Articles
Aim & Scope
The aim of our Institute and our Journal Editorial Board is to create and continue publishing a contemporary, reliable, scientifically superior journal. We would like to thank the faculty members who have supported us with their dedication in achieving this goal, who have guided us in determining the scientific qualities of our articles and who have served as referees, as well as the members of our Editorial Board and Advisory Board.
Our journal has taken its place among other qualified journals in terms of scientific quality in the field of social sciences. Restructuring efforts are ongoing in order to preserve and further develop the scientific quality of our journal.
Author Guidelines
The rules that must be followed when writing articles to be sent to the journal are summarized below:
1. Çukurova University Journal of Social Sciences Institute is a refereed journal published at least twice a year.
2. The article to be sent must not have been published anywhere before.
3. Articles can be published in Turkish, English, French or German. If the article is written in English, French or German, a Turkish abstract and title must be included.
4. Articles must be written in accordance with the Turkish Language Association spelling rules.
5. Articles must be written in Microsoft Word 2003 or later versions and sent online via the internet.
6. The title of the article must be appropriate to the text, centered; short and clear; written in capital letters.
7. The author's name must be centered in the article; if there is more than one author, their names must be written side by side. Information about the authors (University name, Faculty name, e-mail address, Orcid No) must be given in a footnote.
8. The first page of the article should consist of only ABSTRACT and ABSTRACT, and this page should be created by placing it in the Article Template (see Article Template)
9. Paper size in articles: A-4 vertical, page structure bottom: 2.5 cm, top: 2.5 cm, left: 2.5 cm, right: 2.5 cm, header: 3 cm, footer: 3 cm, font: Times New Roman, point: 10, line spacing: single. The entire article should not exceed 8000 words.
10. Footnotes should be written in Times New Roman font, 8 point and line spacing “single”. Footnotes should not be used except for notes on old-lettered text studies and important explanations about the study.
11. The abstract should be written in 8 point and Times New Roman font. It should consist of one paragraph (even if it consists of several paragraphs, it should fit into one paragraph), and line spacing should be set to “single”. It should consist of at least 150 and at most 200 words. The abstract should be placed in capital letters on the left side of the text.
12. In original articles, sections should be organized as follows:
INTRODUCTION (maximum 3 pages)
LITERATURE REVIEW
METHOD
RESEARCH FINDINGS
CONCLUSION
13. The main section headings above should be written in bold, capital letters, aligned to the left. Headings should not be numbered, and there should be no paragraph indentation.
14. Subsection headings should be written in bold, with the first letter of each word capitalized, and should start 0.5 cm. indentation. All paragraph indents should be aligned.
15. If tables are to be included in the text, they should be shown as follows: “Table 1.”. The name of the table should be written centered above the table, with the first letter of each word capitalized, and should not be italicized. In figures, it should be written centered under the figure, with the word “Figure 1.” capitalized. Figures and graphics should be drawn on the computer; photos or pictures should have high resolution and should be numbered.
16. If hypotheses will be included in the study, the hypothesis indication should be as follows: “H1:”. Hypotheses should not be written in italics.
17. The sources used in the article should be given under the title “RESOURCES” after the “RESULTS” section. It should be prepared with Times New Roman font, 10 points, right-left 0, hanging 1.25, and line spacing “single”. 1 line space should be left after each source.
18. The sources in the article should be written in accordance with APA 7 (https://apastyle.apa.org/) style. You can look at the Article Template to examine the sample source indication and the rules to be followed in article writing in detail.
19. You can access the article template for articles to be sent to the journal from this link. After your article is accepted, you need to transfer it to the template in this link.
Guidelines for writing articles to be sent to the journal: 1. The Journal of Institute of Social Sciences of Çukurova University is a peer-reviewed journal published at least twice a year.
2. Papers must be submitted on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere.
3. The articles can be written in Turkish, English, French or German. If the article has been written in English, French or German, a summary in Turkish must also be included.
4. The articles should be written in accordance with the spelling rules of the Turkish Language Association.
5. Articles should be written in Microsoft Word 2003 or higher and they should be submitted through the online system.
6. Use a concise and clearly written title that reflects the paper's content. Use capital letters and center alignment.
7. Author names should be center aligned on the article; if there is more than one author, their names should be written side by side. Authorship information (University name, Faculty name, e-mail address, ORCID number) should be given in the footnote.
8. The first page of the article should consist of only SUMMARY and ABSTRACT using the Article Template (see Article Template).
9. Please adhere to the following formatting guidelines: a. Paper size: A-4 vertical b. Page layout: bottom 2.5 cm, top: 2.5 cm, left: 2.5 cm, right: 2.5 cm, header: 3 cm, footer: 3 cm.
c. Font: Times New
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Ethical Principles
This guideline should be carefully reviewed by all researchers who will submit a study to the Journal.
Çukurova University Journal of Social Sciences Institute is a peer-reviewed journal published in accordance with the ethical principles and rules specified below, with the aim of publishing qualified scientific articles in the field of Social Sciences.
Articles sent to Çukurova University Journal of Social Sciences Institute are evaluated through a double-blind peer-review process.
The journal is published electronically with free access.
The journal only accepts articles through the Dergi Park system.
Çukurova University Journal of Social Sciences Institute is a journal aware of the fact that information must be easily accessible in order for scientific studies to advance, and supports the initiative to make refereed journal literature open access, as stated in the Budapest Open Access Declaration, and offers all published articles in an environment where everyone can read and download them, free of charge.
In this declaration, open access is used in the sense that “scientific literature can be accessed, read, saved, copied, printed, scanned, linked to full text, indexed, transferred to software as data and used for any lawful purpose via the Internet without financial, legal and technical barriers”.
Considering the role of knowledge sharing in the advancement of science, open access is of great importance for researchers and readers. For this reason, articles in this journal can be used as long as the author and original source are cited. Permission from authors or publishers is not required.
It is aimed that all stakeholders (author, editor, referee, publisher and reader) who present a scientific study contribute to the correct advancement of science. In accordance with this goal, compliance with scientific ethical principles is important in scientific studies prepared.
These ethical principles have been accepted by us based on the guidelines prepared by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and are presented below with some of them, with the recommendation that stakeholders adopt them as well.
Accordingly, the ethical responsibilities, roles and duties of authors, journal editor, referees and publisher are included in our Journal. In addition, information is provided regarding plagiarism and unethical behaviors in Çukurova University Social Sciences Institute Journal. The sources used while preparing these policies are stated at the end of the guide.
Author(s)
• Articles sent to Çukurova University Social Sciences Institute Journal must be original studies in the field of Social Sciences.
All sources used in the articles (authors, online pages, personal interviews, etc.) must be cited correctly and appropriately.
• It must be stated that the articles sent to the journal have not been sent to another journal and the Copyright Transfer Form must be filled out.
People who have not contributed to the article intellectually should not be listed as authors.
• Conflicts of interest regarding the submitted article must be stated and the reason must be explained.
• Authors may be asked to submit the raw data of their work to the editorial board during the refereeing process, in which case the authors are expected to share their raw data with the editorial board. Authors are obliged to keep the data related to a published article for 5 years.
• Authors must inform the editor and the editorial board when they detect an error in their work and cooperate for the correction or retraction process.
Authors cannot use language and attitudes that degrade or belittle any individual, community or institution in their articles.
Referees
All articles sent to Çukurova University Journal of Social Sciences are evaluated with a double-blind refereeing process. Double-blind refereeing means that authors are kept confidential from referees and referees are kept confidential from authors in order to ensure an impartial, objective and independent evaluation process.
Articles are sent to the referees for evaluation through the Dergi Park system.
Referees are required to fill out a form that includes the contribution of the article they are evaluating to their field, their decisions on whether the article is publishable or not, and the reasons for these decisions.
The ethical responsibilities and roles of referees of Çukurova University Journal of Social Sciences are as follows:
• Referees are required to referee articles related to their fields of expertise only.
• Referees are expected to agree to referee articles that do not have any conflicts of interest. If referees discover any conflicts of interest, they must inform the editor and decline to referee the relevant article.
• Referees must evaluate articles impartially and objectively.
• Referees are required to fill out the Referee Evaluation Form for the articles they evaluate, and
Price Policy
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