Article Template
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Candidate articles sent to the journal should not have been published elsewhere or sent for publication. The articles should be prepared in accordance with the publication format of the APA 7 Publication Manual (http://www.apa.org).
Articles sent for publication in our journal must be prepared and sent in accordance with the sample template provided above. When uploading the first version of your article to the system, the author names and the author information section in the template must be left blank due to the blind reviewing procedure.
The file name must consist of the article name.
There is a page limit for submitted studies. Articles should be prepared using 1 line spacing and Segoe UI 10 point font and should not exceed 20 pages in Turkish (including abstract, tables, figures, references, acknowledgments and appendix sections).
Ethics Rule Approval
Following the changes made in TR Index Journal Evaluation Criteria for 2020, “Ethics Committee Approval” is requested for articles in all branches of science including social sciences. Therefore, “Ethics Committee Approval” must be obtained from all studies sent to our journal. Studies without ethics committee approval will not be included in the evaluation process.
Similarity (Plagiarism) Scanning:
All candidate articles should be scanned with software such as iThenticate© and Turnitin© before being sent to AUJES and these scan reports should be submitted with the article. The similarity rate of the entire article should be below 18% and the similarity rate for a source should be below 3%. Nevertheless, it will be in the interest of the authors to carefully examine similarities above 1%. AUJES has the right to reject all candidate articles containing academic plagiarism at the editing stage.
ARTICLE WRITING RULES
Page Layout
All edits made must be made on our journal's template, in a way that includes and follows the journal emblem and the title flows in the current AUJES template.
Heading Levels
First Heading Level (Segoe UI, bold, 12 points, centered, before/after 6pt, First Letter of Each Word Capitalized)
The text starts as a new paragraph without indentation.
Second Level Heading (Segoe UI, bold, 11 points, left aligned, before/after 6pt, First Letter of Each Word Capitalized)
The text starts as a new paragraph without indentation.
Third Level Heading (Segoe UI, italic, bold, 10 points, left aligned, before/after 6pt, First Letter of Each Word Capitalized)
The text starts as a new paragraph without indentation.
Fourth level heading (Segoe UI, italic, 10 point, left aligned, before/after 6pt, Only the first letter of the first word is capitalized)
The text begins as a new paragraph without indentation.
Fifth level heading (Segoe UI, italic, 10 point, left aligned, before/after 6pt, Only the first letter of the first word is capitalized)
The text begins as a new paragraph without indentation.
Heading and Footnotes
The article title should be written in bold and Segoe UI 14 point, Centered, with the first letter of each word capitalized, except for the Conjunctions used. The article title should not exceed 15 words.
During article submission, “Author name and surname and footnote, title, contact information, etc.” should be left as is, and the relevant sections should be edited during the final version of the accepted articles to be uploaded for publication.
• Footnotes; Segoe UI should be written in 10 point size, 0nk space before and after the paragraph, single-spaced and justified.
Abstract
• The abstract should be written in Segoe UI 9 point size, 0nk space before and after the paragraph, justified, between 200-250 words.
Keywords
• Keyword should be written in Segoe UI 9 point size, the first letter of the first word should be capitalized, there should be 3-5 keywords, keywords should be separated with a comma and written without a period at the end.
Introduction
The objectives of the study are created in this section with an appropriate literature review. For this purpose, necessary connections are established with relevant studies.
Segoe UI should be written in 10 point size, 6nk space before and 6nk space after the paragraph, 1 line space and justified.
Method
This section provides detailed information about the context of the study, participants, the role of the researcher, data collection tools and processes, and data analysis. The subheadings of this section should also include the title Ethics Declaration, and this subheading should include a commitment that the rules in the “Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive” have been followed and that none of the “Actions Contrary to Scientific Research and Publication Ethics” in the second section of the directive have been committed. In addition, the name of the board conducting the ethical evaluation, the date of the ethical evaluation decision, and the number of the ethical evaluation document should be stated. In addition, if generative artificial intelligence was used in the study, the scope of this use and the fact that the violations in the Higher Education Generative Artificial Intelligence Use Ethics Guide were not committed should be reported.
Segoe UI should be written in 10 point font, 6nk space before and after the paragraph, 1 line spacing, and justified.
Author Contributions
This title should explain which title each author submitted to the publication. The contributions presented should be indicated in the order of the authors. For example, Introduction: First author, Second author. Method: Third author, Findings: Second author, Discussion: Third author.
Conflict of interest
This title should state whether there is a conflict of interest in the study.
Findings
• The results (findings) of the study are presented clearly in this section.
• Except for the tables, all text should be written in Segoe UI 10 point font, 6pt before and after the paragraph, 1 line spacing and justified.
Table titles/names should be written centered above the table, with Segoe UI 10 point font, 6pt before the paragraph and 0pt 10 point font after the paragraph, with the first letter of each word capitalized as in the example. Example:
Table 1. Conceptual Relationships Between Variables and the Direction of These Relationships
Figure/Visual names should be written centered under the visual, with Segoe UI 10 points, 0pt before the paragraph and 6pt after, with the first letter of each word capitalized, as in the example. Example:
Figure 1. Conceptual Relationships Between Variables and the Direction of These Relationships
• Tables should be written with 6pt spacing before and after the paragraph, with Segoe UI 10 points, 1 line spacing.
Discussion, Conclusion and Recommendations
• This section gives the importance of the findings without repeating them. It relates the findings to the findings of previous studies. The results of the study are mentioned. The limitations of the study and recommendations based on the results are presented.
This title should include the results of the study, discussion, limitations and suggestions in order without opening a separate subtitle.
• It should be written in Segoe UI 10 point font, 6nk spaced before and after the paragraph, 1 line spacing and justified.
Author's note
Additional information that needs to be explained about the publication should be added to this section. For example, if the publication was previously presented as a paper at a congress, if this study was produced from the data of a thesis, it should be explained in this section. If there is no information that needs to be explained, this title can be deleted.
Appendices: If the study has an appendix, it should be stated in this section, if not, this section should be deleted.
References
APA (http://www.apastyle.org/) style should be used in the references of the works used.
For examples, the link https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples can be used.