Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Sciences

Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Science is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing scholarly research in the field of political science and its related disciplines. The primary aim of the journal is to provide an open and dynamic academic platform for the publication of original and high-quality studies that contribute to theoretical, empirical, and methodological developments within the discipline.

The journal seeks to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue and critical thinking by welcoming contributions that address contemporary political issues through theoretical, historical, and comparative perspectives. It aims to foster academic engagement by bringing together researchers from diverse backgrounds and by promoting both national and international scholarship.

Committed to academic integrity and publication ethics, Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Science upholds transparency, objectivity, and scholarly rigor throughout its editorial and peer-review processes. Furthermore, through its open-access policy, the journal aspires to disseminate knowledge freely and widely, ensuring that academic research remains accessible to all members of the scholarly and policy-making communities.

Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Science publishes original research articles, review essays, book reviews, and scholarly translations in the fields of political science, public administration, and international relations. The journal welcomes contributions that explore topics such as political theory, comparative politics, political history, governance, democracy, bureaucracy, public policy, political institutions, international organizations, foreign policy, security studies, migration, civil society, and political communication.

The journal has a broad interdisciplinary scope and encourages submissions that intersect with related fields such as sociology, law, economics, history, and media studies. It is particularly interested in studies that offer empirical insights, theoretical innovations, or critical evaluations relevant to the political processes and structures at local, national, regional, and global levels.

Published biannually, the journal accepts manuscripts in both Turkish and English. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process to ensure academic excellence. Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Science aims to serve as a valuable resource not only for academics and researchers but also for students, practitioners, and policy-makers interested in understanding and analyzing the evolving nature of politics in contemporary societies.

Under the title of the article, right justified, the full names of the author(s) should be written with the first letters capitalized and the other letters lowercase, and the title, institution and e-mail information should be included in the footnote by adding a footnote to the name.
References, footnotes, in-text citations, tables, figures, graphics, pictures, etc. of all articles should be made in accordance with the spelling principles specified in 'The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition), 2001' published by the American Psychological Association (APA). Articles that do not comply with the article template and article writing rules of Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Sciences will not be evaluated.
Submitted articles should be written in 6 pt and single-spaced before and after. It should be maximum 20 pages with tables and figures and A4 page size. The body text of the article should be prepared using 12 pt, Times New Roman and Turkish font. The page structure should be 2.5 cm from the top and bottom, 2 cm from the right and left, leaving a margin of 0.5 cm from the left, and should be written on both sides. Top and bottom information should be applied as 1.25 cm differently on odd and even pages.

Title classification in the text is done with numbers. 1, 1.1., 1.1.1.1.; 2., 2.1., 2.1.1.1., 3., 3.1., 3.1.1.1. Only the titles 'Introduction' and 'References' will not be numbered. Except for the main headings of the article in Turkish and English (Times New Roman, 12 pt., bold and centered), all other headings should be written in bold and left justified, with the first letters capitalized and the other letters lowercase.
The page number should be indicated at the bottom center of the article.
Articles submitted for publication should not have paragraph indentations in the text and headings.
1Figures, graphs and tables of the articles submitted to Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Sciences must comply with the format specified by the journal. Footnotes, graphs and tables should be placed on the cited page or immediately following it. Notes under graphs and tables should aim to make these materials comprehensible regardless of the main text. Table and figure captions should be left justified, 12-point font, Times New Roman, bold and numbered (such as “Table 1:” or “Figure 5:”). Table and figure captions should be italicized (Example: Table 1: Number of Movies Filmed and Released Between 1989-1996). Tables and figures should be left justified and the text scrolling feature should be turned off. “Notes” under the table should be written in 10 font size and italicized. Equations and formulas used in the text of the article should be numbered.

The entire bibliography should be prepared in Times New Roman, 12-point font, single-spaced, with 6nk before and after paragraph spacing. Each work entry in the bibliography should be suspended at 1.25 cm. The text should be justified on both sides.
Each appendix in the article should be given on separate pages after the bibliography. Their titles should be bold, capitalized and left justified (such as “Annex 1:”).
If there is a footnote at the bottom of the page in the article and if any source is cited in the footnote, this source should also be indicated in the bibliography. Works not used in the text of the article should not be included in the bibliography.
The spelling guide and spelling rules of the Turkish Language Association should be taken as an example. For detailed information, see the web page of the Turkish Language Association: www.tdk.gov.tr . Turkish dictionaries should be used as much as possible instead of foreign words. When using unfamiliar words in Turkish, the foreign language equivalent can be given in parentheses at the first occurrence. Foreign words in the text should be italicized.

Manuscripts submitted in English and English language sections of manuscripts submitted in Turkish must have undergone a competent language check prior to submission. Regardless of the content, articles that are inadequate in terms of language will be returned/refused. It is important that authors pay utmost attention to this issue.

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND PUBLICATION POLICY
Each uploaded article is firstly scanned by iThenticate plagiarism scanning programme. Articles with a similarity rate of more than 20% are rejected. Manuscripts are evaluated by at least two referees through blind refereeing. The responsibility of the articles published in the journal belongs to the authors. The responsibility of plagiarism and plagiarism within and outside the 20% similarity rate determined in the preliminary control of the article belongs to the authors. Publications should be scientific articles prepared in a cause-effect relationship and should contribute to science. Articles that do not comply with the spelling and format rules are not sent to the referee and are not published. The relevant studies of the authors who do not send the correction text within 30 days are rejected. In Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Sciences, none of the article submission and publication processes are subject to any charge.
Within the framework of the criterion of ‘ethics committee approval must be obtained separately for clinical and experimental human and animal studies requiring ethics committee decision, this approval must be specified and documented in the article.’, which ULAKBIM / TR Index made mandatory in 2020, ethics committee approval for qualitative and quantitative field research with human and animal samples should be given as an attachment to the article and it should be stated that ethical rules are followed by specifying the date and number of the document in the method section of the article.
Attention is paid to the compliance of the studies submitted to the journal with Research and Publication Ethics. Compliance with ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) recommendations and COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) international standards for editors and authors is required.
ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RULES FOR AUTHORS
- Articles submitted to Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Sciences must be original studies in the fields of social sciences.
- All sources used in the articles should be cited correctly and appropriately.
- The articles submitted to Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Sciences must not have been submitted to another journal and Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Sciences Copyright Transfer Form must be filled.
- Persons who do not contribute intellectually to the article should not be included as authors.
- Conflicts of interest regarding the submitted article should be clearly stated and the reason should be clearly stated.
- Authors may be asked to submit raw data about their work to the editorial board while it is in the refereeing process, in which case authors may be expected to share their raw data with the editorial board. Authors are obliged to keep the data related to a published article for 5 years.
- Authors should inform the editor and the editorial board when they detect an error in their work. They should carry out the correction or withdrawal processes in co-operation with the editors.
ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RULES FOR REFEREES
All articles submitted to Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Sciences are evaluated through a double blind review process. Double blind reviewing 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. The referees make their decisions on the contribution of the article to the main publication areas of Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Sciences and whether the article is publishable or not by filling out the form sent to them through the system. The ethical responsibilities of academicians working as referees in Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Sciences are as follows:
- Referees should pay attention to refereeing articles related to their fields of expertise.
- Referees should inform the editors that they cannot evaluate studies that may have a conflict of interest.
- Reviewers should evaluate the articles impartially.
- Reviewers are required to fill in the online Article Evaluation Form for the articles they evaluate. Referees should express their opinions about the article they evaluate in the article evaluation form with justification.
- Referees should avoid using a language that may offend the authors in their article evaluations, on the contrary, the style they use in their suggestions should be scientific. In case of a negative situation, editors can contact the referee and request them to review and correct their comments.
- Reviewers are required to complete their evaluations by complying with ethical responsibilities within the time given to them.
ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND RULES FOR EDITOR(S)
Editors are obliged to fulfil the ethical responsibilities in the ‘COPE Guide to Ethical Behaviour and Best Practices for Journal Editors’ published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The ethical duties and responsibilities of editors are as follows:
- The editor is obliged to endeavour to improve the quality of the journal and contribute to its development.
- The editor is required to support the freedom of expression of the authors.
- The editor should ensure that the sections of the journal where peer review is not required (letters to the editor, invited papers, conference announcements, etc.) are clearly indicated.
- The editor should endeavour to ensure that the articles published are compatible with the knowledge and skills of the journal's readers.
- The editor should ask the referees to evaluate the articles in accordance with their knowledge and expertise. Thus, it should be ensured that the articles are appropriately evaluated by experts in their fields.
- The editor is obliged to require reviewers to declare that they have no conflicts of interest before evaluating an article.
- The editor should communicate to the referees all the necessary information about the referee evaluation process and what the referees are expected to do
- The editor should ensure that the peer-review process is conducted in a double blind review process and should not disclose authors to reviewers and reviewers to authors. - The editor should evaluate reviewers based on their timeliness and performance.
- The editor should create a database of reviewers and update the database according to the performance of the reviewers.
- The editor should remove reviewers who make rude and offensive comments or return late from the reviewer list.
- The editor should constantly renew and expand the referee list according to the referees' areas of expertise. - The editor should continuously update the publication and writing rules and the sample template for authors on what is expected of them.
- The editor should evaluate the manuscripts submitted to the journal in terms of the journal's editorial rules, the importance and originality of the work, and if he/she decides to reject the manuscript during the first submission process, he/she should clearly and impartially communicate the reasons to the authors. In this process, if it is decided that the article needs to be revised in terms of grammar, punctuation and/or spelling rules (margins, proper referencing, etc.), the authors should be informed about this and they should be given time to make the necessary corrections.
- Manuscripts should include the dates of submission and acceptance for publication.
- When authors request information about the status of their manuscripts, the authors should be informed about the status of their manuscripts without disturbing the double blind review process.
- The final decision on articles submitted to the journal for publication belongs to the editorial board. The editorial board is responsible for determining the articles to be published in the journal within objective and academic criteria.
- The editor should inform the members of the editorial board about the publication and writing rules and explain what is expected of them.
- The editor should communicate the most up-to-date version of the publication and writing rules to the members of the editorial board.
- The editor should evaluate the members of the editorial board and elect members who will actively participate in the development of the journal to the editorial board.
- The editor should inform the members of the editorial board about the following roles and responsibilities:
-To support the development of the magazine
-Writing compilations related to their field of specialisation when requested to do so
- To review and improve publication and writing rules
- To fulfil the necessary responsibilities in the operation of the journal
PLAGIARISM AND UNETHICAL BEHAVIOUR
All articles submitted to Evliya Çelebi Journal of Political Sciences are scanned with any plagiarism software programme before publication. Articles with a similarity rate of 20% or less are accepted for publication. 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.
Some unethical behaviours are listed below:
- Identification of persons who did not contribute intellectually to the study as authors,
- Failure to acknowledge the intellectual contributors to the study as authors,
- Failure to indicate if the article is derived from a 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 process of double blind refereeing,