As a part of our submission process, authors are required to read and agree to a copyright agreement before uploading their manuscripts to our journal's online system. Manuscripts submitted to our journal should not have been published previously or sent for publication elsewhere. During the submission process, authors will come across a checklist screen that includes a copyright notice text. By ticking the box at the end of the checklist, they are indicating their compliance with the above conditions and acceptance of the copyright notice text: "I declare that I comply with the above items."

Copyright Notice Text
The author(s) agrees that:
a. The manuscript submitted is his/her/their own original work and has not been plagiarized from any prior work,
b. All authors participated in the work in a substantive way and are prepared to take public responsibility for the work,
c. All authors have seen and approved the manuscript as submitted,
d. The manuscript has not been published and is not being submitted or considered for publication elsewhere,
e. The text, illustrations, and any other materials included in the manuscript do not infringe upon any existing copyright or other rights of anyone.

The Publisher will publish the content under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Authors who submit their manuscript to the journal under the CC BY-NC license are considered to have agreed to the following terms:
a) The author retains the copyright of the published manuscript.
b) The authors authorize this Journal to publish the manuscript and identify itself as the original publisher.
c) The authors grant the right to use the manuscript freely to any third party, provided that the original authors and citation details are properly identified.
d) The license does not limit or restrict the author's right to maintain the integrity and ownership of their manuscripts.
e) The authors retain all commercial rights related to the manuscripts.

The authors own the copyright to their work published in the Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies and their work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license permits the work to be shared, copied, reproduced in any size and format other than for commercial use, and adapted, including re-editing, transforming, and building upon the original work, provided that appropriate attribution is given.

For more information, please click here to download the Copyright Notice Text.