Journal of the Institute of Science and
Technology
Manuscript
Rules
A-GENERAL
RULES
1.
The
manuscripts must be uploaded as word file by corresponding author.
2.
If the
manuscripts are research article or technical notes; manuscripts must contain Title,
ABSTRACT, Keywords, INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS AND
DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (If any), REFERENCES sections.
3.
If they are review,
they must contain again Title, ABSTRACT, Keywords, INTRODUCTION, CONCLUSION and
REFERENCES sections. If the authors want to add new section for review, they
can add between the INTRODUCTION and CONCLUSION sections.
4.
The titles
of the main sections of the manuscripts must be typed bold and via capital
letters. For second degree titles, first letter of the words must be typed as
capital and bold, and for third degree titles, first letter of the first word
must be typed as capital and bold.
5.
The 6 nk
space must be left before and after of main headings. In subheadings, only the 6
nk space must be left between the previous paragraphs. The spaces should not be
left after the subtitle.
6.
The main
headings and subheadings should not be numbered.
7. The title of
the manuscripts must be organized as short, clear. The first letters of the
words must be uppercase and other words lowercase. It not exceeds 14 words and,
the first letters of the words of the titles (except “and”, “with” …like words)
must be typed as capital. The title must be bold and, Author(s) is not allowed
to use abbreviation in the title.
B-PAGE FORMAT RULES
1.
The text must
be written in Times New Roman, 12 font size, 1.15 cm line spacing. The font
size of the abstract can be reduced to squeeze the abstract to the first page
of the manuscripts.
2.
Author(s) must
adjust margins as top 2.5 cm, bottom 1.5 cm, left 1.9 cm and right 1.6 cm.
3.
Line numbers
must be given on each page as starting from one.
4.
Except Title,
the rest of the article should be written as justified, and 1 cm indentation must
be left at the beginning of the each paragraph.
5.
Total numbers
pages of the manuscripts should not be exceed 12, 5 and 13 pages for original
research articles, technical notes and reviews, respectively.
6.
Authors can reach example of manuscripts which
are corrected according to our manuscript rules by below links.
a) Sample of Research Article
b)
Sample of Review Article
C-ABSTRACT AND KEYWORDS
1.
Abstract of
the manuscripts should not be exceeded 250 words, and authors must be avoided
from abbreviation and citation.
2.
Keywords
should be placed after abstracts and must be at least 3 words and maximum 6
words. The first letter of the first keyword must be capitalized and the other
keywords must be written in lowercase. Furthermore, the keywords must be must
be separated via comma (,).
D-IMAGES AND TABLES
1.
All Figures
and Tables must be given on the vertical page. If the table does not fit in a
vertical page, they can be divided into two parts and shown as table
continuation. Horizontal page structure should not be used.
2.
Author(s)
must be used “Figure” and “Table” for figures and tables. In addition, “Figure
1.” and “Table 1.” expressions in the table and figures writings. The
expressions and footnotes belonging to figures and tables must be places bottom
of them as between 8 and 10 font size and, author(s) should not put dot at the end
of this expressions or footnotes.
3.
The figures must
be centered on the page, and the tables must be justified or justified to the
right of the page. Tables should not have vertical lines.
4.
Table
writings must be placed before table as between 9 and 12 font size but the
contents of the table can be typed between 8 and 12 font size. Figures, graphs,
images and like them must be evaluated as figures and their writings must be
given under the figures. Tables and Figures must be placed to related place in
text and should not be placed at the end of manuscripts.
E-TYPING EQUATION
1.
Equations must be numbered, and numbers must be given as align to right
in the bracket. They must be typed as 12 font size, and variables must be
italic but digits as normal. When the author(s) is citing the equations, they
must use the expression “Equation 1.”
F-CITING THE ARTİCLE
1.
If the cited
article is published by one author, by two authors, for more authors, they must
be typed as (Last name, year), (Last name and Last name, year) and (Last name
et al., year) in the text, respectively.
2.
If the
author(s) want to cite more than one article in one point, they must separate
the citation by a semicolon (;) and organized them chronologically (Last name,
1977; Last name et al., 2013)
3.
If the
author(s) cite a website, they must be used (Anonymous, year).
G- UNITS AND NUMBERS
1.
Author(s)
must be used units of the System International in all manuscripts.
2.
While the
typing decimal number, authors must use dot (.) instead of comma (,) in decimal
(instead of 20,23 type as 20.23).
3.
In the
units, they are not allowed to use “/” sign, instead of it, they must put a
space then, type as superscript (instead of g/L, type g L-1).
4.
Typing the
big numbers, numbers must be separated as in threes by space (instead of
100000, type as 100 000).
H-REFERENCES SECTION
1.
References
must be typed between 10 and 12 font size, via 1 cm hanging indent and in
alphabetical order.
2.
The journal
and conference names should not abbreviated by authors. The format references
must be typed in below:
Article;
Adhoum NB, Monser L, 2004.
Decolourization and removal of phenolic compounds from olive mill wastewater by
electrocoagulation. Chemical Engineering and Processing, 43: 1281–1287.
Congress/symposium;
Aydın L, Girişgin OA, Kütükoğlu F,
Çakmak S, 2003. Drug utilization in bee culture. II. Marmara Bee Culture
Congress, 28-30 April 2003, Yalova. Turkey.
Dissertation;
Duzen BC,
2010. Electrical properties of the Schottky diodes for wide range temperatures.
University of Yale, Engineering Faculty, (unpublished) Ph.D thesis, 62p.
Book;
Winer BJ, Brown DR, Michels KM,
1991. Statistcal Principles in Experimetal Design. Third Edition, Boston, USA.
902 p.
Quotation From Internet and author unknown;
Hadhia B, 2009. Annual
Summaries. http://www.hoadhia.com/page7.html. (access date: 15th December,
2009).
Anonymous. Igdir Meteorology
Provincial Directorate Data, 2015.
I- SUBMITTING THE MANUSCRIPT TO THE SYSTEM
1.
When the
manuscripts information is entering to the journal system, full name of the
author(s) and their affiliations must be typed as clear and should not be used
abbreviations and any academic title.
2.
In the
manuscript, authors do not allow to type their names and affiliations in the
manuscript because of double blind review system. They must type their names
and affiliations in the cover page.
3.
When the manuscripts are submitting to
journal, authors must upload copyright transfer form which is signed by all
authors, ethical board reports (if any) and confirm check list.
4. Tables and figures must be given in the main document which should not be
loaded as an additional file.
5. Plagiarism report (according to iThenticate) must be
uploaded. Plagiarism should be below 20% (excluding references).