PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES
1. ASBU Law Journal is committed to the research and publication principles and ethical values which the Journal has accepted and announced.
2. ASBU Law Journal is published twice a year, as in June and December, electronically. In each issue, maximum of fifteen works are published. The deadline for submission of the works is April 1 for the June issue of the Journal and October 1 for the December issue. Works to be submitted after these dates, works accepted after the maximum number of publications of the issue is reached, and works whose process has not been completed on the publication date of the issue are taken into consideration for the following issue. In order to ensure that the article processes are carried out in a healthy manner and the number of works to be published in the journal issues is balanced, the editorial board may close the journal to the acceptance of works.
3. The Editor-in-Chief is appointed by the ASBU Scientific Publications Coordinator upon the recommendation or approval of the Dean of ASBU Faculty of Law. Journal editors and officers are determined by the Editor-in-Chief upon the approval of the Dean.
4. The principle of double blind refereeing is adopted for the evaluation of the article. The names of the referees are not published. Persons working in the same institution with the author cannot serve as editors and referees in the evaluation process of the work.
5. Fee Policy: Article submission/processing is free of charge. No fee is charged to the author or the author’s institution under any name. Editors and referees are not paid.
6. Similarity and Plagiarism Policy: The works submitted to the Journal are evaluated for plagiarism at the preliminary review stage. Works with more than 15% similarity in the similarity report, excluding references and quoted expressions, are rejected directly. If a violation of publication ethics standards is detected in the work, action is taken according to the ethical principles and standards accepted and announced by the journal.
7. Open Access Policy: The works published in ASBU Law Journal are open access and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License. Readers may read, download, copy or reproduce the full texts of the works published in the Journal without the permission of the authors or the publisher, provided that they do not use them for commercial purposes and cite them where necessary.
8. Appeal Policy: Elsevier's appeals policy applies if an author appeals against editorial decisions (See https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/editorial-decisio… for detailed information).
9. Concern, Correction and Retraction and Removal Policy: Actions are taken according to the principles and procedures adopted in the COPE Retraction Guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/retraction-guidelines) and the Elsevier Correction, Retraction and Removal Policy (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-andstandards/article-withdrawal).
10. Copyright Policy: If the works are accepted for publication, all publication/publication rights of the works, including electronic publication, belong to ASBU Faculty of Law. Authors are not paid royalties.
11. The number of works published in one issue by authors from the same institution cannot exceed fifty percent of the works in that issue. An author may submit only one work for peer review in a calendar year; no more than one work may be published in the same issue or in four consecutive issues. Accordingly, the later work submitted by the author will be returned directly.
12. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submission of the manuscript to our journal means the author's commitment to this issue. The opinions in the studies published in the journal and the responsibility for this issue belong to the author.
13. Authors' submission of their works to this journal means that they accept the publication principles of ASBU Law Journal. Works must be written in "Microsoft Office Word" program. The Cover, Declaration and Copyright Transfer form must be signed by all authors and sent in pdf format.
14. Authors are deemed to have accepted that their works are ready for "publication" as submitted to the journal. In the preliminary review made by the editors, the works that are found not to comply with the scientific criteria, journal publication principles and spelling rules will be returned.
15. The works to be published in the journal can be written in Turkish, English, German or French. The manuscript should not exceed 15,000 words, excluding abstract and extended summary. The works submitted to the journal must comply with the spelling and citation rules. The manuscripts submitted to the journal should include an abstract of 100-300 words and an extended summary of 500-1500 words. If the language of the work is Turkish, the abstract should be in Turkish and English. If the language of the work is a language other than Turkish, an abstract in that language and its translation in Turkish and English should be attached to the work. The title of the abstract should include 5-7 keywords in each language and the title of the work. The extended summary should be in English.
16. After the preliminary review stage, the manuscripts are subjected to peer review in accordance with the double blind peer review system. Works that pass the peer review and have two positive referee reports are published in the journal. Manuscripts in which two referees express a negative opinion (rejection / major) are rejected. If one of the referees gives a negative opinion, the article may be rejected by the decision of the editorial board or sent to a third referee. If corrections are requested in the referee report, the author can only make changes within the framework of the specified corrections. After the corrections suggested by the referee are made by the author, the manuscript is sent to the referee again if specified in the report.
17. The editorial board makes the necessary follow-up and announcements in terms of the comprehensibility and currency of the writing rules, ethical principles and standards accepted in the publication principles; informs the stakeholders, especially the authors and referees.
18. (Added: 01/09/2026) Archiving and digital preservation policy: The Journal regards the preservation and permanent accessibility of all published works as an integral element of its publishing activity. All issues of the Journal are stored on the DergiPark infrastructure, which is operated by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM and serves as a national archive. DergiPark permits the LOCKSS system to harvest, preserve and serve the Journal's content.
19. (Added: 01/09/2026) Revenue policy: The publishing activities of the Journal are financed entirely by ASBU. The Journal has no other source of revenue. The Journal's revenue sources and financial structure do not influence editorial decision making at any stage.
20. (Added: 01/09/2026) Advertising policy: ASBU Law Journal does not accept advertising of any kind. No commercial advertisement, sponsored content or promotional material is published in the electronic edition of the Journal, on its website, or in its email notifications. Should advertising be accepted, it would not influence editorial decision making and would be clearly separated from published content
21. (Added: 01/09/2026) Direct marketing: Any direct marketing conducted on behalf of the Journal, including the solicitation of manuscripts, is directed at researchers working within the Journal's scope and is carried out in a measured and unobtrusive manner. Information provided about the Journal and its publisher is truthful and does not mislead authors or readers as to the Journal's nature, scope, indexing status or review processes. The Journal does not solicit manuscripts by means of bulk or untargeted email.
22. (Added: 01/09/2026) Use of artificial intelligence: Artificial intelligence tools cannot be listed as authors or counted among the authors. Where generative artificial intelligence has been used in preparing a work, the name and version of the tool, together with the stage at which and the purpose for which it was used, are declared in the Copyright Transfer Form. Authors alone are responsible for the scholarly content of the work, the accuracy of its citations and the originality of the text. Reviewers may not upload works submitted for their assessment, or any part of them, to artificial intelligence systems whose confidentiality is not secured. This prohibition arises not only from the duty of confidentiality but also from the need to protect the double blind review procedure. A review report must reflect the reviewer's own scholarly assessment. Editors may not delegate decisions on the acceptance or rejection of a work to artificial intelligence systems.
23. The editorial rules of the journal may be amended by the decision of the editorial board; the publication principles may be amended by the recommendation of the editorial board and the decision of the Dean of ASBU Faculty of Law, taking the opinion of the advisory board.