Style Guidelines: The journal includes articles written in Turkish or foreign languages on the
subjects and styles indicated above. Authors submit in Turkish follow the spelling rules accepted
by Turkish Language Society. Authors themselves are responsible for the spelling of their articles.
Articles are expected be typed in in MS Word program with the font Times New Roman. Margins
setting should be 3 cms on the top, 1,5 cms at the bottom, 1,5 cms on the right and left sides.
a) Names of the author
Names of author/s, their institution and department, and their e-mail addresses should be added.
b) Titles and the text
The title, both in the language of the article and in English is given in capital letters, 11 font
size, bold and center-aligned.
Section headings are laid out without indent, bold and in capital letters, center-aligned, in Times
New Roman, 11 font size, 12 pel space before paragraph and 0 pel space after paragraph,
in 1,15 line space (headings should not be numbered). First paragraph after the main title
should be typed without indent, in Times New Roman, 11 font size, justified-aligned, 3 pel
space before and after paragraph, in 1,15 line space.
Second and later paragraphs following section and sub-section titles should be typed 1 cm
indented, in Times New Roman, 11 font size, justified-aligned, 3 pel space before and after
paragraph, in 1,15 line space.
Table titles should be typed in Times New Roman, 11 font size and table texts should be typed
in Times New Roman with the font size 10.
c) Abstract and Keywords
The article should include an abstract in Turkish, briefly expressing the content of the article in
maximum 100 words and a second abstract, accompanying this, in English in maximum 100
words. Following the Turkish and English abstracts, it should include key words (maximum
5 words).
d) Quotations
When it exceeds 5 lines it is indented 1 cm more than the paragraph indentation and the font
size should be 1 point smaller. When less than 5 lines, it should be laid out in italic. In addition,
all emphasis should be indicated with the italic style.
e) Footnotes
Footnotes should be in 9 font size and single space. The paragraph indent should be 1 cm and
justified. There should not be any line separator for the footnotes. The references inside the
text shall be given in the footnotes beginning from number 1. Besides these, there should be no
references inside the text. For the sources given in the footnotes, the book and the journal titles
shall be in italics, the article names should be given inside the quotation marks as normal. A
full publication information of the source should be shown when it appears for the first time in
the text, then abbreviations like ibid should be used. If more than one book and article by the
same author is used, after the first usage of the second source, the surname of the author, then
a full or shortened name for the book or article should be used. In the case of references with
more than one author, all authors shall be written at the first instance and given in the shortened
style afterwards.
Examples:
Article: Sami Çukadar - Ayhan Tuğlu - Gültekin Gürdal, “New Electronic Resources Management
System for the ANKOS Consortium”, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, cilt 39,
sayı 6, Kasım 2013, s. 590.
Book: Türkan Alvân, Said Paşa İmamı Hasan Rıza Efendi : bir sanatkar, bir müderris, bir
meczûb-ı ilâhî, İstanbul, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi, 2013, s. 87.
f) Bibliography
Sources should be typed without indent, in Times New Roman, 10 font size, 3 pel space before
and after paragraph, in 1.15 line space, justified-aligned in 0.75 cm.
Sources should be given according to international bibliographic standards. If the sources are
by two authors, ‘-’ should be added before the last name of the second author; if they are by
more than two authors, the ‘-’ should be added before the last name of the last author.
Examples:
Article
Çukadar, Sami - Tuğlu, Ayhan - Gürdal, Gültekin, “New Electronic Resources Management
System for the ANKOS Consortium”, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, cilt 39, sayı 6,
Kasım 2013, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2012.11.011)
Book
Alvân, Türkan, Said Paşa İmamı Hasan Rıza Efendi : bir sanatkar, bir müderris, bir meczûb-ı
ilâhî, İstanbul, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi, 2013.