Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

The Journal of Sustainable Gastronomy and Tourism Research complies with the rules specified in the Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive of the Council of Higher Education in accepting and publishing articles. Actions contrary to scientific research and publication ethics are not accepted, and it is primarily the responsibility of the author(s) not to include such violations in submitted articles. Submitted articles must be scanned by the Academic Plagiarism Prevention Program (iThenticate) and articles with a scan result of 20% or less must be sent to the journal.

According to the decisions taken by the relevant boards of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM TR INDEX, from the authors of articles other than compilation type to be applied for publication in all journals indexed in TR INDEX and under evaluation for 2020 (excluding articles produced from master's/doctoral studies using research data before 2020 by specifying it in the article);
- For any research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that requires data collection from participants using surveys, interviews, focus group studies, observations, experiments, and interview techniques, the fact that ethics committee approval has been obtained (ethics committee name, decision date and number) should be stated and documented on the last page and in the method section of the candidate article.

- Information regarding the signing of the informed consent/consent form should be included in the article.

- Evidence that ethical principles were observed during the data collection process (obtaining and stating permission from the owners for the use of scales, surveys, and photographs belonging to others) should be presented in the article.

It should be stated in the articles that research and publication ethics and copyright regulations for intellectual and artistic works were complied with.

An ethics committee report is not required for compilation articles. However, it should be stated in the relevant sections of the article (last page and method section) that an ethics committee decision is not required for these articles.

In addition, the following sentence should be added to the first footnote in articles: “The author undertakes that his/her work complies with the scientific ethical principles of our Journal.”