Font Type: Palatino Linetype

Main heading: 16 point,

English heading: 11 point,

Subheadings and all text: 10 point single line spacing, justified,

First line of paragraph: 1 cm,

Abstract and Summary: 8 point single line spacing, justified,

Footnotes: 8 point single line spacing, justified,

Paragraph spacing: top and bottom 6nk, single line spacing References: 10 point and 1 cm hanging indent.

Quotations: 8 point in quotation marks (if the quotation is more than 40 words, 8 point without quotation marks, 1 cm inside and outside)

Articles should also include a Turkish abstract of 100-175 words and an English abstract of no more than 200 words, with 4-7 keywords in both languages added below. The entire article should be between a minimum of 4,000 and a maximum of 10,000 words.

Submissions to our journal must adhere to our article template. Click here to access the article template.

If the article is derived from a thesis, project, or presented as a paper, this must be clearly stated on the first page of the article.

For multi-authored works, authors must declare their contribution ratio and any conflicts of interest during the article submission process. For works derived from postgraduate theses, the author with the highest contribution ratio must be a student.

During the article submission process, any support provided to the work by an institution, organisation, or fund must be stated. Furthermore, if there are individuals, institutions, or organisations that deserve acknowledgement, the relevant information must be clearly stated in the article file.

If artificial intelligence-based tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Grammarly, etc.) were used during the article production process, the stages in which they were utilised must be clearly stated. This information must be provided during the article submission process.

The legal responsibility for articles published in the journal lies with the authors.

Ethics Committee Approval
Our journal requires that all studies in scientific fields requiring ethics committee approval have obtained the relevant ethics committee decision. In this context, information regarding ethics committee approval (committee name, date, and decision number) must be clearly stated in the article text.
In line with the regulations implemented by Ulakbim TR Index since 2020, studies without ethics committee approval are not considered for publication in our journal.

Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
Studies requiring ethics committee approval in our journal include the following:
• All research conducted using qualitative or quantitative approaches involving data collection from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus group studies, observation, experiments, and discussion techniques,
• Studies involving the use of humans and animals (including materials or data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical research conducted on humans,
• Scientific research conducted on animals,
• Retrospective studies within the framework of the Personal Data Protection Law.
For such studies to be considered for evaluation, the relevant ethical committee approvals must have been obtained and these approvals must be clearly stated in the article text.

NOTE: It is recommended that the above notes be read carefully before submitting articles. Articles that do not comply with the relevant criteria will be returned to their authors.