Cappadocia Academic Review

Cappadocia Academic Journal accepts and publishes both international and interdisciplinary articles on the fields of political sciences, public administration, international relations, business administration and economics as Turkish and English. As a young academic journal, it aims to publish international standards for researchers.

Cappadocia Academic Review (CAR) aims to publish scientific works in the fields of political, economic and social science as a national refereed journal of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Hacı Bektaş Veli University of Nevşehir. KAB started its publication life in 2017 and is published in January and July as 2 issues per year

Notes for Contributors

1.Cappadocia Academic Review (CAR) aims at contributing to the political sciences. The Journal accepts and publishes both international and interdisciplinary articles on the fields of political sciences, public administration, international relations, business administration and economics.
2. Articles submitted to the Journal are first reviewed by the Editorial Board, and then sent two (or three) different referees. According to the reports of the reviewers the Editorial Board either accepts or rejects an article, or decides to send the article for revision. Articles sent after revision are reviewed again by the Editorial Board.
3.Articles submitted should have been published or submitted to another Journal previously. Articles should have been written in accordance with research and publication ethics.
4. All articles submitted are checked by plagiarism software.
5. Electronic submissions are accepted through https://dergipark.org.tr/car or directly to car@nevsehir.edu.tr mail address.

6. all articles are accepted as Turkish or English.

7. Authors should send their affiliations, ORCID code with the article.
8. Formatting guideline for manuscripts is as follows:

Font    

The font used in the entire manuscript should be Times New Roman, font size 11. For tables and figures, see below.

Page Layout    

Page margins for bottom, top, right, and left should be pre-set as 4cm. Text should be justified with no hyphenation breaks in words at the end of a line.
Text should be typed as a single-column document.
Paragraphs and headings should not be indented, but aligned with the main text.

Paragraph Format 

Paragraph indents should be pre-set in the tabs section as follows:
•    before and after: 0 pt
•    line spacing: 1,5

Page Limit    

Manuscripts prepared in compliance with the guidelines should not exceed 30 pages.

Title    

Article titles should be boldfaced and centered.

Author(s)’s Names The main document is used for peer-review, which may include the title, abstract, key words, main body,
references, figures and tables and supplementary materials. The names of all authors and their institutions should not be included in the main document.

Abstract    

Abstracts should be between 150–200 words.
No citations should appear in the abstract.

Keywords    

5–8 words representing the manuscript should be given as keywords.
Main Text    

Qualitative and quantitative studies should contain the following sections: Introduction, Method, Findings, and Discussion.
The Methods section must include Sampling/Study Population, Data Collection Tools, and Procedure as sub- sections if an original research method has been used.
Literature reviews should elaborate on the problem, analyze the relevant literature, emphasize the gaps and inconsistencies in the literature, and discuss actions toward solving these problems.

References    

Both in-text citations and references should comply with the APA guidelines as provided in the Publication Manual of American Psychological Association (APA) (6th edition).

Tables and Figures 

Tables, figures, pictures, graphics, and similar aspects should be embedded in the text, and not provided as appendices.
Under the Paragraph tab, ensure that the indentation is as follows:
•    before and after: 0
•    spacing: Single
Tables and figures should be left aligned, and the text wrapping feature should be turned off.

Appendices    

Each appendix should be displayed on a separate page after the references section.

The heading style consists of five possible formatting arrangements, according to the number of levels of subordination. Each heading level is numbered (see below).

Levels of Heading    

Format

1    Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading
2    Flush Left, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading
 
3    Indented, boldface, lowercase paragraph heading ending with a period. (In a lowercase paragraph heading, the first letter of the first word is uppercase and the remaining words are lowercase.)
4    Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase paragraph heading ending with a period.
 
5    Indented, italicized, lowercase paragraph heading ending with a period.
More than five levels of headings are not advisable.
 
Table and Figure
Headings    

Table and figure numbers should be typed as “Table 1” or “Figure 1”
Table and figure headings should be in italics.

Emphasis    

Do not use boldfaced characters in text. Emphasis should be expressed using quotation marks (“”) or italics.

Listing    

Lists in text should be horizontal and not vertical. Further, the list should use Roman numeral [(i), (ii), and so on], not Arabic (1, 2).
Direct Quotations    

Direct quotes should be left-indented from the main text and typed in 9-point font. They need not be italicized.
Please refer to the sample manuscript for examples.

Ethical Principles and Ethical Rules

Cappadocia Academic Review Journal follows the standards of publication ethics set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/)

Based on the COPE principles of publication ethics, editors, authors, and reviewers must adhere to the following ethical guidelines.


Ethical rules to be followed by the editor:

- The editor should ensure that the submitted manuscripts are evaluated solely on the basis of the quality of the work and the reviewers' comments, regardless of the authors' characteristics such as religion, language, race, ethnic origin, political opinion and gender.
- The editor should reject the article in case of ethical violations.
- The editor keeps the information about the manuscripts submitted to the journal confidential and should not share this information with anyone other than the corresponding author, referees and the editorial board.
- The editor should ensure that the referee evaluation process is carried out by double blind refereeing.
- The editor should not use the information presented in the article for his/her own research.
- The editor has full responsibility for rejecting, accepting or requesting changes in the manuscripts submitted to the journal.

Ethical rules to be followed by the authors:

- Authors should declare that the submitted work is original and has not been previously published.
- Authors must declare that the study is not currently under review in another journal.
- All authors named in the manuscript must have contributed to the experimental design and implementation of the study or to the analysis and interpretation of the data.
- Authors should provide access to the data sets used in the article if necessary.
- Authors are required to inform the editorial board if they realise that there is a significant error in their published manuscript.
- Authors must submit the ethics committee approval to the journal for studies that require ethics committee approval. If it is necessary to obtain ‘Ethics Committee Approval’ in the research; Information about the Ethics Committee approval (name of the ethics committee, number and date of the approval document) should be specified in the article.

Ethical rules for reviewers:

- Reviewers should agree to review papers that they feel they have sufficient expertise in.
- Reviewers should agree to review manuscripts that they feel they can evaluate in a timely and adequate manner.
- Reviewers should respect the confidentiality of peer review and should not disclose any information about a manuscript during or after the review process, beyond what is published.
- Reviewers should not use information obtained during the review process to their own or others' advantage.
- Reviewers should notify the editorial board of the journal when they suspect plagiarism or other ethical violations.
- Reviewers should not review in situations where there may be a conflict of interest.
- Reviewers should be objective and constructive in their evaluations and should not make personal comments.

Authorship and Contribution

- Authorship should include those who contributed significantly to the conceptualisation, design, implementation or interpretation of the work. Any changes to the manuscript after submission to the journal must be approved by all contributing authors.
- Authors are obliged to provide information about author contributions. ‘Author contribution statement’ is published at the end of each article.

Conflict of Interest

Authors are obliged to declare any conflict of interest in the ‘Conflict of interest declaration’ at the end of the article.

Data Accessibility

Authors are encouraged to indicate the accessibility of their data. Authors should provide access to the datasets used in the article upon request.

Intellectual Property

Cappadocia Academic Overview Journal, which adopts the principle that allowing free access to scientific research increases global knowledge sharing, provides direct open access to its content.
After an article is accepted, the copyright of the article is transferred to Cappadocia Academic Review.

Complaints and Objections

As a journal policy, our decision on an article is final. However, in case of any complaint or objection, authors can contact the editor.

Authorship and Contribution

- Authorship should include those who contributed significantly to the conceptualisation, design, implementation or interpretation of the work. Any changes to the manuscript after submission to the journal must be approved by all contributing authors.
- Authors are obliged to provide information about author contributions. ‘Author contribution statement’ is published at the end of each article.


Post-Publication Corrections

If authors notice an error after the article has been published, they should immediately notify the editor with a request for correction. After editorial review, either an error correction will be published or the manuscript will be withdrawn in case of fundamental errors.

Ethical Violations

Our journal is committed to following ethical guidelines and preventing publishing inaccuracies. All submissions are initially screened for compliance with ethical guidelines and scientific standards. In addition, all submissions are checked using plagiarism detection software and the article is rejected if plagiarism is detected. When any malpractice such as plagiarism or scientific inaccuracy is detected, the editor and publisher take the necessary measures. If a malpractice is discovered after the article has been published, the options of publishing a correction or withdrawing the article are considered.

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