IZU JOURNAL OF EDUCATION PUBLICATION AND WRITING GUIDE
1- Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University Journal of Education (IZUED) is a peer-reviewed journal and is published online twice a year (in June and December) except for special issues.
2- Articles are uploaded to IZU Journal of Education via https://dergipark.org.tr/en/journal/2585/submission/step/manuscript/new The uploading of the articles to the system by the author is accepted as the application for publication of the article.
3- All legal responsibilities related to the articles published in IZU Journal of Education belong to the authors. Authors must upload the wet signed Copyright Form to the relevant field in the system while submitting their applications.
4- Declaration of Contribution Rate, Statement of Support and Acknowledgment, if any, and Statement of Conflict should be included on the Cover Page.
5- Completing and uploading the Artificial Intelligence Usage Statement is mandatory when submitting articles.
6- IZU Journal of Education has the right to suggest corrections for the submitted articles, to publish or not to publish the articles.
7- Only articles prepared on the IZU Journal of Education Template will be evaluated.
8- After the main title and before the introduction, articles should include an abstract in Turkish and English, between 150-200 words, including the purpose, scope, method and results of the study, and three keywords. Following the abstracts, there should also be a 600-800 word extended abstract in English for Turkish articles. Extended abstracts are not required for English articles. The main title, abstract and bibliography should be centered, bold and only the first letters of the words should be capitalized; subheadings and introduction should be left justified, bold and only the first letters of the words should be capitalized. The article should be a minimum of 3000 and a maximum of 8000 words, including abstracts, main text and references, excluding footnotes.
9- The images in the articles should be numbered as Figure/Table 1. ... centered with short explanations. The placement in the text can be changed according to the page layout when necessary.
10- When submitting the article, the Main Text, Copyright Form and Cover Page files should be attached separately; no author information or evocative elements should be included in the Main Text file.
11- Manuscripts should be submitted through the Submit Manuscript system at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/journal/2585/submission/step/manuscript/new. If there is more than one researcher in the articles, they should be added to the “Add Author” section of the second stage of the system. After the article is uploaded to the system, corrections may be requested in line with the reports from the referees. For this reason, authors should open their DergiPark notifications and check them regularly.
12- Articles without Ethics Committee Approval for data collected in 2020 and later will not be published.
13- The similarity rates of the articles accepted to the journal should be maximum 20%. Ithenticate similarity report should be uploaded with the article. If there is no access to the program, please contact the editor.
14- Accepted articles are published as Early View.
REFERENCE STYLE AND FORMAT
IZUED adopts the 7th edition of APA (American Psychological Association) citation style for in-text citation and referencing (you can use programs such as Zotero, Mendeley to minimize problems in citation).
For information about APA 7th edition:
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition. https://apastyle.apa.org/products/publication-manual-7th-edition
The author(s) is responsible for the accuracy of the references. All references should be cited in the text.
IZU Education Journal Template
Cover Page
Copyright Form
(It must be scanned and uploaded to the system with wet signature)
Ethics Committee Approval
For all research conducted in all scientific disciplines requiring ethics committee approval, an ethics committee decision must have been obtained, and information regarding the decision must be stated in the article text. Our journal does not consider studies that do not have an ethics committee decision. In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information about the approval (committee name, date, and number) must be included in the article text. In accordance with the decisions taken by Ulakbim TR Index, Ethics Committee Approval is required for studies to be published from 2020 onwards.
Research Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
In our journal, research requiring ethics committee approval includes the following studies:
• All research conducted using qualitative or quantitative approaches involving data collection from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus group studies, observation, and interview techniques,
• Retrospective studies within the framework of the Personal Data Protection Law.
For such studies to be considered for evaluation, the relevant ethics committee approvals must have been obtained and these approvals must be clearly stated in the article text.