Publication Policy
 

1. Articles submitted for review to the Communication and Diplomacy journal should be written in appropriate academic language, have a distinct theoretical and methodological background and these aspects should be articulated in a systematic manner within the text.

2. The following sections should be included in articles: a Turkish title, an English title, a Turkish abstract (200-220 words), Turkish keywords (5 words), an English abstract (200-250 words), English keywords (5 words), an introduction, conceptual background, method, analysis/discussion of findings, a conclusion, acknowledgements, and references.
 

3. Before the introduction, an extended English abstract of 600-800 words should be included.

4. Since a double-blind peer review system is applied in the journal, the authors’ personal information must not be included in the manuscript file. The authors’ institutional/corporate information, mail addresses, e-mail addresses, and ORCID ID should be uploaded to the system as a separate cover page file. 

5. If the article was produced from a dissertation or a conference communiqué, this should explicitly be mentioned in acknowledgements.

6. Articles produced from dissertations can be submitted to our journal. These articles are published in accordance with the referee reviews and editor decisions, just like other articles.

Referees or editors may request that the article be revised. Revision requirements must be met to ensure that the dissertation-based articles are published. Articles that are not corrected within the specified timeframe will be rejected or returned. 

7. Effective as of 2026, and in accordance with the criteria considered in index evaluation processes, authors whose manuscripts have been published in our journal may not submit a new manuscript for publication in another issue of the journal until at least two years have elapsed from the date of publication.

Spelling Rules  

1. Articles should be written on one side of an A4-format paper with a line spacing of 2.5 cm from the top, bottom, right, and left edges in a Microsoft Word document using Times New Roman, font size of 12, and line spacing of 1.5. The first line of the paragraphs should be 1 cm indented.

2. The total length of an article, including the Turkish abstract, English abstract, keywords, footnotes, acknowledgments, and bibliography, should not exceed 9,000 words.

3. Articles can be submitted in Turkish or English.

4. Authors who plan to submit an article in English must obtain the necessary editing assistance and ensure that their texts have a good command of language and expression before sending them to the journal. English articles that do not meet the requirements of language and expression are not accepted for the publication and are returned.

5. The author/authors in the papers should be highlighted with a single quotation mark; and italics should only be used in the names of books, movies and newspapers. Quotations exceeding 40 words should be indented, single spaced and without quotation marks.

6. While submitting articles, authors are also required to upload the "Copyright Transfer Form."
 

 References
 

In-text Citations

-It is essential to cite the primary sources. However in cases where primary sources are unavailable, secondary sources are cited
-In the text, necessary explanations should be included as footnotes that are numbered. Double quotation marks (“ ”) should be used in the text to indicate direct quotations from the source. If a quotation is longer than 40 words, it should be placed in a distinct paragraph in the text, without quotation marks.

-The references used are indicated by the author's name, publication year and page numbers in parentheses. (Last name, Year of Publication, p. Page Number)

-(Foucault, 1977, p. 25)

-In cases where multiple pages are cited:

-(Foucault, 1977, pp. 25-26)

-Only the year of publication and page number of the source are written in parentheses if the author's name appears in the text: (1977, p. 25)
 

-In references with two authors, both authors' last names are used: (Horkheimer & Adorno, 1972, p. 122), if the same source is cited later in the text: (Horkheimer et al., 1972, p. 122). If two or more works by the same author in the same year are used, they are differentiated by adding a, b, c, etc. to the year of publication: (Foucault, 1977a; 1977b).

-For citing multiple sources on the same subject in the text, sources must be differentiated by a semicolon: (Foucault, 1977, pp. 25-26; Mitchell, 2007, p. 90)
 

References Format
 

As of 2026, manuscripts submitted to our journal must be prepared using a reference management tool such as Zotero, EndNote, Mendeley, or the built-in citation manager in Microsoft Word. Submissions that are not prepared using an approved reference management tool and/or in accordance with the guidelines will not be considered for review. References must be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper.

Books

-Foucault, M. (1977). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. London: Penguin Books.

-Horkheimer, M. & Adorno, T. W. (1972). Dialectic of enlightenment. New York: Herder and Herder.
 

Journal Articles

-Mitchell, J. P. (2007). A fourth critique of the enlightenment: Michel de Certeau and the ethnography of subjectivity. Social Anthropology, 15(1), 89-106.

-Yurdakul, N. B., Dinçer, M. K. & Coşkun, G. (2011). Belediyelerde halkla ilişkiler yönetimi: İzmir ili belediyelerine yönelik bir araştırma. Akademik Yaklaşımlar, 2(2), 198-229.

-Solmaz, B & Görkemli, H. N. (2012). Büyükşehir belediyeleri ve sosyal medya kullanımı. Akdeniz İletişim Dergisi, 18, 9-20.

Translated Books
Laplace, P. S. (1951). A philosophical essay on probabilities (F. W. Truscott & F. L. Emory, Translation). New York, NY: Dover. (The original work’s publication date: 1984)

Edited Books

-Jensen, K. B. (2002). (Ed.). A handbook of media and communication research: Qualitative and quantitative methodologies. London:         Routledge.

Articles in Edited Books

-O'Neil, J. M., & Egan, J. (1992). Men's and women's gender role journeys: A metaphor for healing, transition, and transformation. In  B. R. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender Issues Across The Life Cycle (ss. 107-123). New York, NY: Springer.
 

Unpublished Doctoral Dissertations

-Demir, M. (2008). Sinemada ‘öteki’ [‘Other’ in Movies]. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. Istanbul: Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences.

-Sezgin, M. (2007). Türkiye’deki belediyelerde halkla ilişkiler faaliyetleri ve bir model önerisi. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. Konya: Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü.

Newspaper Articles

-Internet pioneer to oversee network redesign. (2007, 28 Mayıs). The Canberra Times, s. 15.

Electronic Sources

-OECD (2005). Modernising government the way forward. Retrieved from https://www.ntpu.edu.tw/~pa/course/syllabus/herman/96-2Modernising%20gov.pdf  Access D. 24 July 2020.
-Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the living web. A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 149. Retrieved from https://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving Access D. 24 July 2020.
- Spotlight Resources. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/about_the_owl/owl_information/spotlight_resources.html Access D. 24 July 2020.

Tables

The titles of the tables, figures or images included in the article should be written above the relevant field (table, figure, image), in bold, in 10 pt. and centred. In addition, if there is a source to be added to the tables, images or figures, it should be left aligned just below the relevant (table, figure, visual).

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