ART/icle: Journal of Art & Design, (ISSN: 2718-1057 & e-ISSN: 2791-7665) was founded in 2020. ART/icle: Journal of Art & Design will be published by Istanbul Gelişim University Faculty of Fine Arts, twice a year, in June and December. It is an International Academic Refereed Journal. It will operate in accordance with the open access philosophy. Our aim is to create a common academic platform from different disciplines in the fields of Fine Arts and Design. The language of the journal is Turkish and English.

The article evaluation process in our journal is 60 days. Each article will be evaluated by at least two referees with a doctorate, and when there is an equality, such as an acceptance or a rejection, the third referee opinion will be requested. All processes will be carried out by the double blind method. iThenticate, Turnitin and intihal.net programs are used in online plagiarism reporting. No fees will be charged from the authors at any stage.

Articles on PLASTIC ARTS, GRAPHIC DESIGN, VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN, CARTOON ANIMATION, NEW MEDIA, ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, ART EDUCATION, ART HISTORY, ART PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY, CINEMA AND TELEVISION, GASTRONOMY AND CULINARY ARTS, FASHION AND TEXTILE DESIGN, PERFORMING ARTS are accepted to ART/icle: Journal of Art & Design.

ART/icle: Journal of Art & Design’s registered editors and reviewers are responsible for ensuring the quality of the published papers and the contribution to the academia fully committed to fulfilling the ethical responsibilities that are set by COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines.)

Section A: Publication and authorship
1. The double blind method is applied.
2. All submitted papers are under strict peer-review process by at least two international reviewers who are specialized in the area.
3. The papers are only taken into account in review process in terms of their significance, uniqueness, readability, contribution, signification, relevance, and language.,
4. It is not possible to re-review rejected papers.
5. The decision process contains acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
6. If an author gets revision or resubmission for the paper, it is not certain that the revised version will be accepted or published.
7. The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as copyright infringement and plagiarism.
8. Submitting the same paper to different journals is not acceptable.

Section B: Authors’ responsibilities
1. All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research. All authors must contribute to the research.
2. All authors must confirm that their research is original. Plagiarism is not acceptable.
3. All authors must confirm that the paper has not been published in any other journals.
4. All authors must report any mistakes that are in the published paper.
5. All authors must confirm that the paper has not been submitted for other journals’ review process.
6. All authors must provide corrections and retractions of the paper.
7. All authors must state that all relevant data that are in mentioned in the paper are genuine and real.
8. All authors must inform the Editors about the conflict of interest.
9. All authors must participate in the peer-review process.
10. All authors must cite the sources that are used in the research.

Section C: Reviewers’ responsibilities
1. Reviewers must define non-cited and relevant sources in the paper.
2. Reviewers must mind that all papers’ information is confidential.
3. Reviews should be objective.
4. Reviewers must notify the Editors about any similarity in the paper among other papers.
5. Reviewers must declare their opinions regarding supporting objectives.
6. Reviewers must be equal to all authors, but if there are conflicts of interest resulting from personal views, the reviewer should not review the paper.

Section D: Editors’ responsibilities
1. All Editors must guarantee the integrity of the academic level and the papers’ quality.
2. All Editors should be determined about their decisions and should not overturn the decisions.
3. All Editors should mind the confidentiality of the reviewers.
4. All Editors are responsible for the quality of the submitted papers’ content.
5. All Editors must mind the authors and the regarding readers’ requests.
6. All Editors must make literal corrections if it is necessary and publish these corrections.
7. All Editors should be clear and controllable about the funding sources that contribute to the journal.
8. All Editors should make their decisions based on the uniqueness, clearness, relevance, and language of the submitted research.
9. All Editors must be certain that all published researches correspond to the international guidelines.
10. All Editors are responsible for rejecting or accepting the papers.
11. All Editors should involve in any malpractice in the journal or the process of publishing and also should take action.
12. All Editors should be transparent in accepting papers and should have proof to present.
13. All Editors must ensure that there are no conflicts of interest between editors, paper authors, reviewers, and editorial board.
14. All Editors should be selective in the process of accepting the papers.