Manuscripts that are sent to the Uludag Bee Journal are checked for journal formatting requirements and evaluated by the statistical, technical editor, and the language editor. Suitable manuscripts are sent to three reviewers in the field for evaluation and then returned back to the corresponding author. Authors can either make necessary changes or withdraw their manuscripts. A double-blind referee system is used to evaluate the manuscripts. A manuscript that requires major revision is sent back to the reviewers for approval after revision. A final decision about the submitted manuscript is made according to reviewers’ suggestions bearing in mind that majority opinion will carry more weight when determining the final decision. The referee may reject the manuscript if the corrections suggested by the referee are not made sufficiently or if the author does not make the necessary corrections after the given time extention, the manuscript will be rejected. In addition, if one of our editors or one of the article referees states with evidence that the article is copyrighted, plagiarized or scientifically inconvenient to publish, the article is requested to be corrected or rejected.

Accepted manuscripts after revision are still subjected to revision by the editor in Chief. The suggestions provided should be considered by the corresponding author in order to produce a final version of the manuscripts. Finally, the editor in Chief will read the manuscript and finalize it. Then after making formatting and page layout changes the manuscript is sent back to the corresponding author for a final check and subsequent publication. Accepted manuscripts are not allowed to be withdrawn.

Reviewers are requested to review the manuscripts in detail and objectively. After each article, the performance of the reviewers is evaluated with the ready form, and at the end of the year, some reviewers will be removed from the list and new reviewers may be added according to these evaluations. If needed new successful reviewers will be added and insufficient reviewers will be deleted from the referee pool. The reviewers who are proficient and operating above average will continue to serve in the reviewer pool of the journal.