The ethical duties and responsibilities listed below have been prepared by taking into account the guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as open access.

A publication process that supports the objective production and dissemination of scientific knowledge is followed in the Synergy International Journal of Field Education Research. The successful operation of this process is only possible if all stakeholders (publisher, editor(s), author(s), referee(s) and reader(s), etc.) comply with the standards regarding ethical principles. Therefore, all stakeholders of the journal publication process are expected to act in accordance with the ethical principles stated below:
Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
Ethical responsibilities of author(s) who submit an article for publication in the Synergy International Journal of Field Education Research:
 Synergy International Journal of Field Education Research is a scientific-academic e-journal where original scientific studies are accepted for publication in Turkish and English. Therefore, author(s) should submit original studies for publication and should not submit articles published in other journals or sent for publication.
 Author(s) should refer to the sources they use in their studies in accordance with ethical principles and scientific rules and regulations.
 Names of individuals who do not contribute to the article should not be reported as authors, and requests to add, remove or change the order of authors should not be made after the article is uploaded to the system for publication.
 If information or raw data regarding their articles is requested from author(s) during the evaluation process, this information and documents should be submitted to the editor.
 Persons with conflicts of interest or common interests regarding the article for which publication application is made should be reported to the editors.
 Author(s) should document that the rights to use the data they use in their articles, permissions regarding research-analysis or approvals of the participants on whom they conducted research have been obtained.
 When the author(s) notice an error in their article that is in the evaluation and early appearance stage or published electronically, they must contact the editor to inform, correct or withdraw.
 For research that requires an ethics committee decision and requires data collection with quantitative or qualitative methods such as experiments, surveys, scales, interviews, observations, focus groups, the author(s) must indicate that they have received ethics committee approval; the ethics committee name, decision date and number must be stated on the first and last pages and in the method section of the candidate article, and the document showing the ethics committee decision must be uploaded to the system together with the application of the article. In addition, information regarding the receipt of the informed consent/approval form in case reports must be included in the article.
 The author(s) must provide evidence that they have been careful about ethical principles during the data collection process (such as obtaining permission from others for the use of documents such as scales, surveys, photographs) in the article. It must be stated in the articles that research and publication ethics and copyright regulations for intellectual and artistic works have been complied with. If the research was conducted on human and animal subjects, it must be stated that the research was conducted in accordance with international declarations, guidelines, etc.
 Ethics committee approval is not requested from the author(s) for compilation articles. However, in articles that do not require an ethics committee decision, it should be stated on the first and last pages of the article and in the method section that an ethics committee decision is not required.

Ethical Responsibilities of Editors, Assistant Editors and Field Editors
 Editors strive to meet the information needs of referees, author(s), researchers, practitioners and readers, to provide feedback when necessary, and to act according to the principles of openness in issues that require correction and explanation during the publication process.
When making positive or negative decisions about articles, editors take into consideration the original value of the articles, their contribution to the field, the validity and reliability of the research method, the clarity of the narrative and the purpose and scope of the journal.
 Editors take the submitted articles to the preliminary evaluation stage unless there are significant problems, take into consideration positive referee suggestions, and do not change the decisions made by previous editor(s) unless there are serious problems.
 Editors implement blind refereeing and evaluation process policies, which are among the publication policies of the journal, keep the identity of the referees confidential, and ensure that each article is evaluated impartially and on time.
 Editors send articles by taking into account the expertise of the editors and referees who receive them, and support the impartial and independent evaluations.
 Editors consider whether there is a conflict of interest or a common interest between editors, referees, and author(s) for an impartial evaluation of the article.
 Editors seek to ensure that the referee pool consists of a wide range and is constantly updated.
 Editors, academic