İnsan ve İnsan

İnsan ve İnsan Journal of Science, Culture, Art and Thought is an open access double blinded peer reviewed international journal which is published biannually. The winter and summer issues are published in January and July respectively.

İnsan ve İnsan Journal of Science, Culture, Art and Thought is a multidisciplinary journal that includes original articles in the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities. In order for an article to be included in the evaluation process, it must be directly related to the theme of the issue, and meet the scientific criteria and quality standards of the journal, Ethical Principles and Publication Rules. The receipt of the articles into the double-blinded referee process depends on the preliminary evaluation of the international editorial board. The papers sent to the journal are reviewed by two anonymous referees minimum after the preliminary evaluation of the editorial board.

Indexes and databases

Journal of İnsan ve İnsan is indexed by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimler Veri Tabanı (SBVT) (Social Sciences and Humanities Database) TR DİZİN, Index Copernicus, EBSCO Host, DOAJ, ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), OAJI, Google Scholar Index and Türk Eğitim İndeksi (Turkish Education Index). The articles published in the Journal are archived digitally in the Dergipark Akademik infrastructre.

1. The journal of İnsan ve insan is published thematically. Each issue focuses on a specific topic. Studies to be sent to the journal must be original and related to the subject of the issue to be published, and must not have been previously published elsewhere or sent for publication.

2. Master's level studies and studies produced from master's theses are not accepted to the Journal of İnsan ve İnsan, even if there is a single author, or a double author with the name of the advisor.

3. Papers presented at academic meetings, symposiums or congresses, or studies produced from these papers are not accepted to the Journal of İnsan ve İnsan.

4. It is assumed that the papers sent to the journal were prepared according to the Journal's "Ethical Principles and Publication Policy" and subjected to a final control and are ready to be published. Therefore, those papers which violate "Ethical Principles and Publication Policy" or suffer from grammatical errors are not evaluated.

5. Papers must be in Word (Microsoft Office 98 and above versions) format.

6. The papers should not exceed 7,000 words including abstract, footnotes and references.

7. We do not prefer to use visual elements such as tables, graphics, pictures, figures and diagrams in the manuscripts to be sent to the Journal of İnsan ve İnsan. Nevertheless, if such items are used in the works, the total number of all visual elements such as Table, Graphic, Picture, Figure or Scheme should not exceed 3 in an article.Tables should not exceed 35 lines as text or table lines. If pictures, graphs, figures or tables are used in the paper, they must also be sent separately as picture or excel files.

8. The papers sent to the journal can be in Turkish or English.

9. The name(s) of the author or authors should be written sequentially under the title of the article. No academic title is specified when writing the author's name(s). The title of the author or authors is indicated with an (*) sign under the names. After the title of author, the name of the institution (University, faculty, department or other) where the author works is indicated. Then the Institution's post address and author's corporate e-mail address are written. ORCID number is given on a separate line. No title other than the academic title is used. The title of the author(s) and institution information in this section should be written in English, whether the submitted manuscript is in Turkish or English.

10. The communication information of the author(s) (name, title, institution, open address, phone numbers for easy access, electronic mail addresses, and ORCID ID) must be sent to the editors along with the paper.

11. The papers must include Turkish and English abstracts, each between 120-150 words, and 5 keywords. The title of the study, both in Turkish and English, the abstract, and the keywords are to be on the first page. In Turkish articles, the Turkish title comes first and the English title comes after. There is a Turkish abstract followed by an English abstract. In English articles, the English title comes first.

12. APA footnote-bibliography reference system should be used in the papers sent to the journal. In order to get an idea in terms of footnote and bibliography articles in our last issue and rules for writers at the end of the journal can be viewed.

13. The papers reviewed by the editors are sent to the Editorial Board for evaluation. The Editorial Board decides to return the paper or send it to at least two anonymous referees, according to the principle of double-blinded peer-review. Studies that are decided to be included in the referee process are sent to at least two anonymous referees in accordance with the double-blind refereeing policy. In line with the reports of the referees, the Editorial Board decides whether to publish the article, to request a correction within the framework of the report from the referees or not to publish it. The author is informed of the decision as soon as possible via the Dergipark e-mail system. The completed or corrected manuscript can be sent back to the referee by the Editorial Board. The Editorial Board ultimately decides whether the manuscripts whose evaluation process is completed will be published in the Journal.

14. Studies must be uploaded through the Dergipark system. Along with the manuscript, "Ethical Responsibility Statement and Copyright Form" should be filled and uploaded to the system.

15. Papers requiring ethics committee permission: Any research carried out with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques,
– Use of humans and animals (including material / data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
– Clinical researches on humans,
– Researches on animals,
– Retrospective studies in accordance with the law of protection of personal data,

Also;

– In the case reports, it is stated that the “informed consent form” was taken,
– Obtaining and specifying the permission of the owners for the use of scales, surveys and photographs of others,
– Stating that the copyright regulations are complied with for the ideas and works of art used

Ethics committee report or permit documents must be submitted for the researches with the above mentioned qualifications.

16. Policy of screening for plagiarism: Papers submitted to the Journal will be screened for plagiarism through the tools like iThenticate, Turnitin or Plagiarisma (Plagiarism Checker) tool. Similarity rate in research articles must not exceed twenty percent. The papers that are detected to be not original or prepared according to academic ethics are subjected by the editors and rejected immediately.

17. Examining the following conditions and forms before submitting a manuscript may be beneficial for the healthy functioning of the process.

- Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

- Paper and writing rules to be followed in the articles to be sent to the journal

- Footnote and bibliography writing guideline

- Ethical Responsibility Statement and Copyright Form
(Download the form to your computer, fill it out and save it using the "save as" option. Send it through the system after checking).

- Article Review Form
(Browsing the evaluation criteria can be helpful and informative for authors.)

18. Paper and Writing Order to be Followed in Articles to be Submitted to the Journal of İnsan ve İnsan

A4 Paper layout
Paper margins: Left: 3,5 cm Right: 3,5 cm Top: 2,5 cm Bottom: 2,5 cm

In-text
Font type: Times New Roman
Font size: 12 pt
Alignment: Justified
Paragraph position: Left: 0 pt Right: 0 pt Special: None
Paragraph spacing: Before: 8 pt After: 0 pt
Line spacing: Single

Paragraph position in quotated paragraphs: Left: 30 pt Right: 0 pt Special: None

Titles and sub-titles
Font format: Bold
Only First Letters in Titles should be Uppercase. (Conjunctions such as “and”, “or”, “with” or prepositions such should be written in lowercase).
Font type: Times New Roman
Font size: 12 pt
Paragraph position: Left: 0 pt Right: 0 pt Special: None
Paragraph spacing: Before: 10 pt After: 0 pt
Line spacing: Single

No title numbering
Studies should include appropriate subtitles in addition to the Abstract, Introduction, Conclusion, and Bibliography. No numbering should be used for the Abstract, Introduction, Title and Subheadings, Conclusion and Bibliography. In the title and subheadings, the first letters of the words should be uppercase, the conjunctions should be lowercase and all should be bold.

Footnotes
Font type: Times New Roman
Alignment: Justified
Paragraph position: Left: 0 pt Right: 0 pt Special: None
Paragraph spacing: Before: 0 pt After: 0 pt
Line spacing: Single
Font size: 9 pt

References
Font type: Times New Roman
Font size: 12 pt
Alignment: Justified
Paragraph position: Left: 0 pt Right: 0 pt special: Hanging indent (by: 0,7 cm)
Paragraph spacing: Before: 2 pt After: 0 pt
Line spacing: Single

Table, Figure, Graph, Picture Captions
Font type: Times New Roman, Italic
Only First Letters in Captions should be Uppercase. (Conjunctions such as “and”, “or”, “with” or prepositions such should be written in lowercase).
Paragraph spacing: Left: 0 pt Right: 0 pt Special: None
Table, Figure or Graphic captions should be above the table, figure or graphics, and Picture captions should be below the pictures.

Tables or Charts should be numbered as follows.

Table 1. Table Caption
Graph 2. Graph Caption

Table contents
Tables (rows, columns and cells) should be prepared in a way that does not cause confusion and data loss during editing. Tables should not exceed 35 lines as text or table lines. In this context, the tables used in the articles should be sent in an Excel file apart from the Word document.

Note: Tables should not be formatted in terms of color and shape, and should give the content simply. Also, tables should never be in image format.

Figures or graphics
Figures or graphics must be sent as an Excel file, in addition to a Word file.

Pictures
Items in image format should have high resolution; image elements must be sent as an image file in addition to the Word file.

Other matters related to writing and citations
When citing works such as books, journals and encyclopedias, they should not be in quotation marks or written in bold. Works such as books should be italicized according to general citation rules.

• Articles should be prepared in accordance with the "Ethical Principles and Publication Policy" and "Writing Rules".
• APA reference system should be used for footnotes and references.

Paper Specifications and Writing Rules

Ethical Responsibility Statement and Copyright Form
(Fill this form after downloading it to your computer. After saving and final checks, upload it to the system with the article.)

Manuscript evaluation form for Referees
(Having a look at the evaluation criteria can be useful and informative for the authors.)

Publication Ethics

The publication process at The Journal of İnsan ve İnsan is the basis of the improvement and dissemination of information objectively and respectfully. Therefore, the procedures in this process improves the quality of the studies. Peer-reviewed studies are the ones that support and materialize the scientific method. At this point, it is of utmost importance that all parties included in the publication process (authors, readers and researchers, publisher, reviewers and editors) comply with the standards of ethical considerations. The Journal of İnsan ve İnsan expects all parties to hold the following ethical responsibilities.

The following ethical duties and responsibilities are written in the light of the guide and policies made by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
• The authors who submit their manuscripts to İnsan ve İnsan Dergisi are expected to comply with the following ethical responsibilities:
• Author(s) must submit original studies to the journal. If they utilize or use other studies, they must make the in-text and end-text references accurately and completely.
• People who have not contributed to the study at the intellectual level should not be indicated as author.
• If the manuscripts submitted to be published are subject of conflicting interests or relations, these must be explained.
• During the review process of their manuscripts, author(s) may be asked to supply raw data. In such a case, author(s) should be ready to submit such data and information to the editorial and scientific boards.
• Author(s) should document that they have the participants' consent and the necessary permissions related with the sharing and research/analysis of the data that are used.
• Author(s) bears the responsibility to inform the editor of the journal or publisher if they happen to notice a mistake in their study which is in early release or publication process and to cooperate with the editors during the correction or withdrawal process.
• Authors cannot submit their studies to multiple journals simultaneously. Each submission can be made only after the previous one is completed. A study published in another journal cannot be submitted to İnsan ve İnsan Dergisi.Author responsibilities given in a study (e.g.: adding an author, reordering of author names) whose review process has begun cannot be changed.

Ethical Responsibilities of Editors

The editor and field editors of İnsan ve İnsan Dergisi should hold the following ethical responsibilities that are based on the guides "COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" published as open Access by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

General duties and responsibilities
Editors are responsible for each study published in The Journal of İnsan ve İnsan. In this respect, the editors have the following roles and responsibilities:
• Making efforts to meet the demand for knowledge from readers and authors,
• Ensuring the continuous development of the journal,
• Managing the procedures aimed to improve the quality of the studies published in the journal,
• Supporting freedom of expression,
• Ensuring academic integrity,
• Following the procedures without making concessions on intellectual property rights and ethical standards,
• Being transparent and clear in issues that require correction or explanation.

Relationships with Readers
Editors must make decisions taking into consideration the knowledge, skills and expectations of all readers, researchers and practitioners need. They must also ensure that the published studies contribute to literature and be original. Moreover, they must take notice of the feedback received from researchers and practitioners and provide explanatory and informative feedback.

Relationships with Authors
Editors have the following duties and responsibilities in their relations with authors:
• Editors must make positive or negative decisions about the studies' importance, originality, validity, clarity in wording and suitability with the journal's aims and objectives.
• Editors must accept the studies that are within the scope of publication into pre review process unless there are serious problems with the study.
• Editors must not ignore positive suggestions made by reviewers unless there are serious problems with the study.
• New editors, unless there are serious issues, must not change the previous editor's decisions about the studies.
• "Blind Review and Review Process" must be published and editors must prevent possible diversions in the defined processes. (For Blind Review and review process, see below, “Editorial and Blind Review Processes”, “The Review Process”, “Relationships with Reviewers”, “Publication Policy”, and "Writing Rules and Author Guidelines".
• Authors should be provided with explanatory and informative feedback.

Relationships with Reviewers
Editors have the following duties and responsibilities in their relations with reviewers:
Editors must
• Choose reviewers according to the subject of the study.
• Provide the information and guidance reviewers may need during the review process.
• Observe whether there are conflicting interests between reviewers and authors.
• Keep the identities of reviewers confidential in blind review.
• Encourage the reviewers to review the manuscript in an unbiased, scientific and objective tone.
• Develop practices and policies that increase the performance of reviewers.
• Take necessary steps to update the reviewer pool dynamically.
• Prevent unkind and unscientific reviews.
• Make effort to ensure the reviewer pool has a wide range.

Relationships with the Editorial Board
Editors must make sure that the members of the editorial board follow the procedures in accordance with the publication policies and guidelines, and must inform the members about the publication policies and developments. Moreover, editors must
• Ensure that the members of the editorial board review the manuscripts in an unbiased and independent manner.
• Select the new members of the editorial board from those who can contribute to the journal and are qualified enough.
• Send manuscripts for review based on the subject of expertise of the editorial board members.
• Regularly communicate with the editorial board.Arrange regular meetings with the editorial board for the development of publication policies and the journal.

Relationships with the Journal's Owner and Publisher
The relationship between the editors and publisher is based on the principle of the independency of editors. All the decisions made by the editors are independent of the publisher and the owner of the journal as required by the agreement made between editors and publisher.

Editorial and Blind Review Processes
Editors are obliged to comply with the policies of "Blind Review Process" stated in this Ethical Principles section, the journal's “Publication Policy” section below, and the “Writing rules and Author Guidelines”. Therefore, the editors ensure that each manuscript is reviewed in an unbiased, fair and timely manner.

Quality Assurance
Editors must make sure that articles in the journal are published in accordance with the publication policies of the journal and international standards.

Protection of Personal Information
Editors are supposed to protect the personal information related with the subjects or visuals in the studies being reviewed, and to reject the study if there is no documentation of the subjects' consent. Furthermore, editors are supposed to protect the personal information of the authors, reviewers and readers.

Encouraging Ethical Rules and Protection of Human and Animal Rights
Editors are supposed to protect human and animal rights in the studies being reviewed and must reject the experimental studies which do not have ethical and related committee’s approval about the population given in such studies.

Precautions against possible Abuse and Malpractice
Editors are supposed to take precautions against possible abuse and malpractice. They must conduct investigations meticulously and objectively in determining and evaluating complaints about such situations. They must also share the results of the investigation.

Ensuring Academic Integrity
Editors must make sure that the mistakes, inconsistencies or misdirections in studies are corrected quickly.

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
Editors are responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all the articles published in the journal and the rights of the journal and author(s) in cases where these rights are violated. Also, editors must take the necessary precautions in order to prevent the content of all published articles from violating the intellectual property rights of other publications.

Constructiveness and Openness to Discussion
Editors must
• Pay attention to the convincing criticism about studies published in the journal and must have a constructive attitude towards such criticism.
• Grant the right of reply to the author(s) of the criticized study.
• Not ignore or exclude the study that include negative results.

Complaints
Editors must examine the complaints from authors, reviewers or readers and respond to them in an explanatory and enlightening manner.

Political and Economic Apprehensions
Neither the owner of the journal, publisher or any other political or economical factor can influence the independent decision taking of the editors.

Conflicting Interests
Editors, acknowledging that there may be conflicting interests between reviewers and other editors, guarantee that the publication process of the manuscripts will be completed in an independent and unbiased manner

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers
The fact that all manuscripts are reviewed through "Blind Review" has a direct influence on the publication quality. This process ensures confidentiality by objective and independent review.
The review process at The Journal of İnsan ve İnsan is carried out on the principle of double blind review.
Reviewers do not contact the authors directly, and the reviews and comments are conveyed through the journal management system. In this process, the reviewer views on the evaluation forms and full texts are assigned to the author(s) by the editor. Therefore, the reviewers doing review work for The Journal of İnsan ve İnsan are supposed to bear the following ethical responsibilities:
Reviewers must
• Agree to review only in their subject of expertise.
• Review in an unbiased and confidential manner.
• Inform the editor of the journal if they think that they encounter conflict of interests and decline to review the manuscript during the review process.
• Dispose the manuscripts they have reviewed in accordance with the principle of confidentiality after the review process. Reviewers can use the final versions of the manuscripts they have reviewed only after publication.
• Review the manuscript objectively and only in terms of its content and ensure that nationality, gender, religious and political beliefs, and economic apprehension do not influence the review.
• Review the manuscript in a constructive and kind tone, avoid making personal comments including hostility, slander and insult.
• Review the manuscript they have agreed to review on time and in accordance with the ethical rules stated above.

Ethical Responsibilities of Publisher
Okur Yazar Derneği, publisher of The Journal of İnsan ve İnsan, The Editors and the Editorial Board of The Journal of İnsan ve İnsan are conscious of the fact that they must observe the ethical responsibilities below and act accordingly:
• Editors are responsible for all the processes that the manuscripts submitted to The Journal of İnsan ve İnsan will go through. Within this framework, ignoring the economic or political interests, the decision-makers are the editors.
• The publisher undertakes to have an independent editorial decision made.
• The publisher protects the intellectual property rights of all the articles published in The Journal of İnsan ve İnsan and holds the responsibility to keep a record of each unpublished article.
• The publisher bears all the responsibility to take the precautions against scientific abuse, fraud and plagiarism.

Unethical Behaviour
Should you encounter any unethical act or content in The Journal of İnsan ve İnsan apart from the ethical responsibilities listed above, please notify the journal by e-mail at editor [at] insanveinsan.org.

Journal’s Publication Policy

• The journal is free, and has no article processing charges (APCs) and no article submission charges.
• Since The Journal of İnsan ve İnsan publishes thematic issues, articles related to the issue are evaluated.
• The papers submitted to the journal should be prepared in accordance with the the “Writing Rules and Author Guidelines”, and the "Ethical Principles" stated in this section.
• APA footnote-bibliography reference system should be preferred in the papers sent to the journal.
• No action is taken on the articles between the start and end dates of article submission. The pre-evaluation process of the articles starts after the submission deadline. Pre-evaluation is completed within an average of 15 days, manuscripts that do not meet the publication rules and conditions or that are deemed inappropriate to be sent to the referees are not included in the double-blind peer review process. The articles that are taken into the referee process are followed by the editors. The referee evaluation process is 20 days on average, and the referee can re-examine the manuscripts that he/she recommends minor or major correction.
• The evaluation and referee processes of submitted articles are completed within three months under normal circumstances, according to the Review process, mentioned above, and stated in the “Writing Rules and Author Guidelines”.
• Studies are not taken into consideration except for the dates specified for manuscript submission.
• According to quality policy of the journal, communication regarding article submission and all subsequent processes is carried out through the Dergipark system. There is no communication via phone or e-mail. 
• The Editorial Board ultimately decides whether to publish articles submitted to the Journal.
• The authors are notified through the Journal’s Dergipark e-mail system about the results of the evaluation of the study. Whether the submitted article will be published in the Journal; if the correction is requested, the details about the corrections are forwarded.
• The studies which their authors do not make the necessary corrections are not included in the publication process.

The journal is free, and has no article processing charges (APCs) and no article submission charges (including article evaluation or referee evaluation fee or pre-print fee).