ETHICAL RULES

For Authors
1. It is essential that the studies submitted to the journal are original, in accordance with scientific theory and methodology; and contribute to current practices and theories. Studies can be prepared in Turkish or English. Studies submitted to the journal should not have been previously published anywhere in Turkey or abroad and should not have been sent for publication. The Journal Management is not obliged to investigate whether the submitted studies have been published elsewhere before. The ethical responsibility of the situation belongs to the article owner. Sending the study to our journal for publication is considered as the author's commitment in this regard.

2. A candidate article based on a paper presented at scientific meetings (congress, symposium, seminar, etc.) can be accepted provided that it has not been published in the relevant proceedings booklet and this situation is stated.

3. If the information such as research, data collection, analysis, research results, etc. conducted within the scope of the study submitted to the journal has been used in a study published anywhere before, it must be stated in the article and in the bibliography.
4. In cases where there is more than one author in a study submitted to the journal, the authors of the article undertake that each of them has personally contributed to the planning, research, preparation, writing, editing and finalization of the study and that they have equal responsibility. If the contribution rates and fields of the authors are different, a statement of contribution rates should be provided.

5. Studies submitted to the journal cannot contain any fictitious (non-existent) information on research, data collection, analysis, research results, etc.

6. Authors should indicate in the article and in the bibliography that they have used sources that support not only the results and inferences put forward by their studies, but also sources that support other perspectives.

7. In studies supported by a research institution/organization (TÜBİTAK, SANTEZ, BAP, etc.), the name and code of the institution/organization and the project in question should be stated.

8. The name, place and date of the meeting should be stated in congress and symposium papers.

9. Studies submitted to our journal are regularly scanned for plagiarism. For this purpose, plagiarism prevention programs called iThenticate/Turnitin are used to detect plagiarism in academic studies.

10. Studies sent to the journal should be prepared within the framework of the Higher Education Council (YÖK) General Assembly's Scientific Research Publication Ethics Directive dated 10 November 2016 and numbered 2016.23.497, National Defense University Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Principles and COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) (http://publicationethics.org/international-standard-editors-and-authors) standards.

11. If the study sent to the journal includes research conducted on humans and/or animals or personal information to be shared as a result of the research, a permission document obtained from the authorized ethics committee must be sent. Studies in this situation without a permission document will not be accepted. The situations that require permission from the authorized ethics committee for studies sent to the journal are as follows: Any research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment, interview techniques, the use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes, clinical research conducted on humans and animals. In addition, in case reports, an “Informed Consent Form” must be established and submitted, and it must be documented that permission has been obtained from the owners for the use of scales, surveys, and photographs belonging to others. It is mandatory to comply with copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used.

12. If any non-compliance with academic and ethical principles is detected at any evaluation stage, the evaluation process of the studies, regardless of the stage, is immediately stopped and the study is rejected.

For Referees
1. Referees are the most basic elements that will determine the scientific nature, compliance with the journal's writing rules, publication principles, and ethical rules, and academic quality of the candidate study for our journal. Referees must act with this understanding and make evaluations with the responsibility of increasing academic quality.
2. Referees should only accept refereeing of studies for which they have the expertise required to conduct an appropriate evaluation.

3. Referees should abide by the rules of double-blind review and keep the details of the study confidential in all cases.

4. Referees should never share any information about the study they review with others.

5. Referees should make their evaluations in accordance with the principle of impartiality. They should only evaluate the scientific nature of the studies, their contribution to the field, the accuracy of their content, their compliance with the principles of writing style and academic criteria. It is not valuable if the ideas expressed in the study differ from the referee's ideas.