SUBMISSION

Before starting to submit your study to Turkish Journal of Earthquake Research (TDAD), please carefully read our Ethical Principles and Publication Policy. Also read please below issues in order to make proper preparation for TDAD:

REVIEWER SUGGESTION
For manuscripts that will be sent to the journal, the author(s) must propose at least 4 reviewers. At the beginning of submision, they will be asked with their names, institutions, emails and expert  information. Proposed reviewers must be in different institutions than the author(s) and each others.

FILES TO UPLOAD 

* Title Page: This file is required during submission. When the manuscript is accepted, it will be the cover of the paper You can download it by clicking here.

* Copyright Form: This file is required to declare absence or presence of conflicts of interest / competing interests. It must be printed, signed by hand, scanned and uploaded the system as pdf file. Click here to download the form.

* Similarity Report: This file is required. It can be obtained via iThenticate. Similarity rate should be less than or equal to 10%. Before saving your manuscript to iThenticate, please delete abstract, author information, keywords, highlights, all figures & tables and their captions, acknowledgements, reference list, research data, conflicts of interest, and contribution rate, appendix sections of your manuscript (title should remain). Then convert it to pdf and upload/save a clean document to iThenticate.

* Reference List: The list of references to be given at the end of paper is limited to a maximum of 40. Please check below template.

Manuscript: Please use our template to submit your paper. Manuscripts are welcomed Turkish language only (with english title, abstract, keywords, highlights). Author’s name, surname, title, institution, e-mail and ORCID number are mandatory during submission. Proper information must be clearly indicated in Research Data, Conflicts of Interest, and Contribution Rate sections that are given at the end of References part as visible in the template file:

** Research Data: It is given at the end of “References” section in our template, and must be carefully written (PS: During the submission phase,  this file will not be uploaded to system separately form the template).

** Conflicts of Interest / Competing Interests: It is given at the end of “References” section, and must be emphasized (PS: During the submisson phase, this file will not be uploaded to system separately from the template).

** Contribution Rate: It is also given at the end of “References” section, and needs to be filled considering the ethical issues outlined over there (During the submission phase, this file will not be uploaded to system separetely from the template).

PUBLICATION PROCESS

All studies should be submitted to TDAD via DergiPark electronic submission system only. Manuscripts that sent via e-mail, courier, post or by hand, which are independent of DergiPark, will not be considered.

Secretariat of the journal performs initial review, and is entitled to reject if not conformable with the conditions concerning the orthography, grammar, similarity report, or to return back to corresponding author for correcting, or to request re-form of the manuscript (duration of this stage is 1 week).

Manuscripts are sent to at least two reviewers after initial review of the secretariat with respect to formatting and content. After having positive feedbacks from both reviewers, the manuscripts are published. In case of having one positive and one negative feedback, the manuscript is sent to the third reviewer (duration of this stage is 6-8 weeks).

Final decision will be given regarding the details of reviewers and corresponding author (duration of this stage is 1 week).

VISIBILITY
In text and references list, English characters must to be used instead local/Turkish characters in order to improve the visibility and readability of TDAD papers by international readers. Our journal only accepts papers if English citations are available in the body of whole paper. As meta-data requested by international indexes, using English characters in the text and reference list regarding citations are important to improve visibility of TDAD journal.

AVERAGE MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTANCE RATE
It is 89.8% as of June 2022.

GENERAL GUIDELINES
Please carefully read our manuscript template.