ETHICAL RULES AND PUBLICATION ETHICS

1. For research in all disciplines, including social sciences, and on clinical and experimental people and animals that require an ethical committee decision;

● All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches require data collection from participants using surveys, interviews, focus group work, observation, experiment, and interview techniques.
● Use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
● Clinical research on humans,
● Research on animals,
● Retrospective studies in accordance with the law of protection of personal data,

Ethics committee approval must have been obtained separately, this approval must be stated and documented in the article. Information about the permit (board name, date, and number no) should be included in the "Method" section of the article and also on the first/last page. During the article upload, the Ethics Committee Approval file should be uploaded to the system in addition to the article file. In addition, in the case reports, information about the volunteer informed / consent form being signed should be included in the article.

2. The article should state whether it is necessary to obtain legal/special permission. If the study covers the application made in an institution, it should be clearly stated on which date and with which decision or number the permission has been obtained from the relevant institution.

3. Permission must be obtained from the owners for the use of scale, questionnaire, and photographs belonging to others and this must be stated in the article (referring to the source).

4. As a result of the analysis of the article with iThenticate similarity programs, the total similarity level should be below 20%.

5. Author, Referee, and Editor to comply with ethical rules
Authors: Only those who contribute to the study should be considered authors. At the end of the article, the conflict of interest (if any) should be declared.
Referees: Referees should consult the Editor regarding the evaluation process if they have any doubts about a conflict of interest.
Editors: The editor or editor of the field appoints at least two people (ideally from different institutions) as referees to evaluate the article. The names of the referees evaluating the articles are not reported to the authors (blind peer review).
The editor or field editor is responsible for managing the referee evaluation process of articles and has the right to reject the article in case of any conflict of interest.

6. The articles should include the statement that Research and Publication Ethics are complied with.

7. In scientific papers sent to journals, Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) 'International Standards for Editors and Authors should be taken into consideration.

8. Copyright regulations must be followed for the ideas and works of art used.

9. At the end of the article; “Support” or “Acknowledgment” and “Conflict of Interest” should be declared (if any).
Under the "Support" or "Acknowledgment" heading, support can be specified if the study was supported by an institution or BAP. In addition, other researchers who supported the article in different phases of the research such as data collection but do not appear as authors in the article, can be thanked.

PUBLICATION ETHICS

Our Journal, requires the authors to comply with the national and international ethical principles. In this context, it is kindly asked that the stakeholders comply with the following items:

Responsibilities of the Authors

It should be ensured that the submitted article has content originality, the quotations and citations need be to correctly prepared within the ethical principles.
For the experimental studies which require ethical board approval, conducted on animals or people in all the disciplines (including social science), the ethical board approval must be obtained and presented in the study with the related information.
The manuscripts should not be submitted to any other journal.
The necessary permits should be obtained when needed.
The aforementioned principles will apply in the case of conflict of interest.
Only the names of the related authors should be included in the submissions, unrelated names should not be included.
The referees may ask for additional information or data, in such cases the authors should provide the referees with the requests.
The authors should not reach the referees with the purpose of affecting any process.

Responsibilities of the Referees

Referees should be objective and conduct the reviews with privacy.
Referees should only accept the studies related to their field.
The review should aim to be constructive and polite and should not include offensive language.
The submissions accepted for review should be processed within the specified timing and in compliance with the ethical principles.
In the case of conflict of interests, the submission should be rejected and the editor-in-chief should be notified.
No information related to the rejected submissions should be shared or made public.