Writing Rules


General Formatting Requirements

  • Our journal only accepts manuscripts in English. Please prepare your manuscript using the title page and template of our journal in the Microsoft Word (doc.) format. To download the manuscript template (click here) and title page (click here).

  • Our journal does not charge for article submission and processing fee. As there is no income of our journal, author(s) should have the responsibility of redaction, layout, proofreading and translation.

  • Authors have the legal responsibility of the content of their studies. Also, the authors agree on the open-access policy, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license and ethical principles of JTES upon their submission.

  • Although we do not have a strict word limit, the length of the manuscripts is encouraged to be between 6000 and 10000 words.

  • Due to ethical considerations, the repetitive submission of a published author is not advised. At least, authors are suggested to wait at least one year after their publication.

Manuscript Sections and Citation Rules

  • There are no strict formatting requirements but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to convey your manuscript, for example Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions.

  • As stated in the journal template, Turkish and English abstracts should be between 150 and 200 words. These abstracts should be followed by 3 to 5 keywords (Turkish abstract will be translated for free for the submissions of international authors).

  • For all manuscripts reporting data from studies involving human participants, JTES requires that the study have received formal review and approval by an appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee. This review and approval should be described in the manuscript’s Methods section.

  • If a multiple-author manuscript is accepted, JTES requires each author to provide a statement of responsibility detailing what he or she contributed to the manuscript.

  • In Acknowledgement, authors might list those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proofreading the article, etc.) or funding information.

  • Our journal requires authors to follow APA 7.0 rules as in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Edition) for the in-text citation and references.

  • Appendices should be added after References.

  • Please use italics or quotation marks instead of bold options to emphasize a part of your texts.