Volume: 23 Issue: 2

Ankara Review of European Studies (ARES) is a leading refereed journal in its field, aimed at publishing original, high quality articles on the European Integration. Since 2001, the Review has been striving to accumulate and disseminate knowledge in the field of European Studies focusing inter alia on legal, economic, political and historical aspects of the integration process, both from theoretical and empirical perspectives. ARES aims to achieve a disciplinary balance between law, political science, economics and international relations. The editors are also open to submissions based in other social science disciplines. As well as full academic articles, book reviews and case studies/reviews/comments are also published in the Review. The Review is published bi-annually in June and December and in Turkish and English languages.

Writing Rules

Works such as articles, case studies and book reviews can be sent to Ankara Review of European Studies.
• Works must be in Turkish or English.
• The works will be written in Times New Roman in Microsoft Word. Line spacing should be 1.5. 12 point font size should be used for text and 10 point font size should be used for footnotes.
• Articles should be between 6,000-10,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. Case studies should be between 3000-5000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. Book reviews should be between 1500-2000 words. A similarity report is mandatory for article applications. During the file upload step, the similarity report will be prepared by excluding "quotations, text parts with overlap of less than 5 words and bibliography" and the result will be notified to the author by e-mail. When the result of the report is announced, the author will be able to complete the submission process. In order for the manuscript to be proceeded to evaluation, the total similarity rate in the report must be below 15%, and the similarity with a single work must be below 4%.

• Articles should include a Turkish and English summary not exceeding 200 words and a maximum of 5 keywords in Turkish and English. For articles in foreign languages, journal editors may add Turkish abstracts and keywords when necessary.
• Sources used in the works should be given both in footnotes and in the bibliography. Reference style must conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Please see https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html.
• In the subheading system to be used in the works, the first subheading is "I-II-III-...", the second subheading is "A-B-C-...", the third subheading is "1-2-3...", the fourth subheading is "a-b-c-...", the fifth subheading is "A-B-C-..." The subheading should be “i-ii-iii-…” and the sixth subheading should be “aa-bb-cc-…”.
• Tables, graphics and figures to be used in the works must be included in the main text file submitted. Graphs, figures and tables must be in JPEG, GIF, BMP or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) format. The graph, figure or table must be small enough to fit on an A4 page.
• Tables, graphs and figures should be numbered sequentially and should be the same numbering used in the text.

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Ethical Principles:

• Ankara Review of European Studies (ARES) complies with all the guidelines set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). For guidelines, see https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines
ARES adheres to national and international standards in research and publication ethics. It complies with the Press Law, the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works, and the Regulation on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics in Higher Education Institutions. It has also committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and pays regard to Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

• It is the responsibility of the responsible author to determine and report the list and order of authors contributing to the work.

• It is up to the responsible author to indicate the individuals and organizations that made significant financial and technical contributions to the publication of the article.

• Ankara Review of European Studies (ARES) publishes only original works. Articles to be sent to the journal must be the author(s') own work and must not be published elsewhere or in the process of being published. While a work is being evaluated for publication, it cannot be sent to another journal. Studies submitted to more than one journal at the same time and studies that violate legal and academic criteria such as copyrights and/or plagiarism are not evaluated, and the process of those found to be in violation at any evaluation stage is stopped immediately.

• If plagiarism or other ethical violations are detected for an already published work, the relevant work will be withdrawn. If an article must be retracted due to misconduct or honest mistake, the article will be formally retracted as outlined in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Retraction Guidelines. For the guide in question, see https://publicationethics.org/retraction-guidelines

• Author(s) can disclose all conflicts of interest, including institutional, financial, personal and academic conflicts of interest.

• ARES adopts the "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers" of the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE) in order to create ethical assurance in scientific periodicals. Authors must submit ethics committee approval to the journal for studies that require ethics committee approval. Information regarding Ethics Committee approval (name of the ethics committee, number and date of the approval document) should be stated in the article. Evidence of sensitivity to ethical issues during the data collection process (such as obtaining permission to use scales, surveys, and photographs belonging to others) must be presented within the study. Anonymity must be ensured and participants must be informed accordingly. In studies involving such methods, the author(s) must state that they have obtained informed consent from the participants in their work. In this context, the following points should be followed in the manuscripts submitted to the journal: 1) Ethics committee approval must be obtained for research in all branches of science that requires ethics committee approval, and this approval must be stated and documented in the manuscript. 2) In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information regarding the approval (committee name, date and number) should be included in the methods section and also on the first page of the manuscript.

• The author(s) must present the raw data of their research when requested by the editor and referees and keep these data after their articles are published.

Plagiarism Action Plan and Review Precautions: Ankara Review of European Studies respects intellectual property and aims to protect and promote the original work of its authors. Plagiarized manuscripts are against the standards of quality, research and innovation. Therefore, all authors submitting manuscripts to the review are expected to adhere to ethical standards and avoid plagiarism in any form. In the event that an author is suspected of plagiarism in a submitted or published manuscript, the work is first reviewed by the review's Editorial Board. The review then contacts the author(s) within two weeks to submit their explanations. If the review does not receive any response from the author within the specified period, it contacts the author's university and requests that the claim be investigated. The review will take the following measures against published manuscripts found to contain plagiarism: 1. The review will immediately contact the author's university to take definitive action against the relevant author. 2. The review will remove the PDF copy of the published manuscript from its website and disable all links to the full-text manuscript. The phrase Plagiarized Manuscript will be added to the title of the published manuscript. 3. The review will disable the author account and reject all future submissions from the author for three years.

Checks for plagiarism: The manuscripts that have undergone pre-control are scanned for plagiarism using the intihal.net software via Dergipark. In the plagiarism scanning program in question, the total similarity rate in the report, excluding “citations, text sections with less than 5 words of overlap and references”, should be below 15% and the similarity with a single work should be below 4%. If plagiarism/self-plagiarism is detected, the authors are informed. Editors may subject the manuscript to plagiarism control at various stages of the evaluation or production process, if necessary. Similarity rates higher than 15 percent may result in a paper being rejected before acceptance or even after acceptance.

Plagiarism Policy: All manuscripts are checked by means of a program in order to confirm they are not published before and avoid plagiarism.

Publication Policy:

• Submission and tracking of works in Turkish or English is done electronically via the Dergi Park UDS system, on our website https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/aacd.

• The works sent to Ankara Review of European Studies (ARES) must be checked to determine whether they are written in accordance with the spelling rules before proceeding to the evaluation stage, and the plagiarism report (in the intihal.net plagiarism control program, the total similarity of the report is made by excluding "quotations, text parts containing less than 5 words overlap and bibliography" rate should be below 15%, and the similarity with a single work should be below 4%) and it is checked whether the journal is within the scope of the subject. Editors have the right to reject the article without initiating the referee process, on grounds such as the works not complying with the journal's publishing principles and policies and/or writing rules, the subject of the work not falling within the scope of the journal, or the work needing further development. The author(s) will be informed about the relevant decision within 7 business days.

• If the work submitted to the journal complies with the publication criteria, it is sent to two separate referees for evaluation using the blind referee method within 14 working days. In this process, authors and reviewers are unaware of each other throughout the process. Referees submit their evaluations to the editors in the form of a report within 20 business days. If two referees express different opinions, a third referee's opinion is sought. Pending recommendations from referees, a manuscript may be accepted, rejected, or require revision. In the latter case, the author(s) are given a period not exceeding 30 working days to resubmit a revised version of the manuscript, based on and addressing the reviewers' comments. This process is repeated until a paper is definitively accepted or rejected. After the positive evaluation of the submitted articles by at least two referees, the Editors and the Editorial Board decide which issue of the Journal will be published. Even if the articles receive a positive opinion from the referees, it depends on the decision of the Editorial Board whether the articles will be published or not.

• Ankara Review of European Studies (ARES) is an open access journal. Each article can be accessed in full text on the journal's website, starting from the date of publication, since 2018 under the Creative Commons License of CC BY-NC-ND, without any restrictions or delays. For more information about this type of licensing, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Copyright Policy: Authors publishing with the review retain the copyright to their work licensed under the Creative Commons License of CC BY-NC-ND which allows re-users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form and for noncommercial purposes, provided the original work is properly cited.

The author(s) agrees that:

1. The manuscript submitted is his/her/their own original work and has not been plagiarized from any prior work,
2. all authors participated in the work in a substantive way and are prepared to take public responsibility for the work,
3. all authors have seen and approved the manuscript as submitted,
4. the manuscript has not been published and is not being submitted or considered for publication elsewhere,
5. the text, illustrations, and any other materials included in the manuscript do not infringe upon any existing copyright or other rights of anyone.
6. The Publisher will publish the content under the Creative Commons License of CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
7. The Contributor(s) or, if applicable the Contributor’s Employer, retain(s) all proprietary rights in addition to copyright, patent rights.
8. I/We indemnify the Publisher and the Editors of the Journals, and hold them harmless from any loss, expense or damage occasioned by a claim or suit by a third party for copyright infringement, or any suit arising out of any breach of the foregoing warranties as a result of publication of my/our article. I/We also warrant that the article contains no libelous or unlawful statements and does not contain material or instructions that might cause harm or injury.

This Copyright Agreement Form must be signed/ratified by all authors. Separate copies of the form (completed in full) may be submitted by authors located at different institutions; however, all signatures must be original and authenticated.

Open Access Policy: ARES is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Except for commercial purposes, users are allowed to read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. The review provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The review is licensed under a Creative Commons License of CC BY-NC-ND.

Archiving: Each issue is forwarded to libraries and international indexing institutions within one month after its publication.

Price Policy: Ankara Review of European Studies does not charge any manuscript submission, processing charges, and printing charges from the authors. All expenses of the review are covered by the Ankara University.

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern: Editors may consider publishing a correction if minor errors are identified in the published manuscript that do not affect the findings, interpretations, or conclusions. Editors should consider retracting a paper if major errors or violations invalidate the findings or conclusions. If there is a possibility of research or publication misconduct by the authors; if there is evidence that the findings are unreliable and the authors' institutions did not investigate the incident; or if the potential investigation appears to be unjustified or inconclusive, editors should consider publishing an expression of concern. COPE guidelines are followed regarding corrections, retractions, or expressions of concern.