PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES

1.Life Skills Journal of Psychology, is a peer-reviewed academic journal that includes 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. However, special issues can also be published if necessary.
3.Life Skills Journal of Psychology, accepts articles such as research articles, case reports, reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analysis. Studies presented at conferences and congresses but whose full text has not been published in the congress book are also accepted. In these studies, the name of the conference and congress where the presentation took place, the place and date of the presentation should be stated as a footnote at the bottom of the first page of the article. If the work to be submitted is produced from a master's or doctoral thesis, this detail should be stated by the author in the footnote section at the bottom of the first page of the article.
4.Life Skills Journal of Psychology, is an open access journal. It has adopted the principle of sharing scientific works with academicians, students and the public free of charge. It supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Readers can access the articles published in the journal free of charge.
5.The works sent to the Life Skills Journal of Psychology must not have been previously published or sent for publication in any journal. The author is responsible for ensuring this sensitivity. After the article is published, it is removed from publication when it is understood that it has been sent to other journals. In this case, the responsibility for any ethical violation that may arise belongs to the author.
6.No fee is paid to the authors and referees for the articles published in the Life Skills Journal of Psychology.
7.Life Skills Journal of Psychology, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Therefore, the copyrights of the published works belong to the author. The first publication right belongs to the journal.
8.All responsibilities of the works published in the Life Skills Journal of Psychology belong to the author.
9.Articles evaluated in the Life Skills Journal of Psychology are first examined by the editorial board in terms of scientific content and compliance with ethical standards. Similarity checking and plagiarism checking of submitted articles are done with the Turnitin program. Articles with a similarity rate above 15% and those found to be plagiarized are rejected immediately. In the editorial review, it is evaluated whether the article has certain characteristics such as its scientific originality, the hypotheses it puts forward, consistency, testability and reproducibility, its contribution to the field and whether the method is sufficient. In addition, it is checked whether a relationship can be found between the variables included in the research and whether the article is written in accordance with the journal writing rules and APA 7 format. At this stage, statistical methods are checked. It is examined whether the article has been published somewhere before. If it is produced from any thesis, it is evaluated whether this situation is reported as a footnote. If it is presented at any congress, it is evaluated whether this situation is reported as a footnote. If it is presented at the congress, it is investigated whether its full text has been published in the congress book. Finally, bibliography is checked. At the end of all checks, articles deemed appropriate are sent to referees who are experts in their fields.
10.Articles that successfully pass the editorial process are sent to two referees who are experts in their field. The journal works with a double-blind referee system in article evaluation. The author does not know who the referee who evaluated his article is, and the referee does not know who the author whose article he is evaluating is. The editor is responsible for ensuring this confidentiality. The article is published after both referees give positive opinions. If one of the referees gives a negative opinion and the other gives a positive opinion, the article is sent to a third referee. Articles whose refereeing process has been completed are published under the early view title.
11.Articles submitted to the Life Skills Journal of Psychology must use the American Psychological Association (APA) 7 style in in-text referencing, table display and bibliography. In order for the study to be evaluated, the similarity rate must be below 15%, excluding abstract and bibliography.
12.Authors who will submit research and case report articles must include information about ethics committee permissions in the article and add the ethics committee approval form to the last page of the article. Authors are required to upload the similarity report regarding their articles to the system during submission. Authors will prepare the similarity report, which will be received from the Turnitin program, by paying attention to the following points (Remove matches: Less than 4 words will be marked, the bibliography will be excluded, quotation marks will be included, and finally the "no repository" option will be selected.
13.Authors who want to submit articles to the Life Skills Journal of Psychology must log in to the Dergipark system after editing their articles according to the writing rules of the journal. Then they must submit the publication from the submit article tab. Manuscripts that are not sent in accordance with the template in terms of format will not be evaluated in any way.

PUBLICATION ETHICS CRITERIA

In the Life Skills Journal of Psychology, the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the Committee on Publication Ethics were taken into consideration as publication ethics criteria.

Editor's Responsibilities

1.The editor is responsible for all stages of the publication process (preliminary review of the article sent to the journal, presentation to the editorial board, sending to the referees, acceptance or rejection stage, procedures of the articles accepted for publication).
2.The editor is responsible for the confidentiality of the content of the submitted article and the confidentiality of the names of the referees during the blind referee process.
3.The editor checks the similarity at the first stage of the article sent to the journal. It immediately rejects articles that have a similarity rate above the journal's standards and are found to be plagiarized, even if the similarity rate is low. In this sense, it presents the articles that do not have any problems to the editorial board. The editorial board notifies the editor of its final decision regarding the article's contribution to science, its originality, reproducibility, and scientific methodology. The editor sends the appropriate articles to at least two referees of doctoral level in the field.
4.The editor uses the double-blind referee method in the referee system. It does not allow the referee to see the author and the author to see the referee. It is responsible for ensuring confidentiality. In order for the article to be evaluated by the right individuals, it is ensured that the referees have specific studies in this field. Returns the article rejected by two referees to the author. The article, which is accepted by one referee and rejected by another referee, is sent to a third referee only once. It puts the articles accepted by at least two referees into the publication order.
5.Since the editor can see the authors who submit articles to the journal, they do not make any bias about them. He does not abuse his position and does not subject them to discrimination or privilege due to any characteristics.
6.If an ethical violation is detected in the future regarding an article published in the journal, the editor will apply sanctions regarding this situation.

Responsibilities of Referees

1.Referees should be fair and transparent in the process of evaluating the manuscript. Since the subject of the relevant article may be similar to his own publications due to his field of expertise, he should not adopt any biased or negative attitude and should evaluate the publication fairly.
2.Referees should check the correspondence between the in-text citations in the article and the bibliography and report any errors they see to the editor.
3.Since referees work in fields related to the submitted article, they should be sensitive about the originality of the article. One should check the relevant literature and make a decision about the article as to whether the independent variables related to the article can predict the dependent variables or whether a relationship can be sought between the variables.
4.Referees should check whether the submitted articles have been previously presented at a congress or are part of a thesis, and examine whether such a situation is given as a footnote.
5.While evaluating the article, referees should avoid personal comments that would hurt the author and make all criticisms in a scientific language.
6.Referees are responsible for the confidentiality of the articles they evaluate. Therefore, they should avoid taking an emotional stance regarding the article.
7.Referees are responsible for notifying the editor of any situation they consider to be a conflict of interest.
8.If referees cannot evaluate the article within the time given to them, they must notify the editor.

Responsibilities of Authors

1.Authors' work must be original, have the ability to contribute to science, follow scientific methodology, and report at appropriate standards according to APA 7 criteria.
2.Authors should not plagiarize their articles. They are responsible for preparing their publications according to scientific and ethical standards, without ignoring the possibility of administrative and judicial sanctions against them if such a situation is detected, even years after the publication of the article.
3.Authors must comply with the rules of citation in their publications. They should not use another author's statements as their own without citing references. They should not use fabricated data. They should not tamper with data. They should not present work that has not been done as done. They should not submit a previously published article for republication. They should not try to extract more than one publication from the same data. They should not add a gift writer to the article even though they do not deserve it. They should write about the contributions of the institutions from which they received support during the research in their article. They must comply with human rights in experimental studies. In experimental studies, they should not make mistakes that will be difficult to compensate for in the future. They should not try to have more than one article published from a thesis. They must know that these violations are ethical violations and act according to these standards.
4.Authors must write the articles they send to the journal in accordance with the spelling rules. They should also be sensitive about spelling and punctuation. They should remember that even if the abstract is scientifically sufficient, articles that are not sensitive to form will be rejected.
5.Authors should be in constant communication with the editor during the evaluation process. The editor will send the referee's correction recommendations to the author and may send these corrections back to the referee. The author must make corrections in a timely manner and follow the recommendations of the referees to the letter. The article of the author who does not fulfill his obligations in this regard will be rejected.
6.Authors are obliged to keep the data they obtained in research. The journal editorship may request this data from the authors even years after the articles are published.
7.Authors should not add people who have not contributed to the article as authors. In addition, in multi-author articles, the order of the authors should be based on their contribution intensity to the article.
8.After the article is sent to the journal, the author cannot apply to add or remove authors from the article, and accepts in advance that the article will be rejected if such a request occurs.
9.Authors must declare any conflict of interest and financial support, if any, regarding their articles as a footnote.