The information on this page is general information only. Please review the detailed author guideline before submitting your article. CLICK HERE for the guidelines.

a) Publication Principles
The articles published in the journal cannot be quoted without citing the source. Articles published in the journal cannot be published elsewhere. Studies that have been previously published elsewhere or submitted anywhere for publication will not be published in the journal. The journal publishes articles in Turkish and English. Authors are obliged to comply with the copyright and permission status of the visual materials etc. used in the articles. The journal bears no responsibility for the copyright and permission status of the materials used in the articles. Authors are expected to be meticulous in this regard and to indicate the copyright or permission status in the “disclosure” section. The journal does not charge any fee from the authors. The journal applies open access policy and does not charge readers for access.

b) General Rules
1) Articles submitted to the journal should be at least 6000 and maximum 9000 words including citations and references. Book reviews should be minimum 750 and maximum 1500 words.
2) Articles should include an abstract of 150-200 words in Turkish and English. Abstracts should not exceed 200 words. Turkish and English titles and abstracts must be a literal translation. Abstracts should be accompanied by 5 keywords ranked from general to specific in both languages
3) The text of the article should be written in Times New Roman font, 12-point font size and single line spacing. Footnotes used when needed should be written in 10-point font size and single line spacing. The main title of the article in English and Turkish should be written in 14-point font size and all other headings should be written in 12-point font size in bold. The title of the article and the bibliography should be written centrally, and all other headings should be left justified. Paragraph headings should also be left justified; paragraph headings should not be indented.
4) The titles of the articles should be numbered and the first title should be "1. Introduction". The main headings after the title "1. Introduction" should follow the number. Subheadings should also be numbered as 1.1., 1.2. etc. All headings, including the conclusion, should be numbered.
5) The references used at the end of the article should be given under the title "References". The bibliography title should start on a new page.
6) All materials such as tables, figures, photographs, etc. used in the article should be numbered. The materials should be placed above the material in the form of Table 1; Figure 2; Figure 3 etc., left justified and in bold.

c) Author Guidelines
As of 2021, the Journal of Iranian Studies has switched to the APA (American Psychological Association) 7th Edition reference system. The rules in the American Psychological Association - APA Publication Manual 7th Edition (2020) should be applied for references to source types that are not examples below.
Accordingly; citations are given in the form of a reference in the text in accordance with APA style and footnotes are not used in articles unless necessary. Footnotes may be used only when there is a need to explain a point. Citations in footnotes should also be given in accordance with APA style rules.

Important points that you should pay attention to when citing with APA 7 are as follows:

1) When referring in the text, only the surname of the first author should be written in publications with three or more authors. Other authors are indicated with the abbreviation "et al." or "vd." according to the language of the article.

For example; Baykal et al. (2014) or (Baykal et al., 2014). In studies with two authors, the surnames of both authors are written and the symbol "&" is placed between them. For example; "(Yeşil & Dinler, 2020)" or "According to Yeşil and Dinler (2020)...".

2) If the article you will cite has a DOI number, the DOI must be presented in the bibliography.

3) In the new version, the “access date” in references to websites in the bibliography have been removed. Access date can be given only when necessary.

4) In the current version, the place of publication has been removed from the bibliography. The place of publication does not need to be written in the bibliography.

5) The references in the bibliography should be listed alphabetically.

6) In in-text references, if a certain page of the source is used, the page number have to be specified. Paragraph numbers should be given in sources without page numbers such as websites. In cases where the page number is not specified, it will be understood that the entire source is cited. This rule applies to all sources.

For in-text citation and bibliography rules according to APA 7, CLICK HERE

Make sure that your citations are given according to the rules here. Make sure that your citations are given according to the rules here.
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples 

Detailed examples and explanations can also be found in the publicly available Purdue University Writing Lab. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_the_basics.html 

You can also make use of the University Library of Western Sydney's publicly available APA7 examples and explanations.
https://library.westernsydney.edu.au/main/sites/default/files/pdf/cite_APA.pdf