Business Economics and Management Research Journal

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Only Turkish and English articles are accepted at BEMAREJ.
The texts sent for the publication should not be previously published or sent for publication in another journal or congress.
Text should be prepared in Microsoft Office Word format.
The text will fit into following dimensions: A4 size paper, top: 2 cm, bottom: 2 cm, left: 1,5 cm, right: 1,5 cm, header: 1 cm, footer:1 cm.
Whole text must be written in 11 pt, Palatino Linotype, 6 pt spacing before and after, single-spaced. The text written in the specified format should not exceed 25 pages.
First page should be written in the following format:
Title : 14 pt, bold, centered, 6 pt before and 6 pt after spacing, only first letter of capitalised, and consHeadline size should be 12 pt, bold, centered, first 18 pt, then 6 pt, and a maximum of 12 words (APA style), with only the initial letter of the first word being capitalized and the others being small.isting of 12 words maximum (APA style).
Author(s) : 10 pt, right-aligned, spaced 3 pt before and 3 pt after, names, Address of the institution/university, e-mail infomation and ORCID number should be indicated in footnote. Multiple authors’ names should be written one under the other. Footnotes should be in numbers consecutively.

Abstract : should be without first-line indent (8 pt, 0 pt spacing before and after, justified) should not exceed 200 words.

Keywords: (8 pt, 0 pt before & after spacing) following the title ‘Keywords:’ divided with comma.

Titles : 10 pt, bold, left-aligned, 12 pt before & 6 pt after spacing. Capitalisation should be done as follows:
1. Introduction
2. Title 1
2.1. Subtitle
3. Title 2
3.1. Subtitle
3.1.1. Subtitle subtitle
4. Conclusion
References (No heading number)

Paragraphs : 10 pt, justified, 6 pt before & 6 pt after spacing. No first-line indent is used in the beginning of the paragraphs.
Tables & Diagrams and Charts, etc.: 10 pt, bold and left-aligned. Heading numbers should be used (i.e. Table 1. ….., Figure 3. …..). Table titles should be written above the table, and titles of figures and diagrams should be located below them. The font in the diagrams, figures and charts should be between 7 pt and 10 pt.
Table 1. Table Description
§ Decimals should be divided with comma.
§ Sequence numbers given to the equations must be in brackets, on the right side of the page.
§ For the entries of mathematical equations and formulas, either formula editor of MS Word or MathType can be used.
§ Equations, figures, tables etc. should be explained in the text.
§ If necessary, the reference for charts, figures, tables etc. should be just beneath them following the title ‘Source:’

Citations and bibliography are based on the APA 7 style. Therefore, author surname, date and page numbers should be used in the source citations. In studies with three or more authors, "et al." statement should be used. (All authors should be included in the first reference up to 5 authors). Citation and bibliographic notation examples are presented below:

The following rules are applied to the text which should have only the title and the abstract in the first page:
Albayrak, B. (2009). Proje yönetimi ve analizi. Nobel Yayın Dağıtım.
Bendell, T. (2005). Structuring business process improvement methodologies. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 16(8-9), 969–978. doi: 10.1080/14783360500163110
Erdem, S., & Kavrukkoca, G. (2002). Sürekli iyileştirme projelerinin seçiminde analitik hiyerarşi süreci’nin kullanımı. http://www.deu.edu.tr/userweb/sabri.erdem/dosyalar/AHP.pdf.
Heyd, W. (2001). Yakın-Doğu ticaret tarihi (E.Z. Karal, Çev. ). Türk Tarih Kurumu.
Hitts, P. J. (1999, Şubat 16). In forecasting their emotions, most people flunk out. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com
Işığıçok, E. (1993). Değişkenler arasındaki ilişkilerin araştırılmasında nedensellik testleri ve bir uygulama denemesi (Yayımlanmamış Doktora Tezi). Uludağ Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Bursa, Türkiye.
Işığıçok, E. (2011a). Altı sigma kara kuşaklar için hipotez testleri yol haritası. Marmara Kitabevi.
Işığıçok, E. (2011b). 100 soruda altı sigma. Marmara Kitabevi.
Karluk, S. R. (2005). Kıbrıs’ın AB üyeliği AB’yi böler mi?. Oğuz Kaymakçı (Ed.). Avrupa Birliği Üzerine Notlar (s. 263-287). Nobel Yayın Dağıtım.
Kaya, İ. (2009, Aralık 22). Postmodern marketing / Postmodern pazarlama. Pazarlama Bi’tanedir. http://pazarlamabitanedir.blogspot.com.tr/2009/12/postmodern-marketing-postmodern.html.
Kurnaz, N., Çetinoğlu, T., & Yaşa, İ. (2011). Yerel yönetimlerde performans değerlendirmesi için dengeli ölçüm kartının kullanılması: Kütahya belediyesinde bir uygulama. Çağdaş Yerel Yönetimler, 20(4), 25–56.
Opricovic, S., & Tzeng, G. H. (2004). Compromise solution by MCDM methods a comparative analysis of VIKOR and TOPSIS. European Journal of Operational Research, 156(2), 445–455. doi: 10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00020-1
Önal, İ. (Ağustos 2002). Historical perspectives on school librarianship [Poster]. 68thIFLA General Conference and Council, Glasgow.
Poklepović, T., & Babić, Z. (2014). Stock selection using a hybrid MCDM approach. Croatian Operational Research Review, 5(2014), 273–290.
Sengupta, R. N., Gupta, A., & Dutta, J. (2017). Decision Science: Theory and Practice. CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group.
Teyfur, M. (2011). İlköğretim okul yöneticilerinin uyguladıkları yönetim biçimlerine ilişkin algıları ve velilere göre okul yöneticilerinin yönetim becerilerinin değerlendirilmesi (Yayımlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi). Atatürk Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Erzurum, Türkiye.
Timor, M. (2011). Analitik hiyerarşi prosesi. Türkmen Kitabevi.
Womack, J. P., & Jones, D. T. (2003). Lean thinking. Productivity Press.

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Authors should send those articles which have not been published elsewhere or which have not been sent anywhere.
Authors should give references to all the citations in their articles.
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