Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EDITORS
1. Publication and Liability Decision
The editors of the Journal of Tour Guiding are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted for publication is in line with the journal's purpose and publication policies and should be published. Editors are also responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal is subject to policies governing defamatory publication, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor is responsible for the content and publication quality of the journal and has the right to negotiate with the reviewers while making the publication decision. The editor provides a fair and equitable peer review process. The journal editor aims to meet the needs of readers and writers.
2. Conflict of Interest
The editors of the Journal of Tour Guiding do not allow any unpublished material and other information and data in the articles submitted to the journal to be used by anyone without written permission of the author(s).
3. Impartiality
Articles submitted to the Journal of Tour Guiding are always evaluated in accordance with clear, transparent, scientific and objective criteria without any prejudice. The articles are evaluated only within the framework of their intellectual and scientific values, without considering the race, gender, religious belief, ethnic origin, nationality and political view of the authors.
4. Privacy
The editors, assistant editors and editorial board of the Journal of Tour Guiding do not disclose information about the submitted articles to anyone other than the author(s), reviewers and publisher. Any information about an article sent to the journal is not disclosed by the editor to anyone other than the editorial board, reviewers and the journal owner.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE REVIEWERS
1. Expediting the Process
A reviewer who does not find the work assigned to him relevant to his field, feels inadequate to criticize, or is unable to provide a timely review should notify the editor of this situation and withdraw from the review task.
2. Privacy
The articles under review have to be considered as confidential documents, must not be shown to anyone other than those authorized by the editor, and must not be discussed about. Privileged information and ideas obtained during the review process must be kept confidential and not used for personal gain.
3. Impartiality
Reviewer criticism must be made objectively, equitable and in accordance with scientific ethics. No personal criticism should be directed against the author. Reviewers must evaluate studies regardless of the origin, gender or political philosophy of the authors. Reviewers must also ensure a fair blind peer review process for the review of articles submitted to the journal. Reviewers must express their opinions with arguments that clearly support them.
4. Statement of References
Reviewers must identify relevant published studies not specified by the author. A reviewer must also inform the editor about any substantial similarity or overlap between the reviewed work and another previously published work.
5. Conflict of Interest
Reviewers must not evaluate articles that have conflicts of interest with the author, which may arise due to competition, cooperation or any other kind of relationship or connection. There must not be a conflict of interest with reviewers and authors, funders, editors, etc.
6. Editorial Support
Reviewers must assist editors in decision making and must also be able to assist authors in improving articles.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE AUTHORS
1. Reporting Standards
A work submitted to the Journal of Tour Guiding must be original and the authors must undertake that the article is original and has not been published in any journal before. The data used in the study must be presented meticulously in the study. A study must contain sufficient detail and reference information. Fraudulent and deliberate false statements are unacceptable as they may lead to unethical situations. In addition, authors must strictly comply with the writing rules of the journal. In this context, the authors must make the editing requested by the reviewer, field editor and editor-in-chief in a timely and meticulous manner. All kinds of information, documents and changes related to the article requested from the author(s) by the journal editorial must be sent through the system within 15 days and the editor must be informed. It should be known that the author(s) will be deemed to have withdrawn the article if these requests are not fulfilled within the time limit.
2. Data Access and Retention of Data
Authors may be asked to provide relevant raw data in connection with their work during evaluation, so they must be prepared to provide access to this data and retain it for a reasonable period of time following publication of their work.
3. Authenticity and Plagiarism
Authors must write completely original texts and, if they use other people's work and/or words, they must cite accordingly. By submitting an article to the Journal of Tour Guiding, the authors ensure that their articles are original and comply with ethical standards, the references used are fully cited, and are not similar to other articles in print or publication. In this context, authors must check their work through a plagiarism detection software (ihenticate, turnitin, etc.) and upload a document showing that it has a maximum similarity of 30%, including the bibliography, via the Tourist Guiding Journal –Dergi-Park- system.
4. Publishing in Multiple Locations
An author must not publish texts that essentially describes the same research in more than one article. Submitting the same study text to more than one journal at the same time is unethical and unacceptable.
5. Statement of References
The statement of references taken from the work of others must always be made appropriately. Authors must cite previous publications that have influenced the merits of the work they are reporting.
6. Authorship of the Article
Authorship; must be an adjective limited to persons who make a meaningful contribution to the concept, design, implementation or interpretation of the reported work. All major contributors must be listed following the first author. If there are people involved in various aspects of the research project, they must be declared or listed as contributors. Authorship must also include an author who is responsible for correspondence with the journal's editor. The corresponding author must ensure that all co-authors are included in the article.
7. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
All authors are responsible for disclosing any financial resources or conflicts of interest that may affect the results or interpretations of their work.
8. Fundamental Errors in Published Studies
If an author notices a material inaccuracy or defect in his or her published work, it is the responsibility of that author to immediately notify the journal editor and cooperate with the editor to correct the existing inaccuracy or defect. Since the Journal of Tour Guiding is published over the –Dergi-Park- system, such change requests must be made within 5 days from the date of publication of the journal. Authors have an obligation to work with the editor to ensure that errors are corrected.
• If the study belongs to more than one person, all authors have direct and joint academic-scientific contributions to the study.
• This article is an original work of the author(s).
• All authors have seen the final version of the submitted article and approved the results.
• The article cannot be sent before and/or accepted for publication and/or is kept waiting for publication in another journal and cannot be sent to another journal until evaluation process finished.
• No ethical violations were made regarding the subject(s) used in the study, and scientific ethical principles were followed in all data collection methods used.
• All processes related to the evaluation of the work (reviewer reports, editorial notes, etc.) will not be shared with third parties.
• All publication rights of the articles accepted for publication belong to the institution that published the journal. The thoughts and suggestions in the articles are entirely the responsibility of the authors.
• If the article is a summary or a shorter version of a study presented at a scientific meeting, this situation is stated in the article.
• Author(s); agree to transfer the financial rights on this work, especially the rights of processing, duplicating, representation, printing, publication, distribution and transmission to the public, including transmission via the Internet, to the "Tour Guiding Journal" for unlimited use.
• The “Tour Guiding Journal” and its related boards have no responsibility in the claims or lawsuits to be filed by third parties due to copyright infringement, and all responsibility belongs to the author(s).
• There was no criminal or illegal expression in the article, no illegal methods were used during the research, all legal permissions related to the article were obtained and ethical rules were followed.
• In all matters not mentioned above regarding the suitability of the work in terms of scientific research and publication ethics, the provisions of the "Higher Education Institution Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive" (https://www.yok.gov.tr/Sayfalar/Kurumsal/mevzuat/bilimsel-arastirma-ve-etik-yonetmeligi.aspx) are acted upon, and in addition, publication ethics was published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as open access in ethical duties and responsibilities are adopted.
• Double-blind method is used in the evaluation process of the articles sent to the Journal of Tour Guiding. In this direction, the identities of the authors and reviewers are hidden in all processes of the articles.
• Tour Guiding Journal adopts the principles of Tubitak Dergi-Park-Academic Open Access System and “Budapest Open Access Movement” (http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/ list_signatures). According to these principles; “Peer-reviewed research literature is available on the public internet; any users can freely access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other legal purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers. The authors and copyright holders agree that all users have access to it free of charge”.
• Authors whose articles are accepted are deemed to have accepted the sharing of the information in their works by reference in order to protect the copyright and the rights of the journal under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Accordingly, the Journal of Tour Guiding applies the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) for all its articles.
• When uploading an article to the journal, you are expected to upload the "plagiarism report" of the article as an additional file. In this direction, please upload your plagiarism report (Turnitin and/or Ithenticate etc.) as a pdf file together with your article. In the relevant report, the title of your article, the names of the authors and the percentage must be visible.
JOURNAL POLICY
• The Tour Guiding Journal, which is published electronically twice a year (June-December), is published as Open Access through the Tübitak Dergi-Park-Academic system. With the decision of the Editorial Board and the Editor, a special issue can be published in addition to the existing issues.
• The Journal of Tour Guiding is published as Open Access through the Tübitak Dergi-Park-Academic system and is a completely free journal.
• After the initial evaluation by the editor and the editorial board, the articles are sent to the relevant reviewers (at least two reviewers).
• The period given to the reviewers for the review evaluation of the works is 30 days and can be extended for another 15 days if necessary.
• Double-blind method is applied in review evaluations regarding the works submitted to the journal.
• Authors must make the necessary corrections in line with the correction requests from the reviewers and send the corrected versions of their studies in line with the reviewer's recommendations within 15 days at the latest. (must be uploaded to the journal system).
• Authors have the right to withdraw their articles uploaded to the journal at any stage.
• If requested after correction, the articles are sent to the reviewer again, after the reviewer's evaluation; the relevant article is published with the approval of the journal management.
ABOUT ETHICAL PERMIT (APPROVAL) DOCUMENT
While the studies that require ethics committee permission are sent to our journal, the relevant committee decision must be uploaded in pdf format.
Ethical responsibility statement will be included in the articles sent in 2019 and previous years and in all articles that do not require an ethics committee decision.
As of 2020, the authors are expected to upload this statement in pdf format while uploading the article to the system.
In articles that require ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date and number) must be included in the method section and also on the first/last page of the article.
In case reports, information about the volunteer form must be included in the article.
If the article includes the survey or interview with any person/group/community, observation, testing in the computer environment, video/film recording, sound recording, making the participants use alcohol, drugs or any other chemical substance, high-level stimulation (light, sound) exposure, exposure to radioactive material, etc., “Ethics Committee Decision” must be taken and the document in question must be uploaded to the journal system at the stage of article submission. Otherwise, the articles will not be accepted as part of the process.
Click here to access the Ethical and Scientific Principles Statement of Responsibility Form.