Writing Rules

Eastern Anatolian Journal of Science (EAJS) is open access journal and all the manuscripts published in EAJS is freely available online for anyone.

The journal accepts the following types of contribution:

  • Original Research Paper
  • Review

Criteria for a publication in the EAJS:

  • The relevancy to the scope of the EAJS.
  • The novelty and originality of the work.
  • Significance to the broadening and development of the field of Science and Technology.

Manuscript Submission
Authors may submit manuscripts in English. The cover letter should give the author address, e-mail address, affiliation, and should indicate the intended publication format (Original research article or review). After the acceptance of the manuscript for publishing, authors must be sent source files of the accepted paper.

There is no submission fee or article processing charge for this journal.

Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Plagiarism

The use of someone else's ideas or words in their original form or slightly changed without a proper citation is considered plagiarism and will not be tolerated. Even if a citation is given, if quotation marks are not placed around words taken directly from another author's work, the author is still guilty of plagiarism. Reuse of the author's own previously published words, with or without a citation, is regarded as self-plagiarism. All manuscripts received are submitted to iThenticate®, a sophisticated plagiarism checking system and similarity rate can not be more than thirty five percent (%35) in plagiarism report.

Title Page
The title page should include:
· The name(s) of the author(s)
· A concise and informative title
· The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
· The e-mail address, telephone of the corresponding author

Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords that can be used for indexing purposes.

Headings
Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.

Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.

Tables and Figures

Tables should be cited consecutively in the text. Every table must have a descriptive title and if numerical measurements are given, the units should be included in the column heading. Tables should be simple with simple borders and text written as left side.

Each figure can be integrated in the paper body or separately uploaded and should be cited in a consecutive order. Figure widths can be 4-6 inch as 300 dpi.

The labels of the tables and the figures should be clear and informative. The labels are position to below of the figures and to above of the tables.

Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file, click here to download the template.
  3. The authors must upload the copyright agreement form.
  4. The text is in a single-column format; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

Copyright Notice
All the intellectual property rights of the papers accepted for the publication belong to the Eastern Anatolian Journal of Science.

Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.