science Editors Council (CSE) policy statements.
• In studies with human subject, it must be noted in the method’s section of the manuscript that the informed consent of the participants and ethics committee approval from the institution where the study has been conducted have been obtained.
• Ethics committee approval should be obtained separately for studies conducted in all branches of science, including social sciences, and for clinical and experimental studies on humans and animals that require an ethics committee decision, and this approval should be stated and documented in the article.
• Authors may not engage in the act of tortious authorship in a way that will manipulate active contributions and cannot make duplicate publications over the works they have previously submitted. Authors should not take any action that may cause any other ethical violation.
• When necessary, sufficient correction, explanation or apology should be published.
• Principles of integrity, quality and transparency should be ensured in designing the research, reviewing the design, and conducting the research.
• Plagiarism, duplication, fraud authorship/denied authorship, research/data fabrication, salami slicing/salami publication, breaching of copyrights, prevailing conflict of interest are unethical behaviors. All manuscripts not in accordance with the accepted ethical standards will be removed from the publication. This also contains any possible malpractice discovered after the publication.
• Changing the name of an author (omission, addition or order) in papers submitted to the journal requires written permission of all declared authors.
  

B) Author's Responsibilities

• Authors may not engage in the act of tortious authorship in a way that will manipulate active contributions and cannot make duplicate publications over the works they have previously submitted.
• Authors should not take any action that may cause any other ethical violation.
• Authors should prepare and submit their articles in accordance with the journal rules.
• Authors are obliged to make all kinds of corrections requested by the referees and the editorship regarding their articles that have been subjected to peer review.
• Authors are obliged to comply with the copyright conditions regarding the material obtained or used from other sources and to sign the contract expressing the transfer of the copyright to the Journal.
• The full responsibility of the texts, which will be published in the journal, stays with the author(s).
• Any form of plagiarism is a very serious ethical problem, including self-plagiarisms. Evaluation process will be stopped for the articles that contain plagiarism. If any plagiarism is detected after the publication, Editors/Co-Editors will take necessary measures.
• The author reserves the right to withdraw his/her article provided that the author notifies the withdrawal to the editorial board until the publication decision is taken.
  

C) Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors

(English)

https://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf

• Editors strive to meet the information needs of readers and authors.
• To continue business processes without compromising intellectual property rights and ethical standards.
• To ensure the continuous development of the journal.
  
• Editors should make a positive or negative decision based on the importance, original value, validity, clarity of the narrative, and the journal's goals and objectives.
• Studies that are suitable for the scope of publication should be taken to the preliminary evaluation stage unless they have serious problems.
• Editors should not ignore positive referee suggestions unless there is a serious problem with the study.
• Authors should be informed and returned in an explanatory and informative way.
• Does not hesitate to issue corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.
• The editor informs the reviewers that the manuscripts are confidential information and that this is a privileged interaction.
•  The anonymity of the referees must be ensured.
• He/She provides a fair double-blind peer review of the submitted articles for publication and ensures that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential before publishing.

D) Duties and Responsibilities of the Reviewers

• Reviewers must have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders. 
• Reviewers must ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential and must report to the editor if they are aware of copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author’s side.
• The referees should evaluate the work fairly and objectively following the double-blind peer review procedure.
• The opinion of the referees shall be given priority in the decision of the Editorial Board concerning whether the submitted article will be published or not.
  
• A reviewer who feels unqualified to review the topic of a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.
• The reviewers and editorial board cannot discuss the manuscripts with other persons.
• Referees should complete evaluations of the articles within due course. In order to improve the academic quality of the article, the referees' suggestions for revisions are delivered to the authors and, if requested by the referees, the corrections made by the authors are sent to the referees.
  

E) Publication Policy

• The Journal of Ceramic Research will be published once a year, in December.
• The Journal of Ceramic Research is no demand publication fee for the author(s).
• Articles are evaluated by two specialists using a double blind peer review model.
• Referees involved in article evaluation should evaluate objectively and impartially.
• Referees cannot share the data of articles sent to them for evaluation with anyone.
• Referees who are convinced that the article can be published by requesting correction, have the right to review the article after necessary corrections have been made.
• The Editorial Board is independent in its decisions.
• The preliminary evaluations of the articles are made by the Editorial Board.
• When the article evaluation process is completed, the editor transmits the decision to the responsible author.
• The editor should not be affected by the conflict of interest with the person or persons whose name is in the article while deciding whether to accept or reject an article.
• The material submitted for publication should not be published previously.
• Authors should prepare and submit their articles in accordance with the journal rules.
• Authors are obliged to make all kinds of corrections requested by the referees and the editorship regarding their articles that have been subjected to peer review.
• Authors are obliged to comply with the copyright conditions regarding the material obtained or used from other sources and to sign the contract expressing the transfer of the copyright to the Journal.
• A plagiarism programme (Turnitin) will be used (Similarity should be below 20%).
• The full responsibility of the texts, which will be published in the journal, stays with the author(s).
• Articles in Turkish or English are welcome.
• Members of the Advisory Board keep the data of the articles sent to them for evaluation confidential and cannot share it in any way.

F) LICENSING & COPYRIGHT

• The Journal of Ceramic Research is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Click for detailed information. With this license, users can distribute, copy, work on the work by referring to the license owner, and use the work for derivative works by referring to the owner. No transaction fee is requested by the journal for articles and texts.No fee is paid to the authors for the articles published in the journal. Authors must fill the copyright transfer form for the submitted articles.

G) Plagirism Check 

• Reported researches should be prepared in accordance with ethical rules and the citations made in the text should be indicated. Studies submitted to our journal are evaluated in the Turnitin program after the referee evaluation process is completed, in order to prevent plagiarism before publication.
• The upper limit of similarity ratio is 20%.
• If Encountered with an Unethical Situation; When an important mistake or mistake is noticed in a published article, or when a behavior or content that does not comply with the ethical responsibilities mentioned above is encountered, it must be reported to srmkarsder@gmail.com
  
  

A submission fee is not requested to execute article processes in the journal. No publication fee is charged for articles submitted to the journal or accepted for publication. In addition, the authors of the articles are not paid royalties.