WRITING RULES (SPELLING RULES)
ANKARA HACI BAYRAM VELI UNIVERSITY
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES SOCIAL SCIENCES
PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES, WRITING RULES AND CITATION FORMATS.

PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES

The International Social Sciences Journal of Asian Studies, published electronically (E-ISSN: 3023-5561) and in print (ISSN: 2667-6419) by the Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University Asian Studies Application and Research Center, has been continuing its process since 2017 with the aim of increasing and disseminating studies that contribute to the national and international scientific development of all disciplines in the field of social and human sciences, specifically focused on "Asian Studies" in Turkey and around the world.

Publication Frequency
The journal is published at least twice a year, in Spring and Autumn.

Language of Publication
The journal accepts studies written in Turkish and English. Submitted studies must be prepared in a clear and comprehensible manner, in accordance with the grammar rules and scientific literature of the language in which they are written. Publications that do not meet these criteria will not be considered for evaluation.

Evaluation of Articles
Articles submitted for publication are reviewed by the Editorial Board (field editor, writing and language editor) in terms of publication principles and sent to two experts in the relevant field for evaluation. The names of the authors are not disclosed to the reviewers, and vice versa. Reports are kept for 3 years. If one of the referee reports is positive and the other is negative, the article is sent to a third referee, or the Editorial Board may make a final decision by reviewing the referee reports. Authors must consider the criticisms and suggestions of the referees and the Editorial Board. They have the right to object with reasons for the points they do not agree with. Articles sent back to the authors for corrections must be returned to the journal within one month at the latest after the necessary corrections are made. The revised text may be re-examined by the referees who requested the changes if deemed necessary. Articles that are not accepted for publication are returned to the authors. Articles that have not been published elsewhere, are original, not under review in another journal, approved by each author for submission and content, and have ethical declaration information added, are accepted for evaluation.

Ethical Declaration
At the end of the article, ethical committee approval, researchers' contribution rate, support and acknowledgment declaration, conflict of interest declaration must be included. The Editorial Board adds the following information as a table for each article before publication:

AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTION LEVELS: First Author %...; Second Author %...
ETHICAL COMMITTEE APPROVAL: Ethical committee approval is not required for this study.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT: No financial support was received for this study.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: There is no potential conflict of interest in this study.
COPYRIGHT AND SIMILARITY REPORT: Authors retain the copyright of their work published in the journal; a similarity report has been obtained for the work.
COMPLIANCE WITH SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL PRINCIPLES: It is declared that scientific and ethical principles were followed during the preparation of this study and all studies used were specified under the "References" section.

Plagiarism Policy
The International Social Sciences Journal of Asian Studies requires authors to upload a "Plagiarism Report" obtained from plagiarism programs such as "iThenticate" or "Turnitin" before the evaluation process begins. The evaluation process starts after the similarity rate in the Plagiarism Report and the conformity of the study to the writing rules and principles are examined by the Editorial Board. The similarity rate in the Plagiarism Report should not exceed 20%; studies with a similarity rate higher than 20% are sent back to the authors for correction, and if not corrected, they are rejected.

Privacy Statement
All data entered into the International Social Sciences Journal of Asian Studies Management System (such as personal information like names, email addresses, etc.) is used only for the scientific studies of the Journal and the Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University Asian Studies Application and Research Center. This data is not used for any other purpose and is not shared with third parties.

Copyright
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the ideas and suggestions and the sources in the articles. No copyright fee is paid for articles published in the journal. By accepting to waive their copyright, authors transfer the copyright of their accepted articles to the Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University Asian Studies Application and Research Center. When uploading the article file, the "Copyright Transfer Form" must be filled out with a blue signature and uploaded as a PDF file. The Editorial Board is authorized to publish the article. However, authors retain the following rights:

All registered rights other than copyright,
The right to reproduce the article for their own purposes provided that it is not sold,
The right to use the whole or part of the article in books, articles, etc., that the author will produce, provided that the journal is cited as the source.
Open Access
All studies in the International Social Sciences Journal of Asian Studies are published under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

WRITING RULES

Studies submitted for publication in the International Social Sciences Journal of Asian Studies at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University must meet the following conditions:

Studies submitted to the journal must be written in Turkish and English.
Studies to be included in the journal must not have been published elsewhere or submitted to another journal for publication.
Studies that do not comply with the journal's writing rules will not be considered for evaluation.
Studies submitted to the journal should:
Be prepared vertically on A4-sized papers using Microsoft Word.
Except for the Abstract and References page, the text part of the study should be written in Times New Roman 11-point font, with single spacing, and should be no less than 5000 words and no more than 10000 words.

Structure of Studies
Studies should consist of the following sections (in order) and should be structured in accordance with the publication principles:

Title: The title of the study should be written in 12-point bold CAPITAL LETTERS centered on the page, excluding numbers and punctuation marks, and should not exceed three lines.

Author(s): After the title, only the first name (with the first letter capitalized) and the surname (in capital letters) of the author should be written in 11-point bold font centered in the article. An asterisk (*) should be placed after the surname, and information about the author (title, institution, and email, ORCID number) should be given as a footnote in 9-point font at the bottom of the title page.

Abstract: The abstract should be written in 10-point italic font, with single line spacing, and should not exceed 500 words.

Keywords: At least five and at most seven Turkish keywords reflecting the topics of the studies should be added. Only the first letter of each keyword should be capitalized, and all words should be italicized.

English Title: The English title should be written in 10-point bold and italic font, with the first letter of each word capitalized.

Abstract: The text written in the Turkish "Öz" section should be provided in English.

English Keywords: At least five and at most seven English keywords reflecting the topics of the studies should be given in the same order and meaning as the Turkish keywords. Only the first letter of each keyword should be capitalized, and all words should be italicized.

Page Numbers: Page numbers should be placed in the footer, aligned to the bottom right and left corners, in 9-point font.

Text and Paragraph: In the main text, subheadings should be written in 11-point bold font, with the first letters of words capitalized. The text should be in 11-point font, justified. Margins should be 2.5 cm from the top, bottom, right, and left. Line spacing should be 3 nk. Paragraphs should start with a 0.8 cm indent from the left, and paragraph spacing should be 6 nk.

Book, Journal, etc. Names: In the text, names of books, journals, congresses, conferences, symposiums, and panels should be written in italics. For example: “Sources of Central Asian Turkish History, Belleten, International Human and Society Congress, From Past to Present Aleppo and Turkmens Conference, International Folklore Symposium” etc.

Use of Numbers: Numerical expressions are written in words at the beginning of sentences; subsequent ones are written in numerals. For example: “Of the thirty theses commissioned, twenty were related to Turkish history, and the remaining 10 were related to Mongol history.”

Use of Abbreviations: Abbreviations are placed in parentheses when used for the first time in the text; they are not used in subsequent instances. For example: “As a result, in 1957, Turkey had to apply to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to cover external debts. The IMF became an important figure in the Turkish economy with this borrowing.” B.C., “B.C.” and A.D., “A.D.”

Use of Quotes in the Text: Short quotes in the text should be given in quotation marks and italics (“…”). Quotes less than five lines should be written within the line, and quotes longer than five lines should be written as a block, indented one centimeter from the right and left, with single line spacing.

Use of Visual Materials: When using photographs, diagrams, etc., in the text, sources must be cited. Legal responsibility for permissions or copyrights lies entirely with the authors.

Footnotes and References: Submitted studies should be prepared as follows for the reference system, citation format, and bibliography:
All references in the main text should be given using an in-text citation system instead of footnotes. In-text references should include the author(s)'s surname, publication year, and page numbers as follows:

Footnotes should be numbered on the relevant page, not placed at the end of the text. Footnotes should be written in 9-point font, single-spaced, justified, with a paragraph indent of 0.5 cm.
For general references in the text, if the entire work is being referred to, it is sufficient to write (author's surname, year). For example: (Togan, 1981).
If a specific page is quoted or relevant ideas are taken from a specific part, the source should be written with the page as follows: (Köker, 1998: 42).
Works by the same author from the same year are written as follows: (Zizek, 2009a) and (Zizek, 2009b).
If the number of authors is between three and five, all names should be written for the first reference; afterward, only the first author is mentioned. For example, the first time a source is cited (Kejanlıoğlu, Adaklı & Çelenk, 2004) and later (Kejanlıoğlu et al., 2004).
If a source with two authors is cited in the text, both authors' names are mentioned each time; for works with more than two authors, all authors are mentioned the first time, and only the first author is mentioned in subsequent references. For example: (Kafesoğlu, Yıldız, and Merçil, 1998).
If the number of authors is three or more, only the first name and “et al.” are used even the first time (Arat et al., 1991).
When using a reprinted old source in the text, a slash (/) is used. For example: “Freud (1923/1961) first suggested in his work that slips of the tongue in everyday language are a type of expression of repressed representations in the subconscious.”
Apart from the sources shown in the text, the classical footnote method should be used for necessary explanations, and automatic numbering should be used. The format for explanations should be: justified, left and right indent: 3 nk space before and after, single line spacing.
References: At the end of the article, all sources used in the article must be listed. Authors should be listed alphabetically by surname. The following rules should be followed when citing references:

The author's surname and the first letter of their name should be written in capital letters, and the title of the work should be in italics if it is a book, or in quotation marks if it is an article. After the title, the publication place and year for books, and the journal name, year, issue number, and volume number for articles should be provided.
Examples:

For Single-Author Books:
Inalcık, H. (2003). Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Klâsik Çağ (1300-1600). Trans., Ruşen Sezer. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Publishing.

For Multi-Author Books:
Abisel, N.; Arslan, U. T.; Behçetoğulları, P.; Karadoğan, A.; Öztürk, S. R. & Ulusay, N. (2005). Çok Tuhaf Çok Tanıdık. Istanbul: Metis Publishing.

For Edited Books:
Özbek, M. (Ed.). (2005). Kamusal Alan. Istanbul.
Yazıcı, O. (2020). “Nadir Şah Afşar’ın Hindistan Seferi,” Hindistan ve Türk Tarihi- Kültürü Araştırmaları-India and Turkish History- Culture Researches. Ed., H. Şahin. Istanbul, 130-142.

If the same author has multiple works published in the same year, they should be listed in order from oldest to newest. For sources with the same date, use letters for ordering:
Togan, Z. V. (1912). Türk ve Tatar Tarihi, Kazan; (1981). Umumi Türk Tarihine Giriş, Istanbul.
Arat, R. R. (1947a). Kutadgu Bilig-I Metin. Ankara: Turkish Language Association Publications, No: 458.
Arat, R. R. (1947b). Kutadgu Bilig-II Translation. Ankara: Turkish Language Association Publications, No: 459.

For Articles:
Alperen, Ü. (2018). “Bir Kuşak Bir Yol Girişimi ve Çin’in Orta Asya Politikası.” Bilge Strateji. 10 (19), 17-38.

For Theses:
Hashimi, S. M. (2017). Afganistan’da Cumhuriyet Sonrası (1973-2015) Din-Siyaset İlişkisi, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Erciyes University Institute of Social Sciences, Kayseri.

For Encyclopedias:
Kurtulmuş, R. (2008). “Rızâ Şah Pehlevi.” TDV Encyclopedia of Islam. Ankara: Turkish Religious Foundation, 35/67.

For Conference Papers:
Işık, Y. (2015). Karşılaştırmalı Modernleşme Hareketleri Bağlamında Türk Modernleşmesi, Proceedings of the 2nd Young Academics Symposium of Gazi University Faculty of Literature (24-25 November 2014), Ankara: Gazi University Publishing, 151-176.

For Electronic Sources:
Reference information for sources taken from electronic media (internet) should be shown the same way as for printed sources. If the online source used does not specify a page number, do not specify it in parentheses either.
O’Keefe, E. (n.d.). Egoism & The Crisis in Western Values, http://www.onlineoriginals.com/showitem.asp litem I. (20 May, 2020).
For digital sources, the access date should be given at the end and in parentheses.
http://www.aljazeera.com.tr/dosya/gecmisten-gunumuze-turkiye-iran-iliskileri (a.d.: 13 December, 2021).
http://marmaray.gov.tr/marmaray-hakkinda/ (a.d.: 14 May, 2021).

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
The International Social Sciences Journal of Asian Studies adopts the ethical publishing principles published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as open access in publication ethics.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ETHICS

The following points should be considered for the ethics committee report:

Separate ethics committee approvals should be obtained for studies conducted in the social sciences and studies requiring ethics committee approval, and this approval should be indicated and documented in the article. Articles should include a statement that Research and Publication Ethics were adhered to.
In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information about the approval (name of the committee, date, and approval number) should be included in the methods section and also on the first/last page of the article.
In case reports, the article must include information that informed consent forms were signed.
Research requiring ethics committee approval includes:
All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, and other techniques. In addition, permission must be obtained and stated for the use of scales, surveys, and photographs belonging to others, and it must be indicated that copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used have been complied with.
Articles derived from Master's/Doctoral theses in which some of the research data were previously used should be specifically noted as footnotes, and the decision to publish is up to the Editors Board.
Researchers not affiliated with a university may apply to the Ethics Committees in their regions for an Ethics Committee Report if necessary.

PUBLICATION ETHICS

Authors;
Persons who did not contribute to the study in the process of scientific research and writing should not be listed as authors.
The same study should not be submitted to more than one journal.
For studies derived from graduate theses, it is recommended that the supervisor should not be listed as the first author (as per TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM TR Directory).
At the end of the article, it is recommended to include a declaration of the contribution rate of the researchers, any support and acknowledgment declaration, and a conflict of interest declaration (as per TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM TR Directory).
Authors should avoid irresponsible authorship, piracy, fabrication, multiple publications, salami slicing, biased sources, biased publications, violations of human-animal ethics, and other unethical behaviors. The Copyright Transfer Form must be filled out and uploaded as a signed PDF file (available on the homepage).
Authors should comply with the citation system specified in the journal during the writing process of the candidate article.
Unpublished or unsent studies should not be cited as sources.
Any study in whole or in part cannot be published without permission or citation (plagiarism).
Authors should specify the financial sources of the study, if any.

EDITOR ETHICS

Editors;
Ensure that the full-text article sent to reviewers does not contain the names of the authors, and do not disclose the authors' names to the reviewers.
Are responsible for appointing at least two reviewers appropriate to the subject of the candidate article.
Should facilitate communication between reviewers and the corresponding author, considering the double-blind review process.
Should maintain relationships transparently and objectively without discrimination between any authors and reviewers.
Should not use their position for their personal and academic interests.
Should provide clear and detailed reasons for rejecting candidate articles.
Should consider the ethics of scientific research, publication, and reviewing.
A separate editor is appointed to make necessary checks and corrections for articles to be published in Turkish and English.

REVIEWER ETHICS

Reviewers must be experts in the fields addressed by the candidate article.
Should provide objective and clear criticism.
Reviewers should not request to learn the names of the authors of the study they are evaluating and should not share the study text with third parties, considering it is private.
Should not use information from the candidate article for their studies during the evaluation process and should not seek any academic/personal benefit.
Should provide clear and detailed reasons for rejecting candidate articles.
Should consider the rules of scientific research and publication ethics.
Reviewers must specify their title and name in the evaluation report, complete the form fully, and sign it (Reviewer Evaluation Form is available on the homepage).

ARTICLE EVALUATION PROCESS

The International Social Sciences Journal of Asian Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal. Articles that have not been published before or are not currently under review in another journal and are approved by each author are accepted for evaluation. Submitted articles are reviewed by the Editor, Editorial Board, or Publication Board for originality, methodology, the significance of the subject matter, and compatibility with the Journal's scope. The submitted articles are subjected to a fair double-blind peer review process. The purpose of the peer review process is to ensure the publication of high-quality and original scientific studies. All articles submitted to the International Social Sciences Journal of Asian Studies for publication undergo the following article evaluation process:

Pre-Evaluation

All studies submitted to the journal are subjected to a preliminary review by the Editor or Editorial Board in terms of scientific content, publication principles, journal scope and format, plagiarism screening results, similarity ratio, copyright, and ethical declaration statement. If the article does not meet the necessary conditions, it is either returned before proceeding to the peer review stage or some changes may be requested.

Reviewer Policy

The International Social Sciences Journal of Asian Studies uses a double-blind peer review system throughout the process, where the names of reviewers and authors are kept confidential. The names of reviewers are listed in the relevant section of each issue during the publication stage.

Reviewer Evaluation

Articles that pass the preliminary evaluation stage are sent to two reviewers by the Editor. Reviewers are selected from the reviewer pool considering their expertise. The number of reviewers can be increased by the Editors or Publication Board if deemed necessary. Reviewers evaluate the submitted articles in terms of originality, contribution to the field, expression of the problem, critical review of related literature, methodology, presentation of findings, discussion of results by relating them to relevant literature, and suggestions. Reviewers may accept, reject, or request revisions to the articles. If one review is positive and the other is negative, the article is sent to a third reviewer. Thus, based on the reviewers' opinions, it is decided to publish the article directly, publish it after partial revisions, or reject it. Authors are given one month to complete the corrections specified in the review report. If the corrections are not made within this period, the work may be rejected.

Final Evaluation

All articles that have received positive opinions from reviewers and have reached the publication stage are subjected to a final evaluation by the Editor. Articles that have been proofread, corrected, and deemed "publishable" by the Editor are placed in the publication queue and published along with layout work. Authors submitting articles to the International Social Sciences Journal of Asian Studies are deemed to have accepted these peer review conditions and processes of the Journal.