AKRA CULTURE, ART AND LITERATURE MAGAZINE PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES

1. Akra Journal of Culture, Arts and Literature is an international refereed journal. It is published every four months. The publication months are JANUARY, MAY and SEPTEMBER. The articles to be published should be sent to our journal at least two months before the specified publication months.

2. The Turkish short name of the journal is “AKRA Review” and the English short name is “AKRA JOURNAL”.

3. All kinds of responsibilities (pictures, figures, graphics, intellectual, scientific, legal, etc.) of the articles published in our journal belong to their authors.

4. All kinds of articles with social content (history, literature, philosophy, religion, art, etc.) are included in our journal.

5. The articles in our journal are published in two sections:
a. Refereed articles
b. Culture, art and literature articles (If necessary, city files and book reviews are added to the last section.
Unrefereed articles and book reviews that pass the editorial board are not sent to referees. Such articles are evaluated by the editorial board.

6. Submitted manuscripts should include the author's name-surname, academic title, open address, the institution where he/she works, the phone number of the institution where he/she works, his/her own cell phone number and e-mail addresses.

7. Akra Journal of Culture, Arts and Literature also includes articles written in foreign languages (English, German, French, etc.). Such articles should include the abstract of the language in which they are written and a Turkish abstract.

8. In the section of Culture, Art and Literature articles (section 2), the abstract and keywords are not required.

9. Articles that are subjective and insult the national and spiritual values of our society and the moral and ceremonial values of humanity will not be published in our journal.

10. The Turkish Language Association Spelling Guide should be taken as basis in order to ensure spelling unity in the submitted articles, and jargon and unnecessary technical language should be avoided.

11. Spelling errors seen in the articles are partially intervened by the editorial board, but in case of correction of obvious errors, the necessary information is given to the author.

12. Manuscripts requested to be published as refereed are sent to two referees if deemed appropriate by the editorial board. Manuscripts that receive positive reports from two referees are included in the publication list. If one of the reports is positive and one is negative, the manuscript is sent to the third referee. In such cases, action is taken according to the report of the third referee.

13. The period for the evaluation of the manuscripts sent to the referees by the referees is fifteen days. If necessary, this period may be extended for another fifteen days.
If there is a delay in the referee reports or if the referee is not accepted, a new referee will be appointed and the fifteen-day period will run again.

14. Manuscripts that receive a correction report are sent to the author with the report. If the report is not acted upon, the manuscript will not be evaluated. However, the manuscripts that are requested to be corrected by the referees are sent to the referees again if the referees want to see the corrected version again after they have been corrected by the authors, and the referees act in accordance with the report given by the referees.

15. No royalties are paid for refereed articles and authors are not charged.

16. Images should be numbered sequentially. If deemed necessary, necessary explanations should be made under the pictures.

17. Only two articles of an author can be published in Akra Journal of Culture, Arts and Literature within a year.

18. The articles submitted to our journal must not have been published anywhere. However, papers presented at scientific meetings can be published in our journal, provided that they are unpublished.

19. Submitted manuscripts must have an ORCID number.

20. DOI number is provided by the journal.

21. Academic language should be used in the submitted manuscripts (regardless of the language in which they are written).

22. For Writing Rules, the "Article Template" should be taken into account.