Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

The open access policy and the publication ethics of tarihyazımı, in line with the guidance and policies of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), is prepared on the basis of the rules in "Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors - 2011". The responsibilities of editor, reviewers and writers are mentioned below:

a) The Responsibilities of the Editor:
1. The journal editor decides on the convenience and the publication of the submissions.
While the decision of the editor is taken, s/he does not decide on the writer or writers’ ethnicity, gender, belief, nationality, or political approach but to the convenience of the journal publication policy, originality, and importance.
2. The editor of the journal does not share the personal information related to the submission with third parties.
3. The editor or the reviewers do not use the information and the documents of the rejected/the articles in the process without the written consent of the writer(s).

b) The Responsibilities of the Reviewers:
1. The reviewers support the editorial board about the control in the convenience of the publication of the submission.
2. The reviewers should be fair, objective, and constructive in the evaluation of the submission.
3. The reviewers make suggestion for the development of the submission and the prevention of possible mistakes.
4. The reviewers must inform the editor when they feel insufficient about the submission or when they cannot complete the examination of the articles in time.
5. The reviewers are responsible for the security of the ideas and information in the submissions. The reviewers do not share this information with third parties or do not use it for their own research.

c) The Responsibilities of the Author:
1. The studies based on fraudulent/fake data are not accepted. The writers must guarantee the righteousness and the originality of the data.
2. If the research involves people, the approval of the Ethical Committee from the institutional authorities and other required permissions should be taken. This approval should be mentioned in the chapter of "Method" and the signed Ethical Committee approval should be uploaded to the system with the article. If the Ethical Committee approval is not required, should be mentioned in the chapter of "Method" again.
3. There should be a written consent of related institution or people for the material used in the article such as "data collection tool, table, graphics, map and other visuals" which belong to third parties and which are subjected to copyright.
4. In the process of article submission, the conditions which are mentioned in "submission list” being accepted by the responsible writer is considered as accepted by the other writer of the article.
5. All the writers who made a valuable contribution to the article should be added as co-writer. The people who do not make a contribution to the research is not suitable to be added as a co-writer and this situation will not be tolerated.
6. The writers should accept the reasonable revisions suggested by the journal’s reviewers and editors. If the writer rejects the revision without acceptable reasons, the article will be declined.
7. All the writers must correct all the mistakes in the article and withdraw the erroneous information.

8. All the writers must send their Copyright Form for submitting their article.

Ethical Committee Approval

With the decision of ULAKBİM on February 25th, 2020, there is a condition that "All the disciplines of science (including social sciences), there should be an Ethical Committee Approval for research involving human and animal (clinical and experimental) separately and this approval must be mentioned in the article and it should be documented". The research conducted by quantitative or qualitative approaches which require data collection such as questionnaire, interview, observation, focus group study, the experiment is regarded under the aforementioned content.

The statement of Ethical Committee Approval:
If a study is conducted with people disregarding the age limit, the required permissions should be taken from the related institutions and it must be stated in the first and last pages of the article, also in the chapter of Method by giving the information of institution, date, and number. A copy of the signed Ethical Committee approval should be uploaded to the system with the article and other documents. If the Ethical Committee approval is not required, should be clearly mentioned in the chapter of "Method" again.

Copyright:

In lieu of ULAKBİM Ethical Codes, scales, questionnaires, and visuals are not used without the permission of the owner: Referring to the copyright owner(s) (or institution) is not sufficient. In these types of works, it should be mentioned that the work is not under copyright or the required permissions are taken from the owner of the copyrighted material by stating the person (or institution) and date in the footnote.

The Declaration of Conditions which are not Suitable for the Ethical Principles:

If there is a non-ethical situation is detected related to the journal editors, reviewers, and writers or an article in the process of evaluation, preview, or published one please send an e-mail to editortarihyazimi@gmail.com.

If the data in the articles are found and detected to be manipulated, distorted or the fake data is used, this situation is declared primarily and officially to the institution that the writer has been working. The article is rejected and if it is published, it will be withdrawn. Our journal has a right to demand raw data or the results of analysis according to the assessment of the editor and reviewers.

Publication Policy
1. tarihyazımı is free of charge and open access journal. The writers are not subjected to payment under the fee of delivery and article evaluation.
2. As the journal publishes thematic issues, the articles which are suitable to the related theme of the journal are taken into consideration.
3. The studies sent to the journal must be in line with the Spelling Rules.
4. Under normal circumstances, the evaluation and reviewer process of the articles are completed in three months.
5. The Editorial Board ultimately decides on the publication of the articles.
6. The results of the evaluation will be stated in Dergi Park system to the writers.
7. Studies that do not make the required corrections will not be evaluated.

Source:
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (2011, March 7). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Access: http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf