World Language Studies

World Language Studies (WLS) (ISSN: 2791-7770) is a peer-reviewed international journal published electronically twice a year (June and December) by the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Ankara Sosyal Bilimler University. Special issues may also be published when deemed necessary. Authors are not charged any publication fees.

WLS aims to publish and share with the public original academic articles written in Turkish and English, as well as article translations, book introductions, and reviews. The journal focuses on world languages, their literatures, and associated cultures, covering topics such as history, language, literature, sociology, cultural relations, language education, and applied linguistics.

Our journal accepts works that have not been previously published elsewhere and are not under consideration for publication by other journals.

Author(s) holds the copyright. The copyright of articles published in WLS is governed by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Under this licence, works may be copied, adapted, distributed and reused for any purpose, including commercial purposes, provided that appropriate reference is given to the journal.

 
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WLS is an academic, international, peer-reviewed, and free journal published twice a year, during the Summer (June) and Winter (December) periods.

The scope of our journal generally consists of the following areas: World Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, Foreign Language Education, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Cultural Studies, History, Sociology, Philosophy.

Paper Size

A4 Vertical

Top Margin

2,5 cm

Bottom Margin

2,5 cm

Left Margin

2,5 cm

Right Margin

2,5 cm

Font

Times News Roman

Font Style

Normal

Type Size (Regular Text)

12

Type Size (Footnote Text)

10

Table-graphic

10

Paragraph Entry (First Line)

1 cm

Paragraph Spacing

Before 6 nk, after 0 nk (Table and graphic – before and after 0 nk)

Line Spacing

(1,5)

References

Hanging and indentation 0.63 cm, Alignment: Justify, Range before 6 nk, then 0 nk, line spacing 1.15 cm.


The article should be written in Microsoft Word environment in A4 paper format.
The paper layout should be set as 2.5 cm from the left and right and 2.5 cm from the bottom.
The entire article (author information, article name, abstract, introduction, titles, conclusion, bibliography) should be written in "Times New Roman" font with 12 pt. Abstract should be between 200 and 300 words.
For articles with a special font, the author must add the special font file to the submission file.
The first title should be written in the language in which the text is written, in 13 pt., The second heading / headings in 12 pt., All capital letters, centered and bold.
The main heading and sub-headings can be numbered up as 1., 1.1, 1.1.2,1.3, 1.4 if deemed necessary.
Tables, pictures and figures should not extend beyond the page and the in-texts should be 10 pt. and single line spacing should be used. Figures and tables should be numbered and named according to their content.
The format used for citing references is designated as APA (American Psychological Association). In the citations and the bibliography, the authors should follow the spelling rules and format specified in the American Psychological Association's Publication Guide published by the American Psychological Association. For detailed information, see: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx. Please click here for the Turkish translation of APA 6.
In the use of abbreviations, the rules in the Turkish Language Association Guide should be followed.
Footnotes are used only for mandatory explanations and are added through “References > Insert Footnote” command in MS Word program. The citations should be arranged in a way that includes the author's surname, publication year and page number in parentheses. Example: (Yılmaz, 2017, p.13). The work / works used in the footnote should also be included in the bibliography.
Quotations should be given in quotation marks; quotations less than five lines should be written between lines, and quotations longer than five lines should be indented 1.5 cm from the left and the right margin, in block form with 1.5 line spacing and 11 type size. References in the text should be written in parentheses.
Quotations: Direct quotations in the article should be given in quotation marks and at the end of the quotation, the source should be indicated in brackets according to APA rules.

Citation

Additional Information

Tables should have numbers and captions. In tables, vertical lines should not be used. Horizontal lines should be used only to separate the subtitles within the table. The table number should be written at the top, fully aligned to the left, and should not be in italics. The caption should be written in italics, and the first letter of each word in the caption should be capitalized. Tables should be placed where they are most appropriate in the text. Figures should be prepared in line with black-and-white printing. The numbers and captions of the figures should be centered right below the figures. The figure numbers should be written in italics followed by a full-stop. The caption should immediately follow the number. The caption should not be written in italics, and the first letter of each word should be capitalized.
Pictures should be attached to the articles scanned in high-resolution print quality. The same rules for figures and tables apply in naming pictures. The number of pages for figures, tables and pictures should not exceed 10 pages (one-third of the article).
Direct quotations should be placed in quotation marks. Quotations shorter than 2.5 lines should be placed within the flowing text. If the quotation is longer than 2.5 lines, it should be turned into a block quote with a 1.5 cm indentation on the right and left, and the font size should be 1 point smaller. Footnotes and endnotes should be avoided as much as possible. They should only be used for essential explanations and should be numbered automatically.
Citations within the text should be given in parentheses as follows:

(Gözcü, 1955, p. 15).

For a study with two authors, each reference should include the surnames of both authors.

(Al and Soydal, 2014).

When citing to publications with three, four and five authors, the surnames of all authors are given only in the first citation in the text. For other citations, the expression of others (et al) should be added next to the surname of the first author.

Example:

First citation: (Uçak, Kurbanoğlu, Şencan and Doğan, 2011), the second and later citations: (Uçak et al., 2011).

If the text already includes the name of the author, only the date should be given:

Ak (1989, p. 118), states that …

In sources and manuscripts with no publication date, only the surname of the author should be written; in encyclopedias and other sources without authors, only the name of the source should be written.

While quoting from a quotation, the original source should also be specified:

Kaplan (1938, qtd. in Oruç 1981). In Doğan’s study (qtd. in Şencan, 2010).

Personal interviews should be cited within the text by giving the surnames and dates; they should also be cited in the bibliography. Internet references should always include date of access and be cited in the bibliography.

References should be placed at the end of the text, the surnames of authors in alphabetical order. The work cited should be entered with the surname of the author placed at the beginning:
Example:

Ortaylı, İ. (2020). Osmanlı Toplumunda Aile. İstanbul: Kronik Kitap.

If a source has two authors, the surname of the first author should be placed first.

Example:

Kamalov, İ. and Dündar, A. M.(2008). Tarihten Bugüne Başkurtlar Tarih Dil ve Kültür Üzerine İncelemeler. Ankara: Ötüken Neşriyat.

The titles of books and journals should be italicized; article titles and book chapters should be placed in quotation marks. Page numbers need not be indicated for books. Shorter works like journals, encyclopedia entries and book chapters, however, require the indication of page numbers.

Example:

Pala, İ. (2018). Aşka Dair. İstanbul: Kapı Yay.

Poyraz, Ö. (2020). Abdülmecid Dönemi Hürriyet Bağlayıcı ve Kısıtlayıcı Ceza Uygulamalarına Dair Bir İnceleme. Sefad, Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 43, 497-518.


Translator’s, compiler’s and editor’s names (if there are any) should follow the author and title of the work:

Example:

Izutsu, T. (1964). Kuran’da Allah ve İnsan. (Trans. Süleyman Ateş). İstanbul: Pınar Publishing.


If several references by the same author written in the same need to be cited, it should presented as (a, b)

Example:

Pala, İ. (2015a). Kırk Güzeller Çeşmesi. İstanbul: Kapı Yay.

Pala, İ. (2015b). Efsane Güzeller. İstanbul: Kitabevi.


For encyclopedia entries, if the author of the encyclopedia entry is known, the author’s surname and name are written first. These are followed by the date of the entry, the title of the entry in quotation marks, the full name of the encyclopedia, its volume number, place of publication, publisher and page numbers:


Example:

Keyormarsi, K., O’Leary, N. and Pardee, A. B. (2007). Cell division. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology içinde (9. bs., Vol 3, 618-621. pp.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

For theses and dissertations, the following order should be followed: surname and name of the author, date, full title of thesis in italics, thesis type, city where the university is located, and the name of the university:

Example:

Kaya, A. (2019). Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti Yargı Sistemi. (Unpublished Master’s Thesis). Social Sciences University of Ankara, Ankara.

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

WLS is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality original scientific articles, article translations, book introductions, and reviews in the fields of language, literature, literary history, culture, language education, and applied linguistics in accordance with the ethical principles outlined below. Articles submitted to our journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published electronically with free access. The ethical principles and rules below have been prepared in accordance with the Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Guidelines of Higher Education Institutions and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Publication Ethics Committee guidelines.

Author(s) holds the copyright. The copyright of articles published in WLS is governed by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Under this licence, works may be copied, adapted, distributed and reused for any purpose, including commercial purposes, provided that appropriate reference is given to the journal.

Authors' Ethical Responsibilities

Articles submitted to our faculty journal must be within the specified fields.

Articles submitted to our journal must be original, not previously published elsewhere, and not under consideration for publication in another journal.

All sources used in the article must be appropriately cited in the references. Materials subject to copyright laws and agreements must be used with necessary permissions.

In the Copyright Agreement Form, the name order in the articles with two or more authors should be officially stated.

If authors detect an error in their article after publication, they must immediately inform the editorial board and cooperate in the correction or retraction process. All responsibility for the published article lies with the authors. No opinions or thoughts in the article can be attributed to the journal, editors, or reviewers.

All works accepted by our journal are checked using the iThenticate plagiarism detection program. Matches resulting from plagiarism checks are examined, and a similarity report is created for the article. Based on the report, authors may be asked to make corrections to certain parts of their work, or the work may be removed from the publication process.

Articles undergo a double-blind review process by either an editor or an assistant editor and at least two reviewers. Plagiarism, falsification, distortion, duplication, salami slicing, unjust authorship, copyright violations, and concealment of conflicts of interest are considered unethical behaviors.

Reviewers' Ethical Responsibilities

A double-blind review method is applied in evaluating the works submitted to our journal. Thus, to ensure an impartial, objective, and independent evaluation process, the identities of reviewers and authors are kept confidential.

Reviewers should only review works within their areas of expertise.

Reviewers must provide their opinions on the article, including justified decisions on whether the work should be published, in written form, without disclosing their names to avoid compromising the double-blind review process.

Reviewers are responsible for evaluating the articles impartially and objectively from a scientific standpoint.

Reviewers are expected to complete their evaluations within the assigned timeframe and to act in accordance with the journal's ethical principles.

Editors' Ethical Responsibilities

Editors evaluate the articles submitted to the journal objectively, following scientific and ethical principles, and organize the process of double-blind peer review to ensure fair assessment.

They ensure that all information and data related to the articles submitted to the journal remain confidential until the publication process is completed.

Editors are responsible for the overall quality of all content and publications in the journal. They may publish errata pages or make corrections when necessary.

Editors do not allow any conflicts of interest between authors and reviewers. They have full authority in assigning reviewers and are responsible for the final decision on the articles to be published in the journal.

Ethics Committee Approval

For studies requiring Ethics Committee approval, authors must indicate in the research method section of the article that they conducted their studies in accordance with the relevant principles, obtained Informed Consent Forms from the ethics committees of the institutions and participants involved, in line with the relevant regulations and obligations of the scientific research protocol.

All research requiring data collection from participants through qualitative or quantitative methods such as surveys, interviews, focus group discussions, etc., requires ethics committee approval.

When using scales, surveys, or photographs belonging to others, permission must be obtained from the owners, and this must be stated in the article.

If authors use copyrighted ideas or artistic works owned by third parties or organizations, they must indicate the permission documents for use in their articles.

WLS implements an open access policy. The scientific articles published in our journal are made freely available to users without financial, legal, or technical barriers, in accordance with the principle that information should be accessible to everyone. Our journal adopts the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Detailed information about the Budapest Open Access Initiative can be found at the following link: https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/