ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

Ethical Standards for Research and Publication
ASBU Journal of Faculty of Law is committed to academic principles and ethical values in its publication policy. It continues its publication life in accordance with national and international standards of ethical principles and values. In this context,
The standards set by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) (https://publicationethics.org/guidance),
the "Directive on Ethics in Scientific Research and Publication", the "Ethical Guidelines on the Use of Productive Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Research and Publication Activities of Higher Education Institutions", and the "Code of Conduct for Researchers".
The ethical principles adopted by Elsevier for scientific journals (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/publishing-ethics/ https://www.elsevier.com/editor/perk/ https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/generative-ai-policies-for-journals/ https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/editorial-decision-appeals-policy/ https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal).
These principles will be taken into account. If, during the peer-review process, it is found that a paper does not comply with the accepted standards of research and publication ethics, it will be rejected. If the breach is discovered after the paper has been published, the process will be carried out in accordance with the COPE and Elsevier principles.
*The following policy is based on the standards set by COPE, YÖK and Elsevier. In the event that changes or updates are made to the above mentioned national and international standards on which the stated principles are based, these changes will be directly applied in relation to the publication activities of the ASBU Law Faculty Journal.

Responsibility of the editors
1. Checks that the submitted article conforms to the publication policy and ethical principles of the journal. It takes into account the COPE principles, the explanatory guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/guidance), the TR Index Editor's Manual (https://cabim.ulakbim.gov.tr/cabim/trdizin/editorelelkitap/editorelkitabi.pdf) and the Elsevier Editor's Guide (https://www.elsevier.com/editor/perk/legal-guide-for-editors) throughout the publication process.

2. Conducts the publication process in an impartial manner, regardless of the author's religion, gender, nationality, political and philosophical views.

3. During the publication process, it will appoint referees according to the principle of double-blind refereeing and ensure that the principle of double-blind refereeing is maintained (https://www.elsevier.com/reviewer/what-is-peer-review/guidelines), and will not disclose the names of the referees. It will also take steps to prevent any conflict of interest between the author and the reviewer.

4. Keeps all data and information related to the article confidential until publication.

5. With regard to ethical standards, takes into account the principles and standards accepted by the journal. Keeps abreast of developments and updates in these ethical principles and standards.

6. Consider the suggestions and criticisms received from stakeholders.

7. Provide the necessary cooperation and coordination to complete the evaluation process of the papers within the specified time.

8. In case of suspicion of duplicate publication, slicing, plagiarism, fabricated data, conflict of interest and unfair authorship of a paper submitted to the journal for publication or published in previous issues of the journal, it takes decisions according to the guidelines and principles announced by COPE.

9. The Editor-in-Chief shall only follow up the work and procedures under his/her authority and responsibility. The Editor-in-Chief and the Editors a) Evaluate manuscripts submitted to the Journal in terms of quality, content, and contribution to the field, and decide whether the manuscript should be included in the publication process. At this stage, the manuscript may be rejected or returned before it enters the peer review process. b) Use appropriate tools to detect AI products in the study. c) Take into account the COPE guidelines regarding the compliance of the peer review process with ethical standards. After the referee reviews, the Editorial Board will evaluate the referee reports. The Editorial Board will decide whether to accept the article, refer it to a third referee, or reject it. The reasons for the rejection decision and the referee reports will be communicated to the author. d) If necessary, an error page may be published or corrections may be made at the request or information of the author (see https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal for guidelines). e) Manuscripts for which two referees give a negative opinion (rejection/major) will be rejected. If one of the referees gives a negative opinion, the article may be rejected by decision of the Editorial Board or sent to a third referee. f) Sends a certificate of appreciation to the referee at the end of the evaluation process. g) It follows that the information and documents related to the published issues and articles are made available to the indexes and databases where the journal is scanned in due time.

10. Assistant Editors; a) Check the articles for which they are responsible for compliance with the journal's spelling rules and help the authors to make the necessary arrangements. a) Maintain communication with authors and referees and provide the editors with the necessary information and reminders. b) If they find that the author has committed an ethical violation, they report the situation immediately to the editor. c) Send a certificate of appreciation to the referee at the end of the review process. c) Sends a certificate of appreciation to the referee at the end of the evaluation process. d) Follows up on time the exchange of information and documents concerning the published issues and articles with the indexes and databases where the journal is indexed. e) Follows the work and procedures assigned by the editors.

Responsibilities of the referees
1. A referee who is not in the field of the article for which the referee invitation is sent, who is unable to return in time, who has an article in the review process of the journal, or who plans to send an article to the journal for publication in the same issue, should not accept the referee invitation or request to withdraw from refereeing by notifying the editor of this situation.

2. Referees should fill in the referee evaluation form (see ASBÜHFD referee evaluation criteria for the evaluation form template) in a truthful manner within the framework of courtesy rules and include objective scientific evaluations. The evaluation form should not contain hostile, provocative or condescending personal comments.

3. Reviewers should not discuss the manuscripts sent to them for review with other people; they should conduct the review process in a confidential manner.

4. If they find that the author has committed an ethical breach, they should report the situation to the editor immediately.

5. Take into account the principles described by COPE (https://publicationethics.org/guidance) and Elsevier (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/publishing-ethics#3-duties-of-reviewers) in the manuscript evaluation process.

Author's Liability

1. All authors of the submitted manuscript are required to make a direct academic and scientific contribution. Accordingly, an 'author' is a person who makes a substantial contribution to the conceptualisation and structural organisation, data collection, analysis or interpretation of the published research, and who also takes an active part in writing or critically reviewing the content of the article. Artificial intelligence cannot be the author of papers submitted to the journal. Support for research funding, data collection or general supervision of the research team alone does not confer authorship. Persons who have contributed to the work but do not meet the criteria for authorship (e.g. those who have provided technical support, writing assistance, or financial/material support) are listed in the 'Declarations/Thanks' section.

2. Before submitting the manuscript to the journal, the author checks and confirms that the manuscript conforms to the ethical standards, publication principles and spelling rules adopted by the journal.

3. It is the responsibility of the author(s) to prepare the work in accordance with the research and publication principles. By submitting the work, the author accepts, declares and undertakes that the work has been prepared in accordance with Law No. 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works, the research and publication ethics standards described by YÖK, COPE (https://publicationethics.org/guidance) and Elsevier (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/publishing-ethics#4-duties-of-authors).

4. The order of authors' names should be determined by mutual agreement. Authors must agree to this order by signing the Cover, Declaration and Copyright Transfer Form. Authors must complete the Cover, Declaration and Copyright Transfer Form, declare that the article is original, that it has not been published elsewhere, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, in another language, that there is no conflict of interest, and other issues specified in the form, and upload the signed form to the system. In cases where the author uses artificial intelligence, the author should be transparent about which artificial intelligence tool was used and how it was used. This use may be related to drafting the text, checking grammatical rules, or carrying out important research. In this case, clear information should be provided about which version of AI was used, at what time, and at what stage of the study. In cases where ethics committee approval is required, a written permission document from the author or the person/institution holding the publication rights for translated texts should be included in the application file.

5. The author should not directly or indirectly mention his/her identity and institutional information in the manuscript file submitted to the journal. Since the evaluation process is based on double-blind review, the author should disclose this information in the cover page, declaration and copyright transfer form.

6. If the author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in the published work, the author is obliged to contact the editor immediately and work together to correct the error or withdraw the work.

PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES

1. The ASBU Law Faculty Journal adheres to the research and publication principles and ethical values that it has accepted and announced.

2. ASBU Journal of Faculty of Law is published twice a year, in June and December, electronically. A maximum of fifteen papers are published in each issue. The deadline for submission of articles is 1 April for the June issue and 1 October for the December issue. Works submitted after these dates, works accepted after the maximum number of publications for the issue has been reached, and works in progress at the time of publication will be considered for the following issue. In order to ensure that the manuscript processes are carried out properly and that the number of works to be published in the journal issues is balanced, the Editorial Board may close the journal for acceptance of manuscripts.

3. The Editor-in-Chief is appointed by the ASBU Coordinator of Scientific Publications upon the recommendation or approval of the Dean of the ASBU Faculty of Law. Editors and officers of the Journal shall be appointed by the Editor-in-Chief with the approval of the Dean.

4. The principle of double-blind review is applied in the evaluation of the article. The names of referees will not be published. Persons working in the same institution as the author cannot act as editors and referees in the evaluation process of the paper.

5. Fee policy: The submission/processing of articles is free of charge. No fee will be charged to the author or his/her institution under any name. Editors and reviewers will not be paid.

6. Similarity and plagiarism policy: Manuscripts submitted to the journal are checked for plagiarism at the preliminary review stage. Papers with more than 15% similarity in the similarity report, excluding references and quoted expressions, will be rejected outright. If a paper is found to be in breach of publication ethics standards, action will be taken in accordance with accepted ethical principles and standards, and a warning will be issued.

7. Open Access Policy: Works published in the ASBU Law Faculty Journal are open access and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence. Readers may read, download, copy or reproduce the full texts of the works published in the Journal without the permission of the authors or the publisher, provided that they do not use them for commercial purposes and that they cite them where appropriate.

8. Appeals policy: Elsevier's Appeals Policy applies in the event of an author's appeal against editorial decisions (see https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/editorial-decision-appeals-policy for more information).

9. Correction and retraction policy: The process is carried out in accordance with the principles and procedures accepted in the COPE Retraction Guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/retraction-guidelines) and the Elsevier Correction, Retraction and Removal Policy (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal).

10. Copyright policy: If the papers are accepted for publication, all publication rights of the papers, including electronic publication, belong to Ankara Social Sciences University Faculty of Law. No royalties will be paid to the authors.

11. The number of works published in one issue by authors belonging to the same institution shall not exceed fifty percent of the works in that issue. Only one work by an author may be submitted for review in any calendar year; no more than one work may be published in the same issue or in four consecutive issues. Accordingly, the later work submitted by the author will be returned immediately.

12. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submission of the manuscript to our journal constitutes the author's commitment in this respect. The opinions expressed in the work published in the journal are the responsibility of the author.

13. Authors submitting their works to this journal accept the publication policy of the ASBU Law Faculty Journal. The works must be written in 'Microsoft Office Word' programme. The cover page, declaration and copyright transfer form must be signed by all authors and submitted in pdf format.

14. Authors are deemed to have accepted that their work is ready for 'publication' as submitted to the Journal. The preliminary review by the editors will return those papers that do not comply with the scientific criteria, the publication principles of the journal and the spelling rules.

15. The works to be published in the journal can be written in Turkish, English, German or French. The manuscript should not exceed 15,000 words excluding the abstract and extended abstract. The works submitted to the journal must follow the rules of spelling and citation. The manuscripts submitted to the journal should include an abstract of 100-300 words and an extended abstract of 500-1500 words. If the language of the paper is Turkish, the abstract should be in Turkish and English. If the language of the paper is other than Turkish, an abstract in that language and its Turkish and English translation should be attached to the paper. The title of the abstract should include 5-7 keywords in each language and the title of the paper. The extended abstract should be written in English.

16. After the pre-review stage, the manuscripts are peer-reviewed using a double-blind peer-review system. Manuscripts that are peer-reviewed and receive two positive reviews will be published in the journal. Manuscripts with two negative reviews (rejection/major) will be rejected. If one of the referees gives a negative opinion, the article may be rejected by decision of the Editorial Board or sent to a third referee. If corrections are requested in the referee's report, the author can only make changes within the limits of the suggested corrections. After the author has made the corrections suggested by the referee, the paper will be resubmitted to the referee, if so indicated in the report.

17. The Editorial Board makes the necessary follow-ups and announcements regarding the comprehensibility and currency of the writing rules, ethical principles and standards accepted in the Publication Principles; it informs the stakeholders, especially authors and reviewers.

18. The Editorial Rules of the Journal may be amended by the decision of the Editorial Board; the Publication Principles may be amended upon the recommendation of the Editorial Board and the decision of the Dean of the ASBU Faculty of Law, taking into account the opinion of the Advisory Board.