Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies

Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies (CJAS) is an interdisciplinary platform that publishes original peer-reviewed research on the interconnected relationship between area studies (Middle East, African, Chinese, East Asian, American, South East Asian, European, Central Asian, South and Central American, and Russian Studies) and international relations, sociology, global studies, anthropology, geography, history, law, philosophy, politics, public administration, public policy, religion, and society in the globalized world. As an interdisciplinary platform, the journal is necessarily heterodox ontologically, epistemologically, and methodologically. The journal especially welcomes research utilizing critical theory to scrutinize how area studies, society, and politics interact in structuration processes that reinforce, reify, or radically change extant sociopolitical praxis, ideational structures, institutional forms, and power distributions that alter, for good or ill, social, political and economic experiences in these geographical regions. 

The following types of papers are published by CJAS: 

• Research Articles 
• Review Essays
• Book Reviews
• Document Summaries
• Conference Proceedings
• Project Report Summaries
• Special Issues
• Interviews
  

Our journal covers the following areas:

• Middle East Studies
• African Studies
• Chinese Studies
• East Asian Studies
• American Studies
• South East Asian Studies
• European Studies
• Central Asian Studies
• South and Central American Studies
• Russian Studies

Languages of publication in CJAS are English and Turkish.

General Rules

Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies (CJAS), which was founded in 2019, is a peer-reviewed academic journal and published semi-annually.

Manuscripts submitted to the CJAS should not have been previously published, nor currently under review by another journal. The total length of any manuscript submitted should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in terms of the journal’s publication format. This includes the title, abstracts in Turkish and English, keywords, footnotes, and references. Authors may not submit paper (hard) copies – the Journal requires MS Word documents submitted via our Manuscript Submission System. The Board of Editors reserves the rights for the final decision about both the content and format of the paper. After articles are accepted for publication, DOIs are assigned.

Please prepare your manuscript using a Template.

Authors must provide their affiliation, mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, and ORCID number during registration.

There are no submission fees or article processing charges (APC) for the submitted articles.

All articles submitted to CJAS are subject to the double-blind peer-review process.

The manuscripts should be prepared according to the general rules of the journal in order to be sent to the referees. Otherwise, the manuscript could be rejected. After the initial review of the editorial board, all manuscripts submitted to the journal are sent to two reviewers. According to the reviews sent by the peers, manuscripts may be accepted for publication, corrections may be requested, manuscripts may be rejected, or may be sent to another reviewer.

If corrections are requested during the peer-review process, a corrected version of the manuscript must be submitted within a month, at the latest.

The languages of the journal are Turkish and English. All manuscripts should contain abstracts in Turkish and in English. The abstract should be between 100 and 300 words and placed before the Introduction section of the manuscript. Similarly, the title of the manuscript and 4 to 7 keywords should be written in both Turkish and English languages.

CJAS publishes “book reviews” (700-1,500 words, about books published in the last three years), “review essays” (1,500-10,000 words, non-refereed), and “reply letters” to previous articles.

It is assumed that the final spellcheck of manuscripts submitted to the journal has been made and that the manuscript submitted via our Manuscript Submission System is in a state ready to be published. After manuscripts have been submitted, they will not be sent back to the author for editorial corrections. Hence, a greater than the usual number of spelling mistakes may lead to the manuscript’s being rejected.

Manuscripts should be sent as .doc or .docx files.

All manuscripts are published open access in this journal.

CJAS screens all submitted articles using web-based plagiarism software.

Format

Manuscripts should be submitted as an MS Word document. Line spacing should be set to 1.5 and the font size should be 12 in the body text and 10 in footnotes, abstract, references and tables. All text should be in Times New Roman font only.

Level 1 headings must be bold and 12 pt; level 2 headings must be bold, italic, and 12 pt; level 3 and level 4 headings must be normal (not bold) and italic. The text begins in the following line after the level 1, 2, and 3 headings, and in the same line after level 4 headings (after punctuation).

The text must be indented from left and right and set to 10 pt if quotations from another source exceed 40 words. In such cases, quotation marks are not used.

In the text, quotations and emphases must be made with double quotation marks ("). No single quotation marks (') are used unless there is a quotation within a quotation.

British English should be used in the manuscripts. Also, a metric system should be preferred for the units. If the units were given in different systems in the original sources, the equivalents in the metric system of the values should be given in parentheses.

The comma is used for the decimal markers in the numbers. The number format should be as follows (in the English texts only): 1,234.56

Abbreviations must be written openly in the first usage in the text.

The symbols such as %, $, & should not be preferred, except in the tables.

The use of footnotes should be minimized. The use of unnecessary footnotes should be refrained. All arguments must be made in the text.

The headings must not be numbered. Only the first letter must be capitalized in the headings (including the article title).

Citations, Footnotes, and References

Citations within the text should be written in accordance with the Chicago citation system and References should also be arranged by using this citation system.

References are made using in-text citations. No footnotes are required.

Research articles

Manuscripts submitted to the CJAS should not have been previously published, nor currently under review by another journal. The total length of any manuscript submitted should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in terms of the journal’s publication format. This includes the title, abstracts in Turkish and English, keywords, footnotes, and references.

There is no submission fee or article processing charges (APC) for the submitted articles.

All articles submitted to CJAS are subject to the double-blind peer-review process.

Once accepted for publication, the articles will be fully open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

The manuscripts should be prepared according to the general rules of the journal in order to be sent to the referees. Otherwise, the manuscript could be rejected. After the initial review of the editorial board, all manuscripts submitted to the journal are sent to two reviewers. According to the reviews sent by the peers, manuscripts may be accepted for publication, corrections may be requested, manuscripts may be rejected, or may be sent to another reviewer.

If corrections are requested, after having been corrected, the corrected manuscripts must be returned to the editorial board within a month at the latest.

Review essays

It is assumed that the final spellcheck of manuscripts submitted to the journal has been made and that the manuscript submitted via our Manuscript Submission System is in a state ready to be published. After manuscripts have been submitted, they will not be sent back to the author for editorial corrections. Hence, a greater than a usual number of spelling mistakes may lead to the manuscript’s being rejected.

The length of review essays is between 1.500-10.000 words.

Manuscripts should be sent as .doc or .docx files.

All manuscripts are published open access in this journal.

CJAS screens all submitted articles using web-based plagiarism software.

Book reviews

Book reviews should be between 750 and 1.500 words.

Reviews of books published in the last 3 years are acceptable for publication in CJAS.

Publishing and copyright policy of CJAS

Every material published in CJAS is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

The articles are assigned the following identifiers:

A digital object identifier (DOI)
Handles (hosted by the Institutional Repository of the Cappadocia University)
The licensing agreement requires all authors to give CJAS permission to publish and archive their work electronically. CJAS does not ask authors to transfer any copyrights to the journal. The author(s) retain all copyrights of their articles. However, authors grant the publisher non-exclusive publishing rights to publish their articles. CJAS publishes only original materials, that is, works that have not been previously published elsewhere.

All authors and users are free to use, reproduce, or distribute the works published in CJAS in any way they prefer on the condition that the reproduced/redistributed material clearly acknowledges that it was originally published in CJAS. Authors should avoid engaging in new contractual or licensing agreements that will influence the existing rights of CJAS.

Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts or abstracts of the material published in CJAS, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission as long as they cite and credit the source.

Privacy Statement 

Personal data provided by the users and authors are processed by CJAS in accordance with The Law on the Protection of Personal Data numbered 6698, its secondary regulations and miscellaneous legislation regarding the protection of personal data in the scope of this clarification text.

Personal data means all types of information which may define your identity or make it definable in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Personal Data.

Publication Ethics

The Editorial Board of CJAS aims to ensure high-quality scientific publications, trust in scientific findings, and that researchers and other authors receive credit for their studies.

CJAS aims to adhere to the guidelines and core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Article assessment

All submitted papers are subject to initial screening by one of the editors and afterward peer review. The articles must meet standards of academic excellence. If approved by the editors, articles will be considered by peer reviewers, whose identities are anonymous to the authors.

The editors may consult experts in their fields before deciding on appropriate actions, This includes inviting reviewers with specific expertise, assessment by additional editors, and declining to consider a submission.

Plagiarism

Authors must not use the words, figures, or ideas of others without a reference to them. All sources in the submitted articles must be properly cited, preferably where they are used in the text.

CJAS editors use plagiarism screening software (iThenticate) to detect submissions that are similar to published and previously submitted papers.

If plagiarism is detected, whether in published or unpublished material in CJAS, the material will be rejected. Any published articles may need to be corrected. The editors of CJAS may remove published articles from the website if a high level of similarity is in place.

Duplicate submission and redundant publication

The articles submitted to CJAS should not be previously published, including in other languages. Articles based on content added on a preprint server, an institutional repository (including KÜNASİS), or in a thesis will be considered.

Manuscripts submitted to CJAS must not be submitted elsewhere while under consideration and must be withdrawn before being submitted elsewhere.

If authors have used their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they must cite the previous articles and indicate how their submitted manuscript differs from their previous work. Reuse of the authors’ own words should be quoted in the text. Reuse of the authors’ own figures or substantial amounts of wording may require permission from the copyright holder.

CJAS will consider extended versions of papers presented at conferences if this is declared in the Acknowledgments part of the paper.

The redundant publication of a paper, the division of study outcomes into more than one article, may result in rejection. Duplicate publication of the same, or a very similar, article may result in the retraction of the later article.

Citation manipulation

Authors whose submitted manuscripts are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, may be rejected.

Editors and reviewers must not ask authors to include references that aim to increase citations to their own work or journal.

Fabrication and falsification

The editors may reject the submitted manuscripts or retract published articles that are found to have fabricated or falsified the results, including the manipulation of images.

Authorship and acknowledgments

All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript, approved its claims, and agreed to be an author. It is important to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution. Author contributions are encouraged to be described at the end of the submission in the Acknowledgments part. Changes in authorship must be declared to the journal and agreed to by all authors.

Anyone who contributed to the research or manuscript preparation, but is not an author, should be acknowledged with their permission in the Acknowledgments part.

Investigations

Suspected breaches of our publication ethics principles, either before and after publication, should be reported to our Editorial Board by email. Claimants will be kept anonymous if requested.

CJAS editors may ask the authors to provide the underlying data and images and contact institutions or employers to ask for an investigation or to raise concerns.

Corrections and retractions

Errors by the authors may be corrected by a corrigendum and errors by CJAS by an erratum.

If there are errors that significantly affect the conclusions or there is evidence of misconduct, this may require retraction or an expression of concern following the COPE Retraction Guidelines.