Cihannuma Journal of History and Geography Studies

Cihannuma: Journal of History and Geography Studies is a peer-reviewed, biannual journal, published in July and December, by Izmir Katip Celebi University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Cihannuma accepts all sorts of publications pertaining to humanities and social sciences, though priority is given to works in fields of history, geography, and historical geography.

Our journal aims to contribute to the studies in field of humanities and social sciences in both national and international level by bringing together scholars publishing in field of humanities and social sciences and prompting them to share their knowledge and experiences.

Manuscripts should be written on paper with 16,5x24 cm size, with MS word or similar software.

Garamond should be used as writing font in all sections of manuscript.

Margins

Top:      3 cm       Bottom: 2 cm

Left:      2 cm       Right: 2 cm

Gutter:  0 cm

Header: 1,5 cm    Footer: 1,25 cm

Titles:  Main title should be written in 3rd line in capital letters, bold, and 12 points by skipping single spaced two lines from top. It should be center aligned. English title should be written in a single spaced one line below Turkish abstract with initials capitalized, bold, 11 points, and center-aligned. Subtitles can be used in manuscripts to make the flow of information more understandable. Subtitles should be in 11 points, bold, justified aligned and should be written in the same alignment with the paragraph head (1 cm); only their initials are to be capitalized. There must be 12nk space in the front and 6nk space afterwards.

Full Names and Surnames of Authors should be written as initials capitalized, bold, in 11 points size and without title information by leaving single spaced 1 empty line after Turkish title. Title, institutional and address information should be written in footnote with the asterisk, in 9 points size as in the example.

Prof.Dr., Izmir Katip Celebi University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of History, 35620, Balatçık, Çiğli-İzmir / Türkiye, ozer.kupeli@ikc.edu.tr , Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0532-8921 

Original research papers should contain both Turkish and English abstracts. Abstracts should be written below the full name and surname of author by leaving single spaced 2 empty lines. Both Turkish and English abstracts (titles in capitalized initials, bold, and center aligned) should be written between 150-200 words, in 10 points size, left-right 1 cm indented, justified alignment and 3nk spaced-paragraph . Five keywords should be written below abstracts.

Text should be written below abstract by leaving single spaced 2 empty lines and in 11 points size. The technical details about paragraph settings in text are below

Alignment: justified alignment

Indent:       Left: 0       Right: 0

Special:     First Line   Value: 1 cm

Spacing:    Before: 3nk After: 3nk

Line Spacing: Single

Citations can be inside the text or can be written as a separate paragraph. Citations inside the text should be written in italics and between quotation marks. Citations written as separate paragraphs should be in quotation marks, italics, 11 points size, and 1 cm indented from two sides.

Tables and table writings should be in 11 points size.

Figures and pictures can be incorporated into text or placed at the end of text. In either case, figures and pictures must be numbered and necessary explanation must be given below.

Tables, figures, and pictures are to be placed after references if they are at the end of text.   

Referencing Style

Citations inside the text must be numbered as footnotes at the bottom of page, starting from number 1. Any kind of referencing style should not be used in the text, outside the footnote system.

Below are the technical details of paragraph settings for footnotes. After applying the settings for footnotes, footnotes are to be written, pressing the tab key once and in 9 points size.

Alignment:   Justified Alignment

Indent:          Left: 0   Right: 0

Special:        Hanging   Value: 0,5 cm

Spacing:       Before: 2nk  After: 2nk

Line Spacing: Single

Names of books, journals, newspapers, and encyclopedias in footnotes should be in italics; titles of articles, encyclopedia articles, published conference papers, or book chapters should be in quotation marks.

Full information of source must be given when it is firstly referred in footnotes.

If there are translators, editors, compilers etc of cited sources, they must be referred in footnotes.

Samples

(Book)

Halil İnalcık, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Klâsik Çağ (1300-1600), (trans. Ruşen Sezer), İstanbul 2003, p. 12.

(Article, encyclopedia article, published conference paper, book section)

Halil İnalcık, “Osmanlılarda Raiyyet Rüsumu”, Belleten, XXIII/92, (October 1959), p. 583.

Halil İnalcık, “Eyalet”, Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslam Ansiklopedisi, Volume 11, Istanbul 1995, p. 548-550.

Halil İnalcık, “Köy, Köylü ve İmparatorluk”, V. Milletlerarası Türkiye Sosyal ve İktisat Tarihi Kongresi: İstanbul, 21-25 Ağustos 1989, Ankara 1990, p. 3-4.

(Thesis)

Cahit Telci, XV-XVI. Yüzyıllarda Ayasuluğ Kazası, Ege University, Social Sciences Institute, Ph.D, Izmir 1999, p 52.

Rules for Referencing

The cited works in the text should be written at the end of the text in 10 points, bold and center aligned by leaving single spaced, 2 empty lines. They should be listed alphabetically by surname under the title of references.

Paragraph settings for Reference Writing are below

Alignment:  Justified Alignment

Indent:        Left: 0    Right: 0

Special:       Hanging  Value: 1 cm

Spacing:     Before: 2nk,    After: 2nk

Line Spacing:   Single

In case of multiplicity and variety of sources cited, classification may be done through subtitles like archival sources, manuscripts, and research studies etc.

If the cited source is an article, published paper, book chapter, and etc, the full page numbers must certainly be written.

Samples:

Genç, Mehmet, Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Devlet ve Ekonomi, İstanbul 2000.

İnalcık, Halil, “Osmanlılarda Raiyyet Rüsumu”, Belleten, XXIII/92, (October 1959), p. 575-608.

______, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Klâsik Çağ (1300-1600), (trans. Ruşen Sezer), İstanbul 2003.

______, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Ekonomik ve Sosyal Tarihi, (1300-1600), Volume 1, (ed. Halil İnalcık ve Donald Quataert; trans. Halil Berktay), İstanbul 2000.

Our publication ethics and publication malpractice statement is mainly based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011).



Editors' responsibilities
Publication decisions

The editor of CİHANNÜMA is responsible for deciding which of the papers submitted to the journal will be published. The editor evaluates manuscripts without regard to the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy. The decision is based on the paper’s importance, originality and clarity, and the study’s validity and its relevance to the journal's scope. Current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism are also considered.

Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff do not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper are not used by the editor or the members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.

Reviewers' responsibilities
Contribution to editorial decisions

The peer-reviewing process assists the editor and the editorial board in making editorial decisions and may also serve the author in improving the paper. 

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor of CİHANNÜMA and withdraw from the review process. 

Confidentiality 

Any manuscripts received for review are treated as confidential documents. They are not disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor of CİHANNÜMA.

Standards of objectivity
Reviews are conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of sources
Reviewers should identify cases in which relevant published work referred to in the paper has not been cited in the reference section. They should point out whether observations or arguments derived from other publications are accompanied by the respective source. Reviewers notify the editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and conflict of interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review are kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers do not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers.

Author's duties
Reporting standards
Authors of original research reports present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Data access and retention
Authors could be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the paper for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable. In any event, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for at least ten years after publication (preferably via an institutional or subject-based data repository or other data center), provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release.

Originality, plagiarism and acknowledgement of sources
Authors will submit only entirely original works, and will appropriately cite or quote the work and/or words of others. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
Submitting the same paper to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Manuscripts which have been published as copyrighted material elsewhere cannot be submitted. In addition, manuscripts under review by the journal should not be resubmitted to copyrighted publications. However, by submitting a manuscript, the author(s) retain the rights to the published material. In case of publication they permit the use of their work under a CC-BY license [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/], which allows others to copy, distribute and transmit the work as well as to adapt the work and to make commercial use of it.

Authorship of the paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. The corresponding author ensures that all contributing co-authors and no uninvolved persons are included in the author list. The corresponding author will also verify that all co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor of CİHANNÜMA and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper in form of an erratum.



References

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (2011, March 7). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Retrieved from http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf