Manuscript Submission Guidelines and Copyright Statement
The copyright of the articles published in the journal belongs to the journal. The author acknowledges that upon approval for publication all the copyright of his/her article is transferred to Asia Minor Studies.
1. It is the author’s responsibility to indicate to the editor the existence of any work already published (or under consideration for publication elsewhere) by the author(s) that is similar in content to the submitted manuscript.
2. All papers should be submitted as MS Windows or OpenOffice compatible word processor files, preferably Word for Windows doc or docx files. Authors should not write their personal information like name, last name, and institution on their manucripts. Personal information should be written in another document and uploaded as a supplementary file.
3. The papers should not be less than 4,000 words, nor should exceed 10,000 words. Abstract should not be more than 250 words.
4. Use British or US English spelling and be consistent within the text.
5. All submissions to Asia Minor Studies should conform to the requirements of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Further information can be obtained from the American Psychological Association’s style website: http://www.apastyle.org/.
According to APA’s 6th edition guidelines, please note that DOIs are required in references and can be obtained at http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/.
6. The main body text should be single-spaced, on A4 paper. The margins should be set at 2.5 cm top and bottom, left and right. All sections, including References must have the same width and depth of type page. All text, except mentioned otherwise, i.e. headings, should be justified.
7. Font: Times New Roman. The main body text should be 12 pt type. For quotations longer than three lines, start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented 1,25 cm from the left margin. Use 10 pt type for quotations. Use bold for the title of the article and section headings only. Italics can be used in text for highlighting essential information. Do not underline or boldface to add emphasis. Use italics for emphasis.
8. Please keep to the heading and paragraph styles used by the Journal for your manuscript. For your reference, follow the example indicated in this link Formatted Word File.
9. For every in-text citation in your paper, there must be a corresponding entry in your reference list. APA in-text citation style uses the author's last name and the year of publication, for example: (Field, 2005). For direct quotations, include the page number as well, for example: (Field, 2005, p. 14).
References in the text of an article should be by the author's name and year of publication, as in these examples:
Wilson (2010) in a paper on ... [commonest version]; Wilson and Wild (2011c, p. 22) state that ... [where page number is required]; Evidence is given by Smith et al. (2012) ... [for three or more authors]. Further exploration of this aspect may be found in many sources (e.g. Bright & Snow, 1962; Jones, 1993; Littlewood, 1999a) [note alphabetical order, use of & and semi-colons].
10. For quotations longer than forty words, use a block quotation. Begin the quotation on a new line and indent a half-inch (1.25 cm) from the left margin, leave one empty line above and below. Always give author’s name, year and page number. Do not use quotation marks.
Originality and plagiarism policy
Authors should ensure that they have written and submit only entirely original works, and if they have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the work reported in the manuscript should also be cited. Plagiarism takes many forms, from "passing off" another's paper as the author's own, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
All manuscripts are subject to online scrutiny by means of Turnitin. Any paper with a plagiarism program score above 20% originality -including references and block quotes- will be rejected barring any further submissions. Manuscripts checked via Turnitin are not submitted to the online repositories. All authors accept their responsibilities and the editorial staff will take further precautions to prevent plagiarism in case Turnitin does not bring yield satisfactory results. Since the Turkish database is limited, we will take other means, including but not limited to Crossref, ithenticate, and/or Google search.
However, 20% threshold does not entail editors' automatic response would be positive, any breach of academic code of conduct, including, but not limited to misquote, misrepresent, and failure to properly cite sources, would end up in rejection and/or extensive revision.
Authors should ensure that they have written and submit only entirely original works, and if they have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the work reported in the manuscript should also be cited. Plagiarism takes many forms, from "passing off" another's paper as the author's own, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
All manuscripts are subject to online scrutiny by means of Turnitin. Any paper with a plagiarism program score above 20% originality -including references and block quotes- will be rejected barring any further submissions. Manuscripts checked via Turnitin are not submitted to the online repositories. All authors accept their responsibilities and the editorial staff will take further precautions to prevent plagiarism in case Turnitin does not bring yield satisfactory results. Since the Turkish database is limited, we will take other means, including but not limited to Crossref, ithenticate, and/or Google search.
However, 20% threshold does not entail editors' automatic response would be positive, any breach of academic code of conduct, including, but not limited to misquote, misrepresent, and failure to properly cite sources, would end up in rejection and/or extensive revision.
