1. Title: The title should be centered on the page, with Times New Roman font, 12 point, bold, capital letters. 

The length of the title should not exceed 15 words. Titles should manifest the content and subject of area of the article.

According to TR Index criteria, articles written in alphabets than Latin letters must include the title, abstract, keywords and bibliography (references) written in Latin letters.

2. Author name(s) and address(es): The name(s) of the author(s) should be written in capital letters, followed by lowercase letters, and surname(s) in capital letters, justified to the right, under the title, in bold letters, in 10 point Times New Roman font. 12 pt space should be left before and after. The title(s), institution(s), correspondence and e-mail address(es) and ORCID numbers of the author(s) should be stated at the bottom of the page as footnotes (*).

3. Abstract: At the beginning of the article, there should be a Turkish abstract of at least 125 and no more than 300 words, briefly expressing the subject; it should be written in Times New Roman font, 9 points, bold, capital letters, as ABSTRACT.

4. Keywords: Keywords consisting of at least 3 and at most 7 words should be located under the abstract, and should be written in 9 points with Times New Roman font.

5. English Title: The English title of the article should be written with 12 pt spaces under the Turkish keywords, in bold and capital letters, with 12 pt Times New Roman font.

6. Abstract: After the English title, the abstract should be written in bold and capital letters as ABSTRACT, 9 points in Times New Roman font.

7. Keywords: English of the keywords should be given under the abstract and should be written in 9 points with Times New Roman font.

8. Main Text: It should be written on A4 size paper, in MS Word program, with Times New Roman font, 11 points, with 1.15 line spacing. Paragraphs should start 1 cm indent.

There should be a margin of 5 cm on the top of the page, 4 cm on the right and left sides, and 3 cm on the bottom, and the pages should not be numbered. 

Articles submitted to the journal must comply with the Türk Dil Kurumu Spelling Guide (including abbreviations). 

It is preferred that the study does not exceed 35 pages. The decision to publish articles exceeding the specified limit is under the responsibility of the Editorial Board.

Tab key should not be used at the beginning of paragraphs and enter key should not be used between paragraphs. One character space must be left between words, after full stops and commas.

9. Chapter Titles: Main topic and subheadings can be used in the article to provide a regular communication. The first letter of the words should be capitalized, bold and plain for each heading.

10. Footnote: References should be shown in the text. Footnotes used if clarifications are needed. Footnotes used for explanatory purposes should be written in Times New Roman font in 9 point size, justified and single-spaced. Spacing should be set as 0 nk at the top and bottom.

11. Quotations and References: The rules of citation and bibliography for the Journal of Balkanistic Language and Literature are based on APA 7 (American Psychological Association).

Direct quotations of less than 40 words should be given in a sentence using quotation marks; quotations of 40 or more words should be given as a block, in plain writing style, without quotation marks. The block quotation should be indented 1 cm from the left edge of the page, the first line 0.5 cm, and 1 cm from the right edge, and this section should be in 10 pt.

1. A reference to a specific sentence, concept or paragraph:

..................... (Tanpınar, 2003, p. 154)

2. A reference to the entire of an article or book:

......................... (Tanpınar, 2003) or According to Tanpınar (2003)... 

3. Reference to a publication with two authors:

........................... (İsen and Durmuş, 2023, p. 41) or According to İsen and Durmuş (2023, p. 41)......

4. Reference to a publication with three or more authors:

....... (Kaplan et al., 1988, p. 5) or According to Kaplan et al. (1988, p. 5)...... 

5. If the citation is made from more than one work, alphabetical order should be followed in parentheses at the end of the citation and each source should be separated by semicolons.

.................... (Kaplan et al., 1988; Moran, 1978; Tanpınar, 2003).

For situations not covered here, references can be made according to the explanations and examples at https://apastyle.apa.org/products/publication-manual-7th-edition.

12. Bibliography: References are based on APA 7 (American Psychological Association) (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples).

The bibliography title should be written at the end of the text with the first letter capitalized, in bold and plain, in Times New Roman font, size 10, justified on both sides. The bibliographies should be sorted in alphabetically according to the surnames of the authors, “hanging” and justified with a 1 cm paragraph indent.

If more than one work of an author is to be included in the bibliography, they should be ordered from old to new according to the date of publication.

If more than one work of an author published in the same year is used, the titles of the works should be sorted in alphabetically and be listed as “2008a”, “2008b” by assigning letters in alphabetical order adjacent to the end of each publication year.

Book, journal, newspaper and thesis titles should be italicized.

Only the first letter of the first word of the title of the work (e.g. article title or book title) should be capitalized, this does not apply to proper names.

According to APA 7, the practice of writing the place (province/state/country) of the publisher in the bibliography of books or theses has been cancelled.

Acaroğlu, M. T. (2016). Türkçeden Bulgarcaya geçen kelimeler sözlüğü. Trakya Üniversitesi Yayınları. 

Hafız, N. (1989). Makedonya Türk halk edebiyatı metinleri. Anadolu Sanat Yayınları.

Mccarthy, J. (1995). Ölüm ve sürgün (B. Umar, trans.). İnkılâp Kitabevi.

Tanpınar, A. H. (2003). 19 uncu asır Türk edebiyatı tarihi. Çağlayan Kitabevi. 

İsen, M. and Durmuş, T. (2023). Balkanlarda Türk edebiyatı tarihi. Türkiye Maarif Vakfı Tiran New York Üniversitesi Yayınları. 

If the source has more than two authors: APA version 7 requires all authors to be listed for works with up to 20 authors, but for 21 or more authors, it is sufficient to list the names of the first 19 authors followed by the last author.

Kaplan, M., Enginün İ. and Emil, B. (1974). Yeni Türk edebiyatı antolojisi I. İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi.

Ercilasun, A. B. (2017). Dîvânû lugâti’t-Türk hakkında. A. İ. Öbek, Y. Topaloğlu and O. Durmuş (eds.), In Prof. Dr. Necmettin Hacıeminoğlu hatıra kitabı (pp. 149-156). Türk Edebiyatı Vakfı Yayınları.

Karpat, K. (1992). Balkanlar. In İslâm ansiklopedisi (Vol. 5, pp. 25-32). Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı Yayınları.

İnalcık, H. (2008). Rumeli. İslâm ansiklopedisi içinde (Vol. 35, pp. 232-235). Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı Yayınları.

Journal article: Author’s surname, Author’s initials. (Year). Title of the article. Name of the Journal, Volume(Issue), page range.

The volume number of the journal should be italicized but the issue number (if any) should be in parentheses.

Moran, B. (1978). Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’ın saatleri ayarlama enstitüsü. Birikim, 37, 44-54.

Hacıeminoğlu, N. (1983). Gönüllerde yaşayan Âkif. Türk Edebiyatı, 113, 13. 

If the article has a DOI number, it must be given as a direct link and a period (.) should not be placed at the end. Example:

Kelağa Ahmet, İ. (2017). Skarlatos Vizantios’un Yunan sözlükbilimindeki yeri ve 1835 tarihli sözlüğünde tespit edilen Türkçe alıntılar. Türkiyat Mecmuası, 27(2), 135-169. https://doi.org/10.18345/iuturkiyat.370064

Hacıoğlu, S. (2002). Bulgaristan Türklerinin sosyo-kültürel değişimi (1944-1989) [Unpublished master’s thesis]. İstanbul Üniversitesi.

Kutlar Aksel, H. (1995). Balkan dillerindeki Türkçe kültür kelimeleri (2 cilt) [Master’s thesis, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi]. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Açık Erişim Sistemi. https://acikerisim.deu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/20.500.12397/12025

Internet citation: Web page titles should be italicized.

Millas, H. (2005, December 23). Türk ve Yunan edebiyatında mübadele-benzerlikler ve farklar. Herkül Millas. http://www.herkulmillas.com/tr/hm-makaleleri/kitaplardaki-makaleler/186-tuerk-ve-yunan-edebiyatnda-muebadele-benzerlikler-ve-farklar-.html

Türk Dil Kurumu. (n.d.). Güncel Türkçe sözlük. Retrieved June 20, 2023, from https://sozluk.gov.tr/ 

Türkçedeki yabancı kökenli sözcüklerin Türkçe karşılıkları. (2023, June 20). In Wikipedia. https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Türkçedeki_yabancı_kökenli_sözcüklerin_Türkçe_karşılıkları

Tables and figures should be placed in the text. Tables and figures should be given a sequence number. The table/figure number and table/figure title should be indicated above the table/figure. The table/figure number should be in bold; the title of the table/figure should be given below the line of the table/figure number, with the first letter of each word capitalized and italicized. Notes to the table/figure, if any, should be left justified under the table/figure. These notes should only be added if needed. 

For situations not covered here, please refer to the explanations and examples at https://apastyle.apa.org/products/publication-manual-7th-edition.