Writing Rules

Alfa Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (AJEAS) accepts research articles, review articles and technical notes in Turkish or English.

Research Article: Studies that reflect an original research with its findings and results.

Review Article: Studies that scan a sufficient number of scientific articles, summarize the subject at today's level of knowledge and technology, make an evaluation, and compare and interpret these findings.

Technical Note: Studies that describe a new method or technique that explains the important findings of a study.

The "Copyright Transfer Form" for all articles must be filled out by all authors of the article and submitted to the editor. Publications of authors whose Copyright Transfer Form is not sent will not be processed. No subsequent additions can be made by the authors to the articles decided to be published.

The Similarity Report must be uploaded at the first submission stage of the article (via Turnitin, iThenticate or intihal.net). The similarity rate is desired to be below 20%. Articles that do not have a similarity report will be returned.

There is no template at the initial submission stage of the article. For the first post, it is sufficient to prepare the articles according to the following rules.

Each article is reviewed for content and form by at least three reviewrs who are experts in their field. Articles that are determined to be suitable for publication in the journal are brought to the final presentation format, their layout is made and they are made ready for publication.

Title: The title of the work should be written with the first letters capitalized, and the title should be short and clear, appropriate to the text.

The first letters of the 1st degree headings in the text should be written in capital letters and bold, and for the 2nd degree and lower headings, only the first letter of the title should be capitalized and the font thickness should be normal. In Turkish articles, all headings, subheadings, figure and table descriptions used in the text should be stated in English in parentheses. In articles written in English, there is no need for any explanation in parentheses. All text must be in English.

Abstract: It should be written in Turkish and English, with a minimum of 150 and a maximum of 200 words. The title of the work should also be written in English at the beginning of the English abstract.

Key Words: At least 3 and at most 5 should be given in Turkish and English.

Text: It should be written in Times New Roman font and 12 pt, and should not exceed 20 pages, excluding screening texts, including references and figures. Authors should indicate what type of publication their article is. In general, it includes sections on introduction, method, findings, results and discussion.

Tables and Figures: All images that do not contain tables (photographs, drawings, diagrams, graphs, maps, etc.) should be named as figures. Each table and figure should be placed where it will appear in the text. All figures should be numbered consecutively within the text. Figures must be maximum 14 cm wide and high resolution (300 dpi).

Formulas and Units: All formulas (equations) in the text should be written in equation format. Formulas should be given serial numbers as (1), (2). All units must be in the SI unit system.

Symbols and Abbreviations: They should be given at the end of the text before the references.

Acknowledgments: If acknowledgment is to be made to individuals or institutions, it should be written in this section and given before the references.

Conflict of Interest Declaration: Author(s) must declare their conflict of interest in this section, before the references. Conflict of interest between article authors should be stated. If there is no conflict of interest, the phrase "There is no conflict of interest in this study" should be written.

Ethics Statement: Articles to be published in our journal must state whether ethics committee approval and/or legal/special permission is required. If it is necessary to obtain these permissions, it should be clearly stated from which institution, on what date and with which decision or issue number the permission was obtained. In addition, if the study requires the use of human and animal subjects, the study must comply with international declarations, guidelines, etc. It must be declared that it has been carried out appropriately. For cases where permission is not required, the following text should be added after the "Acknowledgments" section.

Example:
Declaration of ethical standards: The author(s) of this article declare that the materials and methods used in this study do not require ethical committee permission and/or legal-special permission.

References: Must be in IEEE format. [1], [2] etc. in parentheses in the text. They should be numbered with numbers and written at the end of the text in the order in which they are presented in the work.

Declaration of Author Contributions: In this section, the contribution of each researcher mentioned in the article should be stated.

Presentation Format: If the article is accepted after reviewer evaluation, it must be brought to the final presentation format given in the submission files and uploaded to the system.