The article to be sent must be uploaded with the following files:

1. Template form
2. Title page
3. Copyright Transfer Form
4. Similarity report (%15)
5. Ethics committee report 

All papers to be published in the journal must be written in English. 

Authors must ensure that the submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration at the same time.

The manuscripts must be submitted as a MS Word File. Other document types will not be accepted.

All manuscripts submitted to JSAR must be prepared using the JSAR Template. Manuscripts that are not prepared according to the JSAR Template will be returned to the author(s). 

The title page must be filled in. In addition, the copyright must be signed and uploaded.

Submissions are only accepted via the Online Submission System of the journal.

The submitted manuscripts should be no less than 4000 words including references, appendices, tables, and figures. Submissions that are below 4000 words will not be accepted for review.

All submitted manuscripts must use the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) for both in-text and end-of-text references.

It is necessary for researchers to take the plagiarism reports (15% similarity limit).

The journal adopts “double-blind peer reviewing” policy to ensure the quality of the papers to be published. Therefore, at least two reviewers’ opinions are taken before the study is published.

Note: In the light of the Language Editor’s initial review, The Editorial Board may request language editing (proofreading) during the evaluation process of the submitted article. Even if the article is accepted for the Journal, it will not be published before proofreading and language editing. 

Author Guidelines

Title of the study;
• Should be bold, use Times New Roman font size 14, and each initials capitalized

Manuscripts;
• Should be written with the following sub-titles in the following order: abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, references; appendices (as appropriate).
• Each sub-title’s initials should be capitalized, bold and should use Times New Roman font size 10

Abstract;
•Should be unstructured and contain between 150 and 250 words.
• Should contain between 3 and 5 keywords, separated by commas and initials-capitalized
• Should be single-spaced and use Times New Roman font size 9

Main text;
• should use Times New Roman font size 10 on paper size A4 with a 2,5 cm margins on each sides.
• Should use 1 line spacing.
• There should be no more than 50 references, and no more than 8 tables and figures (combined total).
• Spelling can be US or UK English so long as usage is consistent.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Edition) should be followed for all references, tables, figures and reporting the statistics.
Tables should be single-spaced and font size 10
Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour). Figures should be supplied in JPEG for high-quality concerns.

First level title (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion, Bibliography, etc.)

Tables
Tables, graphs and statistical reporting should be prepared according to APA 7 style. Table font should be written in 10 points, single spacing.
Example table;
Table 2
Title Should be Times New Roman 10 point. Table Number Should be Given Above.


In-text citations
Author information can be given in/out parentheses.
• In the citation in parentheses, the author's surname and publication date are included in parentheses. The author surname and date are added at the end of the sentence in parentheses and a comma is used after the author surname.
(Gülşen, 2020)
• In citation outside of parentheses (narrative), the author's surname is included as part of the sentence and the year is in parentheses.
Gülşen (2020)
• If a work has two authors, always include the surnames of both authors whenever you refer to the source.
(Gülşen and Yıldız, 2022)
Gülşen and Yıldız (2020)
• If a study has three or more authors, give only the surname of the first author and then “et al.,”
Gülşen et al. (2022)
(Gülşen et al., 2022)
• When more than one source is in parentheses, they should be cited in alphabetical order and separated by semicolons.


References

For a detailed review of the reference, please review the journal author guideline. Line spacing must be single.The second line of the bibliography should start with a 0,9 cm indent.
• References should be listed in alphabetical order according to the first author's surname and first letter.
• In studies with one or two authors, the conjunction "and" should be used between two authors.
• In studies with three or more authors, the conjunction "and" should be used before the last author.

Conference Papers
Author, A. A. (Year, Month 1-30). Title of the study. Congress Name, (pp. 13-23). City, Country.

Theses
Author, A. (2022). The title of the thesis is in italics. Unpublished PhD thesis, University, Institute, Department, City.

Webpage
Author Surname, Initial or Group name. (Date). Title of the study. The name of the website. The URL …. taken on.
World Health Organization (2020, 13 November). Coronavirus. World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/.

Official Publications and Press Releases
Turkish Statistical Institute. (2020). Sports with statistics (Publication no. 1313). https://tuik....

Note: All references should be arranged according to APA 7
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples