1. Only Turkish and English texts are accepted at BEMAREJ.

2. The texts sent to for the publication should not be previously published or sent for publication in another journal or congress.

3. Full text should be prepared in Microsoft Office Word format with APA Style 7th Edition.  

4. The text will fit into following dimensions: A4 size paper, top: 2,5 cm, bottom: 2,5 cm, left: 2 cm, right: 2 cm, header: 1,25 cm, footer:1,25 cm.

5. Whole text must be written in 11 pt Times New Roman, 6 pt spacing before and after, single-spaced. The text written in the specified format should not exceed 25 pages.

6. First page should be written in the following format:

Title                   : 14 pt, bold, centered, 12 pt before and 6 pt after spacing, all letters capitalised, and consisting of 12 words maximum.

Author(s)            : 10 pt, centered, spaced 6pt before and 6pt after,  Corresponding author, address of the institution/university and e-mail information 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 (9 pt, 6 pt spacing before and after,  justified)  should not exceed 250 words.

Keywords:  (9 pt, 6 pt before & after spacing) following the title ‘Keywords:’ divided with comma.

Keywords: MCDM, SWARA

JEL codes          : Compulsory in fields related to business management and economics. “JEL Codes:” (9 pt, bold, 6 pt before & after spacing) following the title after colon. For specifing the appropriate JEL code, please refer to http://www.aeaweb.org/journal/jel_class_system.

JEL Codes: C44, M00

7. The following rules are applied to the text which should have only the title and the abstract in the first page:

Titles              : 11 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         : Times New Roman, 11 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.: Calibri, 10 pt, bold and left-alligned. 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 9 pt and 11 pt. 

8. In the text;

§  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:’

9. APA-style citation is advised. So, author’s surname, date, and page numbers should be mentioned in in-text references. For three and more authors, the term ‘et al.’ should be used. Reference samples are as follows:

(Işığıçok, 2011b: 8-10) 
(Poklepović & Babić, 2014)

(Opricovic & Tzeng, 2004: 448).
(Bendel, 2005; Erdem & Kavrukkoca, 2002: 15; Timor, 201: 45)
(Gavcar et al., 2011: 15)
Kurnaz, Çetinoğlu and Yaşa (2011)
Womack and Jones (2003)
Kaya (2009) or (Kaya, 2009)

Sample references for journals and conferences:

Bendell, T. (2005). Structuring business process improvement methodologies. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 16(8-9), 969–978. https://doi.org/10.1080/14783360500163110.

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00020-1

Poklepović, T., & Babić, Z. (2014). Stock selection using a hybrid MCDM approach. Croatian Operational Research Review, 5, 273–290. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00020-1.

Sample citations for books and theses:

Albayrak, B. (2009). Proje yönetimi ve analizi. Nobel Yayın Dağıtım. 

Sengupta, R. N., Gupta, A., & Dutta, J. (2017). Decision Science: Theory and Practice.  CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group.

Heyd, W. (2001). Yakın-Doğu ticaret tarihi (Çev. E.Z. Karal). Türk Tarih Kurumu.

Işığıçok, E. (1993). Değişkenler arasındaki ilişkilerin araştırılmasında nedensellik testleri ve bir uygulama denemesi (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). 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.

Timor, M. (2011). Analitik hiyerarşi prosesi. Türkmen Kitabevi.

Womack, J. P., & Jones, D.T. (2003). Lean thinking. Productivity Press.

For internet sources

Devlet Planlama Teşkilatı Müsteşarlığı. (2006). Dokuzuncu kalkınma planı. https://pbk.tbmm.gov.tr/dokumanlar/kalkinma-plani-9-genel-kurul.pdf.

Erdem, S., & Kavrukkoca, G. (2002). Sürekli iyileştirme projelerinin seçiminde analitik hiyerarşi süreci’nin kullanımı. Whttp://www.deu.edu.tr/userweb/sabri.erdem/dosyalar/AHP.pdf.

Kaya, İ. (2009, Aralık 22). Postmodern marketing / Postmodern pazarlama. Pazarlama Bi’tanedir. Website: http://pazarlamabitanedir.blogspot.com.tr/2009/12/postmodern-marketing-postmodern.html.