Authors should prepare their studies with internationally recognised ethical principles. At this point, although all scientific, ethical and legal responsibility for the studies submitted to the journal belongs to the authors, the editor(s) and the editorial board may request an ethics committee certificate when necessary. Studies that the Editorial Board does not find appropriate for research and publication ethics are not subject to evaluation.
- Author name and address: The manuscripts are sent to the referees through the system with the referee file created by deleting the identifying information (name, surname, e-mail, etc.) as in the file uploaded by the author to the system. To ensure author-referee confidentiality, the editors should be informed by the author about the information identifying the author of the article (paper, thesis, etc.) other than identifying information.
- Article Text: Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words, should be prepared as a Word file, and 10.5-point Times New Roman font should be used, except for the special cases of some study areas. If a special font is used in the study, it must be sent with the manuscript. The study should start with the Introduction section, which should focus on the hypothesis, scope and purpose of the study. The Development section, which can be divided into intermediate and subheadings, should be supported by data, observations, opinions, comments and discussions. In the Conclusion section, the conclusions reached in the study should be explained by supporting them with suggestions. Except in mandatory cases, the current Spelling Guide of the Turkish Language Association should be taken as a basis.
- Page Structure: Page margins should be set as top 1,75 left 2,5 bottom 1,5 right 2 cm. The text should be written with 6 pt and 1.5 line spacing before and after the paragraph.
- Title: Studies should be titled in Turkish and English. Titles should consist of a maximum of 13 (thirteen) words, and the first letter of the words should be capitalised. All titles in the text should be written in bold with the first letter capitalised.
- Titles within the Article: In the article, main and subheadings should be created based on the number system according to the subject's processing.
- Abstract and Abstract: There should be an abstract in Turkish and English in the range of 120-220 words, which expresses the subject discussed in the study in the shortest and most concise form. Under both abstracts, at least 4 and 6 keywords and their English versions should be included. Abstract sections should be written in 9 font size and single line spacing.
- Photographs, Maps and Tables: Care should be taken not to deviate from the page structure of the photographs, plans and tables used in the text. Such documents should be in a resolution suitable for the printing technique and numbered if there is more than one. Table, photograph and map numbers should be centred and bold above the relevant figure.

- Quotations and Footnotes: Direct quotations shorter than five lines in quotation marks: ‘Quote’ in quotation marks. Quotations longer than five lines should be written 1 cm from the right and left of the line, 1.15 line spacing and 10 pt. Footnotes should be written in 10 pt, 3 pt before and after the paragraph, single line spacing and justified.

CITATION SYSTEM

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• The journal uses APA 7 Citation System.

• For an example of APA 7 Citation System, see: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/
• Citations and references should be prepared using the Zotero program, which is free to use. Articles with manually created citations and references will not be evaluated.

Helpful links for Zotero Usage are as follows:

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