Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Authors

• It is the author's responsibility to submit the article that is to qualified to contribute to the academic fields.
• The studies should be original and based on research.
• Although plagiarism screening will be done by the journal, the results of the academic dishonor plagiarism will be directed to the author.
• The article should not be sent to different journals at the same time and it should not have been sent to another journal before.
• It should be ensured that other authors whose names will be written in the article contribute to the research. It is against the ethics of science to show people who do not have academic contribution as additional writers or to rank authors with nonscientific criteria such as title, age and gender regardless of the order of contribution.
• It is assumed that the authors who send articles to the journal have read and accepted the publishing and writing principles of the journal, and the authors are deemed to have committed what is expected of them in these principles.
• Citations and references should be complete.
• Authors should take into account the Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, also specified by the Higher Education Council.


Referees


• The referees should act with the awareness that they are the primary determinants of the academic quality of the article to be published in the journal and should evaluate with the responsibility of increasing the academic quality.
• Referees should accept the review of articles that they only have the expertise necessary to make an appropriate assessment, they can comply with the blind referee confidentiality and keep the details of the article confidential in all ways.
• Any information about the article evaluated after the article review process should never be shared with others.
• Referees should only evaluate the accuracy of the content of the articles and their compliance with academic criteria. The fact that the thoughts expressed in the article are different from the thoughts of the referee should not affect the evaluation.
• Referee reports must be objective and restrained. Insulting, condescending and accusing statements should definitely be avoided.
• Referees should avoid superficial and ambiguous statements in their reports. In evaluations with negative results, missing and flawed issues should be shown in a concrete way.
• The referees should evaluate the articles within the time allowed. If they do not evaluate, they should inform to the journal within a reasonable time.


Editors


• Editors should accept the articles that will contribute to the relevant areas specified in the journal policy to the evaluation process.
• Editors should not be in any conflict of interest/relationship with accepted or rejected articles.
• Editors have full responsibility and authority to accept or reject an article.
• It is the editors' responsibility to keep the names of the referees and authors mutually confidential.
• Editors should make every effort to scan plagiarism of articles sent for publication to prevent academic dishonesty.
• It is the duty of the editors to complete the preliminary examination, refereeing, editing and publishing processes of the articles sent to the journal in a timely and healthy manner.
• Editors should take academic concerns and criteria into consideration when accepting articles for the journal.

Journal of Agricultural Machinery Science is a refereed scientific journal published by the Agricultural Machinery Association as 3 issues a year.