1) About the journal: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Studies is published twice a year (June and December).

The journal, abbreviated as UGEAD, is published as open access and all texts are open to readers. In this way, it is aimed to easily access scientific research and to share scientific knowledge more effectively. The journal provides completely free service for both authors and readers.

UGEAD is a refereed journal and is based on the blind evaluation of each study by at least 2 referees. UGEAD does not accept referee proposals from authors unless necessary. Those who want to be a referee in the journal must contact the journal management.

UGEAD publishes in Turkish and English. Researches with full text in Turkish must definitely have an English abstract.

2) Scope: UGEAD primarily focuses on theoretical and applied sports and education research, but generally publishes in different areas of education and social sciences - fine arts, music, history, etc.

The journal includes all original research such as literature reviews, field research, case reports, letters to the editor, and article/book reviews.

3) Rights and Responsibilities: All authors who submit articles to the journal accept the following conditions;

The article has not been published or sent for publication anywhere;
The authors are entirely responsible for the content and originality;
The journal and the authors' legal rights (copyright) of the article continue without informing the other party. The parties are free to reproduce and use the relevant work. (For example, publishing as a book chapter). In this case, the parties are required to pay attention to ethical rules regarding reference information.
Authors are obliged to state any support they receive for their work (contribution to the research, financial support, etc.) and to cite the relevant parties, if any.
Authors must definitely explain the work presented at a congress or produced from a thesis with a footnote.

4) Originality: Authors who submit articles to the journal undertake that their work is original and has not been published partially or completely anywhere. Any kind of forgery, slicing, reproduction, guest writing are against the journal principles. Articles sent to the journal are subjected to content originality testing through a specific software.

5) Open access policy: The journal adopts an open access policy. Thus, the entire content of the journal can be accessed free of charge on the internet. For details of the open access policy, see; Budapest Open Access Initiative.

6) Printing fee: UGEAD does not charge a FEE under any name for publishing articles.

7) Article preparation and uploading

Author and institution information should be omitted when uploading the article. Articles should be prepared according to the journal writing rules and uploaded to the system as WORD.

Articles may consist of the following sections (sections may vary depending on the type of research);

(1) Title: The title of the research is written with the first letters of the words capitalized and in 14-point font. The names of all authors are written under the title with the first letter capitalized and their surnames in all capital letters in 12-point font; (Ayşe GÜLİSTAN, Mahmut DİNÇDİKEN, Fatma ARAL GÜR). If there is an academic title, institution information, city and country are written in 11 points under the name. Each author's e-mail address and at least one author's full mailing address must be specified.

(2) Abstract (should not be less than 100 words and should not exceed 250 words. This section should briefly convey the background, method, findings and specific results of the research.)

(3) Keywords (should be at least 3 and at most 8 and written in lower case letters, separated by commas)

(4) Introduction

(5) Material and Method

(6) Findings / Results

(7) Discussion / Conclusion

(8) Acknowledgements (if necessary, institutions providing financial support should definitely be stated. For example, BAP Project, TUBITAK project, institutional / individual financial support should be stated in this section.)

(9) References

Articles should not be shorter than 4 pages and longer than 20 pages.

Article Submission

Follow the instructions on the site to upload your article.

Article Format

Articles Microsoft Word file; Font: Normal, Times New Roman, 12 points, single spaced; paragraphs without indentation; 2.5 cm margins on all sides; First letters in the title of the article are capital (Ex. “The Relationship between Multiple Intelligence and Academic Motivation”); First letters in the names of Figures and Tables are capital (Ex. Figure 1. Relationship Diagram between Multiple Intelligence and Academic Motivation, Table 1. Annual Average Income of the Target Audience). Figure names should be given below, Table names above.

References (APA style should be adopted): References used in the text should be given as "Surname, year" e.g. (Kırık, 2013: 67). If there are many authors and page numbers, they should be given as (Turkmen et al., 2013: 65)

1) Copyright & Responsibility: Submitting a manuscript to this journal means that the author(s) agree;


Ø that this manuscript has not been published or sent for publication elsewhere;

Ø they have responsibility of the contents and authenticity of the article;

Ø the journal and author(s) have same right for the copyright of the article and either of the journal or author(s) can use it by anyway without noting the other party.

Ø Author (s) should clearly explain any contributions recieved from other parties, any financial support recieved either from individuals and/or institutions, and also any kinds of conflict of interest.

Ø Author(s) should add an explanation footnote to the title if the manuscript was presented in a conference or reproduced from a dissertation.



2) Originality: Submitting your manuscript to our journal, we understand that this it is an original manuscript and is unpublished work and is not under consideration elsewhere. Plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author’s own work, in whole or in part without proper citation is not tolerated by the journal. Manuscripts submitted to the journal may be checked for originality using anti-plagiarism software. Our journal uses CrossCheck in order to ensure the originality and avoid any kinds of plagiarism.



3) Open Access Policy: The journal is based on open access policy. All the articles published in this journal can be reached free of charge any time through a regular internet connection. Therefore, all our articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, distribute, copy, share, print, search, on link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing by ahy of the indexes and databases, or use them for any kinds of legal purpose without any financial, legal, or technical restrictions. For the full details of this policy please refer to Budapest Open Access Initiative.



4) Publication Costs: There is NO FEE to publish articles in this journal. We don't ask for any charges under name of article submission or processing cost.



5) Language: The first issue of IntJSCS was published exceptionally in Turkish. All the other issues are/will be published only in English. Manuscripts written by Turkish authors also may optionally have Turkish abstracts. Special issues may also be published in alternative languages, but English abstract will be necassary in this case.



6) Manuscript Preparation

Ø Each manuscript is suggested to include the following components, but not necessarily to follow it exactly;

(1) Title: including the complete article title; each author’s full name; institution(s) with which each author is affiliated, with city, state/province, zip code, and country; and the name, complete postal address, telephone number, and at least one email address for author(s). IT IS NECESSARY to have EACH AUTHOR's full contact details!

(2) Abstract (not less than 100 words and more than 200 words; including Background, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussions)

(3) Key Words (not less than 3 words and more than 8 words)

(4) Introduction

(5) Materials and Methods

(6) Findings / Results

(7) Discussions / Conclusions

(8) Acknowledgments (if applicable - And if there is a funding resource, it has UTMOST importance to explain it in this part!))

(9) References

Manuscript length for a research paper should be 5 to 15 pages.



Ø Manuscripts Submission

Authors should register with this web site and upload article through “article submission”



Ø Manuscript template

Manuscripts should be prepared with The Microsoft Word file; Font: Normal, Times New Roman, 12 pt, single space; Indent: Type 6 spaces in the beginning of each new paragraph; Page Setup: Paper-Letter size; Margins-2.5 cm each side; Title: Use Title Case in the title and subtitles (e.g. “The Relationship between Multiple Intelligence and Academic Motivation”); Figures and Tables: Use full word of figure and table (e.g. Figure 1. Relationship Diagram between MI and AM, Table 1. Annual Income of Target Groups)



Ø References (APA style): Cite references in the text as “last name, year”, e.g. (Turkmen, 2003). For multiple authors and page numbers in the text, e.g. (Turkmen et al., 2013:65).

References should be listed in alphabetical order, and include all the authors’ last names and initials, title, journal, year, volume, issue, and pages etc.



Reference Examples:

Gardner H, Bozkus T (2012). Multiple intelligences: the theory in practice. New York: Basic Books.

Stanford P (2003). Multiple intelligence for every classroom. Journal of Education Psychology, 39(2): 81-89, http://www.iscs-a.org/content/39/2/80 (accessed May 14, 2013).

Turkmen M (2004). The effects of martial arts on children development. International Journal of Education Reviews, 8(3): 276-281.