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Journal of Language, Speech and Swallowing Research (DKYAD) Instructions for Manuscript Writing

The Forms section includes an "Article Template" which should aid in writing the manuscript.

Important: Please upload your manuscript in word (.doc or .docx) format to the DergiPark system so that the referees can take notes on the manuscript and your manuscript can enter the double-blind refereeing process.

Title Page
Authors should write their names, credentials and contact addresses on a separate page. The manuscript should not include any information about the identities of author(s). Any acknowledgements should also be mentioned on the title page.

The title page should be submitted separately. The title page should be written using Times New Roman font, 12 font size, bold and middle-aligned. In case where there is more than one author, the names of authors should be separated with a comma and the corresponding author should be indicated. The names, affiliations, contact information such as addresses, e-mails and ORCID IDs of author(s) should be submitted as a separate title page. 

General Considerations

1. The manuscript should be prepared double-spaced and justified in a single column, leaving 2.5 cm. from the bottom, top, left and right side of the page.

2. The manuscript should be written in Times New Roman font and 12 font size. Please see the relevant sections for the information about the title, Turkish-English abstract, tables and figures.

3. The title should be written in Times New Roman font, 12 font size, bold, middle-aligned with the initial letters of the words in capital letters.

4. In case that the study is based on a project or thesis, or presented previously, this information should be provided as a footnote at the end of the title.

5. The length of the entire manuscript should not exceed 10000 words including the references. The abstract should not exceed 300 words for the manuscripts written in Turkish. In these manuscripts, the extended English abstract should contain at least 40% of the Turkish text in terms of word count. The abstract should not exceed 300 words for the manuscripts written in English. In these manuscripts, the extended Turkish abstract should contain at least 40% of the English text in terms of word count (for detailed information, see the announcement dated 26.03.2025). When transferring article abstracts into the DergiPark system, the character limit for the box under the heading Abstract is set to 5000 by the system. Due to this technical issue, you need to adjust your in-text abstract to comply with the 5000-character limit before uploading it to the system. There is no need to make any changes to the article manuscript itself. In short, your extended abstract should have two versions: one written according to the 40% rule in the article text, and another shortened version (up to 5000 characters) for uploading to the system. For English manuscripts, the Editorial Office will provide help in translating the extended summary into Turkish if requested. Please state your request on the title page.

6. The abstracts should be arranged under the following headings: Purpose, Method, Results, and Conclusion.

7. The abstracts should be written in Times New Roman font, 12 font size and justified. The keywords should be (at least) five to (at most) seven words; the keywords must be separated with a comma and written in lower case letters.

8. The main body of the manuscript should appear in the next page after the Turkish and English versions of the abstracts.

9. The first line of each new paragraph in the manuscript should be indented by one tab space, which should be set to 1.25 cm.

10. In empirical research articles, the main body of the manuscript should include introduction, method, results and discussion sections, in that order. The tables and figures, etc. should be attached to the end of the manuscript. However, their place should be indicated by their numbers within the text.

11. The headings should be arranged as follows:
-All the main headings (introduction, method, results, discussion) should be written with the first letter in capital, bold, plain text font and justified,
-The first level heading (i.e. participants, data analysis) should be written with the first letter in capital, bold and left-aligned,
-The second level heading should be written with the first letter in capital, bold, italic and left-aligned,
-The third level heading should be written with the first letter in capital, bold, with 1.25 cm (one tab) space indented,
-The fourth level heading should be written with the first letter in capital, bold, italic, with 1.25 cm (one tab) space indented.

12. The references section should appear at a separate page following the end of manuscript. The writing rules stated in the “Publication Manual of American Psychological Association” (APA) (7th ed.) should be considered both in the manuscript and references.

13. All the citations in the manuscript should be properly stated in the references section, and vice versa.

14. The appendices, if present, should be given under an “Appendix” heading following the references. The numbering should start with Appendix-1, Appendix-2; a heading related to the appendix should be provided. Please see the Appendix-1: The text given to the participants.

The in-text citations should be provided as follows:
1. Crow (2010) defines the articulation competence as a skill where the inpidual correctly produces the speech sounds belonging to a specific language in a sequential and coherent manner.
2. Speech sound disorders include problems related to the erroneous production of speech sounds in terms of place, manner, speed, timing and pressure (Crow, 2010).
3. According to a study by Crow in 2010, the phonological competence refers to a skill in which the speech sounds are utilized appropriately in the language context.

Tables and Figures

1. The title and number of the table should be above the table.
2. The title and number of the table and the text inside should be written in Times New Roman font, 10 font size, single-spaced, and left-aligned.
3. The initial letters in the table numbers should be capital, the table titles should be in italic and the initial letters should be capital.
4. Space should be provided both before the table title and after the table.
5. In the manuscript, a statement referring to the table such as “as shown in Table 1” should be made. The table should then follow.

6. The title and number of figures should be above the figure.
7. Each word in the title and number of figures should be capitalized and written in Times New Roman font, 10 font size, and left-aligned. The title should be in italic.
8. Space (enter) should be provided both before the figure title and following the figure.
9. In the manuscript, a statement referring to the figure such as “as shown in Figure 1” should be made. And the figure should follow.
10. If the figure is taken from a separate resource, a reference to the source should be given with the page number.

References
1. The references should be given in their alphabetical order. In case where the surnames are the same, the initial letters of the first names should be considered.
2. In the paragraph tab and indentation section, the right and left space should be zero, the custom tabs should be hanging and set to 1.25 cm (1 tab).
3. The references should be written with Times New Roman font, 10 font size, double-spaced and justified.
4. Some examples related to reporting the references are provided below. For further information, please see the “Publication Manual of American Psychological Association” (APA) (7th ed.).

DKYAD is an open access journal and provides instant open access to its content. The Journal applies the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license to its published articles. When authors submit their articles for publication, they agree to have the CC BY-NC-ND license applied to their work. Under this Open Access License, the authors agree that anyone may read, download, copy, print, distribute, or reuse the content of their articles free of charge for non-commercial purposes as long as the author and the original source are properly cited.

DKYAD aims to achieve high ethical standards in the publication of the articles. For this purpose, the journal adheres to the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). The writers, chief editor, associate editors, reviewers and the journal management all share responsibility in achieving the declared goals. Editors are expected to follow the Cope Guidance for Editors and reviewers are expected to review the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers and pay attention to the issues specified in the guidelines.

Within the scope of these guidelines: