English-written studies do not need to add Turkish abstracts.

Articles and book reviews that do not comply with the spelling rules and citation format will be returned to the authors without being evaluated.

An abstract article not exceeding 250 words should be written at the beginning of the article and keywords consisting of 5 words should be added. If the article is written in Turkish, the Turkish abstract and keywords should also be prepared in English; if the article is written in English, the Turkish abstract and keywords are not needed.

References should be made in the text based on the APA 7th style method. Explanatory notes should be expressed as footnotes at the bottom of the page and in 10 points. A few examples of citations using the APA 7th style method are given below. In addition, this method in detail can be found at https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines . Citations should be given before the punctuation mark.

For editorial integrity, articles should be written in 12-point Times New Roman, justified, with 1.5 line spacing, using APA 7th style reference method. The margins should be adjusted to be 2.5 cm in all directions during the draft phase.

Heading Usage within Sections:

1. Level Main Titles: Basic titles should be bold, the first letter of each word should be capitalized (excluding conjunctions) and numbered with capital Roman numerals (I, II, III …). Main headings should start immediately at the beginning of the line without any spaces.

2. Level Headings: Level 2 headings should be bold, the first letter of each word should be capitalized (except for conjunctions), numbered with capital letters (A, B, C, …) and a tab should start inside.

3. Level Headings: Level 3 headings should be bold, the first letter of each word should be capitalized (except for conjunctions), numbered with numbers (1,2,3, …) and should start with two tabs inside.

4. Level Headings: Level 4 headings should be bold, italicized, the first letter of each word should be capitalized (excluding conjunctions), numbered with lowercase letters (a,b,c, …) and should start with two tabs inside. The text should be written on the same line by placing a colon immediately after the title.

5. Level Headings: Level 5 headings should be bold, italicized, the first letter of each word should be capitalized (excluding conjunctions), numbered with double lowercase letters (aa, bb, cc, …) and start with two tabs inside. The text should be written on the same line by placing a colon immediately after the title.


The method used in citing an article or a book can be followed for citing studies with specific authors from websites. If there is no date in the internet resources, the access date should be used as the year of the resource. If the name of the person who prepared the study is not specified on the internet site, reference is made by giving the institution of the website and the year of access.

Citation with the name of the author and publication year: (Vanstreels, 2016).

Citation with unknown author name and publication year: (Migration Administration, 2020).
If more than one work of an author or institution published in the same year is cited, the works should be indicated by giving letters a, b, c, next to the year. (European Commission, 2016 b), (European Commission, 2016 c).

The bibliography should include all the references cited in the text. Journal and book titles should be italicized. The bibliography should be listed alphabetically according to the surname of the author. If more than one work by an author is cited, the author's works should be listed chronologically from the most recent to the oldest. Page numbers should be specified for articles in periodicals and review/edited books.

For more detailed referencing and citation information and format, please visit the Turkish version of "writing rules (yazım kuralları)" : https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jirps/writing-rules , and "principal of writing": https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jirps/page/14319