Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
Turkish Journal of Applied Sciences and Technology carries out its activities within the framework of scientific principles and commitments for all parties (publisher, editor, referee, author, and reader).
Our journal declares its commitment to ethical principles determined by national and international scientific authorities. In this context, the commitment of all parties (authors, readers, researchers, publisher, referees, and editors) to follow the ethical publishing principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the ethical behaviors recommended by the TR Index, verbally and/or written (written notification for the authors) mandatory) are requested. In addition, all stakeholders must comply with the COPE guideline proposed by the TR Index, the YÖK-Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, and the ethical directive of their own institutions, depending on the nature of the study.
Considering the guidelines and policies of national and international organizations, certain ethical principles for the parties;
Ethical principles for the publisher;
• The publisher protects the confidentiality of the confidential information and documents of all parties.
• It uses its privileges with the principle of being beneficial to humanity within the framework of scientific purposes.
Ethical principles for the editor(s)
• Editor(s) should only accept publications that are suitable for their field.
• They should not have a conflict of interest with the authors.
• Their decisions should be impartial and in a way that contributes to science.
• Their decisions must not be inconsistent with the referees' decisions without justification.
• The editor(s) may not engage in any discourse, publication, or behavior that would violate the originality of the work before publication.
• They must maintain the confidentiality of additional information that their authors do not wish to be published.
• They cannot use the privileges provided by the editorship for their scientific studies in any way other than scientific ways.
Ethical principles for referee(s);
• It is imperative that they act impartially in the evaluation.
• The result of the evaluation is to a degree that is compatible with the rationale and criticism
• Referees cannot make any statements, publications, or behaviors that would violate the originality of the work before publication.
• If the referee finds out about the authors by any means, if there is a conflict of interest or funding between the authors, they should notify the editor and they should withdraw from the refereeing.
• They must maintain the confidentiality of additional information that the author does not wish to be published.
• They cannot use the privileges provided by refereeing for their personal scientific studies in any way other than scientific ways.
Ethical principles for authors;
• Submitted work must not be published elsewhere or in the process of publication.
• The originality of the study and the references used should be given in both the text and the references in a complete and duly referenced way.
• There should be no violations of scientific ethics in the manuscripts such as plagiarism, forgery, distortion, republishing, slicing, unfair authorship, etc.
• Ethics committee approval should be obtained for research conducted in all disciplines that require ethics committee approval, and this approval should be stated and documented in the article. (In studies that require ethics committee approval, information about the permission (name of the committee, date, and number) should be included in the method section, as well as on one of the first/last pages of the article; in the case reports, information about the informed consent form being signed should be included in the article.)
• Existence and moral rights should be respected in human and animal trials, and an ethical committee decision should be taken before the trial (there should be an ethical committee dominated by medical professionals in human trials).
• The support of natural and legal persons who contributed to the study without authorship should be reported together with the type of support and should be stated in a separate place other than the author(s) in the acknowledgment section.
• If there is a conflict of interest between the author(s), it must be declared at the time of submission.
• The manuscript should not include honorary authors in publications.
• The purpose of the studies cannot be unscientific reasons such as commercial interest, advertisement, propaganda, etc.
Ethical principles for the reader and other researchers;
• They must abide by the publisher's copyrights.
• They can use the works to be published after citing them according to scientific rules.
The internal ethical audit process of the Turkish Journal of Applied Sciences and Technology;
• First edition: Journal Editor's Secretariat (contact e-mail: fbeeditor@siirt.edu.tr)
• Second step: Associate Editors on behalf of the Editor-in-Chief (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Harun BEKTAŞ e-mail: harunbektas@siirt.edu.tr)
• Last Step: Ethics Committee (Siirt University Ethics Committee e-mail: etikkrul@siirt.edu.tr)
It is recommended that the journal's internal ethics audit process steps first be made for ethical violation victimization claims.