Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Publication Ethics
SUREK Journal of Alevism-Bektashism and Culture Research (SUREK for short), a publication of Hacı Bektaş Veli Research and Application Institute of Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, takes care to publish in accordance with the guidelines and policies of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in open access (e.g. "Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors; "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors"). SUREK Journal follows the basic practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in the context of ethics (Authorship and Contribution; Conflict of interest; and Journal management) and carefully follows the resources provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in order to achieve international standards in ethics.
Ethical Responsibilities of SUREK Journal
The editor-in-chief and editors of SUREK Journal meticulously review submitted manuscripts for compliance with ethical principles. They take serious measures to identify and prevent the publication of manuscripts in which research misconduct has occurred and thus do not encourage or knowingly allow such misconduct to occur. If the editor-in-chief and editors of SUREK Journal detect any violation of ethical principles (such as manipulation of the data used and the use of fabricated data), this will be officially notified to the institution to which the author(s) of the article is affiliated. The article will not be accepted for publication. SUREK Journal and its editor-in-chief and editors are always ready to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.
The author(s) have the right to request a retraction or correction at any time before their article is published. However, they can only request the withdrawal or correction of their articles within five days after the publication of their articles in an issue. SUREK Journal has the right to make corrections in the submitted articles, to publish or not to publish the articles. The copyrights of the articles sent to SUREK for publication are transferred to the journal. These articles cannot be published, reproduced or used in any other publication organ without permission from the journal management. No royalties are paid to the author(s) for the published articles. In addition, article application fee and publication fee are not charged from the author/authors. The legal, scientific and ethical responsibility of the articles published in the journal belongs to the author(s). The Editorial Board and the editorial team do not accept any legal liability that may arise.
Ethical Responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief and Editors
The editor-in-chief and editors of SUREK are responsible for everything published in the journal, including choosing which articles to publish. The editorial board and editors of the journal guide the editor-in-chief in making these choices, and the editor-in-chief also takes into account the editorial policies of the journal in this process. In the selection of articles to be published, the editor-in-chief and the editors evaluate them based on their intellectual content, regardless of the gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship and political values of the author(s). The editor-in-chief and editors of SUREK Journal never discriminate between author(s) and/or reviewers based on personal characteristics or identity. On the contrary, it accommodates diversity and promotes equality at every stage of evaluation and publication. The editor-in-chief and editors of SUREK Journal do not allow anyone to use unpublished material and other information and data in the texts submitted to the journal by the author(s) in their own work without the express and written permission of the author(s). As can be understood from the above-mentioned statements, the editor-in-chief and editors of SUREK Journal strictly comply with the conflict of interest, impartiality, confidentiality and other issues set out in COPE.
Ethical Responsibilities of Referees
Referees who are asked to review/evaluate by the editor-in-chief and editors of SUREK Journal may refuse to serve as a referee if they do not find the work assigned to them relevant to their field, if they do not feel competent to criticize it, or if they cannot provide a timely evaluation.
The manuscripts that the referees will evaluate are confidential files. For this reason, Referees should not show the articles to anyone other than authorized persons and should not discuss the articles. Information and ideas obtained during the refereeing process should not be used for personal gain.
Refereeing should be conducted in an objective, fair and scientific ethical manner. Referees should not criticize the author(s) personally and should avoid derogatory personal comments such as slander and insult. Referees should evaluate manuscripts regardless of the origin, gender or political philosophy of the author(s). Referees should also ensure a fair blind review process for the evaluation of manuscripts submitted to the journal.
During the refereeing process, if the referees notice a substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript they are reviewing and another manuscript, they should report this immediately to the editor-in-chief and editors.
Referees should not review manuscripts where they know or can guess the author(s) or where there are conflicts of interest that may arise from competition, collaboration, or other relationships or connections between them.
During the refereeing process, referees should assist the editor-in-chief and editors in revising and/or publishing manuscripts and should also assist the author(s) to improve the quality of the manuscript.
Ethical Responsibilities of the Author(s)
Articles submitted to SUREK Journal must be original. Articles must not have been previously published in another journal or submitted for evaluation in another journal. It is unethical and unacceptable to submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time. It is extremely important that the author(s) pay attention to these issues. The author(s) submitting an article to SUREK Journal are deemed to have undertaken the above issues. The data used in the study should be presented meticulously in the study. A study should contain sufficient detail and source information. Fraudulent and deliberate misrepresentations are unacceptable as they may lead to unethical situations. In addition, the author(s) should strictly follow the journal's spelling rules. The author(s), referee, editor-in-chief, editors, editors, language should meticulously carry out the changes requested by the editor. Additional documents requested by the editor-in-chief, editors or referees should be uploaded to the system. In cases where the requested changes are not made within the given deadlines, the manuscripts will be returned to the author(s) to be re-evaluated.
The author(s) may be asked to provide relevant raw data in connection with their work that may be needed at the review stage, so they should be prepared to provide access to this data and retain it for a reasonable period following publication of their work.
The author(s) should prove that their work is original and complies with ethical standards with documents. In this context, the author(s) should make direct or indirect citations according to APA standards and include the sources they cite in the bibliography section. In addition, the author(s) must prove that the similarity rate of their work is below 20% with the Identicate report while uploading their work to the system.
The author(s) who published in SUREK Journal can publish again after one year as per the journal policy. In addition, in any issue of SUREK Journal, a maximum of 25% of the number of publications can be made by academic staff of Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University.
The author(s) submitting a study to SUREK Journal should list the authors who contributed to the study after the first author in proportion to their contribution. In addition, authors are obliged to declare that there is no conflict of interest between them. Corresponding authors or author ranks of the articles whose evaluation process has ended cannot be changed.
The ethical principles that authors submitting articles to SUREK Journal should also comply with are as follows: Articles submitted to SUREK Journal for evaluation must not have been published in another journal or submitted for evaluation. All sources used in the submitted articles must be cited in accordance with scientific research methods and ethical principles. Authors should be listed in order of their contribution. The work of the author(s) must be original and the similarity rate must be below 20%. There must be no ethical violations regarding the participants used in the study. Ethical permissions must have been obtained in accordance with the "Higher Education Council Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive" and an ethics report must have been submitted. For articles that do not require an ethics report, the author(s) are responsible for signing the document indicating that their work does not require an ethics report and sending it to the journal's e-mail. If the submitted work is an article derived from a thesis or a paper previously presented at a conference, it should be indicated in the author information form.
The author(s) agrees to transfer the financial rights on the works they submit to the journal, in particular the rights of processing, reproduction, representation, printing, publication, distribution and all kinds of public communication, including transmission via the internet, to SUREK Journal for unlimited use and are responsible for sending the wet signed version of the copyright transfer form in the system to the journal's e-mail. Regarding the work, SUREK Journal has no responsibility for any claims or lawsuits to be filed by third parties due to copyright infringement, and the responsibility belongs entirely to the author(s). Authors are obliged to comply with the journal's publication policy, ethics and writing rules.
Authors must agree to make necessary corrections in line with the suggestions of the editor-in-chief, editors and referees during the publication process. In this context, if the author or authors do not accept the suggestions made to them, the article in question will be rejected. In co-authored articles, if the other authors cannot be reached, the responsible author is deemed to accept full responsibility. The use of articles published in the journal in other studies is possible only if citation is given. Research involving humans or animals must be approved by the relevant ethics committee(s). Articles must comply with international ethical and legal standards. Authors are also required to respect the confidentiality rights of human participants and to obtain any necessary permission for publication before submitting an article to SUREK Journal.
Ethics committee report is mandatory for all candidate articles whose publication process starts in 2020 and later. The ethics committee report must be sent as an attachment when submitting the candidate article. For candidate articles that do not require ethics committee approval, the author declaration form stating that ethics committee approval is not required must be signed and scanned by the corresponding author.