Publication Ethics
The NASE has a publication policy that adheres to national and international academic principles and ethical values. The principles set by the internationally recognised COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and TR Index Principles of Ethics, are essential elements of the journal's publication policy. Other guidelines or standards regarding publication ethics are considered valid as long as they do not conflict with those stated above.
If the works that are found to be contrary to the international publication principles and standards accepted by the journal are in the publication evaluation process, their publication requests are rejected, and if they are a published work, they are removed from publication.
In case of encountering an unethical case that does not comply with ethical principles during the early view or during the review process, it should be reported to ethic editör.

Publisher’s Ethical Responsibilities
Gaziantep University, the publisher of the Natural Science and Engineering Bulletin, is a non-profit, public benefit State University. The journal's editorial board acts in accordance with accepted ethical principles.
Editorial Board consists of the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Area Editors, Language Editor, Technical and Ethics Editors.
When reviewing a paper in which the Editors are Co-Authors, an Editor is appointed from among NASE's other Editors who has no conflict of interest with the authors. Peer review is carried out as for other articles.

Responsibilities of Editorial Board
The Editorial Board regularly works to improve the publication quality and develop the journal.
The Editorial Board is responsible for the review process and publication of the article submitted to the journal.
Ethical Responsibilities of the Editorial Board
Editors decide whether accept or reject the manucsript by considering the article's suitability to journal’s aim and scope, their contribution to the literature, original value and similarity rate of the manuscripts, the validity and reliability of the research method and the clarity of the language.
Editors implement the double-blind referee and referee process policies, which are among the journal's publication policies, keep the identity information of the referees confidential, and ensure that each article is evaluated objectively and in a timely manner.
Editors send articles to the Field Editor and Referees, taking into account their areas of expertise, and ensure that the article is evaluated objectively and independently. Editors strive to ensure diversity and change of Reviewers.
Editors ask authors to provide information on whether the study requires ethics committee approval. In studies that require ethics committee approval, it is the author's responsibility to include the information regarding Ethics Committee approval in the article; if not, the article will be rejected.
Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers
The review process at NASE is carried out on the double-blind review principle. For this reason, reviewers and authors cannot communicate with each other directly, and evaluations and comments are transmitted through the journal management system.
If the reviewer does not have sufficient knowledge about the subject of the article, if the subject of the article is outside his/her field of expertise, or if he/she cannot make an evaluation in a timely manner, he/she should leave the evaluation task by informing the editor.
Reviewers must comply with the principle of confidentiality, not share the work with third parties, and not use the privileged information and ideas they have obtained during the review process for their personal benefit.
Reviewers should make their criticisms and suggestions in a polite, objective and constructive manner, and should not direct derogatory comments and criticisms that include slander and insult towards the author.
Reviewers must review the manuscripts they accept within the specified period and in accordance with ethical rules, and must provide clear reasons for acceptance or rejection.
If referees detect a substantial similarity between the evaluated work and another previously published work, they should notify the editor.
Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
The author cannot send an article to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Bulletin that he/she has published elsewhere or sent to be published elsewhere.
Author(s) must submit original studies to the journal. The similarity rate of the manuscript must be below 20%. If they use other studies, they must make the in-text and end-text references accurately and completely.
People who have not contributed to the study at the intellectual level should not be indicated as author.
If information or data about the manuscript is requested from Author during the review process, Author should provide Editors’ asked information.
For research that requires ethics committee approval, Ethics Committee approval must be obtained by the author. The document showing the Ethics Committee decision must be uploaded together with the article's application to the system. If there is no need to obtain ethics committee permission for the study, the declaration form stating that ethics committee permission is not required must be uploaded to the system during the application.
Research requiring Ethics Committee permission is as follows:
1. All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require collecting data from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment and interview techniques,
2. Use of humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
3. Clinical studies conducted on humans,
4. Research conducted on animals,
5. Retrospective studies in accordance with the personal data protection law,
Moreover;
6. Indicating that an "informed consent form" was obtained in case reports,
7. Obtaining and specifying permission from the owners for the use of scales, surveys and photographs belonging to others,
8. It is necessary to state that copyright regulations are complied with for the ideas and artistic works used.

Publication Policy
Manuscripts are sent to the reviewers in accordance with the double-blind review system, with the name of the author(s) removed from the text of the manuscript. Also, the author(s) are not informed about which reviewers the article was sent to.
The ethical, scientific and legal responsibility of the articles published in the journal belongs to the author(s) and do not reflect the opinions of the Editor and Editorial Board members. Regardless of whether the articles sent to the journal are accepted or not, the article is not sent back to the authors. For accepted articles, all authors must sign the "Publication Rights Transfer Form" and upload it to the system. No copyright is paid for articles published in the journal.