Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. The REAL rarely intends to publish only original, new, and creative scale development studies which are mainly expected to be focused on new issues in the field of educational leadership.

Manuscripts should follow the latest APA style edition (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association) including organization and structure, formatting of references, tables, and figures, and all other APA formatting concerns. Submissions must be between 4.000-8.000 words in length. The main document file with abstract, keywords, main text, and references should be kept anonymous. Manuscripts with author information will be returned to the authors.

From the first issue of 2021 onwards, this journal requires CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) when there are two or more authors.

The corresponding author is expected to present CRediT details that provide the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of the authors' contributions to the published article.

The role(s) of all authors should be listed, using the relevant categories.
Authors may have contributed in multiple roles.
This information must be provided after the authors' short bios. F
The roles of authors may be classified as the followings, but not limited to:

Conceptualization (Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims).

Methodology (Development or design of methodology; creation of models).

Software (Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code, etc.).

Formal analysis (Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data).

Investigation (Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection).

Resources (Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, participants, samples, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools).

Writing – original draft preparation (Creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review and editing (Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision – including pre-or post-publication stages)

Supervision (Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team).

Project administration (Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution).

Funding acquisition (Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication).


The corresponding author may use the following example to state author contributions as authorship credits:

Tanya Bush (Conceptualization/Administration - formulated research goals and aims, and administered the research)

William Star and Selim Metin (Methodology - designed the methodology)

Helen Woody and Alice Silen (Writing, review, and editing - prepared and/or presented the published work)

Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1210 

All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least two members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. The final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be made by the editor based on the reviewers’ comments. A typical review process for an article submitted to the REAL takes 6-8 months.

All submissions must be sent electronically at https://dergipark.org.tr/real 

https://dergipark.org.tr/journal/329/submission/start 

The REAL is an Open Access journal and requires no fees from the authors.

Prospective authors should consult the ethical guidelines of academic research and writing.

See, for example;

https://www.bera.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/BERA-Ethical-Guidelines-2011.pdf?noredirect=1

and

http://web.ccsenet.org/ethical-guidelines.html 

The impact of COVID 19 on the peer review process

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many researchers and reviewers may have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer-review process. That's why the review process of submissions may take more than it takes during normal times. We kindly request our authors to intend to be flexible at this time for an effective review process.