• ABOUT ENGINEERS AND MACHINERY JOURNAL AND ITS WRITING PRINCIPLES

Engineer and Machinery Journal is a vocational and technical publication that is published on a quarterly basis and aims at providing our country’s industry, society, and disciplines and colleagues who are members of Chamber with their scientific, technicaL and vocational knowledge needs, as well as to contribute to their scientific, and technical development. The English and Turkish articles on mechanical engineering field with the following qualities written in the format stated below are accepted to ‘’Engineers and Machinery Journal’’. Research Article: It must reflect an authentic research with its findings and results. The research must contribute to science. Literature Review Article: They must review an adequate number of scientific articles, summarize and evaluate the subject according to current knowledge and technological level, and compare their findings before interpreting them.

PRESENTATION FORMAT

1 The whole article (text, tables, equations, drawings) must be typed and arranged on computer and delivered as ready for publication. The article must be written on an A4 (210x297 mm) paper, via Word MS, in 10 font size (heading must be in 15 font size) of Times New Roman with single space.

2. Articles including their drawings and tables must not exceed 25 pages and short papers must not exceed 4 pages.

3. Articles must be sent via registration on Online Article Management System (OMYS). The uploaded article must be named as “article_the first 2 or 3 words of the title of article’’. The articles uploaded on OMYS should not contain any information about the author. The information about the author must be presented in a separate cover page, which must be also uploaded on the system. The cover page must demonstrate the name of the article and contact information of the author (name, surname, address, e-mail, academic title if there is one).

4. The article must be written in a plain language and style. It must comply with the spelling rules of the language used; third-person singular and deponent verbs must be used, whereas; inverted sentences must not be employed.

5. The title of the article must be clear and as short as possible (100 characters to the maximum) and also reflect the content. The first letters of English titles must be in capitals and titles must be written according to grammatical rules.

6. Chapters must be arranged in the following order: (i) abstract and keywords (in Turkish), (ii) abstract ve keywords (in English), (iii) main text, (iv) symbols, (v) acknowledgment (if necessary), and (vi) references.

7. Abstract must briefly define the objective, scope, method, and results of the study and must not exceed 100 words. At least three English and Turkish keywords must be provided. The first page must include the title in both Turkish and English, the abstract, and keywords; the main text must start from the second page.

8. The titles of chapters and sub-chapters must be numbered (TS 1212 ISO 2145).

9. Symbols must be employed according to international use; each symbol must be defined at their first use in the text; at the end of the article (before References), all symbols used must be listed in alphabetical order (Latin Alphabet first, Greek alphabet second).

10. Equations must be numbered and these numbers must be indicated in parantheses at the end of line.

11. Photographs must be scanned, and transferred to computers in jpeg format with a solution of 300 dpi at least. Drawings, tables, and photographs must be integrated into the text; eahc of them must be given a number and title; numbers and titles must be written under drawings (figures) and photographs, and above tables.

12. Only SI units must be used in articles.

13. As required by ethnical rules, citations must be presented in quotes and its reference must be demonstrated via a reference number.

14. Acknowledgments must be as brief as possible and state the people and institutions having contributed to the study.

15. References must be numbered via brackets in the text; in the list of references, they must be indicated according to their order in the text. The references must include the following information: If reference is an article: Author’s surname, initial of his/her name., other authors. year. ‘’full title of the article,’’ name of the journal, volume, issue, start and end page. If reference is a book: Author’s surname, initial of his/her name., other authors. year of publication. name of the book, volume number (if available), editor (if available), publication or ISBN no, publishing house, place of publication. If reference is an paper: Author’s surname, initial of his/her name., other authors. year. ‘’name of the paper,’’ name of the conference, date, place. If reference is a thesis: Author’s surname, initial of his/her name., other authors. year. ‘’name of the thesis,’’ degree, presented institution, city. If reference is a report: Author’s surname, initial of his/her name., other authors. year. name of the report, type of the report, publication number, name of the institution, place of publication. If reference is a website: Author’s surname, initial of his/her name., other authors. year. ‘’name of the article,’’ internet address, last date of access.day.month.year

References
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***Kleinert S, Wager E (2011). “Responsible Research Publication: International Standards for Editors”. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. Chapter 51 in: Mayer T & Steneck N (Eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a
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