ASBU YUVA International Journal of Family Studies

ASBU International Family Studies Journal (YUVA) is a refereed international journal published electronically twice a year (June and December) by the Social Sciences Institute of Ankara Social Sciences University. If deemed necessary, a special issue or gift issue may be published.

YUVA Journal will publish original articles in areas such as family philosophy, family law, family psychology, family sociology, theology, children's and youth literature. The publication languages ​​of the journal are Turkish and English. YUVA aims to publish original academic articles, article translations, book reviews and critiques.

YUVA Journal accepts articles that have not been previously published elsewhere or are not under evaluation.

The scientific and legal responsibilities of the articles published in YUVA Journal belong to their authors. The rights of all published articles belong to YUVA and they cannot be partially or completely published, reproduced or transferred to electronic media without the permission of the publisher.

YUVA Journal is an academic, international, refereed, electronic and free journal published twice a year by the Social Sciences Institute of Ankara Social Sciences University in the Summer (June) and Winter (December) periods.

The scope of our journal generally consists of the following areas:

Family Philosophy
Family Law/Islamic Family Law
Family Psychology
Family Sociology
Theology
Children and Youth Literature

a) General Rules

1- YUVA's publication languages ​​are Turkish and English. If the Editors and Editorial Board deem it appropriate, articles in different languages ​​may be published.
2- Submitted articles must comply with the grammar rules. In Turkish studies, the current Turkish Language Association (TDK) Writing Guide should be taken as basis, and for articles in foreign languages, the grammar rules of that language should be taken as basis.
3- At the beginning of the article uploaded to the system, there should be a Turkish and English abstract and keywords consisting of 3-6 words under the abstracts. Submitted abstracts should not be less than 150 words and should not exceed 300 words. The main text, conclusion and bibliography sections must be included.
4- Articles sent to the journal must be scanned by the author in the iThenticate program; and the similarity report to be received must be uploaded to the system together with the submitted article without any filtering. YUVA, which has a multidisciplinary nature, should not exceed 20% with a similarity rate excluding sources. The evaluation of the reports belongs to the Editorial Board.
5- If the article is derived from any thesis, conference paper or other scientific study, it should be indicated in a footnote to the title of the article and the details of the derived study should be included (if the article is derived from a thesis, the title of the study should be included along with the name of the university, institute, department and advisor; if it is a paper presented at a congress or symposium but not published, the title of the article, presentation date, symposium/congress name).
6- In studies supported by a research institution/organization (BAP, TUBITAK, Ministry of Development etc.), the name of the institution/organization and the project in question, if any, the date and number should be indicated in a footnote.
7- In book reviews and critiques, the imprint of the book in question (printing date, number of editions, place of publication information) should be included.
8- Members who send/will send articles to our journal should also add the ORCID Number to their user ID information.
9- By sending their work to YUVA for publication, authors transfer their copyrights to YUVA Journal, which is affiliated with the Social Sciences University of Ankara. To do this, they must fill out the “Copyright Transfer Form” on the journal’s homepage with a wet signature and upload it to the system. The copyright of the published work belongs to the journal and cannot be transferred without reference.

10- The copyright of the images used by the authors in their work belongs to the author. The copyright and responsibility for the images used belong to the author.

11- The scientific, content, language and legal responsibility of the works published in YUVA belong to the author(s).

b) Writing Rules

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 Type Times News Roman
Font Style Normal
Font Size (normal text) 12
Font Size (footnote text) 10
Table-graph 10
Paragraph Indent (First Line) 1 cm
Paragraph Spacing 6 pt before, then 0 pt (0 pt before and after in tables and graphs)
Line Spacing (1.5)
References Hanging and indent 0.63 cm, Alignment: Justify on both sides, Spacing 6 pt before, then 0 pt, line spacing 1.5 cm.

1- The article should be written in Microsoft Word environment in A4 paper format.
2- The paper layout should be adjusted to be 2.5 cm from left and right, 2.5 cm from top and bottom.

3- The entire article (author information, article name, abstract, introduction, titles, conclusion, bibliography) should be in “Times New Roman” font, written in 12-point font, and the studies should be submitted by adding the page number to the bottom right corner.

4- In articles where a special font is used, the author should add the special font file to the submission file.

5- The first title should be written in the language in which the text is written, in 13-point font, the second title/titles should be written in 12-point font, all in capital letters, centered and bold.

6- The main title and subtitles can be numbered up to four levels as 1., 1.1, 1.1.2,1.3, 1.4 if deemed necessary.

7- Tables, pictures and figures should not extend beyond the page, and the text inside should be in 10-point font and single-spaced. Figures and tables should be numbered and named according to their content.

8- The format used for referencing is determined as APA7 (American Psychological Association). In citations and the bibliography section, authors should follow the writing rules and format specified in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association published by the American Psychological Association. For detailed information, see: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx.

9- The rules in the Turkish Language Association Guide should be taken as basis for the use of abbreviations.

10- Footnotes are used only for mandatory explanations and are added with the “References > Add Footnote” command in the MS Word program. The references here should be arranged in parentheses with the author’s surname, the publication year of the work, and the page number. Example: (Yılmaz, 2017, p. 13). The work/works used in the footnote should also be added to the bibliography.

11- Quotations should be given in quotation marks; Quotations of less than five lines are placed between the lines, more than five lines

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
YUVA is an international, electronic, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original scientific articles, article translations, book reviews and critiques in the fields of family philosophy, family law, family psychology, family sociology, theology and children's and youth literature in accordance with the ethical principles stated below. Articles sent to YUVA are published electronically with free access after a double-blind review process. The ethical principles and rules stated below have been prepared in accordance with the Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive and the Committee on Publication Ethics- COPE Publication Ethics Committee Directive.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors:
• The subjects of the articles to be sent to YUVA Journal must be within the specified fields.

• Articles to be sent to our journal must be original, not previously published elsewhere or not under evaluation in another journal for publication.

• All sources used in writing the article must be appropriately indicated in the references; copyrighted materials should be used in accordance with the necessary permissions, observing copyright laws and agreements.

• In articles with two or more authors, the order of names agreed upon by all authors and the acceptance that the copyrights of the articles finalized for publication have been transferred to the journal should be officially stated in the Copyright Agreement Form.

• If authors subsequently detect an error in their articles, they should immediately inform the editorial board; they should carry out the correction or retraction process in cooperation. The authors are fully responsible for the published article. No views and thoughts in the article can be attributed to the journal, editors or referees.

• All studies accepted by our journal are checked using the iThenticate plagiarism detection program. Matches resulting from the plagiarism check are examined and a similarity report is then created for the article. In line with the report, authors may be asked to make corrections to certain parts of their work, or the study may be removed from the publication process.

• Articles are subjected to a double-blind evaluation process by the editor or one of the assistant editors and at least two referees. Plagiarism, forgery, distortion, duplication, slicing publication, unfair authorship, copyright violation and concealment of conflict of interest are considered unethical behaviors in studies.

Ethical Responsibilities of Referees:
• The double-blind method is applied in the evaluation of studies sent to our journal. Thus, the identities of referees and authors are kept confidential in order to ensure an unbiased, objective and independent evaluation process.

Articles are sent to referees for evaluation via Dergipark.

Referees are required to referee only studies related to their fields of expertise.

Referees must state their opinions on the article they evaluate, their reasoned decisions on whether the study is publishable or not in writing and they must not state their names in order not to harm the double-blind evaluation process.

Referees are responsible for evaluating articles in an unbiased and objective manner from a scientific perspective.

Referees are expected to complete their evaluations within the time period granted to them and to act in accordance with the ethical principles of our journal.
Ethical Responsibilities of Editors:
• Editors evaluate the articles sent to the journal objectively in accordance with scientific and ethical principles and organize the process of fair double-blind peer review of the studies.
• They ensure that all information and data regarding the articles sent to the journal are kept confidential until the publication process is completed.
• They are responsible for the total quality of all content and publications in the journal. They may publish an error page or make corrections when necessary.
• Editors do not allow any conflict of interest between authors and referees. They have full authority to appoint referees and are responsible for making the final decision regarding the articles to be published in the journal.

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