• All processes and transactions of our journal are carried out through the OJS platform and there is no other website of our journal.
• The studies submitted to our journal should not have been published before and should not have been simultaneously submitted to another journal for evaluation.
• The submitted manuscripts should be in accordance with the purpose and scope of our journal and the spelling rules should be followed. Studies that do not meet the specified criteria will be returned to the authors at the preliminary review stage.
• Research articles are published in our journal.
• At most two work by one author can be published in the same issue.
• Studies prepared in Turkish-English are accepted for evaluation in our journal.
• All articles published in our journal are published as open access under the CC-BY-NC license and can be accessed free of charge from our archive page.
• Double Blind Reviewing is applied in the refereeing process. Authors and reviewers do not know each other's identities. Board members from within the journal (such as editors or editorial board members) who submit articles are suspended from the journal until the process is completed and are prevented from seeing the process.
• During the manuscript evaluation process, care is taken to ensure that the referees are experts in their field, hold at least a PhD degree, and do not work at the same institution as the author. In order to maintain double blind reviewing, our journal board members do not serve as reviewers.
Special Issue Publication Policy
Special issues can be published once a year in our journal in line with the decision of the Editorial Board. Articles submitted for special issues go through the same evaluation processes as the articles in our regular issues. These articles must comply with the Journal's Editorial Guidelines, Ethics and Publication Policies.
Price Policy
Our journal is open access, with editorial publication fees covered by the author.
Advertising Policy
Our journal does not accept sponsorship and advertising in accordance with its publication policies. All expenses of our journal are covered by MAS Journal of Applied Sciences.
Open Access Policy
The articles published in our journal are published as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. The full text of all published articles can be accessed free of charge at https://masjaps.com/index.php/mas/issue/archive. Click here for detailed information.
Copyright Policy
The authors own the copyright of their works published in our journal and their works are licensed as CC BY-NC 4.0. Click here for detailed information.
Archiving and Data Distribution Policy
All works published in our journal are digitally archived in LOCKSS. Click here for detailed information.
Article Evaluation Process
The article evaluation process in our journal consists of 4 main titles as preliminary review, referee process, revision and publication. Click here for detailed information.
1- Preliminary Review
• The manuscript is reviewed by the editor for compliance with the journal's publication principles, academic writing rules, APA Citation System and is scanned for plagiarism using Turnitin and iThenticate. The similarity rate must be less than 15%. The manuscripts exceeding this rate are returned to the authors at the preliminary review stage.
2- Referee Process
• For manuscripts that pass the preliminary review stage, the Double Blind Review process is initiated. Within the scope of this process, the manuscript is sent to two referees who are experts in their fields for evaluation. During the refereeing process, the identities of the referees and authors are kept confidential and the process is carried out within the framework of the principle of confidentiality. In order for a study to be published in our journal, both referees must give a positive opinion. However, if one of the referees gives a positive opinion and the other a negative opinion, the manuscript is sent to a third referee for a final decision.
3- Revision Process
• In case revisions are requested by the referees, authors should mark the changes in red. Revisions made in line with referee requests are evaluated and checked first by the editor and then by the referees.
• The manuscripts whose referee process is completed are reviewed by the language editors of our journal. If deemed necessary, revisions are requested from the authors regarding language and spelling. Revisions made by the authors are reviewed and approved by the language editors.
4- Publication Process
• After undergoing technical, academic and linguistic reviews, the articles are typeset and edited, made ready for publication and published in the next issue.