Research Article
Aim & Scope
The Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography (DTCF Journal) is an international, scholarly, and blind-reviewed journal published by Ankara University’s Faculty of Languages and History-Geography. The journal aims to increase and extend scholarly studies which will contribute to the scientific development in the fields of social sciences and humanities.
The Journal includes articles in all fields of social sciences, particularly language, culture, literature, history, geography, philosophy, psychology and sociology.
Authors of manuscripts submitted to the journal must have an academic title, or must be a PhD student.
Writing Rules
AUTHOR GUIDELINES OF THE ANKARA UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND HISTORY-GEOGRAPHY
BASIC PRINCIPLES
The Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography (DTCF Journal) is published biannually, in June and December. All material to be considered for publication in The Journal should be prepared in accordance with the instructions below:
• All the manuscripts submitted to the DTCF Journal should be written in the fields of social sciences like language, culture, literature, history, geography, philosophy, psychology and sociology.
• Original manuscripts written in Turkish or in English are accepted.
• Authors must have obtained their ORCID number from https://orcid.org/register before submitting their work to the Journal.
• Manuscripts submitted to the Journal should not have been previously published elsewhere and should not have been submitted to another journal for publication even in another language.
• Manuscripts should be no less than 4000 and no more than 15000 words in length.
• The APA 6 format (American Psychological Association) should be followed in references, in-manuscript citations and bibliography.
• After bibliography, an extended summary with 700-1000 words in English should be written.
• Manuscripts submitted to the Journal should be detected for similarity by author(s) through iThenticate software and the similarity report should be uploaded to the Journal system with the manuscript. Authors should strictly avoid plagiarism, including self-plagiarism. Except for the references section, articles with similarity score over 18% are not evaluated.
• Manuscripts should be prepared according to the Author Guidelines stated below. Manuscripts not prepared in accordance with the Journal’s style guide and principles of section organisation are not evaluated for publication.
WRITING RULES
PAGE LAYOUT
All manuscripts should be typed on a standard A4 vertical size word document with margins of 2.5 cm on all margins. Manuscripts should be written in Bookman Old Style and prepared in accordance with the order and rules stated below.
• Title: The title of the manuscript should be centred and written in UPPERCASE with 12-point font, bold type.
• Title in Turkish: The title in Turkish, placed after the English title, should be centred and written in 12-point font, bold type.
• Author/Authors: The title should be followed by the author’s name (in lowercase with the first letter capitalized) and last name (in UPPERCASE LETTERS) which should be left-aligned and written in 12-point font, bold type. This should be followed by information about the author (academic position, institution and author's email address). In addition, the "ORCID" number(s) of the author(s) should be given in the following line.
• Abstract: The abstract in English should be single-spaced and written in 10-point font, italic type. The abstract should be no less than 200 words and no more than 300 words.
• Keywords: A minimum of 4 and a maximum of 8 keywords which identify the content of the study should be presented and written in 10-point font. The first letter of each keyword should be capitalized, and each keyword must be separated by a semicolon and written in italic type.
• Öz (Abstract in Turkish): The manuscript given in the English abstract should be written in Turkish in italic type.
• Anahtar Sözcükler (Keywords in Turkish): Keywords in English should be given with the same rules in Turkish and written in 10-point font.
• Main Text: Manuscript should be written in 11-point font with 1.5 line spacing and justified on Microsoft Word. There should be 6 pt spacing between paragraphs, paragraph indent should be 1 cm.
• Footnotes: Footnotes should be written in 9-point font with 1.15 line spacing and justified; should be separated from the main text by a footnote line. There should be 6 pt spacing between footnotes.
PARTS OF THE MANUSCRIPT
Manuscripts should include the following parts in the order as stated below, and should be structured according to the following instructions:
• Introduction: The research problem and goals of the manuscript are discussed with the body of literature and the theoretical framework of the study is revealed.
• Titles: The whole title should be written in uppercase and bold type.
• Subheadings: All the subheadings should be written in bold type, the initial of each word should be capitalized, and after the subheading, an indent should follow. All citations and sources used in manuscripts should be indicated. Short quotations should be italicized in quotation marks (“…”). Long quotations (more than 40 words) should be written on a new line without quotation marks in 10-point font, non-italicized and indented 2 cm from each margin (left and right). Then, a full stop should follow.
• Conclusion: Conclusion(s) reached in the light of the findings should be explained.
• Bibliography: In-text citations and references should be given in accordance with APA 6 (American Psychological Association) format. The principles of Turkish references for Turkish manuscripts and English references for English manuscripts should be taken into account.
• Summary: After bibliography, an extended summary with 700-1000 words in English should be written. (The summary will provide preliminary information about the essence of the article for researchers browsing international databases at home and abroad and will make the article get more international citations.) The purpose and theoretical framework of the manuscript should be specified in the summary. The method, results, discussion and conclusion should be clearly given. The summary should be single-spaced and written in 10-point font.
PARTS OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN APPLIED RESEARCH
For Applied Research, the following parts should also be included in the article:
• Introduction: The basis of the research subject, summary of the parts of the study, its relevance to academic body of literature, significance of the study, research problem and its goals should be discussed in detail in the introductory part. This part can be structured under a single title or several subheadings. No bold or underlined phrases should be used in the manuscript.
• Method: The type, model, questions and hypotheses, research population, data collection techniques, validity and reliability, data analysis, limits of the study, and ethics committee approval (if necessary) should be included in the methods part. This part can be structured in subheadings like Research Problems, Research Model, Hypotheses, Data Analysis, and Data Collection Techniques.
• Results: The results of the study should be explained to support the goal and problem of the study, and should be explored through related tables, figures, graphs, or diagrams in a way to preserve the integrity of the study. All the tables, figures, graphs, or diagrams used in the study should be clearly signposted by in-manuscript directions. The results in the form of graphs or figures should be presented in high-quality in order to ensure publication quality and legibility. Findings demonstrated in tables should be presented in a format in accordance with the APA Guidelines. All the tables, graphs, figures, and diagrams used in the study should be titled. The results can be presented under subheadings in order to increase the legibility and clarity of the study.
• Conclusion: Conclusion(s) reached in the light of the findings of the study should be explained.
• Suggestions: In line with the conclusion(s) of the study, suggestions should be developed. These suggestions should also point to potential future studies and practices in the field which will contribute to the relevant academic body of literature.
• Acknowledgements: Individuals or institutions that contributed to the study (if necessary) should be acknowledged in the form of footnotes.
Appendices
The "Appendices" presented in the manuscript should be prepared according to the following rules.
• Appendix: Additional tables, figures, graphics and pictures should be given in a new page after the Extended Summary. Each appendix should be listed as Appendix 1, Appendix 2 and titled separately. If there is an item used in appendix, directions towards this item should be given in the manuscript.
• If visual materials such as photo and diagram are used, sources should be indicated. Author(s) are held legally responsible for permission or copyright.
• After evaluation processes of manuscripts have been completed, (except suggestions of reviewers) author(s) cannot make any major changes (such as adding a chapter, paragraph, table, picture, graphic, or another author's name).
IN-TEXT CITATION AND REFERENCES IN THE ARTICLE (APA 6)
All cited works should be written in the “Bibliography” at the end of the article according to the surname of the authors.
Any work that is not cited in the article should not be added to the “Bibliography”. The in-text citation method and the title of the work should be in accordance with the examples below. In-text citations and references should be given in accordance with the language of the manuscript. The principles of Turkish references for Turkish manuscripts and English references for English manuscripts should be taken into account.
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
DECLARATION OF PUBLICATION ETHICS
All parties involved in the publishing process (authors, Editorial Board and reviewers) are supposed to contribute to the improvement of science appropriately. In accordance with this aim, in scientific studies, convenience to ethical standards of behaviour is essential. These ethical standards, based on the instructions of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), are accepted by our Journal. The Journal of the Faculty of Language and History-Geography expects all parties to voluntarily comply with these international standards [the ethical principles determined by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) https://publicationethics.org/
Some of them are listed here:
International Standards for Authors
• The authors have to certify the submitted manuscripts to be their original studies. Plagiarism, fabrication, forgery, duplication, data falsification etc. are prohibited.
• Authors should neither give any physical/legal harm to the participants of a research nor psychologically abuse them. Additionally, authors have to give guarantee to the participants of their studies on the right of privacy and anonymity.
• Authors should define the persons or institutions sponsoring their research.
• Authors should assure that the manuscripts they submit have not been published before and they are not under evaluation in any other journal.
• Authors should be aware that all the references used in the manuscript are exactly given in the bibliography of the manuscript.
• On realising an important mistake or incorrectness in the article published, the author has to immediately inform the editor/the publisher of the Journal and either withdraw the article from the Journal or cooperate with the editor for correction.
• Authors have to make the studies including human and animal subjects appropriate to the national and international laws and instructions (i.e. Declaration of Helsinki of WMA, NIH Policy on Use of Laboratory Animals, EU Instructions on Use of Animals), confirm that required consent has gained and have to respect privacy of the subject. Moreover, authors should indicate the ethics committee approval to the study and the details of the study in the section “Material and Method.”
• Authors have to inform the Journal about any situation regarding conflict of interest or collaborative interest.
The studies that require the approval of the Ethics Committee are listed below. Within this context, for the studies, the information on the permission obtained from the Ethics Committee should be stated in the article and a copy of the permission should be uploaded to the system of the Journal.
• All kinds of research carried out with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants by using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment and interview techniques,
• Use of humans (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data,
• Indicating that an “informed consent form” has been received in case reports,
• For the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others, obtaining and indicating the permission gained from the owners,
• Indication of compliance with copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used in the article.
Author(s) must comply with ethical and legal standards and provide information on the following issues to those participating in research to produce an article:
Participants in the research;
• should be informed that research will be conducted on them.
• should be informed that participation is on a voluntary basis, there is no sanction for refusing to participate, and participants can withdraw at any time without penalty.
• should be informed about the purpose of the research and the procedure to be followed in the research.
• should be informed about the means of communication that they would apply for answers to questions about the research.
• should be informed about a possible risk and inconvenience that may affect them in case they agree to cooperate.
• should be informed about how privacy will be protected.
Click for the "Tr-index Ethical Principles Flow Chart" prepared by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM regarding the ethical principles that researchers must comply with.
Some of the actions considered to be against scientific research and publication ethics:
• Plagiarism: Showing others' original ideas, methods, data or works as their own work, partially or completely, without reference to scientific rules,
• Fraud: Using data that does not actually exist or has been falsified in scientific research,
• Distortion: Falsifying the research records or the data obtained, showing the devices or materials not used in the research as being used, distorting or shaping the research results in line with the interests of the people and organizations from which the support was obtained
• Republishing: To present repetitive publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions,
• Slicing: Dividing the results of a research into pieces in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research and inappropriately and publishing in more than one issue and presenting these publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions,
• Unfair authorship: Including non-active contributors among the authors or not including those who are, changing the author's order in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of those with active contributors from the work in subsequent editions, using their influence to include their names among the authors, even though they have no active contribution,
• Not specifying the persons, institutions or organizations and their contributions in the publications made as a result of researches conducted with the support,
• Using theses or studies that have not yet been submitted or accepted as a source without the permission of the owner,
• Failing to comply with ethical rules in research conducted on humans and animals, not respecting patient rights in their publications, harming animal health and ecological balance, not obtaining necessary permissions,
• Misusing resources, spaces, facilities and devices provided or allocated for scientific research,
• To make false or misleading statements regarding scientific research and publications in academic appointments and promotions.
International Standards for Editors and Editorial Board
• Editors and members of Editorial Board should adhere to the international standards for editorial boards. The editor and the members of the Editorial Board of the Journal are expected to voluntarily comply with the international standards set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (see https://publicationethics.org/).
• The Editorial Board should act in a balanced, objective and fair manner while performing their duties without discrimination on the grounds of gender, religious or political beliefs, ethnic or geographical differences of the authors. The studies submitted to the Journal should be evaluated according to their content and the Editorial Board should not give any privilege to any author.
• The Editorial Board has to make efforts to enhance and improve the quality of the Journal.
• The Editorial Board has to put emphasis on scientific quality and originality to the utmost.
• The Editorial Board thoroughly checks the submitted manuscripts to determine its publication and to prevent misconducts. When the manuscript is not suitable for purpose and scope of the Journal, the study is rejected. If a misconduct is determined in a manuscript, the relevant author is responsible for withdrawal or correction of the manuscript according to the editor's and reviewer's feedback.
• The Editorial Board must keep confidential information regarding all articles submitted.
• The Editorial Board is in charge of taking publication decisions about the manuscripts submitted to the Journal.
• The Editorial Board has to make efforts to meet the needs of the authors and readers.
• The Editorial Board has to be always ready for announcing corrections, explanations, withdrawals and apologies when required.
• The Editorial Board should apply the necessary procedures, adhering to the Journal's policies and procedures, in case of a complaint that constitutes an ethical violation. It should give the authors an opportunity to respond to the complaint, and should not hesitate to apply the necessary sanctions, regardless of whom the work belongs to.
International Standards for Reviewers
• On accepting the call from the Journal for blind review, reviewers have to comply with the international blind review standards. All the reviewers of the Journal are expected to voluntarily comply with the international standards set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (see https://publicationethics.org/).
• To help editors make a decision, reviewers have to accept to review the manuscripts related to their speciality and review objectively on time.
• Reviewers have to keep confidential information regarding the manuscripts.
• Reviewers have to review manuscripts objectively by criteria as originality, importance, appropriateness to the fields of the Journal.
• Reviewers should provide guidance that will help improve the quality of the manuscript to be published, and make their comments in a constructive and non-offensive language.
• Reviewers have to present to the attention of the Editorial Board any information that may cause the manuscript to be rejected.
• In any case of dispute or conflict of interest, reviewers have to inform the Journal about it.
Ethical Standards for Publishers
• Publisher, as one of the stakeholders in the production of a scientific study, is responsible for using its publishing power without any individual interest and for guiding its target audience correctly.
• Publisher protects the proprietary right and copyright of every published article and undertakes the task of archiving every published product.
PUBLICATION POLICY
The publication policy, article evaluation and publication process of Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages, History and Geography (DTCF Journal) are given below.
Statement of Open Access
The Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography (DTCF Journal) is an Open Access journal and provides open access to all its articles including the archive without any charge.
Open Access increases the global change of information and promotes useful results for humanity. The Journal of the Faculty of Language and History-Geography also supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which was accepted on 12 September 2012. In this context, Open Access policies adopted by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Faculty of Language and History-Geography are available at https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read.
All articles published in the Journal of the Faculty of Language and History-Geography are licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- 4.0 International License." This license grants the right to reproduce, share and distribute all published articles, data sets, graphics and annexes in data mining applications, search engines, websites, blogs and in any other medium, provided that they are cited. Open access is a publishing model that facilitates interdisciplinary communication and encourages different disciplines to work with each other. In this context, the Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography provides value added to its field by offering more access to its articles and a more transparent evaluation process.
Within the scope of its open access policy, the Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography proposes libraries include the content of the Journal in the library catalogue records. The Faculty of Languages and History-Geography, the publisher of the Journal of the Faculty of Language and History-Geography, undertakes that it will not charge any subscription or fee for access to online published articles.
Confidentiality Statement
All of the data (personal information such as names and last names of authors, email addresses, etc.) collected and entered into the Management System of the Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography (DTCF Journal) are solely to be used by the scholarly studies of the Journal and the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography. This data is not to be used for other purposes or shared with third parties on any account.
Charges, Sponsorship and Advertisement
The Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography (DTCF Journal) does not charge any fees for article submission or article processing. Sponsorship and advertisements are not allowed in line with the publication policies of the journal.
Article Evaluation Process
Manuscripts submitted to the DTCF Journal go through the following processes.
Appraisal Process
The manuscripts are initially evaluated by the Editors and the Editorial Board. Manuscripts that do not comply with the aims and scope of the Journal, that are not written in accordance with the Turkish and English grammatical structures, that are not original, or that are outside of the publishing policies are declined. The manuscripts that are not uploaded with the Copyright Transfer Form and similarity report to the system are not evaluated. Moreover, the Editors and Editorial Board can return the manuscripts by applying a quota according to the density of the number of applications. In the case of a declined manuscript during the appraisal process, the author is informed by the Editor within a fortnight at the latest following the submission date. For the manuscripts that are found acceptable the review process begins.
For manuscripts submitted to the DTCF Journal and requiring an ethics committee decision, ethics committee approvals must be obtained and these approvals must be specified and documented.
Authors can obtain the ORCID number required for the application from https://orcid.org/register. The ORCID number must be given in the registration form in accordance with the standards. (For example: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097).
Blind-Peer-Review Method
All manuscripts submitted to the DTCF Journal are evaluated with a double-blind peer-review process without revealing the identities of the authors and reviewers.
Review Process
According to their subjects, manuscripts are sent to reviewers from the relevant fields. The member of the Editorial Board that examines the work may suggest at least two reviewers according to their areas of expertise from the DergiPark reviewer pool, or may suggest new reviewer(s) in line with the research area of the manuscript. The reviewer suggestions forwarded by the member of the Editorial Board in charge are evaluated by the Editor, and the manuscript is sent to reviewers. The reviewers are deemed to have accepted in advance that they will not share any information and document regarding the review process with third parties or organizations.
Reviewer’s Evaluation Process
The reviewers are given 15 days to send their reports. Authors must respond to the reviewer’s suggestions and revise their works within 10 days at the latest. Reviewers may suggest not more than two rounds of revision for the same manuscript. Reviewers are required to evaluate the revised work (submitted after at most two rounds of revision) and arrive at a decision, “accept” or “reject” on the manuscript.
Result of the Review
The reviewer reports are evaluated by the member of the Editorial Board in charge within a fortnight at the latest. Based on the reviewers’ reports, the member of the Editorial Board forwards the decision on the manuscript to the Editor.
Decision of the Editorial Board
A manuscript being accepted for publication by the reviewers is presented to the Editorial Board. The Editorial Board has the right not to publish the manuscript and in the manuscripts, decided to be published, the Editorial Board can make minor corrections, when necessary, that will not change the meaning and integrity of the study. The opinions and legal responsibility in the published articles belong to the authors.
Instructions for Revision and Guidelines for Uploading the Manuscript
The Editor, the members of the Editorial Board and/or reviewers may suggest at most two rounds of revision for the manuscripts that are under evaluation by the DTCF Journal. Authors are to submit their revisions thoroughly, clearly and in time.
Manuscript Withdrawal Process
In accordance with the publishing policies of the DTCF Journal, authors who would like to withdraw their submission during the process of evaluation need to inform the Editor of their withdrawal request by email. The Editor will examine the withdrawal request, and reply to the author within a week at the latest following the receipt of the request. Since authors transfer the copyright of their manuscripts to the DTCF Journal during the submission process, they are not permitted to send their study elsewhere for a possible publication before their withdrawal request is accepted.
Objecting to the Result of the Evaluation
Authors retain the right to object to the reviewers’ reports about their submission to the DTCF Journal. Authors should submit their objections to the result of the evaluation of their manuscript and/or reviewers’ suggestions and comments in an academic manner outlining their reasons for objecting to the result of the evaluation by email. Objections will be examined by the Editorial Board, and authors will receive a positive or a negative notification within 30 days at the latest regarding the status of their objection. In the event that the author’s objection is found acceptable, the Editorial Board will re-start the evaluation process by assigning different reviewers from relevant area of research.
Please e-mail and notify us through dtcfdergisi@ankara.edu.tr once you come across unethical situations.
Price Policy
The Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography (DTCF Journal) does not charge any fees for article submission or article processing.
Sponsorship and advertisements are not allowed in line with the publication policies of the journal.
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