Instructions for authors

Thank you in order to choose for submitting your paper to “The European Journal of Research and Development”. This instruction will ensure that we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal’s requirements.

The European Journal of Research and Development uses open journal system to peer review paper submissions.

Within the scope of the journal, original research articles and reviews in English are published in all branches of Basic and Natural Science, Engineering and Technology.

A manuscript sent to the journal by the author(s) are subject to the reviewing process. At the end of the peer-review process, the accepted papers are published.

The authors are fully responsible for the content, scope and all data of the published papers. The manuscript sent to the journal by the author(s) should not be neither published nor publishing process in another journal. By sending the manuscript to the journal, the corresponding author is deemed to have accepted that the paper has not been published and/or has not been publishing process elsewhere before. In addition, in the preparation and writing of the paper sent by the author(s), the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) should be taken into account, following the national and international ethical rules. In this context, it is necessary to pay attention to research and publication ethics by the author(s). Copyrights of paper accepted to be published in The European Journal of Research and Development are deemed to be transferred to the journal.

Manuscript preparation

1) Please ensure the quality of your written English is of a high standard prior to submission.

2) Authors must submit editable Word source file, including all tables and figures as appropriate.

General guidelines

• Manuscripts are accepted only in English. The UK English spelling and punctuation is preferred. For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
• Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; references.
• Abstracts of 120 words are required for all manuscripts submitted.
• Each manuscript should have 3 to 12 keywords.
• Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
• All authors of a manuscript should include their full name, affiliation and ORCID ID on the first page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. The affiliations of all named co-authors should be the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted.
• Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies in a separate paragraph.
• Author(s) must use to SI units. Units are not italicized.
• When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trademark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.

Style guidelines

Spelling preferences

UK spelling is preferred.

Punctuation preferences

• Initialisms (e.g. TRY) must not include full points.
• Spaced initials in text, e.g. K.M. Can.
• Double quotes, single within

Dates

• 23 November 2005
• in the twenty-second century
• in the 1980s

Title

Title of the manuscript should be informative and short, since the number of words in the title should be limited to words that highlight the important content of the manuscript. Title’s typing style is given at below:

Font: Palatino Linotype, 18 pt, Bold, Centered

Line spacing:  single, Space

After:  12 pt, Style: Linked

Author(s) Full Name

After the title, Author(s) full name must be given in new line. Author(s) Full Name’s typing style is given at below:

Font: Palatino Linotype, 10 pt, Bold, Centered

Line spacing:  single, Space

After:  12 pt, Style: Linked,

 Information about Author(s)

After the author(s) full name, Author(s)’ Affiliation, Orcid ID, and e-mail must be given in new line. Correspondence Author e-mail and telephone(optional) should be given in new line after the information of Affiliation. Information about Author(s)’ typing style is given at below:

Font: Palatino Linotype, 10 pt, Centered

Line spacing:  single, Space

After:  0 pt, Style: Linked,

Abstract

Abstract’s typing style is given at below:

Font: 12 pt, Bold, Justified, Space

Before:  12 pt

After:  6 pt, Style: Linked

Main Text

Main text must cover introduction, materials and methods, results, and discussion and conclusion sections. Main Text’s typing style is given at below:

Font: Not Bold, Indent:First line:  1,2 cm, Space

Before:  0 pt

After:  0 pt, Style: Linked

Presentation of tables

Tables: (Table 1) in text.

Table 1: Title initial cap only (above table centered)

Font: Palatino Linotype, 11 pt, Font color: Auto, Centered, Space

Before:  12 pt

After:  12 pt

Presentation of Figure

Figures: (Figure 1) in text.

Figure 1: Caption initial cap only (ranged centered under figure)

Please provide the highest quality figure format possible. Resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.

Font: Palatino Linotype, 11 pt, Font color: Auto, Centered, Space

Before:  12 pt

After:  12 pt, Style: Linked,

Presentation of Equations (in editable format and not in pdf or picture format) 

Equation (1) in text center aligned, indented

Permissions statement for third-party figure and table captions

If the rightsholder has supplied text for this purpose, use their text. Otherwise, insert the rightsholder’s name within the square brackets:

© [Rightsholder]. Reproduced by permission of xxx. Permission to reuse must be obtained from the rightsholder.

Funding acknowledgement

Funding agency written out in full. Grant number in square brackets. Multiple grant numbers separated by comma and space. Agencies separated by semi-colon, e.g.

This work was supported by the Tubitak [grant number xxx].

This work was supported by the Tubitak [grant number xxx], [grant number xxx]; NNYU [grant number xxx]; another funder [grant number xxx].

References

The references should be formatted exactly in the APA style. See below for more details.

The references should only include works that are cited in the article and that are published or accepted for publication. Unpublished results and information obtained through articles and personal communications are not recommended for use as reference. The printed stage in the resources, if any, should be given a DOI number. 

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses.

Reference entries should be listed in alphabetical order by the last names of the first author of each work. All references cited and reference’s name of the author, journal name/book title, section title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapters, and paging should be available. Abbreviated journal names and book titles can be used in references. URLs for the references should be provided if they are available. For more information, you can visit the relevant page (https://apastyle.apa.org/).

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Ethical guidelines for Author(s)

• The manuscript of author(s) must promise that their manuscript is their own original work. Moreover, Author(s) must promise that they do not violate the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity, and cannot be construed as plagiarizing any other published work, including their own previously published work. Author(s) are fully responsible for the content, scope and all data of the published of their article.
• The manuscript of Author(s) are equally responsible for the content of a submitted manuscript or published article.
• Author(s) must not submit their same research or manuscript to more than one journal.
• People who have made important scientific or literary contributions to the manuscript should be named as co-authors.
• If it is required that author(s) must provide to access to data sets described in the manuscript.
• Authors are required to obtain all necessary official and documented ethical approvals for the studies that require ethics committee permission. It must provide, including informed consent from the client(s) or patient(s) being studied.

Copyright

Copyrights of paper accepted to be published in The European Journal of Research and Development are deemed to be transferred to the journal.

It is a condition of publication that all contributing authors grant to Orclever / The European Journal of Research and Development the necessary rights to the copyright in all articles submitted to the Journal. Authors are required to sign an Article Publishing Agreement / Copyright Agreement to facilitate this.

• Any research carried out with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques,
• Use of humans and animals (including material / data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical researches on humans,
• Researches on animals,
• Retrospective studies in accordance with the law of protection of personal data,

• In the case reports, it is stated that the “informed consent form” was taken,
• Obtaining and specifying the permission of the owners for the use of scales, surveys and photographs of others,
• Stating that the copyright regulations are complied with for the ideas and works of art used