ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND PUBLICATION POLICY

Journal of Mediterranean Tourism Research is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original studies and review articles. Following directives have been determined by the publisher to enhance the overall scientific quality of the journal.

     Publication Policies

All articles that are sent to Journal of Mediterranean Tourism Research are reviewed in accordance with general guidelines defined by Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers. We strongly recommend you to review writing rules of the journal before sending your articles. In addition, for articles that will be published in English, authors must follow the guidelines of EASA (European Association of Science Editors) stated in “Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles to be Published in English”. Author must also follow the suggestions of International Committee of Medical Journal Editors for researches which contain human and animal data.

     Evaluation of Articles and Privacy

Journal of Mediterranean Tourism Research adopts double blind review method for all article evaluations. Double blind review is a method in which both author and referee identities are concealed.

Referees are assigned to articles in accordance to the contents of articles and referees’ field of specialization. Referees are obliged not to share any documents and any information on processes related to the articles they evaluated.

Referees’ evaluations generally consist of evaluating articles in terms of originality, methodology, accordance to ethical principles, presentation of findings and results in a consistent way, and literature.

Referees have a month to evaluate an article assigned to them. In case of revision correction suggestions from referees or editors, authors have to revise their articles according to the “correction report” in a month at the latest. Referees may decide an article is appropriate after evaluating its corrected form as well as they may request corrections more than once if they find it necessary.

Authors have to inform editors when they detect a mistake on the articles that have been sent to the journal. Once an article is received, at first it undergoes a pre-evaluation by the editorship in terms of format and contents, and then it is sent referees if it is considered appropriate by the editorship. Pursuant to regulations decided by the cooperation of TÜBİTAK, ULAKBİLİM, and YÖK, it is a necessity to add the ORCID info of the head author to the articles that will be sent to our journal to prevent the issues caused by the similarities of names and institutions. If you don’t have an ORCID ID, you can acquire it via https://orcid.org/.

Authors must also accept to renounce their author’s rights and transfer those rights to Journal of Mediterranean Tourism Research along with sending their articles for evaluation.

Journal of Mediterranean Tourism Research is granted the authority regarding the publication of the article. In the meantime, authors reserve the following rights;

·       Patent rights,

·       All unregistered rights other than copyrights,

·       Right of reproduction for personal purposes under the condition of not selling,

·       Right of using a part of it or all of it in the author’s own book and other academic studies under the condition of citation,

·       Right of keeping it in their own websites or university’s open archive under the condition of noting the impressum of the article.

Authors who will send an article to Journal of Mediterranean Tourism Research must fill the “copyright transfer form”. 

It is required for every article to be inspected by the author/authors via a plagiarism detection software such as “iThenticate”, “Turnitin”, etc. before being sent to the journal.

It is mandatory for all articles that are published in Journal of Mediterranean Tourism Research to have a DOI number. After the acceptance, articles that are being prepared for publication are assigned a DOI number by the editorial board.

     Author Responsibilities

Articles that are sent to the journal must not be published in another journal/book and also must not applied to be published.

No changes will be accepted in the list of authors without a clear and acceptable explanation to the editorial board. In case of a necessity to make a change on the list of authors, a clear reason and a written consent (a letter with a signature) must be presented to the editor.