- Authors are advised to read the rules and regulations below and edit their manuscript following the relevant ones before sending it to AUJEF. Manuscripts can only be submitted through the Dergipark system. Manuscripts submitted via any other medium and submissions by anyone other than one of the authors will not be evaluated.
Dear authors, please do not hesitate to contact us if you hesitate during the manuscript submission process to AUJEF. aujef@anadolu.edu.tr
Submission Files
5. Ethics Committee Approval (Not required for review articles)
Research & Reporting Guidelines
Before submission, authors can consult
EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators to produce clear, concise, and accurate manuscripts that are easy to understand and free of common errors and pitfalls. Manuscripts submitted to AUJEF should conform to the following guidelines as appropriate:
• PRISMA (& MOOSE) guidelines for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
http://www.prisma-statement.org/, with use of the RECORD extension for studies that use routinely collected health data (e.g., disease registries, eMR, administrative data)
Article Types
Original (Research) Article
Reports of original research, with methods, results, and conclusions. Research articles should report on original primary research or computational methods or new experimental tests or procedures. In original articles, the abstract should not be longer than 350 words. The full text of the article, including all elements (abstract, references, and appendices) of the text, should be no more than 10000 words. In exceptional cases, do not hesitate to contact the editor. aujef@anadolu.edu.tr
Review Article
Overview of developments in fields or the current lines of thought. Synthesizes multiple sources of information and has a long list of references. Emphasis is more factual and less on opinion. Scoping review, narrative review, meta-synthesis, systematic review, meta-analysis, and other review studies are considered review articles. In review articles, the abstract should not be longer than 350 words. The full text of the article, including all elements of the text, should be no more than 10000 words. In exceptional cases, do not hesitate to contact the editor. aujef@anadolu.edu.tr
Letter to Editor
A letter, or response to a letter, sent to the journal to raise a point of interest, discuss a difference of opinion, or encourage participation. Express points of view on scientific matters and should not exceed 2000 words. Authors should email the Editor-in-Chief or editors before submitting this type of paper. aujef@anadolu.edu.tr
Submission Files
1. Title Page (Introductory information about the authors of the manuscript) (Title Page Template)
The title page consists of the following headings. Please fill in the required fields in the title page template and upload it to the system.
Cover Letter (Optional): What is the main strength of your article? You can write the points you want to convey to the editors in this section.
Title: The title of the article should be short and clear. Including a few keywords in the title is important for accessibility. Avoid abbreviations, formulas, and numbers in the title.
Running Head: It should not exceed six words—an abbreviated version of the article title. (Write the first six words of the article title.)
Type of the Article: Please select your article type (Original Article, Review Article, Letter to Editor)
Authors and Affiliations + ORCIDs of all authors: Author names, institutional information, and address information (e-mail) should be given in author order.
Corresponding author and address: Full Name and contact information including address, phone, e-mail address, and Twitter or Instagram (optional)
Presentation(s) or Awards at a meeting: Provide the organization's name, place, and date.
Acknowledgement(s): Verify and confirm that everyone who contributed to this manuscript is either listed as an author or acknowledged as a contributor in the acknowledgement section and that the title page details any professional writing assistance or others paid to provide manuscript support.
Source(s) of Support and Funding: Acknowledge all organizations that funded your research and provide grant numbers where appropriate. The statement should include specific grant numbers, Initials of authors who received each award, full names of commercial companies that funded the study or authors, initials of authors who received salary or other funding from commercial companies, and URLs to sponsors’ websites.
If the study was unfunded, please state: “The author(s) did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.”
Conflict of Interest Statement: Please disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) your work. If no such conflict of interest exists; please state: “The authors declare no conflict of interest”.
Author Contributions Statement (CRedIT Statement): Authorship provides credit for a researcher’s contributions to a study and carries accountability. Check the Authorship section above. The individual contributions of authors to the manuscript should be specified in this section so readers can judge that the authorship criteria for each author have been met, and who is accountable for which section of the article. This list may be revised according to the research and article type. Possible contributor roles that you may use are listed below. Multiple roles are possible and encouraged. Authors should be mentioned with their INITIALS, after each role.
• Conceptualization– Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
• Data curation– Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
• Formal analysis– Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
• Funding acquisition- Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
• Investigation– Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
• Methodology– Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
• Project administration– Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
• Resources– Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
• Software– Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
• Supervision– Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
• Validation– Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
• Visualization– Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
• Writing – original draft– Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
• Writing – review & editing– Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.
• While preparing the statement, follow the below principles:
• List all Contributions– All contributions should be listed, whether from those listed as authors or individuals named in acknowledgements;
• Multiple Roles Possible– Individual contributors can be assigned multiple roles, and a given role can be assigned to multiple contributors;
• Degree of Contribution Optional– Where multiple individuals serve in the same role, the degree of contribution can optionally be specified as ‘lead’, ‘equal’, or ‘supporting’;
• Shared Responsibility– Corresponding authors should assume responsibility for role assignment, and all contributors should be allowed to review and confirm assigned roles.
An example of an Authors’ Contribution statement using CRediT:
First Author: Conceptualization, methodology, software, investigation, validation, writing- original draft preparation, writing - review & editing, data curation. Second Author: Data curation, writing-original draft preparation, investigation, validation, formal analysis. Third Author: Data curation, writing-original draft preparation.
Ethical Approval: All manuscripts submitted to AUJEF that use data provided by human subjects/participants must ensure that they have already gone under investigation and gained the relevant Ethics Committee’s approval. The Ethics Committee's name, the approval date, and the approval number should be stated on the title page, the methods section, and the last page of the manuscript. The authors are also required to provide evidence (i.e., getting permission from the relevant persons or bodies when using questionnaires, scales, photos, or documents developed by others or belonging to others) that they obeyed the ethical rules and regulations during the data collection processes (in the Methods section of the Manuscript File. The name of the board should not be written here for blinding purposes). Further, the manuscripts must also state that the authors followed the relevant publication ethics and copyright policies. If the study includes human subjects, it must be no that international guidance, rules, regulations, and standards must be conducted in the research. The authors are not required to submit an Ethics Committee approval if they only submit a review study. In case of this, it must be stated on the first and last pages of the manuscripts and in the methods section that the current research does not require an Ethics Committee approval. The manuscripts including case reports should also provide the information that an informed consent form was read, approved, and signed by the participants. In the Title Pages file under the "Ethical Approval" section. The name of the board, approval number, and approval date should be included here.
2. Anonymous Manuscript
The full text of your manuscript is prepared according to the
AUJEF template. (File Type= Full Text), (File Format: .doc or .docx).
The uploaded "Anonymous Manuscript File" should include all the following sections:
• Title,
• Abstract,
• Keywords: At least 3, up to 5 keywords
• Blinded Main Text (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Limitations, Conclusion)
• References,
• Tables: These should be embedded in the main document.
• Figures: These should be embedded in the main document
3. Plagiarism report
Plagiarism reports not exceeding 25 %. Plagiarism reports can be obtained from Dergipark during manuscript submission.
Check List:
• Manuscripts need to be anonymized before submission.
• Please ensure that the manuscript you send to AUJEF has not been sent to other periodicals for review or publication.
• The manuscript has been formatted following the AUJEF template.
• The authors are responsible for conducting a plagiarism check of their manuscripts using one of the major plagiarism software and uploading its report to the AUJEF System. Any manuscript having a plagiarism rate of over 25 % will be returned to its authors.
General Formatting Rules
The font used in the entire manuscript should be Lato, font size 9. The bottom and top page margins should be pre-set as 2,5 cm, and the right and left should be 2 cm. The text should be justified with no hyphenation breaks in words at the end of a line. The text should be typed as a single-column document. Paragraphs and headings should not be indented but aligned with the main text. Single-line spacing should only be used between the paragraphs.
Article titles should be boldfaced and centered in Lato or Arial, font size 18. Please use capitals in initial letters only, excluding the conjunction words, articles, and prepositions. The main headings (INTRODUCTION, METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, AND CONCLUSIONS) should be written in Lato 11, with boldfaced capital letters and centered. Single line spacing should be given before and after the main headings but only before the sub-headings. The subheadings should be bold, but only the initials should be in capital letters, excluding conjunction words, articles, and prepositions. The subheadings must be standardized and not include any hierarchical order. So, the headings in the manuscripts should not be numbered.
The authors must avoid using footnotes or endnotes unless their use is essential. Instead, the APA 7 referencing system should be used. If the authors feel they should use footnotes, they must prefer Lato, font size 7. Emphasis should be expressed using quotation marks (“ ”) or italics. Please do not use boldfaced characters in the text. Lists in the text should be horizontal and not vertical. The list should use Roman numerals [(i), (ii), and so on], not Arabic (1, 2). Direct quotes should be 1 cm left-indented from the main text and typed in Lato, font size 9. They should not be written in italics. Please refer to the manuscript template for example. The main document to be used for peer review may include the title, abstract, keywords, main body, references, figures and tables, and supplementary materials. The names of all authors and their institutions must not be included in the main document.
Abstract
The abstract should be written in Lato fonts and font size 8 with single line spacing, justified to both margins. Abstracts should be between 150 and 350 words. Three to five words, word groups, or expressions representing the manuscript should be given as keywords. Only the initials of the first word of the keywords should be in capital letters. No citations should appear in the abstract. The abstract should include the research purpose, methods, participants, and import and results.
Main Text
Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods studies should include the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions, and Discussion.
The Introduction section may include the conceptual/theoretical framework of the study, a discussion of the relevant literature, and the research purpose, including the problem statement or research questions. The discussion of the relevant literature should consistently analyse it, emphasize the gaps and inconsistencies in the literature, and discuss actions toward solving these problems.
The Methods section needs to include the research design or the type of the study (cross-sectional, longitudinal, survey, experimental, ethnographic, etc.), the description of the sampling procedure (including the description of the population), or the selection of the study group, data collection instruments and procedures, data analysis, and the issues of validity, reliability, and ethics.
The Results section should introduce the research results in the form of texts, tables, and figures and explain their interpretation.
The Discussion section of the main text should conclude the previous section, compare them with the relevant literature, and discuss the implications of the research results considering policy, practice, and future research.
Other types of studies can allow slight variations in sections, but they should not contain too many details and sub-sections that could distract readers’ attention and compromise readability.
Tables and Figures
Tables, figures, pictures, graphics, and similar aspects should be embedded in the text, and not provided as appendices. Please locate tables as editable text and not as images; however, figures might be presented in different forms as images, etc. Please use Lato font size 8 for tables and figures. While generating tables, ensure that the indentation under the paragraph tab is as follows: before and after 0, single spacing. Tables and figures should be left-aligned, and the text wrapping feature should be turned off. Table and figure numbers should be typed in Lato, font size 9 as “Table 1” or “Figure 1” (as bold), but the remaining text in the headings of the tables and figures should be standard as “Table 1. Demographic Characteristics of the Participating Middle School Students”, only the initials in capital letters, excluding conjunction words, articles, and prepositions.
Citations and References
Both in-text citations and references should comply with the APA guidelines as provided in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) (7th edition).
APA Manual 7th edition: The most notable changes
• The publisher's location is no longer included in the reference.
- Covey, S. R. (2013). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Powerful lessons in personal change. Simon & Schuster.
- The in-text citation for works with three or more authors is now shortened right from the first citation. You only include the first author’s name and “et al.”. (Taylor et al., 2018)
• Surnames and initials for up to 20 authors (instead of 7) should be provided in the reference list.
Miller, T. C., Brown, M. J., Wilson, G. L., Evans, B. B., Kelly, R. S., Turner, S. T., Lewis, F., Lee, L. H., Cox, G., Harris, H. L., Martin, P., Gonzalez, W. L., Hughes, W., Carter, D., Campbell, C., Baker, A. B., Flores, T., Gray, W. E., Green, G., … Nelson, T. P. (2018).
• DOI’s are formatted the same as URLs. The label “DOI:” is no longer necessary.
• URLs are no longer preceded by “Retrieved from,” unless a retrieval date is needed. The website name is included (unless it’s the same as the author), and web page titles are italicized.
Walker, A. (2019, November 14). Germany avoids recession but growth remains weak. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50419127
• For ebooks, the format, platform, or device (e.g., Kindle) is no longer included in the reference, and the publisher is included.
Brück, M. (2009). Women in early British and Irish astronomy: Stars and satellites. Springer Nature. https:/doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2473-
Clear guidelines are provided for including contributors other than authors and editors. For example, when citing a podcast episode, the host of the episode should be included; for a TV series episode, the writer and director of that episode are cited.
• Dozens of examples are included for online source types such as podcast episodes, social media posts, and YouTube videos. The use of emojis and hashtags is also explained.
The singular “they” or “their” is endorsed as a gender-neutral pronoun.
A researcher’s career depends on how often he or she is cited. (x)
A researcher’s career depends on how often they are cited. (+)
Instead of using adjectives as nouns to label groups of people, descriptive phrases are preferred.
The poor (X)
People living in poverty (+)
Instead of broad categories, you should use exact age ranges that are more relevant and specific.
People in the age range of 65 to 75 years old
Use double quotation marks instead of italics to refer to linguistic examples.
APA endorses the use of the singular pronoun “they”
Reference:
Streefkerk, R. (2020, February). APA Manual 7th edition: The most notable changes. Scribbr. https://www.scribbr.com/apa-style/apa-seventh-edition-changes
Some Examples of Citing and Referencing
Journal Article
Edwards, A. A., Steacy, L. M., Siegelman, N., Rigobon, V. M., Kearns, D. M., Rueckl, J. G., & Compton, D. L. (2022). Unpacking the unique relationship between set for variability and word reading development: Examining word- and child-level predictors of performance. Journal of Educational Psychology, 114(6), 1242–1256. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000696
Authored Book
Kaufman, K. A., Glass, C. R., & Pineau, T. R. (2018). Mindful sport performance enhancement: Mental training for athletes and coaches. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000048-000
Edited Book Chapter
Zeleke, W. A., Hughes, T. L., & Drozda, N. (2020). Home–school collaboration to promote mind–body health. In C. Maykel & M. A. Bray (Eds.), Promoting mind–body health in schools: Interventions for mental health professionals (pp. 11–26). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000157-002
Conference Session
Davidson, R. J. (2019, August 8–11). Well-being is a skill [Conference session]. APA 2019 Convention, Chicago, IL, United States. https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/a5ea5d51/files/uploaded/APA2019Program_190708.pdf
Dissertation From a Database
Horvath-Plyman, M. (2018). Social media and the college student journey: An examination of how social media use impacts social capital and affects college choice, access, and transition (Publication No. 10937367). [Doctoral dissertation, New York University]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.
Organizational Reports
In-text:
First standard citation (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD], 2019), subsequent standard citation (OECD, 2019), in-text citation (if it appears for the first time) Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), (2019), subsequent in-text citation OECD (2012), citation for a paraphrasing or a direct quotation (if it appears for the first time) (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD], 2019, p.16), subsequent citation for a paraphrasing or a direct quotation (OECD, 2019, p. 16).
In reference list:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2019). PISA 2018 assessment and analytical framework. Paris: OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/b25efab8-en
Webpage
Chandler, N. (2020, April 9). What’s the difference between Sasquatch and Bigfoot? HowStuffWorks.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/sasquatch-bigfoot-difference.htm
Webpage on a News Website (Section 10.16)
Machado, J., & Turner, K. (2020, March 7). The future of feminism. Vox.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/3/7/21163193/international-womens-day-2020
Webpage With a Retrieval Date
Center for Systems Science and Engineering. (2020, May 6). COVID-19 dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Johns Hopkins University & Medicine, Coronavirus Resource Center. Retrieved May 6, 2020, from https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Online Magazine Article
Thomson, J. (2022, September 8). Massive, strange white structures appear on Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-mounds-great-salt-lake-utah-explained-mirabilite-1741151
Print Magazine Article
Nicholl, K. (2020, May). A royal spark. Vanity Fair, 62(5), 56–65, 100.
Online Newspaper Article
Roberts, S. (2020, April 9). Early string ties us to Neanderthals. The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/science/neanderthals-fiber-string-math.html
Print Newspaper Article
Reynolds, G. (2019, April 9). Different strokes for athletic hearts. The New York Times, D4.
Online Dictionary Entry
American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Internet addiction. In APA dictionary of psychology. Retrieved April 24, 2022, from https://dictionary.apa.org/internet-addiction
Report by a Group Author
World Health Organization. (2014). Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/113048/WHO_NMH_NHD_14.1eng.pdf?ua=1
Report by Individual Authors
Winthrop, R., Ziegler, L., Handa, R., & Fakoya, F. (2019). How playful learning can help leapfrog progress in education? Center for Universal Education at Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/how_playful_learning_can_help_leapfrog_progress_in_education.pdf
Press Release
American Psychological Association. (2020, March 2). APA reaffirms psychologists’ role in combating climate change [Press release]. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/03/combating-climate-change
Preprint Article
Latimier, A., Peyre, H., & Ramus, F. (2020). A meta-analytic review of the benefit of spacing out retrieval practice episodes on retention. PsyArXiv.
https://psyarxiv.com/kzy7u/
Data Set
O’Donohue, W. (2017). Content analysis of undergraduate psychology textbooks (ICPSR 21600; Version V1) [Data set]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36966.v1
Film or Video
Docter, P., & Del Carmen, R. (Directors). (2015). Inside out [Film]. Walt Disney Pictures; Pixar Animation Studios.
TV Series Episode
Dippold, K. (Writer), & Trim, M. (Director). (2011, April 14). Fancy party (Season 3, Episode 9) [TV series episode]. In G. Daniels, H. Klein, D. Miner, & M. Schur (Executive Producers), Parks and recreation. Deedle-Dee Productions; Fremulon; 3 Arts Entertainment; Universal Media Studios.
Webinar
Kamin, H. S., Lee, C. L., & McAdoo, T. L. (2020). Creating references using seventh edition APA Style [Webinar]. American Psychological Association. https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/tutorials-webinars
YouTube Video
Above The Noise. (2017, October 18). Can procrastination be a good thing? [Video]. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMwmBNNOnQ
Song or Track
Nirvana. (1991). Smells like teen spirit [Song]. On Nevermind. DGC.
Radio Broadcast
Hersher, R. (2020, March 19). Spring starts today all over America, which is weird [Radio broadcast]. NPR.
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/817237429/spring-starts-today-all-over america-which-is-weird
Podcast Episode
Santos, L. (Host). (n.d.) Psychopaths and superheroes (No. 1) [Audio podcast episode]. In The happiness lab with Dr. Laurie Santos. Pushkin Industries. https://www.happinesslab.fm/season-2-episodes/episode-1
PowerPoint From a Classroom Website
Mack, R., & Spake, G. (2018). Citing open source images and formatting references for presentations [PowerPoint slides].
Canvas@FNU. https://fnu.onelogin.com/login
Tweet (Section 10.15)
Obama, B. [@BarackObama]. (2020, April 7). It’s World Health Day, and we owe a profound debt of gratitude to all our medical professionals. They’re still giving [Tweet]. Twitter.
https://twitter.com/
BarackObama/status/1247555328365023238
Open Educational Resource
Fagan, J. (2019, March 25). Nursing clinical brain. OER Commons. Retrieved January 7, 2020, from
https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/53029-nursing-clinical-brain/view
Blog Post
Rutledge, P. (2019, March 11). The upside of social media. The Media Psychology Blog. https://www.pamelarutledge.com/2019/03/11/the-upside-of-social-media/
Appendices
Each appendix should be displayed on a separate page after the references section.
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