The manuscripts should be incompatible with the following rules to adhere high academic standards.

(The documents and author-guideline-compliant templates required during the publication process are available under the “Documents” tab.) 

General Rules

• The submitted manuscripts should not be published elsewhere in full or in part.
• It is necessary to receive the permission of the authors or publisher if the article includes quotes, tables, pictures etc which were previously published in another work.
• Papers presented at a conference but not published in the proceedings are welcome but it should be indicated in the article clearly.
• The required style guide for references and in-text citations in APA format detailed in the reference writing rules of Politics, Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal of Ahi Evran University (The PEAJ).
• The submitted articles are published only if the approval of at least two referees is obtained.
   

Scientific and Ethics Principles

All authors should have an academic or scientific contribution to the submitted article.
i. should plan or do the work
ii. write or revise the article
iii. should accept the last version

If an institution is involved in the financial funding or in the direct or indirect commercial support, authors should specify that they do not have any legal relationship. Otherwise, the extent of the relationship should be stated.

If the article requires an “approval of an ethical committee”, the corresponding document indicating the allowance of the treatments should be attached to the article when submitted.
 

Copyright

if the submitted article is approved to be published in the journal, all of its rights are preserved by the PEAJ. Henceforth, the citation of these articles requires their inclusion in the reference section and it should also have the permission of the journal.
All views or suggestions in the articles belong to the authors and cannot be held responsible by the journal.
 

Manuscript Styles

• The articles should consist of at least 4.000 and at most 12.000 words including the references.
• The word count of the book reviews should be between 1.000-2.000 words.
• Case studies should include 1.000-2.000 words.
   

Citation and Writing Style

Manuscripts submitted to the journal must comply with the APA 7 (American Psychological Association, 7th Edition) guidelines in terms of writing format, reference list, and in-text citations. For detailed information regarding writing and citation rules, authors are encouraged to consult the APA Style guide.

Detailed instructions and formatting examples related to manuscript preparation are provided in the journal’s article template.