Publication Policy

·        The articles submitted to the journal must comply with the writing rules.

·        The articles submitted to the journal must have never been published anywhere and should not have been submitted for publication at the present time.

·        The languages of publication are Turkish and English. Scientific and linguistic responsibility for the work published in the journal belongs to the author(s).

·        Not only academicians but also researchers and practitioners can submit to the journal.

·        After the plagiarism detection process, articles are sent to at least 2 reviewers. If both review reports are positive, the article is submitted to the Editorial Board for final decision. If one of the reports is negative, the third reviewer will be determinant.

·        The same author(s) cannot publish more than one articles in one volume.

·        Apart from original researches, translations are also published in the journal. The original publication and a document that shows allowance of original publisher’s and the author’s must be submitted with the translated work.

·        Corrections may be requested from the authors(s) in accordance with the reports from the reviewers. The author(s) is obliged to make all the changes requested by the referees. The article will not be published until the desired changes are made.

·        No copyright is paid to the author(s) for their works published in the journal.

·        Articles can be used as long as the source is provided in accordance with our Open Access Policy and Creative Commons license.

·        The opinions expressed in, and responsibilities of the articles belong to the authors.

·        If the research article is supported by any institution or is produced from earlier works, this should be indicated on the first page of the article file.

(At any stage, no fee is requested from the authors.)

Important note: Ethics Committee Approval must be obtained for studies requiring an Ethics Committee Decision; this approval must be stated and documented in the article.

Publication Ethics

Publication processes of MAKU SOBED are based on producing, developing and sharing knowledge evenhandedly within scientific methods.

Refereed articles are studies that require scientific methods and they provide objectivity. All components of publication process (publisher, editors, authors, reviewers and readers) should obey ethical rules for scientific production. Within this context, the policies of ‘publication ethics’ and ‘open access’ also require all components of publication process to obey the ethical principles, in direction of guides and policies of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as “Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors” and “COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors”.

In case we identify that author(s) of the manuscript use(s) falsified and fabricated data, then we will report this to the institution of the authors where he/she works and reject the manuscript. Editorial members of the journal and/or the reviewers reserve the right to ask author(s) to provide raw data which was used in the manuscript.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Publisher

Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, the publisher of MAKU SOBED, is a public-spirited and nonprofit-making public educational institution.

The Responsibilities of Editorial Board of MAKU SOBED

·        Editorial Board is responsible for all processes of the articles sent to the journal. This responsibility requires deciding independently by considering public interest, not personal gains. The relationship between Publisher and the Editorial Board is based on independence policy, and all decisions of the editors are independent from the publisher and the other persons and institutions.

·        Editorial Board permanently strives to develop and raise the quality of the journal.

·        Editorial Board determines and performs journal policies as publication, blind review, evaluation process and ethical principles.

·        Editorial Board keeps copyrights of the articles published in MAKU SOBED.

·        Editorial Board is responsible for keeping intellectual property rights of authors in publication processes and guarding against unethical behaviors, plagiarism and reference gangs.

·        Editorial Board determines incentive policies for the authors and referees.

·        Editorial Board keeps records of every article electronically.

The Responsibilities of Editors, Co-Editors and Field Editors

·        Editors try to inform reviewers, authors, researchers and readers, to answer their questions clearly within the principles of clarity.

·        Editors, during the publication process, consider that the articles should be original and contribute the literature, the readers and researchers.

·        While editors are making decisions about the article publication, they consider originality, contribution to the field, clarity of expressions, content and validity and reliability of the articles.

·        Editors implement the policies of blind review and evaluation processes, keep private personal identity information of the authors, and provide impartial evaluation processes in due of time for the articles.

·        Editors send the articles to field editors and reviewers considering their professional fields, and care that the articles are evaluated impartially and independently.

·        Editors, in evaluation processes, consider if there are conflicts or collaborations between authors and reviewers or not.

·        Editors generate a large number or reviewers, and they update it consistently.

·        Editors prevent non-scientific that do not comply with academic etiquette rules

·        Editors ensure that journal publishing processes are operated in accordance with publishing policies and guidelines, inform those who are in the process of the developments on publishing policies, and prepare training programs when necessary.

·        Editors communicate effectively with everyone involved in the publishing processes, and organize meetings at regular intervals.

·        Editors provide protection of personal data in assessed articles; they keep personal data of authors, referees and readers.

·        Editors attach importance to the protection of human and animal rights in the articles, emphasize that the clear approval of the participants of the article is documented, and rejects the articles witout the approval of the ethics committee on the participants of the article and without any permit in experimental investigations.

·        Editors take precautions against misconduct. When there are complaints about the abuse of duty, they share the findings about the subject by conducting an objective investigation.

·        Editors provide errors, inconsistencies, or misleading errors in articles to be corrected.

·        Editors protect the intellectual property rights of the published articles, and defend the rights of the journal and the author (s) in case of violation. Editors also take the necessary precautions to ensure that the content of the published articles does not infringe the intellectual property rights of other publications; they control authenticity-similarity.

·        Editors consider consistent critiques for the articles published in the journal and enables authors to answer these critiques.

·        Editors consider the studies including negative conclusions also.

·        Editors evaluate the complaints sent to the journal and make necessary statements

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers

The articles in MAKU SOBED are evaluated by double-blind review in a process, which neither the authors know the reviewers nor the reviewers know the authors; reviewers cannot communicate the authors directly; article evaluation forms and proofreading requests are sent to the authors through the website of the journal. Reviewers must bear the ethical responsibilities in MAKU SOBED as below:

·        Reviewers should only accept to evaluate the articles related to the field of their specializations.

·        Reviewers should make the evaluation impartially and confidentially. In accordance with this principle, the articles they review should be annihilated after the evaluation process, but they should be used after publication. Nationality, gender, religious beliefs, political beliefs and commercial concerns should not distort the impartiality of the evaluation.

·        When reviewers understand that there is a conflict or collaboration, they should inform the editors and refuse to evaluate the article.

·        Reviewers must evaluate articles with a constructive attitude in accordance with the academic etiquette rules; they should refrain from insulting and hostile personal comments.

·        Reviewers should evaluate the articles they agree on during the evaluation.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Authors

The ethical responsibilities of the authors that apply to MAKU SOBED as below:

·        The authors should not send an article published in or sent to be published in another journal to MAKU SOBED at the same time.

·        The authors should send original articles to MAKU SOBED. Authors should refer to the sources they use in writing articles in the correct way in the direction of ethical principles.

·        Persons who do not contribute to the articles should not be listed as authors, and it should not be proposed to change the author order of a published article and to add authors.

·        Reviewers must notify the editors of the conflicts and collaborations about the article.

·        In the evaluation process of the articles the authors should provide the editorial staff with information about the articles or the raw data if required.

·        The authors must document the rights to use the data they use in their articles, the permission for research or the approval of the participants to whom they have searched.

·        Authors should communicate with the editors to provide information, to correct the article or to withdraw it when they are aware of the error associated with the evaluation and early appearance phase or the published article in electronic form.

Notification of Ethics Non-Principles Status Editor

In case of encountering an unethical situation in articles or about editors, reviewers and authors or in articles that does not comply with the ethical principles regarding in the MAKU SOBED, it should be reported to sobed@mehmetakif.edu.tr.