Writing Rules

Click here for the article writing template.

Click here for the author title page.

Plagiarism Scanning File (to be uploaded by the author)

For articles requiring ethics committee approval, the ethics committee approval document must be uploaded to the system as a PDF attachment.

General Principles

1) Afyon Kocatepe University Journal of Social Sciences is a peer-reviewed academic journal published electronically four times a year (March-June-September-December). Special issues may be published in addition to these regular issues when necessary. Article submissions are accepted three times a year.
January 1 – January 15,
April 1 – April 15,
July 1 – July 15
Applications received after these dates will not be accepted. If the journal receives a sufficient number of articles, article acceptance may be stopped before these dates.

2) Afyon Kocatepe University Journal of Social Sciences primarily publishes scholarly articles in the fields of philosophy, psychology, sociology, language and literature, history, and geography; it also includes research articles, case studies, review articles, biographies, and bibliographies in the fields of anthropology, social work, political science and international relations, public relations, communication, art, and design.

3) Submitted texts must not have been previously published elsewhere or submitted to another journal for publication. Texts derived from graduate theses and symposium proceedings may be uploaded to the journal system after including an ethical statement at the beginning of the article. Example: This article is extracted from my doctorate dissertation entitled “…”, (Master Thesis/PhD Dissertation, ….. University, Afyonkarahisar/Türkiye, 2020).

4) For research requiring ethical committee approval, ethical committee approval must be obtained, and this approval (committee name, date, and number) must be mentioned on the title page, in the ethics information table at the end of the article, and in the methods section. The ethical committee approval document must be uploaded as an attached file to the system when submitting the article. Please review the journal's Ethical Principles and Publication Policy for research requiring ethical committee approval.

5) Submissions are automatically checked via Dergipark's intihal.net software, and authors also upload plagiarism check files (Turnitin or iThenticate) to the system. The maximum similarity rate accepted in our journal is 20%.

6) The author, or at least one of the authors, must hold a doctoral degree. In articles derived from theses, the student should be the first author and the advisor the second author.

7) For studies with multiple authors, conflict of interest and author contribution ratios are indicated on the title page and in the contribution ratio declaration table at the end of the article. Click here for the title page form

8) Articles in Turkish and English can be published in the journal. A maximum of one work by the same author may be published per year

9) Articles should have a word count between 3000 and 10000 words (including title, author information, abstract, and bibliography). The editorial board will make a decision regarding articles exceeding this number.

10) The article should begin with Turkish and English titles, a 200-250 word Turkish Abstract and an English Abstract, at least 5 Turkish keywords, and English keywords. Keywords should be listed from general to specific. The Abstract should be written in a single paragraph. The Abstract should state the basic methodological framework of the research, such as the subject, scope, importance, aim, and methods; it should include the findings and observations related to the subject; and it should address the main conclusions reached.

11) For article writing, the use of Zotero, Mendeley, or Endnote is recommended for international compliance.

12) The article can be written using the journal article template, or the existing text can be transferred to the template. Studies that do not use the article template will not be considered for evaluation.

13) In-text referencing and citation follow the APA citation style. References should be given within the text, not as footnotes, and should be arranged according to the system using the author's last name (institution and report name, and so on), date, and page number. Example: If you used page 35 of a book by Ahmet Öztürk published in 2012 in your work, the reference should be given in the text as follows, provided that the full name of the source is given in the bibliography (Öztürk, 2012, p. 35). If the reference is to page 48 of the DPT's 2014 report, it should be given as follows (DPT Report, 2014, p. 48). Articles that do not comply with the citation system will be directly rejected during the Preliminary Review Stage and will not be processed again in the same publication period.

14) The article will be reviewed once for compliance with the journal's writing guidelines. If the requested changes are not made, it will be rejected and will not be processed again in the same publication period.

15) Our journal does not have a specific article submission process for each issue. We cannot guarantee any issue number, reviewer, duration, or publication for articles submitted for evaluation. Publication conditions depend entirely on the completion of the peer review process, the approval of the authorised board/committee and editor, and the publication date of the appropriate issue. Our journal cannot publish more than a certain number of articles per issue. Therefore, even studies that have completed all processes await publication in the planned appropriate issues, and are published in the appropriate issue, prioritized first by the completion date of their processes and then by the submission date.