Interdisciplinary Media and Communication Studies

Interdisciplinary Media and Communication Studies (IMCS) aims to be a peer-reviewed, electronic, and international journal that publishes theoretical and applied academic studies that contextualize, compare, and interdisciplinarily understand communication, media, cinema, public relations, advertising, visual communication design, and new media products by associating them with the cultural, social, economic, and historical data of the geography in which they are produced.

The journal seeks to:

Provide a platform for the dissemination of original research and scholarship in the fields of communication, media, and culture.
Foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration between scholars from different disciplines.
Promote a contextual, comparative, and interdisciplinary understanding of communication, media, and culture.
Encourage the development of new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of communication, media, and culture.
The journal publishes the following types of articles:

Research Articles: Original research that reports on the findings of empirical studies.
Theoretical Articles: Articles that develop or advance theoretical frameworks or perspectives.
Review Articles: Critical reviews of the literature on a particular topic.
Book Reviews: Reviews of recently published books in the fields of communication, media, and culture.

Writing Rules

IMCS Journal Author Guidelines

General Information

Word count: The submitted article, including references and footnotes, should not exceed 8000 words.
Format: Manuscripts should be in Word format, Times New Roman font, 1-line spacing, 12-point text size, 10-point footnotes, and justified. 6 nk space should be left before and after paragraphs.
Author information: The author(s)' information should not be included in the main text of the uploaded article. Author information should be uploaded in a separate file with name, surname, academic title, institution, e-mail address, and Orcid membership number.
Title: English and Turkish titles should be centered, 14-point, and bold above the abstract in the respective language.
Abstract: The abstract should not exceed 200 words in both Turkish and English. 5 keywords should be included under the abstracts in the respective language.
Section Headings and Subheadings: Section and Subheadings should be right-aligned, 12-point, and bold. Headings should follow the format 1., 1.1, .1.1., 2., 2.1, 2.1.1.
Tables and Figures: The number and descriptions of tables, figures, graphs, etc. in the article should be placed above the figures and their explanations below the figures. The text in the tables should be 10-point, single-spaced, and with a paragraph spacing of 0 nk.
References and Bibliography: The IMCS Journal accepts the APA 7 format for citation and bibliography writing rules.

Additional Information

Plagiarism report: The authors are solely responsible for their work, and it should not contain plagiarism. A plagiarism report obtained from Turnitin or iThenticate programs should be uploaded to the system as an "Additional File" from the "Article Files". In order for the studies to be evaluated, the Turnitin or iThenticate plagiarism report must be at most %10 (excluding references, excluding less than 5 words, including quotes). The utilization rate of the same study should be at most %3. Studies with a similarity ratio above these rates or without a Turnitin/iThenticate report will be rejected in the pre-evaluation process. In necessary cases, the journal management can subject the article to a plagiarism check. Articles that do not meet the relevant criteria can be "returned to the author for revision" or "returned to the author".

Responsibility: The author(s) are deemed to have accepted that the work has not been previously published, has not been accepted for publication, and is not currently under evaluation for publication elsewhere when submitting an article. The authors are solely responsible for all articles submitted for publication. The authors are responsible for all legal aspects of the content they prepare. Authors submitting articles to the journal are deemed to have accepted that they comply with universal academic ethical principles, that they have included persons with intellectual property rights in the study or have obtained written permission, and that they have provided the necessary information to the editorial board about their work.
Conflict of interest and contribution rate statement: It is mandatory to upload the form declaring the conflict of interest situation between the authors or, if any, other rights holders, and the contribution rate to the work as an additional file. All financial support sources received for the study should be clearly stated.

Copyright and Permissions: By submitting their work for publication, the author(s) assign the copyright to Yaşar University Faculty of Communication, Interdisciplinary Media and Communication Studies Journal. The copyright of the published articles belongs to the journal and cannot be transferred without reference. If the work is a translation, a document is requested from the author(s) who made the translation stating that the publisher of the original text of the translated work has given permission for its publication. This document is uploaded to the system as an additional file along with the original text of the work. The author(s) are obliged to sign the Copyright Transfer Form and upload it to the system.

Ethics Committee Approval: As of 2020, the Ethics Committee Approval Document has become mandatory with the changes made in the TR Dizin Journal Evaluation Criteria. In the statement made by TR Dizin: "Separate ethics committee approval must be obtained for all research conducted in all scientific fields, including social sciences, and for clinical and experimental studies on humans and animals that require ethics committee approval. This approval must be specified and documented in the article."

In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information about the approval (board name, date, and number) should be included in the methods section and also on the first/last page of the article. In case presentations, it is necessary to include information in the article that the informed consent form has been signed."

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Registration:
To submit a manuscript and related items online and track the status of recent submissions, authors must register and log in. They can either sign in to an existing account or register for a new account.

Submission:
As a part of the submission process, authors must ensure that their submission adheres to the guidelines presented below. If the submission does not fulfill these requirements, it will be sent back to the authors.

Originality:
It is mandatory that the submission has not been published previously or submitted to another journal. In case the submission is derived from a doctoral thesis or has been presented at a congress before, the author(s) must indicate it in the "Comments to the editor" section.

About the quality of writing:
To prevent the possibility of rejection, manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Interdisciplinary Media and Communication Studies (IMCS) must be written exceptionally well, devoid of any grammatical errors, and presented in clear and understandable language. Once the articles have been accepted through the peer review process, the editorial team meticulously reviews the style guidelines of the journal. This review process includes examining URLs, citations, and references, and checking for proper grammatical quality, coherence, and overall logic of the writing. If the editorial team identifies an excessive number of errors requiring correction, the manuscript will be rejected early in the process. This rejection will be enforced even if the manuscript has successfully passed the previous peer review stage.

Anonymity of the authors:
Authors are required to anonymize their article, which entails removing any author names from the manuscript. Moreover, no identifying information should be included in the "Options" section of the Word document's "File" menu. However, self-citations do not need to be anonymized.

Co-authors:
If the manuscript has been collaboratively written, it is crucial to confirm that all co-authors are registered correctly with the Journal of Interdisciplinary Media and Communication Studies (IMCS). Furthermore, authors must ensure that the co-authors' order is accurate. It is essential to provide their affiliations, postal addresses, email addresses, and Orcids ID numbers.

Bibliography format:
All the bibliography that you include should be cited in the text in APA 7 format.

Manuscript evaluation process:
After receiving a manuscript, the journal's editorial team will review it. If they find it interesting and it meets the acceptance criteria, it will move on to the next phase of peer review. However, if there are too many errors, the manuscript will be rejected at the beginning. The review process is double-blind, meaning the reviewer and the author remain anonymous to each other. The review is done by experts in the field, either members of the journal's Advisory Board or external to the editorial team. Based on the review reports, the editor of the journal will make the final decision on whether to publish the manuscript or not. Even if a manuscript is accepted in the peer review process, it can still be rejected if it is poorly written, has inconsistencies, repetitions, inaccurate or inappropriate assertions, or faults in the bibliography. To ensure manuscripts stay relevant, the management and reviewers of the journal work to quickly review articles, typically taking only a few weeks to accept or reject them. The Editorial Office will communicate the decision to the authors.

General criteria for the acceptance:
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Media and Communication Studies (IMCS) accepts only manuscripts that are original and have not been published before. By submitting their work, authors assure that their article is original and free from any plagiarism, including self-plagiarism or duplicate publication. If the manuscript is not published but has previously appeared as a pre-print on a website or in a repository, or has been presented at a conference, the authors must inform the journal, which will consider its acceptance.
Ethical rules and principles:
Journal of Interdisciplinary Media and Communication Studies (IMCS) values scientific integrity in publishing and takes a stance against dishonest practices such as distributing false authorship among authors. Therefore, we request that authors complete a form that specifies the detailed contribution of each author to the article. This journal does not tolerate partial publication of results. Any works that demonstrate unjustified fragmentation or the "production of articles in series", either through the manuscript itself or the publication of partial results in other journals, will be rejected.

Research data:
In terms of the timeliness of the information, we expect that the data gathering, operation or field study should not have exceeded two years from the date the manuscript was submitted to Journal of IMCS. Outdated studies are not accepted.