Volume: 10 Issue: 21, 4/28/23

Year: 2023

Tüm Sayı

The Journal of the Academic Elegance is a platform that aims to pass the studies based on different thoughts and opinions in the field of Social Sciences in a critical process and to ensure that intellectual and academic studies are carried out in a qualified manner. 

The Academic Elegance Journal publishes studies in the field of social sciences which is based on thought. It is more important that the studies are scientific studies based on an intellectual and critical concept more than in which field of social sciences. 

The Academic Elegance

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

 The Academic Elegance (Akademik Hassasiyetler) is a refereed national journal in Social Sciences, published thrice a year (in April,  August and December).

 

Instructions to the Authors

 The Academic Elegance TEMPLATE

1- The Academic Elegance is a journal that welcomes studies of all types in social sciences, including experimental, quantitative, and qualitative work.

2- Manuscripts submitted to the journal must be original and must be previously unpublished. If the articles have been presented at a national or an international symposium or congress, or given as the master's or doctoral thesis, this should be specified and must be transformed into the article format.

3- Any legal liability related to the manuscript belongs to the author/s.

4- The journal publishes both in English and Turkish.

5- Manuscripts should not exceed 35 pages words including all text, footnotes/endnotes, references, and tables/figure.

6- Titles should be written in 12 font size, bold and centred. The name of the author should be under the title and centred. Only the first letter of the author's name should be written in capital letters, and the surname should be written in full capital letters and in bold. (Example: Gökçe DİLARA*). In the upper right corner of the surname, a footnote should be placed with an * mark and the title of the author, the institution and e-mail address (with underline and black colour) should be written here.
E.G. : Prof. Dr., Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciecnces, Political Science and Public Administration Department, gokcedilara@gmail.com

7- Manuscripts should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document with a “doc” or “docx” extension.

8- Headings in the manuscripts must be left-justified, Bold and 1 cm from the inside;
(1.SOCIAL FACTORS AFFECTING…),
The Subheadings must be bold, justified to the left, 1 cm. from the inside and only the first letters (1.1.1. Economic Factors....),
other subheadings must be bold, left justified and 1 cm. from the inside, the first letters are capitalized;
(1.1.1. Determinants of Growth....)

9- Manuscripts must be written in Times New Roman font, 11 font size (8 points for footnotes). The page structure must be set in 16x24 size, 2 cm margins on right, left, top, right and left, 1.5 cm on the bottom, single spacing, aligned on both sides, and the space between paragraphs, before and after "3nk" and page number must be given. Paragraph indentation must be 1 cm inside and the "TAB" key must be used.

10- "Abstract" should be written in a single paragraph, should be between 150-250 words and should not contain any citations. Under each summary, there should be at least 3 and at most 5 keywords describing the study. The total number of words between the Introduction and the References should be at least 5000 words, and the total number of words including Abstract, Extended Abstract should be at most 11000 words.

11- The received manuscripts are sent to two referees for thorough scientific and methodological evaluation after an initial editorial evaluation. If the referees report positively about the manuscript and with the approval of the publishing committee, it is published in a decided issue. In the case of negative reports or any superficial evaluation on the part of the referee, the decision for whether to publish it or not is given by the editorial board. A third referee is assigned if necessary. In such a case, the author has no right to claim for the publication of his manuscript.

12- The manuscript should have an abstract, introduction, main text, conclusion, references, and appendices in order. The numbering does not make for the introduction, conclusion, and references.

13- APA style format must be used in the preparation of the articles. This format must also be followed in writing the entire text and preparing the bibliography. (References to citations within the text, Example: (Durgun, 2010: 25). References to citations within the text should include the author’s surname (Ünal and Safa, 2015: 88). In situations whereby a citation reference involves more than two authors, the abbreviation “et al.” is to be written after the first author’s surname:(Ünal et al., 2015: 120).

For more information about the APA system, please visit http://www.apastyle.org/. You can use the following examples in the presentation of the reference.

14- The manuscript which is sent to our journal must include an Extended Abstract in English in the range of 750-1000 words. In order for the articles to be followed by foreign readers and the published articles to be cited, an Extended Abstract must be added to the part after the references. The manuscript will not publish if the article has not Extended Abstract which should summarize the introduction, method, findings, and conclusions etc. of the manuscript.

15- All articles sent to our journal will be scanned via Turnitin to get a similarity report.

16- If the references in the bibliography pass to the second line, make careful that the second line starts with 1 TAB.

17- References must be written in a alphabetic order of surnames of the authors.


If the reference is a book:

Turhan, M. (1997). Kültür Değişmeleri Sosyal Psikoloji Bakımından Bir Tetkik. İstanbul: M.Ü. İlahiyat Fakültesi Yayınları.
Timur, T. (2000). Toplumsal Değişme ve Üniversiteler. Ankara: İmge Kitabevi.

Books with Two Authors:

Surname, N. And Surname, N. (Year). Title of Book(Italic), Place of publication: Publisher.

Books with Three or More Authors:

Surname, N.,Surname, N., Surname, N. (Year).Title of Book(Italic), Place of publication: Publisher.

Article

İnalcık, H. (2000). “Ziya Gökalp Yüzyıla Damgasını Vuran Düşünür”. Doğu Batı.3(12). ss.9-35.
Tuna, K. (2003). “Modern Bilimlerin Ortaya Çıkışının Sosyolojik Arka Planı”. İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyoloji Dergisi. 3. Dizi, 7. Sayı. ss.1-10.

Article with Two Authors:

Surname, N. And Surname, N. (Year).Title of Article (Italic), Title of Journal (Italic), volume(number), page number.

Article with Three or More Authors:

Surname, N.,Surname, N., Surname, N. (Year).Title of Article (Italic), Title of Journal (Italic), volume(number), page number.

Corporate Publish

Devlet Planlama Teşkilatı. (2002). Ekonomik ve Sosyal Göstergeler (2000-2005).Ankara.

both an Author and an Editor for Publication or both an Author and a Translator

Gellner, E. (1998). Milliyetçiliğe Bakmak. (Çev. S. Coşar, S. Özertürk, N. Soyarık). İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları.

Web Page

Durgun, Ş. (2011). Modern Devlet Olmanın Zorunlu Koşulu Ulus-Devlet midir?Erişim Tarihi: 03.05.2016. www.iibfdergisi.gazi.edu.tr/index.php/iibfdergisi/article/download/458/448

It is important to comply with the spelling rules and format requirements. We kindly ask you to show the necessary sensitivity strongly.
Article Submission:
https://dergipark.org.tr/akademik-hassasiyetler

Contact: akademikhassasiyetler@gmail.com

The Academic Elegance Journal takes into account ethical rules as the requirements of the process in the formation and delivery of science and scientific knowledge and aims to contribute to the field of scientific development. In order to ensure this sensitivity, it is important that primarily authors, referees and editors fulfil their responsibilities in line with the determined ethical principles. At this point, the Journal of the Academic Elegance strongly states that the following duties and responsibilities should be taken into account within the framework of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and its principles.

1. Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
Author(s) should make sure that the submitted work is original.
Responsibilities including the spelling and format rules of the journal should be submitted to the journal completely and regularly.
Authors who want to withdraw manuscripts submitted for publication from the journal due to delay, correction or any other reason should report this to the editor.
Conflicts of interest for the article sent to the journal should be indicated and the reason should be explained.
In the event that the author (s) notices a mistake or error in their published work, at the early view or evaluation stage, the journal editor or publisher has an obligation to cooperate with the editor in informing, correcting or withdrawing.
Changes such as adding authors, changing the order of authors and removing authors should not be made or offered in the article that is in the evaluation process.
Article authors submitted to the journal should make sure that they comply with these specified rules. All ethical rules concerning the author (s) must be followed completely.




Unethical Behaviors

a) Plagiarism: Presenting others’ ideas, methods, data, applications, writing, figures and works partially or completely as one’s own work without proper source reference.
b) Forgery: Producing data that is not supported by research; regulating or changing presented or published works through the insertion of false data; reporting or publishing such works, or holding incomplete research to be completed.
c) Distortion: Distorting research records and obtained data; pretending to use methods, devices and materials that were not actually used; evaluating data unsuitable to the research itself;, distorting data or results in order to adapt them to established theories or hypotheses; distorting or altering research results to promote or confirm the interests of the sponsoring person or foundation.
d) Repeated publishing: Submitting more than one work of research consisting of the same results in order to obtain an associate professorship, examination review, or academic promotion.
e) Slicing: Destroying the integrity of the results of research by slicing it improperly and submitting fragments as specific assessments to gain academic promotion.
f) Unfair authorship: Adding persons who have not actively contributed to the production of the article or failing to add persons who actually did contribute; altering the arrangement of authors’ names improperly and unjustifiably; subtracting the names of actively contributing writers during the publication process or subsequent printings; or adding the name of an author who did not contribute as a way of gaining prestige.


2. Responsibilities of Editors
The Academic Elegance Journal editors should work consciously and with self-sacrifice about the responsibility of the journal's author, referee, and technical studies for the publishing process.
It should adopt an approach that is impartial to the articles regarding the publication and is based on the conformity of scientific information to ethical principles. The journal should follow a path in accordance with ethical rules to ensure the quality and development of the publication life.

Relations with the reader

The responsible editors of the journal should prioritize the originality and quality of the information in terms of reaching the scientific information required by the reader and should take into account the requests and evaluations of the reader.

Relations with authors

Editors' duties and responsibilities towards authors are as follows:
Editors, authors and referees should try to carry out the working process in the most appropriate way for the articles submitted to the journal.
It should inform about whether the articles sent to the journal will be published or not.
Unless there are serious problems with the publication policy of the journal, every article submitted should be pre-checked by the editor.
Regarding the evaluation of the articles, the opinions of the referees should be brought to the fore. However, depending on the magnitude of the problems regarding the journal's publication rules, the editorial board is the decision-maker in terms of publication.
The editor should pay attention to the blind refereeing practice between the author and the referee.
Authors should be informed about the process.

Relations with referees
Editors' duties and responsibilities towards referees are as follows:
Referees should be appointed who has the potential to evaluate articles and have expertise in the field.
The editors' own articles submitted to the journal are evaluated by two independent referees, not from the editorial group.
He must ensure that the referees make objective and objective evaluations.
The confusion that may be experienced between the author and the referee regarding the arrangements that the referees expect from the authors should be prevented.
Due to the practice of blind refereeing, the personal information of the referees should not be reported to the author in any way.
Based on the journal's timing principle, reminders should be made to the referees for the evaluation.
Unscrupulous and unscientific evaluations should prevent.

Relations with the Editorial Board
Editors;
Editorial board members should ensure that they evaluate the work impartially and independently.
The editorial board should send the works appropriate to the field of expertise of the members for evaluation.
There should be a process-based relationship with the editorial board.
The recommendations of the editorial board should be taken into account in order to ensure the publication quality of the journal.

Besides, for Editors;
It is obliged to ensure the protection of human and animal rights in the evaluated studies. It is responsible for refusing to work in cases where there is no ethical committee approval for the subjects used in the studies and permissions for experimental research.
Errors and deficiencies that may occur after the publication phase should be fully edited by the editors.
Editors must protect the intellectual property rights of all published articles.
Complaints from the author, referee, or readers towards the executive process, referee or author should be considered and evaluated.
Editors should try to complete the process independently and impartially throughout the relationship between referees and authors.


3. Ethical Responsibilities of the Referees

Since the Academic Elegance carries out the referee evaluation process based on the principle of blind refereeing, it is expected that the author will have access to the referee information and will not reflect his personal information in the referee's evaluation form.
Journal editors are responsible for reporting referee evaluations to the author. In this respect, there is no mutual relationship between the referee and the author.
In this process, referee comments on evaluation forms and full texts should be submitted to the author through the editor. Besides;
At least two referees are appointed for the articles submitted to the journal.
The main criterion in determining the referees is their expertise on the subject of the article.
If one of the two referees expresses a negative opinion, the article is directed to a third referee or the editor to make the final decision.
Evaluations should be impartial, objective.
Referees should not have conflicts of interest with research, authors, and/or research funders.
Articles reviewed by the referees should not be intended to be misused by the referee.
The referees' evaluations should not reflect an ideological opinion and should not contain any offensive or controversial style towards the author.
Referees should deliver the article to the journal in accordance with the timing of the journal.


4. Publisher's Ethical Responsibilities


The Board of Directors of the Journal acts with the awareness of the following ethical responsibilities:
The Journal of Academic Sensitivity does not charge any fee for the publication of the articles.
In this regard, editors take responsibility for the journal objectively and are effective as decision-makers in the evaluation process without any gain.
In addition, the database of the journal should be accessible on the internet.

5. Plagiarism Detection Policy

Academic Sensitivity demands a plagiarism report from the articles to be sent to the journal.

6. Requests, Complaints and Criticisms

Requests from readers, writers and referees are open and agreed to complaints and criticisms. Please contact us at academicelegance@gmail.com if you encounter any issues other than the ethical frameworks for the quality, development and progress of the journal.

Akademik Hassasiyetler Dergisi ücretlidir. Makalelerin hakemler tarafından değerlendirilmesi ve yayın sürecindeki iş ve işlemler nedeniyle alınan bu hizmet bedeli yazarlardan makalelerini dergiye gönderim aşamasında istenir. Hakemlere vermiş oldukları hizmet karşılığında ücret ödenir. Makalenin ilk gönderim aşamasında alınan bu bedelden sonra makale değerlendirme sürecine alınır. Süreç sonunda makalenin “ret” edilmesi halinde ise alınan ücret iade edilmez. Yazar bu durumu en başta kabul etmiş sayılır. Makale yayımı için talep edilen hizmet bedeli (KDV Dahil) 700 TL.’dır. Makale gönderim sürecinde zorunlu olaran yüklenmesi gereken "Ek Dosya" sekmesine ücret dekontunun eklenmesi gerekmektedir.

Yazarın makalesini gönderme aşamasında söz konusu hizmet bedelini aşağıda yer alan hesaba yatırması ve işlem dekontunu ise sisteme yüklemesi gerekmektedir.

Makale Hizmet Bedeli Gönderimi için bilgiler:
Hüzeyfe Süleyman ARSLAN adına
TR57 0011 1000 0000 0087 6319 01 nolu iban hesabına (QNB FİNANSBANK)
Açıklama kısmına yazar ya da yazarların isimlerinin yazılması yeterlidir.

MAKALE DEĞERLENDİRME SÜRECİ

Yazar tarafından gönderilen bir makale, gönderim tarihinden itibaren 10 gün içinde dergi sekreteri tarafından makalenin, telif sözleşmesinin ve benzerlik raporunun (Turnitin programı) eksiksiz ve düzgün bir şekilde gönderilip gönderilmediği yönünden incelenir. İstenilen bu dosyalar eksiksiz ve düzgün bir şekilde gönderilmiş ise makale; ikinci aşamada derginin yayın çizgisine uygun olup olmadığı yönünden değerlendirilir. Bu süreçte makale yayın çizgisine uygun değilse yazara iade edilir. Makale yayın çizgisine uygun ise şablona uygun bir şekilde gönderilip gönderilmediği yönünden değerlendirilir. Şayet makale şablona uyarlanıp gönderilmemiş ise değerlendirme sürecine alınmaz. Bu süreçte yazarın derginin belirlediği şartlara uygun bir şekilde sisteme makale yüklemesi beklenir. Makale şablona uygun bir şekilde hazırlanıp gönderilmiş ise son aşamada makale derginin yayın ilkeleri, yazım kuralları, öz, abstract, extented abstract, kaynakça gösterimi vb. yönlerden incelenir. Bu ayrıntılarda makalede bir sorun varsa yazarın bu hususları tamamlaması istenir ve verilen süre içerisinde eksiksiz bir şekilde yeniden makaleyi göndermesi istenir.
Tüm bu aşamaları geçen makale, editör tarafından bilimsel yeterliliğinin denetlenmesi amacıyla ikinci 7 günlük süre içerisinde çalışmaya uygun iki hakeme değerlendirmeleri için gönderilir. Hakemlerin değerlendirme süreleri 15 gündür. Bu süre zarfında hakemlik görevini tamamlamayan bir hakem olursa ilgili hakeme değerlendirmeyi tamamlaması için 7 günlük ek süre verilebilir. Bu süre zarfında hakem görevini yerine getirmezse yerine yeni bir hakem ataması yapılır. En az iki hakemden gelen raporlar olumlu ise makale yayın aşamasına alınır. Hakem raporlarından birisi olumlu diğeri olumsuz ise makale üçüncü bir hakeme gönderilir. Üçüncü hakem raporu da olumsuz ise makale ret edilir. Üçüncü hakemin değerlendirmesi olumlu ise makaleyle ilgili hakem raporları dergi alan editörlerinden oluşan Editörler Kurulu tarafından incelenir. Makalenin yayınlanmasıyla ilgili nihai karar alan editörlerinden oluşan Editörler Kurulu tarafından verilir. Hakem raporlarının yetersiz ve tatmin etmekten uzak olması veya İngilizce editör tarafından abstract ve extented abstract’ın yetersiz görülmesi hallerinde de yine makaleyle ilgili son karar Editörler Kurulu tarafından verilir. Tüm bu aşamalardan geçen bir makale en yakın sayıya yayınlanmak üzere eklenir. İlgili sayıda yer kalmaması halinde makalenin yayımı bir sonraki sayıya kaydırılır. Bu durumda ve tüm değerlendirme sürecinde yazar isterse makalesini geri çekme hakkına sahiptir. Ancak bu durumu dergiye bildirmesi gerekir. Makale gönderim tarihinden makalenin yayına kabul tarihine kadar tüm bu işlemler için ortalama 3 aylık bir süre öngörülmektedir.