ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
In the publication process of our journal, it is very important that authors, publishers, referees and editors comply with the standards for ethical principles. Ethical duties and responsibilities in all transactions carried out within the scope of our journal are guided by the Directive on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics of the Council of Higher Education and the publication ethics and policies specified by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Actions Contrary to Scientific Research and Publication Ethics
a) Plagiarism: Representing the original ideas, methods, data or works of others as one's own work in whole or in part without citation in accordance with scientific rules,
b) Forgery: Using non-existent or falsified data in scientific research,
c) Distortion: Falsifying research records or data obtained, falsifying devices or materials not used in the research, falsifying or shaping the results of the research in line with the interests of the persons and organizations receiving support,
ç) Republishing: Presenting duplicate publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions,
d) Slicing: Dividing the results of a research into parts in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research and inappropriately and publishing them in more than one number and presenting these publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions,
e) Unfair authorship: Including or excluding people who have not made active contributions, changing the order of authors in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of those who have made active contributions from the work in subsequent editions, using one's influence to have one's name included among the authors even though one has not made active contributions,

Protection of Participants' Personal Data
Our journal requires that all research involving personal or sensitive data or materials relating to human participants that are not legally publicly available be subject to formal ethical review.

Ethical Violation Notifications
Readers can send an e-mail to mrustemoglul@sirnak.edu.tr if they notice a significant error or inaccuracy in an article published in our journal or if they have any complaints about the editorial content (plagiarism, duplicate articles, etc.). We welcome submissions and respond quickly and constructively, as they provide an opportunity for improvement.

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern
Editors may consider publishing a correction if minor errors are identified in the published article that do not affect the findings, interpretations and conclusions. In the case of major errors/violations that invalidate findings and conclusions, editors should consider retracting the article. COPE guidelines regarding correction, retraction or expression of concern are taken into account.

Plagiarism Check
All articles submitted to SUFBD are scanned with the iThenticate plagiarism software program. Articles with plagiarism problems are returned immediately.
In case of suspected plagiarism in a published article:
• The person reporting the plagiarism is informed about the process to be followed.
• The similarities of the articles are compared.
• The editors of SUFBD are informed and asked for their comments.
• The corresponding author(s) will be contacted with the documents that will be shown as evidence for the plagiarism case and asked for his/her response on the issue.
• If the author(s) is found guilty of plagiarism, the editor of the journal in which the original plagiarized article was published and the author(s) of the plagiarized article will be informed.
• The online version of the article is withdrawn.
• SUFBD rejects article proposals from authors involved in plagiarism cases for three years.

Financial Support
Authors should clearly declare the financial support provided by any organization within the scope of their work in the text of the article.

ETHICS COMMITTEE APPROVAL
Our journal requires that the relevant ethics committee decision must be obtained for all studies in all disciplines that require ethics committee permission. In this context, information about the ethics committee approval (name of the committee, date and decision number) should be clearly stated in the text of the article. In case reports, the information that the informed consent form has been obtained should be included in the article.
In line with the regulations implemented by Ulakbim TR Index since 2020, studies that do not have ethics committee permission are not evaluated in our journal.

Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
In our journal, researches that require ethics committee permission include the following studies:
• All research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that involve collecting data from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations, experiments and interview techniques,
• Studies in which humans and animals (including materials or data) are used for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical trials conducted on humans,
• Scientific research on animals,
• Retrospective studies within the framework of the Personal Data Protection Law.
In order for such studies to be included in the evaluation, the relevant ethics committee permissions must be obtained and these permissions must be clearly stated in the text of the article.

NOTE: Scientific research on humans and animals must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and ARRIVE guidelines and approval must be obtained from the relevant ethics committee.

PUBLICATION ETHICS
Within the scope of Sirnak University Journal of Science, editors, referees, authors and publisher comply with the following rules in terms of publication ethics.

Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Editors;
• The editors are obliged to increase the scientific quality of Sirnak University Journal of Science and to endeavor to have it scanned and indexed in various scientific platforms.
• Articles submitted to Sirnak University Journal of Science are evaluated based on publication quality (importance, originality, validity and clarity of the study), journal objectives and ethical rules.
• They make decisions independent of the individual characteristics of the authors (gender, sexual orientation, political opinions, ethnicity, religion and race).
• They keep privileged information or ideas confidential and do not use them for personal gain.
• Editors are responsible for protecting human and animal rights in the case of human and animal studies. They are responsible for rejecting the article if the ethics committee approval is not sent in studies that require an ethics committee report.
• Referees should take the necessary warnings and measures to evaluate the article in a timely, impartial and scientific manner.
• Editors should work on continuous updating and expansion of the referee pool.
• Editors should check the submission files and appoint referees after making sure that the files other than the article file are complete. It should be checked whether the author has uploaded all the additional declarations required by the journal in a signed form.
• They check the suitability of the manuscripts submitted to Sirnak University Journal of Science in terms of plagiarism and ethical principles.
• Editors take the manuscripts prepared in accordance with the article outline in the writing rules to the preliminary control stage, and the manuscripts deemed appropriate in the preliminary control are sent to the referees for evaluation.
• The manuscripts are sent to the referees for evaluation in accordance with the double-blind peer review process without specifying the author's name. The evaluations and suggestions from the referees are sent to the authors without sharing the referee information.
• They lead the review of articles by at least two referees who are experts in their field.
• Unless there is an important reason, the editor and the field editor should take into account the positive opinions of the referees.
• They do not consider manuscripts related to authors or institutions with which they are affiliated because of any conflict of interest or conflict of interest, and therefore ask the editor-in-chief to ask another appropriate editor to handle the manuscript.
• Take responsive measures when ethical concerns arise regarding a proposed or published article. They reinvestigate unethical publication behavior, even if it comes to light years later.
• They may seek clarification from authors with perceived vested interests.
• They should respond to requests and comments from authors with feedback.

Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers;
• With their reviews, they help both the editors to make decisions and the authors to improve their manuscripts.
• They refuse to review articles on topics they are not competent in, and inform the editors to contact the referee they know to be more competent on the relevant topic.
• They keep confidential the articles they review and are invited to review or decline an invitation to review.
• They identify relevant important citations that should be included in the article to the author and draw attention to the relevant citation for an important statement in the literature.
• They report to the editor any significant similarities they discover between the article they review and any other article.
• Reviewers are responsible for not evaluating the article if there is a conflict of interest and/or relationship.
• Reviewers may not use the submitted manuscript for any purpose until the evaluation process is completed and the manuscript is submitted for publication.
• They keep privileged information or ideas confidential and do not use them for personal gain. They do not lose sight of this confidentiality rule for the articles they are invited to review or for the articles they decline the invitation to review.
• The referee(s) who accept to review the manuscript are responsible for reviewing the manuscript within the time allotted to them, observing the ethical rules.
• Referees should use kind and constructive language when evaluating the article. They should avoid comments and expressions that contain insults, slander and hostility.

Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Authors;
• Present the findings of their original research in detail and accurately, discuss and conclude objectively with accurate references. Ensure that review article proposals are objective and comprehensive. Avoid fraudulent or intentional misrepresentation and plagiarism.
• If they use the works or words of others in their articles, they cite them strictly and refer to the publications that are effective in determining the quality of the study.
• By submitting their articles to Sirnak University Journal of Science, they are deemed to have declared that they have not submitted their articles to more than one journal for publication at the same time.
• Follow the spelling rules of Sirnak University Journal of Science when citing.
• If they discover an error in their submitted manuscript, they immediately inform the editors and cooperate with them to correct or withdraw the manuscript.
• Inform the editors of any conflicts of interest related to their articles.
• In manuscript proposals, all sources of support for the work should be acknowledged in the acknowledgments section of the manuscript.
• All authors are responsible for all parts of the manuscript.
• All authors must see and approve the final version of the submitted manuscript before submission.
• The text, figures, tables and documents in the article should not violate the copyrights of other individuals.
• Authors may be asked for raw data about their manuscripts during the evaluation process. In such a case, authors should be ready to provide the expected information and documents.
• If there is a need to add authors, change the order of authors, or remove authors from an article that has started the review process, an application can be made to the journal management with the approval of all authors. The journal management reviews the application and notifies the responsible author of the decision.
• Authors should not arbitrarily withdraw the submitted manuscript while the refereeing process is ongoing. If they wish to withdraw the manuscript, they may do so with approval by sending a letter to the editor-in-chief of SUFBD with the necessary explanation.
• Accepted manuscripts should be reviewed by the authors for proofreading (pre-approval) before they are printed in our journal, and the necessary corrections should be made within the specified period and approval for printing should be given. After the article is published, authors who request any changes should contact the Editors within the first 3 days after the publication date.

Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of the Publisher;
• Review unethical publishing behavior.
• In cases of alleged and proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, take all appropriate measures in close cooperation with the editor to clarify the situation and modify the relevant article. Measures include the publication of corrections to typographical errors and, in serious cases, the withdrawal of the article.
• Together with the editors, take appropriate steps to prevent research misconduct from occurring, and under no circumstances encourage or knowingly allow such misconduct to occur.

PUBLICATION POLICY

1- Article Evaluation Process
• Sirnak University Journal of Science is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year (June and December). It has accepted the blind peer review process. The journal publishes scientific articles prepared in accordance with publication ethics; research, review, technical report types prepared in disciplines such as agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, food, as well as disciplines such as machinery, construction, materials, energy, mining, electronics and computer engineering. The publication language of the journal is Turkish or English and/or Turkish-English. No fee is charged to the authors during the acceptance, evaluation and publication of the articles.
• Each manuscript uploaded to the system of Sirnak University Journal of Science is first pre-evaluated by the editor-in-chief or section editors in terms of the journal's spelling and publication principles. Then, if there are corrections to be made by the author, the manuscript is returned to the author by the editors requesting corrections. After the approval of the Editor, the manuscript is sent to at least two independent referees who are experts in their fields. These referees are selected from among those who have at least a PhD degree in the field and department to which the study is related. The manuscripts are evaluated in accordance with the double blind peer review process. All processes from the submission of the application to the publication of the study are carried out electronically. It is decided to publish the article with the positive evaluation of at least two referees and the opinion of the editors. If one referee gives a positive opinion and one referee gives a negative opinion, the article is sent to a third referee.
• The names of the referees and authors are confidential during the article evaluation process. The review process is expected to be completed within 60 days. If this period is exceeded, the editors may appoint new referees. The review process is completed with the positive (publishable) or negative (unpublishable) opinions of at least two referees. After positive referee evaluations, revision (major or minor) decisions of the articles are made in line with the referee recommendations.
• It is accepted that the submitted articles have not been published or proposed for publication in any medium. Otherwise, the article will be rejected. All responsibility for the articles belongs to the author(s).
• The Copyright Form, in which the relevant information is filled in and signed by all authors, must be uploaded to the system.
• Authors should state that they have received an Ethics Committee Report in their articles when necessary, and a copy of this report should be attached when required.

2- Open Access and Copyright
Authors agree to transfer their copyrights to our Journal under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license when the article is accepted for publication. All articles published in our journal are published as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

License Scope
Share: you may copy and redistribute the work in any medium or format.
As long as you fulfill the terms of the license, the licensee may not revoke these freedoms (specified rights).
Under the following conditions:
Attribution: you must give proper credit, provide a link to the license, and provide information if changes have been made. You may do these things appropriately, but this does not imply that the licensor approves of you and your use.
Non-commercial: You may not use this material for commercial purposes.
Not derivative: You may not distribute updated material if you have mixed, transferred, or worked on the material.
There are no additional restrictions: You may not limit the rights permitted by the license to others, either by law or through the use of technology.

3- Archive Policy
Articles published in our journal are digitally archived in LOCKSS. Articles published in our journal can be accessed free of charge at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/sufbd/archive.

Version Published in the Journal
Publication Type: Open Access
RSS: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/sufbd/rss-feeds 
LOCKSS: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/sufbd/lockss-manifest 
Embargo Period: No embargo period.
Open Access License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Copyright Holder: The author(s) assign their copyright to our journal.
Archive Location: Institutional Repository, Crossref, Journal Website, Corporate Site, Public and/or Commercial Subject-Based Repositories.

Version Accepted at the End of the Referee Process
Embargo Period: None
Archive Place: Magazine Website, Corporate Website.
Copyright Holder: The author(s) assign their copyright to our journal.

First Text Submitted to the Journal
Embargo Period: None
Archive Place: Magazine Website, Corporate Website.

4- Fee Policy
Article submission, evaluation and publication processes in our journal are completely free of charge. No fee is charged for articles submitted or accepted for publication. In accordance with our editorial policy, sponsorship and advertisements are not accepted and all expenses of our journal are covered by the Publisher.

5- Special Issue Publication Policy
With the decision of the Editorial Board, a special issue may be published once a year. The publication and evaluation principles for the articles to be published in the special issue are applied in the same way as in the planned issues.