Guidelines
for Submission
Each issue includes articles, review essays, and
shorter book reviews. All articles are to be submitted in electronic form to
the journal editorial board at dergipark.org.tr/balkar (and mehmethacisalihoglu@gmail.com or balkar@yildiz.edu.tr). Submissions are to be up to 8,000
words in length, and may be accompanied by footnotes and a bibliography (see
below). Transliterations will be kept to a minimum, and when used will follow
the standard adopted by the appropriate scholarly bodies in the respective
language areas. Articles are expected to be written in English though
submissions in other languages can also be considered.
Review essays are to be up to 4,000 words in
length. They may review one or more books, and may also focus on multiple works
of a single author, works in a series, or publications around particular historical
sources. Book reviews are to be 1,000 words in length.
Review
of Submissions
All submissions are evaluated
through a double-blind review process, and include review both by editorial
board members and external reviewers.
Publishable Copy
Articles are to be
submitted via electronic means in Word format, and accompanied by a copy in pdf
format. The pictures and figures should be sent
separately in 200 dpi resolution in tif format.
General
Style Rules
1.
The text
must be formatted with 1.5-inch margins and be double-spaced.
2.
A separate
cover sheet must be included with the manuscript title, author’s name,
professional affiliation, complete mailing address and telephone number.
3.
A short
abstract of 100-200 words in English should accompany the article.
4.
Capitalization:
authors should be consistent in their use of capitalization.
5.
Italics:
the titles of works and periodicals should normally be italicized.
Foreign words should also be italicized.
6.
In
general, foreign words and phrases, both in main text and footnotes should be
provided in translation. All non-Roman alphabets should be transliterated
following the style provided under the section ‘Transliteration’ of the
guidelines.
7.
All
articles should include footnotes and bibliography at the end of the article.
8.
Illustrations,
tables, maps and figures must be numbered consecutively in the text and
captions identifying the source of any image or data should be used.
Figure title: below the picture -
Figure 1: Black Sea Region Map
Table
title: above the table – Table 1: Demography of the Black Sea Region
9.
For
further reference, The Chicago Manual of Style Online (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org)
is recommended.
Abbreviations
Well known journal titles to be kept in contracted form and
less known in full form.
Footnote
and bibliography style
The
following conventions should be followed in footnotes and bibliographies
(according to The Chicago Manual of Style Online). Please note
articles from periodicals or titles of book chapters are printed within double
quotation marks. Book and journal titles are in italics. Initial citations in
the footnotes should initially be in full, and subsequent references in the
notes omit publication data. Full publication data should be used in the
bibliography. The following provide examples:
Journal article:
Footnote:
Suraiya
Faroqhi, “Agricultural Activities in a Bektashi Center 1750-1826: The Tekke of
Kızıldeli,” Südost-Forschungen
35 (1976): 69-96.
Shortened note:
Faroqui,
“Agricultural Activities,” 78.
Bibliography:
Faroqui, Suraiya. “Agricultural
Activities in a Bektashi Center 1750-1826: The Tekke of Kızıldeli.” Südost-Forschungen, vol. 35 (1976):
69-96.
Book with Single Author or Editor
Footnote:
Suraiya Faroqhi, Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction
to the Sources (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 83-88.
Shortened note:
Faroqhi, Approaching Otoman History, 83-88.
Bibliography:
Faroqhi, Suraiya. Approaching Otoman History: An Introduction
to the Sources. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Book with
Multiple Authors
Footnote:
Meliha B. Altunışık
and Özlem Tür, Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change (London:
Routledge Curzon,
2005), 132-147.
Shortened note:
Altunışık and Tür, Turkey,
95.
Bibliography:
Altunışık, Meliha
B., and Özlem Tür. Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change. London:
Routledge Curzon, 2005.
Chapter in an Edited
Book:
Footnote:
Magdalena Elchinova, “Alien by
Default. The Identity of the Turks of Bulgaria at Home and in Immigration,” in Developing
Cultural Identity in the Balkans: Convergence versus. Divergence. eds.
Raymond Detrez and Pieter Plas (Brussels: PIE Peter Lang, 2005), 87-92.
Shortened note:
Elchinova, “Alien by Default”, 87-92.
Bibliography:
Elchinova, Magdalena. “Alien by
Default. The Identity of the Turks of Bulgaria at Home and in Immigration.” In Developing
Cultural Identity in the Balkans: Convergence vs. Divergence, eds. Raymond
Detrez and Pieter Plas, 87-110. Brussels: PIE Peter Lang, 2005.
Footnote:
Shortened note:
Bibliography:
Ersoy,
Neriman. “XIX. Yüzyılda Filibe Şehri 1839-1876.” PhD diss., İstanbul
University, 2004.
Electronic
Sources
Footnote:
Irène Beldiceanu-Steinherr,
“Abdal, l’Étrange Destin d’un Mot: Le problem Abdal Vu à Travers les Registres
Ottomans,” Turcica 36 (2004): 50-72, doi: 10.2143/TURC.36.0.578724.
Shortened note:
Beldiceanu-Steinherr, “Abdal,” 87.
Bibliography:
Beldiceanu-Steinherr,
I. “Abdal, l’Étrange Destin d’un Mot: Le problem Abdal Vu à Travers les
Registres Ottomans.” Turcica 36 (2004): 37-90. doi: 10.2143/TURC.36.0.578724.
Unpublished Conference papers
Footnote:
Mehmet Hacisalihoglu, “The Young Turk Policy in Macedonia: Cause of the
Balkan Wars?” (conference paper, Lasting Socio-Political Impacts of the Balkan
Wars, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 4-7 May 2011).
Bibliography:
Hacisalihoglu, Mehmet. “The Young Turk Policy in Macedonia: Cause of the
Balkan Wars?.” Paper presented at the Conference Lasting Socio-Political Impacts of the
Balkan Wars of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 4-7 May 2011.
Transliteration
Transliteration of
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish words should follow the style indicated in the International
Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IJMES). Transliterations of Cyrillic or
Greek scripts should follow the standard set by ISO 9 and Südost-Forschungen Zeitschrift.
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