Writing Rules
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Does the article need an Ethics Committee Approval Letter?
The journal's language is English language. Manuscripts should not exceed 9000 words of text, including references, tables and figures. There can be a maximum of 5 tables in the article.
For a study to be accepted for publication, approval of at least two referees is required. When referees ask for certain changes within the study and if the author(s) disagree(s), s/he may withdraw the manuscript. Communication with referees will be carried out directly electronically and the coordination will be carried out by the Editor and/or subject editor.
ARTICLE GENERAL WRITING RULES
All scientific responsibility for the manuscripts belongs to the author(s). The editor, co-editor and publisher do not accept any responsibility for the articles published in the journal.
Note: In IJATE, at most two articles belonging to an author/ co-author in the same year (volume), a maximum of one article at an issue, might be published.
ABBREVIATION OF JOURNAL NAME
Int. J. Assess. Tools Educ.
IJATE
DOI PREFIX
10.21449/ijate
Each author should indicate to the editor on the presentation page that part or all of the manuscript is not published elsewhere and is not in the process of being evaluated in another journal at the same time. Oral or poster presentations presented at congresses should be indicated on the title page with the name of the congress, place, and date. All responsibility for the articles published in the journal (ethics, scientific, legal, etc.) belongs to the authors.
WRITING LANGUAGE CONTROL
The publication language of the journal is English, and the articles are accepted in only English. English articles and English Abstracts should be checked by a professional linguist before being submitted. The spelling and grammatical errors in the manuscript are corrected by our English language consultant and editorial committee.
ACCEPTANCE OF PUBLISHING
After the approval of the editors and referees, the publication date of the article is taken into consideration. A DOI number is obtained for each post.
The International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education (IJATE) has a fully online submission and online reviewing system. This system offers authors the option of tracking by online review process of their manuscripts. All manuscripts must be submitted online from the system by registering.
DOI PREFIX
10.21449/ijate
Each author should indicate to the editor on the presentation page that part or all of the manuscript is not published elsewhere and is not in the process of being evaluated in another journal at the same time. Oral or poster presentations presented at congresses should be indicated on the title page with the name of the congress, place, and date. All responsibility for the articles published in the journal (ethics, scientific, legal, etc.) belongs to the authors.
WRITING LANGUAGE CONTROL
The publication language of the journal is English, and the articles are accepted in only English. English articles and English Abstracts should be checked by a professional linguist before being submitted. The spelling and grammatical errors in the manuscript are corrected by our English language consultant and editorial committee.
ACCEPTANCE OF PUBLISHING
After the approval of the editors and referees, the publication date of the article is taken into consideration. A DOI number is obtained for each post.
The International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education (IJATE) has a fully online submission and online reviewing system. This system offers authors the option of tracking by online review process of their manuscripts. All manuscripts must be submitted online from the system by registering.
DETERMINING THE SIMILARITY RATE OF THE ARTICLE - PLAGIARISM
IJATE checks the similarity rate of the article in the article upload step. The similarity rate of your article is done automatically by using intihal.net provided by DergiPark during article upload. When the full-text file is uploaded in step 3, it will be forwarded to intihal.net. Preparation of the report may take time. Therefore, an e-mail will be sent to you when the process is completed. In the last step, you can complete the article submission according to the final report or go back to step 3 and repeat the process. When you upload more than one file and receive a similarity report, all reports will be forwarded to the editor. Click to get information about intihal.net.
HOW TO PREPARE MANUSCRIPTS
Submission checklist
You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review.
Ensure that the following items are present:
One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• ORCID
All necessary files have been uploaded.
Manuscript:
• Include keywords
• All figures (include relevant captions)
• All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
• Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided
• Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print
Title
The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant (max. 12 words).
Abstract
The abstract should be a total of about 250 words maximum. The abstract should be a single paragraph and should follow the style of structured abstracts, but without headings: 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied. 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and 4) Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article: it must not contain results which are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
INTRODUCTION
The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should define the purpose of the work and its significance, including specific hypotheses being tested. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the work and highlight the main conclusions. Keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists working outside the topic of the paper.
MATERIALS and METHODS
They should be described with sufficient detail to allow others to replicate and build on published results. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. Give the name and version of any software used and make clear whether computer code used is available. Include any pre-registration codes.
RESULTS
Provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn.
DISCUSSION
Authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted from the perspective of previous studies and the working hypotheses. The findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible and the limitations of the work highlighted. Future research directions may also be mentioned. This section may be combined with Results.
CONCLUSIONS
This section is not mandatory but can be added to the manuscript if the discussion is unusually long or complex.
Figures, Schemes and Tables
Figures, Schemes and Tables must be provided at a sufficiently high resolution (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher). Common formats are accepted, however, TIFF, JPEG, EPS and PDF are preferred.
All Figures, Schemes and Tables should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearance (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, Table 1, etc.).
All Figures, Schemes and Tables should have a short explanatory title and caption.
All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate the copy-editing of larger tables, smaller fonts may be used, but no less than 8 pt. in size. Authors should use the Table option of Microsoft Word to create tables.
Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color (RGB at 8-bit per channel). There is no additional cost for publishing full-color graphics.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the References. If the work has been presented in a conference or scholarly meeting, it should be mentioned here.
Declaration of Conflicting Interests and Ethics
Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." In this section, the ethics committee number of the study must be included.
ORCID NUMBER
All authors should give ORCID numbers
REFERENCES
In preparing the references:
Text: Citations in the text should follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association (APA) Style Guide (7th. Edition). You can get more information here: https://apastyle.apa.org/
List: references should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.
HOW TO PREPARE MANUSCRIPTS
Submission checklist
You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review.
Ensure that the following items are present:
One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• ORCID
All necessary files have been uploaded.
Manuscript:
• Include keywords
• All figures (include relevant captions)
• All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
• Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided
• Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print
Title
The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant (max. 12 words).
Abstract
The abstract should be a total of about 250 words maximum. The abstract should be a single paragraph and should follow the style of structured abstracts, but without headings: 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied. 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and 4) Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article: it must not contain results which are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
INTRODUCTION
The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should define the purpose of the work and its significance, including specific hypotheses being tested. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the work and highlight the main conclusions. Keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists working outside the topic of the paper.
MATERIALS and METHODS
They should be described with sufficient detail to allow others to replicate and build on published results. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. Give the name and version of any software used and make clear whether computer code used is available. Include any pre-registration codes.
RESULTS
Provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn.
DISCUSSION
Authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted from the perspective of previous studies and the working hypotheses. The findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible and the limitations of the work highlighted. Future research directions may also be mentioned. This section may be combined with Results.
CONCLUSIONS
This section is not mandatory but can be added to the manuscript if the discussion is unusually long or complex.
Figures, Schemes and Tables
Figures, Schemes and Tables must be provided at a sufficiently high resolution (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher). Common formats are accepted, however, TIFF, JPEG, EPS and PDF are preferred.
All Figures, Schemes and Tables should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearance (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, Table 1, etc.).
All Figures, Schemes and Tables should have a short explanatory title and caption.
All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate the copy-editing of larger tables, smaller fonts may be used, but no less than 8 pt. in size. Authors should use the Table option of Microsoft Word to create tables.
Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color (RGB at 8-bit per channel). There is no additional cost for publishing full-color graphics.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the References. If the work has been presented in a conference or scholarly meeting, it should be mentioned here.
Declaration of Conflicting Interests and Ethics
Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." In this section, the ethics committee number of the study must be included.
ORCID NUMBER
All authors should give ORCID numbers
REFERENCES
In preparing the references:
Text: Citations in the text should follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association (APA) Style Guide (7th. Edition). You can get more information here: https://apastyle.apa.org/
List: references should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.
***If the original name of the reference is in another language than English; you must provide titles written/translated in English between square brackets [XXXXXXXX]. If possible, and the journal cited provides its name in English, please refer to the journal’s name in English rather than its name in Turkish or any other language when giving references.
Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted provided that they also appear in the main text and in the reference list.
References should be described as follows, depending on the type of work:
ARTICLES
Article -print format:
Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article: Capital letter to start subtitle. Title of Journal, Volume(Issue ), Page numbers.
Online Journal Article format:
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article: Capital letter to start subtitle. Title of Online Periodical, volume number(issue number if available). https://www.someaddress.com
Article format with DOI:
Author, A. A. (Date of Publication). Title of article: Capital letter to start subtitle. Journal title, Volume(issue), page range. https://doi.org/#######
Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted provided that they also appear in the main text and in the reference list.
References should be described as follows, depending on the type of work:
ARTICLES
Article -print format:
Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article: Capital letter to start subtitle. Title of Journal, Volume(Issue ), Page numbers.
Online Journal Article format:
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article: Capital letter to start subtitle. Title of Online Periodical, volume number(issue number if available). https://www.someaddress.com
Article format with DOI:
Author, A. A. (Date of Publication). Title of article: Capital letter to start subtitle. Journal title, Volume(issue), page range. https://doi.org/#######
Working Papers:
Author, A. A. (year). Title of work (Report No. 123). Publisher.
Author, A. A. (year). Title of work (Report No. 123). http://www.URL.com
Source: American Psychological Association, 2010, p.206.
BOOKS
Book format:
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter to start subtitle. Publisher.
Edition number? If the edition is known, include it in the reference - but not the first edition. APA Style Blog: Citing an Edition of a Book in APA Style
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter to start subtitle (edition# ed.). Publisher.
E-book format: Cite an e-book with the same information as a print book, and add the URL.
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter to start subtitle. Publisher. URL
WEBSITES
Web page format - with author:
Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day web page was last updated). Title of website. URL
Web page format - without author.
Corporate Author. (Year, Month Day web page was last updated). Title of website. URL
Web page format - without author and no corporate name.
Title of page. (Year, Month Day web page was last updated). Retrieved from URL
DISSERTATION or THESIS
Author last name, Initials. (Year). Dissertation title (Publication No. Number) [Type of dissertation/thesis, University Name]. Database Name.
REPORTS
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Publication date). Title of document (version number if provided). https://URL
Name of company. (Publication date). Title of document (version number if provided). https://URL
Name of company. (Publication date). Title of document (version number if provided). Library database name and/or URL.
Print report:
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Publication date). Title of document (version number if provided). Publisher Name.
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