Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

Our journal aims to be a source of information for all researchers interested in the field by providing free and open access. It aims to increase the visibility and accessibility of qualified details produced in the field at the international level through scientific publishing and to contribute to the world of science in this context.

Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University Journal of Institute of Social Sciences, a nationally refereed journal; Educational Sciences (Turkish Education, Turkish Language, and Literature Education, Social Studies Education, History Education, Geography Education, Citizenship Education, Values Education, Classroom Education, Preschool Education, Guidance and Psychological Counseling, English Education, Special Education, Computer and Instructional Technology Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Measurement and Evaluation, It aims to publish original studies prepared in the fields of Educational Administration, Supervision and Planning, Fine Arts Education, Turkish Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, Translation and Cultural Studies, Linguistics, History, Geography, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, Communication and Media, Economics and Business Administration. 

SPELLING RULES

Headlines
The article's title should be written first in Turkish and then in English in capital letters and bold, not exceeding 12 words.
Internal headings should be written in bold and capitalized initial letters of all words (except conjunctions) without numbers and letters at the beginning according to the article's subject.

Author(s) Name
Manuscripts are sent to the referees directly through the system (without making any changes to the file uploaded by the author). To ensure author-referee confidentiality, there should not be any information identifying the author of the article. For this reason, the name(s) of the author(s) should not be included both in the article and in the file name.
For manuscripts whose referee process has been completed, when the author is asked to send the final version of the manuscript, he/she is asked to write his/her name, surname, institutional contact information, e-mail address, ORCID number in Turkish and English, just below the title, right justified.

Abstract
The abstract should be written in both English and Turkish under the title “Abstract” and “Abstract”. It should be written in 10-point font size, single-spaced, justified on both sides, and should not exceed 300 words. Turkish and English keywords should be written under the headings “Keywords” and “Keywords” with a minimum of 5 words and a maximum of 10 words. Turkish abstract should be followed by “Key Words” in Turkish and English abstract should be followed by “Key Words” in English.

Section Headings
In 11-point font size, the first letter of the words should be capitalized, bold, and centered, and they should be listed consecutively without numbering.

Sub-Section Headings
In 11-point font size, the first letter of the words should be capitalized, bold, and centered.

Text

1) Main text:
a) A4 paper size, with 5 cm margins on the top and bottom edges and 4.5 cm margins on the right and left edges.
b) It should be written in 11-point Times New Roman font.
c) 1.15 line spacing should be left.
d) It should be justified on both sides.
e) Paragraphs in the manuscript should be indented 1.25 cm, 0 nk line space should be left between paragraphs and page numbers should be placed in the upper right corner.
f) In the work, the first letter of each word should be capitalized above the names of charts and tables. Pictures, figures, and graphics should be shown under the name “Figure” and figures and graphics should be drawn on the computer. Figures should be numbered consecutively and the names of the figures should be written below the figure with the first letter of each word capitalized.
g) Please create your tables from the Insert table option and be careful not to organize them as images. If your tables are large, you can reduce the font size. Make sure that the fonts in the texts and other places are arranged according to the font requested in the template.

2) Citations and References:
All direct quotations should be enclosed in quotation marks. In direct quotations, if the quoted section exceeds 40 words, it should be given as a block quote. Block quotations should be written in 10-point font size, 1 cm from the right and left.
APA Citation System is applied in our journal. However, although it is accepted to make explanations with footnotes under the page, which is compulsory in some disciplines, the footnote system is not accepted in the citation.
When the APA System (in-text) is used, the following points should be noted:
- The surname of the author, the date of publication of the work: and the page number of the citation should be indicated by opening parentheses in the appropriate place in the text. Example:
“Since the Kyrgyz have left indelible traces in history by playing an active role in the formation of many historical events, they are generally recognized among the ancient Turkic tribes and communities with their nomadic life, warrior identity, and unique folk narrative Manas Epic” (Alyılmaz, 2013, p. 1).
-If the author's name is given in the text, the publication date and page of the source should be written. Example:
Regarding the effects of common values on society, Alyılmaz (2014, p. 77) says, “Common values play a major role in the formation and unity of societies. Common values are the product of common life and beliefs, goals and needs”.

- In consecutive quotations from the same work or article in the text of the article, there should be no abbreviations such as age., agm., etc., and the same method should be continued.
-If more than one work of the author published in the same year is cited, letter coding should be added at the end of the year of publication. Example:
(Köprülü, 1966a; Köprülü, 1966b ...)
- If the source is multi-authored, the surname of both authors should be used, and in works with more than two authors, the phrase “et al.” should be used after the surname of the first author. Example:
(Türkmen & Cemiloğlu, 2009: 20; Olcay et al., 1998: 10) All authors should be given in the References section.
-If more than one source is cited in the text, the sources should be separated by semicolons (Köprülü, 1966, p. 10; Kaplan, 2004, p. 15; Tanpınar, 1969, p. 20; ...)
-If it is necessary to cite a publication that cannot be found, even if it is not deemed appropriate by our journal, the original source should also be cited. Example:
(Köprülü, 1931 cited in Şahin, 2002, p. 25)
-If an oral source is used, the name and surname of the source person should be indicated in parentheses.

- For works or manuscripts with uncertain publication dates, only the author's name should be written, and for works without the author's name, the title of the work should be written.
-In quotations from the internet, the internet address and the date of access to the address should be specified by creating a subheading under the bibliography with the name of Internet titles in the bibliography section. Example:
URL 1: http://tdkterim.gov.tr/bts (Date of Access: 05.04.2011)

Sources
The References section should be located at the end of the article text, only the sources cited in the article text should be included and should be listed alphabetically according to the surname of the author. If an author has more than one work, the publication date should be taken into account in the order. If an author has more than one work published in the same year, the references should be coded as a, b, c.
In oral sources, the surname, name, place and date of birth, occupation, and other explanatory information should be briefly included. Example:
Fuat Özdemir- Ashiq Fuat Çerkezoğlu. Born in 1950 in Narman, folk minstrel
For sources that do not have some information, statements such as “no place of publication, no publisher, no date” should be added to the relevant place.
In ancient sources or in old works that are continuously printed, the name of the author (since there is no name-surname) should be written as it is, and the date of printing of the existing copy should be written after the name of the work.

Examples
Ancient Sources

Evliya Çelebi. Seyahatname. (sad. T. Temelkuran- N. Aktaş). 1986. İstanbul: Üçdal Yayınevi
Ksenophon. Anabasis / Onbinlerin dönüşü. (çev. T. Gökçöl). 1974. İstanbul: Hürriyet Yayınları

Book

Alyılmaz, C. (2005). Orhun yazıtlarının bugünkü durumu. Ankara: Kurmay Yayınları.
Durmuş, İ. (1993). İskitler (Sakalar). Ankara.
Köprülü, M. F. (1966a). Türk edebiyatında ilk mutasavvıflar. Ankara: Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı Yayınları.
Köprülü, M. F. (1966b). Edebiyat araştırmaları. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları.

Book Chapter / Encyclopedia Article

Şahin, N. (2021). Eğitimde teknoloji kullanımı ile ilgili sorunlar’. 21. YY. eğitim teknolojisi (Ed. M. F. Özcan ve N. Şahin) içinde (s. 71-86). İstanbul: Eğitim Yayınevi.
Belli, O. (1982). “Urartular”. Anadolu uygarlıkları ansiklopedisi-I içinde (s. 139-208). İstanbul: Görsel Yayınları.

Article

Alyılmaz, C. (2015). “Türk dünyası vatandaşlığı”na doğru. Uluslararası Türkçe Edebiyat Kültür Eğitim Dergisi, 4(1), 69-76.
Oğuz, M. Ö. (2010). Sözel belleğin tarihe tanıklığı ve âşıkların inanılan biyografileri. Milli Folklor, 87, 5-12.

Translation - Compilation

Naskali, E. G. (haz.). (1999). Altay destanı Maaday Kara. İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları.
Eliade, M. (1999). Şamanizm. (çev. İsmet Birkan). Ankara: İmge Kitabevi Yayınları.

Declaration
Kılıç, M., & Topaloğlu. Y. (2018). “Antik kaynaklara göre Doğu Anadolu mimarisi”. Kurtuluşunun 100. Yılında Uluslararası Erzurum Sempozyumu. 12-13 Mart 2018. Erzurum. 842-874

Thesis

Şahin, N. (2017). Cengiz Aytmatov’un eserlerinin değerler eğitimi bağlamında incelenmesi ve ortaokul Türkçe ders kitapları için metin önerileri. Yayımlanmamış doktora tezi, Atatürk Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Erzurum.

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Journal of Agri Ibrahim Chechen University Graduate School of Social Sciences

Code of Ethics
Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University Journal of Graduate School of Social Sciences is a national peer-reviewed journal published twice a year by the ethical principles and rules stated below to publish high-quality scientific articles in the fields of social sciences, humanities, and educational sciences. Articles submitted to Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University Journal of Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University Graduate School of Social Sciences are evaluated by a double-blinding process and published both electronically and in print with free access. The following are the ethical responsibilities, roles, and duties of the authors, journal editor, reviewers, and publisher. These ethical principles and rules have been prepared according to the guidelines of the “Committee on Publication Ethics” (COPE). In addition, information about the situations accepted as plagiarism and unethical behaviors in Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University Journal of Institute of Social Sciences is given.

Ethics Committee Document

For the publication application of articles that require Ethics Committee approval, it is mandatory to submit the Ethics Committee document.
Research that requires Ethics Committee permission is as follows:

1. All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using surveys, interview, focus group studies, observation, experiments, interview techniques
2. Use of humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
3. Clinical trials in humans,
4. Research on animals,
5. Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data,

Also;
- Stating that the “informed consent form” has been obtained in case presentations,
- Obtaining and indicating permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others,
- Indication of compliance with copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used

Note: Retrospective ethics committee permission is not required for articles that used research data before 2020, produced from master's/doctoral studies (must be specified in the article), applied for publication to the journal in the previous year, accepted but not yet published. Please indicate in the declaration form that your study meets this condition.

Please CLICK HERE to access the declaration form stating that the study does not require Ethics Committee Permission.

Author(s)

Articles submitted to Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University Journal of Graduate School of Social Sciences should be original studies in the fields of social sciences, humanities, and educational sciences.
All sources (authors, online pages, personal interviews, etc.) used in the articles should be cited correctly and appropriately.
It should be stated that the articles submitted to the journal have not been submitted to another journal and the 'Copyright Transfer Form' should be filled in.
Persons who have not contributed intellectually to the article should not be listed as authors.
Conflicts of interest regarding the submitted article should be indicated and the reason should be explained.
Authors may be asked to submit raw data about their work to the editorial board while it is in the refereeing process, in which case authors are expected to share their raw data with the editorial board. Authors are obliged to keep the data related to a published article for 5 years.

Authors should inform the editor and the editorial board when they detect an error in their manuscript and collaborate in the correction or retraction process.

Reviewers

All articles submitted to the Journal of Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University Graduate School of Social Sciences are evaluated through a double-blinding process. Double blinding means that the authors are kept confidential from the referees and the referees are kept confidential from the authors to ensure an unbiased, objective, and independent evaluation process. Manuscripts are sent to the referees for evaluation through the journal management system. This system is realized through DergiPark. The referees are required to fill out a form that includes the contribution of the article to the field of special education and their decisions on whether the article is publishable or not and the reasons for these decisions. The ethical responsibilities and roles of the referees of Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University Journal of Graduate School of Social Sciences are as follows:

Reviewers are only required to review articles related to their area of expertise.
Reviewers are expected to agree to review articles without any conflict of interest. Referees should inform the editor if they notice any conflict of interest and refuse to referee the relevant article.
Reviewers should evaluate the articles impartially and objectively.
Reviewers are required to fill out the Research Article Review Form, Single Subject Research Article Review Form or Review Article Review Form for the articles they evaluate, and are expected not to indicate their names on the forms in order not to damage the double-blinding process. The referees are also required to indicate their decision on whether the manuscript is publishable or not and the reasons for their decision in this form.
The style used by the referees in their suggestions should be polite, respectful and scientific. Reviewers should avoid offensive, disrespectful and subjective personal comments. When referees are found to have made such unscientific comments, they may be contacted by the editor or editorial board to revise and correct their comments.
Reviewers are required to complete their reviews within the time given to them and are expected to abide by the ethical responsibilities outlined herein.

Editor

The editor is required to comply with the ethical responsibilities listed below in the “COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors” and “COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors” published by the “Committee on Publication Ethics” (COPE).

The editor is responsible for all articles published in the journal. The ethical duties and responsibilities of the editor are as follows:

General Responsibilities:

The editor is obliged to make efforts to improve the quality of the journal and to contribute to its development.
The editor is required to support the freedom of expression of the authors.

Relations with Readers:

The editor should ensure that the sections of the journal where peer review is not required (letters to the editor, invited articles, conference announcements, etc.) are clearly indicated.
The editor should strive to ensure that the articles published are compatible with the knowledge and skills of the journal's readers.

Relations with Reviewers:

The editor should ask the reviewers to evaluate the articles according to their knowledge and expertise. Thus, it should be ensured that the articles are appropriately evaluated by experts in the field.
The editor is obliged to require reviewers to state that they have no conflicts of interest before evaluating an article.
The editor should provide the reviewers with all necessary information about the peer review process and what is expected of the reviewers.
The editor should ensure that the peer-review process is double-blinded and should not disclose the referees to the authors and the referees to the authors.
The editor should evaluate reviewers based on their timeliness and performance.
The editor should create a database of reviewers and update the database according to the performance of the reviewers.
The editor should remove reviewers from the reviewer list who make rude and unqualified comments or return late.
The editor should constantly renew and expand the list of referees according to their areas of expertise.

Relations with Authors:

The editor should continuously update the editorial and writing rules and sample template to the authors about what is expected of them.
The editor should evaluate the manuscripts submitted to the journal in terms of the journal's editorial rules, the importance and originality of the work, and if he/she decides to reject the manuscript during the initial submission process, he/she should clearly and impartially communicate the reasons to the authors. In this process, if it is decided that the manuscript should be revised in terms of grammar, punctuation and/or spelling rules (margins, proper referencing, etc.), the authors should be informed about this and given time to make the necessary corrections.
Manuscripts should include the dates of submission and acceptance for publication.
When authors request information about the status of their manuscripts, they should be informed about the status of their manuscripts in a way that does not disrupt the double-blinding process.

Relations with the Editorial Board:

The editor should communicate the publication and writing rules to the new members of the editorial board and explain what is expected of them.
The editor should communicate the most up-to-date version of the editorial and editorial guidelines to the members of the editorial board.
The editor should evaluate the members of the editorial board and select members who will actively participate in the development of the journal.
The editor should inform the members of the editorial board about their roles and responsibilities as follows
- Supporting the development of the journal
- Writing reviews on their areas of expertise when asked to do so
- Reviewing and improving publication and writing rules
- To fulfill the necessary responsibilities in the operation of the journal

Publisher

Ağrı Ibrahim Chechen University Journal of Institute of Social Sciences is published by Ağrı Ibrahim Chechen University. The ethical responsibilities of the publisher are as follows:

The publisher accepts that the decision-maker and the refereeing process in the process of publishing an article in Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University Journal of Graduate School of Social Sciences is the responsibility of the editor.
The publisher provides open, electronic and free access to the journal on the university's library page: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/aicusbed

Plagiarism and Unethical Behavior

All articles submitted to the Journal of Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University Graduate School of Social Sciences are scanned with iThenticate software program before publication. The highest accepted similarity rate is 20% (Shafer, 2011). Articles that exceed this rate are examined in detail and, if deemed necessary, are sent back to the authors for revision or correction, and if plagiarism or unethical behavior is detected, publication may be refused.

Some unethical behaviors are listed below:

Citing people as authors who did not contribute intellectually to the study.
Failure to acknowledge the intellectual contributors as authors.
Failure to indicate if the article is derived from the author's master's/doctoral thesis or a project.
Slicing, i.e. publishing more than one article from a single study.
Failure to declare conflicts of interest regarding submitted articles.
Deciphering the double-blinding process.



Source: Shafer, S. L. (2011). You will be caught. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 112(3), 491-493.

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