General Rules
1. The manuscript submitted to the journal must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The authors also confirm that the work has not been assigned or licensed to any other publisher.
2. Authors retain the copyright of their work and grant IJTSEP the right of first publication. The published work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
3. The authors confirm that the submitted manuscript complies with the ethical principles for human and animal research in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The authors bear full responsibility for the ethical conduct of the study.
4. A plagiarism report generated by software such as iThenticate or Turnitin must be uploaded as a supplementary file at the time of submission. The report must be signed by the author(s). The similarity index must not exceed 15%, excluding references.
5. If the study was supported by an institution or organization, or derived from a master’s or doctoral thesis, this must be clearly indicated as a footnote on the first page of the manuscript.
6. ORCID iDs of all authors must be provided on the title page.
7. Author names and institutional affiliations must not be included in the main manuscript file to ensure a blind review process. This information should be provided only on the title page. The corresponding author must be clearly indicated.
8. After submission, no author may be removed, added, or rearranged in the author list without the written consent of all authors.
9. Manuscripts that comply with the journal’s author guidelines must be submitted via the online submission system:
https://dergipark.org.tr/journal/3305/submission/start
Author Guidelines
Title of the study;
• Should be bold, use Times New Roman font size 14, and each initials capitalized
Manuscripts;
• Should be written with the following sub-titles in the following order: abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, references; appendices (as appropriate).
• Each sub-title’s initials should be capitalized, bold and should use Times New Roman font size 12
Abstract;
•Should be unstructured and contain between 150 and 250 words.
• Should contain between 3 and 5 keywords, separated by commas and initials-capitalized
• Should be single-spaced and use Times New Roman font size 10
Main text;
• should use Times New Roman font size 12 on paper size A4 with a 2,5 cm margins on each sides.
• Should use 1,5 line spacing.
• There should be no more than 40 references, and no more than 6 tables and figures (combined total).
• Spelling can be US or UK English so long as usage is consistent.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Edition) should be followed for all references, tables, figures and reporting the statistics.
Tables should be single-spaced and font size 10
Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour). Figures should be supplied in JPEG for high-quality concerns.
First level title (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion, Bibliography, etc.)
Please Use This Style for All Paragraph Beginnings. Times New Roman, 1.5 Line Spacing, Justified.
Second Level Title (Data Collection Tools, Participants, etc.)
Please Use This Style for All Paragraph Beginnings. Times New Roman, 1.5 Line Spacing, Justified.
Third Level Title
Please Use This Style for All Paragraph Beginnings. Times New Roman, 1.5 Line Spacing, Justified.
Tables
Tables, graphs and statistical reporting should be prepared according to APA 7 style. Table font should be written in 10 points, single spacing.
Example table;
Table 2
Title Should be Times New Roman 12 point. Table Number Should be Given Above.
xxxxxxxxxx(table)
In-text citations
Author information can be given in/out parentheses.
• In the citation in parentheses, the author's surname and publication date are included in parentheses. The author surname and date are added at the end of the sentence in parentheses and a comma is used after the author surname.
(Author, 2020)
• In citation outside of parentheses (narrative), the author's surname is included as part of the sentence and the year is in parentheses.
Author (2020)
• If a work has two authors, always include the surnames of both authors whenever you refer to the source.
(Author and Author, 2022)
Author and Author (2020)
• If a study has three or more authors, give only the surname of the first author and then “et al.,”
Author et al. (2022)
(Author et al., 2022)
• When more than one source is in parentheses, they should be cited in alphabetical order and separated by semicolons.
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Bibliography
For a detailed review of the reference, please review the journal author guideline. Line spacing must be single. It should be in the 0 pt range first and then 8 pt. The second line of the bibliography should start with a 1 cm indent.
• References should be listed in alphabetical order according to the first author's surname and first letter.
• In studies with one or two authors, the conjunction "and" should be used between two authors.
• In studies with three or more authors, the conjunction "and" should be used before the last author.
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Conference Papers
Author, A. A. (Year, Month 1-30). Title of the study. Congress Name, (pp. 13-23). City, Country.
Theses
Author, A. (2022). The title of the thesis is in italics. Unpublished PhD thesis, University, Institute, Department, City.
Webpage
Author Surname, Initial or Group name. (Date). Title of the study. The name of the website. The URL …. taken on.
World Health Organization (2020, 13 November). Coronavirus. World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/.
Official Publications and Press Releases
Turkish Statistical Institute. (2020). Sports with statistics (Publication no. 1313). https://tuik....
Note: All references should be arranged according to APA 7
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples