JOURNAL ETHICAL RULES

• The author(s) should not send an article that previously published or the articles still in evaluation process elsewhere. The authors should also not simultaneously submit more than one article for the same publication issue.
• Author (s) should submit only the original articles which were written in accordance with ethical research rules. The citations and the references should also be correctly referred (cite) to the sources in line with research and ethical principles.
• The names of the researchers who did not contribute to the article should not be added as authors. Additionally, the order of the authors nor the change, remove or adding new authors for an submitted article should not be demanded once it submitted for publication.
• The editors should be notified at once before the publication if there are any conflict of interest or a common interest in the article for publication.
• In the case of the information or raw data regarding their articles requested from the author(s) during the evaluation process, they should submit the requested information to the Editors.
• The author(s) should document that the rights to use the data in the articles, the ethical permission and the consent of the participants within the research.
• The author(s) should contact with the editor at once to inform, correct or retract when they notice an error in the evaluation and early viewing or electronically published article.
• The studies through quantitative or qualitative methods such as experiments, questionnaires, scales, interviews, observations, focus group studies that require ethics committee approval should also be uploaded to the system together with the documents indicating the name of the ethics committee, the date and number of the decision (which should also be indicated on the first-last page of the submitted article and in the method section). In addition, the case study reports should also include the information about informed consent/obtaining consent form in the article.
• The author(s) should present in the article the evidences that they adhere to ethical principles in the data collection process (e.g. the permission from the third parties to use documents like scale, questionnaire, photograph). It should also be stated that the copyright regulations for research and publication ethics and intellectual and artistic works are complied with. In the case of the research’s being carried out on human and animal subjects, it should also be reported that the research was carried out in accordance with universal and international reports, guidelines, etc.
• Ethics committee approval is not required from the author (s) for review or non-data based conceptual and theoretical articles. However, in articles that do not require an ethics committee decision, it should be stated that an ethics committee decision is not required, on the first-last page and method section of the article by the aouthor(s).