Academic Review of Humanities and Social Sciences

The aim of the Academic Review of Humanities and Social Sciences (ARHUSS) is to first gain the status of a national journal in Turkey and to become an internationally recognized journal that can be indexed in international indexes. Thus, it is to offer a qualified alternative to the problems of academicians working in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities in publishing their studies. For this purpose, the requirements of being a journal scanned within the scope of SSCI are meticulously followed. The aim of ARHUSS journal is to publish scientific research in the fields of social and human sciences such as Sociology, Psychology, Business, Economics, International Trade, Logistics, International Relations, Philosophy, and Education, and to become a prominent journal in these fields at national and international levels.

Academic Review of Humanities and Social Sciences (ARHUSS) is a journal that publishes in the field of Social and Human Sciences in Turkey. Academic Review of Humanities and Social Sciences started its publication life 3 times a year in 2018. ARHUSS journal has been published online twice a year (June and December) since 2020. Our journal accepts and publishes studies in Turkish and English languages. Our journal aims to publish scientific research in the fields of humanities and social sciences such as Sociology, Psychology, Business, Economics, International Trade and International Relations, Philosophy, and Education.

This text has been prepared for authors who are aiming to submit articles to the Academic Review of Humanities and Social Sciences (ARHUSS) journal. After reviewing the relevant writing rules, the studies to be evaluated should be sent to the journal online via the Dergipark system.

Article submission means that this article has been sent only to ARHUSS magazine; it should be a work that has not been published before or has not been evaluated for publication elsewhere. ARHUSS magazine will not be legally liable if the authors do not fulfill this condition.

All articles to be submitted to the journal should be original and scientific in nature within the scope of the journal.
Articles must be written in Microsoft Word 6.0 or higher.
Turkish and English are the language in writing the articles.
The latest edition of the Spelling Guide of the Turkish Language Institution should be taken as a criterion for spelling and punctuation.
The bibliography part should start from a new page. All resources contained in the text should be included in the “Bibliography” section. All resource representations are mentioned in APA 6. It should be carried out according to the version.
The inscriptions are in A4 sizes, and the upper, lower, right, and left spaces are 2.5 cm. It should be written in double-spaced and plain text, leaving it (in an area of 16 x 24.7).
In the main sections of the article, the “Cambria” 12-point font should be used. The title of the article should be written in bold, centered in capital letters, 14 points. The author's name should be given in 10-point bold at the bottom and left side of the title. The author's organization and title should be given in 8-point italics at the bottom of the first page. Turkish English abstracts of 100-150 words should be given as 10 points. Abstracts should not overflow to the page. The title of the abstract should be given immediately above the abstract, in the abstract language, and in a 10-point format. Keywords should be indicated in 10 dots and italics on the left of the abstract
All sections and titles of the article, including the Introduction and Conclusion sections, should be numbered and written in bold.
Tables and figures should be given a title (sequence number and name). In tables, the titles should be written at the top, and in figures, the titles should be written at the bottom. The table and figureheadings should be centered and written in bold. The initials of the words in the title should be written in capital letters. After the table title, 6 pt spaces should be left.

The bibliography part should start from a new page. All resources contained in the text should be included in the “Bibliography” section. All resource representations are mentioned in APA 6. It should be carried out according to the version.

Publication Ethics

All of the studies are expected to embody and support the scientific method. It is important that all stakeholders (writers, readers and researchers, publishers, referees and editors) at this point must comply with the standards for ethical principles. Within the framework of the Academic Review of Humanities and Social Sciences (ARHUSS) publication, all stakeholders are expected to carry out ethical responsibilities. Within this context, the policies of ‘publication ethics’ and ‘open access’ also require all components of publication process to obey the ethical principles, in direction of guides and policies of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as “Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors” and “COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors”.
If we identify that author(s) of the manuscript use(s) falsified and fabricated data, then we will report this to the institution of the authors where he/she works and reject the manuscript.
Editorial members of the journal and/or the reviewers reserve the right to ask author(s) to provide raw data which was used in the manuscript.

Editors' Ethical Responsibilities

1. All publications are judged on the basis of their intellectual content, regardless of the author's gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship and political values.
2. Personal information about the articles is kept confidential.
3. The conflict of interest observed regarding the article must be explained.
4. The Editorial Board assumes the responsibility to make publishing decisions for the submitted articles, based on the evaluation of the candidate's articles, the editorial board policies of the journal, and the legally prohibited items against plagiarism and copyright infringement.

Referees' Ethical Responsibilities

1. They accept only to evaluate the work related to the field of expertise.
2. They should evaluate with impartiality and confidentiality.
3. If the referee (s) think that they are confronted with a conflict of interest during the evaluation process, they should refuse to examine the work and inform the editor of the journal.
4. The privacy policy should destroy the work that has been reviewed by the review process. Only the final versions of the studies can be used after publication.
5. Assessment should be done objectively only with respect to the content of the work. Nationality, gender, religious beliefs, political beliefs, and commercial concerns should not allow it to influence the evaluation.
6. Use polite language when making an assessment. Avoid humiliating personal interpretations of hostility, slander, and insults.
7. The evaluation should be carried out on time and on the above ethical responsibility

Authors' Ethical Responsibilities

1. The work submitted for publication must have not been published in another journal or submitted at the same time. Each application can be started following the completion of the previous application. Published work in another journal cannot be sent to ARHUSS.
2. Author (s) cannot have their work in the application process of more than one journal at the same time. Each application can be started following the completion of the previous application. Published work in another magazine cannot be sent to the journal.
3. Author (s) are required to make use of and/or quote in a complete and accurate way in order to benefit from other studies or to use other studies. In writing citations and bibliography, the APA 6 editorial guidelines should be considered.
4. Author (s) are aware that all submissions are screened by similarity detection software at any point during the peer-review or publication process.
5. If all work submitted for publication is to constitute a conflict of interest, and if relevant, should be indicated.
6. The editor (s) may request raw data on their framing of evaluation processes; in such a case the author (s) should be ready to submit the expected data and information to the editorial board.
7. The author (s) has an obligation to cooperate with the editor in informing, correcting, or withdrawing the journal editor or publisher if he/she finds a mistake or error related to his / her early published or evaluation work.
8. The author (s) must have evidence that they have the necessary permissions including ethical council permission if necessary for the use rights of the data used, research/measurement tools/analyses.
9. Authors are responsible for their manuscripts' conformity to ethical rules. If the work has been done after ethics committee approval, any necessary permission documents from local and international ethics committees must also be sent with the manuscript, and the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that the work has been approved by the ethics committee.
10. All financial support should be mentioned in the “Acknowledgements” section.
11. Responsibilities of statements or opinions expressed in the manuscripts published in ARHUSS solely belong to the author(s).

Plagiarism Rules

All manuscripts submitted to ARHUSS will be subjected to the Ithenticate plagiarism detection software. Manuscripts in which references sections truncated found to have a similarity index of 25% or above will be rejected and authors will be informed with given the plagiarism report.

Withdrawal Rules

Withdrawal of a manuscript will be permitted only for the most compelling and unavoidable reasons. If the author wishes to withdraw the paper from a journal, the author needs to submit an "Article withdrawal Form" signed by all authors (or) the corresponding author of the manuscript stating the reasons for manuscript withdrawal. The form is available from the Editorial Office of the journal.

There is no fee required for article submission and publication in ARHUSS.