1. KMU EFAD EDITORIAL RULES

• Articles and studies to be submitted to KMU EFAD Journal must not have been previously published or submitted for publication.
  
• The Journal of the Faculty of Letters of KMU (KMU EFAD) mainly publishes original research, original compilations, extended papers, original translations, book reviews, reviews, opinions and letters to the editor in Turkish in the field of social and human sciences.
  
• Studies submitted to KMU Faculty of Letters Journal (KMU EFAD) are carefully and objectively reviewed by the editorial board in the first stage. If the articles submitted to KMU EFAD do not comply with the spelling rules, the Editorial Board may reject the submitted articles outright. If the articles are written in accordance with KMU EFAD's publishing and writing rules, they are sent to three referees using the "double-blind" technique. After the positive report of at least two of the three referees, the studies will be published in the relevant issues after the necessary arrangements have been made.
  
• In accordance with the double-blind technique, the names and institutions of the authors are removed from the original text and sent to peer reviewers. Information about the reviewers is not shared with the authors, and information about the authors is not shared with the reviewers under any circumstances.
  
• The referee evaluation process is set to a maximum of 30 days. However, for those articles for which no feedback is provided, a new referee will be appointed and the referee process will start again for the study. The Arbitration Board membership of the referee who does not evaluate the paper within the specified time will be evaluated by the journal management.
  
• The current status should be indicated as a footnote under the first page of the studies supported by an institution or organisation or prepared from master's or doctoral theses sent to the Journal of the Faculty of Letters of KMU (KMU EFAD).
  
• When the articles submitted to the Journal of the Faculty of Letters of KMU (KMU EFAD) are sent to the authors for the necessary corrections after the refereeing process, the author cannot add or remove anything that remains outside the referee's recommendations and cannot change the original text.
  
• The final version of the articles sent to the KMU Faculty of Letters Journal (KMU EFAD) and approved for publication in accordance with the referee's recommendations will be sent back to the author for review. After the author's check, the papers that have passed the peer review process will be published according to the date of receipt.
  
• All rights of the articles sent to the Journal of the Faculty of Letters of KMU (KMU EFAD) are deemed to have been transferred to the journal by the author. For this process, a "Copyright
• Transfer Form" is requested from the author. This form should be uploaded to the Dergipark application system with the article.
• The responsibility (scientific ethics, plagiarism, etc.) of the articles sent to the Journal of the Faculty of Letters of KMU (KMU EFAD) rests with the author or authors unilaterally. EFAD cannot be put under any obligation in this regard.
• Articles sent to KMU Faculty of Letters Journal (KMU EFAD) are scanned with plagiarism detection programs called "iThenticate" or "Turnitin". In cases where the plagiarism rate is exceeded, the Editor group retains the authority to take the necessary sanctions. Studies may be rejected for this reason.
• Please note that works that do not comply with the rules mentioned above will not be evaluated under any circumstances.
• You can send your articles to be published in the KMU Faculty of Letters Journal (KMU EFAD) at https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/efad. 

2. KMU EFAD WRITING AND REFERENCES RULES

The bibliography, imprint, in-text references and citation rules used and to be used in the Journal of the Faculty of Letters of Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University (KMU EFAD) have been prepared on the basis of the references commonly used in the fields of social sciences and humanities.

• The articles to be sent to the journal should be in a Word file in A4 format; 2 cm from the top and 1.5 cm from the bottom. 1.5 cm from the left and right. should be prepared accordingly.
• Articles should be written in Times New Roman font with single line spacing. The title of the main article should be short, no more than 15 words, and should cover the topic; the words should be in capital letters, 12 point and bold. The title of the second article (in Turkish/English) should have the same meaning as the original title, the words should be in lower case, 12 point and bold.
• The "Abstract" part of the article should be written in Turkish and English, with a minimum of 150 and a maximum of 350 words, reflecting the purpose, method and results of the research. If the language of the article is Turkish, "Oz" should come first, and if it is English, "Abstract" should come first. Keywords should be a minimum of 3 words and a maximum of 5 words.
• Authors' names should be left blank after the title of the article, and the initials of the name(s) should be capitalised in 12 point size and bold; my genealogy should be written in all capitals. Authors' names should be aligned on the right-hand side of the page. Academic titles and other information should be given in footnotes in font size 10 (e.g., title, institution name and information, city/country. E-mail: ...., Orcid: ...).
• First-level headings should be left-aligned, 12 point, bold and single-spaced, with the first letter of each word capitalised. Articles should clearly state the subject of the problem/study in the introduction. The title of the paper should not be numbered. The introduction should be followed by the method, if any, the results, the comments/discussion and the conclusion. There may be different sections for different areas. All other sections of the text should be written in 12 point font with single line spacing without breaking the formatting.
  
• Second, third and fourth level subheadings should be left-aligned, 12 pt, lowercase with the first letters of words capitalised and bold.
  
• Tables in the article should be formatted as required by their own content, with the table title numbered, above the table and centred.
  
• Subheadings and numbering should not be used in the conclusion; articles may be sorted if desired.
  
• If there are more than five authors, the names of the first five authors should be given in the bibliography, and the expression "et al" should be used after the fifth author.
  
• In the text and titles, the abbreviation "Before Christ" should be given as BC, and the abbreviation "After Christ" should be given as AD.
• At the end of the article; a statement of the researcher's contribution rate, a statement of support and acknowledgement, if any, and a conflict statement should be included.
  
• If the date of publication of a work cannot be found, the date when copyright was last granted should be given; if the date information cannot be found at all, the abbreviation "n.y." should be used.
  
• In the bibliography section, after the name of the person who prepared the publication, the abbreviation (Jun.) should be used instead of the author(s), and (Ed.) should be used instead of the editor(s).
  
• In the bibliography section, the names of journals and books should be written in italics with the full name without abbreviation.
  
• In the bibliography section, proceedings should be listed as "book", and a statement taken from the proceedings book should be listed as "book section".
  
• In the Bibliography section, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, biographies, etc. should be listed. It should be written as "a chapter within a book" for information taken from a particular part of sources such as
  
• In the bibliography section, encyclopaedia, dictionary, biography, etc. If the author of the articles is not known in the sources, the entry should be made using the name of the article.
  
• In the case of dissertations to be used in the bibliography section, the words "Unpublished Master's Thesis", "Unpublished Doctoral Thesis" or "Unpublished Proficiency in Art" should be used after the name of the dissertation. The name of the university or institution where the degree was obtained must be given.
  
• In the bibliography section, the imprint entry should be made with the name of the law in laws and regulations. After the name of the law, the date of adoption of the law (only in the year) and the date of the journal in which the law was published (as day, month, year) should be given at the end of the imprint.
  
• In the bibliography section, in addition to the basic information in electronic resources, the date of access and the access address should be given; in the case of e-resources, the date of last update should be given as the date of publication.
  
• In the bibliography section, personal interviews such as letters, emails, telephone conversations do not need to be included in the bibliography, but should be referenced in the text.

2.1. Bibliography Examples