WRITING RULES

1. FOR AUTHORS;

Articles submitted to the journal must be studies with the following characteristics.

Research studies containing original scientific findings,
Studies that convey application examples with a scientific approach,
Compilation studies that comprehensively evaluate important developments on a specific subject.

2. ARTICLE UPLOADING TO THE SYSTEM;

Articles must be uploaded to the system electronically from https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/journal/4131/submission/step/manuscript/new.

These articles cannot be published anywhere else and cannot be presented as a paper without the permission of the editorial board. The whole or part of the article cannot be used anywhere without citing the source. The authors in the article must express a common opinion on the order of names.

3. WRITING RULES

Information Technologies and Communication Journal (BTK Journal) uses the spelling rules of the APA 7 citation system and requests that the studies be prepared in accordance with this format. The basic points are given below, and the sources that do not have an example should be accessed from the APA 7 official website (https://apastyle.apa.org/).

Title:
The article title should be compatible with the content and express the content in the best way. The main title should be in bold font size 14 with all letters capitalized in the middle of the page. Secondary titles should be left aligned, the first letter of the words should be capitalized and in bold font. Tertiary titles should be left aligned italic. Sections in the article other than the introduction and conclusion sections should be numbered and arranged.

Author Name:
Information about the author should be written in the relevant fields in the Article Management System during the application, and information about the author should not be included in the article file.

Abstract:
English and Turkish abstracts should express the subject briefly and concisely. The words should be between 200-250 and written in 10 font size. The purpose, method and results of the study should be included in the abstract. Key words that are compatible with and comprehensive to the content of the article should be included under the abstract in a maximum of five words.

Page Layout:
Articles should not exceed 30 pages including the abstract and references. The text of the article should be written in Times New Roman font, 12 points, 1.5 line spacing. 0.6 pt space should be left before and after paragraphs, and the indentation should be 0 on the right and left. Tab key should not be used at the beginning of paragraphs, and enter key should not be used between paragraphs. Margins should be 2.5 cm on the right and left; 2.5 cm on the top and bottom.

In-Text References:

a) Footnotes should be avoided as much as possible, and footnotes should be given only when necessary.

b) Quotations should be given in quotation marks. Quotations of less than 40 words should be written in the text, and longer quotations should be written 1.5 cm in from the right and left of the line, in block form, and with 1.15 line spacing, in 11 points.

c) Quotations by a single author should be in the text as (Yılmaz, 2015, p. 288).
d) If multiple sources are cited, they are listed in parentheses, from the oldest to the newest, separated by a semicolon. For example (Öztürk, 1996; Çetin, 2019 and Yiğit, 2020).

e) If the author has more than one publication published in the same year, they should be shown as (Yılmaz, 2019a, p. 56) and (Yılmaz, 2019b, p. 23).

f) In two-authored presentations, the surnames of both authors are written. In Turkish sources, the conjunction “and” should be used, and in foreign language sources, the conjunction “and” should be used. For example (Yılmaz and Çetin, 2016, p.12).

g) In sources with more than two authors, the abbreviation “et al.” should be used after the surname of the first author. For example (Yılmaz et al., 2006, p. 89).
h) When citing a cited source, both the source itself and the source cited by the researcher should be given. For example (Yılmaz, 2011, p.74 cited in Öztürk, 2016, p. 88).

i) If the author's name is mentioned in a sentence in the text, it is sufficient to indicate the date and page number in parentheses. For example: According to Yılmaz (2019, p. 23) or According to Yılmaz … (2019, p. 23).

4. REFERENCES

References should be in Times New Roman font, 12 point size, 1.15 line spacing, first line left aligned. In books, book chapters, and article studies, if any, a DOI number should be added.

a) Article References:
If a journal article has a DOI, it should be added to the references. If a journal article does not have a DOI, its URL should be added at the end of the references.
Author's surname, Author's initials. (Year). Title of the article. Periodical Name, Volume (Number of the periodical), Page range. http://doi.org/xx.xxxxxxxxxxx

b) Book Sources:
Author's surname, Author's initials (Year). Title of the book (Number of editions). Publisher. Should be written as follows. If there are two authors, the conjunction "and" should be used.

c) Translated Books:
Author's surname, Author's initials. (Year). Title of the book (Number of editions). (Translator's initials. Translator's surname, Trans.). Publisher. (Date of publication of the original work).

d) Edited Books:
Editor's surname, Editor's initials. (Ed.). (Year). Title of the book (Number of editions). Publisher. Should be written as follows.

e) Section in an Edited Book:
Author's surname, Author's first letter. (Year). Book chapter name. Editor's first letter. Editor's last name (Ed.), Book title (Issue number, Page range). Publisher. should be written as follows.

f) Internet Sources:
Author's surname, First letter or Group name. (Year, Month, Day). Title of the study. Name of the website. URL address. If the content of a page is designed to change over time and is not archived, an access date should be added to the reference as "URL ... accessed on November 11, 2021".

g) Official Publication Sources:
Official Publication Publishing Institution Name. (Year). Report title (Publication no.). Internet address. should be given as follows.

h) Conference/Presentation Sources:
Author's surname, Author's first letter. (Year, Day, Month). Title of the study [Oral presentation/Poster presentation]. Name of the scientific meeting, City where the meeting took place, Country. should be given as follows.

i) Theses:
Author's surname, Initials of author's name. (Year). Title of the thesis [Unpublished master's thesis / Unpublished doctoral thesis]. Name of the university.
Author's surname, Initials of author's name. (Year). Title of the thesis [Master's thesis / Doctoral thesis, Name of university]. Published database/Internet address

j) Dictionaries:
Author's surname, Initials of author's name. (Year). Name of the dictionary. Publishing house.