Volume: 10 Issue: 22, 8/30/23

Year: 2023

Research Article

Derleme Makale

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. 


• Academic Elegance


Author Guideline

Academic Elegance is an international, double-blinded reviewed journal which prefers to publish articles from the field of social sciences three times in a year (April, August, December).


1- Academic Elegance is a journal contains empirical, quantitative and qualitative papers from all fields of social sciences.

2- Articles that is sent to the journal should be original and must not published anywhere else before. In case of papers presented in national/international symposium or congress or prepared from master/doctoral thesis, this situation should be written in footnotes and paper should be revised as article format.

3- All the legal responsibilities regarding of the papers are belong the authors.

4- Articles written in English or Turkish can be sent to the journal.

5- Manuscripts including main text, footnotes, references and tables/figures should be maximum of 35 pages.

6- Headings should be 11 pt., bold and written centered. Author’s name should be centered below the title. Author’s name should be written lower case except first letter and surname should be written all upper case and bold (e.g. Gökçe DİLARA). On top right of the surname, * sign should be written and footnote should be added. In footnote; title, institution, e-mail and ORCID address of the author should be written in black and without underlined.
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Example: Prof. Dr., Gazi University Department of Political Science and Public Administration, gokcedilara@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-...
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7- Articles should be uploaded the system in format of Microsoft Word or "doc" or “docx”.

8- Headings should be written bold and left aligned;
(1.SOCIAL LIFE IN TURKEY),
Subheadings should be written bold, capitalized each word and left aligned;
(1.1. Economic Factors),
The other subheadings also should be written bold, capitalized each word and left aligned;
(1.1.1.Commercial Building)

9- Text should be written 11 pt. using Times New Roman font (in footnotes 8 pt.). Page design should be special size of 16 cm width and 24 cm height, margins should be adjusted as 2 cm from the right, left, top, and 1.5 cm from the bottom, with 1 line spacing, aligned on both sides, and the paragraph spacing should be “3 pt” before and after, and the page number should be given. Paragraph heads should be 1 cm inside and the "TAB" key should be used.

10- “Abstract” should be written in a single paragraph format and should be between 150-250 words and should not contain any citations. Under each abstract, there should be at least 3, at most 5 keywords. The total number of words from Introduction to Bibliography should be at least 5000, and the total number of words including Abstract, Abstract, Extended Abstract should be at most 11000 words.

11- The articles sent to the journal are sent to two referees by the journal editor for the purpose of checking their scientific adequacy after the preliminary evaluation. Articles can be published only after being approved by the journal editorial board in line with the positive reports from the referee as a result of the evaluation. In case the reports are negative or the referee reports are not found to be insufficient or satisfactory by the editorial board regarding the publication of the article, the decision regarding the publication of the article is made by a third referee or at the discretion of the editorial board. In this case, the author cannot claim any rights regarding the non-publishing of the article.

12- The article should contain the abstract, introduction, main text, conclusion, bibliography and appendices, if any. The introduction, conclusion and bibliography are not numbered.

13- APA 7 spelling rules should be used in the preparation of articles to be sent to Academic Elegance. This system must be followed in all text writing and in the preparation of the bibliography. [For example: (Durgun, 2010, p. 25).] In in-text citations, books and articles with three or more authors should be shown as (Ünal et al., 2015, p.120). In articles with two authors, the surnames of both authors should be included (Ünal & Safa, 2015, p. 88).
For more information on the APA system, please visit http://www.apastyle.org/.

14- In the articles sent to our journal, an Extended Abstract in English between 750-1000 words should be added. In order for the articles to be followed by foreign readers and for the published articles to be cited, this arrangement should be added to the section after the bibliography. Introduction, discussion, method, conclusion, etc. of the article to be published. Articles without a long abstract in English, which should include a general explanation of the stages of the study, will not be published.

15- Articles submitted to our journal are passed through the Turnitin Plagiarism Prevention Program.

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

17- References should be prepared in alphabetical order, taking into account the surnames of the authors, without making any distinction in terms of books, articles, etc.


Book with one author

Format: Author’s Surname, Initial of the name . (Year). Title of the book. Publishing House.

Example: Timur, T. (2000). Toplumsal değişme ve üniversiteler. İmge Kitabevi.

Book with two authors

Format: Author’s Surname, Initial of the name & Surname, Initial of the name. (Year). Title of the book. Publishing House.

Example: Başaran, İ.E & Çınkır, Ş. (2011). Türk eğitim sistemi ve okul yönetimi. Ekinoks Yayınevi.

Book with more than three authors

Format: Author’s Surname, Initial of the name., Surname, Initial of the name & Surname, Initial of the name. (Year). Title of the book. Publishing House.

Example: Fiske, S. T., Gilbert, D. T. & Lindzey, G. (2010). Handbook of social psychology. John Wiley & Sons.

Book chapter with editor

Format: Author’s Surname, Initial of the name. (Year). Title of the chapter. Initial of the editor’s name. Surname (Ed.), Book title (p. pages). Publishing House.

Example: Dönmez, B. (2013). Motivasyon. S. Özdemir (Ed.), in Eğitim yönetiminde kuram ve uygulama  (p. 185-229). Pegem Akademi.

Journal articles

Format: Author’s Surname, Initial of the name. (Year). Title of the article. Name of the Journal, Volume(Number), pages. Doi

Example: Asar, R. & Çelikten, Y. (2016). Shadowing a woman administrator: A Turkish case. Universal Journal of Management, 4(11), 607-614. https://doi.org/10.13189/ujm.2016.041102

Online journal / News article/ Blog post

Format: Author’s Surname, Initial of the name. (Year, Day Month). Title of the article. Name of the Journal or Blog. Link

Example: Bustillos, M. (2013, 19 March). On video games and storytelling: An interview with Tom Bissell. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/on-video-games-and-storytelling-an-interview-with-tom-bissell

Meeting / Symposium

Format: Author’s Surname, Initial of the name. (Year, Month). Title of publication. Initial of the moderator’s name. Surname (title), Name of the congress Institution, City.

Example: Karadağ, E., Aypay, A. & Baloğlu, N. (2010, May). Eğitim yönetimi araştırmalarına analitik bir bakış: Kuram ve Uygulamada Eğitim Yönetimi Dergisi’nin analizi. S. Özdemir (Başkan), 5. Ulusal Eğitim Yönetimi Kongresi Gazi Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi, Ankara.

Reports

Format: Author’s Surname, Initial of the name. (Year, Day Month). Title of the report. [Report Presentation]. Title of meeting, City.

Example: Akçay, A. (2004, 22 May). Bilgisayar destekli eğitim yazılımlarının özellikleri ve Fırat Üniversitesi öğrencilerinin BDE uygulamalarına yaklaşımı [Report Presentation]. Bilişim Teknolojileri Işığında Eğitim Konferansı, Ankara.

Web Sources
Format: Author’s Surname, Initial of the name. (Year, Day Month). Title of the article. Retrieved on Year, Month day from link …..

Example: Asar, R. (2018, 3 November). Yönetim açısından insan doğası. Retrieved on 2021, Augost 8 from https://yonetsel.com/yonetim-acisindan-insan-dogasi

Thesis
Format: Author’s Surname, Initial of the name. (Year). Title of thesis [master or doctoral thesis]. Name of the University.

Example: Asar, R. (2021). Okul yöneticilerinin öğretmenlere ilişkin insan doğası varsayımları ve sergiledikleri yönetim tarzları [doctoral thesis]. Hacettepe University.

It is important to fulfill the spelling rules and format requirements. Please show the necessary sensitivity in this regard.

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.

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