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• Editors should appoint referees impartially in accordance with scientific evaluation principles and provide an environment of free thought.

• It is expected that the journal will bring together many academicians who are experts in different fields, and that the editor will expand the scientific committee pool of the journal by reaching these academics and inviting them to the journal.

• In order to make the work of the authors easier in the publication process in the journal, the editors should share a list containing the writing rules of the journal.

• Every step in the evaluation process of the work sent to the journal should be shared with the owner of the work. When a positive or negative decision is made about the work, this information should be shared with the owner of the work in detail and scientifically evaluated.

• In accordance with the principle of blind refereeing, the names and information of the authors and referees should be kept confidential and should not be shared.

• Referees should accept refereeing in studies that fall within their field of study and expertise. In order for the evaluation to be carried out effectively and accurately, it is very important that the referees accept the refereeing for the works that they trust in their competence.

• In accordance with the principle of blind refereeing, referees must keep their identities confidential. In addition, the referees should not reach information about the owners of the works they evaluate; otherwise, they should not evaluate the works of which they have knowledge about their owners, or they should terminate the task regarding the evaluated work and immediately contact the editor.

• The stages in the evaluation process must be completed within the given time.

• Referees are expected to approach the works they evaluate with an impartial and unbiased perspective.

• At the end of the peer review, the referees should share the evaluation report they prepared in a scientific and explanatory language with the editor.

• The work submitted by the author must not have been previously published in another journal and the similarity rate of the work should not be above the rate determined by the International Journal of Behavior, Sustainability and Management.

• In order to determine the originality of the works, a similarity report can be requested from the authors of the International Journal of Behavior, Sustainability and Management. Additionally, during the preliminary review stage, similarity (plagiarism) rates are checked using the iThenticate . The expected similarity rate  have not be more than 20%.

• The editorial board of the journal receives documents, information, etc. from the authors during the publication process. can request; The author must provide any required data.

• The author(s) must keep their identities confidential in order to make an impartial evaluation in accordance with the method of blind refereeing during the publication process.

• The author is expected to notify the journal editor immediately if there is an error or a situation that requires correction, which he noticed during the publication process.

• If there is an existing or potential conflict of interest between multiple authors who are stakeholders of the work, this should be reported to the editor.

• The International Journal of Behavior, Sustainability and Management provides open, electronic and free access. All stakeholders of the journal are independent of the publisher, and all processes related to publication are carried out independently of the publisher.

  The submitted and accepted articles to the International Journal of Behavior, Sustainability, and Management are subjected to a bilateral check using  iThenticate to ensure that the similarity rates (plagiarism) are not above 20% before entering the publication process.

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The publications sent to the journal by the author are evaluated in terms of compliance with the journal template, similarity rate and compliance with the journal subject/scope at the pre-control stage. Editors may decide to accept or reject at this stage; In addition, the author can withdraw his publication at this stage. The work, which passes the preliminary controls, is taken to the publication evaluation stage. The work is evaluated by at least 2 referees. As a result of the referee's evaluations, the owner of the work must make the necessary corrections within 15 days, and the author has the right not to make any corrections, provided that he gives a reason. The work that makes the corrections given by the referee and receives positive response is included in the publication process. The work is re-examined by the editors and technical editors within the framework of grammar and spelling rules, and is taken into layout processes for publication. At the last stage, the approval for publication is obtained from the owner of the work and sent for publication.