Editors

• Editors should strive to improve the journal and increase its quality.
• Everyone on the editorial board should act by taking into account the allegations of abuse.
• All responsibilities regarding the preliminary evaluation stage, referee evaluation stage and publication process of the studies submitted to research journal of public finance belong to the journal editor.
• Editors should take care to protect intellectual property rights and maintain ethical oversight on a continuous basis.
• Editors should consider the principle of transparency as the main criterion regarding the publication process.
• Editors must act in accordance with national and international laws. Editors should take care to keep information that is not appropriate to share within the legal framework.
• Responsibility for the protection of personal data regarding the studies submitted to research journal of public finance belongs to the editors.
• It is the editor's responsibility to determine the compliance of the studies submitted for publication to research journal of public financewith the journal's publication policy and ethical principles during the pre-control phase.
• Studies submitted to research journal of public finance should first be subjected to preliminary evaluation by the editor and field editors.
• Studies that have completed the pre-evaluation process and passed to the peer-review stage cannot be rejected because they do not comply with the journal policy. Responsibility for evaluation within the framework of compliance with journal policy and ethical principles rests with the editor.
• Editors, assistant editors and field editors have the right to notify the author(s) of the necessary preliminary evaluation results and request corrections, in case the studies are rewritten, ambiguous articles or secondary studies are used instead of original studies during the preliminary evaluation phase.
• In case manipulations related to the studies are detected, the source of the manipulation should be determined by the editor and the editorial board and reported to the relevant institutions and COPE.
• Editors should ensure that the studies submitted for publication continue to be evaluated on the quality of the works, regardless of any political, ideological, financial or personal interests.
• Editors should ensure that the studies submitted for publication continue to be evaluated on the quality of the works, regardless of any political, ideological, financial or personal interests.
• If plagiarism is detected in the studies submitted to research journal of public finance for publication, the editors must notify the author(s) of the current situation.
• Editors should do the necessary infrastructure studies regarding possible plagiarism and use the necessary notification and technological resources for any plagiarism problem that arises later on published works.
• Editors should keep up-to-date the efforts to protect the compliance and continuity of the peer-review process with scientific ethical principles.
• Editors should not ensure that the scientific evaluation results made by the referees are shaped within the framework of their own ideas or idealistic thoughts, or they should not guide the referees within the framework of certain decisions.
• If the editors believe that the peer-review process is manipulative, defamatory or far from scientific evaluation principles, they may cancel/reject the relevant peer-review or suspend the evaluation, depending on the decision of the editorial board.
• The editor has to inform the editor that the most accurate information requested by the authors regarding the studies submitted to research journal of public finance and the evaluation process has been made and take the necessary steps.
• In the event that the current editor of the journal changes, the decisions taken by the old editors regarding the publication process should not be changed by the new editors, unless there is a clear violation of the existing works.
• Editors should prepare guides for authors and keep the guides updated at regular intervals, if necessary, by changing them.
• Editors should prepare guidelines regarding the refereeing process and the journal management and study referees should be informed about the guidelines.

Writers

• An author should be indicated as a "responsible author" regarding the studies submitted for publication to research journal of public finance. Correspondence regarding the study is made between the editorial office and the responsible author.
  
• Authors who want to submit a work to research journal of public finance are obliged to sign a copyright form and upload it to the system separately.
  
• Regarding the studies that require an “Ethics Committee Declaration Form”, the form obtained from the relevant institutions should be uploaded to the journal system, at the latest, until the completion of the preliminary evaluation phase.
  Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Declaration Form

Studies in which survey, focus group, interview, observation, experiment and interview techniques are used, aiming to produce information by collecting data from the participants,

Experimental studies using humans and animals,

Studies in humans and animals in a clinical setting,

Retrospective studies.

• The e-mail addresses of the authors who prepared the studies submitted to research journal of public finance should be up-to-date and the work should not be uploaded to the journal system by third parties.
  
• The status of being a ghost, guest, gift author constitutes a violation of the publication ethics of research journal of public finance. All responsibility at this point belongs to the author(s).
  
• Authors should not be cited in a way that does not comply with international standards. It is the responsibility of the authors to arrange the citations in accordance with the citation system determined by the journal editorial board.
  
• Studies submitted for publication to research journal of public finance should be simultaneously in the process of evaluation in other journals. Responsibility arising from this situation belongs to the authors.
  
• If the studies submitted to research journal of public finance have been previously sent to another journal, an appendix stating that they were rejected or withdrawn from other journals should be sent to the editor. All responsibility for duplicating publications belongs to the author(s).
  
• As a result of the preliminary evaluation made by the Journal Editor and the Field Editor, the study data requested from the authors on suspicious cases regarding the data and the method used in the study by the relevant persons should be forwarded to the requesting journal board members by the authors.
  
• Corrections requested as a result of the evaluation made by the referees should be made by the study author(s) within the framework of the referee's recommendations.
  
• Regarding the studies submitted for publication to research journal of public finance , the information about the authors who contributed to the studies should be entered completely and accurately when the study is first uploaded to the journal system.
  
• In studies that have been peer-reviewed or published, an author can be added, provided that the written and signed approval of the other authors of the study is delivered to the journal editor within 5 working days following the publication date. If the journal editor is not informed within the specified time, the necessary responsibility belongs to the author(s). However, if the request for adding an author is made after the publication process is completed, the work is republished as a correction in the next issue. In addition, in the process of removing an author from the study, the same steps are followed as in the process of adding an author.
  
• In case of a change in the original version of the study after the peer-review and in case of a change in bibliography, the authors should convey the necessary information regarding the changed bibliography in the supplementary file to the editor.
  
• Responsibility for the use of fraudulent data in studies belongs to the author(s).
• Authors should convey the necessary information to the editor regarding the theses they have written before or the theses whose defense process has been completed or whose process has been initiated.

Referees

• Referees should act with the awareness that they are the main determinants of the academic quality of the article to be published in the journal and should evaluate with the responsibility of increasing the academic quality.
  
• Reviewers should only accept to referee articles for which they have the necessary expertise to conduct an appropriate evaluation, can observe the confidentiality of blind peer review, and keep the details of the article confidential at all times.
  
• Any information about the reviewed article, even after the article review process, should never be shared with others.
  
• Reviewers should only evaluate the accuracy of the content of the articles and their compliance with academic criteria. The fact that the opinions expressed in the article are different from the opinions of the referee should not affect the evaluation.
  
• Referee reports should be objective and measured. Insulting, derogatory and accusatory expressions should definitely be avoided.
  
• Referees should avoid superficial and vague expressions in their evaluation reports. In evaluations with negative results, the deficient and faulty points on which the result is based should be shown in a concrete way.
  
• The referees should evaluate the articles within the time allotted to them. If they are not going to review, they should notify the journal within a reasonable time.