International Review of Migration and Refugee Studies

International Review of Migration and Refugee Studies is a double-blind peer-reviewed, open access and online interdisciplinary journal established to enable a thorough study of seemingly divergent and mutually interactive issues surrounding the social factors in human migration. All contributions go through a rigorous peer-review process and the journal is open access -i.e. cost-free- for contributors and readers thanks to the generous support of the Turkish National Science Foundation (TÜBİTAK) and Gaziantep University.   

IRMRS is international in scope and welcomes articles on migration and refugee studies from the social scientists all around the world. The journal especially well receives contributions as a result of original empirical research that is oriented towards contemporary developments in the field of migration studies. IRMRS is published by the Gaziantep University Institute for Migration and the unique program of the institute that primarily focuses on research-oriented applied social scientific approach resonates with the journal.

The journal covers subject areas such as sociology of migration, demographics of migration, refugee status under different legal and national contexts, social work and immigrants’ interactions with everyday life, and furthermore, contributions from a vast array of social sciences including but not limited to cultural, legalistic, historical, spatial, political, social and economic studies are eagerly sought by the journal. 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. Manuscripts submitted to IRMRS should not have been previously published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere.

It is the author's responsibility to indicate to the editor the existence of any work already published (or under consideration for publication elsewhere) by the author(s) that is similar in content to the submitted manuscript.

2. All papers should be submitted as MS Windows-compatible word processor files, preferably Word for Windows .doc or .docx files. Authors should not write their personal information like name, last name, and institution on their manuscripts. Personal information should be recorded in a cover letter and uploaded as a supplementary file.

3. The papers should not exceed 10,000 words. Abstracts should not be more than 250 words.

4. Use British or US English spelling and be consistent within the text.

5. All submissions to IRMRS should conform to the requirements of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Further information can be obtained from the American Psychological Association's style website: http://www.apastyle.org/. 

According to APA's 6th edition guidelines, please note that DOIs are required in references and can be obtained at http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/

6. The main body text should be single-spaced, on A4 paper. The margins should be set at 2.5 cm top and bottom, left and right. All sections, including References, must have the same width and depth of type page. All text, except mentioned otherwise, i.e. headings, should be justified.

7. Font: Times New Roman. The main body text should be 12 pt. type. For quotations longer than three lines, start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented 1,25 cm from the left margin. Use 10 pt. type for quotations. Use bold for the title of the article and section headings only. Italics can be used in text for highlighting essential information. Do not underline or boldface to add emphasis. Use italics for emphasis.

8. Please keep to the heading and paragraph styles used by IRMRS for your manuscript. For your reference, follow the guidelines in this template.

9. For every in-text citation in your paper, there must be a corresponding entry in your reference list. APA in-text citation style uses the author's last name and the year of publication, for example: (Field, 2005). For direct quotations, include the page number as well, for example: (Field, 2005, p. 14). 

References in the text of an article should be by the author's name and year of publication, as in these examples: 

Wilson (1999) in a paper on ... [commonest version]; Wilson and Wild (1997c: 22) state that ... [where page number is required]; Evidence is given by Smith et al. (2010) ... [for three or more authors]. Further exploration of this aspect may be found in many sources (e.g. Bright & Snow, 1992; Jones, 1993; Littlewood, 1995a) [note alphabetical order, use of & and semi-colons].

10. For quotations longer than forty words, use a block quotation. Begin the quotation on a new line and indent a half-inch (1.25 cm) from the left margin, leave one empty line above and below. Always give the author's name, year and page number. Do not use quotation marks. 

11. Please refrain from using Word's automated features, for example capitalizing after a period, or adding hyperlinks to internet addresses and e-mail addresses. I.e., http://www.gantep.edu.tr will not be accepted by our editors. Please, double-check to use the correct format: http://www.gantep.edu.tr. You can click on the "Remove Hyperlink" option on the relevant part. 

12. Please avoid footnotes and endnotes – if they are unavoidable, they should be included as endnotes at the end of the chapter, not as footnotes. Number your notes in the text by superscript and indent all lines in the footnote evenly.

14. References should be set out in the alphabetical order at the end of the paper.

15. Only dates should be expressed in numerical terms throughout the text. For example., 1648, 1453, all other quantitative figures should be expressed in letters: not 3 persons, but three persons, or, more than a dozen researchers showed before, not, as more than 12 researchers showed before. Mathematical equations and expressions are not subject to this rule.

16. Figures and tables

All illustrations, photographs, graphics, artwork, and tables can be printed in color or in black-and-white, as long as the author holds the copyright to them. 

The captions for tables should be located above the table. For your reference, please follow the example below:

Leave an empty line before the caption, but not between the caption and the table.

Table 1: 10 pt, Times New Roman, caption title in boldface, the explanation in lowercase, normal

Figures, artworks, graphics, and photographs should be placed in page margins. Captions must be below the figure. For example:

Picture 1: Gaziantep University logo, 10 pt, Times New Roman, Uppercase and lowercase

Leave one empty line after the caption, but not between the caption and the figure.

17. Mathematical equations and expressions should not be copy-pasted as image files. They should be written using the word processor's relevant options.

18. IRMRS encourages the use of reference management software, like Zotero, Endnote, F1000, etc. However, it is the author's responsibility to make sure that references are correctly ordered in their submission.

19. Copyright and permissions

It is solely the author's responsibility to clear permissions for the material used in their article for which they are not the copyright owner. This usually includes all extracts over 400 words, figures, tables, photographs, drawings, etc. Even very short extracts of poetry may need permission. Please bear in mind that just because text and images can be accessed freely on the Internet, it does not mean they are free of copyright. If in doubt, please contact your commissioning editor before submitting a final manuscript. The Journal does not accept responsibility for the copyrights. Submission of an article, either via mail, in-person or through electronic means, implies that the author(s) accept their sole responsibility on the use of the material in their submissions.

20. Copyright and permissions of a published article

International Review of Migration and Refugee Studies views open-access to academic publications and research as an immutable part of the academic endeavor. All authors who submit their work accept that they are subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. 

For more information on the conditions of the license please refer to: 

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed

All published authors accept the conditions of the license.

21. The author of the article accepted for publication will receive page proofs for correction. This stage must not be used as an opportunity to revise the text because alterations are costly and will probably result in a delay. Speedy return of corrected proofs is important.

22. Please consider sending the manuscript to an English Language Editor if you do not feel strong with the manuscript's language

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

International Review of Migration and Refugee Studies is an open-access journal. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

For authors
1. The work in the submission must not have been published in anywhere (as an article in a journal, a chapter in a book or as a book, etc.)
2. We do not accept the translation of other authors’ works or book summaries.
3. The work you submit cannot be submitted to any other journal simultaneously.
4. Authors should follow the writing guidelines and submit their work completely compatible with the journal template. Editors have the right to refuse the submission before a further evaluation if the submission is not correctly edited.
5. We accept submissions if only written in English. We may reject the submission if it is not fully comprehensible. Please consider work with a native English speaker familiar with social-science jargon.
6. Authors should sign a Copyright Agreement and upload it with the submitted paper.
7. Authors should not include their names or any other information revealing their identity on the paper. Names of the authors and institutional information should be submitted separately.
For reviewers
1. Reviewers should keep information in paper confidential, should not share it with any other person except editors.
2. Reviewers should inform editors if they are not able to complete the review assigned to them in planned time.
3. Reviewers should inform editors if they notice any plagiarism or fabricated input in the paper.

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