For Authors

Our International Refereed Academic Approaches journal was launched in 2010. In our journal, original, review and research studies on all subjects related to Political Science, International Relations, Public Administration, Economics, Business Administration, Finance, Labor Economics, Industrial Relations, International Trade are included. All articles submitted to our journal, which is published twice a year as June and December issues, are evaluated without discrimination. 

Author Responsibilities

First Submission

It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that the articles submitted to our journal are suitable for the scope of the journal. If the field editors determine that the articles are not suitable for the scope of the journal, the "rejection decision" is notified to the author in writing and with justification.

- The compliance of the manuscripts submitted to our journal with the journal's publication principles is evaluated by our editorial board. The compliance of the articles with scientific and ethical rules is the responsibility of the authors.

- The articles submitted to our journal must be original, not previously published elsewhere or sent for evaluation for publication in a different language.

- The article must have direct academic and scientific contribution of all authors. The author(s) must meet the criteria of study concept, study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, manuscript drafting, critical review of the content, final approval and responsibility, supervision of material and technical support. The author(s) should include a statement of author contribution rate, a statement of support and acknowledgment, if any, and a statement of conflict at the end of the article.

- The order of authors' names should be a joint decision. Information about all authors should be specified in the "Copyright Transfer Agreement" form by the corresponding author and the form should be signed by the corresponding author.

- Authors are required to send the "Plagiarism Report Result", "Copyright Transfer Agreement", "Letter of Undertaking" and "Author Declaration(s) Form" with the article file in the first submission.

- Plagiarism checking of articles is carried out by using Turnitin, iThenticate, etc. programs. Errors are detected by examining the matches in each article and reported to the editorial board with the "Plagiarism Report Result" form. The editorial board makes a final decision for each article in the light of the plagiarism report (Author's claiming as his/her own by copying information from other people / Author's "Self-plagiarism" or "Duplicate publication" by not referencing the information provided by the author from his/her own previous studies). In plagiarism check, Academic Approaches Journal limits the similarity rate with two basic rules: The similarity rate should be below 15% for the full text. For single sources, the similarity rate should be below 3%. 

Preparation of Manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted after they have been edited in accordance with the Writing Guidelines. Manuscripts that do not comply with the Spelling Rules will not be evaluated.

Technical Rules:

Font should be written in Times New Roman and 1.5 line spacing. 12 font size should be used for the text and 10 font size should be used for the abstract and bibliography. Page Structure The margins of the pages should be set so that the top, bottom, right and left margins are 2.5 cm. Headings other than the bibliography and main title should be numbered. Paragraph Structure Headings and subheadings other than the main title of the article should start at the beginning of the line. Line breaks should start 1 cm inside according to the text. Article Volume The article should consist of 4,000-10,000 words.

In-text Features:

Main Title

The title of the article should be in bold 12-point font and centered in the text. If the study has been presented before (produced from a project or thesis, etc.), an explanation should be made by placing a footnote* at the end of the title.

Author Names A footnote will be given next to the author names. The footnote should include the title(s), institution name (without abbreviation), ORCID ID and e-mail address(es) of the author(s).
The abstract should be maximum 200 words. The abstract should be written in 10 font size and 1 cm line spacing. There should be no citations in the abstract. Extended English abstract should be 600-800 words. The extended English abstract should be in Times New Roman 10 font size and 1 line spacing. It should be placed under the English abstract. The extended English abstract should include the purpose of the study, importance, research question, method, findings and conclusion, and recommendations, if any.

Keywords

It should be between 3-5 words. Keywords should be chosen to cover the subject of the article.

Section Titles


Titles and subheadings other than the main title of the article should start at the beginning of the line.
Sub-section headings should be aligned according to the beginning of the paragraph.

For example;

2. Second Title


References should follow APA (American Psychological Association) style. The 6th and 7th edition of APA should be taken as basis).

Main Text

The carriage returns of the text should start 1 cm inside the title. References should follow APA (American Psychological Association) style. The 6th and 7th edition of APA should be taken as basis).

Tables, Figures and Appendices

Tables

The text in the table should be in Times New Roman 8-10 font size and 1 cm line spacing. Table number, table name (12 pt. and italic), table content (two or fewer lines) and reference (10 pt.) should be arranged center-aligned under the table. For example;

Table 1
Turkey's Foreign Trade 1970-1985 (% of GDP) (Please see our pdf file for sample table view).


Source: Koçyiğit & Şen, 2007: 64.

Figures

Figures to be used in the text should be arranged in such a way that the figure number, figure name (italicized) and the source are included under the figure. All kinds of non-textual visual materials such as diagrams, graphics, photographs, pictures, drawings, maps, etc. should be considered as figures.

For example;


Figure 1.

Organizational Innovation System (Please see our pdf file for a sample figure view).

Source: Vagnani et al., 2019:4.

Appendices

Each appendix should be given on separate pages, before the bibliography.

For Equations;

Equations should be written in parentheses, centered on the page and the sequence number of each equation should be right justified.
Note: Equations can be written in programs such as "Mathtype".

In-Text Citation (Citation)

Citations should follow APA (American Psychological Association) style. The 6th and 7th edition of APA should be taken as basis. Examples to be used in citing references are given below. (For detailed information on APA style, see (https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html)

Single author

When citing single-author studies, the author's surname, year of publication and page number should be indicated in parentheses. For example;


The forms of government that emerged in the West in the middle of the 17th century influenced the development of Ottoman institutions (Mardin, 1996: 234).

Two authors

When citing studies with two authors, the surnames of the authors should be connected with "& (ampersand)" and the year of publication and page number should be shown. For example;

There is an inverse relationship between the aging population and economic growth, and the low labor force participation of the aging population and the productivity problem of older workers cause stagnation (Acemoğlu & Restrepo, 2017: 2).

Three or more authors

When citing studies with three or more authors, the abbreviation "et al.", which means "and others", should be used after the surname of the first author to indicate the other authors. For example;

Customer needs analysis is an important task that focuses on interpreting the voice of customers and deriving explicit needs that can then be understood in marketing terms (Helander et al., 2008: 87).

Cited Source

For a citation from another reference within a reference, the surname, year of publication and page number of the main reference author should be written first, followed by the surname, year of publication and page number of the citing author. For example;

(Soydan, 2018: 1 cited in Parlar, 2019: 2).

For institutions

When data from institutions such as TURKSTAT, EUROSTAT, etc. are used, the abbreviation of the name of the institution and the year of the study used should be indicated in parentheses. For example;

(TÜİK, 2019). (EUROSTAT, 2019).

Websites

When an in-text citation is given to any web page, the name of the site author, if any, or the name of the institution or the name of the web page is written and the date of the study used is written.
(Eğilmez, 2020); (FAIRWORK, 2018).

Newspaper

When citing a newspaper, the name of the newspaper and the year of publication of the news used should be written. For example;
(X Newspaper, 2020).

Interview-Interview

In the First Place
Interviewee's Name and Surname, "Interview Title" (Interviewer: Name and Surname, Recording Format, Interview Day Month Year).

Halil İnalcık, "Fatih Sultan Mehmed" (Interviewee: İlber Ortaylı, Video Recording, Interview March 3, 1985).
Next Place of Passage
Interviewee's Surname, "Interview Title Short" (Interview Day Month Year).

İnalcık, "Fatih Sultan Mehmed" (Interview March 3, 1985).
Ethical constraints in qualitative studies
If an audio or written form of the interview is not accessible to third parties, it is cited only in the text and the month, day and year are indicated; it is not added to the bibliography.

(P1, Personal Interview, July 18, 2019).

CREATING A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Single author book

The font in book titles will always be italicized. For example;

Koray, M. (2012). Social policy. (4th ed.). İmge Kitabevi.

Book with two authors

In a book with two authors, the author names are followed in order and separated by the "&" sign. For example;

Keyman, E. F. & Öniş, Z. (2007). Turkish politics in a changing world. Istanbul Bilgi University Press.

Book with three or more authors

Author names are followed in order, separated by commas, and the "&" sign is placed before the last author's name. For example;

Büyüköztürk, Ş., Çakmak, E.Ç., Akgün, Ö.E., Karadeniz, Ş. & Demirel, F. (2009). Scientific research methods. Pegem Academy Publications.

Compilation book

Duncan, G. J. & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.). (1997). Consequences of growing up poor. Russell Sage Foundation.

Chapter in edited book

The author of the chapter, the year, and the title of the chapter are written respectively. Then the book editor(s) is indicated, the book title is italicized and the page range where the chapter is located is indicated. For example;

Sarıbay, A. Y. (2005). Globalism as postmodern capitalism and 1980s Turkey. In A. Küçük., S. Bakan., A. Karadağ (Eds.), Türkiye'de politik hayat, (pp.1029-1037). Aktüel Publications.

Jewsiewicki, B. (1983). Rural society and the Belgian colonial economy, In D. Birmingham and P. M. Martin (Eds.), The history of central Africa (pp. 95-125). Longman.

Book translated into Turkish

In a translated book, the name of the original author is written first and then the name of the translator. For example;

Pettit, P. (1997). Republicanism. (Trans. A. Yılmaz). Ayrıntı Publications.

Article

When the articles are shown in the bibliography, the name of the journal in which the article appears is italicized. The volume number (italicized) is given first, followed by the issue number in parentheses. At the end, the page range where the article is found in the journal is written. For example;

Akerlof, G. A. (2000). Economics and identity. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115 (3), 715-53.

For authors with two surnames;

Tuzgöl Erdost, M. (2005). Development of subjective well-being scale: Validity and reliability study. Turkish Journal of Psychological Counseling and Guidance, 3 (23), 103-111.

Article with two authors

In an article where there are two authors, the author names are followed in order and separated with the & sign. For example;

Dunlap, R. & Catton, W. R. (1979). Environmental sociology. Annual Review of Sociology, 5, 243-273.

Article with three or more authors

Author names are followed in order and separated by commas. For example;

Helander, M., Xu, Q., Jiao, R. J., Yang, X., Khalid, H. M. & Opperud, A. (2009). An analytical Kano model for customer need analysis. Design Studies, 30 (1) , 87-110.

Symposium and Congress Proceedings

Surname, A. (Year). Name of the paper. Name of the event. (page range) and the location of the event should be written in order. For example;

Karadağ, A. & Bakan, S. (2010). Özal policies in the process of development of democratic civil society. Turgut Ozal International Conference on Economics and Politic I. (pp. 940-952). Malatya: Inonu University.

Report

Surname, A. (Year). Title of the report. Institution Name Working Report/Working Note/Working Paper (Report No). For example;
Dell'Erba, S. & Sola, S. (2011). Expected fiscal policy and interest rates in open economy. The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Working Paper (No: 07/2011).

Thesis.

The title of the thesis is italicized. For example;

Peksan, S. (2018). The end of work discussions in social theory. (Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation). Istanbul University Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul.

Internet Sources

For sources accessed via the Internet, the name of the institution, if any (year of publication). Title of the source, date of access, URL address or doi number. For example;

- Eurostat. (2019). Disability statistics - Employment patterns. June 15, 2019, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics explained/index.php?title=Archive:Disability_statistics_-_employment_patterns#People_with_disabilities_are_more_likely_to_work_part-time.

- Ball, T. M., Shapiro, D. E., Monheim, C. J., & Weydert, J. A. (2003). A pilot study of the use of guided imagery for the treatment of recurrent abdominal pain in children. Clinical Pediatrics, 42(6), 527-532. https://doi.org/10.1177/000992280304200607.

Newspaper

X Newspaper. (Year). Newspaper archive. Accessed on (15/June/Year), Access Address.

Interview

Surname, Name of the Interviewee. "Interview Title" (Interviewer: Name and Surname, Recording Format, Interview Day Month Year). Access Address

İnalcık, Halil. "Fatih Sultan Mehmed" (Interviewee: İlber Ortaylı, Video Recording, Interview March 3, 1985). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8px5eBJHYNE&list=PLCq4ha8CiOukJvXOx3Kp8lC9QoSqLIVjj&index=4

Other Aspects

- References should be arranged in alphabetical order (A-Z) according to the surname of the author.

- If there are many references by the same author in the bibliography, the references are written in order from old to new. For references with the same date, the order is by letter. For example: 2000a, 2000b.

- The in-text citation notation of our journal is based on APA. If the author uses footnotes for detailed information that the author does not want to use in the text, APA rules also apply in the citation of the source for the explanation in question.

- If the author uses itemization in the text, he/she should use the numbering formats (1), (2), (3). For example,

Key Features of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Banger, 2018:35).

(1) Horizontal integration through value networks to facilitate business-to-business cooperation
(2) End-to-end engineering integration across the entire value chain to support product customization
(3) Acceleration through exponential technologies

Manuscripts that do not fulfill the conditions listed above will not be accepted and will be returned to the author to complete the deficiencies.

During the publication process, the corrections requested by the editorial board, referee opinions, spelling-language editorial office should be completed in the text and each correction made in detail should be indicated in the "Author Response Form".

Author Final Checklist

The author(s) should check the items in the list below at the end.


- Sending the article file and "Plagiarism Report Result", "Copyright Transfer Agreement", "Author Declaration(s) Form" and "Letter of Commitment" forms in the first submission

- Title of the article in Turkish and English

- Authors' names, surnames, titles and affiliated institutions (city and country information should be included after the university and faculty information), ORCIDs, e-mail addresses,

- Up to 200 words of Turkish

- Keywords: 3-5 in Turkish and English

- Main text sections of the article

- Acknowledgements (specify if applicable)

- Financial support (specify if available)

- Conflict of interest (specify if any)

- Sources

- Tables-Pictures, Figures (with titles, definitions and captions)

- If an author identifies a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her published manuscript, he/she should contact the editor for correction or retraction. It is not possible for the author to withdraw the manuscript if the refereeing process has begun. However, if a significant error or inaccuracy is detected, the withdrawal request is evaluated and decided by the editorial board.

- Manuscripts submitted to the journal and deemed worthy of being sent to referees by the editor are sent to at least two referees specialized in the relevant field. In this process, the identities of referees and authors are kept confidential.

- The published articles are notified to the authors for review within the dates determined by the editorial board. Correction requests after the relevant date are not taken into consideration.


For Referees
Reviewers should have no conflicts of interest with the authors and/or financial supporters of the research. They should reach an impartial and objective judgment as a result of their evaluation.

- Manuscripts deemed worthy of being sent to referees are sent to at least two referees specialized in the relevant field. If the referee thinks that the article he/she accepts for evaluation is outside his/her field of study, he/she should notify the editor and ask to be dismissed from the referee process. In this process, the identities of the referees and authors are kept confidential.

- They should ensure that all information about the submitted manuscripts is kept confidential and report to the editor if they notice any copyright infringement and plagiarism on the part of the author.

- Reviewers should pay attention to the dates related to the evaluation process. For manuscripts that require additional time, reviewers should contact the editor and submit their requests for additional time.

- During the review process, reviewers are expected to make their evaluations by taking into account the following points:

Does the study comply with the principle of scientificity in terms of its subject and content?

Does the study have originality that will contribute to the field?

Does the topic addressed in the study have actual value?

Is the scope and depth of the subject covered in the study sufficient?

Is the study adequately referenced to the main sources?

Has a comparison been made between the subject of the study and current studies?

Are the terms of the relevant field used appropriately and correctly?

Is the language and style used clear and fluent?

Is the type of the article clearly stated?

- While evaluating, the referees should express their opinions on the evaluation form in accordance with the language of the article.

- In addition to the standard evaluation form, reviewers should also include their opinions in detail on the articles they review.

- Reviewers should keep their title, institution, field of study and contact information in their DergiPark profiles up to date.

Note 1: In case the opinions of the author and the referee differ in determining the type of the article, the decision of the Field Editor is essential.