Journal of Values Education

Journal of Values ​​Education is an interdisciplinary refereed academic journal published twice a year (June and December). The Journal of Values ​​Education publishes research on religion, ethics, values and character education, original research subjects, experimental and descriptive studies in other related fields of social sciences are also being published. The journal aims to be an academic platform for studies with scientific qualifications at national and international level in subjects covering religion and values ​​education.

In the field of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Journal of Values ​​Education publishes original studies within the frame of religious and educational research (values ​​education, spiritual education, spiritual counselling, religious education, moral education, character education).

Author Guidelines

Writing Format and Style

File Naming: The article file must be uploaded under the name of “Author Version” to an electronic submission website DergiPark.

Page Layout:

A4 paper size;

2,5 cm left and right edges, top, and bottom edges

Must align on both sides

Paragraphs should be indented 0,5 cm

Paragraph Structure:

Click the “Line and Paragraph Spacing” button, then select Before or After space 6 nk and 1,5 line spacing option

Writing Fonts: Times New Roman, 12-point font size for text and main headings. 10-point font for footnotes

Word Limit: Manuscript should not exceed 8,000 words.

Order of Parts in the Article

Title: The title of the article must be written in bold and center-aligned. The first letter of each word in

heading should be capital, except words such as; a, the, is, to, and so on.

Authors’ Name: Submitted articles shall always include the authors’ names, as the the submission and review

process is done on electronic submission website DergiPark. Accordingly, articles with no author names will not be processed for review and will be returned to authors.

Abstract: The abstract should be 200 words, not containing any citations or quotations. with 10-point font size. 

Keywords: The Keywords should be between 3-5 words.

After the abstract and the keywords in Turkish, the abstract and the keywords should also be in English.

Main Text:

Experimental, quantitative and qualitative studies should include Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion sections.

Experimental, quantitative and qualitative studies should include sub-sections such as sample/study group /data source, data collection tools, data analysis in the method section.

Literature review type of studies should clearly state the problem, analyze the relevant literature in a competent way, focus on the deficiencies and contradictions in the literature with stating the steps to be taken for solution.

The parts of the text which are to be emphasized should not be in bold instead emphasis must be shown in italics or quotation marks (“ ”).

Direct quotations are indented from left according to the main text and must be in 11 font size. Should not shown in italics or quotation marks.

No paragraph spacing between bullet points.

Referencing and Bibliographies:

for in-text citations and bibliography is done according to the rules in the guideline book of the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). For summary information about writing rules click here.
Footnotes are only used for making additional information about the text.

English Section:

This section of the article includes the English title and extended abstract/summary (1500 words). 

Tables, Figures and Appendices:

Elements like; table, shape, picture, graphics etc. should be included in the text.

The tables, figures, pictures, graphics should stay within the page margins. For easier use and to prevent graphics and pictures to exceed the page they should stay within 10x17 cm area. The original files of pictures and graphics to be used in studies should be saved separately from the text. Figures and images should be in high resolution.
Tables and graphics should not be in image format.
The Journal of Values Education has a specific table template. Tables should be prepared in accordance with this template. Click here for the table template.

Line spacing in tables and figures must be single spacing. Smaller point sizes can be used if necessary.

Appendices Section: Each appendix must be given on separate pages after the bibliography.

Heading Format

Headings must not be labelled with number or letters.
Level 1 headings include; introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion.
It is not recommended to create more than four levels.

Article Heading: Headings initial letters should be capital, except words such as; a, the, is, to, and so on.

1st level Heading: Uppercase, center aligned, boldface. The paragraph after the heading is aligned left. The second paragraph and the subsequent paragraphs 0.5 cm indented.

2nd level Heading: Uppercase, center aligned, boldface. The paragraph after the heading is aligned left. The second paragraph and the subsequent paragraphs 0.5 cm indented.

3rd Level Heading: Uppercase, 0.5 cm indented, bold. The paragraph after the heading is aligned with the heading which means 0.5 cm indented.

4th Level Heading: Uppercase, 0.5 cm indented, boldface and italic. With a period. The title 
     and the text remain on the same line.

Charts and Table Titles: charts and tables are referred to as (Table 1, Chart 1, ...). The title is uppercase. The table header is written inside the first cell in the table.

You can find the article writing template here

Journal of Values Education, published by Ensar Neşriyat (Istanbul / Turkey). Journal of Values Education is published biannually every (25 June and 25 December).The ethical duties and responsibilities of The Journal of Values Education have been prepared based on the recommendations and guidelines developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

• The publisher should guarantee an independent editorial decision.

• Protects the property and copyright of every article published in the Journal of Values Education, and keep a record of every published copy.

• The publisher bears the responsibility to take the necessary precautions against all kinds of scientific abuse, fraud and plagiarism.

• The publisher does not charge authors any fee for submitting articles.

• Editors should make decisions on academic merit alone and take full responsibility for their decisions.

• In order to evaluate the works fairly and impartially, editors should act in accordance with the principle of intellectual freedom.

• Following the procedures without making concessions on intellectual property rights and ethical standards.

• Making efforts to meet the demand for knowledge from readers and authors, and ensuring the continuous development of the journal.

• Keep the referee’s credentials confidential, and manage the review process accordingly.

• To improve the ways of journal processes, the editor should actively seek the views of editorial board members, reviewers, and authors.

• Editor should stay up-to-date with the latest researches related to refereeing and publishing, and reviews the journal processes in the light of new information.

Relations with the Readers

• Editor/Board of editors should ensure that the published articles are original and make a contribution to readers, researchers, practitioners and the scientific area.

• Editor/Editorial Board have the responsibility to pay attention to the feedbacks from readers, editors and practitioners, and to report back in an explanatory and informative way.

Relations with Authors

• Editor/Board of editors should ensure that all the manuscripts will not go to the most appropriate and best-qualified reviewers.

• To avoid deviations from pre-determined processes, editor/editorial board must put efforts to be constantly in communication with the author.

Relations with the Referees

• During the appointment of the referee, the editor/board of editors should monitor if there is a conflict of interest between the authors and the referees.

• Since the evaluation procedure is based on a blind peer review method, editors should keep the referee’s credentials confidential. List of referees is announced on the December issue of the given year.

• Referees should be encouraged to use an impartial, scientific and objective language when evaluating the manuscripts.

• Necessary works should be done to ensure that the referee pool is composed of different disciplines and constantly updated.

• Unkind and unscientific evaluations should be prevented.

Process of Refereeing and Evaluation

• Editor/Board of editors; is obliged to apply the refereeing and evaluation process policies. In this context, the editor/board of editors should ensure the completion of the fair, impartial and timely evaluation process for each work.

• Referees can make a definite opinion about whether the study is publishable or not in the reports they prepare. However, the editor/board of editors can make a decision upon the similar and opposite opinions of other referees who evaluated the study.

• The editor/board of editors considers the strength of the arguments of the referees or authors, rather than the number of referees who have accepted or rejected the given study. The editor/board of editors considers reports with strong, justified propositions rather than reports with evaluation questions answered with mere yes or no.

• The referee may see that his/her views are not fully reflected in the study after publication. It is possible that other referees have different opinions and that the Editor/Board of editors has taken these views into consideration. In this case, upon the request of the referee evaluating the work, the opinions of the other referees may be sent to the referee if the Board of editors deems appropriate.

• According to the recommendations of the referees, the editor/board of editors follows one of the following ways:

- Publish the work.
- Accept partial and significant changes and improvements to the publication.
- Can ask the author (s) to reorganize the work in accordance with the opinion of the referee and initiate a new evaluation process.
- He may reject the work.

Relations with Field Editors and Editorial Board Members

• Identify suitably qualified field editors and editorial board members who can actively contribute to the development of the journal.

• Field editors and editorial board members are reviewed regularly.

• The Editor ensures that all members advance the processes in accordance with their editorial policies and guidelines. It informs members of the editorial board about the publishing policies and developments.

• The activities of field editors and editorial board members are evaluated impartially and independently.

• The editor sends the works that are appropriate within their area of expertise of the field editors and editorial board members for evaluation.

• The editor receives ideas from the fields editors and editorial board members about the management of the journal, reports the changes occurred in journal policies, and consults them for future plans.

Relationships with the Journal’s Owner and Publisher

The relationship between editors and the publisher is based on the editorial independence principle. In accordance with the written agreement between the editors and the publisher, all the decisions of the editors are independent of the publisher and the journal owner.

Protection of Personal Data

• For editor/board of editors; if the explicit consent from individuals who used personal data is their studies not available, they should reject the work.

• Editor /board of editors is responsible for protecting the personal data of the referees and readers.

Ethics committee, Human and Animal Right

• Editors/board of editors are obliged to ensure the protection of human and animal rights in the evaluated studies.

• Editors are responsible for refusing the study in cases where there is no Ethics Committee approval for subjects used in studies or permit for experimental research.

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

Editors/ board of editors are responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all the articles published in the journal and the rights of the journal and author(s) in cases where these rights are violated.

Constructiveness and Openness to Discussion

• Editors/ board of editors must pay attention to the convincing criticism about studies published in the journal and must have a constructive attitude towards such criticism.

• Editors must grant the right of reply to the author(s) of the criticized study.

• Editors must not ignore or exclude the study that include negative results.

Complaints

Editors/board of editors must examine the complaints from authors, reviewers or readers and respond to them in an explanatory manner.

Political and Economic Apprehensions

Neither the owner of the journal, publisher or any other political or economic factor can influence the independent decision taking of the editors.

Conflicting Interests

Editors/board of editors, acknowledging that there may be conflicting interests between referees and other editors, guarantee that the publication process of the manuscripts will be completed in an independent and unbiased manner

• Editorial Board ensures the determination and implementation of journal policies such as publication, blind review, evaluation process and ethical principles.

• Putting the article into the referee process by the Editorial Board does not imply or guarantee that it will be accepted for publication. Even if the review process come out with positive decision for the publication, the Editorial Board and the Board of Editors have the final say.

• Editorial Board promotes academic integrity. The Editorial Board ensures the authenticity of the written works by inspecting them through the iThenticate plagiarism prevention software before publication.

• The Editorial Board always examines the claims of plagiarism and abuse in regard to published articles. In case it is established that an author committed plagiarism, or used copyrighted material that belongs to third parties without proper and full reference and permission, The Editorial Board reserves the rights, including but not limited, to retract the article, inform the author’s head of department, dean of faculty and/or other academic institutions.

• They only accept work evaluation related to the field of specialization.

• They should evaluate within impartiality and confidentiality.

• If they think they are facing a conflict of interest during the evaluation process, they should inform the editor of the journal, refusing to review the work.

• In accordance with the Privacy Principle the studies they asses can only be used after publication.

• They should objectively evaluate only the content of the study. They should not allow nationality, gender, religious beliefs, political beliefs and commercial concerns to influence assessment.

• They should do assessment in a constructive and polite language. They should not make humiliating personal comments that include hostility, slander and insults.

• They should carry out the work on which they have accepted the assessment on time and within the framework of ethical responsibilities mentioned above.

• Individuals who do not intellectually contribute to the contents during the creation of the work must not be cited as authors. It is against the ethics of science to add people who do not have academic contribution as additional authors, or to rank authors with nonscientific criteria such as title, age and gender regardless of their contributions.

• Situations and relationships of all works sent to be published that could constitute a conflict of interest if any must be disclosed.

• Raw data may be requested of author(s) in the scope of evaluation processes, in such a case author(s) must be prepared to submit the expected data and information to the editorial board.

• Author(s) must possess a certificate that they have the right to use the data, the necessary permits regarding the research/analyses or the permission of the respondents that are queried.

• In case author(s) notice an error or mistake that is published or is in the early appearance or evaluation stage, they are responsible to notify the journal editor or publisher or to cooperate with the editor in the procedures of notifying the journal editor or publisher, correction or retraction.

• Author(s) may not apply their works to more than one journal. Each application may be initiated upon the completion of the previous application. Works that are published in another journal may not be submitted to the Journal of Values Education.

• Changing of the author liabilities (such as adding authors, switching the order of the authors, excluding authors) of any works whose evaluation process started cannot be proposed.

• It is assumed that the authors who submitted articles to the journal have read and accepted the ethical rules and publication principles and writing guidelines of the journal.

• In studies requiring ethics committee permission, information about the permit (name of the committee, date and number) should be included in the method section as well as on the first/last page of the article. In the case reports, it is necessary to include the information that the informed volunteer consent form is signed in the article. Authors should upload the ethics committee permission documents or the document stating that there is no need for an ethics committee decision during article submission.

1- Will be sent by the editor to the author for rework.
2- May get rejection from editor.
3- Can be sent to the editorial board for the inspection about the reasons of similarity.

However, if the similarity rate is more than 30%, even if the source is cited, the article may be rejected by considering that the study is weak in terms of originality and contribution to the field.

Apart from the readers, one of the stakeholders can also report their concern via email in case encountering behavior or content that does not comply with the ethical responsibilities mentioned above.

The Journal of Values Education acts in accordance with COPE rules in the face of allegations and suspicions of alleged misconduct, citation manipulation and data fraud.

Language of publication

Journal of Values Education accepts Turkish and English language articles. Articles should include English title, Öz/ abstract (200 word), keywords (3-5 concepts), extended abstract / summary (1500 words) and a bibliography in the APA-style.


The Reference List and Citations Style

Sources used in both references list and in-text citation must conform to the rules of Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA),7th edition, published by American Psychological Association.

Licensing: CC BY-NC

Embedded licenses: Yes. The Journal of Values ​​Education embeds licensing information.

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Open Citations: The Journal of Values ​​Education has chosen to deposit and open up citation data via the Initiative for Open Citations I4OC.

The Journal of Values ​​Education is Open Access it under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). This is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. The Journal of Values ​​Education signed the Budapest Open Access Initiative Statement.

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Under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license you can freely:

• Share : Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt : Remix, transform, and build upon the material. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

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You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No additional restrictions. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

The Journal of Values ​​Education provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research free available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.


Journal Archiving

Within one month from the date of publication, the journal is sent to national and international libraries and index institutions, which are determined by the Editorial Board, within one month from the date of publication.

Date Created: 25 June 2020
Last Modified: 30 January 2023

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