The manuscripts sent to JOCSOSA for publication are expected to be original and comply with academic ethics.

Author(s) are obliged to avoid breach of publication ethics such as plagiarism, duplication, fabrication, salamization, gift authorship, ghost writing, biased selection of resources. During the article submission, author(s) should submit to the journal the plagiarism report checked on iThenticate software. The manuscript(s) that has a resemblance ratio over 15% will not be evaluated.

The institutions and financial resources that have supported the study sent to JOCSOSA should be stated in acknowledgements section. Author(s) should document to have the participants' consents when social experiments and questionnaires are implemented. In the cases when consent forms cannot be received, author(s) should take the approval of ethics committee from the relevant institutions / organizations and submit it with the study.

The manuscript(s) that has been submitted to JOCSOSA cannot be sent to multiple journals simultaneously.

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in her / his own published paper at JOCSOSA, it is the author's obligation to promptly inform the Editor of the Journal and be in contact to withdraw / revise the manuscript.

The author(s) whose study has been accepted for publication at JOCSOSA confirms that they have gathered all the data of the study within the framework of ethical responsibilities and academic rules and that they have provided without any missing ones the references regarding any statements, data and findings belonging to others. In case of any breach as a result of ignoring publication ethics, legal responsibilities of published manuscript belong to its author(s).

JOCSOSA adopts the standards based on the guidelines developed by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) in any academic studies of the editors, board members, reviewers and authors (see https://publicationethics.org/).