Publication Principles

1. The Journal belongs to The Dean’s Office of Turkish Military Academy. It is a double-blind peer reviewed social sciences journal, published semiannually (June-December) since 2006.

2. SAVSAD Journal of Defence and War Studies cannot be sold or bought. The journal doesn’t charge the authors for publication or submission.

3. The names and e-mails appearing in the journal will only be used in compliance with the Journal’s purpose.

4. The linguistic, scientific and legal responsibility of the articles published in SAVSAD Journal of Defence and War Studies belongs to the author. Publication rights belong to SAVSAD Journal of Defence and War Studies. The printing and publishing rights are transferred to the journal once the manuscript is submitted. The published article cannot be reprinted, reproduced, or reused in another publishing without the editor’s permission, and it can only be used with reference. Editorial Board is free to decide whether or not to publish the manuscripts submitted to the journal

5. Views and opinions in the published articles completely belong to the author and do not represent the official declarations or statements of the Ministry of Defence, National Defence University or the Turkish Armed Forces. The author is completely responsible for erroneous citations, deficient data or any other distortions. The data used on each study must be preserved by the author for following five years. There is no copyright payment for the article sent to the journal.

6. Submitted manuscripts are put in the order of priority by the Editorial Board and evaluated in terms of their suitability to the journal’s principles and guidelines. If the submitted manuscript doesn’t comply with the scientific measures and ethical/publication principles of the journal and has more spelling mistakes than acceptable, it is sent to the author before being sent to the peer-reviewers. The Editorial Board and the editor has the right to reject the submitted manuscript directly.

7. The manuscripts less than 3000 words or more than 15000 words aren’t accepted except for the Editorial Board’s special consent.

8. If the submitted manuscripts meet the formal requirements that are specified in the Writing Rules, following the editorial review in the context of subject and research field, they are submitted to two peer-reviewers who are experts in the relevant field of research. As the necessity of double-blind peer-review system, the manuscript is sent to the peer-reviewers without any information regarding the author. If the evaluation of both reviews turns out to be positive, the manuscript is accepted for publication. Should one of the evaluations is positive and the other one is negative, the manuscript is sent to the third peer reviewer. In the event that the editors or peer-reviewers of the journal request a change/correction in the text of the manuscript in terms of format, method or content, this situation is reported to the author and the author is asked to amend the text again and deliver it in 10 days at the latest. The author can only make corrections in accordance with the peer-reviewers’ evaluations and findings. The amended text can be reviewed again in case the peer reviewers deem it necessary.

The manuscripts submitted to the journal are published with a final decision of the Editorial Board after two peer reviewers give approval as ''publishable''. For manuscripts that are not approved for publication as a result of the peer reviewer's opinion, the justification is notified to the author by the editor on behalf of the editorial board. However, the Journal is not obliged to provide justification to the authors of unpublished manuscripts. Manuscripts submitted to the journal, whether published or not, will not be returned and rejected manuscripts will not be re-evaluated at a later date.

Ethical Rules

For Authors

1. It is essential that the manuscripts submitted to the journal are original, appropriate to scientific theory and methodology, and contribute to existing practices and theories. Manuscripts can be written either in English or in Turkish. The manuscripts should not be published or sent to be published to any domestic or foreign party before. It is not under the journal’s responsibility to investigate this issue. Its ethical responsibility is the author’s. The submission of the manuscript is considered to be the commitment of the author in this respect.

2.The submitted manuscripts that were presented in scientific meetings such as congress, symposium, seminar etc. can be accepted if they have not been published in the related proceedings books and this must be explicitly stated by the author(s).

3. If any research, data collection, analysis, research results etc. within the context of the submitted manuscript were used in any published study, it must be stated in both the manuscript and its references.

4. If the manuscript is prepared by more than one author, all authors undertake having equal responsibility and contributing equally to whole process of the manuscript including planning, research, preparing, organizing, drafting, writing and submitting the last version of the manuscript. If the participation rate differs, the authors must submit participation rate declaration.

5. The submitted manuscripts cannot include fabricated (untrue) information in research, data collection, analysis, research results etc. issues.

6. The authors must show in their manuscripts that they have not only referred to the sources supporting the results and conclusions of the manuscript but also the ones supporting the opposing opinions in both the main text and references section.

7. The manuscripts that are supported by a research institute (TÜBİTAK, TÜİK, Türk Tarih Kurumu etc.) must state the name, date and number of the project in the footnote.

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

9. The manuscripts sent to the journal are regularly examined against plagiarism. The application named iThenticate is used to prevent plagiarism.

10. The manuscripts submitted to the journal have to be prepared in accordance with The Directives of Scientific Search and Publication Ethics of the Board of Higher Education (Date: 10 November 2016, Number: 2016.23.497) and The Directives of Scientific Search and Publication Ethics of National Defense University and with the standards of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) (https://publicationethics.org/resources/resources-and-further-reading/international-standards-editors-and-authors).

11. If the submitted manuscript includes any research applied on humans and/or animals or any personal information to be shared, the author of the manuscript must submit the proper permission documents taken from an authorized Research Ethics Committee. Such manuscripts will not be accepted without a proper permission document. The situations that necessitate Research Ethics Committee approval are as follows: The research that are carried out with qualitative and quantitative approaches necessitating data gathering by using questionnaire, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview technics; using of humans or animals for experimental or another scientific purposes; clinical research on humans or animals. The “Informed Consent Form” must be submitted in case reports. For the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others, it is necessary to document that permission has been obtained from their owners. It is obligatory to comply with copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used.

12. In the event of finding that a study doesn’t comply with academic and ethical principles, the publication process is stopped, and the manuscript is rejected.

13. The extended abstract must include the information regarding the aim, problem, method, findings, and the conclusion of the manuscript. It is important for your article to get international citations. The extended abstract mustn’t include any findings or results that aren’t given in the main text. The author must not refer to the main text in the extended summary (E.g: “As mentioned in page 2 of the article”, “as mentioned in the introduction part” etc.)

14. The authors must certainly state “This study was prepared in compliance with the scientific search and publication ethics. There is no content necessitating any permission from Ethical Board or any legal/special permission in this study. It has been declared to SAVSAD Journal of Defence and War Research with the signature(s) of the author(s) that there is no conflict of interest related to the study.” in the abstract.

For Peer Reviewers

1. The peer reviewers are the fundamental elements to determine whether the submitted manuscript is scientificaly, grammatically, ethically and academicaly suitable to be published in the journal. Peer reviewers should act accordingly and evaluate with the responsibility of improving academic quality.

2. The peer reviewers must accept only the manuscripts that they are qualified of evaluating according to their academic expertise.

3. The peer reviewers must abide by the rules of double-blind peer reviewer system and respect the confidentiality of the process and act accordingly.

4. The peer reviewers can’t share any information about the manuscripts with the other parties.

5. The peer reviewers must abide by the principles of impartiality. They must evaluate the manuscript in terms of scientific measures, its contribution to the field, the correctness of its content, its academic and grammatical suitability.

6. The peer reviewers must strongly abstain from using any kind of offensive, humiliating or accusatory statements in their reports.

7. The peer reviewers must use clear and detailed statements about the manuscript. For the manuscript they don’t approve to be published, they must give concrete reasons explaining the missing or faulty points.

8. The peer reviewers must evaluate the authors’ loyalty to the objectivity principles. The peer reviewers must feel content that the author does not only refer to the sources that support the argument in the manuscript but also refer to the ones that support the other opinions as well.

9. The peer reviewers must evaluate the manuscript within 30 days. They must notify the journal of their refusal decision within 1 week of receiving the peer reviewing request.

10. When the peer reviewers suspect that there is a conflict of interest in the study, they must inform the editorial board and if necessary, reject the manuscript.

For Editors

1. The editors must accept the manuscripts that will contribute to the field in compliance with the ethical rules and writing form principles of the journal.

2. The editors mustn’t be in any conflict of interest with the accepted/rejected manuscripts.

3. The editors have the whole responsibility and authority to accept/reject the manuscript.

4. The Publication Committee, Responsible Editor and Editorial Secretariat are obliged to keep all studies confidential until they are published. They can’t give any details to anyone except the author(s).

5. It is the editors’ responsibility to keep any information of the peer reviewers and the authors mutually confidential in compliance with double-blind peer reviewer system.

6. The editors must perform plagiarism screening of the manuscripts submitted to the journal before the evaluation process begins and should take the necessary measures to prevent plagiarism.

7. It is the editors' responsibility to fulfill plagiarism screening, pre-evaluation, peer reviewer process, editing and publishing process in time and flawlessly.

8. The editors must comply with the research and ethical rules and academic standards when accepting or rejecting the manuscripts.

For Readers

If the readers find an important error or mistake in the article or find an editorial content problem (plagiarism, repeated articles etc.), they will be highly welcomed when they inform the Editorial Board via savsad@kho.msu.edu.tr and it will be reacted immediately.