Akdeniz Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi

The aim of the Journal of Akdeniz University Faculty of Law is to ensure the sharing and accessibility of qualified and original publications in the field of private law and public law in the legal world, and in this way, to serve the law by publishing solution proposals for both traditional and current and technological problems of law.

The Journal of Akdeniz University Faculty of Law is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year in June and December, which includes articles, book reviews, legislative evaluations, informative notes, and translations in the fields of private and public law.

1. Authors should send their titles, institutions they work in, their contact addresses including phone numbers and e-mail addresses, together with the cover letter to be added at the beginning of their studies. The similarity report will be received first for the submitted studies, and the studies with a similarity rate above 20% will not be included in the review process. The deadline for our first issue (June) is April 15 and the deadline for our second issue (December) is October 15. The articles submitted after these dates will be processed for the next issue.

2. Studies submitted for publication in the Journal of Akdeniz University Faculty of Law must be in accordance with the Chicago style (Notes and Bibliography). Studies must be written on the computer, using Times New Roman font. The font size of the main text should be 11 pt, and the font size of the footnotes should be 9 pt. The Line spacing should be 1.5 lines for the main text and 1 line for the footnote. Studies should be sent via Dergipark.

3. The Journal of Akdeniz University Faculty of Law accepts studies written in Turkish, English, German, and French. Studies should contain abstracts of at least 250 and a maximum of 300 words, and at least 5, at most 15 keywords should be added in Turkish or the above-mentioned languages. Following the abstracts, there should also be an extended summary in English of no less than 600 and no more than 800 words for all studies. The studies can contain a maximum of 20,000 words, including footnotes, and there is no minimum word limit.

4. The title of the study should be in black and all uppercase. Below the title, the author's name should be written, aligned to the right of the page, and an asterisk should be placed at the end of the surname. In the footnote with the asterisk, the author's university or institution, title, e-mail address, and ORCID ID information should be written.

For example: Akdeniz University Faculty of Law, Department of Commercial Law, xyz@gmail.com, ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5077-4747.

5. The headings in the text should be written as follows:

I. BOLD AND ALL UPPERCASE
A. BOLD AND ALL UPPERCASE
1. Bold and Only Initial Letters Uppercase
a. White and Only Initial Letters Uppercase
a.1. White and Only Initial Letters Uppercase
If the “INTRODUCTION” heading is used, it should not be numbered.

6. Abbreviations and the table of contents should not be included in the study.

7. Citations in the text regarding the sources used should be shown as footnotes at the end of each page. For each source used, the first citation should include full descriptive information.

a) In citations to the book;

i. In books with one author, the first and subsequent citation: Author's Name and Surname, Name of the Book (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication), the page number should be written; In subsequent citations to the same source, the surname of the author, the abbreviated name of the book and the page number should be written.

For example: Fikret Eren, Law of Obligations General Provisions, (Istanbul: Yetkin Publications, 2010), 178.
Subsequent citation: Eren, Law of Obligations General Provisions, 178.

ii. First and subsequent citation in multi-authored books: Author's Name, Surname, and Other Author's Name and Surname, Name of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication), the Page number should be written; In subsequent citations to the same study, the surnames of the authors, the Abbreviated Name of the book and the page number should be written.

For example: Bahtiyar Akyılmaz, Murat Sezginer and Cemil Kaya, Turkish Administrative Law (Ankara: Savaş Yayınevi, 2021), 222 .
Subsequent citation: Akyılmaz, Sezginer and Kaya, Administrative Law, 222.

iii. First and subsequent citations in editorial books: Editor's Name, Surname, Editor, Name of the Study (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication), Page number should be written; In subsequent citations, Editor's Surname, Abbreviated Name of the Study, Page number should be written.

For example: Richmond Lattimore, editor, The Iliad of Homer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 91–92.
Subsequent citation: Lattimore, Iliad, 24.

b) In the first citation to the article, the Author's Name, Surname, “Title of the Article,” the Name of the Journal in which it was published, Volume Number of the Journal, Issue (Year Information): The cited page/s should be written. In subsequent citations to the same article, the surname of the author, abbreviated name of the article, and the page number/s should be written.

For example; First citation: Merih Öden, “Judicial Review of the Constitutional Compliance of the Constitutional Court and the Emergency and Martial Law Decrees,” AUHFD 58, P.3 (2009): 659-691.
Next citation: Öden, “Judicial Review of the Constitutional Compliance of the Constitutional Court and the Emergency and Martial Law Decrees,” 660.

c) In citations to a website; “History of the Faculty of Law,” Akdeniz University Faculty of Law, Accessed on June 25, 2021, http://hukuk.akdeniz.edu.tr/tarihce/.

d) Judicial decisions

Y11.HD, 11.11.2021, E.2021/12, K.2021/15
D10.D, 11.11.2021, E.2021/12, K.2021/15
Constitutional Court Decision (AYM Kararı), Application No: 2021/12, 11.11.2021, §30

8. At the end of the article, the bibliography, in which the sources used are arranged in alphabetical order according to the surname of the author, should be included.

a) Books should be written in the bibliography as follows:

i. For single-author books: Author's Surname, First Name. The title of the book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of publication.

For example: Eren, Fikret. Law of Obligations General Provisions. Ankara: Yetkin Yayınları, 2020.

ii. For books with multiple authors: Author's Surname, First Name. The title of the book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

For example: Akyılmaz, Bahtiyar, Sezginer, Murat and Kaya, Cemil, Turkish Administrative Law. Ankara: Savaş Yayınevi, 2021.

iii. In edited books: Author's Surname, First Name, editor. Title of the Work. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

For example: Lattimore, Richmond, editor. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.

b) Articles should be cited in the bibliography as follows:
Author's Surname, First Name. “Title of the Article.”, Name of the Journal in which it was published Volume, Issue (Year Information): First and last page numbers of the article.

c) The website should be shown in the bibliography as follows:
Akdeniz University Faculty of Law. “History of the Faculty of Law.” Access Date: June 25, 2021. http://hukuk.akdeniz.edu.tr/tarihce/.

9. If more than one study is cited in the footnote, they should be separated by semicolons.

10. Studies sent to the editor with a request for publication in the journal are not published without the positive opinions of two reviewers or a new text containing the corrections suggested by the reviewer.

1. Studies to be sent to the journal must be original, cannot be published elsewhere, or sent for publication.

2. First of all, a similarity report is taken about the submitted study, and it is examined according to the publication principles. The publication request for studies with a similarity rate of more than 20% will be rejected for this reason alone. Studies, which are first evaluated by the Editorial Board and determined not to be in accordance with the publication principles of the journal, are returned to the author for correction in line with the publication rules before being sent to the reviewers.

3. The studies that are first evaluated by the Editorial Board and comply with the publication principles of the journal are sent to two separate reviewers determined according to the double-blind reviewer method. According to the reports of the reviewers, the study can be accepted or rejected to the journal, or a major or minor correction can be required from the author within the framework of the reports. Regarding the outcome of the reports of the reviewers, the author is informed as soon as possible.

4. Introduced by the ULAKBİM decision dated February 25, 2020, “ETHICS COMMITTEE APPROVAL should be obtained separately for all branches of science (including Social Sciences), clinical and experimental studies on humans and animals that require an ethics committee decision, this approval should be stated and documented in the article.” in terms of condition; The author must provide the relevant documents in the studies concerning this requirement and send them to the journal together with the studies to be uploaded to the system. The studies that do not meet this requirement will not be accepted to the journal.

5. The studies sent to the editor with a request for publication in the journal are not published without the positive decisions of two reviewers or a new text containing the corrections suggested by the reviewers.

6. No royalties are paid to the author for the studies published in the journal. The Dean of Akdeniz University Faculty of Law and/or the person and/or institution authorized by the Dean's Office shall have the printed and electronic publication rights of the studies accepted for publication. The Dean's Office has exclusive authority in this regard. The author is deemed to have accepted this issue by submitting a study with a request for publication in the journal. 

All expenses of the journal are covered by Akdeniz University. The study publication and the execution of the study processes are free of charge, and there are no processing fees or submission fees for studies submitted or accepted for publication.