Güneydoğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi

The Journal of South-Eastern European Studies aims to contribute to the scholarly knowledge in the field of South-Eastern European history by publishing original papers.

The GAAD is an open forum for studies in the field of history and archeology. The journal, however, also publishes research and review articles on art history, literature, economics, religious studies, and linguistics provided that they are related with the history of the South-Eastern Europe. The editorial board particularly promotes papers and reviews on the ancient history and archeology of the South-Eastern Europe as well as the Ottoman historical experience in the region. 

GUIDELINES for AUTHORS

Language
The GAAD publishes papers in Turkish, English, German, French and the local languages of South-Eastern European countries (for issues approved by the editorial board). Submitted manuscripts should include abstracts both in the original language of the manuscript and in English, and an additional extended English abstract. Extended abstract is not required for papers in English.

Manuscript Submission
All correspondence will be conducted with the first-named author unless otherwise specified. Manuscripts are to be submitted online via https://dergipark.org.tr/login that can be accessed at https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/iugaad. Manuscripts should be accompanied by a Title Page specifying the article category (i.e. research article, review etc.) and including information about the manuscript (see the Submission Checklist). Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word 2003 or later versions. Authors are obliged to sign and submit the Copyright Agreement Form.

Manuscript Formatting
1. Transmit your typescripts in A4 paper standards: having 2.5 cm margins from right, left, bottom and top, Times New Roman font style in 12 font size and line spacing of 1.5.

2. Manuscripts should be between 3500 and 10.000 words and the page numbers should be at the bottom and in the middle.

3. The name(s) of author(s) should be given just below the title of the study aligned to the right. The affiliation, title, e-mail and phone of the author(s) should be indicated on the bottom of the page as a footnote marked with an asterisk (*).

4. Manuscripts should include abstracts between 180 and 200 words in Turkish and in English and an extended English abstract between 600-800 words, summarizing the scope, the purpose, the results of the study and the methodology used. Add five keywords (in Turkish and in English) below the abstracts. Extended abstract is not required for papers in English.

5. Manuscripts are expected to include a title, abstracts and keywords, an extended English abstract, subheadings, end notes and references.

6. Research articles should be designed as follows: “INTRODUCTION”, “AIM AND METHODOLOGY”, “FINDINGS”, “DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION”, “ENDNOTES” and “REFERENCES” and “TABLES AND FIGURES”. Review and commentary articles should begin with an “INTRODUCTION” where the purpose and the method is described, followed by other sections.

7. Tables, graphs and figures should be inserted with a number and a defining title into the text or following the “REFERENCES” where it helps follow the idea of the article. Otherwise features like demographic characteristics should be given within the text.

8. Submit a title page including your credentials along with the manuscript. The title page should include a fully descriptive title of the manuscript and, affiliation, title, e-mail address, postal address, phone and fax number of the author(s) (see The Submission Checklist).

9. Authors are responsible for all statements made in their work submitted to the journal for publication.

10. References should be in accordance with the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) style 3th Edition.

References

Reference Style and Format
The Journal of South-Eastern European Studies complies with the MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) style 3th Edition for referencing and quoting. For more information:
- Modern Humanities Research Association. (2013). MHRA Style Guide. A Handbook for Authors and Editors (3th ed.). London.
- http://www.mhra.org.uk
Accuracy of citation is the author’s responsibility. All references should be cited in text. Reference list should be in alphabetical order.
Citations in the Text
The bibliographic documentation of the cited sources should be provided in footnotes including the full name of the author (first name and surname), the title of the work, city, publisher, publication date. In case of multiple citations in a footnote, sources should be separated with a (;) mark and should be arranged according to date of publication.

Examples:

BOOK
One author
Footnote: Ömer Gezer, Kale ve Nefer. Habsburg Serhaddinde Osmanlı Askeri Gücü (1699‒1715), İstanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2020, pp. 109-136.
Short note: Ö. Gezer, Kale ve Nefer, s. 109-136.
Bibliography: Gezer, Ömer, Kale ve Nefer. Habsburg Serhaddinde Osmanlı Askeri Gücü (1699‒1715), İstanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2020.


Two or three authors
Footnote: Mehmet İnbaşı and Eyüp Kul, Balkanlarda Bir Türk Şehri Üsküp. Fetihten XVIII. Yüzyıla Kadar, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları, 2018, p. 40.
Short note: M. İnbaşı and E. Kul, Balkanlarda Bir Türk Şehri, p. 40.
Bibliography: İnbaşı, Mehmet and Eyüp Kul, Balkanlarda Bir Türk Şehri Üsküp. Fetihten XVIII. Yüzyıla Kadar, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları, 2018.

Four or more authors
List all of the authors in the bibliography; in the footnote, only the name of the first author should be mentioned followed by et al.

Edited or compiled volume(s)
Footnote: Novili Ömer Efendi, Tarih-i Bosna. Osmanlı-Habsburg Savaşları 1736‒39, ed. Fatma Sel Turhan, İstanbul: Küre Yayınları, 2016, p. 46.
Short note: Novili Ömer Efendi, p. 46.
Bibliography: Novili Ömer Efendi, Tarih-i Bosna. Osmanlı-Habsburg Savaşları 1736‒39, ed. Fatma Sel Turhan, İstanbul: Küre Yayınları, 2016.

Translated book(s)
Footnote: Barbara Jelavich, Balkan Tarihi. 18. ve 19. Yüzyıllar, trans. İhsan Durdu, Gülçin Tunalı, Haşim Koç, 3. ed., İstanbul: Küre Yayınları, 2013, pp. 110-125.
Short note: B. Jelavich, Balkan Tarihi, pp. 110-125.
Bibliography: Jelavich, Barbara, Balkan Tarihi. 18. ve 19. Yüzyıllar, trans. İhsan Durdu, Gülçin Tunalı, Haşim Koç, 3. ed., İstanbul: Küre Yayınları, 2013.

ARTICLE
Footnote: Vjeran Kursar, “Being an Ottoman Vlach: On Vlach Identity(ies), Role and Status in Western Parts of the Ottoman Balkans (15th-18th Centuries)”, Ankara Üniversitesi Osmanlı Tarihi Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi Dergisi, 34 (2013), pp. 120-122.
Short note: V. Kursar, “Being an Ottoman Vlach”, pp. 120-122.
Bibliography: Kursar, Vjeran, “Being an Ottoman Vlach: On Vlach Identity(ies), Role and Status in Western Parts of the Ottoman Balkans (15th-18th Centuries)”, Ankara Üniversitesi Osmanlı Tarihi Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi Dergisi, 34 (2013), pp. 115-161.

Online Article without DOI
Footnote: Umut Al and Güleda Doğan, “Hacettepe Üniversitesi Bilgi ve Belge Yönetimi Bölümü Tezlerinin Atıf Analizi”, Türk Kütüphaneciliği, 26 (2012), pp. 355-358. Access address: http://www.tk.org.tr/
Short note: U. Al and G. Doğan, “Hacettepe Üniversitesi”, pp. 355-358.
Bibliography: Al, Umut and Güleda Doğan, “Hacettepe Üniversitesi Bilgi ve Belge Yönetimi Bölümü Tezlerinin Atıf Analizi”, Türk Kütüphaneciliği, 26 (2012), pp. 349-369. Access address: http://www.tk.org.tr/

Journal Article with DOI
Footnote: Steven J. Turner, “Website Statistics 2.0: Using Google Analytics to Measure Library Website Effectiveness”, Technical Services Quarterly, 27 (2010), p. 266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131003765910
Short note: S. J. Turner, “Website Statistics”, p. 266.
Bibliography: Steven J. Turner, “Website Statistics 2.0: Using Google Analytics to Measure Library Website Effectiveness”, Technical Services Quarterly, 27 (2010), pp. 261-278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131003765910

CHAPTER or OTHER PART of a BOOK
Short note: Emir O. Filipović, “‘Creato Regni’ in the Great Seal of Bosnian King Tvrtko Kotromanić”, A Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages, ed. Laura J. Whatley, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2019, p. 265.
Short note: E. O. Filipović, “Creato Regni”, p. 265.
Bibliography: Filipović, Emir O., “‘Creato Regni’ in the Great Seal of Bosnian King Tvrtko Kotromanić”, A Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages, ed. Laura J. Whatley, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2019, pp. 263-276.

BOOK REVIEW
Footnote: Sercan Pektaş, “Dóra Bobory, The Sword and the Crucible: Count Boldizsár Batthyány and Natural Philosophy in Sixteenth-Century Hungary, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009” (Book Review), Güneydoğu Avrupa Dergisi, 24 (2013), p. 123.
Short note: S. Pektaş, “The Sword and the Crucible” (Book review), p. 123.
Bibliography: Pektaş, Sercan, “Dóra Bobory, The Sword and the Crucible: Count Boldizsár Batthyány and Natural Philosophy in Sixteenth-Century Hungary, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009” (Book review), Güneydoğu Avrupa Dergisi, 24 (2013), pp. 123-125.

THESIS or DISSERTATION
Footnote: Baki Tezcan, Searching for Osman: A Reassessment of the Deposition of the Ottoman Sultan Osman II (1618–1622), unpublished PhD diss., Princeton University, 2001, pp. 207-209.
Short note: B. Tezcan, Searching for Osman, pp. 207-209.
Bibliography: Tezcan, Baki, Searching for Osman: A Reassessment of the Deposition of the Ottoman Sultan Osman II (1618–1622), unpublished PhD diss., Princeton University, 2001.

CONFERENCE/SYMPOSIUM PAPER(S)
Footnote: Zsuzsanna Csiráki, “Hungarian Elements in the Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy during the Seventeenth Century”, The Performance of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World, Don Juan Archiv, Stvdivm Fæsvlanvm, Universidad de Granada, 17-18 March 2017, Vienna, Austria.
Short note: Z. Csiráki, “Hungarian Elements”.
Bibliography: Csiráki, Zsuzsanna, “Hungarian Elements in the Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy during the Seventeenth Century”, The Performance of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World, Don Juan Archiv, Stvdivm Fæsvlanvm, Universidad de Granada, 17-18 March 2017, Vienna, Austria.

Conference/Symposium Paper Abstract Retrieved Online
Murat Çınar, Dilek Doğan and S. Sadi Seferoğlu, “Eğitimde Dijital Araçlar: Google Sınıf Uygulaması Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme” [Abstract], Paper presented at the Conference of Academic Informatics, Anadolu University, Eskişehir. Access address: http://ab2015.anadolu.edu.tr /index.php?menu=5&submenu=27


Other Sources

a) Newspaper Article
Çiğdem Toker, ‘Unutma’ notları, Cumhuriyet, 26 June 2015, p. 13.

b) Newspaper Article with no Author
New drug appears to sharply cut risk of death from heart failure. (1993, July 15). The Washington Post, p. A12.

c) Web Page/Blog Post
David Bordwell, David Koepp: Making the world movie-sized [Web log post], 18 June 2013. Retrieved from http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/page/27/

d) Online Encyclopedia/Dictionary
“Bilgi mimarisi”, in Vikipedi, (20 December 2014). Access address: http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilgi_mimarisi

Alexei Marcoux, “Business ethics”. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (2008). Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-business/

e) Podcast
Dunning, B. (Producer). (2011, January 12). inFact: Conspiracy theories [Video podcast]. Retrieved from http://itunes.apple.com/

f) Single Episode in a Television Series
D. Shore (Screenwriter), M. Jackson (Screenwriter) and S. Bookstaver (Director), “Runaways [TV Series episode]”, D. Shore (Executive producer),in House M.D. , 2012. New York, NY: Fox Broadcasting.

g) Music
Fazıl Say, Galata Kulesi, in İstanbul senfonisi [CD], (2012). İstanbul: Ak Müzik.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The Journal of Southeastern European Studies is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and pays regard to Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), to access the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) on https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing

All parties involved in the publishing process (Editors, Reviewers, Authors and Publisher) are expected to agree on the following ethical principles.

All submissions must be original, unpublished (including as full text in conference proceedings), and not under the review of any other publication synchronously. Each manuscript is reviewed by one of the editors and at least two referees under double-blind peer review process. Plagiarism, duplication, fraud authorship/denied authorship, research/data fabrication, salami slicing/salami publication, breaching of copyrights, prevailing conflict of interest are unnethical behaviors.

All manuscripts not in accordance with the accepted ethical standards will be removed from the publication. This also contains any possible malpractice discovered after the publication. In accordance with the code of conduct we will report any cases of suspected plagiarism or duplicate publishing.

Research Ethics

The Journal of Southeastern European Studies adheres to the highest standards in research ethics and follows the principles of international research ethics as defined below. The authors are responsible for the compliance of the manuscripts with the ethical rules.

Principles of integrity, quality and transparency should be sustained in designing the research, reviewing the design and conducting the research.
The research team and participants should be fully informed about the aim, methods, possible uses and requirements of the research and risks of participation in research.
The confidentiality of the information provided by the research participants and the confidentiality of the respondents should be ensured. The research should be designed to protect the autonomy and dignity of the participants.
Research participants should participate in the research voluntarily, not under any coercion.
Any possible harm to participants must be avoided. The research should be planned in such a way that the participants are not at risk.
The independence of research must be clear; and any conflict of interest must be disclosed.
In experimental studies with human subjects, written informed consent of the participants who decide to participate in the research must be obtained. In the case of children and those under wardship or with confirmed insanity, legal custodian’s assent must be obtained.
If the study is to be carried out in any institution or organization, approval must be obtained from this institution or organization.
In studies with human subject, it must be noted in the method’s section of the manuscript that the informed consent of the participants and ethics committee approval from the institution where the study has been conducted have been obtained.

Author's Responsibilities

It is authors’ responsibility to ensure that the article is in accordance with scientific and ethical standards and rules. And authors must ensure that submitted work is original. They must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere or is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere, in any language. Applicable copyright laws and conventions must be followed. Copyright material (e.g. tables, figures or extensive quotations) must be reproduced only with appropriate permission and acknowledgement. Any work or words of other authors, contributors, or sources must be appropriately credited and referenced.

All the authors of a submitted manuscript must have direct scientific and academic contribution to the manuscript. The author(s) of the original research articles is defined as a person who is significantly involved in “conceptualization and design of the study”, “collecting the data”, “analyzing the data”, “writing the manuscript”, “reviewing the manuscript with a critical perspective” and “planning/conducting the study of the manuscript and/or revising it”. Fund raising, data collection or supervision of the research group are not sufficient roles to be accepted as an author. The author(s) must meet all these criteria described above. The order of names in the author list of an article must be a co-decision and it must be indicated in the Copyright Agreement Form. The individuals who do not meet the authorship criteria but contributed to the study must take place in the acknowledgement section. Individuals providing technical support, assisting writing, providing a general support, providing material or financial support are examples to be indicated in acknowledgement section.

All authors must disclose all issues concerning financial relationship, conflict of interest, and competing interest that may potentially influence the results of the research or scientific judgment.

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published paper, it is the author’s obligation to promptly cooperate with the Editor to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

Responsibility for the Editor and Reviewers

Editor-in-Chief evaluates manuscripts for their scientific content without regard to ethnic origin, gender, citizenship, religious belief or political philosophy of the authors. He/She provides a fair double-blind peer review of the submitted articles for publication and ensures that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential before publishing. Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication. He/She must publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.

Editor-in-Chief does not allow any conflicts of interest between the authors, editors and reviewers. Only he has the full authority to assign a reviewer and is responsible for final decision for publication of the manuscripts in the journal.

Reviewers must have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders. Their judgments must be objective.

Reviewers must ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential and must report to the editor if they are aware of copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author’s side.

A reviewer who feels unqualified to review the topic of a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

The editor informs the reviewers that the manuscripts are confidential information and that this is a privileged interaction. The reviewers and editorial board cannot discuss the manuscripts with other persons. The anonymity of the referees must be ensured. In particular situations, the editor may share the review of one reviewer with other reviewers to clarify a particular point.

All expenses of the journal are covered by the Istanbul University. Processing and publication are free of charge with the journal. There is no article processing charges or submission fees for any submitted or accepted articles.