Notes for Authors

Ceride: Journal of Ego-Document Studies publishes original research articles and translated articles on ego-documents, as well as document editions, research notes, book and article reviews, and reports on scholarly meetings. Submissions may be written in Turkish, English, or German.

Authors are advised to read the following guidelines carefully before submission. Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal’s language, style, or formatting requirements may be returned to the author for revision during the preliminary review stage.

Manuscripts written in Turkish should follow the current spelling rules of the Turkish Language Association (Türk Dil Kurumu). Manuscripts written in English may use either British or American English, provided that the chosen spelling convention is applied consistently throughout the text. Manuscripts written in German should follow current German orthographic conventions.

1. Manuscript Preparation

Manuscripts must be written in Turkish, English, or German and submitted through DergiPark.

The main text should be prepared as a Microsoft Word-compatible .docx file using Times New Roman, 12-point font, with 1.5 line spacing. Footnotes should be written in Times New Roman, 10-point font, with single line spacing. Page margins should be 2.5 cm on all sides.

The title of the article should be centred on the first page. Paragraphs, section and subsection headings, quotations, and other textual elements should follow a consistent format throughout the manuscript.

Since Ceride applies a double-blind peer-review system, the manuscript submitted for review must not contain information that could reveal the identity of the author, including the author’s name, academic title, institutional affiliation, email address, ORCID, acknowledgements, project information, or funding information. Personal information contained in the document properties should also be removed before submission.

All authors are required to have an ORCID iD and to enter their ORCID information accurately and completely into the DergiPark submission system.

The author’s full name, academic title, institutional affiliation, country, email address, and ORCID iD must be entered completely into the DergiPark submission system. Authors without an institutional affiliation should identify themselves as “Independent Researcher.”

In the final version of accepted manuscripts, the author’s name, academic title, institutional affiliation, country, email address, and ORCID iD will be presented in accordance with the journal’s article template.

2. Titles, Abstracts, and Keywords

Research articles must include both Turkish and English titles. Articles written in German must include the original German title together with Turkish and English titles.

Regardless of the language of publication, all research articles must include a Turkish Öz of 200–250 words and an English Abstract of 200–250 words. Accordingly, articles written in English or German must also include a Turkish Öz.

The Öz and Abstract should not merely summarise the general contents or list the sections of the article. They should clearly present the aim and scope of the study, the research problem, the principal sources or methodology employed, the main argument or major findings, and the study’s original contribution to the field.

Footnotes and bibliographical citations should not be included in the Öz or Abstract.

The Turkish Öz and English Abstract must each be followed by 5–7 Anahtar Kelimeler / Keywords. Keywords should be selected so as to make the subject, period, geographical scope, principal sources, or conceptual framework of the study visible and retrievable in academic databases.

The Turkish and English titles, abstracts, and keywords should correspond to one another in content. In articles written in German, the Turkish and English titles should accurately reflect the content of the original German title.

3. Footnotes, Quotations, and References

Ceride uses the ISNAD Citation Style, 2nd Edition (Notes and Bibliography) HERE as its referencing system.

Footnotes and the bibliography must be prepared in accordance with the current rules of the ISNAD Citation Style, 2nd Edition, Notes and Bibliography system. The current ISNAD guidelines should be followed for books, book chapters, journal articles, theses and dissertations, encyclopaedia entries, newspapers, online sources, interviews, and other standard source types.

The ISNAD format for first and subsequent citations must be followed. Traditional abbreviations such as a.g.e. and a.g.m. should not be used.

All publications cited in the footnotes must be included in the bibliography, and the bibliographical information given in the footnotes and bibliography must be consistent.

Direct quotations, as well as additions, omissions, and emphases made within quotations, must be presented in accordance with the relevant ISNAD rules.

4. Citing Archival Documents and Primary Sources

References to archival documents, manuscripts, and other unpublished primary sources must provide sufficient bibliographical and archival information to enable other researchers to identify and locate the source.  

For archival materials, institutional, fonds, series, file, folder, register, document, folio, and similar identifying information should be cited according to the current catalogue system of the relevant archive. Catalogue codes should be reproduced in the form used by the institution and applied consistently throughout the manuscript. For diaries, memoirs, letters, personal notebooks, family papers, and other ego-documentary materials held in private or institutional collections, the relevant archive or collection and, where available, catalogue, file, document, volume, folio, or page information should be provided as fully as possible.

Such sources should be cited in accordance with the ISNAD Citation Style, 2nd Edition (Notes and Bibliography), together with the Ceride Guide to Citing Archival Documents and Primary Sources.

5. Transliteration

For transliteration, the approach adopted by the TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi is followed. The use of a full transliteration alphabet is not recommended unless required by the nature of the study.

Where transliteration is necessary, the relevant principles of the ISNAD Citation Style should be followed, and the same spelling should be used consistently for the same word or proper name throughout the manuscript.

Manuscripts that do not demonstrate consistent and accurate transliteration may be returned to the author for correction.

6. Figures and Images

Figures and images used in manuscripts must be suitable for publication in terms of quality and resolution. A resolution of 1200 dpi is required for line drawings and similar graphic material, 600 dpi for greyscale images, and 300 dpi for colour images.

Each figure or image should be numbered and accompanied by a brief descriptive caption and source information. Where necessary, authors may be asked to provide higher-resolution versions separately.

Authors are responsible for obtaining any permissions required for the publication or use of copyrighted images or other visual materials.

7. Extended Summary

Authors may optionally include an English Extended Summary at the end of a research article.

The Extended Summary should preferably be 500–700 words in length and should present the central research problem, aim and scope, methodology or principal sources, major findings, and conclusion of the study.

The Extended Summary should appear at the end of the main text, immediately before the Bibliography.

8. Book and Article Reviews

Book and article reviews published in Ceride should not merely summarise or introduce the publication under review.

Book reviews are expected to be written by scholars who are directly engaged with the field and literature to which the work belongs. As a general rule, books reviewed in Ceride should be scholarly works published within the last five years. Priority is given to recent publications.

The review should discuss analytically and critically the work’s central problem and arguments, methodological approach, use of sources, place within the existing literature, contribution to the field, and its strengths and limitations.

When reviewing works dealing with ego-documents or employing such materials, attention should also be paid to the author’s approach to diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, letters, and other forms of ego-documentation, as well as to the work’s methodological or conceptual contribution to the study of these sources.

Book and article reviews may be written in Turkish, English, or German.

Regardless of the language of publication, review essays must include a Turkish Öz of 60–80 words, an English Abstract of 60–90 words, and 5 Anahtar Kelimeler / Keywords in both Turkish and English.

At the beginning of a book review, the full bibliographical information of the book should be provided, including the name of the author or editor, title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, number of pages, and ISBN. Article reviews should provide the complete bibliographical details of the article under review.

Book and article reviews should normally be between 1,500 and 2,500 words. Longer reviews may be considered when justified by the nature of the work or discussion. Reviews exceeding 4,000 words will be considered only following editorial assessment.

Any additional sources used in the review must be cited according to the ISNAD Citation Style, 2nd Edition (Notes and Bibliography).

Book reviews should also follow the Ceride Book Review Guidelines.

9. Word Limits

Research articles should not exceed 10,000 words, excluding footnotes and the Bibliography.

Where the nature of the subject or source material makes it necessary to exceed this limit, authors should inform the editorial office at the time of submission. The editors will determine whether manuscripts exceeding the word limit may proceed to evaluation.

The word limits specified in Section 8 apply to book and article reviews.

The length of research notes, document editions, translations, and reports on scholarly meetings is determined editorially according to the nature of the submission.

10. Similarity Screening

All manuscripts submitted to Ceride are screened using iThenticate in order to safeguard academic publication ethics.

In similarity reports generated with the bibliography excluded, the overall similarity rate must not exceed 15%. Manuscripts exceeding this threshold will be returned to the author before being sent for peer review.

Authors are not required to upload a separate similarity report at the time of submission. The similarity report is obtained by the journal’s editorial office through the system.

A similarity rate within the accepted threshold does not in itself demonstrate compliance with academic publication ethics. Unattributed use of other sources and other forms of publication misconduct are evaluated independently of the overall similarity percentage.

11. Copyright

Works published in Ceride are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence.

Authors retain the copyright to their published work. The CC BY-NC 4.0 licence permits the work to be shared, copied, reproduced, and adapted for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given.

Detailed provisions concerning copyright, open access, and licensing are set out in the Ceride Copyright and Open Access Policy.

12. Publication Process

Manuscripts submitted to Ceride first undergo similarity screening and preliminary review. Submissions that meet the journal’s technical requirements and fall within its scope proceed to editorial assessment and, where applicable, to double-blind peer review.

Manuscripts accepted for publication undergo the necessary language and style checks, proofreading, and typesetting before publication. Authors are expected to upload the final version of their manuscript in accordance with any revisions requested by the editorial office.

Further details concerning the publication process are set out in the Ceride Ethical Principles and Publication Policy and the relevant procedural guidelines.

13. Peer Review Process and Publication Principles

Ceride is committed to scholarly rigour, impartiality, confidentiality, and fair evaluation.

Submissions subject to peer review are evaluated by specialists in the relevant field through a double-blind peer-review process in which the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from one another.

Detailed provisions concerning reviewer selection, evaluation criteria, conflicts of interest, revisions, editorial decisions, and the operation of the peer-review process are set out in the Ceride Peer Review Process and Evaluation Principles.

14. Author and Affiliation Information

All authors submitting to Ceride must enter their full name, email address, ORCID iD, institutional affiliation, and country accurately and completely into the DergiPark submission system.

Authors without an institutional affiliation should be identified as “Independent Researcher.” Their city and country should also be provided in the published article.

In the final version of accepted manuscripts, the email addresses and ORCID iDs of all authors are presented in accordance with the journal’s article template.

15. Author Declarations and Contributions

For multi-authored submissions, author contributions must be reported according to the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). Contribution roles and, where required, contribution percentages should be stated through the journal’s Author Declaration Form.

Author declarations include:

• author contributions,

• funding and financial support,

• ethics committee approval or research permission, where applicable,

• conflict-of-interest declarations,

• disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence-assisted tools, where applicable.

These details must not appear in the anonymised manuscript during the double-blind peer-review process. Required declarations should be submitted to the journal together with the final version following acceptance, and relevant information will be presented before the Bibliography in the published article.

Artificial intelligence-assisted tools may not be listed as authors. Where such tools have been used in a manner that affects the scholarly content of the research, the nature and extent of their use must be disclosed. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, and scholarly integrity of their work.