PUBLICATION AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

If authentic research articles derive from master’s degree or doctorate theses, it must be annotated. Articles must not be published except for oral presentations and banners, and their intellectual property rights must not be transferred before. The whole responsibility of the published articles rests with the relevant author(s).

Accepted presentations will be published in the congress proceeding e-book in the website.

Proofs on articles passing peer-review must be sent to orginesers. According to peer-reviews and/or compliance to the requested editing, Editor and Editorial Board decide if a certain article is published or not.

Author must state the type of his/her proceeding (scientific compilation, research, etc.)

ARTICLE FORMAT

Articles must be written on one side of A4 paper with 12 pt. Times New Roman and 2 line spacing. Margins must be 3 cm and paragraphs must indent 0.5 cm. Pages and lines must be numbered. Authors’ names must be clearly stated and no scientific title must be included.  If the article is in Turkish, it must be written in accordance with the latest spell check of Turkish Language Association. Abstracts must be present both in Turkish and English.

Article should consist of the following; Turkish heading, Author(s), Addresses of the Author(s) Abstract, Key Words, English heading, Abstract, Key Words, Introduction, Material and Method, Results and Discussion, Results, Acknowledgement (optional), Abbreviations (optional), References, Figures and Tables.

Article should not exceed 18 pages including “References”.

Title Title should be short, reflect the content of the article and not exceed 15 words. The first letter of the words should be written in capital, bold and 14 pt. The English title should be exactly the same as the Turkish title and should be written in bold. Corresponding author and his/her e-mail address should be indicated right below the addresses of the authors.

Abstract and Keywords Turkish and English abstracts should not exceed 300 words each. The abstract should include the purpose of the study, its process, the results and the evaluations of the author (s) on the results.

Keywords After 1 line of space below the abstracts, maximum 5 keywords which are not used in the title but describe the study ideally, should be written in lower case and alphabetical order.

Introduction In this section; the subject of the study, the rationale, previously conducted studies directly on the subject and the purpose of the study should be stated.

Material and Method Brief and concise information should be given about the material used in the study, the application of the research and the statistical methods. This section should be clear enough to allow other researchers working on the same area of expertise to repeat the research.

Results and Discussion In this section, findings should be presented and supported by tables, figures and graphics if necessary. The findings should be discussed, but unnecessary repetitions should be avoided. The similarities and differences of the findings with other studies should be given and the reasons should be discussed.

Acknowledgement: If necessary, such acknowledgement should be made as short as possible, along with the relevant contribution.

Abbreviations and Symbols Abbreviations should be avoided in general. Abbreviations and symbols should be explained when they are first used in the text. Internationally recognized and established abbreviations should be preferred. Abbreviations should not be used in the title of the article.

References Citations related to the sources used in the article should be made as follows; (Author’s surname, year)

E.g.: (Özcan, 2011), (Erşahin and Brohi, 2006).

If the author is cited, only the year of publication should be in parentheses.

E.g.: According to Özcan (2003) or Erşahin and Brohi (2006).

For three or more authors, “et al.” should be used in the citation in the article

E.g.: (Dengiz et al., 2010) or Lawrence et al. (2001).

If the same author has more than one publication in the same year, lowercase letters should be given after the year, e.g., (Gürbüz et al., 2003a).

All references cited in the references section should be written in alphabetical order (according to the surnames of the authors) and in the original language. Bulletin or magazine names should be written without abbreviation. Congress books, whose only abstracts have been published,  cannot be cited. Responsibility for the incorrect citations and references in the article rests with the author (s).

Reference Examples (Each reference should be within 1 cm inside of the ruler from the second line, as shown in the examples.)

Bulletin 

Dengiz, O. 2010. Morphology, Physico-Chemical Properties and Classification of Soils on Terraces of the Tigris River in the South-East Anatolia Region of Turkey. Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 16 (3): 205-212.

Bayramin, I., Basaran, M., Erpul, G., Canga, M.R.,  2008. Assessing the effects of land use changes on soil sensitivity to erosion in a highland ecosystem of semi-arid Turkey. Environmental Monitoring and Assessement, 140:249–265

Öztaş, T., 1997. Topraklarda difuzyon ve dispersiyon arasındaki ilişki. Atatürk Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Dergisi, 28(2): 331-340.

Book 

Craig, R. F.,  1996. Soil Mechanics. Chapman Hall, Great Britain, p. 427.

Webster R, Oliver MA (2001). Geostatistics for environmental scientists. Wiley, England, p. 271.

A Part from a Book 

Rizvi, S.S. H., 1986. Thermodynamic properties of foods in dehydration. In: M A Rao and S S H Rizvi (Eds.), Engineering properties of foods, Marcel Dekker, New York, pp. 190-193.

Doorenbos, J., Pruitt, W.O., 1992. Guidelines for predicting crop water requirement (3rd ed.) FAO irrigation and drainage paper, Rome. pp. 24–193.

Institution publications whose author is not stated 

TUİK, 2005. Tarımsal Yapı. T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet istatistik Enst. Yayın No: 1579, Ankara. ASAE (2002). Standards S352.2, 2002. Moisture measurement – unground grain and seeds.

Internet Info

Statistical data, standards and web bulletins are classified under this group.

FAO, 2005. Statistical database. Available: http:// www.fao.org.

Theses and Dissertations 

Koyuncu, T., 1992. Tarım arabalarında kullanılan çarpma etkili frenlerin araştırılması. Yüksek lisans tezi, Ankara Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü (Basılmamış), Ankara.

Berbert, P.A., 1995. On-line density-independent moisture content measurement of hard winter wheat using the capacitance method. PhD Thesis, Crandfield University (Unpublished), UK.

Full text congress/symposium book 

Kütük,  C,, Caycı, G., 2000. Effect of beer factory sludge on yield components of wheat and some soil properties. In: Munsuz, N. (Ed.), Proceedings of International Symposium on Desertification, pp. 313–318, 13–17 June, Konya, Turkey.

Kara, Z., Beyoğlu, N., 1995. Konya ili Beyşehir yöresinde yetiştirilen üzüm çeşitlerinin göz verimliliklerinin belirlenmesi üzerine bir araştırma. Türkiye II. Ulusal Bahçe Bitkileri Kongresi. Bildiriler (II): 524-528. 3-6 Ekim, Adana.

Figures and Tables

Figures, graphics, photographs, etc. should be specified as “Figure” while numerical values ​​should be specified as “Table”. All figures and tables should be placed at the end of the article. Figures and tables should be up to 16×20 cm in single page layout and 8 cm in double column layout. The size of the figures and tables should allow printing. Photographs, which do not present research result comparison, should not be included in the article. The pictures supporting the research results should be in 600 dpi resolution and in “jpg, pdf and tiff” format. Grayscale images should be preferred over color images. Vertical lines should not be used in the tables. Each table and figure should be cited first within the text and should be given after citation. All tables and figures are numbered sequentially throughout the article. (Table 1. and Figure 1.). Table and figure titles and descriptions should be concise. Table headings should be at the top of the table and figure headings should be below the figure. English titles of tables and figures should be written in italics just below the Turkish title. Figures should not contain horizontal and vertical guidelines and numbers, but small letters can be given only if they are given for statistical comparison. If abbreviations are used in tables and figures, these abbreviations should be explained just below. Drawing tools, figures or pictures consisting of different parts should be grouped. Variety and species names should be written in italics.

Units

SI units should be used in all articles SI (Systeme International d’Units). Point should be used for decimal fraction.(E.g. instead of 1,25, use 1.25). “/” should not be used in units, instead there should be a space between units.(E.g. instead of 3 m/s, use 3 m s-¹, e.g. 4 kg N ha-¹)

Formulas

Formulas should be numbered and the formula number should be shown in parentheses right justified, next to the formula. Formulas should be written in 12 pt, the main components and variables should be italicized, whereas numbers and mathematical expressions should not be formatted in terms of typographical emphasis.  If cited within the text, it should be given as “Equation 1” (… relevant model, Equation 1).