Uludag Bee Journal

The aim of Uludağ Bee Journal is to help increase the speed and quality of the academic studies on bees in general and honey bees in particular with an expert refereeing system and provide quality service of new developments in the area of Apicultural Science to interested readers. Original research, review, short note, and letter to the editor can be published in our journal. In addition, there is no page number limit and the service of publishing all the research data with as much detail as possible and the opportunity to use additional space is offered.

Scope of Uludağ Bee Journal:

Beekeeping and bee products,
Production methods of bee products and their effects on health,
Bee genetics and breeding,
Colony management,
Bee pathology and treatment methods,
Beekeeping economy,
Pesticides and their effects on bees,
Studies on bee deaths and their causes,
Bee-plant relations and pollination,
The interaction of bees with other living things and the effects of environmental-climatic factors,
Different uses of beekeeping materials and new material development,

1. Uludag Bee Journal publishes original research, review articles, short notes, and methodology studies, but original research articles are highly preferred. The main publishing language is Turkish, however, articles in English are also acceptable.

2. Manuscripts that are accepted for publication should not been under consideration or have been published somewhere else. Full responsibility for the articles belongs to the authors. Manuscripts are received by DergiPark online system with a statement of the type of publication, such as original research paper, review, short communication and statement of copyright to Uludag bee journal and statement that ms is not published elsewhere or submitted for publication with signatures from all authors. Authors should also submit a cover page, with author names, Institutional addresses, e-mails, Orcid no. No author names and addresses shoudl be given in the main text for blind review system.

3. Uludag Bee Journal is published twice a year in May and November, Biannually.

4. The manuscripts upon acceptance are published online including color pages for free of charge. The copyright of published articles belong to the journal.

5. Manuscripts are sent to three referees and evaluations are made according to referee comments by subject editors. The double-blind review is applied. MS should be sent without author names and addresses and this information should be sent in a separate file (Title of the MS, author names, addresses, ORCID No. and Copyright statement). The MS is published if it is accepted after referee review and is sent to authors for proofreading before publication.

6. Manuscripts are checked by IThentica and Intihal programs and the ones that are considered acceptable published. If plagiarism is determined for the manuscript, then these are rejected without review.

7. Author’s names, addresses, e-mails, and ORCID no. are mandatory. The address should start with department, faculty and university name, followed by city and country.

8. Manuscripts should be sent in Word and pdf format. Manuscripts must be prepared in a Word 6.0 version or higher, A-4 page layout, 1.5 spacing, in Arial 10 pt font, with 2 cm left and right margins, and 4 cm top and bottom margins.

9. Abbreviations should only follow after the full words are given at the beginning of the manuscript.

10. The short abstract should be in the same language as the manuscript, preferentially not more than 200 words, with a maximum of 5 keywords (each keyword should begin with capital letter), and with Latin names italicized. The extended abstract should be at least 400 words, should be written in simple language, and organized as the following: the goal of the study, materials, and methods, results, and conclusion. Extended abstracts should be given in English and will be translated to Turkish by Editors. Turkish abstract can be added by using Google translator in the Dergipark system and this can be corrected by the journal editors. Non-Turkish speakers should upload both short abstract and extended abstract in English.

11. Manuscripts should contain numbered lines continuously and arranged as follows: Title in English, Title in Turkish, (done by editors for non-Turkish Speakers), Key Words (bold), Short Abstract (max. 200 words), (Extended abstract in English at least 400 words), Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion,  Conclusion-(optional), References, with 10 pt. The main MS title should be given as in bold 14 pt, author names 12 pt., addresses in 10 pt, tables and figure legends in 9 pt. Authors and affiliations with authors’ e-mail addresses, ORCID no. and copyright statement should be given in a separate file as a title page.

12. Pictures (photos and drawings) should be named and the exact position of each picture should be indicated in the Text. The pictures should be sent in Jpeg or Tiff, graphs, pictures, and figures should be sent in Word format in the text. The figure legends or explanations for tables (may be added in Turkish also by editors as 8 pt) should be given on the top of tables and below the figures with 9 pt Arial font. Graphics are preferred over tables and should be given on portrait formatted pages. Pictures should be given in high quality and right size to fit to the page. It is also necessary to send pictures and graphics in jpeg format to prevent possible changes.

13. If the first language of the article is English, it should be continued as English title in capital letters, Turkish title in lowercase letters, abstract, extended abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and References, all in capital letters. Author information will be taken from the cover page and added after the referee evaluations.

14. If manuscripts are produced from a Master's thesis, Ph.D. dissertation, or financed Project, then this should be stated in the Acknowledgments section and Funding.

15. Citations must be given in the last name-year format (Keskin et al. 2019, Ozbek 2017) in alphabetical order in the text and references with DOI no. if it is applicable. Sample references should be as follows and the Webpage address should be given for all online references along with an access date with the author last name if not according to the first letter of the subject. During the addition of the references, it is kindly requested to use the "add citation" section in the references section of the word program in the text in order not to make a difference in the text and in the references section

References should be given and cited as the example shown below;
Article: Şirin Y, Çakır, HE, Can Z, Yıldız O, Kolaylı S. Investigation of SDS-page electrophoresis usability for Characterization of honey bee venom. U. Arı D.- U. Bee J. 2016;16(2):49-56, doi.org/10.31467/uluaricilik.379483
If the number of authors in the article is 6 or less, all authors should be indicated, if 7 or more, the first 6 names should be written and “et al.” should be added. If the abbreviation of the journal is available, it should be as suggested by the journal.
Book: Winston M. The biology of the honey bees. Harvard University Press, London, England, 1987, p.1-15.
Book Chapter: Çakmak, I. Ecological Beekeeping, In “Animal Husbandry in Ecological-Organic Agriculture” Ed. Ak, I., Bora Publications, Bursa, Turkey, p.271-290.
Book Translation: Davila GW, Ghoniem GM, Wexner SD, eds. Seçkin B, Ergen A, Aydur E, İnci K, Translation editors. Pelvic floor dysfunction: A multidiciplinary approach: 1st edition, Ankara: Ortadoğu Advertising and prmotion Publishing Inc.; 2008. p.109-12.
Thesis: Keskin M. Determination and encapsulation of quality parameters of propolis and its extracts. KTU Graduate school of natural and applied sciences, Ph.D thesis. Trabzon, 2018, (Access date:20.12.2021), https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/tezDetay
Congress, Symposium: Çakmak, İ. Organic beekeeping and bee products. 5th International Eurasian Congress on Natural Nutrition, Healthy Life & Sport, Ankara-Turkey, Book of Proceedings, 02-06 October 2019, p. 1164-1170.
Internet: FAO Food and agricultural organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT. http:/www..fao.org 2021, (retrieved by: 20.04.2021).
Commission report: NMKL-186.2007. Nordic committee on food analysis. trace elements- As, Cd, Hg, Pb, and elements determination by ICP-MS after pressure digestion. Denmark.

16. Reviewers' suggestions or corrections should be made with different colors in the manuscript such as reviewer 1-red, reviewer 2-blue, and reviewer 3- yellow. Technical editors' suggestions will be made in green (statistical) and violet (language) color.

17. The title of the MS must be uploaded with capital letters and the Turkish title and abstract (using Google translator) can be added by the corresponding author and will be checked in detail by editors.

18. The statements of Source of Finance, Contributions of all Authors, Ethical issue and Conflict of Interest should be added to the cover (author) page. If there is any conflict among authors, reviewers or editors, manuscript is withdrawn from the system until the issue is resolved. A new application can be made after all the issues are resolved.

19. Manuscript should be submitted as three parts; Main Text (title and the main body of the text with tables and graphs embedded, without author names and addresses), Copyright Statement (with signatures and other info), The title of the article, author information and addresses, conflict of interest, financial source, ethical statement, author contributions, data availability status should be specified in the cover letter and uploaded to the system. In addition, the copyright form must be filled in and signed by the author/authors.

20. International system of units and time scale should be used. For example; kg, g, m, km, hour, minute etc.

21. Digits and percentiles should be rounded and the parentheses should be used in order. For example; { [( )] }, 10.19%, p<0. 005.

22. If deemed necessary for the articles, supplemental information will be published in Journal home page (http://uadubj.uludag.edu.tr/)

ARTICLE PROCEDURES

1. Publication drafts submitted to the journal must be original articles that have not been submitted for publication in another journal and have not been published before.

2. The submitted manuscript draft must be sent with the signed copyright certificate of all authors in the application. The author of the correspondence must be specified in the copyright form and the authors confirm the correspondence author separately with their signatures in the copyright form. The copyrights of the articles published in our journal are transferred to our journal with a signed document.

3. The correspondent author must be authorized in the application and all processes of the article.

4. It is important that the author does not cite himself or another group unnecessarily in the research, review or short notes section of the article.

5. All raw data of the article should be submitted when requested.

6. If the visual materials such as pictures, graphics and videos that the authors will use in the article belong to other people other than the authors, they must both obtain permission and cite the source. In addition, authors are required to submit necessary permission documents on subjects such as survey questions and software programs.

7. Correspondence author may suggest referees. These referees should be from different countries and institutions and should not have any connection with the submitted article. These referees may not be appointed by the editors, but they are important in terms of giving an idea.

8. In the event of the death of one of the authors, according to the contribution made by the other authors, they will prove this situation with a document and determine among themselves about the order of authors.

9. For the article sent for publication, preferably a chief editor or editor can be appointed if the subject is appropriate. In case the article load is high or according to the article's subject, an editor can be appointed.

10. Since the double-blind refereeing system is used, the referees cannot see the article authors. Likewise, authors cannot see article referees.

11. Each article is sent to 3 different reviewers who are experts in their fields and a detailed report is requested for evaluation, including both the questions in the refereeing form and the writing rules of the journal. If it is thought that one of the referees did not make an adequate evaluation, the editor sends the article to a new referee before a decision is made about the article and the editor makes the decision according to the number of majority.

12. If the submitted article needs to be published a second time in another language, this situation will be evaluated and it can be evaluated in a second language and published as a translation, provided that the source is cited. This process should not be preferred unless it is very necessary.

13. The publication status of master's and doctoral students' thesis studies should be stated in the acknowledgment section and it should be preferred that the student be the first name in the article.

14. Also, on the cover page, the author's address, e-mail, ORCID No., author contribution, ethical permission, conflict status, financial resources, data availability, and acknowledgments, if any, should be stated.

15. The referees are evaluated for each article they serve and each year by the editors, and they are updated among the people who contribute the most and make unbiased evaluations. The referees who make a decision without examining the article in detail are removed from the referee pool and the editorial board. Referee certificates are sent to referees who evaluate appropriately and fairly.

16. Editors are evaluated by authors and decided annually for each article they work for and according to the quality and evaluation of the articles.

17. Copyright of accepted articles are transferred to our journal and articles are Licenced by Creative Commons.4.0. Authors reserve the right to use the accepted article privately, copy and disribute.

Article retraction, correction status:

1. The article is sent to the statistics, spelling and English language editors in order. Afterwards, the article is sent back to the author for correction, taking into account the editors' suggestions. The author uploads the article to the system after correction or can withdraw the article at this stage.

2. The article sent to the journal can be withdrawn by the correspondence author without being evaluated by the referee. However, once the peer review has started, it can no longer be withdrawn. After the article is accepted, no changes can be made during the author's name adding, removing or authoring.

3. The corrected article uploaded to the system is sent to 3 referees working in different institutions or countries. In the evaluations of the referees, the decision is made according to the majority. In case the referees request major corrections, if the corresponding author accepts these corrections, they make the corrections and upload them to the system. If he/she does not accept these corrections, the article is rejected by the editor.

4. After the necessary corrections, the corresponding author uploads the article to the system within the specified period and if he/she requests time, the period is extended. The referees who make a major correction request in the article uploaded to the system are re-appointed and subjected to referee evaluation again. If the corrections requested by the referee have been made at a sufficient level, the referee accepts the article or requests a re-correction if it is not sufficient. This process continues until the majority of the reviewers decide that the article can be published after minor corrections. As a result, if the major correction request of the two referees cannot be met, the article is rejected. It is recommended to the correspondence author that preferably each reviewer's major correction suggestions are met.

5. If the authors identify missing data or an incorrect situation after publishing the article, a new issue of correction is published.

6. All articles accepted, withdrawn or rejected papers and process reports are stored in detail in dergipark system.

Studies on humans and animals, the situation of harmful substances that can harm nature:

1. Research data or activities that may be harmful to national security or humans should be clearly stated. In the case of using harmful substances that may harm nature and living things, this should be clearly stated.

2. It is necessary to obtain and document the necessary permissions from the university or the official authorities of the country where the study is carried out regarding the studies to be carried out with toxic, explosive and radioactive substances that may endanger public health. Controversial maps should be avoided.

3. If studies on people have been carried out, then a document showing that the necessary permits have been obtained and detailed information on the method of the study should be provided. In the case of animals, an ethics document should be submitted if necessary for the study. Meeting, issue no. of the ethical document required for studies on humans and animals. and its name as a university or a national commission meeting. It should be noted that the ethics certificate is not required for the studies carried out with living creatures for which the ethical certificate is not required.

To Authors:

Manuscripts that are sent to the Uludag Bee Journal must be original and should have not been published (except abstract) or under consideration elsewhere. The MS should be scanned by the ITheticate and Intihal program and the similarity should not be over 20%. The ones over 20% are returned to the corresponding author. An agreement statement is required from all authors about the names, order, and copyright issues which are confirmed by a signature. After the MS evaluation process is started or after it is accepted, name addition, deletion, or order changes are not allowed.

Manuscripts that are sent to the Uludag Bee Journal will be checked for proper journal formatting by statistical, technical, and language editors. Suitable manuscripts are sent to three reviewers in the field for evaluation and then returned to the corresponding author. The author can either make the necessary changes or withdraw their manuscripts. A double-blind referee system is used to process the manuscripts. A manuscript that requires major revisions is sent back to the reviewers for approval after revisions. A final decision about the submitted manuscript is made according to reviewers’ suggestions bearing in mind that the majority opinion will have a greater weight in the decision. All suggestions should be considered by the corresponding author in order to produce a final edition of the manuscript. Finally, The editor in Chief will read the manuscript and finalize it. After the page layout process, the manuscript is sent back to the corresponding author for the final check, before it is published. Accepted manuscripts are not allowed to be withdrawn. No manuscript process and open access publication fee are required.
For studies that required ethics committee approval (the name of the board, number, date, and etc.) it should be stated in the method, on the first and the last page of the ms.

To Reviewers:

Reviewers are requested to review the manuscripts in detail and objectively. Reviewers are evaluated by the journal editors at the end of each year. If needed new reviewers are added and some reviewers are deleted from the referee pool. Reviewers who are determined to be proficient or above average will continue to be in the reviewer pool.

To Editors:

The goal of our journal is to improve the quality level of published articles and subsequently increase the number of citations of the journal. Therefore, the journal quality and editors will be evaluated at the end of each year by the journal owner “the Bursa Uludag University Beekeeping Development-Application and Research Center-AGAM” and advisory board. If necessary editors will be changed to improve the quality of our journal.

JOURNAL CODE OF ETHICS

Draft texts for publication should be prepared in accordance with the International Committee of Publishing Ethics COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and UAK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive. It is highly recommended to read the following publication ethics regulation and the decisions of the international publication ethics commission before submitting the draft publications to be sent to our journal for publication.
For detailed information on publication ethics, it is recommended to read the following links:

COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION ETHICS
https://publicationethics.org

HIGHER EDUCATION BOARD SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS DIRECTIVE
https://www.yok.gov.tr/Sayfalar/Kurumsal/mevzuat/bilimsel-arastirma-ve-etik-yonetmeligi.aspx

If an ethical problem is detected regarding the article, COPE is used as a guide and necessary actions are taken.

Plagiarism, distortion, forgery (Fabrication, Duplication, Salamisation, Data Manipulation/Falsification):

1. The report of the article sent to our journal for publication should be sent in the application using similarity programs. The editor or editors can generate a similarity report again using their own programs, and this is considered valid. Generally, "Ithenticate" and "Plagiarism" programs are used. Articles with a similarity rate of less than 20% can be published in either program. If the similarity situation is different, if the report sent by the author and the report received by the editor are different, the editor's report is preferred. If the report sent by the author is below 20% and the report received by the editor is above 20%, the article is sent back to the author and the similarity rate is requested to be reduced. Articles with a similarity rate below 20% will not be published.

2. If the article is found to be similar to another article by the editor or readers, the referees even though it has passed the similarity report, it will be rejected and removed from the publication page of the journal. If an ethical problem is reported by one or more referees during the evaluation process, the article will be rejected.

3. In case of plagiarism, distortion, forgery, fabrication, duplication, salamisation, data manipulation/falsification even if one of the problems is reported by a referee with evidence, the article is rejected and the article is sent back by showing the evidence to the author. Situations such as plagiarism, distortion, forgery,fabrication, duplication, salamisation, data manipulation/falsification are serious ethical crimes, and even if a suspicious situation is reported, an invitation is sent to the author of the article to clarify the suspicious situations or the article is sent back to the author. If there is a suspicious case in the article after acceptance, it is sent to at least 3 referees who are experts in the field and ethical issues. if a positive report is received at the end of the examination, the proceess is continued. If the suspicious situation persists or ethical violations are reported, the article is rejected and sent back to the author with its proofs.

4. If it is determined that some or all data of the submitted article has been published before, it will be rejected and the article of this author will not be processed again. If citation, distortion, copying operations are determined after the article is published, the article is withdrawn from the system or covered. If it is necessary to quote from another publication, this sentence should be indicated with quotation marks to indicate that it is a quote and the source should be given.

5. If the article is divided into small pieces and used for more than one publication, this article is rejected and sent back to the correspondence author. If there are quotations from the previous article in the article, it should be stated appropriately and its source should be given. In the event that such articles are identified, the correspondent author is warned and necessary corrections are requested, if this request is not accepted, the article is rejected. Even if the author uses his own publication, he should cite the source appropriately.

Conflict between the authors and authorship:

1. If there is a disagreement between the authors during the article process, the article is either returned according to the article process or the proceedings are suspended until the problem is resolved between the authors. If a conflict of interest is reported between the authors, if the article is not sent to the referees, the proceedings are stopped and the authors are requested to resolve the issue and apply again.

2. If there is a disagreement between the authors after the article proceedings and refereeing are concluded, the article proceedings are stopped and it is waited until the issue is resolved between the authors. Adding or removing an author is not acceptable after the article is accepted. Apart from this, if there is a request to correct a mistake with a name of an author, this can be considered by the editor and can be corrected.

3. After publishing the article, if there is a development claiming to have contributed to the study and should have a name, the subject is evaluated and decided by a team of at least 3 experts who are experienced in the subject and ethics to investigate the subject. If the person whose name should be in the publication is right, the name of the following number of people or persons is added to the publication and the correction is published.

4. If one of the authors pass away while the manuscript is in progress, the name of the author remains. If the correspondence author dies, a new correspondence author is appointed among the authors and changes can be made in the author's name with the approval of all authors.

5. Article authors should clearly state their contributions to the study and the article should provide sufficient contribution to be an author. Those who do not contribute enough should be included in the acknowledgment section.

6. Each of the authors of the article confirms that the author of the correspondence is given approval with the "copyright transfer document". Apart from this, article authors should be informed about the first and last versions of the article and their approval should be obtained by the corresponding author.

7. After the article is accepted, the copyrights are transferred to our journal. The authors of the article have the right to privately copy and distribute the article of which they are the author.

8. The articles published in our journal are under Creative Commons License and are protected by "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International" and can be used for non-commercial purposes by attribution.

Dispute situation between editor, reviewers and authors:

1. In case of conflict of interest between editors, referees or authors, editors and referees are replaced by the editor-in-chief. The correspondent author may indicate people who may have a conflict of interest on the cover page during the application. The cover page is only visible to the editor-in-chief and other editors.

2. If the editor has a conflict of interest with the article authors, he or she should not be involved in this article by stating this situation. Again, if the referees have a conflict of interest with the article authors, they will state this situation and withdraw from the article refereeing and another referee will be appointed by the editor.

3. All editors, including the editor-in-chief, are evaluated by authors and decided annually by Bursa Uludağ University-AGAM board of directors. Changes can be made if necessary.

4. The editor-in-chief has the right to reject the articles that do not comply with the writing rules or clearly violate the ethical rules, cover a small area or are outside the scope of the journal, without sending them to other editors or referees. Survey studies are processed if they contain very comprehensive and important results.

5. In case of any ethics or conflict, all process reports of the articles available and stored in Dergipark will be used as evidence.

6. In the Dergipark system where our journal is located, all parties (editor, referee, author) have the opportunity to evaluate each other. All positive and negative evaluations in the system can optionally be made on the ready-made forms installed on the system without seeing the name.

Uludag Bee Journal does not charge fees for article submission, refereeing, article publishing, and open access processes.