1. SPELLING RULES ACCORDING TO WRITING TYPES
Spelling rules are defined below according to the types of manuscripts to be submitted to journals for publication. The articles to be submitted to the journal should be prepared in accordance with the principles specified in the writing rules, sufbd_draft and sufbd_template.

1.1. ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
• Articles can be written in Turkish or English and/or Turkish-English.
• Publications should be prepared in Microsoft Office Word compatible programs, in Times New Roman font, with 2.5 cm margins on all sides, justified, 1.5 line spacing, and the page number should be placed in the center of the page.
• Research articles should not be longer than 15 pages including text, references, figures and tables. Figures and tables should be given at the end of the text.
• If the article is in Turkish: Turkish Title, Author names and addresses, Abstract and Keywords, English Title (titel), abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Acknowledgments (if necessary) and References.
• If the article is in English: English Title, Author names and addresses, Abstract, Keywords, Turkish Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Material and Methods, Result and Discussion, Acknowledgments (if necessary) and References.
Title: The title should be appropriate to the content of the manuscript, as short and clear as possible. The first letters of the words should be capitalized, written in lower case, 13 pt, bold and centered on the page.
Author Names: The name(s) and surname of the author(s) (first names in lower case, last names in upper case) should be written in 12 pt. and in normal font. Author addresses should be written below the author names and numbered in 10 pt. The addresses of the authors (if different) should be indicated with a superscript number at the end of the name of the corresponding author. The corresponding author should be indicated with an asterisk (*) and the e-mail address should be given at the end of the first page as a footnote.
Abstract: It should include the purpose of the study, how it was conducted, the results and the author(s)' evaluation of the results, should not exceed 300 words and should be written in 10 pt.
Keywords: There should be a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 6. “Keywords” should be given under the Abstract and ‘Keywords’ should be given under the Abstract. “Keywords” and ‘Keywords’ subheadings should be left justified, in 10 pt. font size, bold, and the words should be separated from each other with semicolons (;) (e.g. Word 1; word 2; word 3). There should be no abbreviations in this section.
English Title: The English title should be centered, 13 pt, bold, and written in lower case with the first letters of the words capitalized.
Abstract: Abstract should be written in English in 10 font size, not exceeding 300 words.
Main section headings: Uppercase bold (12 p), First subsection headings: Lowercase bold (12 p), Second subsection headings: Lower case bold and italicized (12 p).
1. Introduction: It should cover the importance and purpose of the study and previous basic research on the subject. The summary of the literature and the purpose and importance of the study should be given in this section and should be written in 12 font size.
2. Material and Method: The research material and method should be described in detail in this section and written in 12-point font. If necessary, a subheading related to the method can be used.
If statistical evaluations were made in the study, the last subheading of the Materials and Methods section should be written as follows.
Statistical analysis: Statistical methods, package program, etc. used in the evaluation of the data should be written.
3. Findings and Discussion: Research findings and discussion should be given in this section and the importance of the results obtained in the research should be emphasized and compared with previous studies and should be written in 12 pt.
4. Conclusion: The results and recommendations obtained from the research should be given in this section in 12-point font.
Tables and Figures: Numerical values should be named as “Table x.”; Graphics, maps, photographs, pictures, etc. should be named as “Figure x.”. Tables and figures should not be placed in the text as (Table 1) or (Figure 1) and should be indicated at the end of the relevant sentence. Table titles should be written above the relevant table and figure descriptions should be written below the relevant figure without using tabs, the first letter of the first word should be capitalized, all letters of the other words should be lowercase and in 11 pt. Text within tables can be in 9-11 pt. according to preference. Explanations related to the table should be given under the table with an asterisk (*). Tables and figures should be centered on the page and given at the end of the page.
Numerical expressions: In terms of general appearance, a period should be used as a decimal separator (Example: 25.17 oC; 4.25 kg; 12.5%, etc.), a nonbroken/forced space should be left as a thousand separator to facilitate reading (Example: 15 000; 45 564 123; 45 123.25, etc.). ), the numbers should be placed in the center in charts with numbers, the number of digits after decimal brackets should be equal (example: 25.12; 45.36; 12.10%; 45.80%, etc.), and when two consecutive numbers should be given, a hyphen ( - ) should be placed between the two numbers (example: 14.2-17.3; 12-47%, etc.).
Citing references within the work: It should be done as follows on the basis of “Author and Year”;
Single named references; (Özbek, 1982),....Two named references; (Couch and Metz, 1977),....More than two named references; (Couch et al., 1999),....Institutional publications and information taken from the internet without author in Turkish and foreign language; (Anonymous, 2006),... - (Web1, 2003),...should be given as. In addition, when a topic is opened or information is given in the text, when the source(s) from which the information is taken is to be given between sentences or at the end of the sentence, according to the number of names in the source (Öztürk & Selli, 2013; Göncü, 2014; Çetin et al, 2015).In the text, quotations from a subject in an uncovered work or from another publication can be shown as follows; “According to Akın and his friends (1950), Taner (1945) determined it as ........” or “.......identified (Özkütük, 1945: from Akın et al. 1950)”. Works cited in the text but not found and quoted from another source (Özkütük et al., 1950) should not be included in the “References” section.
Acknowledgments: Acknowledgements to the relevant institutions or individuals, if any, should be written in this section.
Contribution Rate and Conflict of Interest: In studies with more than one author, the contribution rate and conflict of interest declaration of the authors should be stated at the manuscript submission stage.
Ethics Committee Permission: In our journal, all studies that require ethics committee approval must be approved by the relevant committee. Surveys, experiments, observations, clinical and animal studies, and research involving personal data are subject to ethics committee approval. This permission must be clearly stated in the text of the article. Studies without ethical approval are not evaluated. 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. Studies without ethics committee approval are not evaluated in our journal.
References: References should appear at the end of the article and should be listed alphabetically according to the surname of the author and chronologically for the same author and should be written in 12-point font. References should be listed in accordance with APA format. Bottom lines should be 1 cm inside and without tabs and there should be no spaces between references. Book titles and periodicals should be italicized.

References should be written according to the examples below.

a) Journal Article
Yücel, D. Ö., Anlarsal, A. E., & Yücel, C. (2006). Genetic variability, correlation and path analysis of yield, and yield components in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry, 30(3), 183-188.

b) Book
Tükel, T., & Hatipoğlu, R. (1997). Meadow Pasture Management. Çukurova University. Agriculture. Fak. Offset Workshop, (p 152).

c) Book chapter
Fıratlı, Ç. (1993) Bee breeding: Animal Breeding. M. Ertuğrul (Ed.), 239-270, Bilgi Publishing House, Ankara.

d) Congress/symposium/conference book
Yücel, C., Yucel, D., Ortas, I., Islam K.R. (2013). Possible Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Agricultural Measures to be Taken. Turkey Xth Field Crops Congress, September 10-13, Konya, S: 418-424

e) Online Document
Cartwright, J. (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing Physics Web: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1 Accessed 26 June 2007.

f) Theses
Trent, J. W. (1975) Experimental Acuterenal Failure. Doctoral Thesis (Master's Thesis), University of California.

g) A source of unknown authorship and/or date
Anonymous, (2004) T.C. Prime Ministry General Directorate of State Meteorological Affairs, Elazığ Provincial Directorate Records.

• The “International System of Units” (SI) must be followed in article writing.

1.2. REVIEW TYPE ARTICLES
Review-type manuscripts are evaluated within the scope of review-type manuscripts if a sufficient number of scientific articles are scanned and summarized at the level of current knowledge and technology, evaluated and interpreted by comparing the findings. The writing rules defined above for original research papers also apply to review-type manuscripts and should not be longer than 10 pages.

1.3. TECHNICAL NOTE
Studies that bring an innovation of practical value and provide an advance or convenience that is superior to existing methods are considered as Technical Notes, and the writing rules defined above for original research papers also apply to Technical Notes and should not be longer than 3 pages.

1.4. LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Additional scientific contributions, comments and criticisms written to the editor for the research article written in the journal are considered as Letters to the Editor. The writing rules defined above for original research articles also apply to letters to the editor and should not be longer than 3 pages.