Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University Journal of Technical Sciences (KMUTBD) observes the standards and principles of publication ethics that should be followed in academic studies on publication ethics. All articles that do not comply with ethical standards are removed from publication. This includes articles accepted for publication or articles that are found to be ethical violations after publication. Within the scope of publication ethics, all stakeholders are expected to fulfill their ethical responsibilities.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors:

• Manuscripts submitted for review must not have been reviewed and/or published elsewhere. It is unethical to submit the same article to more than one journal at the same time.
• Quoted texts should be cited with reference.
• The authors of the article submitted for evaluation declare that they have not plagiarized in any way, that the article is their own original work, that all responsibilities and ethical violations arising from plagiarism belong to them, and that the journal has no responsibility in this regard.
• All authors who contributed to the article submitted for evaluation should be indicated and it should be known that all authors have equal responsibility for the article. The corresponding author represents all authors in the evaluation process related to the article. All authors also acknowledge that they have authorized the corresponding author to take responsibility for all parts of the manuscript on their behalf.
• Authors are responsible for declaring all organizations supporting their submitted manuscripts, all financial sources, or any conflict of interest.Access to the data in the article should be provided if deemed necessary. Authors are deemed to have declared that they will fulfill these obligations in the work submitted for evaluation.
• For publications that require copyright, copyright rules, permission documents in cases where legal/special permission is required, photographs, tables, scales, etc. belonging to others, the necessary documents must be specified and / or cited.
• For research submitted for evaluation, it must be prepared in accordance with the rules of research and publication ethics, especially in clinical and experimental studies that require an ethics committee decision. Ethics committee approval must be obtained separately for different studies and must be stated and documented in the article. Information about the ethical approval (name of the committee, date and number) should be stated in the relevant section of the article.

Similarity Rate Information Note:

• All articles submitted for evaluation in our journal must have a similarity report on plihal.net. The similarity report rate should be maximum 20% excluding references.

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers:

• Referees are responsible for not evaluating the article and reporting this situation in case of conflict of interest and relationship with the study and/or authors.
• Referees are responsible for keeping the manuscripts received confidential and cannot use the information obtained from the refereeing process for their personal benefit.
• Reviewers keep all processes from the acceptance stage of the article to the publication process confidential and cannot use or share the information and documents obtained.
• Reviewers are responsible for reporting all unethical situations related to the study to the editor.
• Personal criticism of the authors should not be made, and the evaluations should use an impartial, honest, kind and constructive language, taking into account scientific principles and principles, away from individual feelings and thoughts.
• Reviewers should take care not to let the personal information (gender, nationality, religious beliefs, political views, etc.) of the authors (gender, nationality, religious beliefs, political views, etc.) affect the scientific evaluation during the article evaluation process and should know that they are legally responsible for the situation.