PUBLICATION ETHICS
Baçini (Bayburt University Art and Design Faculty Baçini Art Journal) will prioritize compliance with ethical rules in arts and interdisciplinary works. In this context, the main criterion to be considered in the publication of manuscripts in our journal will be the International Standards created by COPE (Committe on Publication Ethics).
In works that require Ethics Committe permission, permissions should be obtained and information about the permission should be included in the article. In this respect, Ethics Committe approval is required for articles that meet the conditions stated below.
• Researches conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants by using survey, interview, group work, observation, experiment and interview techniques
• Obtaining and specifying permission from the owners for the use of scales, surveys, photpgraphs which belong to others
• Specifing copyright regulations are suited for literary / intellectual and artistic works


Editors’ Duties and Responsibilities
While chief editor and field editors fulfill their duties, the authors are not differentiated by gender, religion, race or ethnicity.
Editors can decide to accept or reject the article by evaluating the importance of the article, its originality and its suitability for the journal, while the article is in the review stage, before proceeding to the publication stage.
Editors do not give privileges to any authors, including sponsored or special subject works, and evaluate the submitted manuscripts according to their content.
Editors send the works to the journal referees, taking into account the conflicts of interest. Referees are assigned as referees, taking into account their areas of expertise.
Editors prevent evaluations of non-scientific works that violate ethics and academic etiquette.
Editors make the necessary work to expand and update the referee pool.

Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Referees
Referees play an active role in the decision making process of editors.
When making evalatuions, referees consider the content of the work and its contribution to science.
Adhering to the principle of impartiality, they do not descriminate based on religion, language, race, gender and ethnicity.
They comment in a constructive and courteous language in order to improve the quality of the evaluated work.
They evaluate the works by adhering to the principle of confidentiality. At the end of the evaluation process they destroy the informations about the work without keeping any copy of it.
They inform the editor when they get any information about the authors or in case of anomalous times of blind referees.
They evaluate the work within the time given to them.


Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Authors
Authors prepare their works in an original and fluent language and send them through the determined system.
Authors must specify all the people who contributed to the work as authors, and all responsibility in this regard belongs to the authors. Likewise, the names of the people who did not contribute to the work should not be included in the article, and adding or removing authors should not be suggested.
The authors acknowledge that the content presented in the work is not in the evaluating process or has not been published elsewhere.
Editors or referees can request raw data about the publication. Hence, authors should keep the data of the article ready.
Authors are obliged to indicate situations that may conflict of interest in their articles.

Plagiarism Policy
The manuscripts sent to our journal will be scanned for similiarity (plagiarism) with the “iThenticate:PlagiarismDetection Software” program during the preliminary review stage.