Page number should not be indicated in the works submitted. The length of the article should not exceed 7.000 (seven thousand) word limit including headings, abstract, keywords and English summary.

The works to be submitted should be prepared according to Article Template.

Heading

The first letter of each word should be capitalized, in line with the content of the article, and should be written in bold and 14 pt. Just below the English title, the Turkish title should be written in normal characters, 12 pt and italic.

Author name(s) and address(es)

Information regarding the author should not be included in the article. This information should be given under the relevant headings in the "Copyright Transfer Agreement and Ethical Statement Form" uploaded along with the article.

Abstract

At the beginning of the article, there should be an English summary ranging between minimum 150 and maximum 250 words, reflecting the essence of the research topic. Just below the abstract, keywords of at least 3 and at most 5 words that are directly related to the article should be provided. Under the keywords, there should be Turkish translations of the Abstract and keywords.

Section Headings

First Level Headings: 11 pt, Bold, First letter of each word capitalized, Automatic numbering should not be used, Spacing should be 12nk before, 6nk after. For first-level headings, the Heading 1 style in the Article Template can be used.

Second Level Headings: 10 pt, Bold, First letter of each word capitalized, Automatic numbering should not be used, Spacing should be 6nk before, 6nk after, it should be indented 0.5 cm Inside. For second-level headings, the Heading 2 style in the Article Template can be used.

Third Level Headings: 10 Pt. Bold, Italic, Only the first letter should be capitalized, Automatic numbering should not be used, Spacing should be 6pt before, 6nk after, followed by 0.5 cm indentation. For third-level headings, Heading 3 style in Article Template can be used.

Main Text

The main text should be in A4 size (16.5 x 24.7 cm), properly margined 2,5 cm from top, bottom, right, and left each, in MS Word program with Times New Roman font, 10 pt, using single line spacing. Paragraph spacing should be set as 6 pt before-after, paragraph indents should be 0.5 cm from the left. As the text alignment, full justification should be used. In cases where font use is required in the text, the font file should be sent, as well.

Table, Image, Graphics

The Author can use such materials as table, image, graphic etc. in the text in accordance with scientific criteria. The text and characters in the table should be written in 10 pt. (It can be written in 9 pt. when necessary). The photos used should have high resolution, and if they are not directly related to the text, they should be provided under the "APPENDIX" heading.

Author Contributions

Contributions of the author(s) during the research process should be expressed in the section specified in the Article Template.

Conflict of Interest

The conditions and relationships that may constitute a conflict of interest, if any, should be disclosed in the studies to be submitted for publication. If no conflict exists, the statement of "The Author(s) declare that there is no conflict of interest." must be added.

Funding

If a fund has been received for the study, the supporting organization and the project number should be specified. If no funding has been received, the statement of "No funding has been received." must be added.

Ethical Statement

If ethics committee approval is not required for the study, it should be stated in the study as “There is no requirement of Ethics Committee Approval for review articles.”. However, in the studies that require ethics committee approval, the author(s) should add information regarding the approval (name of the committee, date and number of the approval) both in the method section of the study and in the Ethical Statement section.

Notes

Additional information about the article (conference information, studies derived from thesis, etc.) should be stated in the notes section. This section may also include a statement of support or thanks.

JOCTENSA adopts APA 7 – Citation Guide. The resources used in the study should be listed in “REFERENCES” section in alphabetical order according to the surname of the authors. A resource that is not cited should not be given under this title. References should be written as single spaced and with a font size of 10.

Book with one author:

Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books.

Book with two authors:

Svendsen, S. & Løber, L. (2020). The big picture/Academic writing: The one-hour guide. Penguin Books.

Book chapter:

Aron, L. (2019). Culinary arts: Talent and their development. RF Subotnik and FC Worrell (Eds.), Conceptualizations of giftedness and the development of talent (pp. 345-359). American Psychological Association.

Article with one author:

Karakaya, V. (2021). “On Modeling of the Mathematical Objects from the Philosophy of Mathematics", Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy, 11 (3): 1143-1155.

Article with two authors:

Şimşek, N. & Karakaya, V., (2008). Structure and some geometric properties of generalized Cesaro sequence space”, International Journal of Contemp. Math. Sciences, 3(8), 389 –399.

Book with editor:

Kesharwani, P. (Ed.). (2020). Nanotechnology based approaches for tuberculosis treatment. Academic Press.

Translated Book:

Ersoy B. A. Vd. (2012). Thomas Calculus, (12. Ed). (George B. Thomas, Maurice D. Weir-Hass). Pearson Publishing.

Theses:

Kabir, J. M. (2016). Factors influencing customer satisfaction at a fast food hamburger chain: The relationship between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty (Doctoral dissertation, Wilmington University). UA Campus.

Citations within text:

Direct citations more than 40 words are provided as block quotations indenting it 2cm from the left margin and quotation marks are not used. When explanations are necessary, footnotes can be employed with automatic order number. The author(s) are not suggested to use footnotes unless it is unavoidable.

Example:

Vatan Karakaya (2021) states with regard to mathematical objects:

It has been accepted by most of the philosophers of mathematics that mathematical objects are abstract beings and closed to the five senses. However, although mathematical knowledge is closed to the senses as being an abstract entity, it is nevertheless so effective in the sensible world. (p. 14).

The citations less than 40 words are provided in quotes. Following the surname of author, publication date of the work should be given within parenthesis and page number should be placed within parenthesis at the end of the citation.

Example:

Vatan Karakaya (2021) claims that “mathematical knowledge is closed to the senses as being an abstract entity” (p. 14).

When paraphrasing is made, page number is not needed. Such citations can be displayed as paraphrased sentence (Surname, year) or Surname (year) paraphrased sentence.

For those not given here, see: https://apastyle.apa.org/products/publication-manual-7th-edition

The manuscripts sent to JOCTENSA for publication are expected to be original and comply with academic ethics.

Author(s) are obliged to avoid breach of publication ethics such as plagiarism, duplication, fabrication, salamization, gift authorship, ghost writing, biased selection of resources. During the article submission, author(s) should submit to the journal the plagiarism report checked on iThenticate software. The manuscript(s) that has a resemblance ratio over 15% will not be evaluated.

The institutions and financial resources that have supported the study sent to JOCTENSA should be stated in acknowledgements section. Author(s) should document to have the participants' consents when experiments and questionnaires are implemented. In the cases when consent forms cannot be received, author(s) should take the approval of ethics committee from the relevant institutions / organizations and submit it with the study.

The manuscript(s) that has been submitted to JOCTENSA cannot be sent to multiple journals simultaneously.

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in her / his own published paper at JOCTENSA, it is the author's obligation to promptly inform the Editor of the Journal and be in contact to withdraw / revise the manuscript.

The author(s) whose study has been accepted for publication at JOCTENSA confirms that they have gathered all the data of the study within the framework of ethical responsibilities and academic rules and that they have provided without any missing ones the references regarding any statements, data and findings belonging to others. In case of any breach as a result of ignoring publication ethics, legal responsibilities of published manuscript belong to its author(s).

JOCTENSA adopts the standards based on the guidelines developed by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) in any academic studies of the editors, board members, reviewers and authors (see https://publicationethics.org/).

During the evaluation process of the articles, JOCTENSA does not charge the authors and does not pay royalties to the authors.