MANUSCRIPT ORGANIZATION

Language

Articles in Turkish and English are published. Submitted Turkish article must include an English abstract, keyword and an extended abstract. Extended abstract in English is not required for articles in English.

Manuscript Organization and Format

All correspondence will be sent to the first-named author unless otherwise specified. Manuscpript is to be submitted online via https://dergipark.org.tr/iusskd and it must be accompanied by a cover letter indicating that the manuscript is intended for publication, 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 and upper versions. In addition, Copyright Agreement Form that has to be signed by all authors must be submitted.

1. The manuscripts should be in A4 paper standards: having 2.5 cm margins from right, left, bottom and top, Times New Roman font style in 12 font size, line spacing of 1.5 and “justify align” format. For indented paragraph, tab key should be used. One line spacing should be used for the tables and figures, which are included in the text.

2. The title of the text should be centered on the page, in lower-case letter, bold, Times New Roman font and 14 font size.

3. Information about the author is to be written on the left part of the page skipping one line space after the title, and it should be in Times New Roman font, 10 font size, with one line spacing. After indicating the name of the author in lower-case letter and surname in capital letter, the title, affiliation, and e-mail address should be included.

4. Before the introduction part, there should be an abstract of 150-200 words both in the language of the article and in English. An extended abstract in English between 700-750 words, summarizing the scope, the purpose, the results of the study and the methodology used is to be included following the abstracts. If the manuscript is in English, extended abstract is not required. Underneath the abstracts, 5 keywords that inform the reader about the content of the study should be specified in the language of the article and in English.

5. The manuscripts should contain mainly these components: title, abstract and keywords; extended abstract (If the manuscript is in English, extended abstract is not required), sections, footnotes and references. The article should not exceed 12.000 words including all these sections.

6. Tables, graphs and figures can be given with a number and a defining title if and only if it is necessary to follow the idea of the article. Otherwise features like demographic characteristics can be given within the text.

7. When submitting articles derived from post-graduate theses to the journal, the cover page should include a statement that the article is derived from a post-graduate thesis. In addition, it should be stated as a footnote on the first page of the article as "This study is derived from the master's / doctoral thesis titled ".............." completed on ........... by ............. under the supervision of ............."

8. Depending on the type of article, the similarity rate is expected to be less than 15% or 20%. Articles with a similarity rate (excluding references) of more than 20% will be returned to the author without being sent to the peer review process.

9. A title page including author information must be submitted together with the manuscript. The title page is to include fully descriptive title of the manuscript and, affiliation, title, e-mail address, ORCID, postal address, phone and fax number of the author(s) (see The Submission Checklist).

10. The rights of the manuscripts submitted to our journal for publication, belongs to the author(s).

11. The author(s) can be asked to make some changes in their articles due to peer reviews.

12. A copy of the journal will be sent to each author of the accepted articles upon their request.