DESCRIPTION
Journal of Language and Literature Studies: Journal of Language and Literature Studies is an open access, peer-reviewed, international, scientific journal published twice a year in March and October. It is the official publication of the Turkish Language and Literature Association (TDED) and has been in publication since 2010.
Articles submitted to the journal for publication should be in Turkish or English.

PURPOSE - SCOPE
Journal of Language and Literature Studies: Journal of Language and Literature Studies aims to contribute to the sharing of knowledge at national and international level by publishing original and relevant articles in all fields of philology such as language, literature, folklore, culture, translation science as well as language and literature education. The target audience of the journal consists of academics, researchers, professionals, students and related professional and academic institutions and organisations.

EDITORIAL POLICIES AND PUBLICATION PROCESS

Publication Policy
The content of the manuscripts submitted to the journal for publication should be compatible with the purpose and scope of the journal. The priority of the journal is to publish original research articles.

General Principles
Articles that have not been published before or are not currently under evaluation in another journal for publication and approved by each author are accepted for evaluation.
In line with the decision of the Editorial Board, one article per issue is accepted from the articles produced from master's, doctoral and undergraduate dissertations; one article is accepted for each issue of the proceedings presented at national and international symposiums / congresses, provided that it is clearly stated in the footnote.
Only 1 (one) article of the same author in the same publication period is processed, and the article can be published if it successfully passes the referee process.
After the article is submitted to the Journal for publication, none of the authors' names can be deleted from the author list without the written permission of all authors, and a new name cannot be added as an author and the order of authors cannot be changed.

LANGUAGE
The language of the journal is Turkish and English. Only studies prepared in Turkish and English are accepted to the journal.

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Unless otherwise stated, all correspondence regarding the submitted manuscripts will be made with the first author. Manuscript submission should be done online and via DergiPark. Manuscripts should be sent by attaching a plagiarism report, an electronic file containing the electronic form of the manuscript written in Microsoft Word 2003 and above versions, and the ‘Copyright Agreement Form’ signed by all authors.
1. Manuscripts should be written in Times New Roman (special fonts can be used, provided that they are partial), 12 pt. font size and 1.5 line spacing.
2. In the article, all headings should be written in bold with only the first letters capitalised. Main headings (main sections, references and appendices) should be written in 12 pt and bold.
3. Sub-headings and sub-headings should be written in 12 pt. and bold; at the end of the sub-headings, a colon should be placed and continued from the same line.
4. The article should include a 150 - 200 word Turkish abstract after the title and before the introduction, a 150 - 250 word English abstract after the Turkish abstract, and a 600 - 800 word English extended abstract. Abstracts should contain at least 5 and at most 8 keywords.
5. If the language of the article is English, the extended abstract should be in Turkish.
6. Submitted articles (including abstracts and bibliography) should not exceed 10,000 words. (Longer articles are published with the decision of the Editorial Board. Contents such as text reproduction etc. should be placed in the Appendix of the article).
7. The name of the author should be immediately below the title, the surname of the author should be written in capital letters, the title, institution (including the name of the faculty and department), city and country name, e-mail address, ORCID and ROR ID (institution identification number) number should be included with ‘*’ footnote.
8. The Turkish Language Institution's Spelling Guide should be followed in articles and abbreviations.
9. One of Timesefras, Munevver, Oktay New Transcription or Timestrans fonts should be used in transliteration text studies. Transcription works submitted with fonts other than these will not be accepted. These fonts will only be used in the text section. In the ‘introduction, review, conclusion, etc.’ sections of the articles, Times New Roman character will be used as specified in Article 1.
10. Only APA system should be used in footnote and bibliography method.
11. All kinds of legal, criminal and scientific responsibility of the studies sent to our journal for publication within the rules belong to the author / authors. It is in no way binding with the journal. The author is deemed to have accepted all the principles contained herein in advance.
12. Authors may be asked to make some corrections on the text in line with the Editorial Board and referee reports.

Tables and Figures
Tables should have a number and title. The table number should be written vertically at the top, just to the left, and the table title should be written in italics, capitalising the first letter of each word. Tables should be placed where they should be in the text. Figures should be prepared for black and white printing. Figure numbers and names should be written centrally just below the figure. Figure number should be written in italics and should end with a full stop. The name of the figure should be written vertically with only the first letter capitalised.

Illustrations
High resolution, print quality scans should be sent as an attachment to the article. Picture nomenclature should follow the rules in figures and charts.

Sources
Quotations should be given in quotation marks; quotations of less than 140 words should be written between the lines, and longer quotations should be written 1.5 cm from the right and left of the line, in block form, with 1.5 line spacing and 1 point smaller.
References to be made in the article should be given immediately after the relevant place, in brackets, in the order of the surname of the author, the year of publication of the work and the page number. The names of the works should be italicised.
Example: (Okay, 2016, p. 142)

In cases where more than one source is to be cited, the works are listed in the same parenthesis, from the oldest dated to the most recent, separated from each other by semicolons.
Example: (Köprülü, 1989 p. 125; Okay, 2016, p. 115)

In references with two authors, "and" is inserted between them. In references with more than two authors, the abbreviation "et al." should be used after the surname of the second author.
Examples: (Andı and Akay 2010, p. 223). (Kaplan, Enginün et al. 1988 p. 217)

If the author's name is mentioned in the relevant sentence, it is sufficient to indicate the date and page in brackets.
Example: (2015, p. 23)

If the author has two works published in the same year, the year of publication is indicated by adding a letter.
Examples: (Ahmet Midhat, 2010a, p. 37), (Ahmet Midhat, 2010b, p. 72)

The works of two authors with the same surname published in the same year are indicated by writing the first letters of their first names.
Examples: (Balcı, F. 2014, p. 83), (Balcı, M. 2014, p. 112)

When referring to an inaccessible publication in the text, this source and the work cited should be indicated as follows:
Example: (as cited in Köprülü, 1924, p. 75; Demirci, 1998, p. 25)

Footnotes Footnotes are used only for compulsory explanations.
The references here should be arranged with the surname of the author, the year of publication of the work and the page number in parentheses.
Example: (Çoruk, 2016, p. 118)

Bibliography: All sources used in the article should be included in the "Bibliography", even if they are related to the subject of the article, documents and artefacts not mentioned in the article should not be included in the bibliography. References should be given at the end of the main text in alphabetical order according to the surnames of the authors (the author's name is taken as the basis for those before the surname law). The names of the works should be written in italics.

a. Books and book-like works
author's surname (lower case), initials (year of publication). title of the book (italicised). city of publication: publishing house.
Example: Okay, M. O. (2005). Westernisation Period Turkish Literature. Istanbul: Dergâh Publications.

If there is a preparer, editor, translator of the work, it is given as follows after the book title:
Author's surname, initials (year of publication). title of the work (italicised).
[preparer] hzl., [editor] ed. or [translator] transl. name and surname, city of publication, publishing house.

Example: Ersoy, M. A. (1991). Safahat. hzl. M. Ertuğrul Düzdağ. Istanbul: İz Publishing.
Stevick, P. (2004). Novel Theory, trans. Sevim Kantarcıoğlu. Ankara: Akçağ Yay. 2nd bs.

The volume of the work is indicated after the title of the work, and the edition is indicated after the publishing house.
Example: Lekesiz, Ö. (2001). New Turkish Literature Story 5. Istanbul: Kaknüs Yay.

b. Articles in periodicals:
Journals: Author's surname, initials (year, month), "title of the article", name of the journal (italicised), volume number, issue number: page range.
Example: Çetişli, İ. (2000). "The Novel of a Generation or a Poet: Mâi ve Siyah". Türk Yurdu. C. XX, S. 153-154, May-June, 318-333.

In newspaper articles, the author's surname, name (year. month. day), "title of the article", name of the newspaper, page number (if any) are given.
In interviews and interviews, the name of the author is given as the person who conducted them.

c. Theses
Author's surname, name, (date), title of the thesis, city: university and institute name:
(unpublished bachelor's/master's/doctoral thesis).

d. Information from the Internet
Author's surname, initials (date of last update). "title of the internet document",
(date of access), internet address.
Example: Koçak, A. (2014.01.01). "HİLMİ, Şehbenderzâde Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi"
https://teis.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/ahmet-sehbenderzade (Access date: 2024)

Statement of Publication Ethics
Journal of Language and Literature Studies: Journal of Language and Literature Studies adheres to the highest standards in publication ethics and adopts the principles of ethical publishing published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA); for the principles expressed in Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing: https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing 
The publication processes of the Journal of Language and Literature Studies are based on the unbiased production, development and sharing of knowledge with the scientific method. Refereed articles are studies that ensure the application of the scientific method and impartiality. In the realisation of scientific production, all components of the publication process; publisher, editors, authors, referees and readers must comply with ethical principles. Submitted articles must be appropriate to the purpose and scope of the journal. Original, unpublished manuscripts that are not in the evaluation process in another journal and whose content and submission have been approved by each author are accepted for evaluation.

Plagiarism
All articles submitted to the Journal of Language and Literature Studies are pre-checked and scanned with the software programme Intihal.net. At the article submission stage, authors are also requested to obtain a similarity report for their articles and upload it to the system. Articles with a similarity rate of 20% or less are accepted. Articles exceeding this rate are examined in detail and if deemed necessary, they are sent back to the authors for revision or correction, and if plagiarism or unethical behaviour is detected, publication is rejected.
High similarity ratios may cause an article to be rejected before or even after acceptance. The concept of similarity mentioned here refers to a different phenomenon than plagiarism. Even if the similarity rate is not high, the detection of the slightest issue that can be considered as ethical violation/plagiarism in the study is a direct reason for rejection.

Double Blind Review
All articles submitted to the Journal of Language and Literature Studies are evaluated through a double blind review process. Double blind refereeing means that the authors are kept confidential from the referees and the referees are kept confidential from the authors in order to ensure an unbiased, objective and independent evaluation process.
After the plagiarism check, eligible manuscripts are evaluated by the editor-in-chief in terms of originality, methodology, importance of the topic covered and compatibility with the scope of the journal. The editor ensures that the manuscripts undergo a fair double blind review and if the manuscript meets the formal requirements, the editor submits the manuscript to the evaluation of at least two referees from Turkey and / or abroad, and if the referees deem necessary, they approve the publication of the manuscript after the requested changes are made by the authors. If one of the referees expresses a negative opinion, the manuscript is forwarded to a third referee. If both referees express a negative opinion, the manuscript is rejected.

Special Issue Publication Policy
A special issue can be published once a year upon the request of the Editorial Board. Articles submitted for inclusion in the special issue are first subjected to a preliminary editorial review. Then, they are examined for compliance with the journal's spelling rules and similarity screening is performed to prevent plagiarism. After these stages, it is taken into the evaluation process in which the double blinded model is used.

Research Ethics
The journal upholds the highest standards of research ethics and it is the authors' responsibility to ensure that manuscripts comply with ethical guidelines. Some behaviours that are considered unethical are listed below:
• Citing people as authors who have not contributed intellectually to the study.
• Failure to acknowledge as an author people who have contributed intellectually to the study.
• Failure to indicate if the article is derived from the author's master's/doctoral thesis or a project.
• Slicing, i.e. publishing more than one article from a single study.
• Failure to declare conflicts of interest regarding submitted manuscripts.
• Deciphering the double blind review process.

Responsibility of the Author(s)
In order to be published, articles must not have been previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Articles that have been previously published elsewhere are not included in the journal. Papers presented at a scientific meeting may be accepted in limited numbers, provided that they are unpublished and this is clearly stated. The ethical responsibility of such articles belongs to the author of the article.
All sources (authors, online pages, personal interviews, etc.) used in the articles should be cited correctly and appropriately.
A Copyright Transfer Agreement must be filled in, indicating that the articles submitted to the journal have not been submitted to another journal, and a plagiarism report must be uploaded by the author when submitting the article.
In case the author(s) are asked for information or raw data about their articles during the evaluation process, they should submit the expected information to the Editors.
The author(s) should contact the editor to inform, correct or retract any errors in the manuscript that are in the review and early view stage or that have been published electronically.
Authors have the right to object to the referee reports with justification if they disagree with them. Manuscripts not accepted for publication will not be returned to their authors.
The copyright of the manuscripts accepted for publication in Language and Literature Studies is deemed to be transferred to the Turkish Language and Literature Association. The responsibility of the opinions in the published articles belongs to the authors. 
The legal responsibilities arising from the content of the works published in the journal belong entirely to the author(s).

Editor and Referee Responsibilities
The editors are responsible for each publication in the Journal of Language and Literature Studies and evaluate the articles objectively in accordance with scientific and ethical rules. They ensure that manuscripts submitted for publication undergo a fair double blind peer review process and guarantee that all information about submitted manuscripts will remain confidential until the manuscript is published. Editors are responsible for the content and overall quality of the publication. They should publish an error page or make corrections when necessary.
The editor does not allow any conflict of interest between authors, editors and referees. He/she has full authority to appoint referees and is responsible for making the final decision about the articles to be published in the journal.
Reviewers evaluate the articles objectively in accordance with scientific and ethical rules. Reviewers should not have any conflicts of interest with the authors and/or financial supporters of the research and should make an impartial judgement at the end of their evaluation. Referees are required to fill in the Referee Evaluation Form for the articles they evaluate. The referees are also required to indicate their decision on whether the manuscript is publishable or not and the reasons for their decision in this form.
The style used by the referees in their suggestions should be polite, respectful and scientific. Reviewers should avoid subjective comments. When referees are found to make such unscientific comments, they may be contacted by the editor or the editorial board to review and correct their comments.
Reviewers should ensure that all information regarding submitted manuscripts is kept confidential and should report to the editor if they notice any copyright infringement or plagiarism on the part of the author. If the referee does not feel that he/she has sufficient field knowledge about the subject of the article or feels that he/she cannot respond in a timely manner, he/she should inform the editor of this situation and ask him/her not to be included in the refereeing process.
Referees and members of the editorial board may not discuss manuscripts submitted to the journal with other persons. Reviewers are not allowed to make copies of the manuscripts for themselves and may not give the manuscripts to anyone else without the permission of the editor. The reviews of the referees cannot be printed and disclosed without the permission of the author and the editor. Care should be taken to keep the identity of the reviewers confidential.