1. Hacettepe Law Review (HLR) is a national and refereed journal; it is published twice a year in June and December .

2. Manuscripts submitted to the Journal should not have been published or under consideration for publication elsewhere.

3. The publication language of the journal is Turkish, but studies in foreign languages that function as scientific communication are also included.

4. Manuscripts submitted to the journal should include Turkish and English titles, Turkish and English abstracts of at least 100 and at most 300 words, and five keywords in each language should be included at the beginning of the manuscript.

5. 12-point font size should be used in the main sections of the manuscript; 10-point font size and 1.5 line spacing in sections such as footnotes, abstracts and tables, and “Times New Roman” or one of the other equivalent typefonts should be used.

6. The citations in the articles submitted to our journal should be based on the OSCOLA 4th Edition citation system.

7. An extended abstract of 750-1000 words in English should be sent with the articles submitted to our journal.

8. Articles submitted to our journal should consist of a maximum of 12,000 words including footnotes and bibliography.

9. At the end of the study, a bibliography should be included in which the sources used are arranged in alphabetical order according to the surname of the author. The bibliography should include only the works that the study refers to. References made in the text should be shown at the end of each page using the “footnote method”. The first reference to a work in footnotes and the works cited in the bibliography should be written in the same format. For the integrity of the journal, the examples shown below should be followed.
If more than one work of the author or authors published in the same year is cited, differentiation can be made by adding letters such as “a”, “b”, “c”, etc. next to the year of publication. This should also be indicated in the bibliography. Abbreviations such as “ibid” can also be used in case of repeated references to the same author or authors' works.

10. Submissions regarding the studies to be evaluated must include the author's name, title, workplace (if any) and contact information (address, telephone and e-mail addresses) and ORCID.

11. The articles should include the following statement: “This article complies with the Research and Publication Ethics Rules of Hacettepe Law Review.
prepared as a copyrighted work.” should be included.

12. Copyright regulations must be respected for the intellectual and artistic works used.

13. It is accepted that authors submit their work for publication “as is”. Manuscripts that do not comply with scientific criteria and/or contain unusual spelling mistakes may be rejected by the Editorial Board without being sent to a referee.

14. The first evaluation of the manuscripts submitted to the journal is carried out by the Editorial Board by simple majority decision and the result of the meeting is recorded in a report (if the author(s) of the submitted manuscript is a member of the Editorial Board, he/she cannot attend the evaluation meeting). Manuscripts that are found suitable for evaluation as a result of the first review are sent to the referee determined by the Editorial Board to be evaluated in terms of whether they are scientifically suitable for publication or not, with the author's name removed from the text in accordance with the principle of “objective evaluation”. The author is not informed which referee the manuscript has been sent to. In line with the referee report, it is decided to publish the article, to request corrections from the author or to reject the article. The Editorial Board decides whether the manuscripts deemed scientifically competent in the referee report will be published or not, or in which issue of the journal they will be published. The author is informed about all these stages via e-mail.

15. In addition to peer-reviewed articles, the journal also publishes translated articles, judicial sentence reviews, reviews of legal rules and book reviews. The Editorial Board decides whether or not to publish such articles.

16. All publication rights of the manuscripts, including full-text publication or republication in all kinds of electronic media, belong to Hacettepe University (University). Authors are deemed to have transferred all publishing (copyright) rights related to their submitted manuscripts to the University; no additional fee is paid to the authors.