Uludağ University Journal of The Faculty of Engineering

Uludağ University Journal of The Faculty of Engineering (UUJFE) is a continuously published, open access, international, refereed publication journal aiming at publishing high quality original research papers in all disciplines of engineering sciences. Publication in the UUJFE is free of charge. 

Uludağ University Journal of The Faculty of Engineering publishes original research articles, review papers, and technical notes in all fields of engineering. 

Uludağ University Journal of the Faculty of Engineering accepts original articles, written in Turkish or English, in the fields of engineering sciences. Submitted articles must be original content, should not be published anywhere before or should not be sent for publication. Articles cannot be published or presented somewhere else without our journal permission. Some or all of the articles cannot be used without cited to our journal.

Authors must adhere to the following rules of writing. The manuscripts that do not comply with the rules given below will be rejected during the pre-review process. 

1. During the preparation of the article; authors can use the manuscript template from here. The template includes ORCID ID logo and links.
2. Manuscripts should be written in MS-Word file formats (.doc, or .docx). 
3. Manuscripts should be typed in justified single column format on A4-size (210x397 mm) page with a 3.5 cm. margin for top side and 3.0 cm. margin for bottom, left and right sides, 11 pt. Times New Roman font and one line spacing.
4. Title (not to exceed 20 words) should be short but informative, centered at the two lines below the top margin, bold, and in capital letters with letter size 14 pt.
5. Name(s) of the author(s) should be given three lines below the title, flushed right, bold, italic, lower case and size 12 pt. First letter of the name(s) and all letters of the surname(s) of the author(s) should be upper case. Full addresses of the authors should be given without abbreviation as footnote by *, **, etc.
6. Abstract should be given four lines below the authors name(s) with indents, size 10 pt. The paragraph should begin with “Abstract:” and should not exceed 200 words highlighting the main points of the manuscript. Keywords should be given one line below the abstract with indents, size 10 pt. Keywords must begin with “Keywords:” and maximum 6 keywords should be given. After the Abstract and Keywords section, Turkish title of the article should be given leaving one line blank, bold, centered and size 10 pt. Then, leaving a blank line again, “Özet:” and “Anahtar Kelimeler:” section should be given in Turkish as same as Abstract and Keywords section. Articles written in Turkish that should be done vice versa.
7. All headings of the main sections and subsections should be numbered with Arabic numerals. The initials of words in headings should be written in capital letters. More than the third level sub-headings should not be used.
8. Tables should be drawn to the page, centered, and should have the outer rim. Tables should be numbered as Table 1., Table 2., … Number and description of the table should be placed at the top of the table (centered and bold). Tables’ width should not exceed the text limits (maximum 150 mm). If the table does not fit the page margin; can be drawn in the vertical direction or table should be continued on the next page (numbered as Table 1. (continued) …). The size of text in table for whatever reason should not be smaller than 8 points.
9. Figures should be centered according to the page and the figure dimensions should not exceed the text limits (maximum width: 150 mm, maximum height: 210 mm). Figures or images should have at least 300 PPI (118 pixels/cm) resolution and one of the jpeg, png, tiff or bmp formats should be preferred. If the figure consists of multiple objects, they should be used in the article as a single picture. Figures should be numbered as Figure 1:, Figure 2:, … Figure number should be placed under the corresponding figure, bold, italic and centered. Description of the figures should be given in one line below the figure number, italic and centered again. The size of text, used in the figure, for whatever reason should not be smaller than equal size of Times New Roman 8 points fonts.
10. Equations, each should be numbered and written in a separate line with MS-Word Equation Editor or equivalent program.  To do this, equations are given in the 1x2 borders hidden table. The first cell width should be 90%, the second cell width should be 10%. The equation on the first cell should be centered and the equation number on the second cell should be right aligned (written in parentheses). Cells’ left and right margins should be set to zero. A blank line should be left before and after the equations.
11. Articles page limit for research and review articles is 20 pages, for technical notes is 9 pages. Page numbers should not be added to the article, upper and lower information should not be used in any way.
12. Articles should absolutely contain 'Conflict of Interest' and 'Author Contribution' sections, respectively, between 'Conclusion' and 'References' sections. The contents of those sections should be compatible with the information given by authors in forms of 'Declaration of Conflict of Interest' and 'Declaration of Author Contribution' additionally submitted during the initial manuscript submission. In writing 'Conflict of Interest' and 'Author Contribution' sections, please follow the format given in the 'template'.  
    
13. The references should be cited in the text with the author(s) surname(s) and publication year. References cited at the end of a sentence should follow the format (Owen, 1982), or Owen (1982) otherwise. References with two or more authors should be cited like Zhao and Shao (1997) or Chang, et. al. (1988), respectively. Same year references of an author should be given like Smith (1991a), Smith (1991a).
14. All references should be numbered and listed in alphabetically from A to Z at the end of the article. References of the same author should be given in ascending order of publication year. Names of journals which are the articles in the references section published in should not be abbreviated. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) numbers should be provided if available.
15. All authors of the article should fulfill and sign the copyright form. The fulfilled and signed copyright form should then be scanned and uploaded to the system during the initial manuscript submission. The copyright form can be found in https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/7417.
16. All authors of the article should fulfill and sign the declaration of the conflict of interest. The fulfilled and signed declaration of the conflict of interest should then be scanned and uploaded to the system during the initial manuscript submission. The declaration of the conflict of interest can be found in https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/22619.
17. All authors of the article should fulfill and sign the declaration of author contribution. The fulfilled and signed declaration of author contribution should then be scanned and uploaded to the system during the initial manuscript submission. The declaration of author contribution can be found in https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/22621.
18. For research requiring Ethics Committee Approval, the Ethics Committee Approval should be sent as a supplementary file with the initial manuscript. In addition, it should be stated in the Introduction and Conclusion sections of the article that the ethics committee approval was obtained for the research. For research that does not require an ethics committee approval, a document in .pdf format signed by all authors of the manuscript and containing the sentence "There is no need for ethics committee approval for this research" should be sent as a supplementary file with the initial manuscript.
    
19. At least three potential reviewers should be proposed for the review process. The full names and communication addresses of reviewers (including their emails) should be uploaded to the systems as a separate .docx or .pdf file during the initial manuscript submission. 
    

References should be cited as follows:

Books:

Owen, G. (1982) Game Theory, Academic Press, New York.

Periodicals:

Zhao, L. C. and Shao, F. M. (1997) Optimization of connecting two communication networks subject to a reliability constraint, Microelectronics and Reliability, 37(4), 629-633. 629-633. doi:11.3267/2553/8911.324.260

Proceedings:

Nyhart, J. and Goeltner, C. (1987) Computer models as support for complex negotiations, International Conference of the Society for System Research, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, 4-14. 629-633. doi:11.3267/2553/8911.324.260

Theses:

Yıldız, A. (1988). Design and analysis of a continuously variable transmission component which are suitable for use in mechanical presses, MSc Thesis, U.Ü. Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Bursa.

Standarts:

TS-EN50291, (2004). For the detection of carbon monoxide gas for household and similar electrical appliances - Test methods and performance requirements, Turkish Standards Institution, Ankara.

WEB Address:

Texas Instruments, (2002). RS-422 and RS-485 Standards Overview and System Configurations. Access address: http://www.ti.com/lit/an/slla070d/slla070d.pdf (Accessed in: 20.12.2012)

Uludağ University Journal of The Faculty of Engineering (UUJFE) folllows guides and politics published by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for ethical rules and responsibilities of authors, journal editors/subject editors, reviewers and publisher.

It is improper for an author to submit manuscripts describing essentially the same research to more than one journal of primary publication, unless it is a resubmission of a manuscript rejected for or withdrawn from publication. Authors should not engage in plagiarism - verbatim or near-verbatim copying, or very close paraphrasing, of text or results from another’s work. Authors should not engage in self-plagiarism - unacceptably close replication of the author’s own previously published text or results without acknowledgement of the source. The co-authors of a paper should be all those persons who have made significant scientific contributions to the work reported and who share responsibility and accountability for the results.

All articles accepted after double-blind peer review process and published by UUJFE without any fee or charge are freely available, openly accessible. We follow the guidelines presented by Budapest Open - Access Initiative (BOAI) regarding the Open-Access. The average time between the submission date and the final decision date for the papers submitted to Uludağ University Journal of The Faculty of Engineering in 2020 was 17 weeks.  

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