PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES
1.Life Skills Journal of Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research in Turkish and English in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, psychological counseling and guidance, social work, psychiatric nursing, child development, preschool education, and special education.
2.Life Skills Journal of Psychology is published twice a year, in June and December.
3.Life Skills Journal of Psychology accepts research articles, reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. Research articles may have a maximum of five authors, while review, systematic review, and meta-analysis articles may have a maximum of three authors.
4.Life Skills Journal of Psychology also accepts studies derived from theses. In these articles, the thesis author is listed as the first author and the thesis advisor as the second author. A third person is only listed if it is the second thesis advisor. In these studies, the information of the thesis author, thesis advisor, and university should be stated in a footnote at the bottom of the first page.
5.Life Skills Journal of Psychology also accepts papers presented at conferences and congresses. However, the full text of these papers must not have been published in the congress proceedings. The name of the conference or congress where the presentation took place, the location and date should be stated in a footnote at the bottom of the first page.
6.Life Skills Journal of Psychology is an open-access journal. It supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Readers have free access to articles published in the journal.
7.Submissions to the Life Skills Journal of Psychology must not have been previously published or submitted for publication in any other journal. Otherwise, the article will be withdrawn. The author is responsible for any ethical violations that may arise in this case.
8.No fees are paid to authors or reviewers for articles published in the Life Skills Journal of Psychology.
9.Life Skills Journal of Psychology is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Therefore, the copyright of the published works belongs to the author. The journal has the right of first publication.
10.All scientific, legal, and ethical responsibility for the articles published in the Life Skills Journal of Psychology belongs entirely to their authors. The opinions in the articles belong to the authors. It does not reflect the official opinions of the journal and its boards.
11.Articles submitted for consideration in the Life Skills Journal of Psychology are first reviewed by the editorial board for scientific content and adherence to ethical standards. Similarity and plagiarism checks are performed using the Turnitin program. Articles with a similarity rate above 15% or those found to contain plagiarism are immediately rejected. During the editorial review, the article is assessed for its scientific originality, the hypotheses it proposes, its consistency, testability, and reproducibility; its potential contribution to the field; the adequacy of the methodology; whether relationships can be sought between the variables included in the research; and whether the article is written in accordance with the journal's writing guidelines and APA 7 format. In addition, statistical methods are checked, it is investigated whether the article has been previously published elsewhere, whether it is part of a thesis and whether this is indicated in a footnote, whether it has been presented at a conference and whether this is indicated in a footnote, and if so, whether the full text was published in the conference proceedings. Finally, a bibliography check is performed. Articles found suitable after all checks are sent to expert reviewers in their respective fields.
12.Articles that successfully pass the editorial process are sent to two expert reviewers in the field. The journal uses a double-blind peer review system for article evaluation. The author does not know the identity of the reviewer evaluating their article, and the reviewer does not know the identity of the author whose article they are evaluating. The editor is responsible for ensuring this confidentiality. The article is published after both reviewers give a positive opinion. If one reviewer gives a negative opinion and the other a positive one, the article is sent to a third reviewer.
13.Articles submitted to the Life Skills Journal of Psychology must follow the American Psychological Association (APA) 7 style for in-text referencing, table presentation, and bibliography. For a study to be considered for evaluation, the similarity rate, excluding the abstract and bibliography, must be below 15%.
14.Authors submitting research articles must include information regarding ethical committee approvals within the article and attach the ethical committee approval form to the last page of the article. Authors must upload a similarity report related to their articles to the system during submission. Authors should prepare the similarity report obtained from the Turnitin program by paying attention to the following points (Remove matches: mark less than 4 words, exclude bibliography, mark including quotation marks, and finally, select the "no repository" option).
15.Authors wishing to submit articles to the Life Skills Journal of Psychology should format their articles according to the journal's writing guidelines before submission. Articles that do not conform to the formatting template will not be considered.
PUBLICATION ETHICS CRITERIA
Life Skills Journal of Psychology adheres to the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as criteria for publication ethics.
Editor's Responsibilities
1.The editor is responsible for all stages of the article submitted to the journal.
2.The editor is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the content of submitted articles and the anonymity of reviewers during the blind peer-review process.
3.The editor performs a similarity check on the article submitted to the journal at the initial stage. It immediately rejects articles that have a similarity rate above the journal's standards and those found to contain plagiarism, even if the similarity rate is low. In this sense, he presents the articles that do not have problems to the editorial board. The editorial board informs the editor of its final decision. The editor sends the selected articles to two referees who hold doctoral degrees in the field related to the article's subject.
4.The editor uses the double-blind peer review method in the review process. It does not allow the reviewer to see the author or the author to see the reviewer. This person is responsible for ensuring confidentiality. They return the article rejected by two reviewers to the author. The article that one referee accepts and another referee rejects is sent to a third referee, provided it is done only once. It places articles in the publication stage only if at least two referees have issued a publishable report.
5.Since the editor can see the authors who submit articles to the journal, they cannot be biased towards them. They do not abuse their position and do not subject anyone to discrimination or privilege based on any of their characteristics.
6.In the event that an ethical violation is detected regarding an article published in the journal in the future, the editor will impose sanctions regarding this situation.
Reviewers' Responsibilities
1.Reviewers must be fair and transparent in the process of evaluating the manuscript. Since the subject of the relevant article may be similar to its own publications due to its field of expertise, it should not take any biased or negative attitude and should evaluate the publication fairly.
2.Reviewers must be sensitive to the protection of the submitted article. In particular, they should never upload the article to artificial intelligence tools. This could harm intellectual property and copyrights.
3.Reviewers should avoid personal comments that might hurt the author while evaluating the article and should express all criticism in a scientific manner.
4.Reviewers should check that the in-text citations in the article correspond with the bibliography and report any errors they observe to the editor.
5.Referees must report any situations they believe involve a conflict of interest to the editor.
6.If reviewers are unable to evaluate the article within the given timeframe, they must notify the editor.
Authors' Responsibilities
1.The authors' work should be original, should be sufficient to contribute to science, should follow scientific methodology and should make reporting according to APA 7 criteria in accordance with appropriate standards.
2.Authors are required to submit articles to the journal that do not contain plagiarism. They are responsible for preparing their manuscripts in accordance with scientific and ethical standards, bearing in mind that administrative and legal sanctions may be imposed if plagiarism is detected even years after publication.
3.Authors must act in accordance with research and publication ethics during the article writing process.
4.Authors must take the journal's writing guidelines into account.
5.Authors should be in constant communication with the editor during the evaluation process.
6.Authors are obliged to retain the data they obtain in their research. Journal editors may request this data from authors even years after the publication of the articles.
7.Authors should not include as authors individuals who did not contribute to the article. In multi-author articles, the order of authors should be determined according to the intensity of their contribution to the article.
8.Authors cannot submit requests to add or remove authors after the article has been submitted. Any such request will result in the article being rejected.
9.When submitting their articles, the authors must declare their contributions, the use of artificial intelligence, if any, ethical approval, acknowledgment information, financial support, if any, and conflict of interest, if any.
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